@JewelRunner Agreed. This anime doesn't make a lot of sense regarding this matter.
First of all, it would be interesting to know how the points are being tracked down and if someone can check the breakdown. If Will has been hunting a lot of monster in the dungeon, it should necessarily have more points than if he didn't, so, everyone should be able to notice a discrepancy... Also, if everyone could check his points, they would see in a second he's betting strong monster, so, that would destroy this image of "useless".
Well, let's be honest. Everyone, except Will because the author wants it, would just say "See, I just destroyed this monster, he's worth that much, certified by teacher, so, I'm not that weak".
But no.
Hell, he even let Sion take credits for his monster kill. No one checked the point whatsoever.
And when you start to think about it, I mean, if he's supposed to have no magic and physical abilities is considered useless, then :
1/ He should not be allowed in the school
2/ Even if he's allowed as an intellectual, he should not be asked to demonstrate magic when he can't (I mean, come on, no teacher would just ask him to perform magic when they have known for several years he doesn't have any magical abilities...., except, again, because the author wants to even if it doesn't make sense),
3/ And if he's seen as worthless, he should not be allowed to go in dungeon (saying "don't worry, he got a familiar with him", sure, because, if the sensei notice something was wrong, he could get in the dungeon in one second ? As if the monster would wait thirty minutes...)
4/ And it shouldn't be allowed in the competition either because who would send a powerless dude ? Is that how you want to advertise your school ? And no one care about the safety of students ?
So, yeah, basically, the story is constructed on the principle that Will is overpowered and that no matter how bad stuff are, it's fine, because he will win. But, if you consider just one second he was not overpowered, it would make no sense and just be cruel (consider there is no way he was overpowered when he started the school).
Finally, we all know, it would just take ONE SECOND from the teacher to declare to his students that Will just killed xxx monster, so that the whole "laggards" stuff would end,
but he doesn't do it because the author doesn't want to,
and
if you just think about it, only giving 10 credits to destroy a monster who could probably kill everyone except the top3 students of the school, it doesn't make sense. 10 out of 7200... Again the author just decided it because in every other normal word, Will should have over 10 000 points just from killing monster as powerful as he did.
Not 10. He deserves 100 or 1 000 points for destroying this monster.
So, basically, the whole concept of the anime only works because the author allowed a non magic student to register for no reason and that no one (including Will) is allowed to say "He got10 points because he killed xxx by himself".
In real life, this anime will be over in 10 seconds.
No one would take the bullying (except again... because the author just want to).
Finally, the concept of writing, is that the action of the character are as natural as possible, so, you "forget" there is an author. But, here, the author is making so much choice who doesn't make any sense, you start to question everything and realize not a lot are properly justified. |