Talk:Yume Nijino/@comment-38548538-20200427015405

I don't like how this "Mary-Sue" bandwagon keeps getting thrown around when people talk about Yume. I've seen plenty of "Mary-Sue" type characters in anime and Yume is definitely not like that. If anything, Ichigo Hoshimiya and pretty much all of the main four Dream Academy characters are Mary-Sue characters from the reasonings I've been seeing in the comments section. Admittedly, I didn't like Yume at first either because I found her character to be extremely cliche, boring, and unfair due to her special power, but as time went on we realized that power was actually a weakness and we got to see Yume develop and overcome it with her own strength. She was not considered to be an extremely talented idol throughout the whole series to the extent that Ichigo was. Instead of being a natural born prodigy like Ichigo, Yume had to actually fight her way to the top, similar to Akari.

This whole "Mary-Sue" bandwagon reminds me of the EXTREMELY unfair hate for Akari in which people only hated on Akari for replacing Ichigo (who to me was becoming extremely boring as a protagonist during the Dream Academy arc). A Mary Sue means a character with almost no flaws, perfect in everyway, and talented in everyway without having to work for anything. That is not Yume's character at all. It's fine if you don't like her character, but this "Mary-Sue" term is annoying and in my opinion is misused for Yume. I like Yume as a character, but as an idol she has one of my least favorite vocals (Yume, Seira, Hime/Akari/Aria, Hinaki). So in terms of that, it did annoy me that she somehow beat Laura etc, but I don't believe she's a Mary Sue protagonist because of how much she developed throughout the series. That being said my least favorite character from what I've watched so far (Aikatsu and Aikatsu Stars) is Seira. In my opinion, boring and near perfectly talented character with hardly any development accompanied by what is probably my least favorite vocals in the whole series.

If you want to see a REAL Mary Sue then go watch Tokyo Mew Mew with Ichigo Momomiya or even Amu from Shugo Chara.