Why does the most overly confident person always lose in anime?
They either fight someone who is calm and collected, and that person turns out to be ten times stronger.
Or they battle the weak, insecure MC, who manages to win through a deus ex machina.
Does Japan have a problem with acting confidently?
Fiction and people in general like the underdogs, and self-boasting overconfident people are rarely underdogs, or if they are their confidence gets their shit kicked in.
>overly
that means it is too much confidence
failure is always a possibility
that's the reason,I think
they cant see their own weaknesses
in anime it's a "I can do this without the group" and proudly standing out thing.
You're only allowed to show the group up if you're insanely humble and nice about it.
Nips, dude.
underestimating your opponent is the first step to defeat
overestimating yourself is the second
It's been a theme forever. Pride goes before the fall.
For Japanese people i think Imperial Japan and the outcome of WWII has a lot to do with the theme's ubiquity in anime.
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Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.
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>Why does the most overly confident person always lose in anime?
>always
This. Also OP a faggot, etc
I'd say someone acting calmly in a death battle is the overly confident one but maybe that's just me.
>huuuuuuuuur why people with hubris get defeated duuuuuuuuuuuuuur
Having the braggart big muscular guy win fights is kind of boring, even if they don't do it much nowadays. Supreme confidence requires no taunts or insults, just pure action.
>he doesn't read HxH
That was pretty funny, literally everyone was expecting him to lose because he was so confident but he just shat on Hisoka completely.
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imagine reading about satan being so full of pride that he challenges god and becomes a fallen angel and saying "i don't get it were the bible writers just beta manlets?"
Is that the reason Escanor is so awesome
I don't think so.
Does Satan shitpost on /lit/?
In most cases, the over confident person drops their guard and give the enemy a chance to strike. Vegeta's fights against Freeza, 18, and Cell could've gone a lot better if he killed them in their weak forms instead of gloating.
he boutta get his ass beat tho
just kidding noone can defeat him, i want his image of being unbeatable to last until the very last panel
>inb4 he cheated though
shoo, hisocucks
Forget that, why is it so rare to find a character who stays focused and doesn't make any stupid assumptions? It's like nobody who writes anime or their sources has ever done anything even somewhat competitive in their life.
Because Japan acted rashly and overconfidently in WW2 and got smoked by an apathetic US because of it.
Please stay in your containment threads DBfags.
Whoa is almost like this shows are meant to be watched by kids and teens and not by sophisticated gentleman.
But he lost two friends. Also Hisoka was pretty overconfident himself too.
It's a narrative problem. It's like, when a plan is laid out in front of you by the characters, you know it's gonna fail because otherwise there won't be tension. The overconfident guy will explain everything he's going to do before doing it, and that's how you know he's gonna fail. Being calm and collected is being overconfident in its own way. See that if a character is overconfident but he/she doesn't say why, she's more likely to win, like Saitama for example.
>Why does the most overly confident person always lose in anime?
>weaknesses
The heart of every single Japanese trope is the classic misunderstanding. Usually you hear the character talking out the situation in their head, then you go "hmm yeah that does make sense" and then the other character explains why that was wrong, causing a misunderstanding to the viewer.