A Guide for Background Characters to Survive in a Manga Chapter 212 Discussion

MC Su Bei is a mob character who was destined to die in a shounen manga. A smart and cunning MC, weak to strong ability growth.

How he improve his ability

Spoiler

He cast foreshadowing (say things) in scenes that he thinks would make it to the manga chapter that is published. The readers of that manga would then speculate and come to believe how his ability works which will then upgrade mc's ability in the next manga chapter update. If the readers speculate in the wrong direction, he would use his 'prophet' account in the 3d world to guide them.

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The world MC is in is a tropey shounen manga with plot armored protagonists, typical (small) villains (with low IQs only when there is the protagonists), (main) villain coming in batches, cringeworthy dialogues, power-up arcs of protagonist etc. The manga world itself is like MHA with its abilities but the shounen trope world is like Pokemon Adventurea (the manga)

There is a sense of dissonance between MC and the rest because he knows its a manga world. And this, some readers in 3d world will sense.

Pros:

• • Smart MC

• • Fleshed out characters

• • Story

• • Mc's scene are always interesting
  • Unique abilities and alternative use of abilities

Cons:

• • Repetitive for each manga update. I'd prefer the author explain some highlights of the protagonist even when MC is not there so we don't have a repeat of some scenes.

• • Not recommended for those who search for action in a story. The author wrote many fight scenes without it being interesting (though this could also be a trope as in protagonists always winning)