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INTEREST: Tatsuya Tops Irregular at Magic High School Character Popularity Poll

OP, you say? No, Kirito is OP. Tatsuya is a living god with perfect offense, defense, and support skills. He's like Saitama, only he's not funny or amusing to watch.

Secondly, you note his struggle between his devotion to his sister and the world, saying that people are trying to treat him like a tool, but then you never take the next step to the logical conclusion. He is a tool. He does allow himself to be used. There is no actual struggle between him and those who use him. Tatsuya, insofar as we saw him in the anime, just tried not to upset the apple cart and kept the status quo in place.

What is the status quo? It's boring. No one likes things staying the same, not in anime and not in life. Had Tatsuya shown some honest-to-goodness rebellion and actually had to choose between his sister and the world, Mahouka could've actually been really interesting to watch, but it never goes there, and it never really seems to try.

Ryan Ashfyre wrote:

OP, you say? No, Kirito is OP. Tatsuya is a living god with perfect offense, defense, and support skills. He's like Saitama, only he's not funny or amusing to watch. Secondly, you note his struggle between his devotion to his sister and the world, saying that people are trying to treat him like a tool, but then you never take the next step to the logical conclusion. He is a tool. He does allow himself to be used. There is no actual struggle between him and those who use him. Tatsuya, insofar as we saw him in the anime, just tried not to upset the apple cart and kept the status quo in place. What is the status quo? It's boring. No one likes things staying the same, not in anime and not in life. Had Tatsuya shown some honest-to-goodness rebellion and actually had to choose between his sister and the world, Mahouka could've actually been really interesting to watch, but it never goes there, and it never really seems to try.

If I were to compare Tatsuya to anything, it's like the production team read Vampire Hunter D but came away with the wrong ideas about why D works and is interesting in spite of his godlike power and martial prowess. 1) He's more of a guide than a character. He's meant to show the reader this interesting, unique world and that really shows through 2) He's always kept at arms length with the reader. In spite of him being the central character, we still don't know much about D and as such he has this air of mystery about him that the reader will never be able to see through.

There's of course more to it than that. Tatsuya could have been interesting character, but he's really just shallow. I can't really call him wish fulfillment because he isn't relatable in the slightest nor can I call him escapist because he's shackled to a pretty mundane setting. There have been tons of impressive characters in fiction that have worked (Edmond Dantes, DMC's Dante, D, Space Adventure Cobra, Alucard, The Man With No Name, Sanjuro, etc) but Tatsuya really lacks that bit of charisma or intrigue to make him interesting.

If I were to compare Tatsuya to anything, it's like the production team read Vampire Hunter D but came away with the wrong ideas about why D works and is interesting in spite of his godlike power and martial prowess. 1) He's more of a guide than a character. He's meant to show the reader this interesting, unique world and that really shows through 2) He's always kept at arms length with the reader. In spite of him being the central character, we still don't know much about D and as such he has this air of mystery about him that the reader will never be able to see through.

There's of course more to it than that. Tatsuya could have been interesting character, but he's really just shallow. I can't really call him wish fulfillment because he isn't relatable in the slightest nor can I call him escapist because he's shackled to a pretty mundane setting. There have been tons of impressive characters in fiction that have worked (Edmond Dantes, DMC's Dante, D, Space Adventure Cobra, Alucard, The Man With No Name, Sanjuro, etc) but Tatsuya really lacks that bit of charisma or intrigue to make him interesting.

>other

You make it sound as if there's even one of those....

AksaraKishou wrote:

>other You make it sound as if there's even one of those....

If you somehow manage to kill Tatsuya, He Who Has Returned From Heaven To Save Feeble Mankind, then he autorezzes no worse for wear. Assumably he can die from old age, but other than that, how is that not immortality?

AksaraKishou wrote:

>other You make it sound as if there's even one of those....

If you somehow manage to kill Tatsuya, He Who Has Returned From Heaven To Save Feeble Mankind, then he autorezzes no worse for wear. Assumably he can die from old age, but other than that, how is that not immortality?

There's a fix for your last problem tbh. Read the LN. I think the Review written here on ANN does a good job underlining the problem with the adaptation. That said, i'm not saying Mahouka's perfect by any stretch. I'm just saying that's its better than it's given credit for.

Also, didn't you read/watch the SCENE where Miyuki specifically states that while he can heal others, he must first experience their pain time dozens of times?

His magic can only bring back the dead if there is chance of resuscitation. Regrowth only restores the physical spectrum and not the spiritual.

AksaraKishou wrote:

Also, didn't you read/watch the SCENE where Miyuki specifically states that while he can heal others, he must first experience their pain time dozens of times?

Since when has pain ever incapacitated him or had a meaningful impact besides "he suffers for our sins"? Is there a moment in the 18+ LNs or so where he's too busy screaming in agony or something to accomplish what he needed to?

If not, that caveat is meaningless.

T.Silver wrote:

His magic can only bring back the dead if there is chance of resuscitation. Regrowth only restores the physical spectrum and not the spiritual.

Is this a "it works if they're only mostly dead" thing or a "it works if they've been dead for less than five minutes" thing?

kgw wrote:

Are we talking about the same character who's good at everything, every time, knows it all, characters are measured by their interactions with him, girls or fawn at him or think they are too low for him? A textbook Mary Sue.

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