The Eminence in Shadow or Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute is definitely one of the isekai comedy manga you cannot miss. Here are some hilarious moments of The Eminence in Shadow:-
Rebirth in Another World
Cid Kagenoh’s only dream is to become someone who controls everything from shadow i.e. to become Eminence in Shadow. For this purpose, he learned everything from martial arts to kendo only to find that he has hit his biological limit as a human. Now the only thing that can help him surpass this limit is “Magic”. In pursuit of learning magic, he tried different things like meditating, praying, etc. until one day he see a flickering light amidst his search. Believing this light to be magic he is searching for charges head-on towards the light only to find that it is the headlight of a speeding truck and get hit by it.
Claire gets kidnapped
One morning Kagenoh Family finds that Claire Kagenoh – Cid’s elder sister has been kidnapped. Cid is greeted by Beta in his room and she tells him that they are not able to accurately locate the base of the kidnappers. That’s when Cid randomly throws a knife on the map – just to enjoy his self-portrayed character of Shadow- and says that the knife points the exact location of the kidnappers and the base in the north is just a diversion.
Confession to Princess Alexia
“One who aspires to be a shadow must master the ways of a mob” is the motto Cid follows. But due to a bet with his mob friends, he must now confess to Princess Alexia – the academy’s idol – to go out with him. But to Cid’s delight, this is the perfect mob character event to be turned down by a school idol.
So he goes and confesses to Alexia in the mobiest way possible but to his distress, she accepts the proposal ruining Cid’s plan to become an eminent shadow.
Alexia shows her true self
Alexia uses Cid to escape from her fiancé Zenon. When Cid confronts her saying that how could she use him, she says that she knows Cids proposed her due to his loss in a bet. Alexia ordered Cid to pretend to be her boyfriend for money, Cid easily gets swayed by money. So they started pretending to be fake lovers.
Lord Shadow
Cid always wanted to portray as the Eminence in a dim-lit room with a champagne in hand and this dream is fulfilled, after Cid Kagenoh hunted bandits, playing fake lover for princess. Just to enjoy this moment he faced all the troubles.
When Beta enters Cid’s room to report the beginning of the mission, she sees him as the embodiment of Shadow and thinks Cid has a huge responsibility of controlling the world from the shadows while in reality he is unaware of everything and just enjoying his act as Eminence.
Cid meets Gamma
When Cid meets Gamma, he comes to know that Gamma has started a trading company and this company is scaled to a large scale. Gamma tells Cid that all this is possible because of Cid’s Shadow Wisdom which he shared with Gamma.
Hearing Cid thinks that how he had to grovel in front of Alexia to collect money for his Eminence moment despite having such large trading company. After that Gamma tells that they have an impostor group that impersonated Shadow Garden to which Cid randomly answers that he knows who the group may be.
Nu reports about the Diabolas Cult
Nu reports to Cid that the impostors caught were Diabolos Cults’ 3rd Children, there were also 2nd and 1st Diabolos children, 1st children being the strongest. While Nu was telling Cid about the Diabolos Cult, Cid was only nodding in reply to which Nu thought Cid being the Lord Shadow knows everything and such information is trivial to him.
Although the information would be trivial to Cid, Nu thought it is her duty to report everything to Cid. But in reality, Cid didn’t know anything he was in his own vibe enjoying his walk.
God of War tournament
In the god of war tournament, Cid is matched to with a strong candidate Rose Oriana – Academy’s Student Council President. For Cid it is a perfect mob opportunity for a disgraceful first round loss against a would-be winner of the tournament.
To get a defeat in a mobful way Cid uses one of his moves from his own devised Mob-fu. To add to this Cid uses more move from Mob-fu but the referee announces Oriana the winner and sends Cid to the infirmary. Though Cid played this act to make him more of a mob character, unknown to him Rose was impressed by this thinking that his will is unwavering.
Terrorist Attack
A perfect opportunity for Cid arises when a terrorist attack takes place in the Academy. This is one of those fantasies Cid have which he had dreamt for thousands of times. For Cid getting killed in this kind of situation belongs to Mob character.
Just to fulfil his fantasy Cid jumps in front of Oriana and takes the attack on himself preventing Oriana from getting hurt. But Oriana misunderstands all this and thinks that Cid has done all this to save her and he loves her very much.
Cid’s Checklist
After Cid has acted his part of death of mob character, he then starts to act as Shadow and then thinks of his checklist he has to complete. First, to stand at the top of the academy and watch everything from above. From the roof he shot down members of terrorist group.
While standing on the roof, he sees Shelly running from the attackers. To save Shelly runs down on the vertical wall of the Academy which crosses off another wish from the wishlist.