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In regards to Mana, I feel her Mary Sue status among some of the fandom is a bit unearned since if you’re actually paying attention you’d see that she’s not perfect by any stretch. She’s an overachiever who will bend over backwards to help people but doesn’t really understand her own limits (in fact if it weren’t for Rikka and the others keeping her in check Mana would basically have worked herself to death long ago). She even gives up the presidency at the end because she’s basically worn out by that point.

While a lot of the story tends to revolve around her Mana is still different from say, Daigo from Kyoryuger in that she never went out of her way to exclude a team member from taking part in a fight (even Parthenon Mode at the end was technically made up of power from all 5 of them plus the Three Treasures).

Her team also did more in the final battle than just sit on the sidelines and watch as was the case in Happiness Charge.