User blog comment:Blackendedsoul/I hate Luffy - I worship Akainu/@comment-3119203-20120126025619/@comment-3425840-20120126122104

Well here we differ, (great minds not always have the same opinion). I agree with Luffy being the typical shonen hero, one of the bests if not the best shonen hero ever. However there it ends for him. As a shonen manga is about dreams and chasing them and not so serious and realistic it works with him for the sake of the story (all the cases he protects his nakama, helps them, saves them from greater evil, risks his life for them and such). Now, the thing I was trying to always say (probably could not word it good enough) is what is Luffy's character and character only if you look at him from a "out of shonen world" view. Is he a perfectly noble and selfless guy? My answer is no. Why? Because, Luffy wants to do everything in his own damn way and is irrationally stubborn at that. He does not care about what might happen to him or his crew (yes the crew complies, but that is because of One Piece is a shonen manga and as I said earlier, I am going to look at Luffy regardless of the shonen view) and that is not always due to his stupidity but often due to his non-reasonable nature. Now Luffy does not care about his own well being, so he risks it as he pleases, both to save his nakama and at his whims. If someone risks something that he does not care for that much then it is no longer a super-benevolent act. (I am sure Luffy won't risk meat as much). Think of it, if a guy who does not care about money donates it, is that the same as another guy who actually cherishes money and still donates it? Yes the effects are same but the act itself? Same thing about Luffy risking his life. His actions works out because he is the hero and One Piece is a shonen manga (I am glad it is) but that is all there is to it.

If things went logically in One Piece, then Luffy would not ever defeat even Crocodile let alone accomplish all other stuff so I don't want to bring logic into play, just that, if we evaluate the character of Luffy only as a character, regardless of anything else, then its easily visible that Luffy is selfish and not a really likeable person (person not character) because he is damn stubborn and forces his ideas over everyone around irrationally. Well that's all I can say.