Talk:Kichimura Washuu/@comment-68.188.223.225-20180724004711/@comment-199.66.91.188-20180821041327

^ I'm always amused at: "Furuta is Gary Stu."-thing. Mainly because that is exactly what he isn't. You may say Furuta is too liked by an author (author's pet / special snowflake), cringy, annoying because he isn't as interesting as author tries to make him be; you can say all this and you would be correct. However, Gary Stu? Nope. I'm afraid not. For Gary Stu examples take a look at Arima, or even Kaneki:re version, to get right idea of how one looks like.

Furuta worked for everything he got. Nothing was given to him on silver platter just because he was Furuta Nimura (unlike MC in :re who is special and needs to save the day just because he is said MC). Every single thing Furuta achieved was through his own work. He didn't become strong just because he was Furuta Nimura; he trained since he was a child. Even than he wasn't exactly a God. Unlike certain other half-human that can solo every single ghoul in existence just because his name was Kishou Arima. Or certain other guy that gained his power-ups after he visited his tulpa land to get 'motivation' for who knows what time! Establishing one and the same bloody thing over and over again and fan-base claiming that this is "deep writing", when in reality is bad(lazy) one that overuses one and the same thing over and over again for "symbolism", that stopped being there long ago.

Back on Furuta: You can now argue about how much his so-called achievements and power were results of author liking him vs. how actually intelligent this character is without his crappy "Aizen" trope that he suffered from, but point is that he still gets credit for his achievements, regardless of 'reasons' for them.

Furuta also didn't have his ass kissed 24/7 and his wrongdoings 'justified' in order to make him appear like bad version of Jesus. I don't recall anyone falling in love with Furuta just because he was Furuta, nor I remember him being loved and worshiped at all (asides from these teen fan-girls which were more of a joke than actual worship; unlike one MC:re or Arima received all the time, even when they were just scratching their butts). He didn't even get the girl he wanted, like he wanted. Nor have his plans succeeded as well. He also got defeated moment he pulled out kakuja! (what is up with this series and it's meme of one-shotting everyone moment they pull out kakuja by the way?) Even before he completely got defeated by Kaneki, he wasn't indestructible God that could one-shot everyone. He had to runaway from Marude instead of being 'God' that one-shots everyone and Matsuri managed to halt his kagune with his bare hands and kick him. This is not to say that Furutua is weak as he obviously isn't, or that he couldn't take down Marude and Matsuri as he obviously again could; but it proofs that he wasn't a God with unlimited hax mode either! That he wasn't some sort of Steven Seagal like fandom makes him be.

Therefore, once more: he doesn't fall in category of Gary Stu. Just a huge special snowflake, but that is huge portion of this cast as well.

And for a record as well: No. I'm not fan-boy of Furuta. I like him as much as I like everyone in :re past Arima's death, which is: not at all! I simply wrote this because majority loves shitting on Furuta for same things they worship other characters. Best of all, like in this case, they shit on him for things that don't even apply to him in first place.