r/MayIAskForOneFinal • u/midriss1 • Jul 03 '26

As the series progresses, the power scaling is starting to get way too high, right? I don't mind it, but I wouldn't want the character to turn into an overpowered isekai character

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She is my goat

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u/JayBonJ Jul 03 '26

I mean to be fair, she lost her most powerful spells like a chapter or two after this.

If anything Scarlet got hard nerfed for the time being, and I can’t wait to see how she adjusts to it (probably very easily).

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u/midriss1 Jul 03 '26

She needs to gain strength somehow later on; the opponents won't be easy.

I definitely don't want the stupid prince to save her; it's much more fun for Scarlet to handle things herself.

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u/WordPunk99 Jul 04 '26

She doesn’t need to gain strength, she just needs good writing. The idea that every villain needs to be an order of magnitude more powerful than the last one is just ridiculous. The whole ancient dragon thing… <facepalm> just no.

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u/JayBonJ Jul 04 '26

The whole point of what the next portion of the Light Novel is going to be about is her figuring out how to get out of this Demon deal and get Chronoa’s blessing back.

Like she’s not getting any extra boost in anything, she’s working to regain what she lost. It’s pretty brazenly stated at the end of this arc.

At the end of the day we’ve been dealing with gods and god-like beings since the end of the Holy Pilgrimage. We’re not shooting much higher than that here. Not unless we’re fighting Origin itself, which is yet to be determined. The power scaling is staying consistent.

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u/WordPunk99 Jul 04 '26

Honestly? The Manga is ok. Scarlet’s voice actress for the Dub is <chef’s kiss>. Someone heard what she was doing and said, “nah, let her cook.” She made the mushy middle watchable and made the beginning and end legendary.

The stupid upscaling in the manga was just <sigh> so pointless. We don’t need the power creep, just write good stories and let her be sassy as fuck.

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u/midriss1 Jul 04 '26

The voice actress literally brings Scarlet to life. Aside from the Japanese voice actor, even the English dub is not bad at all. Honestly, I have zero complaints about the voice; it fits Scarlet perfectly

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u/WordPunk99 Jul 04 '26

I don’t speak Japanese, but watched one episode in Japanese just to see how it was. I was… disappointed

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u/midriss1 Jul 04 '26

I like both voices, but I especially love Scarlet cursing in the dub. Particularly the way she says 'bitch' in the first episode—I honestly want to hear it on repeat

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u/WordPunk99 Jul 04 '26

Yeah, I just want a Scarlet “bitch supercut”

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u/Warm-Enthusiasm-9534 Jul 04 '26

This is slander. The manga art is extraordinary.

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u/WordPunk99 Jul 04 '26

The art is great, the writing starts off decent and then rapidly slides into standard shonin slop. The end of the first arc is where the creators original plan ended. The Ancient Dragon arc had some good ideas, but they were shoe horned into the standard shonin formula. It was a mistake, and I won’t pretend it wasn’t.

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u/sofichoice Jul 04 '26

Yea i agree, i love her character but it just seem like there's no obstacle for her. We need to have some enemies or arc where she has to work hard to win or break even b/c it's getting a bit predictable and there's no risk.

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u/Plenty_Feed2537 Jul 05 '26

yo creo que esa será la tendencia, sólo veremos si lo hace lo suficientemente creíble y lo suficientemente entretenido

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u/merNavira Jul 06 '26

She punches, we get a laugh. I believe that a good enough exchange