Starts out as an underdog

Gon was never an underdog

Ichigo was never an undersdog. Him being special was stablished from the very beginning

and he still acts like a moron

>>later is found out to have some special lineage
Gon knew he was the son of a good Hunter from the jump, and Deku isn't part of a special lineage at all

Because in Japan lineage >>>
Why do you think they hate people from other countries?

Gon was never an underdog
Deku isn't from some special lineage
Naruto had a demon that destroyed an entire village sealed in him, the fact that he was weak at first just means he was underperforming, not an underdog
Ichigo was never an underdog, he broke through Rukia's kido before even gaining shinigami powers.

>It's another thread from the user that doesn't know what underdog means.

It reflects on general societal structure.

Hard work is the most important thing any person should do to succeed in life, but without connections, say; your family you will never be able to get into the big leagues, unless you're a super villain, or in real life analogy a Crime lord.

When I was a kid I've always wanted Naruto to be extremely special and have amazing abilites, all my friends at that time did.
Shounen anime always does this because teens and kids want their favorite character to be the best and be special.

Yeah, Ichigo has been a powerhouse throughout Bleach and pretty much every character remarks about how oddly powerful he is even though he's a novice. He fucked up Renji without even knowing the name of his sword and as soon as he got Bankai he could go toe to toe with Byakuya.

yeah, we need more shows about cute girls doing cute things :3

>Ichigo
>Underdog

This never happend. In like ep 20 he was revealed to have "untapped potential" of a prodigy

Gon been living on asspulls since episode 1 though.

This

Also, Naruto was feared because he was strong and could potentially destroy the village. Only the kids thought he was weak because they didn't know about the fox.
And ichigo's sisters could also see ghost. Suggesting that there was always something special about their family.

That’s literally SnK so add Eren to that list

What is Deku's special lineage? And don't even give me AfO, that's bullshit. We know Deku's dad has dark hair and that AfO had light hair.

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Reminder SnKfags talk in their threads about making troll threads like this turning series fans against each other. Think about why you haven’t seen an SnK hate thread in awhile but one on every other series. These kids are obsessed.

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Eh, one of the plot points of SnK is that Eren IS NOT from royalty, all he acquired from his father was the Attack Titan which yeah, is pretty good but nothing "godly", everything else he gained it by himself and there hasn't been any reveal(yet) about him being "special" unlike, to give some examples, Gon and Ichigo being the descendants from Jesus Christ and Santa Claus, Naruto literally being the chosen one and I don't know about Deku but he literally have the strongest power ever so not sure why people even read that shit.

>Deku special lineage
You mean All For One theories?

Yeah I mean I get the other ones but I don’t really see HxH being asspully other than oh my genie and oh my rubber nen but other than that I don’t think Gon as a character is asspully. If you could elaborate

He was only special back then, not super-duper special.

The Freecss are now a special lineage, do you even read the mango.

Gon can pull sacrifice nen

The good thing about hxh is gon will never become MC again

you're so cringe

Broaden your horizons, some are literally born better than other people. No one wants to read about losers

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Like Pika and Cammy's suicide squad?

so was Luke Skywalker you dolt. it's not like any of this is new

But luke never underdog

Are now* so how is that an asspull? You’re retarded

Can we consider him an underdog?

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I’m not even a wanpiss shitter but you know there’s such a thing as character development over time (what, 2 decades?)
Everything you mentioned can be achievable by a character on his own given enough time and luck

Wait, what.

>how is that an asspull

thats not the topic of the thread retard

>Ichigo started out as an underdog
>Gon
>The literal walking demon vessel from chapter one of Naruto

The fuck you were smoking? Didn't your mom ever teach you to share?

Does Tanjirou from KnY have a special heritage? I don't remember if it was stated he has related to the breath of the sun user or not.

It's proto isekai

his dad is AFO

Retard

>people still unironically believe this
do you think Shindo, Mina and the boy that Toga killed are his long lost siblings too?

no but,

His ancestor did learn the Breath of the Sun from Sunbro most likely and has passed it down as the Dance of the Fire God to future generations making Tanjirou’s family somewhat special. So far no special bloodline or anything like the Mist Pillar, if anything; Nezuko is the “chosen one”

>Does Tanjirou from KnY have a special heritage?
Yep. Descendant of the first breath user and his father was also the inheritor of the dance of the sun god. Doesn't explain why he was such a weakling in the beginning if he retained his father's teachings via flashbacks.

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Technically Deku started out as someone with almighty strength. In fact it's funny you should mention him because in his story he gets shown repeatedly (sometimes painfully) that his inheritance doesn't make him special

because lineage actually matters, seethe harder mutts

>implying he didn't go into each and every fight as an underdog
>what is the entire soul society arc
>what is round 1 and round 2 vs Grimmjow
>what is round 1 and round 2 vs Ulquiorra
>etc etc etc

Retard.
>only a high school student
>Pure blood quincy mother
>Shinigami captain father
>500.000.000.000 year old Quincy god inside him
>vasto lorde hollow inside him
>naturally possesses infinite Reiatsu

Retard

And it doesn't help that the previous users could handle it with no problems.

>Descendant of the first breath user

100% wrong

>why he was such a weakling in the beginning if he retained his father's teachings via flashbacks

he only realized what the traditional dance was later on, typical shonen power up stuff

that and he is just from a normal charcoal making family who just happened to have an ancestor who was friends with one of the best swordsman to have lived

>implying he didn't go into each and every fight as an underdog
Then at what point did he stop being an underdog?
>500.000.000.000 year old Quincy god inside him
Yhwach is around 1200yo
>vasto lorde hollow inside him
That's not how hollows work
>naturally possesses infinite Reiatsu
No he doesn't

Speedreader spoted

>Then at what point did he stop being an underdog?

Dangai Ichigo vs Aizen and most of his fights in TYBW except for both of his encounters with Bach but generally he never once stopped being an underdog when going into a new arc. That's how shounen manga work, the protagonist has to always be the underdog in order to surpass his limits, go above expectations and defeat the villain. Goku was always the underdog for example.

>the rest of that post
Are you autistic user? I was exaggerating to make a point, you MUST be autistic if you didn't get that.
Are you autistic user?

>No he doesn't
Ichigo has never once run out of MP and even when his Hakama was almost completely destroyed it was stated that his Reiatsu was STILL at Captain level, meaning that 1/10 or Ichigo's Reiatsu alone is as much as the entire Reiatsu pool of a Captain.

That's as close as you'll get to infinity even if it's not literally infinity. Ichigo will never run out of Reiatsu.

Speedreader spotted.
He shares no blood with the first Sun dance user. He only shares the dance that was passed down to his family, which because they're not really compatible with and fucked his dad up and fucks him up

changeling fantasies are poplar world-over and have their rots in good old inheritance drama of an outcast bastard suddenly having claim to the crown

Doesn't help that he gets defeated by Bakugou, doesn't help when he feels a lesser candidate to Todoroki, doesn't help when Nighteye claims him unworthy - and Mirio's heroism backs up that claim. Doesn't help that he knows All Might - the only person to believe in him - is going to die.

I don't know if this all intentional on Horikoshi's part, but boy Deku's story is a boy loaded with expectations and pressure to perform.

he was explicitly part of a lineage from the start

>1/10
It was 1/2, Retsu said so
>Ichigo will never run out of Reiatsu.
Fullbring arc

>still being autistic
holy shit and by the way he didn't run out of reiatsu naturally during fullbring arc he lost his powers due to Mugetsu and then it was stated that there was still massive amounts of reiatsu sleeping deep inside his soul which is how he got his powers back, captains reiatsu helped him bring it back.

>1/2
no, he only had a sleeve left, his Hakama isn't just 2 sleeves, it's a shirt with a cape.

Stop being retarded and reread Bleach

Cope

plus his powers were always being suppressed by fake Zangetsu as he was only letting him use a bit of his true power.

That's how he powered up so much during TYBW after controlling true Zangetsu. His power during Bankai in TYBW rivaled his powers after Dangai when his Reiatsu was above even Hogyoku Aizen to the point Aizen couldn't even feel his reiatsu. That's why Bach broke his Zanpakuto right after Ichigo went into bankai mode, because he deemed it to be too dangerous.

seethe

shonens are just fucking garbage and honestly only liked by literal brainlets. Should be banned to clean up with fucking board.

>Son of the most wanted man alive
doesn't mean anything, doesn't really care for his father either and the feeling is mutual
>grandson of the greatest hero in the Navy
same as above
> hat he possesses is probably some ancient Earth shattering relic
at best it's a repliclia of/homage to the hat of whoever im-sama has in that icy coffin. there's been several strawhats in the story
> Oh and the man he admired and gave him the hat is actually one of the 4 strongest men alive, known and respected by literally everyone, pirate or not.
something we knew in like chapter 60

Not all but I agree that most modern battle shonen are shit.

Kids love special people

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Hmmm not really. He isn't the biological son of Kerry and he doesn't even have the family magic crest. He is an "Emiya" on in name.

>100% wrong
Nope

>He shares no blood with the first Sun dance user
This has not been stated.

>He only shares the dance that was passed down to his family, which because they're not really compatible with and fucked his dad up and fucks him up
Are you literally fucking retarded?

>He's not related to the first user
>The dance just so happens to be passed down to his family
>He shares the exact same mark as him
>But they're not related I swear!
If anycase him and his sister are special

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It hasn't been stated he shares no blood with him.

Rukia's power retard

>Son of the most wanted man alive, grandson of the greatest hero in the Navy
We know those from very early on tho.

where does Ultraman fit into this?

I'm assuming OP means he's the chosen one for all the OFA holders.

How is he the chosen one?

but that's not because he's a special lineage, it just happened

Deku is the first one to be able to unlock the other holder's powers.

Okay? But it wasn't written that he would it was entirely coincidental.

I agree Deku doesn't have a special lineage, but he is very lucky. Unless they explain that Eri's power allowed him to access the other quirks I will think he is the luckiest man in the world.

Maybe because OFA is too strong that deku can't handle, and even he can pass to another person that will become more impossible to use. Maybe the other abilities is just an excuse to pass all taht energy on the abilities and not hurt the user

It could also be a form of quirk evolution.

>Overall that jobs more than once nothing special
>Total commoner that got the most powerful quirk gifted
>Just a kid with STRONGEST AND MOST POWERFUL BEAST SEALED INSIDE HIM TRAINED BY THE LEGENDARY BLAH BLAH BLAH
>Handheld at the start then he became powerful on his own

I think for a couple of reasons
>literary purpose
Everyone has family and that means free interesting side story for everyone about their roots. Usually, almost always creates drama, which makes things much more interesting with barely any effort (humans love drama)
>to stand out
As another user pointed out, kids crave superiority, individuality, and to be special (so does everyone). Now in reality we obtain those things through our own actions and work, but it's a common fantasy to get them without doing anything at all. It's why people cling on to determinism and boast their attributes that they had nothing to do with; everyone wants to be special, but BORN special.
>lineage discrimination
This ties in to my previous reason, but basically people are so obsessed with being giving everything without working for it that they prefer characters who validate that desire. Everyone has to be a somebody because that's the only way to be a somebody, or so they think.

As much as I dislike deku, he doesn't (at the moment) have any special family shit going on. His 7 quirk thing is closer to a ridiculously shitty coincidence rather than a yusuke demon ancestry sort of arrangement.
Gon was never an underdog, he was explicitly stated to be a one-in-a-million sort of talent or something fairly early on.
I'll give you nardo due to the whole sage of the six paths power up.
Good question. I think he has some sort of ancestry thing going on considering he has magic circuits (very shitty ones but besides the point). But then again, the only thing to improve him was mostly archer and rin aswell as his own extreme autism and distorted personality so I dunno.

Deku is more like Spider-Man or Captain America where its mostly luck and not lineage.

Why did you forget Luffy? Will of D. Is special lineage incarnate, plus Dragon

>background character dabs on luck, lineage, plot armor, friends, hard work, talent, etc with nothing and takes MC's spot
Any series with this feel

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The manga starts out trying to lure in unsuspecting average people with a message of hard work can help you move ahead, then it trolls you by going nope, you need to be born with potential after all.

In other words, Neji was right.

Luffy wasn't even raised by his family though, he was just a bumpkin kid that wanted to be the Pirate King and he's actually shown to have trained his entire life to become strong enough

>Saitama on the right
His entire character is a random jack off who does a bunch of squats and beats up all powerful monsters and aliens who were the born the best.

But he was raised with Ace the son of the king of pirates.

Ace has the same deal, he was on the same backwater island, they had strong dads but worked to become strong on their own

Goku was born to a low-class Saiyan Warrior and got BTFO by his brother the first time they met because of Earth's weaker gravity. Comparatively speaking Goky should be more towards Team Hardwork because he literally had to work twice as hard as jobbers like Vegeta

He has to be related to AfO at this point.

japan is a traditional culture and knows nobility is necessary for excellence.

Does it count if he's still complete shit compared to the hard work and talent characters?

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Tokitou is the only one who shares blood with sunbro.

Normalfag hate him

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>Goku was born to a low-class Saiyan Warrior
Who turned out to be the legendary super saiyan. This think is meaningless to bring up now given Bardock is canon now so he's the son of an elite saiyan warrior who was able to travel through time and become the super saiyan of legend.

bardock was retconned as the legendary super saiyan. Even before then he easily had "elite" saiyan level of power when he fought frieza. He wasn't really a "low class saiyan" Vegeta also works harder than goku, goku has natural talent or intelligence for fighting which the established during the cell arc. The way he thinks is also nothing like roshi so it's not due to be formally trained. Vegeta even admits that Goku simply IS the best at the end of Z. Doesn't matter how hard he works, who he protects, his mentality etc. Goku is just naturally the best and there's nothing Vegeta can do or change to surpass him.

Just like other superhero comic right you either born with power or lucky get power from something

>tfw everyone seems to forget about Yuma
Poor dude, when he's banned from using his Black Trigger he's basically Hinomaru tier.
Chika and Jin can go straight into the lucky genetics pile though.

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This fag literally changed the future through wishing

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Who are deku father are he has time quirk?

What shit power with this we never see deku lose anyone even afo can die

>O my one for all
>O my 7 quirk asspull
>O my wishing quirk
WTF deku father are AFO

No Broly is legendary super saiyan you retard. Goku has the jobber inferior version of it. Bardock was getting stronger long after Goku was born idiot his mom lives in a rock hut he was genetic shit.

>No Broly is legendary super saiyan
casual brainlet. Bardock is the first super saiyan of legend that long predates broly. Legendary super saiyan is just the dub name of brolys unique green transformation.

yeah, but he is THE ONE holder of the OFA to be able to use all 7 powers! (which he can't yet, but he will) not even all might could do such a thing

Sakuragi isn't special, he sucked in basketball from ch1 until the very last chapter
Hinata isn't a very good volleyball player either

Non canon dumb nigger. It was never canon in the first place, it was a side story toriyama gave the okay to.

Does luffy count? he is the son of the leader of a revolutionary army...he never even met him or got anithing form him tho...

autism: the post

why is Midnight still single?
is that why she became a teacher?
because she is thirsty for hero school boys?

Only watched five or so episodes of Haikyuu, didn’t Hinata have a really strong high jump?

it's retconned as canon. cope harder casual. Toriyama has no respect for the series and forgets shit all the time. Launch literally wasn't in Z because he forgot he existed, as well as the infamous "krillin is strongest because he's goku's best friend, who the fuck is tien? Feats in the manga don't matter.

Canon means fuck all because toriyama is a hack but if you want to go that route go ahead, toriyama greenlights everything as canon because he doesn't care about the integrity of the series. All of super and its movies are canon and bardock is a super saiyan in that.

But people say deku can use 7 quirk right now and its boring

It's something you can train to do and there are plenty of players like him.

Luffy is one of the "D" which makes him special from the day he's born. I don't know what you've been reading, but Oda been mentioning about D since Alabasta.

so does every volleyball player ever, this isn't a super power

Fair enough, I thought it would be on par with Sena’s freakish running speed but it probably isn’t that kind of series.

He's humble enough not to be controlled by OFA's power so he can journey with it to Mordor and throw it into the fires of mount doom.

Telling me to cope when you're trying to rewrite fan service plotline as canon thats in the story. Shoo shoo toei pedro spic

Because is hero. And think about it the mayority of the prohero are single

i forgot since they only name drop that it's super important but it doesn't really do anithing, but you're right

The will of D are the ancient kingdom before world government destroy it

Are watching Avatar the last air bender deku are the chone one like ang are the chosen Avatar

The Avatar is reincarnated through different time periods.

If that's the case then he's the chosen one since chapter 2. Product came as described.

>How is he the chosen one?
He was literally fucking chosen by All Might.

Not an agrument.

Duh, because an underdog can only go so far. He'd get crushed by someone with natural talent and the right bloodline.

Imagine if the royal family's magic was the most powerful in the world, and you didn't have the right blood. How do you use the family magic or wield the royal sword? You would get spanked.

Ichigo was never a underdog speedreader

He was always super-duper special. When Ishida challange him he realize his reyatsu is fucking absurd.

>Imagine if the royal family's magic was the most powerful in the world
Well that is a retarded setup

It is not isekai in any way retard

Who ever did this was a retarded

Because most battle shonen heroes are idiots. You can't expect them to win with brains so they have to win by brawn. Having special innate hidden potential or lineage is a convenient way to draw out more of that brawn.

Take Naruto for instance. No matter how much of his lineage is revealed, what exactly changes? Frog Mode and Fox Mode, for the most part, allow him to hit harder. Even Rasengan was originally just a way to hit the enemy even harder. Same with Ichigo. What, he has Hollow powers? That just means he can hit harder and faster. Oh, so he has Quincy powers? Again, it means he can hit harder and faster. He's a guy who moves fast, shoots beams and hits hard. No matter how much you pretty it up or change the appearance, what he does never changes. Because they're idiots. Sure, Naruto could be a little clever at times, but that aspect of his character decreased as the series went on. In the end, it always boils down to who can hit the other the hardest. Even Gon isn't all that different in that regard, since his Nen isn't really all that unique either.

Ichigo only looked like a underdog whenever he is pushed we realize he is way more powerful than it shows

Let's be frank without shounen and seinen there is almost no board

explicitly so.
It's his neurotic autism that fueled him into someone with ridiculous magic.

Ichigo was never an underdog, he was always at least officer level even at the very start.

I don't even mind it usually.
My problem with this shit comes when the MC starts spewing some crap about everyone being able to become a strong hero and hard work being what hatters.
Yeah no, nigger, the only reason you didn't die on your first fight is that you are an eugenics fanatic's wet dream and have like 5 different kinds of bullshit stacked up on top of that. Fuck off with your hard work bullshit.

Yes. In the Fate route, definitely. His Saber got weaker by the day because he couldn't supply her with any mana, and Shirou himself couldn't do much beyond Structural Reinforcement. Even after he learns to use Gradation Air to project Noble Phantasms, Rin warns him not to use it and he's never placed in a position where it would be helpful. In the Unlimited Blade Works route, he learns to use his Gradation Air better, but he's still weaker than Kuzuki. The only Servant he can beat is Gilgamesh because Unlimited Blade Works has traits that make it easy to exploit Gil's weaknesses. If he tried to fight Lancer or Caster, he'd almost definitely lose. In Heaven's Feel, he gets a huge power boost, but every usage of Gradation Air brings him a step closer to going braindead so he has to be very careful when he uses it. Carelessly using it can lock you into a Dead End or Normal End.

What the fuck is Gradiation Air?

Gin-san never really trained, did he?

It's the thing he does where he makes swords.

What's Deku's Lineage?

Isn't that called Projection?

His mom is a (formerly hot) fatty and his dad is either All for One or a wagecuck exiled to Alaska by his corporate overlords.

Gradation Air is what Nasu calls it in English. Because it's supposed to degrade easily and dissipate like air really fast. It's like how "Reality Marble" is the English term for "Innate Bounded Field", or how "Noble Phantasm" is the English term for "Treasured Tool". I use Gradation Air for consistency.

All of those sound shittier than their more popular version but maybe it's because I'm way too used to them.
Do they use them in official translations or do they use the other ones because people are already used to them?

Eren
Starts off as a normal kid about to be another victim during the first attack.
Gets eaten but asspulls into a titan our of nowhere.

I love how SnKlets try to deny it. I’ve seen and read though SnK so I know the points that are asspulls lmfao kids stop lying

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>Deku
>special lineage

>Gon
>found out

U what mate?

sh-shut up!

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Nasu likes to write things in English sometimes. A lot of important terms also have English. Because the characters are all Japanese, they always use the Japanese terms, but the English term is also there in Furigana.

>Marble Phantasm = Fantasy Realization
>Reality Marble = Innate Bounded Field
>Noble Phantasm = Treasured Tool
>Gradation Air = Projection
>Heaven's Feel = Holy Grail War
>Heaven's Feel = Cup of Heaven (Third Magic) (Both the Holy Grail War and the Third >Magic have the same name)
>Mystic Code = Formal Wear

If I went into individual Noble Phantasms and the like we'd be here all day. Basically, if something seems important in Nasu's works, it probably means it has two names, a Japanese name and an English name. For the sake of consistency, I usually default to the English names.

Based, but these fucking idiots like to make fun and lie and say Deku was an asspull and “oh muh all might” I swear if I knew where some of these trash talkers were I would kick their asses.

Luffy's the same. Gear Second seems fancy, but he just hits harder and moves faster. Gear Third lets him hit even harder. Gear Fourth lets him hit harder still. Etc., etc. By giving it a unique name and design it seems like he's doing something new and special, but in reality, what he actually does never really changes. It always boils down to hitting the enemy harder.

Tl;dr you probably said something about gears and hitting harder because that’s all you understand. What show do you like, cock-breath?

The Price is Right and Conan.

Nips always claim to have ties to some historical lineage, they were doing that shit all the time in the old days.

OPfags Get Butthurt At The Slightest Criticism: The Animation.

Japanese society's obsession with heritage and class focuses it like that. The way people imagine becoming powerful is: finding out that all along they've been the children of powerful people. That's what feels believable and realistic if that's how people think the world works.

It's very pervasive. Like take FMA for example. Ed's and Al's power comes entire from their mistake (seeing the Truth), and them studying and training hard. BUT YET in the end they still turn out to be the children of literally a human philosopher stone with half the entire nation of Xerxes inside him, who is also the Jesusbuddha of the setting who taught alchemy to Xing.

It never actually matters, they don't receive anything special from this heritage except the blond hair and golden eyes, this is even stated by Hohenheim himself, so you could even call it a subversion, YET IT'S STILL a thing. It's still a story beat. They are still not the children of just whoever.

At least with Luffy the only thing(s) bullshit are if his CoC is hereditary, which seems implied. But it's a power to OHKO weaklings, not high level opponents (so far). Anyone can learn haki(s), anyone can spend a decade brawling to gitgud. Fruits are questionable, would Luffy be stronger without it? Weaker? Who the fuck knows. He's moves would just be less wacky brawling.

"Knowing the right people" seems to be a staple in most stories, the hero bumps into a decent mentor who ends up being plot relevant, either by dying or having significant information/connections themselves.

My opinion will change if he gets too unique for his world (child of 3 spieces, most powerful undisputed power(s), or last m inute god mode chosen one power up). For now at least, Luffy isn't the sole bearer of VoaT, CoC, Haki or fruit magic. We've seen time and time again that family doesn't immediately equate to strength in one piece, you've generally got to have combat experience.

because these comics are aimed towards people who were the underdogs in life.

Self-insert for kids to think they all have big potential and something special in them.

Soo? He's even stronger when his own power is released. Ichigo was never intended to be an underdog. Always a prodigy. People comment on how powerful he is all the time, i mean, Aizen literally planned Ichigo to be a prodigy

The idea is that if you're just a random nobody, even if you have talent, it's considered unreasonable that you'd get caught up in such huge matters, especially if you're a kid. In short, heritage is used as an all-encompassing plot ticket that allows you to get involved in any all matters of significance. Even if you're capable, if you don't have that all-powerful plot ticket, you wouldn't be here to begin with. And this is usually what ends up being the case in these series. Think about it, if these characters weren't related to some great lineage, then would they have come here on their own? Would someone like you or me, who have no relation to anything of significance, step onto a grand stage of tremendous consequence? Even if we had the talent, would we naturally be drawn to the stage? Everything needs a reason.

Heritage is useful not just for finding trouble, but for having trouble find you. For instance, let's say the main character was the son of a great hero. If he weren't, he'd probably still strike out on his own, go on grand adventures and make lots of friends, but because he's the son of a great hero, the demon overlord, vampire king, etc., etc. will naturally become interested in him. Heritage is an excellent way of bringing trouble to the hero without him having to do anything.

Well it's not like he was trained by Garp or Shanks. He and his bros were thrown in the jungle and had to learn how to survive themselves. Garp didn't teach him jack shit about haki or devil fruits or Rokushiki techniques like his understudy Coby.

Also, we're not sure how much genetics actually matters since you can inherit other people's will. A monster like Big Mom was born to literal who parents and grandparents. Most Ds die like fodder, though a few like Luffy seem to be important but there's no way to value that initial yet.

D already shows its worth simply by being there. Certain characters take notice of him just because he has that initial. Also, it adds a layer of mystery to him because of the significant importance placed on just that one letter.

Kenichi is in a team hardwork.

We see Sunbro visit Tanjirou’s ancestor, Sumiyoshi

Sumiyoshi,
1. Calls Sunbro just a visitor
2. Thanks him for appearing to save his family
3. Says its sad Sunbro has no one to pass his breath down to
4. Asks for Sunbro’s story so he can atleast pass it down despite Sumiyoshi being a “humble coal burner”

You have to be absolutely retarded to think Sunbro is related to Tanjirou, that’s the Mist Pillars gig

It has plot importance, as that guy said, Ds die like flies, some don't amount to fucking anything. Maybe a handful now and then research what the weird obsession with passing a middle name on is about and do something with that. I wouldn't be surprised if later there's more 'D's' in hiding because someone decided not to outright announce that lineage openly. It's an 800 year old grudge war/revenge after all, we don't have the full picture. There could be fucking thousands of them, or only a few families that survived previous culls, which again begs the enigma that is fucking Garp.

None of that really matters. Just by having that D in his name, it's already done its job. It doesn't matter how many there are or how many get slaughtered. If a character has the letter D in their name, it already creates intrigue all on its own.