One of my favorite female characters of all time is probably Yukari from Sekirei. Which is a weird choice, maybe -- the little sister side character from a harem T&A manga? But Yukari is amazing. She's hardcore, in your face, motivated by her own wants at all times, thinks pretty boys are one of Japan's national treasures, nosebleeds over guys, and literally at one point backflips out a window while setting a skyscraper on fire. Yukari for president.
One of my favorite male characters would have to be Shion from No.6. It's hard to explain Shion; he seems normal and kind of bland but his thought processes are strange. He's very much the product of an entire culture where standing out or showing any sign of 'dangerous thought' gets you vanished, so he seems mild and easy-going but all of his thoughts are towards destruction, need, want. His first monologue in the novels is when a hurricane is coming on and he thinks, "Destroy. Destroy what? Everything." He's completely passionate and a little terrifying but he's a good guy who wants to help the world.
Picking unfavorites are harder, because I tend not to actively dislike most characters, just have less interest in them. But let's see.
A male character I just couldn't get into was Kiritsugu from Fate/Zero (etc). I understood his motivations, and how he got into a cycle of loss fallacy, but I just couldn't actually care about what read to me as bland manpain at all times, especially once he went into the "I can't allow myself to be happy at any point so I'll cheat on my wife to give myself something else to be upset about." (Especially because both the wife and the other woman were great, really). It was unfortunate that he was pretty much the main character, imho.
I pretty much can't get into any female character whose only role in the story is the effect she has on the male lead. I could pick so many possibilities for this, but it's actually hard for me to land on one because I tend to drop those series like hot bricks. I guess I'll go with Takeda from Death Note as an example. As a character, she's tied 100% into Light's goals and how he can use her for the plot instead of being used as a character, literally only good to speak for him, dispose of his enemies, and eventually (when she proves too competent) is forced to commit suicide. While DN is that sort of series, the women steadily are given the shaft in terms of being self-motivated in any way.
It's been a great anniversary, thanks for all the fun posts!
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One of my favorite male characters would have to be Shion from No.6. It's hard to explain Shion; he seems normal and kind of bland but his thought processes are strange. He's very much the product of an entire culture where standing out or showing any sign of 'dangerous thought' gets you vanished, so he seems mild and easy-going but all of his thoughts are towards destruction, need, want. His first monologue in the novels is when a hurricane is coming on and he thinks, "Destroy. Destroy what? Everything." He's completely passionate and a little terrifying but he's a good guy who wants to help the world.
Picking unfavorites are harder, because I tend not to actively dislike most characters, just have less interest in them. But let's see.
A male character I just couldn't get into was Kiritsugu from Fate/Zero (etc). I understood his motivations, and how he got into a cycle of loss fallacy, but I just couldn't actually care about what read to me as bland manpain at all times, especially once he went into the "I can't allow myself to be happy at any point so I'll cheat on my wife to give myself something else to be upset about." (Especially because both the wife and the other woman were great, really). It was unfortunate that he was pretty much the main character, imho.
I pretty much can't get into any female character whose only role in the story is the effect she has on the male lead. I could pick so many possibilities for this, but it's actually hard for me to land on one because I tend to drop those series like hot bricks. I guess I'll go with Takeda from Death Note as an example. As a character, she's tied 100% into Light's goals and how he can use her for the plot instead of being used as a character, literally only good to speak for him, dispose of his enemies, and eventually (when she proves too competent) is forced to commit suicide. While DN is that sort of series, the women steadily are given the shaft in terms of being self-motivated in any way.
It's been a great anniversary, thanks for all the fun posts!
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