CATDOLL: It's all tricks! The animation teaches you the correct way to use "plug-ins"

Among the new animations released in April this year, there is an animation that has a sense of dragging time everywhere, but it still firmly occupies the top few places in the click list as soon as it is broadcast. Yes, this is "My Name is Sakamoto and I'm the Best". In this work, every action of the protagonist can be said to be pretending, and it is so natural and casual, but it makes people unable to stop... In fact, in the animations in recent years, it is not difficult to see that the audience often likes to see such pretending characters, so today, let's take stock of those fixed patterns of pretending.

Mode 1: Hello, your plug-in has arrived!

Representative characters: Kirito "Sword Art Online", Ainz Ooal Gown "Overlord"

In recent years, online game-themed works have been constantly emerging. Compared with hot-blooded comics in real life, online game themes are obviously more likely to give birth to dragon-like characters, because in online games, you only need RMB to improve your strength! Um, and the protagonists of these anime are either very awesome, or both awesome and pretentious, or even so awesome that people wonder if they really don’t have any cheats? For example, Tong Aotian and Bone Overlord, which I will talk about next.

Kirito, whose real name is Kazuto Kiritani, is a heavy online game player. Taking the SAO death game incident as an opportunity, he is constantly involved in various virtual world events. Kirito is truly a winner in life. Not only does he have a wife like Asuna (who has been working in the comic book industry for many years) who is the dream lover of all otakus, but he also has a (presumably) brother-confused sister, and he can still have a harem even if he wears women's clothes.

But unlike the male protagonists in many harem comics who are still pursued by a large number of girls even though they are useless, Kirito's approach of relying on strength to attract girls is obviously more popular. In general, Kirito's pretentiousness is roughly like this: you are jealous of me when you scold me, and you villains, you have no strength but are still talking nonsense, I am the one who wants to fight the game designer alone, I don't have time to care about you guys, if it is a girl, I can consider saving her.

This mode can probably be called the invincible way to pick up girls?

Speaking of Overlord, if this skeleton wasn't the protagonist, he would be the ultimate boss, but he is the protagonist, which is embarrassing. He was originally a high-end player in the online game. Before the game was closed, his guildmates gave him equipment one after another, which led to his ability to kill everything in one second. This kind of pretentiousness is a kind of contempt from high-end players.

——Oh my God, why are you so weak.

——It’s okay, except that he is too weak, everything is as I expected.

Mode 2: I’m a loser, I don’t want to fight you!

Representative figure: Tatsuya Shiba, "The Irregular at Magic High School"

If a person with a paralyzed face says very modestly that he is a loser, then remember that he is definitely pretending.

Shiba Aoten's performance in Mahou ga Miru can be described by the two words "pretentious" and "sister-con". You have to know that all his skills are legendary in this show! Sometimes the audience can't even understand his pretentiousness, and a bystander is needed to explain how awesome this skill is. When you are still learning how to climb, I am already building a rocket; the person you are talking about who sounds awesome is actually my smurf. It gives people a feeling of "I'm not targeting a certain person, I'm saying that everyone here is a loser."

Even though his behavior seems to say "You losers, watch out, I'm going to show off," he still says that he is a loser.

The usual routine is that Sibo Aotian says he is a loser, and then someone who thinks he is awesome shows off in front of him and expresses contempt, and then his sister gets upset, saying that my brother is obviously awesome! Sibo Aotian says that although I am a loser, my sister says I am awesome, so what my sister said must be right, so he defeats the other person in seconds, and still says he is a loser after that. This low-key show-off mode may be the essence...

But what's going on with this unpleasant feeling...can't we just pretend to be cool?

Mode 3: Come, do a few big questions to calm down.

Representative figure: Inaho Kaizuka "ALDNOAH ZERO"

There are not only those who show off their abilities, but also those who show off their intelligence, such as Yishen.

Ikami, a university nerd with expressionless face, a man who uses his IQ to drive a Gundam. Actually, there have been people who used their IQ to show off before, and there were quite a few of them, but in this kind of IQ-cheating show, the protagonist usually has one or two opponents with similar IQ, making the confrontation more exciting, such as Schneizel and Li Xingke in "Code Geass" and L in "Death Note". It is the appearance of these characters that prevents the protagonist from having a pretentious feeling of a dragon arrogant. However, in AZ, except for Ikami, the IQs of the opponents are really unbearable to look at, as if they were just to highlight Ikami's strength, so that he can successfully maintain this IQ-crushing pretentious mode.

In the above classic scene, you can feel the contempt of the paralyzed academic master.

Mode 4: Although it is better not to say anything, it is definitely better not to say anything.

Representative figure: Kaneki Ken "Tokyo Ghoul√A"

Ever since Kaneki counterattacked and evolved into a white-haired boy, he has become more and more fond of pretending to be cool. He is taciturn and always stands on the rooftop and watches (perhaps all the cool people like to stand on the rooftop). Although compared to the little angel in the early stage, he may seem a little pretentious, but I believe the audience will be happy to see that the little angel can show up and pretend to be cool after so much cruel torture in the first season.

This kind of pretending mode is the simplest one, just don't talk. Hey, isn't it awesome? If you don't talk, others won't know what you are thinking, and then they will understand the reason why you don't talk in their own way. Is what I said too lame for you to answer? Or am I too weak and don't have the qualifications to let you speak? Or have you actually given a hint but I didn't notice it? Hey, you raised your head slightly by 5 degrees, and your eyes looked into the distance. Could it be that you were looking at... I see, it's really awesome, this solves my doubts! A feeling of being unfathomable emerges, everyone can learn it.

The premise is...ah, good looks, otherwise...you will just be regarded as a pretentious idiot.

Mode 5: If a king doesn’t show off, what’s the difference between him and a salted fish!

Representative character: Gilgamesh "Fate/Zero"

As a tyrant described in the world's oldest epic poem, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh is undoubtedly a king who is destined to show off in everything he says and does. Just looking at these settings, the strongest Servant in the Type-Moon world is also the most arrogant, the most immature, and the most playful king. He has the prototype of all the treasures in the world - the King's Treasure, and the strongest weapon of the creation level - the Star of Separation... How can he live up to these settings if he doesn't show off? !

Jin Shanshan's way of showing off is very simple and crude. In addition to wearing extremely exaggerated and dazzling pure gold armor and living an extremely luxurious life of being rich and handsome, he also...

"The miscellaneous cultivators who should look up to me are standing on the same ground with me. This disrespect deserves death! The king's treasure!" biubiubiubiubiu~

"You ant lying on the ground, who allowed you to raise your head and look at my! The King's treasure!" biubiubiubiubiu~

"Kneel down, you miscellaneous cultivator! Hahahaha, you miscellaneous cultivator! Prepare to die, you miscellaneous cultivator! Hahaha..." biubiubiubiubiu~

This kind of pretentious mode of speech is everywhere. There was once a video in which the subtitles wrote all of Shanshan’s lines in classical Chinese, which looked really mysterious and cool!

Mode six: Invisible pretense is the most deadly!

Representative figure: Sakamoto "I am Sakamoto, what can I do for you?"

This is a mysterious man who always accompanies me, and the online encyclopedia tells me that his name is Sakamoto, and he has no name, so let's call him Sakamoto Yoshitsugu for the time being. Sakamoto Yoshitsugu is always pretending to be cool, and his every move is like flowing water, and he is always ready to explode. The most interesting thing about Sakamoto is that you never know how he will pretend to be cool in the next second. The endless ways of pretending to be cool make people stunned, and they can't help but exclaim, "It's amazing that you can pretend like this."

In this show, picking up girls can no longer satisfy his desire to show off. In front of him, girls can only scream and faint. Only by turning straight guys gay can his personality charm and show-off skills be reflected. Sakamoto Yoshitsugu set the dual records of the fastest capturer and the fastest gay in the history of anime by conquering four boys in one episode. Then, turning straight boys gay could not satisfy him, so he set the record of the fastest gay to turn girls who have a crush on him and make them lesbians. Ah, if we continue to let Sakamoto show off like this, sooner or later, humanity will be doomed. Various shameful secrets, poses with full show-off skills and actor-level acting skills, this is a magical show that can be watched for 20 minutes as an hour, and you have to stop and learn poses in the middle.

Well, after reading so many ways and techniques of showing off, have you learned them? What, you said you want to show off but you are not as awesome as these people, do you have any unique ways to show off? What's the point of showing off if you are not awesome!