User blog comment:Valeth/Iwatani Naofumi/@comment-28209103-20190523024659/@comment-28209103-20190523134511

@LazyCat zzz : It's slightly different I'll explain below.

@Valeth : I don't see how ANY of what you said is related to "Become a god" ENDING. Become a God is not about protag getting stronger as plot goes, it's about when protag is literally idling without any conflict and become too strong the author are at lost what to do.

If you have read even at least two of WN with that kind of ending you'll know what it means by that and why it's used usually for Isekai WN only.

Due to the characteristic of WN the author can write whatever they want whenever they want they often lose track of the direction. Being the wish fulfillment, the character become the second coming of Jesus and solve every problem with a wave of his hand. This is what I tentatively called SoL period of the WN.

At one point the author realized that the story went haywire and thus they entered sudden final mode where they entered Info dump mode to introduce the big big bad and went into end game faster than stock price fall during black monday. MC solved everything and then he became a God, and went to Journey through time of space, or become the world God, or Travel back to earth, or just lazing around as a God or whatever. The End.

This kind of rush ending is what I called "Become a God" ending.

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@Lazycat : In contrast to above Nekketsu genre (a.k.a Shonen stuff) never got called this because characters become stronger as the plot requires.

For majority of Shonen like Bleach or Naruto it goes like this :

Hero fight stronger enemy > Hero get stronger and beat enemy > Hero faces even stronger enemy > Hero gets stronger and beat enemy > and so on.

as for WN the hero start by being weak but after certain period of struggle arc they'll enter SoL wish fulilment arc where most enemy are now weaker than Hero and the Hero "cooly" solved the problem. In Shield Hero this period is once he get certain piece of land to rule.

The characteristic of this period is the absence of tension because there's no threat to the Hero.

And then suddenly the author need to close the series with a "Bang!" but during the SoL period the Hero have gotten strong to ridiculous degree (For no reason) hence the power scale need to be adjusted to make the new enemly looks threatening.

Compared to gradual shift of Bleach, One Piece or Naruto, the enemy power scale jumped a lot for WN. You can observe this in Shield Hero, Slime, Spider-chan, Death Mage, or Arifureta.