Baby Planet
Even if we went that route and assumed Kairai didn't tank it, I fear that line of thought would kind of nuke the reasoning for using these kinds of descriptions as evidence even further. At that point either
a. Skills like Baby Planet and Pioneer flag qualify even less since even the contextless description isn't necessarily implying/showing the literal effect (actually, and going by that reasoning, these skills wouldn't qualify for AP even if we took the literal words from their names).
b. Once more, there's never any impact in the story or even a passing mention of any universe being there or created, nor shown in any manner. It is far too vague a thing and far too higher of a scale than what the series shows. A good chunk of Medaka Box's story doesn't even have the cast leaving the scope of Hakoniwa or directly impacting large parts of the world.
c. Not really. As a matter of fact, the skill *is* vague. Every series - I'm pretty sure every series - when there's Universal anything we have... Well, an Universe to see, to compare, to evaluate and all that. Here, we have nothing. There is absolutely no info or show of this supposed Universe, means of its making, size, space or time or implications to the series, how it impacts anything if at all, etc.
d. I'm not missing a point. I'm saying that as much as I'd be glad to say otherwise if we had proper evidence, we can't decide this is Possibly Low 2-C against the series' whole scope based on a few passing words that ultimately are too contrary to the scale we see. We haven't ever seen a single enemy or char in Medaka Box doing anything on screen that possibly ever comes anywhere near say... SS level (And even that is a *VERY* generous stretch on my end for this comparison when "Star Busting" was done once, as an isolated feat inside Kumagawa's dream while he was unconscious and being treated by Aoki Aka,
by Ajimu at that). It feels like a far too big stretch to believe Kumagawa and Medaka may be Universal+ based on so little when so much in the story points in the other direction.
Other Universes
Ye.
AF Statements
a. I don't disagree with AF having Conceptual Manip, Range and erasing whatnot. Like I joked about before, Kumagawa tends to do a Diavolo kind of thing for Pseudo Time-Stop. But many many chars have hax capable of affecting even higher dimensional structures (Hello, Beatrice at 25-D hax but needs intrincate plan to create a new world) and they are called smurfs, because their AP is still in 3-D while what their hax may affect can make their abilities ellusive. As another example Base Lavos at its weakest makes the structure of space time unstable and creates gates at places via
existing but it's still hax. Not AP.
b. I disagree on the basis of the implications being either vague, clashing with the scope of the series and generally not having anything concrete to back them up (Sadly, Medaka vs Nasuverse at Low 2-C would be kind of cool).
c.
Like I said:
"Fukurou was literally the cause for most of the bad things going on through the arc and generally a creep. The fact that they had everyone cured (suitors included) but kept him dead especially was obvious.
The moon had already been falling. Resurrecting Fukurou would literally do nothing when he had something to make it fall but not something to tell it to kindly return."
In your own words, Fukurou was a creep.
He was the one who caused this situation out of literal spite when he died. Not only he never made a style to tell the moon to stop falling, his personality would most certainly not lead him to.
"We know nothing about how testament works..." ...And that's precisely why the most we can say about it is that it drops a moon on things. Assigning extra effects and/or assumptions to it that were never adressed in the series is not something we can do.
The AF and Moon thing falling is again the same thing I adressed before --- Kumagawa has hax and range, but not AP for that kind of feat.
Getting to the heart of the problem: The statements are far too vague, and the characters they would apply to (the series as a whole at that) do not have anywhere or any feat to ascert them as true.
Be it for Creation or Destruction, Medaka Box does not give us Universal scale actual feats anywhere and then the chars you'd otherwise tie these statements to have trouble dealing with something of a much lower scale.
Even ignoring the EOS Moon Fall situation entirely, there's nothing in the series that gives us a serious instance of Universal Threat or Universal Effects in the world. As a matter of comparison, ut times in other series we get actual Universal Destroyers who are shown legitimately busting a Universe on Screen and they still can fall short of that tier at Multi-Galaxy by doing it overtime (Example:
Vorgis has a Universal Destruction statement after absorbing Belleria's Power, Mugen Souls has Universal Statements and he is shown casually busting Multiple Galaxies on screen. Still 3-B.).
Yet in Medaka Box we have either a character making a bold statement about their power or the description of one of Ajimu's quadrillion skills and neither is ever backed up while the actual series gives us Tier 8 stuff to work with for the most part.
This isn't even out of context for Medaka Box, Kumagawa himself lampshades that the series focuses on Hax and that Kugurugi
"should go to a Shonen manga if her power makes things explode".
...Ajimu is an unknown here. Actually every time I re-read Medaka Box I realize once more how Nisio literally made consistent scaling a nightmare for her. Ajimu once again, scales to no one. She never gave two cents about the suitors actually (she outright says in one page that she could oneshot them all), and she wasn't there for the moon deal. So that analogy is not valid here.
I never questioned Kumagawa's range being that high. I'm also fine with AF being Smurf hax to some extent.
No, this situation is more than enough to use Occam's razor because both the affected one's quotes (Medaka), the other characters (the group), scenario as the plot presents it and the one who saved her (Hanten) point towards this direction.
Also no, Occam's Razor would *not* point to 1-A Ajimu when she has a few statements without context or backing up and then instances that beat that idea down the road. The higher a tier, the more evidence it takes and given the amount of time, statements, lore, cosmology and feats to put literally any 1-A in existence to stand where they are at now (Chaos Gods come to mind), this is again, not quite a valid analogy.
From this point onwards it's the territory of assumptions that we can't use -- as in, once again stuff that the story never bothers to explain. Medaka points to death by the moon, the plot points to the same and so does Hanten. Also it was definitely not returning the matter here, since Medaka still mentions dying for Iihiko or her while still on the planet, if the moon fell.
It's not PIS.
Baby Planet is vague and has absolutely no context or point in the series to work with.
"Star busting" was literally done by Ajimu who scales to no one, and what's worse, inside a dream.
And more... ...There's nothing more because then we have the series back to tons of feats and destruction around tier 8 that do not at all tier with these isolated quotes or instances. It's not PIS because a Moon trumps destruction in any scale that Medaka had possibly dealt with thus far.
I can't agree with the idea of rating chars as Low 2-C based on a few things said here and there when, even if we took them at face value... These things are ludicrously beyond what they have ever shown us. And when something that is far above their tier 8 showings - but still doesn't come anywhere near that scale - pops up for the first time, they treat it like the end of the world, have to literally pull a heroic sacrifice on Medaka's end and the story goes out of its way to tell us later that "Well she couldn't have dealt with that scale of destruction alone, Ajimu's double saved her".
The story doesn't acknowledge Medaka even at the very end as being capable of, by herself, dealing with something of that scale -- until someone who's up there with Ajimu shenanigans enters to save the day.
"There are no "best showings" everything was done casually from 4D feats, to universal in range ones, to simply erasing people."
...Hax does not Equal AP. And Range does not equal AP either. There are smurfs and time users with stuff way stronger than this everywhere in the site and they don't suddenly get tiers corresponding to how far their hax reaches. Using the Base Lavos example again, it would be 2-A if I applied this line of thought to it.
4-D feats?
Kumagawa erases colors >> Range of Hax.
Making stuff have never Happened/Erasing Time >>> Existence Erasure on a good enough level does this.
Sakuya Izayoi completely erases the time of something and they from Space-Time. That's by no means evidence of Low 2-C, just hax.
...Other than that, I positively don't remember much of anything pointing to 4-D feats.
On my end I'd say it's pretty clear cut on this front.
AF Feats
Well, refer to the above as for why this by no means can scale to AP.
Range, AP and Hax: Three entirely different things that may complement each other with displays but are by no means the same. We don't use these parameters for any series, Medaka Box can't get a special treatment.
Dream World
Unless I missed something there, don't think there's much else to say here.