Uglymug Epicfighter effortpost with some minor spoilers
So I do need to point out that I'm putting what feels like entirely too much thought into a work called "uglymug epicfighter" about a big fat ugly guy who is really strong, which has been characterized as "reddit moderator isekai". But hey, I enjoy effortposting so here we are.
All caught up on uglymug epicfighter and it really isn't "reddit moderator isekai" as people joked. It's more like a traditional ugly duckling morality tale about people's true beauty being from within. Some of the plot twists remind me of "no exit" by Sartre (which is a strange connection to make for a kids manga)
The main characters were all connected in their previous lives, and many of them were either the victims of or the perpetrators of a great sin against someone else.
Of course, being an isekai from a modern (and I have to stress not postmodern) civilization, rather than being a depressing story about how there is no value meaning or sense in the universe, it's not flipping story about how good people working together can make anywhere into a paradise.
The main character looks at first like the stereotypical Reddit mod, being really fat and really ugly, but ends up taking on the countenance more like a warrior Monk, stotic and strong. In spite of the physical ugliness, the virtue of the character also feels different when you see them. You know when they're on the page that he's going to do the right thing.
One of the core themes of the work is that strength comes through sacrifice. The main character looks are not by accident, he chose to look that way in order to gain additional skill points. Besides that, there are things that can be written in a free form box at the beginning of the story where you can trade something for power, for example being unable to lie or unable to betray others.
The core tension of the story, given that the main character is someone whose class is literally "Absolute God" and so combat is only tense when another absolute God is in combat, is information asymmetry. Who was everyone prior to being brought to another world? What do they want to do now? What are their powers? What limitations and extraordinary powers did they give themselves and why? Given absolute power, it can only be exercised once the situation is known.
It's getting an anime soon, and hopefully it'll be as good or better than the manga I read.
All caught up on uglymug epicfighter and it really isn't "reddit moderator isekai" as people joked. It's more like a traditional ugly duckling morality tale about people's true beauty being from within. Some of the plot twists remind me of "no exit" by Sartre (which is a strange connection to make for a kids manga)
The main characters were all connected in their previous lives, and many of them were either the victims of or the perpetrators of a great sin against someone else.
Of course, being an isekai from a modern (and I have to stress not postmodern) civilization, rather than being a depressing story about how there is no value meaning or sense in the universe, it's not flipping story about how good people working together can make anywhere into a paradise.
The main character looks at first like the stereotypical Reddit mod, being really fat and really ugly, but ends up taking on the countenance more like a warrior Monk, stotic and strong. In spite of the physical ugliness, the virtue of the character also feels different when you see them. You know when they're on the page that he's going to do the right thing.
One of the core themes of the work is that strength comes through sacrifice. The main character looks are not by accident, he chose to look that way in order to gain additional skill points. Besides that, there are things that can be written in a free form box at the beginning of the story where you can trade something for power, for example being unable to lie or unable to betray others.
The core tension of the story, given that the main character is someone whose class is literally "Absolute God" and so combat is only tense when another absolute God is in combat, is information asymmetry. Who was everyone prior to being brought to another world? What do they want to do now? What are their powers? What limitations and extraordinary powers did they give themselves and why? Given absolute power, it can only be exercised once the situation is known.
It's getting an anime soon, and hopefully it'll be as good or better than the manga I read.
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