Why do people nowadays prefer hypercompetent Mary Sues over flawed and well written characters?
Why do people nowadays prefer hypercompetent Mary Sues over flawed and well written characters?
Why do people nowadays call everyone a Mary Sue
If maomao is a mary sue then every single detective character in fiction is also a sue.
Prominent female MCs started popping up with similar issues to the typical ‘gary stu’ MC
degradation of language and culture
Frieren is a Mary Sue as much as Xena warrior princess is a Mary Sue
buzzwords are just the most efficient bait, for the price of one lazy sentence this thread now has the potential energy to evolve into a massive pile of shit
we all wanna have sex with them
Mao Mao is as Mary Sue as it gets, primarily because of the "not like the other girls" "daddy's special good girl" factor where all of the other girls in the story get shit on, she's ugly but actually more beautiful and desired by the most attractive guy around, and the heavy reliance on slutshaming all of the other women. Literally every woman except Mao Mao is sexualized in a hostile way, dehumanized, stupid, literally all whores and peasants EXCEPT for her.
Somehow Frieren being an elf seems far less of a power fantasy. Somehow an thousand year old elf stands on an equal ground with the human Fern that Mao Mao doesn't stand on with even her own siblings.
How many detective characters are bullied nerd revenge fantasies?
Most characters Japanese writers put out tend to be self-insert power fantasies, directed towards outcasts
similar issues
Basically they see one or two things they don't like and start firing off buzzwords like a gatling.
It's fair though, isn't it? Japs can hardly ever write original characters.
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Nobody does, and that's fine.
No it's not fair to call every other character a mary sue and to hand wave most of Japan's writers, it's also a non sequitur to shift from sues to originality in general.
Is this a new schizo? Same style as
Japs generally follow the same formulas over and over in their LNs and isekai especially. Please, you can't tell me isekai is original.
Masterful bait. I tip my hat to you for combining mixed signals to bait two types of demographic at once. Now fuck off.
Its time to stop responding. People know she isnt one but keep making bait threads about it for cheap (you)s.
Just can't satisfy everyone.
Normalfag MC
"MUH Self-insert!"
Normalfag MC getting "cheat"
"MUH Self-insert!"
Bullied Loser MC
"MUH Self-insert!"
Bullied Loser MC getting "cheat"
"MUH Self-insert!"
Chad MC
"MUH Gary Stu!"
Chad MC getting "cheat"
"MUH Gary Stu!"
Somewhat capable above-average person MC
"MUH Gary Stu!"
Somewhat capable above-average person MC with "cheat"
"MUH Gary Stu!"
Nah it failed, there’s no setup for flame war between 2 schizos to push thread to bump limit. People ITT are just dropping in to post ‘nice bait gg’ then leave right after
Because people are beginning to realize that the true Mary Sue self insert has always been a female character that exists for the sole purpose of moving merch and getting views.
Everyone is an envious goblin now that refuses to accept a naturally competent and talented character. Exceptional characters who don't use quirky relatable MCU speak are perceived as intimidating and "unrealistic". Unless they're a villain of course.
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homage to Gandalf, from a great work of fantasy™.
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homage to Sherlock Holmes, peak fiction.
Find better well written flawed female MCs instead Mary Sue you scum. Like this small devil here.
I hate male characters and male characters who get everything I cannot get myself.
Your social circles are probably filled with flawed creatures, so you think it prudent for such similarly substandard monkeys to proliferate the artforms you (likely relatively mindlessly) consume.
Meanwhile, actually functional entities that truly qualify as modern human beings, people who have their shit together, don't even perceive the characters you're whining about as hypercompetent - to them, they're just normal, if they even waste any of their time consuming such drivel.
Despite whatever mind control you've submitted to, being mortal isn't okay, especially not within a species that has entered the era of manipulating its own genetics to eventually perfect itself, so you're going to need to seek some education, fast, if it is your wish to be considered anything more than a zombie.
I have endured the displeasure of reviewing most of the content of this planet over the years, and as others have said, Frieren isn't even a hypercompetent. She has magic ass burgers and is comparable to a 40 year old virgin that obsesses over adding to its wall of my little pony and pokemon figurines.
The real question: Why are normies like OP still so disconnected from futurism and the singularity? Should we keep moving and leave them behind, or do we keep babysitting earth tards?
I suppose we will create a very kind and loving team of A.I. to take care of you all, but I do wish you would have tried harder to participate in the space age.
Go watch Angel's Egg, again if need be, and think long and hard about your existence and what you actually want it to evolve into.
That is the goblin attitude. You'd rather seethe than be inspired.
The reason for anime itself-is no other than to get closer to the ideal of perfection. In Platonic terms, anime is closer to the Forms.
It drives us away from the imperfectness of matter and tries to depict the forms and connect us to this divine realm.
Take One Piece and the concept of "nakama". Or even archetypes such as the "waifu" or even the "bro". They represent a world above us filled with the highest of ideals. The eternal search for perfection-a Holy Grail.
It reaches the vastness of human history.
The explosion in popularity of isekais and RPG fantasy anime ~12 years ago made Kirito clone protagonists more popular to go with them and I would assume the draw for autistic teenaged boys is the ability to self-insert into a power fantasy in a nonsensical world to escape their powerlessness and ineptitude in the real one. With that came greater mainstreaming of anime/manga's popularity around the world and consequent slopification which proceeds to this day.
Oh i don't know sherlock is the son of a british 5-stars general.
Can you tell me which volume conan doyle reveal it to readers?
Man, the other day I had a dream in which I polished The Xiaomao coinslot with my fingers in all sorts of ways, she had pubic stubble. Shit was so cash, woke up harder than diamonds.
It's been said a billion times already but Mushoku Tensei is the only even halfway decently-written isekai period. In addition to other things, any time you think the MC in it seems to be doing too well he gets bitchslapped by reality and brought to his knees. He gets to be pretty powerful but he isn't going around beating everyone or able to do wave his hand and everything correctly, even getting family killed and losing his hand. And this is with a god giving him pointers in his dreams.
It leaves plenty to be desired but the characters aren't all complete shit and go through dramatic personal changes, not just the main guy.
They don't
The more mary sue maomao gets the more I dislike it. I'm close to dropping it and I used to wait and watch every episode
Mushoku tensei is fucking gay as shit and anyone who likes it is a massive loser
It's so wonderful knowing Anon Babble hasn't changed at all.
Tensei is the only even halfway decently-written isekai period
Fate exists
Why do people nowadays prefer 3DPD over flawless 2D?
Battle shonen brainrot. You can't have characters ever show any kind of incompetence ever or else the shonentards will scream "muh useless" over and over again, no matter if that character actually improves later.
characters are more charismatic
every town presents great variety, a different characters and challenges > four animes/movies that are all the same; one time berserker fights lancer or lancer fights medea zzzZZZ
Ainz' existential dilemma > shirou going mad because he survived a fire
Overlord is better than Fate /truthnuke
Tell me your favorite anime, anon