Anime Discussion Thread - Page 5301

In many ways he's meant to be a reverse of saitama. He doesn't have any special powers, he's truly just an average human who has a strong sense of justice.
He's also not #1 rank C hero for nothing, he does a LOT of good work and is an overall great person. I mean just look at how him and saitama interacted post sea king fight, he's a top tier bro.

In a series with as many insane characters, having licenseless rider around serves as a great balance as far as i'm concerned.

So a loser character with a great sense of justice is top tier ? Alright, Ill remember to get all tingly when he monologues just to get his ass handed to him. psshhh

Please. Hes a joke. I dont hate him, I just dont see the appeal in calling him a top tier character with so many awesome characters in that series. Even King is better, atleast hes decent at video games.

Saitama doesnt have any special powers either that we know off.

So hes the anti Saitama in that hes basically "try hard chivalry lolz" and still useless. He exists to make better characters look good and so people can self plug and relate in some way. I guess thats whats happening here. Hes like a Naruto without the plot win powerups.

Are you kidding? A loser?
How the fuck is he a loser? Not everyone can be a demon-threat destroying hero, but licenseless rider is the #1 C-ranked hero for a reason. Because he does what he can without having any special powers. Calling him useless is honestly like ignoring the fact that he's doing a LOT of hard work offscreen and helping a LOT of people. Do you really need to save the world to be a hero? No, you don't and that's the fucking point of his character. He's much more of an averageman hero. There's a reason he's also a popular hero, because again, he helps a lot of people all the time off-screen.

The series isn't about him or his daily life so the only time you see him onscreen is when something supernatural or something far beyond human capabilities is happening, which is far beyond what he can help with, but he still wants to try saving even a single person if he can. And that's what makes him admirable and what makes him an underdog character, and people fucking LOVE underdogs.

And saying saitama doesn't have any special powers is a joke, of course he does, he broke his limiter as already stated.
That's his power, that he has no limit on what he can do. He can run as fast as he needs to, punch as hard as he needs to and so on.

I wouldnt really call that a special power for Saitama, its more like he has enhanced abilities, but ok, I dont really care to argue that.

Right, im supposed to like LR because hes a Mother Teresa with all the good he does, like saving kittens from trees and finding a little girls teddy bear. All of which isnt even in the manga, I know what kind of character it is. Its generic as fuck and is just there to make losers feel better.

People also really like Sweet Mask infact hes like the most popular character in that universe and hes vile as fuck so I dont really see the mass appeal argument working here either.

I dont see why your defending him so hard, its not really that big a deal if I dont like a useless kitten rescuer on a bike. Its a very generic, easy to make character, heck even his model is a sentai on a bike with a helmet.

There to make losers feel better? What the fuck are you even talking about? How the fuck is an underdog character there to make losers feel better? People simply love underdog characters and he provides contrast to the rest of the characters where many of them have the abilities to do far more heroic things than he does but many of them don't.

People also love King, yet king is truly a loser. He's a loser through and through and his character is meant to be pathetic.

Also comparing licenseless rider's popularity with that of sweet mask is fucking idiotic. Sweet mask is an idol that also does hero things, his public image is good while he's infact a rotten person, we know this as readers, so why the hell do you compare their popularity when you know the same isn't true for licenseless rider?

And i don't see why you're patronizing his character so much, why can't you just accept that people like something you don't? Licenseless rider was #2 in the character popularity poll after the sea king arc and even in the most recent popularity poll with him having no screen-time people still ranked him to #5.
Why is that? Because people like his character.
It's okay, you don't like something most others do, i get it.

I have no problem with people liking the character, but its a lame character. Your free to think otherwise, since LR holds such a special place in your heart. But its a lame character and exists because higher level characters are harder to relate to. Thats what I meant by losers feel better, its easy to relate to people who try hard because anyone can try hard.

Your only evidence to the contrary has been very lame things (in the context of the manga anyway)

"never give up" , " underdog" , "ordinary guy trying to do good things."

Please... this isnt Barney, in a manga where entire towns are getting razed for fun of I really dont think the significance of a useless sidepiece is particularly alluring. I dont need him for a contrast, I know what the other characters are and what they are about.

Its nothing you havent seen before in xyz manga hundreds of times. I really dont need that and honestly you could totally cut the Sea King and LR fight (if you can call it that) and it would make like zero difference to the manga unless again you really like the tingly feeling you seemingly get from the "never give up useless underdog".

As for calling comparing the popularity in the universe idiotic. I wasnt the one who provided a popularity argument in support of the character. You did, I just pointed out the obvious flaw in that logic. Apparantly everyones popularity needs context when pretty much all of the heroe's except Saitama are popular.

Atleast dudes like Metal Bat are fun and somewhat different even though the archtype is common. Honestly your breaking it down so hard your taking the manga way more seriously than you are supposed to imo. OPM isnt amazing because of generic fuck characters like LR its great because of Metal Bat orr Sonic or even Garou.. the side pieces have their value but they dont make the manga.

Everytime LR shows up with his chivalry BS i skipped the page, unless there is another relevant character involved.

The only patronizing going on here is everytime you go on a sidewind trying to explain the characters of the manga like I dont know what they are about.

RIght the character poll and popularity argument. Im not even going to go there. I already told you why the character has mass appeal. I think ill live with not liking something that appeals to the lowest common denominator thanks.

"Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man."
Telling people that they're free to think otherwise but that he's still lame even if they think otherwise is pretty much saying that you think he's an objectively lame character, when clearly many people disagree with you.

Also I'm not even breaking it down or analyzing it, i just read the story, this isn't even taking it seriously. Realizing that characters exist for a reason or realizing why others might like or dislike a character isn't taking a series way too seriously, it's something most people are capable of doing if they read the story.
You started all of this by saying you don't get the appeal of licenseless rider, which is why i have tried to explain it to you. Most people are able to understand why others like a thing even if they don't like it themselves.

And i certainly don't think the manga or webcomic are great because of licenseless rider. He's not even my favourite character, nor is he close to being my favourite character, so i don't see why you're implying he holds 'a special place' in my heart.
I just think he's a solid character and i understand why to a lot of people he's their favourite character next to saitama.

And you say you aren't being patronizing? OK BUDDY.