His opponents never stand a chance, and thus you feel they are the victims, and Tatsuya is the bully. He doesn’t achieve something, as much as simply doing it without trying. If the threats are so easy to overcome, then there is no tension, and no reason to praise the protagonist.
So we will show them what we can do, and win all the time, and have all the girls call us awesome.” The problem with this concept, is that there is no build up to the conflicts.
The audience is supposed to feel something like this: “We are special and awesome, but our society doesn’t appreciate us, and everybody is against us. EMPOWERMENT FANTASY This is explained as Tatsuya being essentially wish fulfillment for introverts. The sympathy we are supposed to show for the underdog is a troll. He doesn’t even gradually learn most of these powers he begins right away by having mastered everything. And then we find out he has mastered so many types of martial arts and magical combinations that he can LITERALLY defeat anyone in half a second, while LITERALLY resurrecting and rebuilding anything he likes. We are supposed to feel sorry for the guy, and cheer for him as he tries his best to improve and gain everybody’s respect. TROLL PROTAGONIST The same thing happens with the main character, who is considered to be weak and useless, thus disliked by everybody… only to contradict this statement a hundred times throughout the show by making him OVERPOWERED AS HELL! They try to make him seem like his magic potential is low and thus belongs in the lower caste, because magic evaluations are not done properly. And if hard work can indeed make Weeds surpass Blooms, then they shouldn’t have casts to begin with. If they really are superior, they shouldn’t feel threatened. And even the most gifted of them, the Blooms, are acting like they are constantly threatened by the Weeds, as if their position can be snatched away if the errant boys try really hard and surpass them. There is little reason for the Weeds to feel bad, if they have powers that place them above every other mundane person. For a society that runs on meritocracy, all mages are rare and gifted. TROLL PREMISE The first failure comes from the premise itself, which keeps telling you it’s about discrimination. And once again it is proven how the anime fandom refuses to accept light novels as the garbage they are, and on top of that keeps hyping them as masterpieces. LIGHT NOVELS ARE GARBAGE Mahouka (short version of the title) was the next in line to be considered the best LN ever made, claims made by the same type of fans who two years ago were saying the exact same things for Sword Art Online (SAO for short).
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