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The parallel minds thing actually confused me before i put it down as multitasking.
 
It’s like, Kumoko can multitask SO well, it’s like she has multiple separate minds working together.
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It’s closer to Parallel Minds skill gives her split personalities. She decides to use those to multitask; let one personality handle the driving, one personality parse through all the walls of texts that get dropped on her every level up/skill use, another to handle the magic nonsense, and she hasn’t assigned the fourth yet.
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@Dustcan  
Hoodie glasses better get some decent roles.
 
She looks like the “airhead” of the group and I wouldnt be surprised if she’s a hidden genius.
 
My guess, is that she gets the support skills role like buffs and recovery. Witch Hat already does the offensive stuff.
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Slime:Let’s just rush our story right away to give ur character the power to be human, who is already OP.
 
Spider:It’s a slow burn for us. We have a spider and the character is OP by not being OP. And with that Spider doesn’t have a human form… yet.
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Hmmmmm….what is it with you guys and liking MC getting close calls and brush with death and needing to feel their OP-ness justified and earned and shiz?
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Well it’s no fun to just see someone trounce every otherwise impressive looking enemy or obstacle without any real action.
 
We don’t watch a fight just to see the victory.
 
Ideally, it makes the world outside the protag look good to see everyone else has the potential to be as Op and must be outwitted as well as overpowered.
 
You hear that, Overlord?!
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It’s like RPGs; people are supposed to start at level 1 and progressively grow stronger fighting tough boss battles. What’s the point in playing a game where you’re already max level? It’s just a boring slog where you instant wipe anything with no challenge until maybe the final boss.
 
On top of that, one of my favorite parts about Isekais is the Isekai’d figuring out how the world and culture works and trying to make a new living inside that. OP protagonists generally skip that immediately with some grand hero position in the kingdom with a government mandated harem.
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We don’t watch a fight just to see the victory.
yeah true, but you could also watch a fight to just see how good the fighter is.
 
In combat sport, being OP at the highest level is almost miraculous. In lower level where skill disparity is higher, you see more trouncing, as you separate the wheat from the chaff. But when it comes to best two guys, you expect their skill gaps to very small, as they both are at the top. You expect a competitive match.
 
Hence, seeing either the champ or #1 contender runs thru the other guy is exciting to me, because it breaks expectation.
 
@Natry  
I’m all for figuring how the world works, but you could still do that by seeing it from the Non-OP chara.
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In combat sport, being OP at the highest level is almost miraculous. In lower level where skill disparity is higher, you see more trouncing, as you separate the wheat from the chaff. But when it comes to best two guys, you expect their skill gaps to very small, as they both are at the top. You expect a competitive match.
Hence, seeing either the champ or #1 contender runs thru the other guy is exciting to me, because it breaks expectation.
 
I don’t hate unexpected mismatched fights, I hate repetitive victories. With OP protagonists, running through the other guy is the expectation. When the champ beats the 34th contender in a row, no one feels extra excited about it. In fact, people would get far more excited if the champ doesn’t win, i.e. not being OP.  
@Natry
I’m all for figuring how the world works, but you could still do that by seeing it from the Non-OP chara.
 
But since the OP character is living the good life in the palace, the other perspective would generally need to be someone unrelated to the OP’s party. At that point they might as well drop the OP character entirely and focus on the perspective story that’s more interesting.
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I don’t hate unexpected mismatched fights, I hate repetitive victories. With OP protagonists, running through the other guy is the expectation. When the champ beats the 34th contender in a row, no one feels extra excited about it.
For me it depends on the likelihood of repeated victories happening.
 
In UFC for example, nobody is safe. Even the greatest of the great during their career has, lost rounds, get knocked down, has bled, has had to adapt against a fierce opposition. Here comes Khabib Nurmagomedov, the former Lightweight champ.
 
Undefeated 29-0 his entire 12 years, never lost rounds, never get dropped, never got cut, complete dominance against everybody. He never had to change strategy. Literally EVERYBODY, even their opponents KNEW and planned for him, but they always came up short.
 
A guy who does the same thing all the time but stays undefeated unharmed unchallenged for 12 years in the most stacked division in UFC?! A guy who never had to pry victory by the skin of his teeth? The likelihood of that in modern combat sport is ridiculously low. Everybody practically agrees that his 12 years run was borderline miraculous. And pulling off miracles, is why I love underdog heroes.
 
So for me, OP heroes could work wonderfully, if we see them struggle somewhere else. Struggle against the pressure of a clean record, their meticulous pre-fight planning, them overworking to near death just to gain the advantage needed to pull off absolute dominance during fight day, etc. As a bonus, that way we can also learn about how the sport / the world works.
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@Scrabbleman  
Well yes but mabye no. Saitama stayed OP after he broke his limiter, without doing much of anything. We rarely see Saitama train after reaching One Punch status, yet his power level doesn’t ever drop. IRL tho, without regular training, he should deteriorate and gets more dull.
 
What I want is an OP character who is high maintenance. An ideal isekai OP character could be the same way. What if instead of staying at lv 256 with maxed out stats even when all they do is sleep all day, have said character train harder than everyone because the higher their level, the faster the decrease rate.
 
Turn a boring OP character who we see as flawlessly winning all the time, into an interesting OP character who is also flawlessly winning all the them, but show them walking a tightrope, where his OP-ness comes from a level of discipline, dedication and work ethic far beyond his opponents.
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@WyrmSpawN  
Emh. Not really.
 
You don’t have to go back ten years with a OP champ to see WHY he’s OP. You can just spend the summer in training camp with him before a fight, see his work ethic. Watch his daily life and how he spends his waking hours. Which means, just spend an episode or two on the OP’s character habits and lifestyle, without even touching on origin / backstory.
 
If somebody ask “why he so OP what the fuck” you can just be like “watch ep 3 and 7. Dude works seriously hard to maintain his OP-ness”
 
It also means, THIS, and I quote WyrmSpawn: “it makes the world outside the protag look good to see everyone else has the potential to be as Op and must be outwitted as well as overpowered.
 
The OP protag, from training smart and working consistently, from spending his days studying, trying to get an edge over the competition more than anyone, is the reason why he’s OP. If he slack off, if he lazy, if he take a day off, then someone out there hungrier than him, more motivated and work harder than he does, WILL beat him.
 
The world doesn’t wait for the protag to be OP. His OP-ness rely on him actively trying to stay ahead of the pack.
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From what little we’ve seen of her, gaining an extra 6 legs and being on death’s door constantly sure has done wonders for Wakaba’s outgoingness as Kumoko.
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@Dustcan  
I’m chalking it up to her slowly declining sanity. Better be an outgoing “Genki Girl” than be in despair over her abject dice-rolls in her new life. I love kumoko because she’s a proper millennial heroine: chock full of irony, peppered in tragedy.
 
Also this friday we might get the proper debut of…HOODIE GLASSES! YAAAY!
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Actually I think don’t like other spoilers about Kumoko than her becoming more human  
That she is not human reincarnation
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How in the world is the saddest anime so far this year a show about horse girls? Season 1 was so upbeat and cute. Meanwhile, season 2 of Uma Musume is heartbreaking and tragic.
 
The fact barely anybody is talking about it is a huge shame. I’ve nearly cried three times in season 2, and it’s a show about fucking horse girls!
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Injuries, the talks of having to retire and struggling to come to grips with it, losing a race and it sending you into a deep depression, winning races and the crowd proceeding to turn on you because they didn’t want you to win, it’s surprisingly quite the departure of the upbeat nature of season 1.
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