User blog comment:The Lord Reader/Touma's fights for anime-onlys/@comment-3969505-20200225165254

(A+ for the blog)

Most people don't give a fying fuck about novels/books, and will only judge things based on what they see in the TV shows and films, the books are better sure but the majority of "normies" don't care and the final judgement is gonna be by eyeballs looking at the TV screen (and to some extent i agree with them).

the real problem is that TOARU-verse for the most part is being handled by the wrong kind of anime-adapatation studios/companies who are expected to adapt the tasked source materials into genre/tropes specific framework........and Touma just lends himself so well into a super-lucky/durable (whenever it's convenient), borderline fanatically idealistc/moralizing Shounen Action Hero who's supposed faults and problems are just there for the background decoration (most of the time)

anyway long story short: Shiage is more interesting, even Gunha a deliberate half-parody character is cooler.