Fair. I think jrpgs tend to be worse for this than anime since it's a rule of thumb thst video game plots have to explain why the protagonist is uniquely capable of going on the main quest, and the easiest explanation is "they're just a special being, okay?"
The protagonists tend to be special to some degree because by the end of the game they're expected to Kill God. But the "special"-ness is as often a product of the intro as some inherited bloodline. Look at the Persona series, for instance. Or Chrono Trigger or Earthbound or Mario. As often as not, the protagonist is just some everyman who gets hit in the head with the Magic Rock of Destiny and finds himself on an unexpected adventure.
Obviously the difference is purely the medium, since jrpg are very much video game anime a lot of the time, but those are anime, not jrpgs.
:-p Misread. Apologies.
But fine, then. This is FF7 erasure.
Fair. I think jrpgs tend to be worse for this than anime since it's a rule of thumb thst video game plots have to explain why the protagonist is uniquely capable of going on the main quest, and the easiest explanation is "they're just a special being, okay?"
The protagonists tend to be special to some degree because by the end of the game they're expected to Kill God. But the "special"-ness is as often a product of the intro as some inherited bloodline. Look at the Persona series, for instance. Or Chrono Trigger or Earthbound or Mario. As often as not, the protagonist is just some everyman who gets hit in the head with the Magic Rock of Destiny and finds himself on an unexpected adventure.