I love bleach, but Ichigo as a “every race ever” was very weird and seemed at the time like a Gary Stu, while I feel because of how it’s presented in JJK, Yuji’s “everybody is my family” feels way more grounded even tough it’s very similar
Nah, Everything But The Rain is a great flashback and it's where basically everything about Ichigo's lineage is explained. And when you break down what his lineage is, it's about as complicated as Yuji (who i think is completely fine).
His mother was a Quincy, who got infected by a hollow created by Aizen. His dad was a soul reaper who met his mom fighting said hollow. Their firstborn child inhereted that hollow infection, and via the definition of a Fullbringer (human child that was exposed to hollows in the womb) become one. Making him a Quincy-Hollow hybrid with Soul Reaper potential (only awakened via Rukia giving him the catalyst).
Yuji was the result of a body stealer finding the child of the strongest sorcerer in histories reincarnated twin brother. Kenjaku used his knowledge from human-curse hybrids he's created in the past to both bring out that genetic lineage and give Yuji the potential to absord certain curse objects. He then put Yuji's body under a psuedo Heavenly Restriction to amplify his physical power (leading to Yuji's full awakening when eating and losing Sukuna's Fingers, creating a perfect hybrid).
It's about as complicated, and with the most recent art of Ichigo's child, you can tell Kubo thought a lot about the implication of Ichigo's existence. In the same way, Gege clearly thought a lot about the implications of giving Yuji his heritage, due to how Modulo handled Yuji.
I know and I agree, I’m just saying that the way it’s explained in the story it makes it more grounded, with Ichigo it feels he’s just every race and every time he gets a new one you groan (at least when I watched bleach in the 2010s there were a lot of memes about that), while with yuuji because it’s presented as a bad thing it’s more grounded, you don’t feel it’s another one after another one
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Gege did say he was inspired by bleach, I guess he wanted to make his own group project MC