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Oh, that's probably it. Or at least explain why it doesn't feel familiar to me.
I don't know that you can pin it down to any one game, but grading things up to S has been around in games going back a long time, especially action and fighting games. Capcom in particular was especially guilty of it (eg Viewtiful Joe, Devil May Cry, Street Fighter 3, Resident Evil, etc).
More specifically, if you played Final Fantasy 7, the racing chocobos were D to S ranked, so it was around and relatively established at least at that point.
The gacha style is for "rarity" (with obviously More Rare being generally More Better on the general sense of being "allowed" to have more stuff and power) and mostly measure how lucky you are for getting them. Most games of this type didn't get super big outside of Japan, but one that did was Granblue Fantasy, where characters go from R (Rare) to SSR (Super Super Rare, one assumes). So you can use that as a mental image. This is assigned to an entire character.
The other type of letter rank is sort of, like, scoring. Think the scoring systems in Devil May Cry. An A-Rank adventurer is less good at adventuring than an S-Rank adventurer which is less good than an SSS rank adventurer. This is basically like your score at whatever thing is being talked about. Someone can be S rank at Swording and C rank at cooking, for example. Many, many, MANY games use this sort of scoring. Famously in anime circles, the Fate VN and anime actually showed sheets for the primary characters ranking their stats from E to S (and then proceeded to ignore them because Nasu heard of consistency once and decided he wanted no part of it).
I've seen Isekais use either style of letter ranking.
The usage of letter grades I've seen in manga has mostly been a measure of power of characters and monsters, which I consider distinct from grading of the player performance like Capcom games.
I like it when S Class is treated like that in stories where it's a thing. Not a "normal" rank but rather where all the interesting weirdos are kept.
I think it's become more prominent because of the RPG/gacha/isekai saturation, and because they're very, very, very lazily written so aren't going to bother coming up with anything even as creative as bronze/silver/gold ranks.
Korea is extremely hierarchal so that would make sense. Watched a pretty great video series going in depth on how and why to explain some gacha drama and also why the country as a whole is turbofucked because capitalism turning from kingmaker to king in the country in a way that wouldn't be possible anywhere else.
Hey now let's be fair, King has technically never lost a single fight
OPM also makes a point that the people who care the most about the rankings and C/B/A class stuff are "losers" at the bottom, while basically everyone in S class doesn't give a shit. It's rather direct about it.
The Dangers in my Heart 18 tugged at my heartstrings like whoa. It's the simplest story with beats that have been done so many times before, but it's so honest and sincere I can feel my heart welling every time the episode title card drops.
There is specifically a guy in A Rank who is only not in S Rank because he's insane about caring about the rankings.
The person at the top of B also checks people before they go to A, iirc?
Things with a list of missions you can accept for rewards tend to have some kind of difficulty-grade, but it's often a number of stars or something. If it's a boss-fighting game, then the grade boils down to how strong the big thing you fight in the mission is.
Nah, Sweet Mask is an asshole about it. He straight up says most of S-rank shouldn't be in S-rank more than once and blames them for stuff they had no control over. His messed up mindset about it(and his sense of justice) is absolutely portrayed in a negative light and the reason he's so gatekeep-y about S-Rank and what it means to be a hero.
Fubuki has a serious inferiority complex because of Tatsumaki and no confidence because of it, and initially doubts she can ever catch up with her sister. Because she resents the idea of living forever in her sister's shadow, she rather be the top of B class with the Fubuki group rather than be bottom of S class under her sister.
She also doubts she could get into S class even if she tries because of Sweet Mask.
She changes her mind after meeting Saitama though.
The only time he's blamed them for something outside of their control is when Boros showed up and vaporized the city around the Hero Association. Everything else they are 100% to blame when shit goes wrong because of their attitudes.
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Unless you've got some heavy tinted lenses though, it's no more yuri than any other show with two female leads.
Frieren ep 23 and slightly later manga
The problem for the Sense clone is (and Sense knows this from her own background) that the candidates have a hard counter for her:
ehhh I dunno it's pretty high up on the yuri-that-isn't-quite-there scale compared to other shows with two female leads
Eh, I got nothing more than BFF vibes from the two, though maybe I'm just numb to shows that play the bait card.
I didn't mind the 'counter-terrorism' bits, and Majima was a decent villain, just a lot of it felt kind of half-baked.
Frieren
Could you share a link? I'd be interested to see that.
Also, I ran out of Vinland Saga to read. This is terrible.
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And there's a whole thing in the series where Frieren shows off spells that we see other mages use later.
I tend to really enjoy shojos that aren't TOO over the top or filled with mega drama, Blue Box is very well done in that style.
This reminded me to go hunt down the Love Me, Love Me Not movie finally, since I don't think it received any kind of official release, US side (probably because of Covid? I dunno). Like the Ao Haru Ride anime, it's charming but super truncated. I just wish they'd do a full story adaptation for one of Io Sakisaka's works. They can go toe to toe with stuff like A Sign of Affection or My Love Story...
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