@TotallyAbsurd yeah I don't dislike the underdog trope in stories I just hate seeing it for characters that's not talentless, that are actual prodigies that they're trying to portray as talentless,
like do anyone really believe Naruto was less talented than Lee that is b*******, everyone knew that Lee was the least talented character in that story, and that he overcame the talent of others through sheer hard work,
and I feel like they're so few stories that can actually do a believable underdog story where the least talented character just defeated the most talented character through hard work and determination,
Stores like all you need is kill, dragon Ball / dragon Ball z, demon slayer, vagabond, holyland, Yu Yu Hakusho, Hunter x Hunter, hajime no ippo, Kingdom, and up until the end the legend of the northern blade, and probably a few others I can't think of off the top of my head,
But these are the only stories that actually feel like underdog story to me, and while this story is a underdog story, having talent or being a prodigy mean nothing in this story, or at least it shouldn't to the MC who has one of the greatest abilities to die and come back and learn from every death,
That means there isn't too many characters in all of fiction he can't defeat as long as they're not omnipotent g**-tier characters, or invulnerable characters with g**-tier strength like Superman or saitama,
And Once you know this, you realize how pointless it is, when they bring up how talentless the MC is, compared to everyone else is in this story, that is what annoys me about it, I'm finally done ranting, so I hope this reply isn't too long, if it is I apologize.
my only gripe with this story that they keep pushing, is this stupid a** nonsense about how the MC doesn't have any talent compared to anyone else, yada yada yada, he has acquired the greatest talent that anyone could ever hope for, endless respawns and more lives then a cat, if they actually gave him the actual accumulated experience through all the constant battles like they did for the characters in all you need is kill, he would be a killing machine/g** of war by now, this is something they also did in vagabond where musashi was one of the least talented characters in the story, but he managed to close that Gap and even surpass the most talented characters by constantly fighting in death matches, you will never grow faster as a warrior or soldier than fighting and constant death matches or wars, in just 38 chapters the MC of this story has more accumulated war experience than a space Marine from Warhammer 40K that has lived for 2,000 years and fought in endless wars.
