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Give reasons if you can for why this character is your favourite. Since I made the thread I'll go first. My favourite character in anime has to be Nausicaa, from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/12/19/Nausicaa_071218100126408_wideweb__300x375.jpg

She's the one of the few Messianic figures I've ever seen done well. I find her an incredibly likeable and inspirational character.

Of course, your choices don't have to be as sappy as mine. Be honest guys! Who cares how obscure you go or how silly your reasons.

Your choice ****ing sucks dude.

Anyway, I am going to be a dick to dadudemon by picking who I suspect will be his favorite before he can (Though he is genuinely mine as well): Guts, from Berserk.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o123/dta427/Guts-Berserk.jpg

Guts has everything I like in a character. Physically, he is tall, built like a train, with cool armour, and is hawt. As a character, he represents simultaneously the strength of man, but also its darkness. Guts has had a traumatic life, worse than anyone I can claim to know, but his will is so great that he doesn't spend his time whining or moping about it like a *****. He deals with his issues in a very proactive fashion, if not a healthy one. The manga starts off by showing what Guts has become, a brutal, amoral anti-hero, who might be too bloodthirsty and selfish to even qualify as that. He is a character almost wholly without a moral compass, which was a big deal back then, wasn't done too often in manga. Then, we see his backstory. He started off as a fairly nice kid, a child soldier who, after his adoptive mother dies, yearns for his adoptive father's approval. This is where his issues start (**** spoilers though, for those who for some stupid reason still haven't read Berserk). We see Guts grow from a relatively mentally stable kid, to a distant, aloof, angsty teenager with clear issues, to a borderline-sociopathic hunter of monsters with only revenge on his mind, and, when he finally starts to get past that by rediscovering the value of companions, a troubled hero (Sorta) with a dark side that he must constantly fight against.

Part of Berserk's charm is its ability to seamlessly weave the supernatural with the mundane in a believable way, and Guts demonstrates that perfectly, showing exactly how horrible the immaterial can make one's life, but Guts, above all else, even now refuses to break.

Also he's hot.

Nah, that's not a dick move. But Guts may be my favorite character for similar reasons as yours.

I would add that he never lost his moral compass as he did not wantonly kill innocent regular folks: only evil. He seemed to maintain his good side throughout the whole mess which makes him a more appealing character. He had every reason to be a pissy little b*tch about everything but he maintained his goodness throughout it all.

Wish Miura would not have forced him to lose his arm, though. I want his arm to be restored. Yeah yeah...arm canon.

Oh sure, Guts, even at his worst, was a ****ing saint compared to the most monstrous characters in the series, like Wyald or Ganishka (To quote TV Tropes, "He didn't cross the Moral Event Horizon, he is the black hole causing it", I liked that), but he would still do some pretty ****ed up shit, like using children as bait, or holding one hostage to get an advantage in a fight, as well as being a selfish dick and leaving Casca for his REVENGE when she needed him most.

Originally posted by NemeBro
We see Guts grow from a relatively mentally stable kid, to a distant, aloof, angsty teenager with clear issues, to a borderline-sociopathic hunter of monsters with only revenge on his mind

vin

My favorite all time character is Yoh Asakura:
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Dude made laziness and being carefree look better than any other Shonen protagonist. He also was right about things and wasn't by default a retard. He was able to make friends with people that, for all intended purposes, wanted him dead with sheer awesomenessand being the cool guy he is. Yoh's "everything will work out" nature was able to pull him through impossible odd and even helped him convince his brother to not kill all humans.

So yeah my all time favorite is Yoh. I'd say Guts but I haven't been reading Berserk for very long.

Thats a dude?

Yes...he is.

Ok

My all time favorite anime character is this guy:

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lizyhu4qRh1qf8kb8o1_500.gif

Not because he was powerful, but because I liked how stubborn he was to the point that it often became his own downfall. Its probably because he was the most developed character in all of DBZ. I also liked his fighting style and how he always worked hard to become stronger. His pride in his near-extinct race was great too. Plus I just can't get over how awesome this smirk is:

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/317/b/d/majin_vegeta_smirk_by_cooltaff12-d4fxzoi.gif

Father Alexander Anderson (Hellsing)

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs29/f/2008/144/c/f/Alexander_Anderson_AA_by_dekdap.jpg

I like the dood because, asides from being a badass 4th Dimensional Catholic Priest that throws bayonets at people, for being one of the main antagonists of Hellsing, he is interestingly one of the least villainous people in Hellsing, (Which isn't saying much) and despite being a religious zealot, has standards, and is willing to respect Alucard, even if he doesn't like him. And he has a Scottish accent.

And just look at that hair.

If Animu games are allowed though, Aigis. Because.

http://images.wikia.com/great-teacher-onizuka-gto/images/6/6d/Uruxg.jpg

Urumi Kanzaki. Not only a child prodigy with an IQ score over 200, but also a psychiatric wreck. This clash between mentality and psyche makes for a really interesting character as she does have tendencies to be childish, but is smart enough to realize what will happen if she goes through with her actions. A character you'd like to hold in her vulnerable moments and strike as she goes on justifying an immoral course of actions . In other words a character it's very easy to get emotionally invested in.

Originally posted by Nephthys
Period. http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-colbert.gif

Give reasons if you can for why this character is your favourite. Since I made the thread I'll go first. My favourite character in anime has to be Nausicaa, from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/12/19/Nausicaa_071218100126408_wideweb__300x375.jpg

She's the one of the few Messianic figures I've ever seen done well. I find her an incredibly likeable and inspirational character.

Of course, your choices don't have to be as sappy as mine. Be honest guys! Who cares how obscure you go or how silly your reasons.

Ah, one of my most loved anime of all times. I'd like to watch this again if only I could find the version with english dub that didn't sucked

Rornoa Zoro From One Piece.

Why? Because He Is A Badass Above Badasses

Gene Starwind; Outlaw Star

This guy is becoming my favorite

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Right now, my favourite character has to be Sensui from Yu Yu Hakusho

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/12/128315/1793559-sensui.jpg

His character is an extremely interesting one, having pictured the whole world in black and white. Humans=Good, Demons=Bad. I love how that view is shattered by his discovery of the "Evils" of humanity.

Another thing I love is his way of dealing with the trauma, passing the blame onto multiple personalities that he creates

Vash the Stampede

Rukia Kuchiki, Yu Tendo, and Masaomi Kida. Tobi is also notable but not as much as these three.

My all-time favorite would be this guy:

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h9/shama_nf1/kenshiro.jpg

Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star

He's the ultimate badass. Not only is he a mix of Bruce Lee and Mad Max while looking a bit like Sylvestor Stallone at times, but unlike most anime/manga heroes, he's one guy that's not an underdog or a rookie. He's a more reliable hero, one that people count on to save the day. Plus, there's also the badass attacks that he uses with his Hokuto Shinken style.

My favorite manga/anime character comes from my all time favorite manga/anime.

Yusuke Urameshi.


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Yamcha and tien