Jujutsushi Wa Yuusha Ni Narenai Chapter 101 Discussion

For a while I've been thinking of making a critic of some the novels I've been following, but none of them need to be justified like this one.

From the same author of "Kuro no maou", this one is a very rare and interesting novel with a common premise this time: isekai, and a oldie from some years, battle royale.

A lot of people say that this novel is not as good as KnM but I think it is the opposite.

For starters, this is not a simple "wish fullfilment novel"; we have complex characters and a 3 way story:

1. The classic hero story. Here we have our harem hero, yandere sister, loli, samurai girl, etc... we all know how the story goes.

2. The antihero story. Another harem and a dqn who follos the path of "conquer" (a.k.a. steamrolling)

3. Our real MC. A normal kid. He doesn't have an OP job or inherited skills. He's not a genius or is trained in some ancestral art. Just a regular person, with his good things and flaws. Not a bishounen, not a dqn and even a little bullied (not a lot)

Just another person like one of us.

This boy inherits a lousy job and has to use all his wits and even offer even his own flesh to survive in his first fight, only to be betrayed by the one he considered his "best friend" until that moment.

If someone can say something about this kid is that... he's very resurcefull. A little manipulative also but not overly so, he's just human.

Full of flaws, he crawls slowly his way and is being betrayed again and again, and even like that he just thinks of surviving. Not vengeance, no world saving, just raw, human desire of living.

Some people says he' s a stereotype beta male, but they sould read better. Not one moment our MC has the upper cards. in every encounter he's the weakest one, and he's not a sociopath who thinks onle how to overpower the other... sorry people, go overcompensate somewhere else, Jujutsushi is well written.

I'm not going to deprecate others novels, each fan knows the sins of their favourites, they just close their eyes wide shut.

If you compare with KnM just a little, you can feel this work better made in character design and a story with a slow but steady pace, necessary for a good story building.

Author-san made a great work, but maybe the humanity of the characters causes rejection in the fans of this gender; I mean, most people don't like a character so like us, it remind us how flawed we are as humans.

It feels like our MC is nos going to be op for a long time, but his suffering and hard work make some of us relate with an ordinary kid who has no choice but to live extraordinary events.

Finally, I'm deeply grateful with the translators who took time with Jujutsushi. I know it's not popular and it has being left and taken a lot of times, I thank you a lot for taking this unrewarded job, I'll keep reading faithfully this work as long as you keep translating it.