User blog comment:Mr. Bambu/The Overpowered Crisis/@comment-26362471-20161104233456/@comment-28644276-20161105150312

@Bambu RWBY is a low tiered series as far as I remember (IIRC, they were stuck at Wall Lvl for some time, too), while I understand your point of view as a whole - we all have our likes and dislikes - I don't see what's the problem with it (IIRC, they were stuck at Wall Lvl for some time, too).

@Imo Pretty much, but saying that people like Gurren Lagann "because it's over the top giant robots busting absurd things" is far from the truth. The story there is awesome, it has endearing characters, an awesome villain and most important... It has Kamina! Yeah. I just did that. Kamina is all a series needs to be good. /toplol The over the top powers are part of the mix, but definitely not the thing that makes it sell. Series such as One Piece and Naruto hardly have a single Planet Buster yet they are the most well-known. If I say "Dragon Ball, Street Fighter, Lord of the Rings, Iron Man, Harry Potter or One Piece", everyone will know what I'm talking about. If I say Dies Irae (or any of these series full of higher dimensionals), they will think I'm talking about religion, mathematic and physics (remember Umineko? One of the most powerful series out there, yet more people know about Higurashi because no one cared enough to make all that Higher Dimensionality stand out in the anime). Even Gurren Lagann is not that well known around here. Conversely, If I say Marvel or DC, everyone will know - and these verses are OP.

In the end, it does not much matter to the editor how weak or powerful your characters are. The reality is that they are only concerned if your series sells - there are a lot of series, both weak and strong, that sell and are awesome all the same... And then there are the less fortunate. That's why we see series going through genre shifts, content being removed, fanservice being added and so on. The sad thing called "Executive meddling". If the story is not enough to make the audience root for all those explosions, it won't be long before the show is turned into something else entirely just so it can sell. My point is that, as an author, it is healthy to remember not to write yourself into a corner, which is what OP characters without a good story to go along with them will do to you.