A Guide for Background Characters to Survive in a Manga Chapter 171 Discussion

I really enjoy this so far, glad it's being translated.

I think the main perk of this story is that the MC is particularly cunning and smart. I enjoy reading about his thought process and his inductions, especially in regards to comic tropes and cliches.

Another good thing is that the MC is also learning alongside the readers. He didn't time travel, he didn't read any volumes about the future, he doesn't start off absurdly strong. He does everything with his own ability and knowledge, which is a breath of fresh air to read after so many regressor or I-read-the-novel-and-transmigrated-in type stories.... not that I dislike those stories by any means. I really enjoy them, but I also enjoyed this story too because it's different.

Edit: Now that I've made it to c171, I've dropped it, because

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It got a little slow for me, and it was just school vs school competition or just exam competitions for like 70 chapters.. I'm a little tired of it and it didn't seem like it was going to end soon, so I dropped it.

Also, there was an exchange program between the two schools for one arc, and I wasn't too big of a fan of that arc because they go to another country basically and one thing after another happens and the MC then the other original protagonists challenge the top student at the other school, who has a time ability. The top student, whose name is literally Elvis lol, has a draw in a one on one fight with Su Bei and Lan Subing and Si Zhaohua and gets defeated by the original protagonist I remember. I was a little put off by how... disappointing the author portrayed Alpha supernatural school (which is the other school), because you're telling me that the MC's school is so good that the top student of another school couldn't even beat some of the MC's school people? I feel like the author made the MC's school look way too good, and I'm not a huge fan of that at all, especially since it seems nationalistic. I also frankly prefer it if there's actual decent competition in stories, for instance, the Naruto Chuunin exams were done extremely well and most competitors were incredible.... unlike what is shown here, where it seems as though only the MC's school gets to be super powerful. So it got a little lame and disappointing to me tbh.

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