Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun (Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki)

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Synonyms: Jakusha Character Tomozaki-kun, The Low Tier Character "Tomozaki-kun"

Japanese: 弱キャラ友崎くん

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Type: Light Novel

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: May 18, 2016 to ?

Genres: Drama, Romance

Theme: School

Serialization: None

Authors: Fly (Art), Yaku, Yuuki (Story)

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Score: 7.89¹ (scored by 2,119 users)

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Ranked: #1067²

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Popularity: #1921

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Light NovelFly (Art), Yaku, Yuuki (Story)

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Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki (light novel)
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For Fumiya Tomozaki, one of the best gamers in Japan, the "game of life" is the worst game in existence. Despite the fact that Tomozaki is the number one player in the video game Attack Families, he is a self-proclaimed bottom-tier character when it comes to real life. As a second-year high school student, he suffers from an absolute lack of self-esteem, leading him to completely give up on trying to improve himself as a person. Instead, he blames the real world for being completely unbalanced, with no logical way to level up your character.

Aoi Hinami is an immensely popular girl in Tomozaki's class with fantastic grades. She fits the role of a perfect heroine and is on the opposite end of the social spectrum from Tomozaki. However, after a chance encounter with Hinami, Tomozaki realizes that she is not a perfect character after all!

So begins a story of drama and romance revolving around Tomozaki's attempts at conquering the game of life under Hinami's guidance.

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Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun won the 10th Shogakukan Light Novel Grand Prize. It placed eighth in the Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! ranking in the best light novel category in 2017. It has been published in English by Yen Press since July 30, 2019.

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Alternative version:	Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun Comic
Spin-off:	Nanami Minami wa Kagayakitai: Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun Gaiden
Adaptation:	Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun, Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun 2nd Stage

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Hinami, Aoi

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Tomozaki, Fumiya

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Nanami, Minami

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Kikuchi, Fuuka

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Izumi, Yuzu

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Natsubayashi, Hanabi

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Mizusawa, Takahiro

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Narita, Tsugumi

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Nakamura, Shuuji

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Takei

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Nov 25, 2019

brzzcode

Recommended

Preliminary (7/? eps)

This book is half plot, half life coaching. Tomozaki makes some good progress and you can't help but root for him as you see his attitude start to change for the better. The way he's encouraged to turn his relentless, never-give-up attitude that many gamers take towards their games and refocus it onto real life was well done. The book also has some decent insights like how in games you get EXP by winning tough battles, in real life you "gain EXP" by losing those battles. It was also interesting to see how the author incorporated the effect of "the harder you try, the luckier ...

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Sep 29, 2020

DickwaD9000

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Preliminary (15/? eps)

I'll be focusing on the first volume. Some rambling about story, characters, and themes (which aren't spoilers right). I'll try to be brief.

Don't drop a tactical nuke on me, first review...

Tomozaki's philosophy is that life is a shitty, unbalanced game. Hinami challenges his philosophy, she says life is actually a great game, there are rules and cheats, you just gotta put the effort in.

This book definitely has some "self-help" aspects to it. Basically, Hinami gives Tomozaki one objective to work on at a time; examples: communication skills, posture, tone etc. With these objectives come steps/challenges that he is supposed to complete by achieving a good ... grasp on whatever objective he's trying to learn. Chapters consist of Tomozaki tackling these objective.

Learning these social skills will help Tomozaki take part in everyday life instead of being the loner kid without a social life and not trying to have one. With the help of Hinami's coaching, Tomozaki makes progress in his social...Though Hinami's tactics that she teaches aren't without criticism. It seemed to encourage that one must homogenize with the "normies" but Tomozaki also receives praise at throughout the story by other characters for being able to speak what is on his mind and is regarded almost like a gift.

When reading this story, it felt that the line between normies and gamers was kinda blurred. There are some normie characters that are very much into gaming (as much as Tomozaki) and yet they were still on top of the highchool hierarchy. I started wondering: who is a gamer and isn't? Are gamers limited to a singular social strata or not? It seemed to indicate that there is a balance that can be attained. That people who just good at one thing, seen by people as another thing, or even in love with on thing doesn't define you.

Tomozaki clearly develops towards the end of the story. He isn't ashamed to be a nerd and he doesn't shy away from talking about it. He feels more confident in those aspects. As Tomozaki worked towards his objectives and observed the behaviors of others, he gained a sort of respect for them and how they were able to pilot the social landscape.

Hinami is character who doesn't just talk the talk, she is shown walking the walk with relative ease. She is a harsh teacher but also supportive at the same time which makes for some subjectively entertaining banter. She is also a respectable in the sense that she didn't just spawn in the game of life with all the best stats, she just works harder than anyone else.

Overall, posi vibes, easy read turn brain off, slice of life, good and relatable character(s), no hate on types of people.

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May 1, 2020

Eoc

Not Recommended

Preliminary (1/? eps)

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***THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS***

I'm just some guy who read a decent amount of Light Novels. I had fun with most, found some to be dumb or uninspired or just simply bad.

This is the first one to make me feel uncomfortable, frustrated and sometimes even appalled.

I already felt this way while reading Vol 1 but couldn't quite put my finger on what it was. So I even bought Vol 2 to see if the story changes somehow or at least to figure out what the problem was. I stopped reading Vol 2 at around 50% because I found myself unwilling to read more of it.

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