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Jujutsu Kaisen and My Hero Academia are some of the best shounen anime series of the modern generation. These anime series had a lot of expectations to meet because after the Big 3 (Naruto, One Piece, and Bleach) retired, shounen fans wanted something of the same caliber, which they got with the early seasons of these two titles.
However, as famous the two series are, the two fandoms are equally infamous for various reasons within the anime community, be it for the shipping of characters, sending threats to their mangaka, or something equally hyperbolic. For a long time, a certain section of My Hero Academia fans were ostracised by the rest of the fandom for earning them the controversial "Worst fandom" title.
Unfortunately, many fans feel that Jujutsu Kaisen fandom is slowly inching towards inheriting that title due to the increasingly questionable behavior of certain fans.
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Jujutsu Kaisen fandom being compared to the fandom of My Hero Academia
While the majority of My Hero Academia (MHA) fandom focuses on Horikoshi's art and whether or not Deku will be able to save Shigaraki, a sizeable minority prefers to romantically ship the characters. These characters are often underage and are shipped with characters who hold considerable power over them.
These underage ships inspire a lot of fanfiction, some of which the rest of the fandom finds distasteful and even borderline wrong. it even escalated to the point where up where this fandom allegedly threatened the mangaka to make their ships canon.
After the Gojo's Past arc finished airing in the Jujutsu Kaisen anime, Gojo and Geto became a popular ship. Given that both Gojo and Geto were 27-28 years old for most of the series and share one of the most well-developed dynamics, most fans either loved or were neutral about the idea.
However, soon afterward a list of popular JJK ships came out that featured other popular ships that suffered from the same problems of power-imbalance and age issues as the infamous My Hero Academia ships.
While shipping characters never created as much controversy for the JJK fans as it did for MHA fans, the JJK fandom has become equally infamous, if not more, due to their tendency to "fangirl" over certain characters (notably Gojo and Nanami).
Very recently some truly disturbing content came from one of the JJK fans involving character figurines, which kicked into gear this debate of which fandom is truly the worst. To top it all off, a section of the fans started making comments that undermine or disregard other fandoms.
"Name an anime character that suffered more than Yuji Itadori" is one such meme trend that put the fandom in the bad books of the Twitter (now X) Anime Community. This slowly evolved into a "please take all of Yuji's suffering and give it to (character)" trend, which very understandably offended various other fandoms.
Final thoughts
Both Jujutsu Kaisen and My Hero Academia feature fantastic and engaging stories, but their fandoms often find themselves in the midst of debates. With the Mei Mei (from JJK) and Invisible Girl (from MHA) controversies still fresh in the community, the debate between the fandoms is now raging.
