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Who is the greatest character ever to appear on an anime?

Best Male: Claus from Last Exile (prounounced like House with a CL instead of H, not like Claws)

Best Female: tie between Lain from Serial Experiments Lain and Lavie from Last Exile (Claus's best friend)


Lain


Lavie ..........................Claus

This post has been edited by King of Chocobos on 14th October 2004 12:54

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kweh!

For me, it's several.
Male - Jubei from Ninja Scroll. Sick sword skills and had a knock-out girlfriend that was to die for.
Also, Son Gohan. Awesome fighter and extremely intelligent too. Was trained by two of the greatest fighters in the world.
Rick Hunter. He went from being a circus pilot to Admiral of the entire fleet. Pretty cool, eh? Was a real hit wit the ladies, too.
Female - Kagaro. See Jubei.
Lisa Hunter: Beautiful, intelligent, awesome pilot. Had a great personality, too.
Videl: can't go wrong with a chick that could beat up just about anybody and has a dynamite body to boot.

Cowboy Bebob

Honestly, I think it depends entirely on what genre you're talking about.
In an overall sense...
I think my favorite femal anime characters are...


Hikaru Shidou from Magic Knight Rayearth. She is very selfless and kind. She's clumsy, but she's really determined. We need more people like her.


Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon. Yeah, she's a bumbling fool but if you watch a lot of the series, she grows tremendously. There aren't many series that have that sort of growth. Besides, she must own because she's still pretty dang popular in Japan.

Favorite male characters...


Naruto Uzumaki from.. well... Naruto. He's so adorable it's hard to not love him. His mischevious behaviour is something most everyone can relate to. He's another really determined spirit worthy of admiration.


My personal favorite male anime character is Tsukasa Domyoji from Hana Yori Dango. He's funny, loveable, clumsy, and generally like a real person. Gotta love that. As well as his hair. Oh yeah.


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Favorite Males:
Yusuke Urameshi (Yu-Yu-Hakusho)
Joey Wheeler (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Favorite Females:
Genkai (Yu-Yu-Hakusho)

There was another girl but I can't remember her name right now... I think she was Inuyasha's girlfriend... the girl that follows him around everywhere.... Anyway, I liked her too.

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"No matter what happens, I will always be with you... forever." ---- Pocahontas, Pocahontas

"Only those who are already at the top are rewarded without trying."----- Delita Hyral, Final Fantasy Tactics

http://www.ffshrine.org/fft/fft-midi/1-42-back_fire01.mid ---- My favorite FFT battle song

Males

Inuyasha
Yusuke Urimeshi
Vegeta from DBZ

Female

Genkai from Yuyu Hakusho
Kagome from Inuyasha

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I fear my heart and fear my soul
Life goes on, it surely will,
Without me and I wonder:
Will I ever see light again?

Life goes on...

And the Best Male Performance goes to:

Seita from Grave of the Fireflies

Best Female Performance goest to:

Haru Haruko with a close runner up being Radical Edward

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Arts

Farts

Twarts

Arkia: Cowboy Bebop is a series, not an anime character. >_>

Kilakandra_DiMenia: You mean Kagome Higurashi?

I had to work to reduce these to five male and five female.

-Female:

Ed from Cowboy Bebop
Yukino Miyazawa from Kare Kano
Mutsumi Otohime from Love Hina
Ahiru from Princess Tutu
Yomiko Readman from Read or Die

-Male:

Edward Elric from Full Metal Alchemist
Inuyasha from Inuyasha
Kakashi from Naruto
Fakir from Princess Tutu
Ryoga Habiki from Ranma 1/2

This post has been edited by Elena99 on 13th October 2004 23:20

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I had an old signature. Now I've changed it.

i'll be the first and probably last here to say i think the gimmicky, one-dimensional, transparent characters in naruto are among the worst ever written up for any modern anime. i mean, even the most evil character (itachi) is a walking cliché. naruto just gets "better and better" -- dragonball z style. rofullz. anyway, here are my picks:

best anime male characters:
・spike spiegal (cowboy bebop): can anyone argue? not only is he the badass-est character to have ever graced anime, he's also a moral lesson, AND he knows jeet kun do.
・roy mustang (fma): ok, so he seems like kind of an asshole, but it's all an act. he's a good person with a good purpose, plus he plays with fire. ed gets honourable mention, but his over-the-top self-confidence pisses me off sometimes.
・mataiti (hundred stories gossip): i don't know why i alwaysn liked this character so much. i guess it's because the writes of the anime were able to work in deception so well to a character who represented change for the better.
・hisoka (hunterxhunter): again, i don't know why i like this character so much. actually, i probably like kurapica better from the same series, but the way hisoka was developed makes the audience grow to like him (if perhaps grudingly) from absoltely hating him in the beginning.

female:
・fay valentine (cb): at the risk of being billed as a cb fanboy, i had to include my favourite anime character of all time on this list. she's bitchy, doesn't take shit from anyone, lives for herself, AND is voiced by megumi hayasibara. five thumbs up. lol.
・triela (gunslinger girl): i don't remember her last name, or if she even had one, but the oldest of the girls was my favourite. she's the most lethal, the most developed psychologically, and is kind of a mentor to the other girls.
・misao makimati (rurouni kensin): what can i say? what's not to like about a hyper ninzya-girl who is totally infatuated with one of the main character's arch-enemies?

Male:
Sesshomaru from Inu Yasha.
Kuwabara from Yu Yu Hakusho.

Female:
Melfina from Outlaw Star.
Sango from Inu Yasha.

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-Brad Meltzer

Male: Sesshomaru rocks my world.

Female: Faye Valentine, Sango...

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Quote (Zephir @ 15th October 2004 22:30)

Male: Sesshomaru rocks my world.

Motion Definately seconded.


Wufei from gundam wing was awesome
So was Heero

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If you've been mod-o-fied,
It's an illusion, and you're in-between.
Don't you be tarot-fied,
It's just alot of nothing, so what can it mean?
~Frank Zappa

Sins exist only for people who are on the Way or approaching the Way

Hard to really pick one, I suppose. I'll try.

Male

-Kyo Sohma (Fruit Baskets)
I just like his personality really. As much of a girly anime this may be I enjoy it, and the characeters are very interesting. I don't suppose anyone here has ever heard of this anime?

-Hei (Yu yu Hakusho)
He's just so awesome. Nuff' said.

-Miroku (Inuyasha)
Comical relief mostly. "Would you be so kind as to bear my children?"

-Sesshomaru (Inuyasha)
Smart, powerful, demonic. Truly an awesome character.

Female

-Umi (Magic Night Rayearth)
You can sut up about me and the girly anime stuff... no really. But I just thought that she was interesting compeared to the other two of the series.

On a side note though, maybe I should start watching Naruto, looks interesting.

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"We're not tools of the government or anyone else. Fighting... fighting was the only thing I was ever good at, but at least I always fought for what I believed in." - Frank Yeager (a.k.a. Grey Fox)

Male

Vash the Stampede (The $$60,000,000,000 Man)
Spike Spiegel (He's just so 'human'. It's impressive)
Kenshin Himura (He kicks it with sakabato)
Sesshomaru (Damn! He's just so freakin' cool)


Female

Faye Valentine (as with all the CB characters, she's just so 'human')
Haru Haruko (*hopes he never gets smacked around by a guitar shot to the head)
Radical Edward (Ed is just so damn random, it's awesome)
Sango (Sango just rocks and who doesn't want a giant boomerang...hiraitsuko?)

Male - Kenshin. oro.....

Female - Misato Katsuragi (from Evangelion). Crazy chicks that are still somehow uber on top of things are so cool.

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Get me off this Disciplinary Committee so I can play any FF except for FF8!!!

Misato... that name reminds me of how much Evangelion frightened me. Would you like it if a bunch of mentals were the only thing that stood between the world and total destruction?

anyways...
Male characters...
Kaneda (Akira)- He's 16 years old and got to save the world from a human god. That's pretty good for being on the earth for a decade and a half.

Himura Kenshin (Rurouni Kenshin)- I would not at all mind learning the ways of Hiten Mitsurugi. And battoujutsu/iaijutsu would be pretty nice too.

Vash the Stampede (Trigun)- There's no one more misunderstood than poor Vash.

Female characters...
Kamiya Kaoru (Rurouni Kenshin)- Despite Kenshin being way out of her league, she's still got more than enough skills to compete on a national competition level.

Meryl Strife (Trigun)- I don't know anybody more determined to carry out a job than Maryl. Sexay!

Edward (Cowboy Bebop)- Ed is truly a one of a kind.

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"It is a part of human nature to be evil, and it is a part of human nature to destroy evil, therefore, when evil is destroyed, so will be the human race..."
- Atma

Male:
Zechs Marquise (Milliardo Peacecraft) - My role mode (from Gundam Wing)
Alucard - The best vampire i've ever seen (from Hellsing)

Female:
Celes (Ceras) Victoria - (from Hellsing)
Sango - (Inu-yasha)

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~ A Hero Is Someone Who Stands When Their Legs Are Gone~

Female

Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivursky IV - Cowboy Bebop
Yomiko Readman - Read Or Die
Merle - Escaflowne

Male
Allan - Escaflowne
Yugi Mutoh - Yu-Gi-Oh
Ashitaka - Princess Mononoke

Runners up are Lady Eboshi, Seto Kaiba, Van Fanel, and Sakura Avalon.

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TURKEY! - (The only way not to get blocked for using Fowl Language)

It seems like a question I should be able to answer quickly, yet I can't. Here's what I could come up with.

Male:

Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop) - He's the main character of my absolute favorite anime of all tiime ever, plus he's ten different kinds of cool. Much like the series itself, he melds all sorts of awesomeness into one collective awesomeness that is 100 times more awesome than the sum of its awesome parts. Or something.

Char Aznable (Gundam) - He's likely my favorite mecha pilot ever, and one of the best characterized throughout the years. His skill is peerless, and he has a very complex personality that unravels and evolves throughout the Gundam series. Plus, the sheer number of knock-offs that he inspired (Zechs Merquise being the most prominent and the most shameless) has to count for something.

Nicholas D. Wolfwood (Trigun) - My feelings on the Trigun anime as compared to the manga are mixed at best, but I love Wolfwood in both. What's not to love about a chain-smoking, hard-drinking priest gunman with a secret identity?

Hatake Kakashi (Naruto) - Kakashi's just really, really cool. Everything about the way Masashi designed him works out wonderfully, from his calm, affected appearance to his awesome ninja skills to his weird personality quirks (Come Come Paradise?). I'm tempted to put both Rock Lee and Aburame Shino on the list too, but I'll limit my list to one character per series.

Canti (FLCL) - There's no explaining this one. Canti rules.

Female:

Ukyo Kuonji (Ranma 1/2) - Anybody who's ever had a discussion with me on the topic of Ranma 1/2 knows that my only real fanboy weakness lies in Ukyo, whom I loudly proclaim to be perfect in every way conceivable. I'm pretty pathetic when it comes to that, honestly.

Jiyu "Jubei" Nanohana (Jubei-chan the Ninja Girl) - Possibly my favorite female protagonist of any series, Jubei miraculously manages to be a pretty normal girl considering how spazzed-out the anime actually is.

This post has been edited by Super Moogle on 18th October 2004 22:46

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~Dorothy L. Sayers

"The truly remarkable thing about television is that it allows several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely."
~T.S. Eliot

"Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as reality - in your own mind!"
~ Bruce Lee

I have an affinity towards Wolfwood (Trigun) and Hare (Monster Rancher), but that's just me. I haven't seen that many series, so my judging isn't very straight, but I like the ones I said.

>=]

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Female:
Kino - Kino's Journey. She's a wandering traveller, but she's far from your generic goody two shoes who sticks her nose in everybody's business to help them. She walks her own path and tries not to interfere with those she comes across, and usually succeeds. Plus, her journeys make you think, even if they are mostly depressing.

Male:
Bolt Crank - Eat-Man. As far as wandering hero-types go, he's a whole spectrum of cool, with one of the more unique superpowers of any character around. Unlike Kino, he does help people out of sentiment, despite being a mercenary for hire, but he's usually so slick about it, one can't help but admire his tact. He usually helps out in a way the people he's helping don't expect, and evenif you see it coming, its still cool to see him do it.

Plenty of other characters I like, but those would be the top two, generally.

This post has been edited by sharkerbob on 31st October 2004 03:07

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I'm partial to Dark Snider from B*stard and Kenshin.

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"That Light has bestowed upon me the greatest black magic!"

Best ever... Tough question, but I'll give you two of my favourites:

M: Benares (3x3 Eyes)



F: San (Princess Mononoke)



What can I say, I love the wild ones

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Life may have no meaning. Worse still, it may have one that I do not approve.

Beyond the void but deep within me, a swamp of filth exists; a lake it was of crystal beauty but Arda's spring went by.

I rarely watch anime shows, but I would have to say Beast Boy from Teen Titans. He's hilarious!

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They say the opposite of "pro" is "con."

So isn't the opposite of progress Congress?

Or did I just blow your mind??


-America, the Book by the Daily Show

Edward - Full Metal Alchemist

Or

Inuyasha- Inuyasha

I've always been partial to Jim from Outlaw star. Btw, hello!

This post has been edited by Sylphid on 9th December 2004 03:02

Do characters like Homer Simpson, Bugs Bunny, and Ghost Rider count?

This post has been edited by FabulousFreebird on 9th December 2004 03:09

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Seifer Almasy


"The most important part of the story is the ending."
Secret Window


"Peace is but a shadow of death."
Kuja

Quote (FabulousFreebird @ 8th December 2004 22:08)

Do characters like Homer Simpson, Bugs Bunny, and Ghost Rider count? 

NO!

Anime = Japanese animation.

Just to letcha' know.... but since it seems you didn't it's good that you asked.

This post has been edited by Ejoty on 9th December 2004 04:35

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Get me off this Disciplinary Committee so I can play any FF except for FF8!!!

I hate to revive such long-dead topics, but I'm on a bit of an anime-high right now, don't ask. I'll give a Final Four for each sex.

Favorite male characters:
Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop - CB is my favorite anime series, period. Spike is sort of a stereotypical sarcastic loner but he pulls it off SO well....
Alucard from Hellsing - This guy is the primo badass of all anime, period. It's hard to call him a true antihero, but that's probably the best word for him. Just watch the series.
Millions Knives from Trigun - This dude is evil. He is the perfect destructive foil for all of Vash's bordering-on-ludicrous love for all living things. A great manipulative-arch-nemesis-type.
Seita from Grave of the Fireflies - This was one of the most unsettling and depressing movies I've ever seen (in a good way, I guess); the things that Seita goes through (I'll avoid spoilers) would leave anyone in tears.

Favorite female characters:
Nausicaa from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - No one makes heroines like Miyazaki. She is strong, cute, emotional, and caring, and has a hell of an adventure to her name.
Kagome Higurashi from Inu-yasha - I really hate her sometimes, but at the same time often sympathize with her. She's very strong-willed for someone who wears one of those fukus, that's for sure.
San from Princess Mononoke - Lots of emotion in this one. She isn't exactly the kind of princess that needs rescuing, and serves as a bridge between the human and demon cultures as well as an important voice of reason to the Boars and Wolves.
Haru Haru Haruko from Fooly Cooly (Furikuri) - You have to see her to believe her. She's the only person who knows what the hell is going on in that series, which is saying something. Plus, she bludgeons stuff with a Rickenbacker. Awesome

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For male, I'd have to say... SAMURAI JACK! w00t. Yeah, I know, it's not really an anime, waddyagonnado?

Fine, best male ANIME character: Kenshin, from Rurouni Kenshin.

Best Female is easy: Lacus Clyne from Gundam Seed.

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