Your favourite Anime character

cherryghost

Not necessarily the hottest, but which Anime characters strike you as the most interesting creations?

There's plenty of favourites for me. Spike has gotta be there


The coolest of the cool :cool:


Hei from Dark than Black

I love his attitude and the softness that's revealed inside. Awesome fighting style too :P


Rei from NGE

Never came across anyone who didn't like her


Zero and CC from Code Geass

Lelouch and CC, both provacative in their own way, love them both to death


Osaka from Azumanga Daioh

One of the funnies characters ever created. Never stopped laughing whenever Osaka was on screen


Death the Kid from Soul Eater

I love his attitude and his obsession with symmetry :P


I have plenty more, but those are what springs to mind


So.... how about you?

dacookie

I agree with Hei, zero and CC but why does everyone like Spike?I dont get it.His face is always expressionless, he doesnt stand out and hes not one to hate either...enlighten me?

I liked aisha from outlaw star and the red haired guys name...damn cant remember his name, probably cause when I last saw that anime I was 12.

Most the people in gurenn lagann are cool too, especially kittan at the end...

gearoidof

Burkie.EXE

Ushiromiya Battler from Umineko is ridiculously awesome. Some of the stuff he comes out with is hilarious despite being a fairly serious character.


Ryuuguu Rena from Higurashi because she's so completely bi-polar. Like the best combination of adorable and psychotic possible. It's like two characters that are both completely win in one body.



Firo Prochainezo from Baccano! He's an awesome-gangster type who always wears an amazing hat (that I want) and is pretty damn slick in a fight.
Example-

Cy_Revenant

cherryghost wrote: »

Rei from NGE
Never came across anyone who didn't like her

I don't like Rei. She has no likeable qualities.

I honestly can't think of a single character in any anime who seriously stands out as a favourite character to me.

I did quite like Taiso from Giant Robo.


The third Jojo was also pretty cool.


Marco from Porco Rosso was also pretty great.

ottostreet

Shouko from Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu. Hot and interesting!


Kanon & Beatrice from Umineko no Naku Koro ni...


Kakashi & Haku from Naruto.

Sephiroth_dude

Jubei from ninja scroll

Kitty-kitty

Cy_Revenant wrote: »

I don't like Rei. She has no likeable qualities.

I honestly can't think of a single character in any anime who seriously stands out as a favourite character to me.

I thought the point of Rei was that she has no qualities whatsoever? That said, everyone but Misato bothered me in that anime so I can't talk.

Mine's obscure - my favourite is Matsuda from Death Note. The loveable idiot.

Cy_Revenant

Kitty-kitty wrote: »

I thought the point of Rei was that she has no qualities whatsoever? That said, everyone but Misato bothered me in that anime so I can't talk.

Mine's obscure - my favourite is Matsuda from Death Note. The loveable idiot.

That's pretty damn mainstream.

Pretty much everyone in Eva got on my nerves. I didn't like a single character in that show.

Kitty-kitty

Oh, sorry, brain blip, by obscure I meant the character - he's easy to forget if you're focusing on the main characters, and most people draw a blank when I mention him.

FyeaG

Even tho he wasnt in DBZ for long, hes awsome, i like his character

coolguy68

boku from boku no pico :)

Funky

coolguy68 wrote: »

boku from boku no pico :)

Sure is /a/ in here

Butterscotch

I guess I am one of the very few who sees Rei as her favourite character. Bite me. She is my favourite fictional character in fact. I never came across an interesting and alluring character as her. I love C.C. too the way she is sarcastic and flirtious. As for male characters I love Lelouch too and Alucard from Hellsing they are so twisted. I also like Rip van Winkle and Seras Victoria in the Hellsing OVA. I could go on forever. :P

Butterscotch

darren263 wrote: »

thumps up for your article, great post...

Sorry I am abit confused. Where you talking to me?

Nody

Lina Inverse, no questions asked. You can't go wrong with someone throwing a Dragon slave blowing up the village paying you to kill the dragon or throws fireballs at common bandits

Tar.Aldarion

vegeta
Goku
Zaraki Kenpachi
Kisuke Urahara
Byakuya Kuchiki
Kyouraku Shunsui
Maes Hughs
Edward Elric
L
Light Yagami/Kira
Alucard
Mugen
Jin

BlandKitten

Aside from those already mentioned;

And yes, I mean both of them :P

tread_softly

Hmmmmm, I have a few!



Kurogane from Tsubasa, love that guy!



Kanu Unchou from Ikki Tousen



Wolfwood from Trigun



Gamma Akutabi from the unfortunately shortlived Zombie Powder



Lavi from D. Gray Man

celia19O5

I like the Sailor Moon a little chidish...she is lovely!

dazza_480

naruto rules

StarShineX

gotta be Vampire Hunter D for me :D:D or Vincent from final fantasy if he counts lol

Dravokivich

Bokutō no Ryū

From "Shaman King"

Funky

A couple of my favourites:



Senjougahara from Bakemonogatari



Guts from Berserk

Varik

HereNorThere

Fuko. Strawberry Eggs. Ahhhh.... innocence.




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Icarian

it seems like most anime characters are pretty shallow to me, designed to be the token cool character (Spike - cowboy bebop), zany/wacky (Kon - bleach), bumbling fat guy (choji - naruto), or fanservice (at least one female character in every anime ever made), cold, silent warrior (Sasuke - Naruto, Byakuya - Bleach).

Full Metal Alchemist has a small bit of these, but in general, is mercifully free of these archetypes.

Ed Elric for being such a well developed, believable character, strength, weakness, stubborness, guilt, funny, serious, he's just symphatetic, likable, and believable. I like Naruto too, but he's rather obviously your typical gutsy youngster with a can do attitude who doesn't afraid of nothin' (see Ichigo), though he has had some decent development in Shippuden. Quite like Shikimaru too for shallow reasons, though he had significant development too, particularly after Asuma...

Cy_Revenant

While you're right that almost every character ever is a ball of cliches to one degree or another, you're way off the mark comparing Naruto (the character) to Ichigo. They really have nothing in common.

Ichigo is an entirely different ball of cliches.

Icarian

eh... take away Naruto's goofiness, add a little angst and self doubt and Naruto practically is Ichigo, both underdogs who surprisingly happen to have hidden power making them potentially the strongest in their universe... Then again, thats also a very common anime theme.

Cy_Revenant

Icarian wrote: »

eh... take away Naruto's goofiness, add a little angst and self doubt and Naruto practically is Ichigo, both underdogs who surprisingly happen to have hidden power making them potentially the strongest in their universe... Then again, thats also a very common anime theme.

So you're saying that I should take the shounen hero archetype, take away any of Naruto's identifying features and replace them with Ichigo's identifying features?

Coeurdepirate

L - Death Note. My absolute favourite character.


Sebastian - Kuroshitsuji. Also remarkable awesome.

Konata

Sailor Saturn (Hotaru) :pac:

I'm actually in love with her >.< So awesome.

Icarian

forgot maes hughes and kenpachi, they're pretty awesome too

Kenpachi could have been two dimensional, but i like his backstory, he's a dude that would be a bad guy (not just an anti-hero) in most series, but simply for the fact that he's fighting for the right side and a valuable asset to the soul society makes you root for him. Kind of reminds me of that guy from The Hurt Locker, not neessarily a good guy, but fighting for the right side, even if his motives aren't entirely honourable.

also Roy Mustang, the careerist army dude with a dark past, trying to climb the ladder, not for himself, but so that he can make right the worlds wrongs. He allows himself to be a straw man, if it means protecting others, (Lt Ross). He cares deeply for his subordinates, even if he's a bit of a jerk at times. Another believable, multi layered character, very unusual in the shounen genre.

Craguls

Yoh Asakura- Shaman King

cherryghost

Hotaru wrote: »

Sailor Saturn (Hotaru) :pac:

I'm actually in love with her >.< So awesome.

Wow, there's a surprise :pac:

Konata

cherryghost wrote: »

Wow, there's a surprise :pac:

I know right? Totally unexpected!

cade

Gamma from Zombie Powder, this manga really should be continued!

Chouhi Ekitoku from Ikki Tousen, awesome martial arts girl.

Naomi Armitage from Armitage Polymatrix.

Riza Wildman from Kaibutsu Oujo.

Saki Yurikawa from Reiko the Zombie Shop. Damn I love this character & manga, curse Dark Horse for dropping it.

Nono from Aim for the Top 2: Diebuster

Butterscotch

I like Nono too.

Coeurdepirate

Coeurdepirate wrote: »

L - Death Note. My absolute favourite character.

My friend asked me today who my favourite character in any form of media was - book, audio, T.V., film - and I had to reply L.

Tar.Aldarion

Good choice!

hare05

Alucard is just so awesome. No other character flaunts their dark personality with such unabashed glee.
Yes, he's shallow, one-dimensional and a bit of a Mary Sue, but no other character in any other manga can wade through the blood of enemies and innocents, and make the reader gleefully follow such shameless slaughter. He is the purest evil in any manga, but you can't help but love him for it.

Azure_sky

Asuka, as she's a semi insane,narcissitic, bi polar bitch, and one of the few strong female characters I've seen in anime, who has depth of character,a high level of intelligence, but is'nt designed purely as fan service fap fodder.

Butterscotch

My favourite character is Ayanami Rei from Neon Genesis Evangelion.



She is my favourite fictional character. I identify with her as she is fragile, calm, parts of her remind me of the old me. I love the way she is neutral and walks away. My fondness for her started when I cosplayed as her back in 2007. There were parts of her personality I want to adopt to my own. I originally cosplayed as her because I was attracted to her image. I really enjoy playing as her.

Varik

One of my favourite character is Lupin the Third form a whole lot of movies and many other things as well.Seen all the movies and most of the specials but it'd be impossible for a Gaijin to see all of them. He's the worlds greatest thief with a heart of gold(stolen) and always wins over Interpol who are always after him. Hayao Miyazaki even got his hand on him and made a movie which was the first one i saw. The character been around for decades and i'm hoping that he'll end up like batman/superman and be around for ever. For anyone who likes the Miyazaki movie there are hundreds of movies, ova and specials to watch in addition to that.

Lemegeton

as much as i love spike and Vash i really have to go with Alucard on this one.

Taseera

Oh, and Death Note is my most favorite anime right there with K-On!(!). I usually hate thriller animes but this one had me on the edge of the seat at all times.

Cloudini

Ill go for Vegita from dbz

i loved his evilness but still beeing on the goodside

Tijani

I have way too many but here are my current top fav.

Souji Okita, he's so funny and his pig Saizo is so cute

e_e

Osaka (Ayumu Kasuga)

summer_ina_bowl

Howl





and L

Agent Larkin

Gotta agree with the OP and say Zero from Code Geass.