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2014-05-23, 01:31 | Link #82 |
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The story always meant to go there. It was obvious since volume 1, you simply do not make the imouto your main heroine without having her in mind for the end game. Plus, OreImo was like commentary/ thesis on the incest genre and its impact on otaku culture.
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2014-05-23, 01:39 | Link #85 |
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Because of his natural abilities? I can cite you more than 3 characters born with OP abilities. Heck, all the TMC magicians are born with OP skills but they are scattered in the regular magic system. His powers are the result of being a Yotsuba of the 2nd lineage specialized to the extreme.
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2014-05-23, 01:41 | Link #86 | |
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If you don't like certain character why post here? To show your hate on certain character? If you don't like this character then post the tread you do like, or go to the general tread of the subforum so we can prevent this topic escalated to war tread
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2014-05-23, 01:51 | Link #87 | |
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• Tatsuya is born with natural abilities that are more powerful than what a normal mage acquires at birth • Has weak magic affinity compensated by artificial methods, including advanced technology and bodily surgical procedures • All known fights were of little risk except for Miyuki's close brush with death. Only one known death in the supporting cast in Tatsuya's side, most wins are against people who hold back against him or mooks who can't really hold a candle against him. Most losses can't even be counted because they are hard counters. • Politics contributes to less direct approaches in combat, sometimes resulting in unbelievable periods of peace between enemy factions • Focus on Tatsuya shifts the standard of "decent magic" such that any other mage that isn't Tatsuya seemed underwhelming -> main gripe with having an overpowered MC • Team fights are still centered on Tatsuya's skills • Other factions seemed weaker than intended • Tatsuya's "weaknesses" are not hard weaknesses. Regrowth's pain amplification only gives Tatsuya cold sweat when a normal person can't properly function well under extreme pain, and his prohibition to use secret military spells can be avoided by actually not enrolling him in a high school as a student in the first place. And the list goes on.
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2014-05-23, 01:54 | Link #88 |
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Hmm? Good point. Maybe it's because... 1) He's a ruthless, merciless, selfish, and utterly twisted, Machiavellian, motherfucker capable of great cruelty and vindictiveness and is portrayed as the farthest thing from a moral paragon as possible. A being to be feared rather than loved, but nevertheless respected. 2) He's not universally loved. People who are not antagonistic to him have expressed their dislike of him on occasion. And that some of his friends(Miyuki included) sometimes think that he's way of thinking is a little warped (his inability to understand "good will" for one thing). 3) The story doesn't just revolve around him and actually gives the other characters subplots and agendas of their own. Heck, even some of his friends like Mayumi are technically aligned with rival factions. 4) The fact that he's based on Shiva--from his personality, down to his powers--completely destroys any idea of him possibly being some kind of self-insert character. 5) His powers are justified by his training background, his genius, and his pedigree. |
2014-05-23, 01:57 | Link #89 |
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^ you really do hate tatsuya why post here? Nvm ~_~ all I can say is that every character has weakness
Even overpower ones like tatsuya has weakness kill miyuki 2 scenario might happen tatsuya destroy the world or tatsuya decomposed himself Due to losing his last emotion that prevent him from self destruct that is her sister
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2014-05-23, 02:09 | Link #90 | |
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2014-05-23, 02:19 | Link #91 | |
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Also, again, Shiva? Shiva has all those powers. The ability to reverse time, heal wounds, practically raise the dead, destroy everything in creation--Tatsuya has no power that his mythological basis doesn't. Going back to why I think his OPness is handled well, it's because of this: 1) Tatsuya was based on Shiva. And because Shiva himself is overpowered. When Tatsuya was made, he had to be overpowered. His level of power was integral to his meaning as a character. Which means his OPness is not an amateurish fluke by the writer, but was something that was put there on purpose. It was intentional. If it was intentional that means the author had it in his mind to make something out of this--and he did. By showing in the story that even if you are as powerful as Tatsuya, it counts for squat since not everything can be solved by brute force and that killing the people causing the problem doesn't necessarily fix the actual problem. Politics is still the way to go about thing, and in this field Tatsuya is still a little green. His OPness is used to strike a point about the nature of power--it isn't always about who has the biggest boomstick. Actually, it even kinda makes him look pathetic: his powers are useless for the stuff he really wants to do; he comes up with all these ingenious ways to use magic, but he can't use them himself and he needs the skills of people around him. His powers are only good for war. And the fact that despite being a god for all intents and purposes--other people can still boss him around. Because they've gotten a hold of his thumbscrew and are making use of it. 2) By not making Tatsuya into a moral paragon, the story turned him into the wild card whose power can tip the scale to the favor of anyone who gets their hands on him. Tatsuya does only what Tatsuya thinks is good for his and his sister's interests. He's not motivated by a sense of right and wrong, a sense of justice, nor does he have any sort of attachment to any one faction or ideology. Miyuki is his only care in the world. And he's perfectly willing to work with anyone that ensures her well-being and safety. By making Tatsuya an utterly selfish magnificent bastard that means the story isn't endorsing any one kind of viewpoint as "righteous" or "villainous" because Tatsuya himself doesn't really care about that stuff. He just wants to live in peace with his sister. 3) Tatsuya's the most powerful character around because he put in all his effort place himself in that position, and he's hell bent on staying there. Tatsuya is terrified of another Okinawa incident, his time in Volume 8 was the clumsiest Tatsuya we've ever seen since he was still working on some of his abilities at that point, and when he lost Honami and especially when he almost lost Miyuki, just the idea of loss nearly drove him mad. He doesn't want that to happen, and there are hints in the novels that he isn't exactly satisfied with his powers and he's beginning to question his own existence. This means he can still grow. And this, now begs the question: "just how much more powerful is he going to get?" This, I think is fascinating direction for his character growth. |
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2014-05-23, 02:42 | Link #93 | |
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But let's go with what you said about 1 and 2. The difference is this: 1) Kirito's jerk moments are portrayed as just that--he's a bit of jerk because he's a socially awkward boy who has trouble interacting with people sometimes. His heart is still in the right place, and in the end he still does the right thing. Tatsuya? When he acts like a jerk, it's portrayed as a genuinely horrible thing to do. The way he kills surrendering enemies, engages in manipulation, and his genuine lack of concern for anyone who has nothing to do with himself or his sister are terrible traits for a human being. Kirito was a "Hero". Tatsuya is a "Demon King". 2) Nope. I'm talking about characters who are portrayed as smart and competent in their own right. Like Shizuku's mom for instance, she's got some pretty legit reasons for not liking Tatsuya, and other characters have also expressed a reason for why though they might respect him for his abilities, they don't really like him because he strikes them wrong. I'm not talking about his intelligence making people feel jealous of him, I'm talking about people in the story who stated good reasons why they dislike Tatsuya. Last edited by Lucarion; 2014-05-23 at 02:59. |
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All his names and aliases (and even the fact that he has a lot of names) are related to Shiva. He is surrounded by characters who like him were also based on characters from the Shiva myths, he shares the same personality, the same disposition, went through the same tribulations (Shiva was looked down on and laughed at too, but he didn't really care), share the same complex and contradictory nature--being both the gentle creator and the terrible annihilator of men, he is described by various characters in a similar way to how Shiva was described by the people around him in mythology, and he also shares the same set of powers and capabilities. His weapon is the Trident. (Heck, look at Trident and the compare the symbol on the gun to Shiva's Trident) He possesses the Third Eye which he seals because the moment he opens it he will burn everything in its sight. His black suit is reminiscent of his Bhairava aspect. Ushiyama is his companion Nandi. Miyuki is his Shakti(Parvati). Lina is Kali(and also the star Sirius) His father Tatsurou is Daksha. And? Should they eventually fight? Maya is Maya. Add to this his Mahesvara and "The Destroyer" epithets. Heck, even some of the Japanese fans caught on to this and are basically treating the whole series like a big association game. Last edited by Lucarion; 2014-05-23 at 03:19. |
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And it's not a gimmick. It's the whole point. It makes Mahouka stand out, but at the same time it's also integral to the story itself. What exactly don't you like about this story? Aside from Tatsuya? |
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2014-05-23, 03:18 | Link #98 |
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Volume 13 hints seems to imply Tatsuya DOES have a hard weakness though. This weakness is that he can't tell what his natural limits are, so when he starts going anywhere above normal, Miyuki's berserk button goes off. It touches on it when he's training his Far Strike, but the hints indicates that she really explodes about it in Volume 13.
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2014-05-23, 03:20 | Link #99 |
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Change of topic: Do you think tatsuya will break the third unsolvable problem of the 3 great problem in mahouka?
Do you think Japanese government and 10mc will search the true identity of mahesvara? If tatsuya's mahesvara persona discover by 10mc what do you think happen especially this 4 mayumi, koichi, masaki and juumonji found out will they experiment him or take him and sister away from yotsuba?
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