Board Thread:Manga/@comment-5774380-20160109013258/@comment-26932251-20160109025604

Neetaku wrote: but it's around this time that I start to wonder why I should care about the characters of this series when there is absolutely, undoubtedly, definitely, without a doubt, NO chance that they will ever die. I hate to say it, but I'm strongly inclined to agree with you. This is a recurring problem I have with most popular media, a phenomenon I refer to as 'superficial danger' where you have something in a narrative that seems to 'resemble' danger but it's not really dangerous since established narrative conventions like an unkillable main cast essentially means that no matter how dangerous a situation ever appears, it never actually IS dangerous. And yeah, it does make me care a lot less and it does compromise the fiction because there is no such thing as plot armor in reality.