Serious question: Why do people like relatable characters and imperfection?

[Cunning Linguist]

No, a Retarded chimp can actually ruin someone and would be useful in combat. Like, scary useful. Normal chimps have habit of biting off faces when they start to mature. Imagine a retarded one. . .Good Lord.

Good point. A chimp could at least throw feces at you, which is a better long range attack than any Hyuuga has

 

[SkyGodHorus]

This is not to bash anyone. This is a serious question. Why do people want characters to seem "human" or "relatable"? Don't you get enough of that in real life?

Because we are human.

I personally love to see larger than life and quote unquote "over powered" characters. This is because success is what I strive for.

So then does that mean you call emotional, flawed, underpowered or characters that make mistakes weaklings? You need wisdom and experience to direct power, otherwise you're a sitting duck. Allow me to quote Mayuri from Bleach. "I loathe perfection. If something is perfect then there is nothing left. There is no room for imagination, improvement, discovery, substance or even meaning. A scientist must continually seek perfection while suffering from that antimony. Do you understand now? For scientists such as ourselves, perfection only breeds despair."

Also, I see and experience imperfection much too often in real life. I hate imperfection and wish that it was non-existent.

And I'm no fan of people who believe perfection exists.

"Relatable characters" in a manga like this are boring to me.

Well it's the opposite for me. If I can't make out any characters relatable to me, I can't read the manga or watch the anime.

I can walk outside to see these qualities.

Some of us can't.

I want to see success.

Success is subjective. What one success creates may be the catalyst for a failure.

I want to see power that I can potentially invent via technological means or even just play as in a video game.

You've lost me here, Emperor Palpatine.

I want to see stuff that I would love to watch on a big screen while eating pizza! It is the excitement of success, potential, and imagination that interests me. It is not boring and stupid imperfection that angers me so. That is my rationale.

I'm not understanding your "rationale."

What is yours? If you like relatable or "human" characters, tell me why.

Because if they are too far out there or indifferent like you wish, they leave me feeling alienated.