I love JJK. The power system, the subversion of common tropes, characters, the story (especially Goated "Hidden Inventory / Premature Death" arc) - everything is just top tier, but Yuji as a main character drags it down in my list.

First I was ok with him, but then I learned that Gege (the author of JJK) initially had in mind completely different story with Yuta as the main character. Since that moment I haven't been able to shake this feeling of a missed opportunity. I have to say that Yuta is much more interesting character than Yuji ever was. Yuiji's really a bland main character that doesn't fit the story and so his arc is quite repetitive with the same thing happening all over again and again. In my rating he's arguably not even in top-10 JJK characters, which would be almost catastrophic for any other anime, but JJK has so many great characters that they can still carry it.

It tells you a lot that the best arc of the show is the one that doesn't even have Yuji in it at all ("Hidden Inventory / Premature Death" that develops Gojo and Geto relationship), and in most other arcs people just wait for Sukuna to come out and take his body so that something finally happens. The downside is that after that we usually get another repetitive arc of Yuji crying and blaming himself for what Sukuna's done which we already saw 200 times in other animes.

Munich arc or Prague arc?

Severian (The Book of the New Sun/Gene Wolfe)

Composite Magneto / Erik Lehnsherr (written by giants like Chris Claremont, Greg Pak, Cullen Bunn, and Jonathan Hickman).

I'm considering one of these 3 as my next read but I can't decide which one to start with, how would you rank them from best to worst?

For those who don't know what "euthanasia" is, it's basically mercy killing.

Personally I would give it to fire punch but I would like to know abt others opinion.(can also give reasons too. If you want to)

Ignore Godfather 3

I'm seeing people in here often rate shows just based on suffering, while more chill shows get disrespected. Having a villain who suffered and then turned evil doesn't mean it's well written, a 10-year old can write a story like that. Same goes for main characters or any character for that matter.

For example, shows like re zero with cringey over the top dialogue and repetitive mechanics having good rep just because they seem intellectual, and character suffers, that must mean it's good. What about all the other points? Subtle character dynamics? No melodrama and superficial conflict? Everything that uses suffering as it's main driving point is just shallow and boring for anyone with media literacy.

Prolly the 4 🐐s of sci fi horror

In many works, there are these moments where Mcs face a grieve danger but this very danger is actually a disguised boon that benefits the Mcs more than actual boons

The most famous and annoying example for me is Luffy vs Kaido first fight

Luffy went stupidly to fight the strongest without planning risking his entire crew and allies, instead of getting punishment Oda rewarded him by meeting one person who knows exactly how to damage the impregnable body of the strongest and on top of that he met some allies inside the prison

The trope itself isn't bad but repeating or using it as hidden rewards is annoying