ITT: characters who are guarenteed newcomers in the next smash bros. game

ITT: characters who are guarenteed newcomers in the next smash bros. game

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>flopped generic anime trash
lol no

This desu

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he better come back as an assist

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1/5 for Pyra. Sakurai will take Pyra/Mythra over Rex.

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one for four. probably above average for you

Xenoblade 2 will be forgotten by then.

If the next smash game isn’t direct by soccer guy. Then I can see Nintendo shoehorning in waluigi

This guy

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Now that we have Microsoft on board with Banjo, they can't continue to ignore Minecraft, it's just too big

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Flopped? It far exceeded the gamemaker's expectations.

You mean the protag of Xenoblade 3.

Ooh they will, as long as this guy exists

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>Sakurai taking anyone over a shota
You must be new to Smash

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>Sakurai will take Pyra/Mythra over Rex
Wow, that’s genuinely the dumbest post I’ve seen all day. Do you not anything about the game aside from it being “weebshit”?

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>months too late for Ultimate launch
>years too early for the next Smash
The absolute state of Rex.

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The shitstorm was so big even normalfags heard about it, I think Waluigi's locked

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>Persona 5 cucks him
>Dragon Quest cucks him
>Now his own series cucks him
Damn

Hell the fuck no, retard.

He'll still probably get in because Sakurai said he wanted him, and he's autistic like that, it sucks because nobody will care about him, even the XC2 fans will probably be jerking off over XC3 and not give a shit about him anymore.

He'll probably be the 2nd most hated addition next to Corrin.

He could be Elma'd if a Xenoblade 3 releases. So far the only guaranteed are Octolings, Fire Emblem, Mario, and Pokemon. Anything else would be an assist trophy / mii costume upgrade, third party character, and whatever else he feels like putting in.

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Literally who?

retard

>even the XC2 fans will probably be jerking off over XC3 and not give a shit about him anymore.
I never wanted him to begin with.

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It'll probably be forgotten by the next Smash game

You meant Poppi, right?

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No, seriously, actually who is that?

>he doesn't know

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I feel like we won't get a FE newcomer since TH just came out, so I feel like it'll be skipped over.

based

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The next Xenoblade game will be out before then and people will have forgotten Rex and Pyra same as they did with Cross and Elma.

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>Three Houses is selling like crazy
>Awakening the previous top selling game had yet another character added
Sorry to say he's gonna be forced in and Nintendo or Sakurai will make sure of it.

Not if there's another Xenoblade between then and now. People only care about Rex because he's the protag in the current one.

People forgot Cross and Elma because they have the personality and story relevance of packing peanuts.

Sakurai has shit taste if he actually likes Rex and XC2.

Same with Rex and Pyra

Xeno- is my favorite vidya franchise and I never wanted Rex to begin with. My stance is that if we needed another Xeno-character (we don't) that it should be someone from Xenoblade X or Xenosaga. Hell, Fei would probably be preferable, but Square is not going to let him in before characters like Crono or Noctis.

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Sakurai likes Danganronpa, so yeah.

xenoblade only needs one rep and shulk is enough

Cross has a more enjoyable personality than Rex, and Elma much more so than Pyra.

Hell, your average Isekai protagonist is more enjoyable than Rex or Pyra. If you enjoy those two, go to MangaDex, look up the Isekai genre, and you'll have a fucking ball.

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Nobody's forgotten Elma, nor Shulk and Fiora, thanks to the Land of Challenge.

Awakening also released close to the development window for Smash 4.

It's sold better than Fire Emblem did for years. As a fan of both, I'd be willing to sacrifice half the FE squad for an extra Xenoblade character.

Wrong.
Also wrong, Xenoblade has nothing in common with the isekai genre

T. Rex fanboy

I'd welcome Malos as an echo of Shulk.

Rex is literally just an Isekai protagonist, aged down 3 years, and given a case of amnesia at birth so he doesn't remember his previous life or how to show everyone in Alrest crop rotation and cell phones.

>Hell, your average Isekai protagonist is more enjoyable than Rex or Pyra.
I don't like Rex and Pyra much (Xenoblade's protagonists are pretty shitty), but that's fucking wrong. Isekai protagonists are a special brand of hot garbage far worse than just a generic shonen protag like Rex.

No, I'm just not a retarded zoomer who only has SAO as a frame of reference as to what anime as a whole is.

Cry harder cuck. Only betas like Rex and Pyra

Hell no. Rex is definitely Isekai-protag tier. He's not even worthy of the lofty heights set by fucking Naruto

It's funny because XC2 literally has a SAO character in it.

I want fucking TERRY BOGARD

>475979375

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Says the anonymous poster who gets legitimately angry at fictional video game characters

It's funny because you're wrong again. Same character designer =/ same character.

Boring.

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No we don't need utter garbage like X characters in smash
>Xeno- is my favorite vidya franchise
I feel bad for you

There's more to Isekai than SA:O. Kirito is somehow better than Rex, because at least he isn't as whiny. No, Rex is on the level of those Isekais where someone reincarnates in another world and ends up being the most OP person in every room he walks into.

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Cringe

Why are getting so emotional over this stupid shota?

Cope.

X's characters were much better than 2's. Somehow they managed to develop X's cast of 15 better than 2's cast of 11 (12?)

they're so well developed that nobody gives a shit about any of them other than Elma

FotM anime trash has no place in Smash

>X's characters were much better than 2's
Yikes, now that's a cope if I've ever seen one.

>One of the oldest video game franchises not yet represented in Smash
>World-renowned
>Games frequently appear on Nintendo consoles, latest game got released on Switch
>Important to the development of strategy games as a genre
Yeah, I think he's in.

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Rex is nothing like a character from a Isekai. Kazuma, Natsuki, Iwatani etc.

>FotM
>released in 2017

Based

Yikes

Explain the entire FE cast then.

>fotm
>best selling xeno game in the entire xeno series

He's anything but boring. I bet you're a Tekken fag.

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Imagine NOT thinking Rex is bland isekai weebshit garbage. What the fuck is wrong with you?

I went into 2 with high expectations coming off X. I even preordered it because I loved 1 and X so much I was kicking myself for not getting them sooner (or with the special edition, in the case of X). However, 2's characters disappointed me at every turn. I liked Zeke and Pandoria for comedic value, but other than them, and Morag, the cast was very one-note, didn't develop, and barely had any interesting interactions because they just went along with the plot instead of moving it forwards themselves.

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My money's on:
Steve
Waluigi
Akira

Best selling fotm is still fotm

And you still have shit taste for liking one of the worst series ever made and even dumb enough to want characters from a terrible piece of shit in Smash

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whatever helps you cope

Yes I know but the only way I don't see a Three Houses character is if another non remake game gets released before then. Then they may pick that person over them. So basically another Elma / Rex situation.

You fucking know it.

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I don't think you know what that word means.

This thread reeks of a certain ban-evading someone.

Seething FF-cuck. Xenoblade is the best RPG franchise of the 2010's, even if 2 was lackluster due to the smaller team and shorter dev time.

Your shota boycrush isn't getting in

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>Flavor of the month for almost
>For 20 months and going
Huh huh.

>complains about the cast not developing
>the characters he says he did like are the ones that develop the least
???

I haven’t played Xenoblade, so I’ll table Rex’s chances for now.

ARMS sold well, so it’s bound to get a rep next time. While Spring Man would likely be the next rep because he’s the MC of the game, he sort of feels like the Mario of ARMS - just plain. If they go with an alternate character, I’d say either Min-Min (who won the final ARMS mega-tournament) or Ribbon Girl. Maybe include Dr. Coyle if they want a villain rep as well.

Octolings are likely to be added, as would a representative for the next Pokemon game. A Fire Emblem rep is certainly possible, but honestly I’d think a 3H rep would be like choosing your favorite child - the others would get upset.

Nintendo and Platinum are also on good terms, so I could see Akira from Astral Chain as a rep next time (with both gender alts).

Nagi is probably the hardest I have ever cringed at a video game character. He's that bad.

Threads on Yea Forums aren't actual game content

Even FF is better than Xenoblade. You have the lowest standards a human being can have. X is objectively a bad game.

>Elma/Rex
But neither of them got in.

And who would that be?

Zeke developed more than Rex did over the course of the game. Even if he barely developed, that's still more than can be said for Mr. Isekai.

None of the cast developed noticeably, they're all one-note, and they don't have anything going for them other than their quirks. Zeke just happens to be the most enjoyable of the cast.

>Dunban, Morag, Elma, Fiora, and Pandoria that high
Truly awful

>FF
>better than anything

now you're just a lying nigger

Shitposting

That's like saying Isaac is a shoe in for next Smash.

Rex missed the boat, permanently.

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>flopped

usgamer.net/articles/xenoblade-chronicles-2-sales-outside-japan-far-exceeded-monolith-softs-expectations

Fuck guess I'll return to the game now and grind all those links before the ending in glorious 4k

There is not a single good character in X. No one develops, no one is interesting, they are all worthless to the story and plot, and not even people who played that shitty game even can name the characters because they are so unmemorable and generic. The only reason people even know why a garbage character like Elma even exists is because of delusional Xfags who want her in Smash and her ass pictures on this board. How sad is that.

Good for Xenoblade isn't saying much
>Didn't outsell Persona 5
>Didn't outsell Dragon Quest
>Didn't outsell 3 Houses
>Didn't outsell ARMs, 1, 2, Switch and various Wii U ports

It's true. Xenoblade is bottom of the barrel when it comes to jrpgs

Punished Takahashi
No matter what he does it flops

Just rotate them in and out of your party as you complete quests and shit. Successfully doing a H2H gives them like 1/3rd of another heart to you, and then you're just an hour or two of questing away from the next one. Do 3 at a time and you should have max affinity in like 25 hours with the entire cast.

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With that logic every game is fotm. Even then XB2 got content longer than the other Xenoblades.

>sales

Imagine actually liking that one-note meme character. Get some standards.

Nice bait. If you played X you wouldn't have to shitpost so violently.

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>amount of dicks sucked

Smash bros you need to get in here NOW

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>sales

>one normie man
Pathetic

this thread is a testament to the fact that xenoblade should never have been included in smash to begin with

>amount of circlejerks had over a mediocre game

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>Sales

Sadly I did played that bad game and now have to watch austsic shitposters like you want shitty characters in a party game and even try to justify it.

You know enough to recognize Dopey Bird and Garou, so you must be a fan too.

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It's better than pop meme epic at least

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If you want to talk about generic things, you can talk about Naughty dog games. Or Hollywood movies.

the fuck are you doing

>Amount of fanart posted of a specific anime girl

This. Rexfags, aka Smashfags ruined the Xenoblade fanbase.

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Don't you fucking (You) me 4 times

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Wait, this is a straight doujin? That dude looks daddy as fuck

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Okay, before you get b&, what's the twist with this one?

>i cant enjoy a video game unless it has good sales

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What’s with the manga dump?

Truth

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>I can't enjoy video games unless there's enough porn of the characters and circlejerks on anonymous imageboards

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The girl is cute.

...

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suck my dick
based nintendo, graciously funding takahashi's flop machine

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That doesn't change the fact that he's generic weeb trash lmao.

No, Murata's art style is very recognizable. Not that a normalfag who reads bad manga and plays a shitty game would even know that

>Truth

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>Gamerblade 2

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>It's literal shit
oh god my dick pls keep going

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And in the mean time, watch as he gets cucked by Joker, Hero, Banjo, Tracer, and Agumon

If you actually like X you have a legit mental illness. Or you are just really fond of playing with dog turds

Only if you suck mine first

Murata's artstyle is recognizable because of how good it is. He even designed 2 Mega Man bosses as a child.

Also, One Punch Man is better than your favorite manga. Unless your favorite manga is the one manga that I like more than One Punch Man, in which case you've got good taste.

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X is a fantastic game but overall its cast is really inferior to the one in 2 (1 is better than them both), I have no idea what that guy is smoking

What is happening in this thread?

real bara shit

based doujinanon blessing this shitty XB2 thread

>Also, One Punch Man is better than your favorite manga
Imagine boasting about being this tasteless

Gay shit. Literally. Yet somehow better and more sanitary than Xfag's shitposting.

I knew it! there's no why that doujin was straight, that artstyle told me everything.

A man can dream..

One normie man is not even close in quality to something like HxH, or Jojo part 7. Get some fucking taste retard

Nah, your favorite is just shit.

>Unless your favorite manga is the one manga that I like more than One Punch Man, in which case you've got good taste.
name it, coward

>guaranteed
>rex
no, more likely that a Xenoblade X2 or Xenoblade 3 character is guaranteed a spot. Xenoblade 2 will probably get a character for DLC in Ultimate

Bruh. You know how kany weebs bought this because of tits?

My favorite isn’t One Joke Man though

No, it's just a awful game a bunch of retards tricked me into playing.

Rex's horrible eng voice actor would ruin it.
Give us malos as a heavy weight shulk with a different monado gimmick

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I'd go for that. Too bad it'll never happen.

I highly doubt Nintendo would let Rex’s voice be that bad again after how much it got meme’d.

That said, I would prefer Malos.

fuck rex
fuck elma
fuck everything

WHY THE FUCK DOES XENOBLADE STILL NOT HAVE ANY REAL REMIXES

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Admit it, you didn't like the change of direction in XC2. Claiming X has better character development is... just not true
Cope harder.

Some people have been trained to shout "generic" everytime a game has anime designs. It doesn't matter if they are good or bad, as long as they are anime those guys will just say their favorite buzzword.
Like other overused word, it has lost its meaning. You can just say "I hate anime", and it would be exactly the same.
Yet, we constantly see games that look like derivative Hollywood movies and for "some reason" no one complains...

Did we play the same games?

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Incorrect. 2's cast is more developed and relevant than the characters from 1 and X, saying anything else is wrong. Only two from X even get constant screentime that's not locked to poorly made sidequests.

Because Sakurai is a cunt with garbage taste.

>another non remake game
7 remake would overshadow guaranteed. 2 didn't because it was a black sheep and still is.

Murenase Shiiton Gakuen
Have you actually read the series or are you just shitposting it because it's popular?

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The sidequests contain more and better character development than in all of 2, though. You can't just discount them because they're optional.

The real reason was because Awakening and Fates released at the time Sakurai was deciding base/DLC characters.
The only exception is Chrom, who became a giant meme and was an Echo anyway.

Wow so you like both a bad game and two terrible manga. That's a yikes from me.

>Not a single Xenoblade X track in the entire game
On the bright side, maybe that's because Elma is coming with her own stage so Sakurai didn't want to waste tracks on Gaur Plains.
On the realist side, Sakurai just forgot.

At least I'm not a fan of HxH lmao.

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The sidequests didn't contain shit. That's why they were poorly made. Just wasting your fucking time with shitty unlikable tropes like Bozo who's the defintion of One-Note

>Murenase Shiiton Gakuen
>Seton Academy, a school full of animals where, thanks to population decline, there are fewer humans than any other creature. Mazama Jin, an animal hater and the only human male in his class, falls in love with Hino Hitomi, the only female human, the moment he lays eyes her. However he soon finds himself entangled with various other creatures after he reluctantly joins the 'pack' of Lanka the wolf, the only other member of her pack.
alright you lost me

I’ve read it, it’s dry tripe. The only amusing joke it had was repeated to death with the overall humor long since wearing out its welcome, and the rest is just mediocrity that it was once a parody of. It’s all style no substance, shit easily digestible by normalfags who just want Murata’s quirky take on capeshit.

AND they had a model for him already. If they had to make one from scratch, he wouldn't have happened, or we would've gotten someone much closer to the design of an existing character.

That's a good thing. We don't want shit music in Smash.

If they put Malos in they would need to keep his frame data the exact same as Shulk's because Shulk's is really bad as is (fastest aerial being frame 13)
Proposed changes:
Airslash->Spiral Savate
Backslash->Striker Edge
Speed->Eater (Has a similar bleed effect to eiha/eigaon)
Buster->Cyclone (AOE energy attack, forces a hard blowdown)
Shield->Armor (No movement debuff, but less damage and you take less damage)
Smash->Jail (Locks special moves for 5 seconds)
Buster remains, maybe has higher risk-reward ratio
Slightly slower movement and all attacks do more damage/knockback

to be fair, didn't the composers pick the songs they wanted to remix in ultimate?

The shit doujin was the best part of this thread

HxH is the greatest battle manga of all time. I feel bad for you since you can never escape being tasteless

What's the deal with this game anyway? Everybody I know that played it really loved it but it isn't on Steam and it never got a sequel, did it just get forgotten?

>the only amusing joke it had was repeated to death
The mark of someone who never actually read the manga/watched the anime.

It's okay if you don't understand or like it. It's kind of a hard sell. Basically just the show "My Gym Partner's a Monkey" mixed with "Shokugeki no Soma", and a dash of Animal Planet's the Most Extreme.

Very niche, but also very enjoyable.

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>HxH is the greatest battle manga of all time

It's not even better than Yu-Yu Hakusho

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00s > late 90s > early 10s > late 70s > early 90s = 80s = late 10s

I read it up to the Garo arc. The snails pace releases didn’t help but it was a fucking snoozefest. Nice argument you have there though.

You people are an entirely different cancer to gaming.

You are disgusted of trannies, gays and SJW politics in your games: fine, that’s agreeable, but at the same time you allow yourself to be baited by lewd drawings of anime girls and only make purchases based on the sex appeal of a character rather than the journey that the game offers to you. You are all unfit to criticise others for their taste in games when you are easily beguiled by 2D tits. You all think of yourselves as bastions of the gaming community, shunning others for having normie tastes, but your tastes are just as pathetic, and perhaps, destructive.

You have no appreciation for the Art, and the compelling stories that games have to offer; you only make pathetic nitpicks on games that prioritise their story and call them “movie-games” because you lack the cognitive functioning due to the semen that have seeped into your skulls and glazed your minds. This is the redpilled I’ve acquired by browsing this board and it is a sad one, really. I was hoping that Yea Forums would have a board of individuals with based taste, but all I got are basement-dwelling faggots. All of you should unironically have sex.

P.S. Have sex, get a GF. Dante must die: Do both, starting with the latter.

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He's right though. Tell me one time it escaped that """"joke""""

The Garo Arc literally starts at the end of Season 1 of the anime. You read all of 36 chapters in, out of the current 115.

Also, complaining about snails pace and promoting HxH is the most ironic shit I've seen all day.

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It is. Hakusho was a mess.

Saitama appears like one out of every three chapters since the start of the Garou arc, and he doesn't even regularly OHKO anything. Hell, he had to be given an extra scene in the manga adaptation because he basically dropped off the face of the map in order to develop the rest of the cast and the world more.

It would be such a damn shame if we got Corrin, the protag of the most reviled entry in the series that sold kind of eh after Awakening, and then NOT Edelgard, who is legitimately popular and from a fuckhueg seller that's being well received by most fans both new and old.

>Smash Bros to Xenoblade 2 to gay scat porn to generic anime discussion

This thread is the very essence of smashfag cancer.

Let's be real, the anime discussion is better and more civil than discussing Xenoblade games, and that's even with X-fag not being here.

HxH is the The Last of Us of anime. Prove me wrong.

t. blankbrain

Not him but HxH is absolutely better than YYH and OPM in almost every way but character design and polish

Look at when the manga started publishing and when the chapter where Garo meets Saitama released. I had been following it since it was being fellated for the first time on Yea Forums. That’s a lot of time for a "comedy" battle manga to get good.

>nintendo discussion revolves around shit
well gee i wonder why

No, that’s Monster.

It's been good since the beginning, but after Chapter 36, it stops being "monster of the week" and ends up being more of a cohesive narrative with multiple different enjoyable characters interacting at various points in the story to make an interesting world that manages to follow multiple plot threads, fully develop them, and not devolve into boring garbage.

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Even ONE knows the MC is shit so the only way to make up for it is removing him entirely. Too bad none of the characters are close to interesting and it still ends up the same shit over again at the end of the monster association arc, Saitama shows up, oneshots Garou, goes on with his day. It's like a bad Isekai.

But Saitama is more than a one-note character. He's not even a static character, since he's been slowly developing throughout the entire series. He's just a male tsundere that slowly grows closer and closer to those that pester him daily, despite acting annoyed at their antics.

Not to mention he doesn't even one punch much anymore. In the Webcomic, the last time he's one-shot anything was right after he chased down Garou in like chapter 50 (we're currently on 116). Hell, he doesn't even one punch Garou.

>Sakurai taking a girl over a boy
Boy, she shares main character status with him, she's not winning that slot

>Edelgard
Dumb Gorilla isn't even the most popular girl in the game.
If TH had a rep it would be either Byleth (protag) or Dimitri (most popular character)

>Boy, she shares main character status with him
she doesn't and it's one of my biggest problems with the game

Saitama hasn't changed once from the beginning of the manga. He's still bored, he's still a "hero for fun", exactly like when it was still a unfunny gag. Becoming friends with people like King and Genos has zero to do with shit. And while he doesn't immediately oneshot Garou, the same played out trope still happens.