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So... I have been reviewing the series, and it is made very clear time, and time, and time, and time again that all of the named characters in Medaka Box are comparable in a physical fight, with very few exceptions (End God Mode Medaka and Iihiko are the only ones that come to mind). All of them are able to trade blows with each other on equal ground, and fights are never decided based on destructive capacity, as there is too much cyclical logic involved. (e.g. supposedly Akune is superior to Medaka, who is superior to Oudo, who is superior to Koga, who is superior to Akune)
Every character varies only in hax, intellect, and techniques, which are always the deciding factor in a Medaka Box fight, due to its semi-parodic nature (I think that's the word for it). Therefore I would argue that every character should scale to each other in terms of physical abilities and basic tiering, and there are only a few destructive feats we can go off of for this purpose, due to the fights not usually revolving around physical destruction.
If we want, we can also involve very specific Hax-based feats that do speak to the physical tier of the characters due to the nature of the situation.
For example:
Medaka dragging two five-story school buildings, which i can aquire a picture for, just not at the moment
Akune smashing a steel door (I don't know how tough steel is, so I don't know if this is as impressive)
Oudo collapsing a room the size of a large house, which Kikaijima survived despite being at the epicenter of the collapse.
Nienami's Battleship feat
And several others that I will attempt to locate if need be.
Bottom line, whatever tier these feats end up fitting into, there's no reason we can't scale each Medaka Box character to each of them, due to them repeatedly being shown as comparable despite continuous vague statements to the contrary. (e.g. Zenkichi kicking Medaka and damaging her, despite her being stated as so much stronger than him that they can't be compared, even though they are indeed described as comparable later)
Characters almost never win fights through physical superiority or attack power, and when they do, the same character they defeated will often come back later and beat them the same way just as easily because the plot demands it. (e.g. Kumagawa physically blitzstomping a horde of enemies previously shown as vastly superior to Zenkichi, who can fight Kumagawa on equal ground)
So anyway, there's my two cents.
Every character varies only in hax, intellect, and techniques, which are always the deciding factor in a Medaka Box fight, due to its semi-parodic nature (I think that's the word for it). Therefore I would argue that every character should scale to each other in terms of physical abilities and basic tiering, and there are only a few destructive feats we can go off of for this purpose, due to the fights not usually revolving around physical destruction.
If we want, we can also involve very specific Hax-based feats that do speak to the physical tier of the characters due to the nature of the situation.
For example:
Medaka dragging two five-story school buildings, which i can aquire a picture for, just not at the moment
Akune smashing a steel door (I don't know how tough steel is, so I don't know if this is as impressive)
Oudo collapsing a room the size of a large house, which Kikaijima survived despite being at the epicenter of the collapse.
Nienami's Battleship feat
And several others that I will attempt to locate if need be.
Bottom line, whatever tier these feats end up fitting into, there's no reason we can't scale each Medaka Box character to each of them, due to them repeatedly being shown as comparable despite continuous vague statements to the contrary. (e.g. Zenkichi kicking Medaka and damaging her, despite her being stated as so much stronger than him that they can't be compared, even though they are indeed described as comparable later)
Characters almost never win fights through physical superiority or attack power, and when they do, the same character they defeated will often come back later and beat them the same way just as easily because the plot demands it. (e.g. Kumagawa physically blitzstomping a horde of enemies previously shown as vastly superior to Zenkichi, who can fight Kumagawa on equal ground)
So anyway, there's my two cents.
