How to (Not) Handle an OP Character
So in researching my Isekai video, I started watching In Another World with My Smartphone… and well it’s kinda bad. No hard feelings if you like it, but personally I just can’t get into it, and I started to wonder why that was. Because it’s made… competently, there were some parts I enjoyed and its premise isn’t that dissimilar to Konosuba. Guy dies before his time, so he gets to live out his life in a fantasy world and is allowed to bring one thing with him. Yeah, the start line is almost identical, except Aqua’s gotten an upgrade and is actually useful. But from there, these two stories diverge drastically. Because in Isekai Smartphone, our protagonist didn’t just get to keep his cellular device, God also gives him a stupidly high affinity for magic, Matrix-level reflexes, and basically a photographic memory, making him right off the bat one of the strongest characters in the world he wakes up in. Very OP, if you will. And this is where the problems start. There are right ways and wrong ways to portray an overpowered character, and this show firmly falls into that latter camp.