I dislike the recent trope of OP MC works as well but very rarely I do come across a couple of bearable ones. But, I hate the regressor and transmigrated ones with a passion. They just feel so pointless. There's no conflict, there's nothing at stake and there's no character to develop because the character is just a audience stand-in who is not a real person in the story but a third-party overseer who always has the benefit of hindsight.
OP MC works that don't have a regressor/transmigrated MC are still annoying because they're nothing but Mary Sue stories where every moment is happening because of Deux ex machina, unlike normal stories where Deux ex machina only interferes at a few critical moments. But, regressor/transmigrator ones are unbearable because they are the same kinds of hollow pretentiousness that is self-insert fanfiction and religious myths.
What's the point in reading about how your MC is the greatest thing to ever grace our world, how they're always perfect, how they are invincible and infallible, they always make the optimal choices, and how everyone will love them and the ones who don't have been programmed to act as pokemon episode villains so that your MC has something to do while you pull up a dialog box telling us how much of a victim they are and no one in the story has more burden than your dear MC , but being the once in a lifetime scholar, philosopher, statesman, warrior, scientist, and humanitarian that they are, they are able to sort out those people that don't like them by the end of the episode? When it comes to regressor/transmigrators there is also the final nail in the coffin, where you're essentially breaking the fourth wall by making it that everything is happening exactly how the MC desires simply because they're essentially in on it.
If I wanted to read this kind of insipid, frivolous stories where no amount of suspension of disbelief is going to allow one to take it seriously and feel invested in the characters or the plot, I'd read the Bible, the Ramayana or something like that. In fact, I'd have a more rewarding time if I went and read one of those "I did this awesome thing and everyone clapped" posts on the internet or go listen to a kid's chuunibyou fantasies. There's probably more tension, logic, humor and catharsis to be found there than in these huge 200 chapters comics that have had so much time and effort gone into them. So much creative potential, so many great ideas, all wasted just to keep an immature, impatient low attention span audience happy with rapid, consistent doses of instant gratification.
Only a decade or so ago, these kinds of plots would have been soundly mocked by the mainstream manga/anime community. There was a time when these were solely confined to the harem/romance/wish-fulfillment genres. But, these even worse mutations of Kirito are everywhere now and the audiences are lapping them up with barely a comment calling out the obviously weak storytelling.
I dislike the recent trope of OP MC works as well but very rarely I do come across a couple of bearable ones. But, I hate the regressor and transmigrated ones with a passion. They just feel so pointless. There's no conflict, there's nothing at stake and there's no character to develop because the character is just a audience stand-in who is not a real person in the story but a third-party overseer who always has the benefit of hindsight.
OP MC works that don't have a regressor/transmigrated MC are still annoying because they're nothing but Mary Sue stories where every moment is happening because of Deux ex machina, unlike normal stories where Deux ex machina only interferes at a few critical moments. But, regressor/transmigrator ones are unbearable because they are the same kinds of hollow pretentiousness that is self-insert fanfiction and religious myths.
What's the point in reading about how your MC is the greatest thing to ever grace our world, how they're always perfect, how they are invincible and infallible, they always make the optimal choices, and how everyone will love them and the ones who don't have been programmed to act as pokemon episode villains so that your MC has something to do while you pull up a dialog box telling us how much of a victim they are and no one in the story has more burden than your dear MC , but being the once in a lifetime scholar, philosopher, statesman, warrior, scientist, and humanitarian that they are, they are able to sort out those people that don't like them by the end of the episode? When it comes to regressor/transmigrators there is also the final nail in the coffin, where you're essentially breaking the fourth wall by making it that everything is happening exactly how the MC desires simply because they're essentially in on it.
If I wanted to read this kind of insipid, frivolous stories where no amount of suspension of disbelief is going to allow one to take it seriously and feel invested in the characters or the plot, I'd read the Bible, the Ramayana or something like that. In fact, I'd have a more rewarding time if I went and read one of those "I did this awesome thing and everyone clapped" posts on the internet or go listen to a kid's chuunibyou fantasies. There's probably more tension, logic, humor and catharsis to be found there than in these huge 200 chapters comics that have had so much time and effort gone into them. So much creative potential, so many great ideas, all wasted just to keep an immature, impatient low attention span audience happy with rapid, consistent doses of instant gratification.
Only a decade or so ago, these kinds of plots would have been soundly mocked by the mainstream manga/anime community. There was a time when these were solely confined to the harem/romance/wish-fulfillment genres. But, these even worse mutations of Kirito are everywhere now and the audiences are lapping them up with barely a comment calling out the obviously weak storytelling.