• Hyperlich@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    Nico Robin from One Piece, I relate to her the most. I also like Reki from Haibane Renmei and Lain from Serial Experiments Lain.

    • digitalprometheus@lemmygrad.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      If it makes you feel better, amongst my friends we usually let avatar slide for these discussions, it probably deserves it. Maybe we’re idiots, but at least we’re idiots together!

      • ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Lol I can agree with that. It isn’t anime and I can sorta recognize why, it has more of a Chinese influence than a Japanese one, it also is drawn slightly differently from full-on anime where the characters have faces shaped like a home plate from baseball(i don’t mean this as a criticism, I only say this because of the angle of the chin they draw lmao)

  • HaSch@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Nonon Jakuzure from Kill la Kill, the source of all my power fantasies that pertain to active marching band membership

    • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      I always found Oda’s cavalcade of interesting villians the bigger draw.

      Yes, Luffy does some clever stuff, but it’s the classic main-character problem: you know the hero’s going to win so it’s just a matter of how.

      I was always fascinated by Arlong for the narrative of “how do power structures change when humans aren’t the dominant species”, and loved the back-reference where we find out Arlong Park was designed to mimic Sabaody Park, leading into the whole “society is stratified in a very broken way” story that reaches its peak absurdity with the Tennryubito.

      The relationship between CP9 and Spandam is perpetually comical.

      Even Axe-hand Morgan, for a throwaway villian to establish the main narrative model, he had an interesting character design, and then the Jango side-story that shows his cherished career is built on a lie is an amazing piece of exposition.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Luffy kinda suffers from the annoying MC syndrome literally all long seasonal anime i ever seen have (except D.Gray Man, and just look what they did to Allen ffs) - he’s too quirky. Actually most of other characters too, but the one we see the most have a time to get old on us.

  • MILFCortana@lemmygrad.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Luffy for being based. Team Rocket for their transness. Favorite despite everything is probably fucking Sailor Neptune or Sailor Moon. That show gets emotion more than almost anything else I’ve watched, legit all the dark magical girl shit made in response has nothing on Sailor Moon, which is way darker and handles emotions with more maturity.

      • Giyuu@lemmygrad.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        For reals…I never related to Narutos eternal optimism (which I’ve come to appreciate as an adult) but it was Sasukes loner, beat of his own drum attitude, and constantly changing character that still wins me over.

        And although I don’t follow Boruto closely, seeing just how awkward he can be as an adult just makes him even more relatable.

    • Nakaru@lemmygrad.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      As I’ve matured and begun to appreciate his vision for anarchy, it makes me regret exclusively seeing him as an edgelord while I watched/read the series. Seeing him in Boruto has helped be better appreciate him, even though he’s a it of a shell of his former self in it.

  • Cora@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Going to have to say Nagatoro Hayase. I’m a sucker for romance and rom-com.