Why do people unironically like Touma as a character, when he is a shitty mary sue self insert?

Why do people unironically like Touma as a character, when he is a shitty mary sue self insert?

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he is chad

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90% of main characters in this genre are generic self inserts but people still like them. as it turns out, characters don't have to be good to be liked.

He gets to punch people really hard and has a harem, that`s pretty cool in my book

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He says as he posts Mikoto, who is a fat bigger Mary Sue then Touma can even dream of being.

Let’s get this started:

Mikoto:
>Rich
>Powerful, versatile ability
>one of only 7 people out of all the espers to be a Level 5
>literal super computer brain
>poster child of Academy City
>literally idolized and hero worshiped by the masses
>has a harem of girls/Etzali that want her
>never had to get her hands dirty with shady stuff, unlike literally every level 5 aside from Gunha
>almost never gets hurt ever in an substantial way even against people way out of her league
>fluent in like 5 languages and plays the violin at a professional level, yet still has time to hang out with her police friends and read manga that she doesn’t pay for

Touma:
>Poor
>Bad grades
>stagnant ability, the only upgrade he gets requires his arm getting ripped off
>Forced to miss so much school that he is about to be flunked out
>dragged all over the globe to solve magic bullshit
>harem consists primarily of bitchy flat chested cunts and almost all of them have tried to kill him atleast once
>memories erased twice, literal multiple cases of brain damage
>literally in the hospital every other day because he gets the shit kicked out of him constantly
>has had his arm ripped off a couple times now
>suffered thousands of years of torture
>is just now getting recognized by people, and it’s mostly just more people trying to hurt him

>punching people makes you a chad

You forgot :

>has to be constantly rescued by Touma because she is the series's main damsel in distress

Let's set aside the fact that his fights are all boring, he's not funny or charming, and the plot bending itself over backwards to facilitate his success. His biggest problem is that he is practically always at the mercy of other peoples' whims. Nothing in the story happens because he wanted it to happen and set out to accomplish it. People just barge into his home to drag him off to deal with city-ending/world-ending threat #4235275. He feels less like a character and more like a machine that has a few pre-input commands. It's a chore to watch and an even bigger chore to read.

Do you realize how ironic this question is when you post a picture of the biggest Mary Sue in raildex, misaka?

>he is not hardwired to chase tail and punch people
You better be a femanon, that`s the only excuse

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Why do you think that is a picture of misaka? Why do you not think that is a picture of kuroko?

Because he's a chad of the highest order.

she also appears in Index when she shouldn't but Index herself rarely appears in Railgun.

And yet, even after 50 volumes people still buy his book enough for it to be in top ten LNs.

People still eat up garbage star wars and marvel capeshit movies too. Success does not equal quality.

I sure like Touma better than you user.

Books don't have cool cgi effects to capture the attention of low iq monkeys. No one is tolerant enough to read through 50 fucking books if they dont enjoy them. Don't resort to stupid whataboutism to refute my point.

This. I don’t get the hype for mikoto at all. I always found her insufferable. Especially after she had the gall to try to kill touma after he held back and didn’t punch her in the face.

he is way more bearable than kuroko. god i hate that bitch

Because mikoto is a bigger Mary Sue than kuroko...? I don’t understand this question.

>keep calling him names and don't even bother listening to explanations when she know he goes out of his way to help people
I fucking hate her.

Your point is stupid to begin with because I was pointing out the flaws in his character, not debating whether or not a horde of people with abhorrent taste like him or not. It's telling that your first instinct was to go MUH SUCCESS instead of you know, actually pointing out what redeemable qualities he has.

Kuroko should have been the MC. I would read 50 volumes of her raping Mikoto.

You said that Touma as an MC makes the books a chore to read and I was pointing out that people still read the books after 50 volumes with him being as the centre for the majority of it. I think I'll consider the choice of the masses correct compared to yours.

>I think I'll consider the choice of the masses correct compared to yours.
Good for you, but I'm perfectly content knowing I'm not a sheep who sides with the bigger number rather than thinking for himself.

Good for you, no one is forcing you to like a character. I'm defending his, because I like it.

>kuroko gets a dozen fucking scenes of her groping and drooling over misaka while touma gets absolutely no such scenes.
Why are so many light novelists such yurifags?

Touma groped Misaka quite a fair bit.

>Books don't have cool cgi effects to capture the attention of low iq monkeys
They have a waifus and harem shenanigans which capture the attention of even lower IQ monkeys
>suffered thousands of years of torture
Billions but the fact he came out mostly the same is just an even bigger reason that he's a mary sue. Though on a rare occasion Touma will actually have some fun banter with some characters.

You underestimate how afraid of reading books so many people are. Especially men and teen boys. I think about one tenth of my friends actually read books.

>You underestimate how afraid of reading books so many people are
I don't think that's much of an issue in Japan

Were we only talking about Japan?

>Were we only talking about Japan?
That's were a majority of Toaru's fanbase comes from. The west isn't relevant.