

When you think of a shonen action show, you picture the protagonist being of
the "It's over 9000" kind of hero. He has some secret/strong power that is
imbalanced and makes him unique.

Examples could be Goku (the sourced of the over 9000 meme), current season's
Asterisk war's Amagiri (his sister had to lock his power), Guilty Crown's
Shuu, UQ Holder's Tôta, Ranma Saotome, etc etc etc...

But World Trigger's Mikumo is the exact opposite. He is weak, cannot defeat
any but the weakest enemies by himself, and after 50 episodes even though he
is a bit stronger now, he is still the weakest individual in his team and the
weakest on his league.

Can he be classified as an anti-hero?


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Can Mikumo Megane-kun be considered a shonen anti-hero?


"An antihero or antiheroine is a protagonist who lacks conventional heroic
qualities such as idealism, courage, and
morality."-[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antihero)

Mikumo definitely does not fit this definition of an anti-hero. Those would
generally be characters such as Deadpool, Punisher, etc from Western Comics. I
feel this is probably the well understood definition.

Apparently (according to
[TVTropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClassicalAntihero) which
I gave into looking up) a Classic Antihero is plagued by self-doubt and a
mediocre fighter. While Mikumo is brave when needed and clever, he clearly
fits that (less familiar to me) definition. There are several more sympathetic
heroes in Shonen who have uber super powered friends. In these cases, this
definition would call this character (Elizabeth, Lucy, Ussop, Ganta, etc) the
Classical Antihero while they have a contrasting Classical Hero (Meliodas,
Natsu, Luffy, Shiro, etc).


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