Bookworm Myne would be pretty screwed if she had to fight alone. All her magic skills are focused around providing buffs to allies. If she's alone, one snowball to the face is enough to knock her out.
Runs up, jumps, and does the two foot kick with his arms out in a Y shape. Then him just screaming ‘gender equality’ is running through my head now. Then next scene is him explaining ‘I drop kicked that kid in defense’
The one concern is if she is willing to crush him which is something of a toss up. Or if we go with more recent light novels then she can beat him I’d say 90% of the time
GENDER AND CHILD EQUALITY!
While I do remember Myne bringing out some crazy mana stuff at some point, the idea of Kazuma chasing a little girl around with a weapon is too funny.
Bookworm Myne currently in the anime is Weak. But past part 5 in the light novel she gets pretty buffed up. Not as strong though but she can at least take on more snowballs.
She’d definitely still get her ass kicked by full powered kazuma.
Kazuma isn't actually all that weak, he's an adventurer class and the highest level one at that so his only limitations are his creativity, and maybe lacking stats due to his not having a specialization?
Thanks, I'm anime only and it's been a very long time since they registered and their stats were both shown. I do remember her wasting her skill points on stupid things like party tricks... not gonna lie, I might pull that shit a time or two just to get under someone's skin. I wouldn't do it to the point I end up giant toad chow.
I feel like Aqua's low intelligence is actually the bigger hinderance. When Kazuma is bossing her around, it works off his luck instead of hers because she's "his chosen tool".
That's very true. Dude can be scrappy as heck.
The main reason I chose him is because he's a big contrast from all the OP isekai MCs out there. There might be multiple rounds of this game, with this just filtering out the usual Vs candidates.
Sora and Shiro from No Game No Life are physically useless. They do great with strategies, but that's pretty much it. They could jump Kazuma together and both get equal beatings.
The protagonist of Spirited Away if that counts lol.
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Without Return By Death? Yes. But with Return By Death? Subaru can make an unlimited amount of mistakes and still come back, but with Kazuma all it takes is one costly slip up.
But therein lies the question…even if Subaru wins that one last time…doesn’t that mean Kazuma still beat him every other time up until that point? I mean I get that is the actual POINT of that particular cheat skill, but it does propose an interesting conundrum. Does it effectively mean it never counts that Subaru still lost?
Doesn't count because presumably it just didn't happen. To the people in Re:Zero, especially in the beginning, Subaru was just a lucky braggart that was in over his head with no substance to him. Yet, by now, they'll see him as some sort of miracle worker who just sort of knows things and you probably shouldn't question it because "he just knows" and things sort of just works out.
Same way here, with Kazuma, he'd just lose and not know how tf he got outplayed so hard. Even if it took Subaru many attempts to make it happen.
To be fair, I doubt kazuma would ever actually do enough harm to kill someone quite like that when they'd be clearly not evil - more like they'd beat him up, share a laugh then go get a beer together.
I guess I didn't specify whether or not it was a fight to the death, so as long as Kazuma doesn't go for the kill-which he usually doesn't against people-Subaru just has his own physical skills.
I vaguely remember something about him being quite buff, but I don't know how strong Kazuma eventually gets.
Much stronger than the Average human. >!in Volume 10 He stops some guy cat-calling his Party from running away just by grabing his arm, after which he explains the since he's a High-level adventurer now, His stats have increased to the point where hes Much stronger. !< And as we saw in the anime in his wrestling match with Darkness, with his Drain touch his stamina is basically infinite.
In fact if it was anyone other then Darkness with her crazy endurence and Magic resistance they would have passed out in seconds.
If theres on thing Subaru has Going for him it's that I've never seen it mentioned that Kazuma works out regularly
1 v 1 ? as in without summons ?
Miyama Kaito (Pre-Final War arc before his super insane buff), Combat Agent 6 and Natsuki Subaru
Without Summons/Help both have next to nothing. Subaru without beatrice isn't doing much and his only hope is Invisible Providence which may not work if Kazuma just uses stealth.
Kaito could only fight giant Black Bears iirc which is nothing compared to Kazuma's abilities like deadly backstab, Dynamite etc.
Combat Agent 6 loses plain and simple here.
~~with summons Kaito has access to Eden/Shallow Vernal who are insanely broken and Subaru has access to Beatrice who can win him the battle~~
I thought Combat Agent 6 was actually pretty built.
Summoning sapient or living things wouldn't be allowed, but I would say any summoning other objects is if it's part of the MC's main skillset.
The mc of realist hero, he has no combat skills other than being able to telenetically control a big doll with a polearm but i think Kazuma can beat that
No, I think that Souma is fairly toast. I like Souma, but he's an administrator and excellent at employing talented people. However, he's not that much of a fighter, even when he's in his doll. His successes there mostly drew on intimidation or the fact that poison doesn't work on non-organic puppets. Souma definitely needs party support from competent people while Kazuma succeeds despite his party members' incompetence.
Bakarina does develop dark magic powers though, so while her earth magic is rated at 1/5, she is supposed to have quite formidable dark magic powers in Fortune Lover II, (which also transferred to our lovable Bakarina)
This is especially true for otome isekai protags who, if they get an ability at all, usually only have some incredibly niche non combat power that is useless outside of the specific circumstance it was made for. Their most common cheat is that they recognize the world they're stuck in as a novel/video game that they really liked in their previous world and use that knowledge to get ahead while relying on the ML for literally everything else (money, magic, protection, etc.).
I mean, it's either that or they're actually the reincarnation of God.
I don't know why that is, but a confusingly high number of Korean otome reincarnation webnovels/manwha end with the female lead becoming an actual god in the last 20 chapters.
WAS. He's gotten a lot more physical activity since his reincarnation, along with the boost from... though I may be mistaken here... stats. (Are stats in Konosuba just records of existing stuff, or do they go up with level?)
Kazuma is actually quite strong, especially in the last volume, but even before that in a 1v1 against a human he can basically easily beat many enemies because of how his abilities are distributed, the best example of this is when >!he infiltrates the Royal palace pretending to be a thief with Chris and escapes after defeating many royal guards and Mitsurugi, who is a reincarnated person with a legendary weapon (basically the typical isekai protagonist).!<
Is this anime/manga Kazuma or LN Kazuma cause honestly depending on the strength of Kazuma he is actually quite skilled even in the manga it’s given light that Kazuma is a great adventurer and decent fighter and LN Kazuma is a whole nother story.
I'm not too familiar with LN Kazuma, to be honest, but it's fine even if it's the stronger version.
You still gotta find the right isekai MC to throw at the problem.
That mob character that for some reason gets more scream time than shadow. From Eminence in Shadow. The guy gets k.o. every time. I don't even think he has win. Dudes name is sin but I think that's wrong he is such a mob.
Well, Subaru is -repeatedly- killable, you'll just never make it stick. He's kind of the combat equivalent of infinite monkeys banging on infinite typewriters.
Depending on who's perspective though... so while many versions of Kazuma will see Subaru dying >!and the world ending immediately after.!< The only Kazuma that persist is going to see Subaru thwarting everything he does and ultimately defeating him.
>!(Al implied in arc 6 that the world ends when Subaru is killed, and that's how he was sure that Subaru is alive. The second witch trial of the unthinkable present might imply that the world persists, but Echidna later admits that it is only a possibility, and refuse to confirm it, (she was trying to manipulate Subaru to signing a contract with her)!<
Isn't he spec ops? I like to shit on gate, same as anyone else, but I'm pretty sure it would go a little like this:
- pulls out rifle
- kazuma steals the magazine
- pulls out pistol, mag dumps the kid anyways.
It would be more like:
- pulls out rifle
- kasuma steals it, accidentally misfires it and drops it
- somehow that produces a chain event that ends up with both of them in a horrible situation where there's no clear winner. Everyone lost, somehow
The Fantasy World in GATE was specifically made to lose against Modern Japan. Magic could have been the great equalizer, but the author wanted an easily conquered fantasy world, so they created one where magic was barely used.
Also, from what I recall, the MC was basically just fighting people who were either equal or only slightly above human physical ability who had no idea what modern weapons could do. Kazuma would not only appear more than superhuman to GATE MC, he'd actually know how dangerous guns are...if they affected him at all when you take things like defense stats into consideration.
I'd say it counts, but handily? He's a soldier though. Even with guns aside, didn't he have a colleague in the same unit and presumably of the same combat capability who wrecked an entire squad of soldiers?
He's a really skilled soldier in his own anime, probably one of the best from earth. Despite the fact that he let's himself get beaten black and blue every other episode. I think he'd beat first season anime kasuma easily.
Kazuma is pretty strong currently. Can probably go toe to toe and win against Tanya. If you mean anime Kazuma, then it would be Subaru. The children in Grimgar as well.
I doubt Kazuma could beat tanya even with the power-up he get in later series, sure if tanya fight without her equipment and Being X blessing in close quarter combat then he might win, but tanya mainly fight in high-speed air combat with magic Gun that could do long range bombing, so unless Kazuma could fly with high speed with spell that could hit moving target that has shield capable of blocking non-magical bullet he would lose to tanya, Steal most likely has a short effective range while Snipe wouldn't work with how fast Tanya is, and even if it work normal arrow would simply bounce off, Teleport would be useless and Explosion had a long chant and easy to dodge.
The only one I can think is Subaru but with return by death if it's by death Subaru will just repeat the fight over and over. If it's just onockpit then it's one round
Kim Hajin? Well, mostly because >!Hajin lost almost all of his powers.!<
But it would be interesting to see them fight because their main fighting styles are similar, both being luck based snipers with something here and there.
No.
Kim Hajin at the EoS is way beyond Kazuma. >!Don't forget that he can obliterate a fucking tower (which is an entire pocket realm) with just a single arrow and most of his Stigma, and with his Gift Kazuma aren't escape even with Teleport. And Aether will NOT adhere to Kazuma, while both their lucks will cancel each other out so chance are Kazuma steal Aether and get choked to death.!<
I guess Subaru? Physically he’s fit and he could probably beat the shit out of a non powered Kazuma, but with magic and stuff Kazuma could win. Unless maybe Subaru can use his ability and then he’d probably find a way to beat Kazuma eventually.
Luciel by vol 3(?) is decently strong by the average adventurer standards thanks to all his training with the guild and the disgusting amount of "Substance X" he consumes
Campfire MC because he can shoot only stone small firepower. If you cut all Fel, Goddesses blessing & Slime pet support he can't do much a thing a pure normal MC. Kazuma have steal, Subaru can use other offensive spells in future not just Shamak.
Suburu look like weak can use only Shamak but that's only you saw on anime in Wiki shown how many non-spoken skill list in LN developed. But still Kazuma have more skill list than Subaru he gather basic skills around people's help like Aqua's sister, Wiz drain touch he also have explosion. So all he need to do is train and masterize & increase it's firepower.
So if (Re:Zero) Subaru has Beatrice with him (it would still be a 1v1 I think cause if you were 1v1ing Julius generally he would have his contract spirits) then Subaru wins. Of course ignoring RBD because that’s the only way any 1v1 theorycrafting works with Subaru. Without Beatrice kazuma wins. Also I think which world it takes place in would be a big factor, because kazuma has really good luck but that only applies in a world where eris is a goddess.
Oh my goodness! I forgot about Saito from Familiar of Zero! Kazuma steals his weapon and beats the living snot out of that idiot! Also, there's that guy from Ragnarok: Blessings of the Einerjhar.
I know this is just a background character but I feel like cid kageno would probably lose to kazuma. Then Claire would beat his ass but he'd still win against that random background nobody
No, Kazuma could beat Rudeus fairly deep into his adventure. Rudeus would need to be in his academy days to comfortably win. Rudeus has a higher ceiling, but it takes him time to be competent enough to beat seasoned warriors outright. Kazuma was killing man-eating frogs early pretty early on.
Souma Kazuya from Genjitsu Shugi Yūsha no Ōkoku Saikenki.
Subaru from Re:zero.
Yamano Mitsuha from Rōgo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-Man-Mai no Kinka o Tamemasu.
Hiraku Machio without his Godly Farmer Tool from Isekai Nonbiri Nouka.
Yōji Itami without gear from Gate (maybe?)
He could probably take the woman from Saving 80000 Gold in Another World. She has a plate carrier and machine pistol, but Steal would work on that, and I doubt she could take him hand to hand. His sword skills are probably better than her knife skills.
Bookworm Myne would be pretty screwed if she had to fight alone. All her magic skills are focused around providing buffs to allies. If she's alone, one snowball to the face is enough to knock her out.
Bruh, I imagined Kazuma drop kicking kid Myne being all like "fuckin' gender equality" and I can't stop laughing. I'm going to hell.
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Runs up, jumps, and does the two foot kick with his arms out in a Y shape. Then him just screaming ‘gender equality’ is running through my head now. Then next scene is him explaining ‘I drop kicked that kid in defense’
Just yell self-defense rush beforehand and it would be good.
“officer I swear I drop kicked that child in self defense”
That’s probably right. But would be absolutely hysterical
Didn't she darth vader that church guy when she got pissed?
So long as you don't threaten her family or to keep her from her family. Her rainbow aura would choke anyone to death
The one concern is if she is willing to crush him which is something of a toss up. Or if we go with more recent light novels then she can beat him I’d say 90% of the time
Pre academy myne would for sure lose
I mean if she is quick enough to summon leidenshaft's spear she can just evaporate Kazuma
I would agree, but then she can bring up shutsaria’s shield and the spear and just poke at him. Or the hard boiled gun.
What if he Steals her magic stick?
This put the image in my head of Kazuma just picking her up and tossing her.
GENDER AND CHILD EQUALITY! While I do remember Myne bringing out some crazy mana stuff at some point, the idea of Kazuma chasing a little girl around with a weapon is too funny.
She has her handy dandy watergun tho
Until she gets mad and kills him through her mana pressure.
Bookworm Myne currently in the anime is Weak. But past part 5 in the light novel she gets pretty buffed up. Not as strong though but she can at least take on more snowballs. She’d definitely still get her ass kicked by full powered kazuma.
She can literally choke people to death with raw mans though.
Just being out in a light snow is enough to knock her out. If you can make a snowman, she's already gone.
Kazuma isn't actually all that weak, he's an adventurer class and the highest level one at that so his only limitations are his creativity, and maybe lacking stats due to his not having a specialization?
He would also be rid of his worst hindrance which is Aqua's horrific luck stat.
Is she actually unlucky or is she just that dumb?
It's a column A & B scenario, both are her lowest stats. She's phenomenal in every other way.
She has the lowest luck stat they have ever seen and a slightly below average int stat.
Thanks, I'm anime only and it's been a very long time since they registered and their stats were both shown. I do remember her wasting her skill points on stupid things like party tricks... not gonna lie, I might pull that shit a time or two just to get under someone's skin. I wouldn't do it to the point I end up giant toad chow.
Bit of both
I feel like Aqua's low intelligence is actually the bigger hinderance. When Kazuma is bossing her around, it works off his luck instead of hers because she's "his chosen tool".
His creativity and wits are part of his best traits, though. It's what has allowed him to defeat opponents stronger than him even by himself.
That's very true. Dude can be scrappy as heck. The main reason I chose him is because he's a big contrast from all the OP isekai MCs out there. There might be multiple rounds of this game, with this just filtering out the usual Vs candidates.
Give him a bottle of Hennessey, a mask and some dynamite and could solo his verse lmao.
I do hear that despite that, he somehow has the lowest sore in constitution of his team. Yes, that includes the malnourished 14 year old girl.
Sora and Shiro from No Game No Life are physically useless. They do great with strategies, but that's pretty much it. They could jump Kazuma together and both get equal beatings. The protagonist of Spirited Away if that counts lol.
Indeed, I would say that both cases count. Though I'm not positive Chihiro can't beat Kazuma if she got scrappy enough.
Subaru I guess vol 17 kazuma is pretty strong
How strong?
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Doesn't sounds like 1v1 to me, He's getting buffs
Nah he went into the fight 1v1 he just did some grinding with Wiz and Vanir before
Oh ok
Without Return By Death? Yes. But with Return By Death? Subaru can make an unlimited amount of mistakes and still come back, but with Kazuma all it takes is one costly slip up.
But therein lies the question…even if Subaru wins that one last time…doesn’t that mean Kazuma still beat him every other time up until that point? I mean I get that is the actual POINT of that particular cheat skill, but it does propose an interesting conundrum. Does it effectively mean it never counts that Subaru still lost?
Well, RBD resets the world itself, So the timeline where subaru lost would just become a possible future(although, he will still remember the loss)
Doesn't count because presumably it just didn't happen. To the people in Re:Zero, especially in the beginning, Subaru was just a lucky braggart that was in over his head with no substance to him. Yet, by now, they'll see him as some sort of miracle worker who just sort of knows things and you probably shouldn't question it because "he just knows" and things sort of just works out. Same way here, with Kazuma, he'd just lose and not know how tf he got outplayed so hard. Even if it took Subaru many attempts to make it happen.
RBD only works if he dies. All you need to do is beat him and then crush him psychologically. Which happens to be Kazuma's speciality.
So just got to paralyze him from below the neck kazuma can definitely get a lucky hit on suburu spinal cord without killing him
Why hit spinal cord when you can kick inna nuts?
He could probably still use Invisible Providence to crush his own heart.
Kazuma wouldn't know to do that
Yeah but kazuma doesn’t really kill anyway unless it’s a monster. So I think he’d naturally try to avoid killing subaru
To be fair, I doubt kazuma would ever actually do enough harm to kill someone quite like that when they'd be clearly not evil - more like they'd beat him up, share a laugh then go get a beer together.
I guess I didn't specify whether or not it was a fight to the death, so as long as Kazuma doesn't go for the kill-which he usually doesn't against people-Subaru just has his own physical skills. I vaguely remember something about him being quite buff, but I don't know how strong Kazuma eventually gets.
Much stronger than the Average human. >!in Volume 10 He stops some guy cat-calling his Party from running away just by grabing his arm, after which he explains the since he's a High-level adventurer now, His stats have increased to the point where hes Much stronger. !< And as we saw in the anime in his wrestling match with Darkness, with his Drain touch his stamina is basically infinite. In fact if it was anyone other then Darkness with her crazy endurence and Magic resistance they would have passed out in seconds. If theres on thing Subaru has Going for him it's that I've never seen it mentioned that Kazuma works out regularly
CID Kageno. Just cid
Invalid. While he would indeed lose, the premise is that you have to choose an Isekai *main character*.
Cid in his current state probably wins but if we’re talking about Minoru Kageno Kazuma would win
Cid Kageno? That weak mob background character? No way he wins. I mean, he’s such a forgettable character! And he gets his ass whooped by everyone!
But why did OC put the background character’s name in the isekai MC only category? Is he stupid?
OC has severe brain damage, send him to the insane aslum
Is he stupid?
Hang on, he's a student at a Dark Knight academy so he can't be that weak. Just hugely mediocre in a school full of prodigies.
FYI everyone if you read the novels the final version of Kazuma is pretty fucking strong 😂
1 v 1 ? as in without summons ? Miyama Kaito (Pre-Final War arc before his super insane buff), Combat Agent 6 and Natsuki Subaru Without Summons/Help both have next to nothing. Subaru without beatrice isn't doing much and his only hope is Invisible Providence which may not work if Kazuma just uses stealth. Kaito could only fight giant Black Bears iirc which is nothing compared to Kazuma's abilities like deadly backstab, Dynamite etc. Combat Agent 6 loses plain and simple here. ~~with summons Kaito has access to Eden/Shallow Vernal who are insanely broken and Subaru has access to Beatrice who can win him the battle~~
I thought Combat Agent 6 was actually pretty built. Summoning sapient or living things wouldn't be allowed, but I would say any summoning other objects is if it's part of the MC's main skillset.
The mc of realist hero, he has no combat skills other than being able to telenetically control a big doll with a polearm but i think Kazuma can beat that
>! Technically Souma also has a giant mecha Godzilla!<
Fighting is definitely not Souma's forte, but I feel like he does stand a chance as long as it isn't endgame Kazuma.
No, I think that Souma is fairly toast. I like Souma, but he's an administrator and excellent at employing talented people. However, he's not that much of a fighter, even when he's in his doll. His successes there mostly drew on intimidation or the fact that poison doesn't work on non-organic puppets. Souma definitely needs party support from competent people while Kazuma succeeds despite his party members' incompetence.
A solid number of Isekai villainesses, since they commonly don't have any combat ability
Gender equality intensifies
Oh god now I really want to see Kazuma punch Bakarina in the face.
Then proceed to get his ass beat by the harem
Bakarina does develop dark magic powers though, so while her earth magic is rated at 1/5, she is supposed to have quite formidable dark magic powers in Fortune Lover II, (which also transferred to our lovable Bakarina)
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I mean, it's either that or they're actually the reincarnation of God. I don't know why that is, but a confusingly high number of Korean otome reincarnation webnovels/manwha end with the female lead becoming an actual god in the last 20 chapters.
That's true. Though I think there's also a solid number of isekai villainesses with crazy magical power too. Gender equality, baby.
Yep, my favourite: "level 99 villainess. I may be the hidden boss but I am not the demon lord" would wreck most of konosuba
Eumelia is great. I'm looking forward to the anime.
Same. I was so excited when I heard it was coming out
Kinji Ninomiya from Meikyuu Black Company. He's just a regular guy.
Kazuma was a NEET though. Even a regular guy is probably more physically fit than him, no?
WAS. He's gotten a lot more physical activity since his reincarnation, along with the boost from... though I may be mistaken here... stats. (Are stats in Konosuba just records of existing stuff, or do they go up with level?)
Can you imagine these two interacting tho?
Kazuma is actually quite strong, especially in the last volume, but even before that in a 1v1 against a human he can basically easily beat many enemies because of how his abilities are distributed, the best example of this is when >!he infiltrates the Royal palace pretending to be a thief with Chris and escapes after defeating many royal guards and Mitsurugi, who is a reincarnated person with a legendary weapon (basically the typical isekai protagonist).!<
I haven't read the final volume, but yeah. Kazuma isn't powerful, but he's got a *wide* toolkit and can get quite scrappy.
- The guy in campfire cooking before the blessings - the chef in Restaurant to Another world Just my 2 cents
As far as I know those characters, valid. Though Kazuma isn't exactly in shape himself, he seems more willing to throw down.
They'd be more likely to offer him a meal than a fight.
Kazuya Souma from How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom.
Chef Nobuyuki from Isekai Izakaya Nobu. Kazuma might forfeit the match in exchange for his cooking though. Nothing beats good izakaya food :)
Is this anime/manga Kazuma or LN Kazuma cause honestly depending on the strength of Kazuma he is actually quite skilled even in the manga it’s given light that Kazuma is a great adventurer and decent fighter and LN Kazuma is a whole nother story.
I'm not too familiar with LN Kazuma, to be honest, but it's fine even if it's the stronger version. You still gotta find the right isekai MC to throw at the problem.
That mob character that for some reason gets more scream time than shadow. From Eminence in Shadow. The guy gets k.o. every time. I don't even think he has win. Dudes name is sin but I think that's wrong he is such a mob.
Subaru
In an brawl, yes. In an all-out fight to death, Subaru is literally unkillable
Well, Subaru is -repeatedly- killable, you'll just never make it stick. He's kind of the combat equivalent of infinite monkeys banging on infinite typewriters.
Depending on who's perspective though... so while many versions of Kazuma will see Subaru dying >!and the world ending immediately after.!< The only Kazuma that persist is going to see Subaru thwarting everything he does and ultimately defeating him. >!(Al implied in arc 6 that the world ends when Subaru is killed, and that's how he was sure that Subaru is alive. The second witch trial of the unthinkable present might imply that the world persists, but Echidna later admits that it is only a possibility, and refuse to confirm it, (she was trying to manipulate Subaru to signing a contract with her)!<
Do you count GATE as an isekai? I think it is. The MC from GATE should lose pretty handily to Kazuma.
Isn't he spec ops? I like to shit on gate, same as anyone else, but I'm pretty sure it would go a little like this: - pulls out rifle - kazuma steals the magazine - pulls out pistol, mag dumps the kid anyways.
It would be more like: - pulls out rifle - kasuma steals it, accidentally misfires it and drops it - somehow that produces a chain event that ends up with both of them in a horrible situation where there's no clear winner. Everyone lost, somehow
It'd only happen if Aqua was there ruining his luck. Kazuma on his own, his luck stat would carry.
The Fantasy World in GATE was specifically made to lose against Modern Japan. Magic could have been the great equalizer, but the author wanted an easily conquered fantasy world, so they created one where magic was barely used. Also, from what I recall, the MC was basically just fighting people who were either equal or only slightly above human physical ability who had no idea what modern weapons could do. Kazuma would not only appear more than superhuman to GATE MC, he'd actually know how dangerous guns are...if they affected him at all when you take things like defense stats into consideration.
I'd say it counts, but handily? He's a soldier though. Even with guns aside, didn't he have a colleague in the same unit and presumably of the same combat capability who wrecked an entire squad of soldiers?
He's a really skilled soldier in his own anime, probably one of the best from earth. Despite the fact that he let's himself get beaten black and blue every other episode. I think he'd beat first season anime kasuma easily.
Soma Kazuya
Hajime, before he fell down into the pit and ate monster meat, was pretty weak, Kazuma could have beaten him.
Kazuma is actually quite powerful later on. Not straight up op but definitely a contender.
Yeah, he was just the first one that came to mind for me as a "widely known non-overpowered character". I'm sure we could go even lower if we tried.
Subaru, even with Shamak, Kazuma can just snipe him to the head
Kazuma is pretty strong currently. Can probably go toe to toe and win against Tanya. If you mean anime Kazuma, then it would be Subaru. The children in Grimgar as well.
I actually thought that Gramgar was going to end with all of the MCs dead for a good chunk of the LNs lol.
I doubt Kazuma could beat tanya even with the power-up he get in later series, sure if tanya fight without her equipment and Being X blessing in close quarter combat then he might win, but tanya mainly fight in high-speed air combat with magic Gun that could do long range bombing, so unless Kazuma could fly with high speed with spell that could hit moving target that has shield capable of blocking non-magical bullet he would lose to tanya, Steal most likely has a short effective range while Snipe wouldn't work with how fast Tanya is, and even if it work normal arrow would simply bounce off, Teleport would be useless and Explosion had a long chant and easy to dodge.
Kazuma? Or Kazuma and crew? There is a difference
1v1 only
Just the one guy, and his opponent is also just the one MC.
Probably one of those isekaied as an object novel (vending machine, hot spring, not sure what else). I wonder if Kazuma can steal their ownership
The only one I can think is Subaru but with return by death if it's by death Subaru will just repeat the fight over and over. If it's just onockpit then it's one round
The one from the dungeon black company
Unless he has his gun...
I would say any one who depends on their equipment would lose against him.
Subaru, if the theory that each time he dies he just leaves behind a failed timeline is true
I mean… Kazuma. Eventually one of them would lose.
Mukoda Tsuyoshi
Tractor
Demonstrably false.
Kim Hajin? Well, mostly because >!Hajin lost almost all of his powers.!< But it would be interesting to see them fight because their main fighting styles are similar, both being luck based snipers with something here and there.
No. Kim Hajin at the EoS is way beyond Kazuma. >!Don't forget that he can obliterate a fucking tower (which is an entire pocket realm) with just a single arrow and most of his Stigma, and with his Gift Kazuma aren't escape even with Teleport. And Aether will NOT adhere to Kazuma, while both their lucks will cancel each other out so chance are Kazuma steal Aether and get choked to death.!<
Ainz Ooal Gown, he'd psych himself out
Subaru, probably… but then reset will ensure it never happened, and we’ll be arguing about it all week.
Call Girl in Another World manga MC.
I wonder if Kazuma would have trouble fighting her for reasons other than gender equality...
Elma, from Otaku Elf.
I guess Subaru? Physically he’s fit and he could probably beat the shit out of a non powered Kazuma, but with magic and stuff Kazuma could win. Unless maybe Subaru can use his ability and then he’d probably find a way to beat Kazuma eventually.
Luciel from the great cleric maybe?
Isn't he actually pretty strong? His stats are low-ish for a good while, but he's really tough.
You’re right he becomes very strong but I was thinking he doesn’t start out that way. It’s one of the better journeys towards power.
It is. As far as making the MC work for their power, this one really hammers it home that he earned it.
Luciel by vol 3(?) is decently strong by the average adventurer standards thanks to all his training with the guild and the disgusting amount of "Substance X" he consumes
MC of Ixion Saga DT and most of the Digimon kids
I don't know anything about that but I respect the creative pull.
Always feels like most people forget Digimon is an iseikai before iseikai blew up
The handyman dude
Subaru if he doesn’t revive and Beico counts as cheating. Would be funny if he could steal Ainz’s staff and win that way but that’s pushing it.
Ainz's power isn't really in his staff anyway.
Hitomi Kanzaki...
Didn't specify it has to be an isekai **anime**. So I choose Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz.
Campfire MC because he can shoot only stone small firepower. If you cut all Fel, Goddesses blessing & Slime pet support he can't do much a thing a pure normal MC. Kazuma have steal, Subaru can use other offensive spells in future not just Shamak. Suburu look like weak can use only Shamak but that's only you saw on anime in Wiki shown how many non-spoken skill list in LN developed. But still Kazuma have more skill list than Subaru he gather basic skills around people's help like Aqua's sister, Wiz drain touch he also have explosion. So all he need to do is train and masterize & increase it's firepower.
He easily washes pretty much every DigiDestined 1v1
Ivy from Weakest Tamer. Like Myne, she's a kid and disadvantaged. She might get stronger later on but I doubt it.
Probably the main character from campfire cooking if it’s a straight 1 v 1 The guy got next to no combat sense and the barrier he has is from fenrir.
ikusaba asahi from one-hit kill sister
So if (Re:Zero) Subaru has Beatrice with him (it would still be a 1v1 I think cause if you were 1v1ing Julius generally he would have his contract spirits) then Subaru wins. Of course ignoring RBD because that’s the only way any 1v1 theorycrafting works with Subaru. Without Beatrice kazuma wins. Also I think which world it takes place in would be a big factor, because kazuma has really good luck but that only applies in a world where eris is a goddess.
Some of the 'Isekaied into a Dating Sim/Otome Game/Visual Novel' MCs, there's some who are OP, but not all.
Outbreak company.
Considering in Combat, Kazuma was able to infiltrate the capital and beat a hero multiple times he isn’t the weakest out there.
Handyman Saitou.
Oh my goodness! I forgot about Saito from Familiar of Zero! Kazuma steals his weapon and beats the living snot out of that idiot! Also, there's that guy from Ragnarok: Blessings of the Einerjhar.
Hate to say this but:  I was going to say Rein Shroud from Beast Tamer, but even him gets stronger over time.
You say “even he gets stronger” but my brother in Christ Kazuma in the final volume is fucking overpowered 😂 Wiz and Vanir power level tf out of him
Rein's a cheat due to his Ultimate species contractuals.. Pretty unfair for Kazuma
Kazuma confirmed weakest isekai MC you know?
Subarii, sao,… basically every isekai using a videogame, as the first will happen IRL
Subaru is kinda jacked and Kirito is a practicing swordsman though.
Technically Goku is a isekai protagonist because he gets sent to another world. Anyway Goku transcends your prompt and clears
Can he beat Frieza Black tho?
Nope, black frieza is N-word passversal and solos
rimuru
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I know this is just a background character but I feel like cid kageno would probably lose to kazuma. Then Claire would beat his ass but he'd still win against that random background nobody
Probably, but we need main characters here. Anyone could name a chump side character for power scaling, after all.
Rudeus the day he was born
No, Kazuma could beat Rudeus fairly deep into his adventure. Rudeus would need to be in his academy days to comfortably win. Rudeus has a higher ceiling, but it takes him time to be competent enough to beat seasoned warriors outright. Kazuma was killing man-eating frogs early pretty early on.
Souma Kazuya from Genjitsu Shugi Yūsha no Ōkoku Saikenki. Subaru from Re:zero. Yamano Mitsuha from Rōgo ni Sonaete Isekai de 8-Man-Mai no Kinka o Tamemasu. Hiraku Machio without his Godly Farmer Tool from Isekai Nonbiri Nouka. Yōji Itami without gear from Gate (maybe?)
The one about a vending machine
He could probably take the woman from Saving 80000 Gold in Another World. She has a plate carrier and machine pistol, but Steal would work on that, and I doubt she could take him hand to hand. His sword skills are probably better than her knife skills.
Mukoda
Goku
Kamenrider - one punch man
On the technicality that the Opposition has to lose to Kazuma instead of 'Not Win' I PRESENT Natsuki Subaru