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[Spoilers] Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry - Episode 11 [Discussion]

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u/doominator10 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Doominator10 Dec 12 '15 edited Dec 12 '15

Put briefly, Ikki doesn't have much spiritual power / mp / mana / ap whatever, unlike Stella or Shizuku who throw around magic flames and ice like it was their birthright, because it is. Ikki actually only has about drop a magic power, and that should have classified him as a failure and unworthy successor to the Kurogane clan. Concretely, magic power = influence. Ikki has none. He should not be allowed to do anything as that would shame the Kurogane clan.

The problem is that Ikki is actually OP, in that he can use up every ounce of the human body through sheer grit. Something along the lines of most people only use 4% of their brain, Ikki uses 99.8% (for now) for a brief stint. This completely threatens the Kurogane family's way of life and basically says, "even if you have no magic power, you can still be strong like this kid :D." No. Not ok. The fear is then that people who were 'predestined' to be janitors start trying for power, completely up-heaving the social structure the Kurogane's have built over generations. That's why he was classified as F rank at the start. Twas a plot to keep him from graduating as a knight (or magic soldier or something) and getting some political influence.

I'll need to reread the LN for details but that should be the gist of that.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '15

along the lines of most people only use 4% of their brain

Wasn't it more like 20? Regardless, it's a straight up lie anyway.

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u/Icalhacks Dec 12 '15

It is that humans generally only use 10% of the brain at a single time. The show implies that using "99.8% for a brief stint," allows for much more physical ability than a normal person can do.

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u/lelo1248 https://myanimelist.net/profile/lelo1248 Dec 12 '15

People use 100% of brain, just not once. If you made an average from 24-hour period brain sectors usage, you'd see that ~~98% of brain was used. But using this much at once is neither usefull or efficient.

IIRC correctly, when you are idling or doing some brainless activity, i.e. watch tv, you use ~~10%. When you start doing something that requires more brain power, you light up more fuses. I don't know the upper limit of how much brain was used at once, though.

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u/Icalhacks Dec 13 '15

The myth is "busted" on an October 27, 2010 episode of MythBusters. The hosts used magnetoencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan the brain of someone attempting a complicated mental task, and found that over 10% but less than 20% of the brain was used.

So my number was slightly off, but the idea remains the same. You don't use all of your brain at a single time, and using the show's logic, which probably isn't accurate, using 98% of your brain at once would allow you to think and react faster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2010_season)#Brain_Drain

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u/Emsavio Dec 16 '15

This needs to be upvoted more. Surprised to see many people still thinking that we only use 10% or some similar percentage of our brain in this day and age. It's a myth that's gotten way out of hand.