Caty_Reiji

"yuma is the 13yo main protagonist of yugioh zexal, the youngest ygo protagonist at the time. the switch from the last ygo protag (fudo yusei in 5Ds), who was far more stoic and also 18yo, to yuma, who is far more energetic and cheerful, lead to many ygo fans calling him too annoying and childish. he is also more inexperienced when it comes to playing the ygo card game, which had people calling him dumb, never mind that him becoming a great duelist is his main character arc.

these complaints shifted when the latter half of the show aired, which was far darker than the beginning of the show and involved many character deaths, including one of yuma's friends literally suffocating to death on the moon. yuma, of course, was upset that all of his friends were dying, especially because he cares a lot about his friendships. he was also betrayed several times by close friends who ended up being a part of / joining the villian group who was killing said friends. but of course, that only had people call yuma an even more annoying crybaby as he cried in almost every episode near the end because, as i said, all of his friends were either dying or betraying him.