Talk:Konosuba Light Novel Volume 10/@comment-24872117-20161226160014/@comment-26183083-20170318110436

Oh, let me rant just a bit about this...

That's the explanation, but having read this one it just doesn't cut it. For one thing, while it is reasonable for the royals to interbreed with heroes, she's competing against products of direct genetic manipulation in this world and she's implied to be stronger than even that! For another thing, the recent heroes in this story, as far as anyone can tell, are Japanese doped up with super-divine weapons. The odds of them really having super-genes in either physique or magic (let alone both) is about nil. And the author even let them cheat and use divine weapons that are supposed to be next to useless to all but the assigned user. They also muttered something about food and training, but the author has never established that they had the potential to provide close to this kind of result, so that also falls flat.

Maybe the idea is to parody the OP "Lord" class characters that are in some RPGs, but if the author really wants to play the "Royals are Strong" card at the portrayed strength, given this world's setup he might as well say the Royals descended from God, or Eris just endows them with some of her power.

Given that this is a light novel comedy, I might be able to forgive these "nitpicking technical aspects" if it made the characters or story better, but it did not. Iris already has a pretty nice, if basic, personality without obvious flaws and is royalty, so adding this much strength makes her a Mary Sue. However, even the amateur writers who keep making Mary Sues by mistake usually only make them OP versus the protagonists. They remember to make their enemies at least somewhat competitive with the Mary's Sue strength, if only so she can look good fighting them.

Even this does not happen. Iris doesn't fight in this Book so much as she slashes (mostly with Exterion, but sometimes with a bokken or magic) once and the enemy just dies without any fanfare or tension. The author even goes out of his way to write tension killers like "Iris didn't even break a sweat" in after the fights, as if pumping up the estimated power rating of Iris is his only priority.

It is very boring to read, and it defeats most of the concept of the book, which is Iris, our moe little-sister princess character, fighting hard for her Kingdom and People.

She ,,, did ,,, not ,,, fight!