The cool thing about Gojo is that his character is built as a Mary sue and acknowledged as one.
Leticia Wright's awful acting annoyed me almost as much as her just playing a flat out shit character.
yeah, this is what everyone likes to call very poorly thought writing
The issue with this old style of Sue definition is that a lot of modern writers know it and will try to technically not apply to those rules, while still having a Sue in spirit.
Mary Sue has evolved beyond its original meaning. Frankly, the disagreements in this thread so far are from definition autism, as if everything has to be exactly like the original Mary Sue to be called one. The unwarranted omnicompetence and focus is more common today than the worship part, when the character isn't female, but the lack of the worship somehow means the other elements are not sue-ish. TV Tropes, as much as I roll my eyes at that den of autists, wisely seperated the Mary Sue trope into several different definitions because they all still share incredibly common and annoying/retarded traits.
You can make god tier characters in your cast without making them too annoying. OPM and Mob did it by making the characters have intelligence/personal issues, or in Re;Zero having them be a side character that's basically never around when he is actually needed. But Gojo is central to the plot more than the cast itself, and people disliking him is more of an informed trait.
If you remove Gojo though, what really changes? I mean, he's removed more than half of the time. The entire story would flow better if he just didn't exist. Unironically a plot tumor.
With Mob too he works because he's very strong with his psychic powers but he's weak in his physical body at the beginning and he also has a moral code that makes him really vulnerable where he sometimes gets his ass kicked in fights, and has to push his limits when push comes to shove.
Mob's story doesn't really revolve around fights or autistic power levels but people and the idea of being special. His power isn't meant to define him and the very first major conflict ends with him breaking down over being unable to change. In a more common plot, he would be. The ending isn't him against some world-ending enemy but his own anxiety. It's great.
It's a convoluted "hero needs to get rid Sukuna, Sukuna can only be killed by Gojo, villains want to jill Gojo for an entirely unrelated reason" with an added needing to collect all the fingers. They could have replaced Gojo with some ritual rather than a literal "trust me bro, you won't cause the apocalypse".
Just seems like Gege wanted to make a super powerful Kakashi except he forgot the part where Kakashi was depressed as fuck and wanted to die for his village like everyone else he loved did.
Yeah Mob’s story is great since even after a threat that would be a typical final boss in a shounen, there are still things he has to resolve as life goes on. As you said his own anxieties are his final obstacle
The cool thing about Kakashi is not only his design, but that he starts looking really strong, only to immediately show that he is a small fish once the first mission turns into a clusterfuck. Kakashi builds the setting, while Gojo limits it.
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