why is it always like this, it looks retarded seeing a thin guy defeat a hulking beast
>pretty boy is actually the strongest of the bunch
Henry Jenkins
Tyler Anderson
If it's unarmed, sure, that's silly.
But as soon as weapons come into play, muscles are far less important than you think.
Even with knives, you wouldn't believe how little force you need to kill somebody.
Jason Gomez
Most shows nowadays have an average MC doing that.
Which is no less pathetic
Be like Guts or Rock Lee. They have the scars to prove their worth
Eli King
>t.hulklet
Christopher Clark
I want to manhandle megumins tiny body
Asher Carter
Power fantasy. Simple. People are just too demoralised to take control of their own lives.
Levi Davis
This trope only happens in shounen though. And shounen is for kids.
Josiah Cook
Muscles literally don't matter in fiction, decrepit old people can destroy mountains
Dylan Young
Then I'm too stupid to give an appropriate answer.
Anthony Martinez
Years of CLAMP dominance paired with the pretty boys of shonen series like gundam and Inuyasha have made the lanklet pretty boy the staple of most "heroes" nowadays. I am thankful there are some pushback recently, giving audience a more varied pallette than what is the norm back then.
Austin Williams
What about literally every martial arts manga that aren't 1:1 realism and aren't shounen manga?
Mason Roberts
Tyler Allen
bro there are a billion series where that isn't the case. quit focusing on shonenshit for 2 seconds
Dylan Evans
nice megumin
John Campbell
Doing it the other way is kinda...
Henry Jones
Japan is full of twink manlets, that's why
Jace Sanders
t.
Josiah Taylor
Deities were often beautiful yet extremely powerful.
Liam Stewart
You can thank Dragon Ball for that
Thomas Martinez
Beauty trumps beast user. Its home economics 101.
Lucas Perez
It makes me feel better as a faggot when I can pretend my twink boyfriend can beat me up instead of me being a bottom because I'm mentally a bitch.
Jeremiah Lopez
If you demand physics realism depicted in an animated medium, you're kind of undermining the whole fucking point of animation in the first place.
Find something else.
Wyatt Sanchez
Nigger that’s isekai
Benjamin Brown
Oh I'm sorry, I must have missed the criteria of the thread set by OP.
OH WAIT!
Andrew White
Who gives a shit, it looks cool and most anime fans are skeles anyways.
Ian James
it's lame
David Parker
It's so the target audience can self insert and imagine themselves beating up a muscle man.
Alexander Morgan
I want Megumin to be a boy.
What is the science behind it being so much hotter when cute girls are boys?
William Sanders
>What is the science behind it being so much hotter when cute girls are boys?
Probably something to do with you being homosexual I would guess.
Ryan Cruz
Anime needs more muscular, square-jawed heroes so that I can self-insert better.
Down with twinks.
Cooper Diaz
You are ghey.
Isaiah Baker
Nathaniel Garcia
Well in the case of the pic Kazuma is a lot more amazing and versatile than people might think. The chapter in the LN (which wasn’t animated, still pisses me off) where he swaps parties with Dust for a day and does amazing while the girls fail as per usual is my favorite.