Ranjou Satsuki ( Taketatsu Ayana) spends the entire episode doing things so stupid that I’ve already written her off as a human being. You know what’s also a bad idea, character-wise? Irredeemable idiots. Stupid Characters Are Not Likable, Relatable, Or Interesting It’s remarkable how badly you have to screw up for a bully to elicit the most sympathy, even if it’s only for a second. Yes, he was a total asshole, a remorseless bully who pushed people around because he could, and who threatened to strip a girl against her will, which is sexual assault, but he worked for two long years and earned his power, whereas Moroha tripped into it all of a sudden, by virtue of his unique birth and plot armor. What I find ridiculous is that the character I empathized with the most this time was Isurugi Gen ( Sugisaki Ryou). I can imagine myself standing beside him, or looking over his shoulder as he tackles his trials, and empathize with him in doing so. I can see where he’s coming from, though. I can’t imagine myself as Harutora, but I shouldn’t-I’m not him. But as I said in the post on my site, that’s not desirable. I can only guess the suddenly-handing-Moroha-all-this-power-he-didn’t-work-for is meant to make him more relatable (in addition to his utterly forgettable personality), so the average Japanese light novel consumer can more easily step into his shoes. They work hard, they struggle, they fail, and sometimes their gifts come in handy, but that’s okay because they’re doing the other part themselves. Tokyo Ravens-which I wish I had blogged more and more as time goes on-features plenty of characters that are not normal, by birth or circumstance or both. Great stories do not often feature normal people, because regular people don’t often do great things. Not so here! Moroha is a text-book example of an ordinary high school student ( trope!) who turns out to be some unstoppable badass through no effort of his own. That’s something Kanami shares with Shiroe and much of the Log Horizon cast. Relatability is overrated it’s hard better to shoot for interesting. It was Kanami who reminded me that I needed to write it (I’ve been meaning to do it for a long time), because she’s not the least bit relatable. I wrote a post over at my new site on relatability last night, after blogging the latest episode of Log Horizon. Inherently Gifted Characters Are Not Likable, Relatable, Or Interesting I also liked that he wasn’t doing everything on his own-the other characters were at least defending and stalling the baddie, and wounding it too, even if protagonist Haimura Moroha ( Ishikawa Kaito) was still doing the heavy lifting.Īnd that’s about where my praise ends for today. The only things they pointed out were either things we knew from the premise (MC-kun has two past lives), and the rest was a straightforward battle against some badass dragon. To be honest, I’m not fond of the tactic-why give away where they’re going when it’s more satisfying to watch them get there? But it worked well because it was relatively clear what was going on. The one thing Seiken Tsukai no World Break did relatively well was the flash forward opening. Soon afterwards he meets another girl, Shizuno Urushibara, who eventually reveals that she also knew Moroha in an entirely different past life where he was a dark lord capable of using destructive magic but saved her from a life of slavery.Of all the magical-fantasy-action-harem anime based on a light novels I’ve watched so far this season, this one may not be the worst, but it disappointed me the most. After the ceremony is over, the main character, Moroha Haimura, meets a girl named Satsuki Ranjou who reveals that she was Moroha's little sister in a past life where Moroha was a heroic prince capable of slaying entire armies with his sword skills. The story begins six months prior to the major climax of the series during the opening ceremonies on the first day of the school year. Known as saviors, the students are broken up into two categories: the kurogane who are able to use their prana to summon offensive weapons and the kuroma who are able to use magic. Seiken Tsukai no World Break takes place at Akane Private Academy where students who possess memories of their previous lives are being trained to use Ancestral Arts so that they can serve as defenders against monsters, called Metaphysicals, who randomly attack.
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