User blog comment:Sentomaru/Doc Q.... is he powerful???/@comment-3075024-20120907022608/@comment-3075024-20120909211558

Indeed that seeing a youth leveling up is found more motivating but only for some while other see it in other way. There is this manga I read call "Bakuman" now in that manga a normal student's struggle of becoming a mangaka was really realistic and It seemed really possible to me in real-life. So thats the different I find between Luffy and mature characters. If not by age then the maturity of the manga plot also effects the motivation that its readers will get.