He has surprising depth and self awareness for a shonen mc in contrast to Luffy, Goku, Gon, etc who are just straight up retarded. And unlike Ichigo he's not boring and typical as **** he actually makes good speeches and can be truly inspirational instead of just being strong and gung ho. In part 1 imo he was the perfect Shonen mc, part 2 his personality became more larger than life, but how he grew from social outcast to hero of the people was more interesting than just being a forever goofy and retarded man child.