User blog comment:TsurugiFan16/MSPD 改: Inazuma Debaters!/@comment-4485900-20140308135158

Here I go:



Overall look
Potomuri and Manuuba have completely different roles from the very beginning: one is a protagonist and the other is an antagonist. However, just to make this clear, I am deeply disappointed in what have Manuuba contributed to the main flow of the story so far, regardless of whatever role he plays. The only purpose that this character ever has was to follow Ozrock's order by impersonating Tsurugi so that he could earn some kind of profit for himself, as described in his profile: "Undertakes any work if you pay enough remuneration". As you can see, Manuuba has almost no interest in what is happening to the Galaxy and to the universe whatsoever, and the impact that he left in the series was so poor that I can barely have any attention. Even when disguising himself as Tsurugi, he shows almost no characteristics at all. At the end, he just vanished into the plot completely after his work is done, and he never showed up his face even again since then.

On the other hand, Potomuri has a completely different plot in the series. At first, he was just a mystery character who hide himself in the form of a clown and Mizukawa Minori. However, when things have finally been revealed, he becomes a character with magnificent plot twists and an epic history: Died from a blackhole disaster which happened to his planet, escaped into space as a spirit and carry on his destiny as someone who could save a planet from another crisis. He also has tremendous feelings and respects torward Katra, he refused to believe in Tenma that Katra is still alive just because she won't show up directly before him. Even when Katra was threaten by Ozrock, he still believe in Katra's words and try his best to complete the Cosmic Plasa Photon Cannon, so that he can complete his destiny of saving the universe. And after he has succeeded in doing so, he has no regrets left, and disapppeared into space.

In conclusion, Potomuri has a much much more interesting and meaningful plots in the series than Manuuba does. He left a huge impact in everyone's heart and remains as one of the characters with the best plots twist and history in the whole series.

Now, let us go deep into some of the detail parts:

Personality
As I've stated up there, Manuuba doesn't show any characteristic at all, while Potomuri has a very deep personality. He's thoughtful, respectful to Katra, and willing to do anything in order to complete his duty as the inventor of the Cosmic Photon Plasma Cannon. Therefore, Potomuri earns a point here.

Screen time
Potomuri definitely has much more time on screen comparing to Manuuba, mostly because he appeared from the very beginning and disapppeared at the very end of the series, while Manuuba only have a short period of screen time in the middle of the series. Potomuri easily wins in this section.

Hissatsu, Souls, etc.
Even when Manuuba was able to play as a soccer player under the cover of Tsurugi, he has barely made any decent plays at all. He isn't able to use any of Tsurugu's hissatsu even once, his overal performance on the field was really poor. Therefore, Manuuba earns no point againts Potomuri in this section.

Final conclusion: Potomuri overwhelms Manuuba on every aspects in the anime, from plot twist, history, personality, screen times to overal performance.