Protags that actually use pure wits to survive? Anonymous 04/26/18 (Thu) 12:58:28 No. 818647
Isekai protag's always being OP when it comes to magic, any crafty MCs out there that you can post anon?
Anonymous 04/26/18 (Thu) 13:03:50 No. 818648
Anonymous 04/26/18 (Thu) 13:05:11 No. 818649
>>818647
World trigger then it got tournament cancer and the author put it on perm hiatus
Anonymous 04/26/18 (Thu) 13:08:34 No. 818650
If you half of it being wits and the other half being blind luck counts, there's an obvious one.
Anonymous 04/26/18 (Thu) 13:10:07 No. 818651
Well, it might be cheating since the manga is all about trickery, but Shinichi Akiyama from Liar game.
Anonymous 04/26/18 (Thu) 13:20:27 No. 818653
>>818651
>a manga about deception
>games involving death
>gambling
>competition
Literally every mc in this kind of genre are all about being a hundred steps ahead
Anonymous 04/26/18 (Thu) 13:35:30 No. 818656
>>818653
Liar Game is certainly no exception, it's about some insanely shady organization loan-sharking random people to participate in elaborate games of trickery. A helplessly naive girl is roped into this shit but Akiyama decides to play in her stead, and yes, he's the superman of brains. He's later joined by another supergenius to even the playing field.
Also I didn't notice the cover I found was annotated by some fag, sorry.
Anonymous 04/26/18 (Thu) 13:35:36 No. 818657
>>818650
But he doesn't survive, Aqua just resurrects him every time he dies.
Anonymous 04/26/18 (Thu) 13:47:12 No. 818662
>>818657
That's one way to survive. And he was the one who decided to have Aqua come with him in the first place, though it's unlikely he would've known she could make him more or less immortal.
Anonymous 04/26/18 (Thu) 20:46:58 No. 818819
Well OP, nevermind MC is literally the most powerful magician in the entire kingdom if not the whole world in the present, it isn't even an isekai since Matty reincarnated in his own world, but all right.
Now this baby right here is all about using whatever means you can to bullshit everyone in another world and turn a profit, from teaching giant ants about labor unions to paying off a dragon with food so you can mine in relative peace.
There's also Isekai Houtei -Rebuttal Barrister- but that's just Isekai Phoenix Wright, so it's not like MC is in any danger himself.
Anonymous 04/26/18 (Thu) 22:49:32 No. 818839
>>818647
I would say Goblin Slayer. He uses all the knowledge he gained about slaying goblins to, who'd have guessed, slay goblins. He can't do everything himself so he commands his allies on how to accurately use their abilities and equipment to maximize slaying goblins.
Anonymous 04/26/18 (Thu) 22:52:31 No. 818840
The guy from Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer comes to mind.
Anonymous 04/26/18 (Thu) 23:15:10 No. 818843
>>818647
Log Horizon's Shiroe? He's max level, but he's a support mage. Spends his time investing in real estate in the new world. Got rid of bullies by buying up all the access to their guild house. Also started a burger franchise because the rules of the new world prohibited people from cooking proper meals without the cooking skill.
Anonymous 04/26/18 (Thu) 23:42:40 No. 818850
>>818839
>Literally willpowers away poison and broken ribcages
No
Anonymous 04/26/18 (Thu) 23:50:29 No. 818851
Kuso /rec/ thread right here if I ever done saw one.
I'd say Exterminator qualifies. He might be "OP" from leveling up, but he survives solely on his knowledge as a pest exterminator.
Anonymous 04/26/18 (Thu) 23:56:57 No. 818853
>>818851
Thanks for reminding me this exists.
Anonymous 04/27/18 (Fri) 03:51:59 No. 818901
>>818839
This is actually what made me want to make this thread
Anonymous 04/27/18 (Fri) 03:57:57 No. 818904
>>818851
If only this got updated more
>>818819
>teaching giant ants about labor union
I definitely haven't read this before, thanks anon
Anonymous 04/27/18 (Fri) 04:11:39 No. 818909
>>818851
I wish Exterminator was all about clever uses for crazy magic, and less about all women in this fantasy world being shameless sluts who want to get in his stylish jumpsuit.
Anonymous 04/27/18 (Fri) 04:51:29 No. 818917
>>818850
Pretty sure he did bandaid healing with a potion.
Anonymous 04/27/18 (Fri) 04:54:40 No. 818920
>>818909
Worst of all he didn't even sleep with his maid and just tossed her away as fast as possible.
Anonymous 04/27/18 (Fri) 05:22:12 No. 818928
>>818851
>>818909
Yea what's up with that, it feels like a complete 180 for this manga and author is getting desperate despite he hasn't written himself to a corner yet.
Anonymous 04/27/18 (Fri) 07:15:16 No. 818942
Naofumi the Shield Hero. He can only use his Shield for defense and can't equip any other weapon, and he needs to think about how to use his Shield's powers and his party members to the fullest to get through fights. Not to mention that the whole world was completely against him from the start, and he needed to think of ways to survive and get stronger all by himself.
Eventually he becomes more competent than the other heroes because he was the only one with an actual fucking brain who was constantly gathering information, experimenting with his Shield and developing a solid party instead of merely grinding and indulging in a power fantasy.
Anonymous 04/27/18 (Fri) 07:22:41 No. 818943
>>818819
>There's also Isekai Houtei -Rebuttal Barrister- but that's just Isekai Phoenix Wright, so it's not like MC is in any danger himself.
I am interested, can you share more?
Anonymous 04/27/18 (Fri) 11:06:17 No. 818966
>>818840
Maybe for like the first 10 chapters. Then Hangetsu fucking dies and Yuuhi gets his OP manga-powered kung fu skillz and starts jogging.
Anonymous 04/27/18 (Fri) 12:01:51 No. 818970
>>818942
He becomes stronger because his "idea" of becoming stronger is using items he finds rather then the ideas the other heros have which allows him to craft and learn far more skills then those shits
Its a good story, hope bitchy dies sometime
Anonymous 04/27/18 (Fri) 12:04:28 No. 818971
>>818850
It's not willpower. It's hatred. Pure unfiltered hatred that makes the gods themselves shit are going "WTF???".
Also for the faggot that didn't know what he was talking about Goblin Slayer is an actual "trapped in a game" manga.
Anonymous 04/27/18 (Fri) 16:23:28 No. 819053
>>818943
Basically a guy who failed the BAR exam a bunch of times goes drinking with his successful friends, gets shitfaced, climbs and overpass to showoff and gets isekai'd when he falls off and then gets run over.
The god that isekais him is trying to reform the justice system of her world, so she gets him to become a defense attorney, since, despite failing the BAR exam, he still has sufficient (and is the only law graduate available that died at that singular moment in time) knowledge of Japanese Law. So he saves people from getting executed for attacking noble carriages, being indebted by drug dealing loan sharks and being accused of murder.
Anonymous 04/27/18 (Fri) 17:06:58 No. 819070
>>818647
I'm not really sure if you want Isekai protags or protags in general.
In case of the later, Dungeon Meshi. Maybe LotG would count too, depending on how much you count leading an army as using you wits.
Anonymous 04/28/18 (Sat) 02:39:27 No. 819271
>>818970
Rest assured, she gets fucked over hard, and even more intensely once the queen returns to set shit straight. I dunno about the LN, but in the Web Novel the queen eventually gets enough from Bitch's bullshit after a failed coup and sends her off to get raped and gore'd to death by a fat fuck from a neighboring country.
She later gets revived by another isekai hero outside of the 4 heroes and then gets brutally killed again. Her soul gets devoured by a monster this time.
Anonymous 04/28/18 (Sat) 20:05:35 No. 819553
How about the Protagonist of Mx0? He only ever got powers halfway through the series and never even got the chance to use his second set of powers because it got cancelled.
Rip ;_;
Anonymous 04/28/18 (Sat) 21:20:12 No. 819591
>>818942
Between this, Nidome no Yuusha and Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi, revenge isekai is becoming my new favorite genre.
Anyone know of other good ones?
Anonymous 04/28/18 (Sat) 21:40:58 No. 819599
>>818942
Isn't the ending him leaving his raccoon waifu behind and going back to his own world?
Anonymous 04/29/18 (Sun) 04:03:24 No. 820574
>>819599
Oh gosh why did I look at it
Anonymous 04/29/18 (Sun) 04:07:56 No. 820581
>>819591
>Income no Yuusha, thanks for the reminder. Was wondering what novel was missing from my bookmarks
Anonymous 04/29/18 (Sun) 04:53:23 No. 820662
>>819599
In the WN not really, Raphtalia wins the Naofumibowl hard. Naofumi and Raph become godslayers to kill the real Mein, who was the fragment of an evil goddess that was pulling shit to make their world suffer for her entertainment. They leave copies of themselves in the isekai world and in Naofumi's world, and then they go on a journey to save other worlds being fucked around with by assholish gods like Mein. The epilogue is them coming back after centuries to see how the world did without them, only to find out they were celebrated as legends by then, but no one recognizes them anymore except for Firo, who's still around.
tl;dr: Dude basically gets a harem end in two worlds while killing gods somewhere in the universe with his one true waifu.
I'm pretty sure that the LN's ending will be a lot different, given that it changes a lot of shit and gives the story a lot more needed polish, but I don't think he'll pull the return ending.
Anonymous 04/29/18 (Sun) 05:08:13 No. 820675
Anonymous 04/29/18 (Sun) 05:21:33 No. 820680
>>818942
I'm glad this didn't randomly turn into a harem partway through.
Anonymous 05/04/18 (Fri) 16:19:00 No. 822210
>>818942
Like the Naofumi the Shield Hero?
Want a spinoff focusing on the series' biggest asshole, shiity Spear Hero Motoyasu, going back in time to the start of the series just so he can get Firo-tan's sweet blonde loli bird poon for himself?
No? TOO BAD, HAVE Yari no Yuusha no Yarinaoshi !
I guess this is meant to be a comedy, because although he was previously a giant manwhore, his love for blonde lolibird makes him now see every other woman as a literal disgusting pig.
Don't worry, he will still piss you off and ruin any redemption through fucking with shield hero's development timeline by trying to hatch Firo and accidentally hatching a perfect DFC goth loli bird daughterfu then accidentally hitting restart like a dumbass so she's lost forever. All because groundhog-day fracture realities where he does things differently because muh Firo.
Enjoy!
Anonymous 05/04/18 (Fri) 23:59:25 No. 822297
>>818647
Kumo desu ga , until she becomes a goddess. After that it turns to shit.
Anonymous 05/08/18 (Tue) 10:35:40 No. 823585
I read everything suggested here claymore was dogshit . Any more suggestions?
Anonymous 05/19/18 (Sat) 12:56:03 No. 827762
>>822297
Is it even worth starting something that becomes shit?
Anonymous 05/19/18 (Sat) 13:11:48 No. 827764
>>819271
The LN has been pretty faithful to the WN, up to the spirit tortoise fight. Past that it's all new, but since they are starting the village building arc this time, it might end up for her the same way, we don't know yet.
Anonymous 05/19/18 (Sat) 13:13:44 No. 827765
>>827762
It's reasonably enjoyable at first, and you really root for Kuro-chan until she leaves the dungeon.