User blog comment:Whiskey13/Finals! Match 10!/@comment-3242083-20110415180841/@comment-3242083-20110415184409

Yeah, I guess.

Mangaka probably don't want to take a risk with their main characters, after all they need to be liked (or at least accepted) by the mass-market.

It isn't as bad in the case of One Piece, but the main characters of Bleach (for example) are so horribly standard it isn't even funny anymore.