Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4436931-20190625071318/@comment-4809927-20190630082810

The funny thing is that while lots of people hating Asuto on here and reddit, there are lots of people also love him and crying for him on IE Twitter fandom. It's like the completely opposite. I feel like people should just either like him or don't care about him, not to the point of hating him since he never did anything wrong.

div class="quote"> Voldemort.vs.thanos wrote: unlike Endou and Tenma who had abilities like lifting the entire team's morale through their game

I have to disaggree with this because Asuto lift up the team's mood so many times in Ares that I was so happy when Michinari took over that role in Endou's match.

And then we have Endou in Orion takes over that role, which is...fine. Endou is always a more stronger moral supporter than Asuto, because Asuto is not as advocative.

I don't really know what would define a "worthy protagonist" because there are a variety of different types of characters. There is no set characteristic for protagonist. The main traits that IE protagonist always has are the positiveness and love for soccer, which Asuto certainly has.

And then especially for Asuto, these traits get certain twists in it to make him different from Tenma and Endou. Asuto is positive only outside, he always thinks about consequences first and then act positively to make a better outcome. Asuto's love for soccer goes to the extreme that it becomes his "meaning of life". Soccer is what attachs him to the world. This point was showed really clearly in ep 33 when he talks to Marik about "the joy of living".

Soccer love is so important to him that everytime he feels like he is not serious about playing or just use it as a mean to find another connection, he gets scared.

I really don't intend to type all that things because who cares, if you hate someone you just gonna hate that person. It's more about emotion than logic. But I hope we can appreciate him as a protagonist a litte more.