• Yes, the contest is over. Still, hear me out. The Anti-Spiral from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is far and away the worst character in anime history. So basically, you have this super-advanced alien race. Said super-advanced alien race discovers that the energy living beings give off simply by existing will destroy the universe. So what do they do? The only logical thing, of course; accept it, knowing that it'd take a long time before the universe reaches critical mass. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, no, that wouldn't be logical! That would be NICE! No, some genius in their species decides to put every single member of his species into hibernation to halt their evolution, and become one hivemind with amazing powers. What do they do with these powers? If you said "protect the universe and spread the message to other races peacefully so they'll stop makin' so many babies," you'd be WRONG! No, they go on a killing spree. Sure, they CLAIM it's for the good of the universe, but these AS-holes are really just trying to save their own collective asses at the expense of every other living thing. Then, some kid and his armadillo rise up against them. The Spirals are tired of the Anti-Spiral's bullshit, and try and beat them down. Of course, the Anti-Spirals end up winning simply by showing this guy that all is lost, his cause is hopeless, and all Sirals must die. What does this guy do? Does he take this revalation in stride and kick the Anti-Spiral's asses? No! He decides to COMMIT GENOCIDE ON HIS ENTIRE FUCKING SPECIES and lock them away underground as part of a deal with the AS. Then, a group involving the guy's daughter, Nia end up beating the guy down, and the human population reaches one million. Said daughter is going to be married to the leader of the rebellion, Simon. It's all set for a happy ending when *gasp* the human race reaches one million! (Or sends a rocket to the moon in Lagann-Hen) She's turned evil - painfully - by these freaks, and she's forced to set the moon on a crash course with Earth. Then, Simon vows to rescue her after that big-foreheaded douche Rossiu blames him and locks him in prison. After stopping the moon, the Anti-Spiral takes her back to their world and torture her to painfully extract "information" from her with rapey overtones. But in the movie, it gets worse! The poor girl's jumpsuit is dissolved, and the Anti-Spiral restrains her WITH TENTACLES AND STRADDLES HER, AND EVEN LOOKS LIKE HE'S PENETRATING HER AS SHE SHOUTS FOR HER LOVER OUT OF FEAR, AND THE ANTI-SPIRAL HAS THIS CREEPY SMILE ON HIS FACE AS HE'S MURDERING/TORTURING/RAPING HER! So, the hero rescues her, but the AS informs her that if he's killed, Nia dies with him! What a dick move, but the good guys, knowing it's for the best, kill him. Then, the AS, not feeling the least bit sorry for committing genocide, and raping a girl, asks the hero to not use Spiral Power, even to save Nia. The hero complies, and the AS dies without any regrets, while Nia dies from wounds she sustained during the murder/torture/rape and the hero ends up with no one. Thanks a lot, Anti-Spiral! You're the biggest dickweed in anime history. Also, the Anti-Spiral has apparently been watching Nia for her entire life. Think about that, and then think about what he did to her when she was in his reach. He's worse than Gendo.

• Nah, with Aizen, it works, because he's the fucking villain. Villains have plenty of liberty to have lots of power, it allows them to fuck people over more easily. Sasuke sucks because he's supposed to be an anti-hero, yet he's never done a single act worthy of praise, lacks any redeeming qualities, has unlimited power, and likely won't die a gruesome, torturous death at the end of the series. He needs to stop being an evil whiny little bitch, and start getting laid. Sakura, Naruto, whatever floats his boat. But shut the fuck up, and stop ruining the series.

• I understand people liking Wolfwood better, but you have to have a heart of stone to not like Vash.

• I know the contest is over, but damn it, Sasuke is such an unmitigated asshole that he automatically wins. Normally when a character is that morally bankrupt, he's the villain, why in the hell does Naruto want to save that asshole. He starts the series off bitter, grumpy, selfish, concieted, and insanely jealous; but he actually gets much worse, he becomes violent, hateful, and treacherous, yet Naruto doesn't want to kill him. First off, the guy spends the first part of the series being nothing but mean to every other character, not listening to a single one of them unless there's something they can teach him to get more power. He then rewards them by putting up with his ass by abandoning the entire village to live with the creepiest ninja in the world, likely taking it up the back alley to fufill his own selfish agenda of revenge. He kills Orrochimaru the moment he gets the chance, and gathers together a crack team of ninjas for the sole purpose of his bloodlust. When he finally kills his brother, and finds out his brother was simply a radical pacifist, he does the one thing his brother didn't want him to do, set out to kill every person in the leaf village. And he rewards his subordinates loyalty by stabbing them through the chest when his enemy uses them as a human shield. Even Sakura tries to kill him, yet for some reason, Naruto still thinks he can save Sasuke. Sasuke has never demonstrated an act of kindness or decency in his entire worthless life. There is no reason to continue trying to help him. And yet the author still presents him in that light. Fuck him.

• But where Rangiku has big boobs, Misato is damaged goods, which means sex with her would be all dirty and guiltridden. The best kind of sex. ...I feel so horrible after typing that.

• Try watching Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0 instead. 90% less whining, 200% more shinji going BATSHIT INSANE on the angels. Rebuild-Shinji is fucking awesome.

• ooh!ooh! Boogiepop Phantom! (whence me name comes from)--the japanese answer to David Lynch. do it. it are amaze you.

• That's a win right there.

• You're my hero.

• Get back beneath your bridge, Troll. There are three billygoats waiting.

• Mikuru? You kidding me? I'd be a nervous wreck too if I had to associate with Haruhi McJerkass Suzumiya on a near-daily basis. Seriously, why is that woman so popular? She's a vicious little tyrant with a huge attention-whore complex. None of the main characters can directly thwart her and her highly socially unacceptable actions in case she flips out and destroys the world via subconscious super tantrum. So far, they've had to arrange a fake murder mystery for her because otherwise, she'll make a real one happen, rigged a baseball game to prevent her from causing the apocalypse, and let's not even get into all the shit she puts Mikuru through. Wait, on second thought, let's. She molests her, strips her, forces her into fetish costumes, makes her wait on the rest of the club hand and foot in the fetish costumes... Sex appeal? Sure. Mark of a nasty nasty person with no respect for others? Double sure with chocolate fudge sure sauce on top. Really, the defining Haruhi Is A Bad Person moment was also one that made me feel painfully sympathetic towards her - that festival episode (which included Haruhi ordering another club member to feel up Mikuru, huzzah for diversity in bullying there). The gist of it - Haruhi fills in for the lead singer/guitarist of a band in order to reduce the count of People Who Are Not Paying Haruhi Sufficient Attention, whereupon the girl she replaced thanks her for helping out. Haruhi just has no idea how to react to another person expressing gratitude towards her for doing a good thing, because she's been such a crazy, selfish, self-centered conspiracy theorist the entire series that the situation has never come up before. So there's my entry: Haruhi Suzumiya. Gets away with murder (or at least copious sexual harassment and exploitation), in-universe by holding the world hostage, in-fandom by being a cute teenage girl - seriously, it's Tsundere Epidemic all over again. Murder, molestation, blatant domestic abuse (I am looking right at you, Ms. Narusegawa), it matters not! As long as you have big shiny eyes and flash your underaged goods in the merchandise now and then, fandom will be crawling aaaaall over you. But I digress! Teal Deered for your pleasure: Haruhi is a pushy, demanding, insensitive future sexual predator who never suffers reasonable consequences for her outrageous actions.

• Maurice, Maeter, and Linck from Eureka Seven. Set up as the adopted children of the main heroine of the show, Eureka, they're supposed to be precocious and help Eureka grow as a person all the while making the main character, Renton, miserable every time he tries to get close to Eureka. It's handled rather well for the most part because we don't see the kids much outside for brief segments or the occasional episode. And then Eureka and Renton leave the main team to answer all the questions that have been laid out during the show and they get stuck with the kids that were stowed away on the mecha. For about 14 episodes, we have to deal with too many scenes of each kid whining, moaning and screaming "mama!" while it takes all of them still forever to cope and accept Renton as a friend worthy of their adoptive mother's company. This is escalated by the fact that far more interesting characters in the Gekkostate group are practically forgotten and outside for a few brief shots, are not seen at all in the last quarter of the 50 episode series.

• Good times. "DIE! Just die already! Come on!!"

• It's amazing, right? I was so focused on being the first one to get a dig in on Matsuda, I completely forgot about Shou Tucker. You know, <i>the guy who friggin' merged his daughter and her dog into a chimera</i>. And then it turned out he wasn't killed, as he became an upside-down-faced chimera himself. That's one of the saving graces of <i>Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood</i>; Scar wound up killing Nina AND Tucker.

• The one with big eyes, a triangle nose and two mouth poses. Ya know....whatstheirname.

• Just went to your site... You're a lady! Sorry for the "dude" above. Then again, I call pretty much everyone "dude" if I feel they need to cool the fuck out.

• Well, that was mature. I didn't say I disliked the character because I disagreed with his moral code, I simply didn't like the way his character was presented-- the personality attached to that code. You know, that fault, in my mind, goes to the CREATORS of the series and the character, not to the character himself. Who isn't real. And my favorite Anime character is probably Spike Spiegel. Is that an original or clever choice? Not really, I just dig his personality and his story (and Bebop is pretty much my ruler in juding other Anime series). Can you find fault or reasons to hate on Spike? I'm sure you can. Will your opinion on the character change one aspect of how I feel about him, or the CREATORS who breathed life into him? Most likely, not. Especially not in a thread designed for us to give our opinions on characters we don't like. Oh, and I hope we do meet in real life some time. You won't end me. Not that we'll fight, because that'd be stupid. It's just real easy to talk big on the interwebz when you have to exert so little effort to do so. Seriously, dude, take a chill pill.

• I didn't read anything from the last contest actually.

• Have you ever been depressed before? Read the wiki on depression http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_depressive_disorder and tell me that doesn't sound EXACTLY like Shinji. Besides the last episode was Shinji getting over his depression (from a fan analysis)so how did he not grow and how wasn't he human?

• Because, you know, there's no huge and unnaturally bouyant breasts in japanese anime. Nope, not at all. And oh yeah, shut up. The scene of the orb-zombies killing everyone while "The Mob Rules" by Black Sabbath played in the background was pure awesome.

• Emiya Shirou, the main-character from Fate/Stay Night. He's got the personality of a dishrag and the charisma of AIDS. There has probably never been a main-character as dull as him, but what annoys me the most is the fact that he is so inconsistent that the characters from Heroes makes perfect sense. He spends a good deal of the beginning of the show bitching about how he won't fight and he won't kill, because he's a pacifist and yada yada, but suddenly he makes a 360 turn on his pacifist stance, for no apparent reason other than just out of the blue having a change of heart. It kind of goes likes this, stretched out over 15 episodes: Shirou: I will not fight! Saber: You must! Shirou: No! Never...! ... Ok, maybe a little. But I won't kill! Saber: You must! Shirou: No! Never...! ... Ok, maybe a little. But only if they come to me! Saber: You must go to them! Shirou: No! Never...! ... Ok, maybe I will. So there you have it. I can deal with annoying characters in anime, but annoying characters who are completely generic and boring as well as so badly written that their entire moral foundation changes between episodes for no real reason is annoying on a much higher level.

• No, no. Giovanni is definitely Ash's real father. His mom used to be in team rocket and is protecting Ash from knowing his real father. =P

• WIN

• Colin MacLeod from the "Highlander: The Search for Vengeance" anime movie. Now how can I justify hating the hero of this particular anime especially when he's an ass kicking immortal, there can be only one and all that. Well quite easily because as the film goes on it turns out he's the biggest knob jockey in human history (spoilers follow). The story starts in Roman occupied Britain and the supposed villain of the film Marcus Octavius (a Roman Legion commander and also an immortal) crucifies Colin's wife. I forget exactly why but it's probably due to the fact she's married to a whiney twatbag who can't save anyone's life for love nor money. Now understandably Colin is a bit miffed by this and decides he must have his revenge and kill Marcus's wife killing ass. Unfortunately Colin is a bit of a useless dip shit and it takes him decades often centuries to track down where Marcus has got to. Now if Marcus was actually hiding I could understand this, but no. Marcus spends his free time trying to drag the rest of humanity out of the dark ages by setting up cultured and technologically advanced societies, usually with himself as the leader. Then when Colin does eventually catch up with Marcus he's usually assembled an army of barbarians which then proceed to destroy the civilisation Marcus has spent so long setting up. As the film goes on it becomes apparent Colin's quest for revenge is directly responsible for destroying every major civilisation in human history, and each time he does he spectacularly fails to kill Marcus. Eventually in a post apocalyptic future (no doubt caused by Colin triggering nuclear Armageddon) Marcus is once again trying to drag humanity out of the shit pit it finds itself in. Though this time his new world order is a bit on the oppressive side, probably because he's so fucked off by people continuously destroying his hard work. Enter Colin who does his usual thing and proceeds to fuck everything up, except this time he discovers his wife who has been reincarnated and works as a prostitute. Then he lets her die again by grenading herself to death while battling some sort of cyborg S&M sexbot… twat In a break from tradition Colin actually manages to kill Marcus who by this stage is probably quite glad he'll never have to go through this bullshit again. So job done Colin walks off into the sunset having destroyed the only remaining technological society on Earth, condemning the few human survivors to eke out their existence in a radioactive wasteland populated by mutants. But hey at least he got his revenge for his wife's death, the wife who had miraculously reincarnated and they could have just buggered off together. But no, fucker let her die again.

• LOL, nitpicking at the word anime. EVERYBODY knows that anime as a term is what westerners use to refer to Japanimation. Epic fail.

• The worst anime character? The political intrigue of every Gundam series. I just want to see giant robots fight, I don't care about how the house will vote!

• YES!!! Thank you!

• True dat.

• I don't hate any anime character enough to be in this contest. plus its to late to enter. but it seems Full Metal Alchemist wins the Anime contest for having no characters selected. the Elrics for the win

• or Charizard I remember usually having a Raichu in my final group though.

• I have to say one of the worst characters ever is Hisoka in <i>Defendents of Darkness</i>. He is the Robert Pattinson of anime.

• Win. Ugh, why they just didn't kill him when they had the chance ill never know.

• Everyone seems to have forgotten Quess Paraya from Char's Counterattack. She's a spoiled brat who throws herself at Amuro then at Char when she finds out Amuro has a girlfriend. Minor characters are interested in her on both sides of the conflict (Hathaway, Gyunei) and she ignores them both despite their more honest interest. Oh and she gets a whole bunch of people blown up and kills her own father and spends the entire time acting like a spoiled brat (I think I might have already mentioned that, but I really can't emphasize it enough). The only closing arugument I really need is that I was watching the movie and my non-anime watching dad joined my for a few minutes and after watching Quess buy it asked me if the annoying character had just died and when I said yes he said 'good.' This is from a peace loving almost hippie. Oh spoilers, btw.

• awwwww, I liked Lucy =(

• You forgot one detail about "Kira" He's a genetically enhanced engineering whiz....

• Yeah, you may have a point there. But the show was really going strong, great I would even say; until Yugi and Marliene(?)went to space station for the first time. I think it was at that precise moment were the show started slipping/shifting gears for the worse; after several entertaining but awkward episodes....boom, straight into the crapper. Has for becoming ill, I believe you, I think I got a stomach ulcer or two myself.

• His mobile suit was called the "Gyan." I play the game "Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2" and that's how I know. Fun game btw

• You know what, that was mine in the last contest.... Pity, I guess I reminded a bunch of people how annoying she was. Try sitting through 12 episodes of it cause your younger sibling had his girl-friend over and you had to watch them. The nightmares still haunt me.......

• I have to Agree with you there.... I personally happen to like "Vash" and his code of non-lethal gun-fighting. Killing isn't always the answer. But I'm biased since I nearly lost my older brother when a "25' auto" sent a bullet through his heart. He's one lucky guy, you wouldn't even notice unless you saw the scar, or he told you

• Oops, I forgot to explain... Because 7-Zark-7 is the prime example of how anime was dumbed down for kids, by American adults who apparently were never kids themselves. (see also Harry Potter & the "Sorceror's" Stone for a prime example of how adults think kids are stoopid)

• No One Piece? But, One Piece is like on of the worst manga/anime's to come out in years, truly awful in every way. A god awful joke of a story line, terrible animation, every character is worse then the last. So, may not be allowed, i nominate every character that has every been in One Piece.

• THE CAUSTIC MONKEY-FACED INVALID PRICK FROM EPISODE 10 OF PARANOIA AGENT! You know the one, the loser freak who's incompetence sabotaged every single step in producing the anime within an anime "Mellow Maromi". My God just thinking about his infection of a memory just festers beneath my skin. DIE YOU IN-BRED MOTHERF*****! DIE!

• In that time I could've defeated you! DEFEATED YOU!

• Tsuna Sawada from "Katekyo Hitman Reborn" could prove you wrong, showing that even the most angstiest, clinically depressed of teenagers is STILL. HUMAN. And that they can grow and change if ONLY their writers are smart enough to allow them to do that! Oh, and lest we forget, there's also Negi Springfield ("Negima"), Maya Kitajima ("Glass Mask"), and DEFINITELY Haruto Sakuraba ("Eyeshield 21") as valid comparisons how Shinji, as a character, sucks! so, yeah, sorry, but i have to call bullshit. DIE SHINJI!! -puts a bullet between the eyes-

• Or worse than Snake, for that matter?

• fantastic G Gundam? those words don't make sense together.

• Mellow-and-Near from Deathnote. I count them as one character. One boring stand-in character that only exists because the writer killed off an interesting character and then realized the story couldn't move ahead without him. Goddamnit, you kill off half of the only legitimately slashable pairing in the whole series and you replace him with those?! The last half of Deathnote was so fucking boring it should have just ended with Light killing L. I hope they have a fatal sexual accident involving livestock.

• i thought the dub for cowboy bebop was pretty good. but to me, pretty good=showing emotion. i hate when the voice actors in the english dubs just suck the soul out of a character and make them all sound dead and boring...

• yeah, but without ed, there'd be no MUSHROOM SAMBA ...gotta love jet tripping out and talking to the bonsais...

• I'm gonna have to go With Grimmjow from Bleach. Although not because he was a terrible character, but because he inspired one of my worst anime-related memories I have dubbed "Man-boobs Grimmjow." Tainted the memories of my first con.(It was small and most of the cosplayers actually did a good job)

• +1 for 08th MS Team!

• There were a lot more problems with Blue Gender than just Yugi. It was not a solid series driven into the ground. I think for me it wasn't just the severe character derailment of the two leads, it was the gratuitous slaughter of everyone who wasn't the main leads. and the twist at the end just felt like a giant "fuck you" from the writers. The last three episodes of Blue Gender made me rage so hard at the retardedness I got physically ill. no joke.

• ...I love you. Finally someone who isn't madly in lust with that annoying bastard.

• As a couple of side notes, Rob, did you get my email linking to how the repo team repossessed some larpers car? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqj9ctQHCXc Also I think we should get to submit 2 answers to these contests, 1 serious and 1 funny. Because I like to answer seriously but you only seem to award funny posts. Lastly, I think the next contest should be the best nerd story (fictional or real). I have a really nice plot-line that I think is great and there are some other story tellers here too.

• what about the.. "I'm Jesse!", "I'm James", "Meowth's the name", Pokemon that are far more useful, and from whatever region they're in, "WAABBUUFFEETT" So like..two really pointless scenes...think that shit is still fucking around.

• Yeah, I am surprised as well. With all the LELOUCH WAS A DOUCHE catchprases going around. I am surpised as well that Suzaku did not get a mention, either, he has many haters as well. I guess most of TR's base is made up of old guard who aren't into the new shows as much.

• Okay, everyone, Shinji was depressed... CLINICALLY depressed... Get over it. In the movie the director got tired of you guys complaining so he made it more violent than the series. I'm voting for Michel from Glass Fleet. Now I'd like to point out that Glass Fleet is the only anime I've ever hated in my entire life... and I've watched a good bit if anime (anyone remember my list? I think I got to G)... *Spoiler alert* Michel is trying to help the peoples army overthrow the corrupt nobles of the galaxy and is pretending to be her brother (she is a woman) to acomplish this. To do this she would have had to overthrow the emperor. Now eventually she ends up having to play second fiddle to a guy named Cleo, because he is the son of this kingdom with a super owerfull ship which he has, and is like destined to rule the galaxy, and because he crushes her ship (seriously crushed and sells for scrap, not even salvage... the show is mind-numbingly retarded btw). Now eventually Vetti (the emperor) catches her <B>AND RAPES HER</B>. Later when the shit hits the fan Cleo and Vetti fight and Vetti comes out alive... What does Michel do? Because the bullshit prophecy about the galaxy being divided and neeting to be reunited... she accepts that he is the new leader (even after rejecting the accepted religion of the GALAXY... whose was to enter a BLACKHOLE). BTW aside from the him-raping-her that she knew about, she didn't know the guy was a complete pycopath/lunatic/liar... Lets summarize: 1. Vetti raped her. 2. Vetti has a long history of being a brutal tyrant. 3. There was a obscure prophecy about how 2 brothers need to be united for there to be peace or some shit (again this is after rejecting the galaxies accepted religion... whose main goal was to enter a blackhole) 4. Vetti and Cleo fight and only Vetti returns. 5. Vetti is a lying scheming bastard. 6. Michel has shown she can lead the peoples army and I'm betting she could lead the new united people. So what happens? SHE DOESN'T FUCKING KILL HIM!!!! I just wanting to point out that REAL LIFE DOESN'T FUCKING WORK LIKE THAT, YOU DON'T LET PEOPLE LIKE THAT INTO POSITIONS OF POWER AGAIN NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY <B>SEEM</B> TO HAVE CHANGED! That was by far the worst most stupidest descion I have ever seen in any anime and thats why she DESERVES to be called the worst anime character.

• Off the top of my head: Kino's Journey Haibane Renmei Last Exile Planetes The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit Gunslinger Girl (first season) Now and Then, Here and There Not a panty shot or jiggling boob in the bunch, that I can recall. Though the last two venture into the 'fan-disservice' category at times.

• Okay seriously... my husband and I netflixed the first disk of Naruto just to see what all the damned fuss was about and couldn't make it thought the second episode. why? BELIEVE IT. Narutos voice has got the be THE WORST english dub (after that kids from Peacemaker, good christ) I've ever heard. We switched language tracks and he was STILL annoying. I was getting Inuyasha vibes (please see previous "Endless Story Full of Filler BS While Manga Catches Up With Anime Production" posts) Anyhow, that being said, I also find the heroine of Speed Grapher to be annoying as hell too. I get that shes sheltered but goddamn girl, the more she screams SAIGAAAAA the more I want the freak menagerie to kill her ass.

• that was hilarious. but not anime. lol.

• yeah that's pretty much how I feel. I forget who said it for the contest a while back but they likened Caska's decline as one may see their favorite loved one or family member slowly wither away and die. And that glimmer of hope of her regaining her sanity after being swallowed by the Zombie/Baby Mandrake Tree only to have her almost immediately revert to insane "oooh sparkley!" Caska. Although that was only on the game that came out for Dreamcast in the mid 90s.

• Keyop, from the Americanized verson of Gatchiman. Wow... did we really need a mush-mouth, stuttering, sputtering tardio on a team of SCIENCE NINJAS????? I know alot of people would rather have the cheese that was 7-Zark-7 on this BUT NO!! This kid in the Japanese show was a technical wizard and was as ass-kicking as the rest of the team. Why oh WHY did the American version need to resort to not only dumbing it down but making got eh low rad of it retarding it down. Damn. "Geeeebobeepop G-force in trouble"... really what gave you that idea Keyop-orky!

• Ed's my favourite, but that's not why I think your comment can die in a fire. They already have a female character? Fuck you so much. Women are slightly more than half of the population of earth. Is two female characters out of a main cast of four, one of whom is NOT zomg the hotness too damn much to ask?

• Not fair. You're the one judging her based on her looks... sure, she's hot, and she can behave in a stereotypically feminine way, but that doesn't mean she isn't an interesting character. She's motivated, driven, athletic, loving, loyal, fun-loving and ambitious. Also she has a totally kick-ass ability. She's kind of a hard-drinking big-sister type, like Misato from Evangelion, but with +100 I Would Hit That.

• You just made the horrific emotional trauma of watching Grave of the Fireflies worthwhile. I laughed even harder at this than I cried during the film. XD

• So what makes Gold worse than Silver?

• *I* says, whatever floats your boat. The more plausible the pairing, however, the better (for me, at least). Though I do like to giggle sometimes at really random pairings(like a threesome between Chizuru, Aizen, and Yuzu, or something like that) and, in fact, my sister and I sometimes play a game where we try to come up with the most random pairings we can (generally the characters should be within the same series). My preferred pairing in Bleach, however, is IchigoxUryu, simply because they already have chemistry in the series, and constantly bicker like an old, married couple. XD

• So let's take a look at that post if we translate the one foreign word into English. What you're saying translates into: "Uh, no you moron. American animation is NOT animation. Only animation is animation. And to think any American character is somehow animation, is an insult to American Animation." Yeah that makes a LOT of sense there :)

• I realize that someone has already mentioned Love Hina, and while I agree with their choice of 'Every character' (because that show is really fucking terrible), I'm going to go ahead and narrow it down to just one: Naru Narusegawa. While its true that all of the girl's in the house eventually partake in beating the snot out of Keitaro for little to no reason, Naru is the main instigator and often the most violent. Sometimes Keitaro doesn't even have to actually DO anything to make her angry! Most of the time her brutal attacks are started by Keitaro accidentally walking into her room while she's changing. However there has been at least one instance where she attacked him when she walked into HIS room while HE was changing, then she tells him that it was an 'involuntary response'. Yeah, 'involuntary response' my ass! Not only does this girl CLEARLY need some anger management sessions, but she should also probably be regularly seeing a therapist for her insecurity issues. I think that maybe I could forgive all of this if she had been raped or molested, but as far as I've been able to tell, that just isn't the case. Naru's vicious outbursts don't even change after she marries the guy! She marries him and STILL beats the shit out of him! SHE CONDONES DOMESTIC VOILENCE! Now all of that is bad enough, but its just a contributing factor to the reason that I truly despise Naru. The reason I really REALLY can't stand her? SHE'S SUPPOSED TO BE THE SMART ONE! She was supposed to have placed as one of the top students in the ENTIRE FUCKING NATION on the college practice exams! She can't even recognize her own mental and emotional problems! Hell, she doesn't even seem to have the mental capacity to realize when Keitaro does something seemingly perverse, its probably an accident. IT HAPPENS ENOGUH! YOU'D THINK SHE'D EVENTUALLY REALIZE! Seriously, if SHE'S supposed to be one of the smartest people in Japan, the nation is completely fucked.

• I always found "Ohh yeah, fuck me harder. Thats right, fuck my pussy, AHHH" "Yeah baby you like that? AHH" to be an actual turnoff. Honestly, I'd rather mute it than listen to that garbage. How is the moaning any worse?

• Tenchi Masaki of Tenchi Muyo! fame. Not because of his inability to choose someone, but because he held captive the emotions of ryoko. This isn't to say I was in love with ryoko, on the contrary, I was in love with her voice. Her sweet and sassy voice is what instantly made her attractive. Petrea Burchard was the voice actor who brought her to life and who enchanted me with her womanly wiles. For years as a virgin-nerd a part of me held a love-hate relationship for the animated man who was the reciepient of her lovely voice's verbal caresses. After awhile I got over the infatuation, and went on to simply enjoying it as an ordinary anime...that is, until one fateful day while driving through the Southern California Inland Empire on my way to school, the traffic report was announced on the radio. At first I did a double take and almost veered into the next lane, had my ears deceived me? NO! I sane! The new traffic reporter flying overhead in the x103.9 FM copter was none other than Petrea Burchard herself! My heart skipped a beat! Here she was ever so close to me, giving me the information I needed to get to school and home and vice versa safe and quick! My angel in the sky, Petrea Burchard/Ryoko. I felt as if I had finally won her away from the childish hands of that evil, vile, wretched Tenchi. HA

• I'd have to say Corkus from Berserk. While a badass and a more fleshed out foil in the mang; Corkus did little in the anime other than talk shit immediately after Guts does something badass. "Big deal so he killed 100 men in the woods at night with one hand, I'll kill him in his sleep because nobody likes me anymore" This is pretty much a standard mold for any situation in the anime when Corkus actually speaks. When he's not bitching about Guts doing something that would make Corkus shit a book on how to puke, he's just bitching "oh great the water is cold!" Or some asinine shit. For fuck's sake Corkus you're in the middle of a fucking moat in the middle of the night, sacking a goddamned castle, it's going to be cold! I love Berserk I really really do, I just fucking hate Corkus.

• Yes, but, as I said, once you find out that they can reincarnate (and that Chikane KNOWS THIS), it becomes apparent to anyone who takes a moment to think about it rather than just swallowing the narrative's line that being killed by Chikane could very well have been a better deal for Himeko than being tortured by her for days and then manipulated into killing her. So it was still utterly selfish of Chikane. The only way it makes any sense at all is if the reincarnation was dependent on the role reversal. And if it was, the narrative should have just SAID SO.

• I know he's been mentioned about 400x already, but I'm going with Shinji Ikari as well. Evangelion still remains one of my favorite anime, but even I find it harder and harder to watch whenever he goes into one of his hissy fits. I know Shinji was supposed to reflect the prototypical/emo Japanese teenager of the day but c'mon,..nobody is that frikkin' depressed. I came from a broken home and my dad bought my love when I was 13 years old with a Nintendo, and I was like, "Thanks Dad! You're the best ever!" and it was true. Shinji's dad got him a frikkin' giant robot to stomp around in and he was like, "I can't do this!" WTF?! no teenager would be like that! You couldn't get me out of that giant robot! What's that you say? You also arranged for me to live with 2 smoking hot chicks and one of them drinks booze and walks around half nekkid all day and there is also a FUCKING PENGUIN there?!? Sign me up! Any family issues have been long, long forgotten. Upon reflection, I guess you need a horrible character like Shinji, cause if you put a regular teenager in there the world wouldn't have made it past the 2nd impact because he would be too busy masterbating in his giant robot or in his room masterbating to his hot roommates and a FUCKING PENGUIN (I sense a FFF in there somewhere, but I bet out of the thousands of Eva hentai out there, it's been done every which way) So in summation I say Shinji sucks cause his unrealistic teenage character always took me out of what I consider a deeply engrossing anime.

• Hinamori from Bleach or Kira "EMO" Yamato from Gundam Seed. Fuck all this emo anime characters. Especially, Naruto. Since only one is needed, I say Kira.

• USAAAAAAGIIIIII! Sailor Fucking Moon. That whiny bitch makes Shinji Ikari look like Spock. Anyone who uses a screech/cry to defeat their enemies must have had a counterproductive upbringing.

• You forgot the part that his real name is one of the worst names in anime history. Especially his first name..that is just "Uhm..what?" quality.

• Thanks, I was planning to read it to see what all the fan love was about, but I guess I'll put that thought on a infinite hold ;)

• Casca from Berzerk. She started off pretty badass. Then BAM! she was useless. She couldn't fight cuz she was having her period and was always having griffith or Guts save her lame ass. Then she gets raped by a demon and turns into a zombie. I probably don't hate her character so much as what the series did to her.

• Yeah..I'll forever be puzzled by that. .. SPOILERS .. He kinda wants to get it on with Tsuzuki, but in the end, he finds it more important to kill his brother again. You'd think he would be happy someone killed his brother. But no. He just has to do it himself. Not to mention, if his brother would come back to life, he'll have a near immortal body. How was Muraki planning to kill him?

• Wow, after I posted my entry I decided to see if it was on YouTube and found this disturbing version of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHlnD-_9y2w Can't sleep, Christopher Llyod will eat me.

• Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. "Remember me Eddie? I TALKED JUST LIKE THIS!" While his eyes went all crazy. That part still makes me uneasy...

• What about Keyop?

• Dang you, Topless Robot. You beat me to Miaka. She is choice number one on the top of my head. Also the heroine of Ayashi no Ceres from the same author. But I forgot most of my annoyance about that character. And that is for he best. I'd also recommend Euphemia and Ougi from Code Geass. And Sasuke and Naruto from..well, Naruto. And a bunch of shounen heroes and shoujo heroines. But Miaka from Fushigi Yugi gets the number one spot in my raging black not-quite-otaku heart. Say what you want, but within 15 episodes her actions often left me dumbfounded and facepalmed. I have never seen so often a close-up of the palm of my hand in such a short time, watching a anime. The girl ends up in a strange, foreign world and instead of being careful and trying to blend in when possible, she gives in to impulses. A emperor in a Chinese feudal world would not give a gem from his crown (a imperial treasure, no doubt) to a random stranger (who asks for it) in the middle of a public procession on the street, right? But we're talking to Miaka who lacks common sense..so she figures that is actually a good idea. She takes on the role of saving a empire from destruction on a whim, lured by the idea of having wishes fullfilled. What will she do with that power? Wishing for food, having a great body, getting into any highschool she wants..etc. Not only did she not even ask what she exactly would have to do, but of all wishes she could make, she asks for the stupid, mundane things that she could get or manage to do in life without wasting a divine wish. At some point, Miaka loses blood. So what is the best thing to do? Let your harem volunteer to start cutting themselves for random blood transfusion. Stupidity knows no boundaries, when it comes to Miaka. She is a glutton. A brainless one. She is even prepared to steal food in a palace to eat (who cares if the servants could get punished or that it is a crime?). I know it is played for comedic purposes, but you would think that a table with fine food in the middle of a foggy forest is a sure sign of a trap. No hesitation on her part at all: she literally runs into it. And when she finds out it's a trap, she first goes to eat the food instead of immediately trying to find a way out to save herself and her harem from possibly a matter of life and death. But hey, why bother to be careful when everyone is trying to keep you alive and you are the savior of the country? Especially when you are on your own in a completely unfamiliar territory and people are after you. Even a dog would not throw himself at food if there is a chance at danger. Miaka is thus, officially lower than pretty much every animal. Like always, anything that screams "Danger!" and "Trap!" has a irresistible pull on Miaka. Thanks to her idiocy, she is in need of saving. A lot. So she is not just a by default damsel-in-distress, but also useless. And shouts at random that everything is her fault. Miaka is the also the only one who can say she was "saved" from a slow floating old log in water shallow enough to stand in... Every good guy, who has not had a lover before, falls for her at some point. If they don't fall for her in the main series, they will fall for her in the first 3 OVA's. Or the 6 epi's in the next OVA. Except for a somewhat cute appearance she has nothing going for her. If the viewer is supposed to identify with her being a "average girl", it's a big fail. In the well known friends-become-foes plot, in which she is with the "good guys", I still could not root for her. She is dumb. She does not try to cooperate to keep herself safe from harm and everyone accepts it and loves her! There are also a couple of rape attemps (the author seems to like the whole rape thing in general..). You'd think such a serious subject would be dealt with a dose of realism. Now, for some reason Miaka (and Yui) believes she is raped. Based on..absolutely no evidence. The villain just has to be suggestive enough and she believes she is raped. Did it ever occur to any character that you'd notice if someone had raped you? Her virginity is actually a major plot element: without it, she can't be the priestess and not save the country from dooooom. Kinda awkward that the livelyhood and future of an entire empire and its people hinges on whether a brainless girl from another world is able to keep her virginity...while being escorted by a group of bishounen, with couple of them being in love with her. Tamahome! Miaka should stop shouting it already. And there should come a end to the "Miaka!" too. Typical, stupid shoujo rule that the girl must end up with the first guy she meets. Seriously, what's the point of having a harem, if it is obvious from the first episodes what the pairing will be? Still, the melodrama and sappy love story drags on..and on..and on. After all, 52 epi's is not enough to repeat the same angsty romance issues. You also need the OVA's, just to force anyone still watching, to utter despair. Plus, she is probably the most universally hated anime girl from a loved "classic" anime. The anime in general is loved, but it's probably the bishounen who save the show.. And for anyone who hates Sailor Moon, Miaka mimics the poses and even said one of the lines of Usagi. So that would be a bonus reason to invoke the ire of some viewers. I hope that at least one Miaka entry will be mentioned, because she is such a poorly thought out character.

• I am actually NOT going to pick an anime character. Instead, I nominate every single lazy cosplayer with a crappy costume! As awful as some of the anime characters are, someone too lazy to put together a decent costume of that character is infinitely worse! For example, one year at Gen Con I saw some adult wearing cut off jeans shorts, a Twisted Sister t-shirt, and sporting a Naruto headband made out of tinfoil! So, yeah, that was infinitely worse than Naruto could ever be. And that is just one example of a crappy cosply costume!

• To begin with, I'd like tell all those taking the time to bash anime and anime fans to fuck off, assholes. We get it. You don't like anime. I suggest you return to your respective nerd circles of choice, if only for your own peace of mind. You're neither needed nor wanted here. Go troll elsewhere. * ---Now, most of what people here are railing against are archetypes: the idiotic yet pure-hearted antagonist (a la Naruto, Goku, Vash), the untouchable, aloof anti-hero/rival fan-favorite (Vegita, Hiei, Byakuya), the abusive yet compassionate heroine (Bulma, Kagome, Whinry), the smug cocky villain (Aizen, Naraku, Cell), and many more. In these cases, the objections seem to spring more from the extend to which these characters embody these recycled archetypal traits or the situations in which the archetypal character is cast that render their behaviors preposterous. As such, the complaints are not necessarily unique to the character in question, but are criticisms of this genre's cliches in general. * ---In some respects, my choice, Code Geass' Milly Ashford, reflects such a bias, but I believe that my objections expand beyond it. So in order to illustrate my point, I'll outline what I feel are her demerits, based on six criteria: character, role within the story, archetype, plot relevance, degree of exposure, and character potential. * 1. Character * ---The character of Milly is that of a stereotypical rich ditzy: loud, bubbly, overly exuberant, scatter-brained, and overly concerned with romances, especially within her peer group. She serves as class president of a large school founded by her grandfather; a role whose responsibilities or entitlements are never explored beyond the separate on campus mansion given to her committee for meetings, and the ability to throwing over-the-top theme parties, which she does regularly and prioritizes seemingly above all else. * 2. Explicit Role within the Story/Character Progression * ---As far as I can tell, Milly has no real role in the story. She's a shallow, party-planning class president that sexually goads and humiliates others within the school, including an agent posing as a teacher. The extent of this needling doesn't rise to the level of fanservice and it is not played-up enough to pass as comedy, so it doesn't even have those excuses to fall back on. Nor do these instances have any effect on the target outside the short-term. What she does do is instigate many of the filler stories. These stories include a school-wide hunt for a cat, fireworks parties, the use of war machines for creating giant pizzas, and a bizarre hunt among students to place heart-shaped hats on a member of the opposite sex in order to claim them as their boy/girlfriend. She's briefly engaged, but that subplot goes nowhere, and becomes a news correspondent after graduation, which was postponed after she intentional tanked so she could stay in school another year. ---She's viewed as a role model, without demonstrating leadership, intelligence, or anything other than confidence, persistence, and the organizational skill necessary to, again, throw impossible extravagant parties endlessly. At one point, the character Nina demands acknowledgement from her for he accomplishments as the story goes on, hinting that Milly was in someway responsible for her pursuit of respectability; however, given the much more explicit admiration she had for the character Euphemia and her desire to impress her, which were undeniably the underlying reason for her drastic character transformation, this exchange felt incredibly forced and shoehorned. * 3. Archetype (a.k.a. Implicit Role within the Story) * ---Milly is a member of the family/pseudo-family archetype. Character here within serve as living photographs; their purpose is to have concern for their safety and well-being morally ground the character or incentivize their self-sacrifice; they needn't necessarily affect the plot or impact the reader, directly. They aren't prominently featured as to maintain an air of innocence and benevolence and dependency which compels the antagonist to defend them and not go off the deep-end. Having such a narrow role and one that is devoid of sustentative complexity, these characters are among the weakest (story-wise); not just in anime, but across all genres. In this story, the people who serve as the family/pseudo-family are a gang of vapid pep rally cheerleaders who collectively constitute (imo) the most insipid school-themed subplot in literary history. ---But among them, Milly is the most exaggerated, the most "powerful" and most purposeless. The others respectively serve as the love interest, the painfully bland best friend, the stereotypical wallflower, and younger sibling who is the antagonist's standard for purity. Milly can best be described as the protagonist's superior within the school. But with her duties apparently confined to continuous party-planning, her powers over him are virtually non-existent (occasionally he has to postpone his machinations to comply with her demands, but these times only amount to easily brushed off inconveniences; nothing that affects or alters anything). Without a strong interpersonal bond with the antagonist that drives him to act with her well-being in mind, she fails in her within her archetype. She's not the face of a world that needs defending, even in the mind of the person seeking to defend it. And given her larger exaggerated traits that are ultimately irrelevant to the larger plot, or even smaller subplots, she fails to rise above the confines of her archetype and become something more. * 4. Plot Relevance * ---The plot, as I'm sure you're aware, is concerned with Lelouch, a magically empowered boy channeling his anger over family tragedy into the overthrow of an empire, followed by the establishment of his own empire, and ultimately ending with the world coming together to depose him. It deals with racism, neo-imperialism, nuclear war, terrorism, elitism, the corrupting influence of power, ends vs. means, and maybe an Oedipal Complex or two (how effectively it tackles these issue is a matter of opinion). Nowhere in here can her ditzy, sub-comedic antics be even mistakenly construed as relevant. As mentioned earlier, she mostly creates filler. In the best case scenario, and this is a stretch, she could serve as the embodiment of the sheltered, complacent, privileged class which Lelouch seeks to topple. But this explanation is defeated in that she is designed to endear herself to the viewer. She isn't nationalistic or racist or abusive beyond romantic hijinks. What's more, Lelouch doesn't show any contempt for this setting; indeed he takes comfort in it. ---As a reporter, all she does is dryly report (not a criticism so much as highlighting her unnecessary presence). She never causes, is affected by, or provides commentary/information on the events she covers. Story-wise, she's the face of the information as received by the people within that world, but it could just as easily been anyone else, or a specifically created new character. Nothing she does in this capacity benefits from her history, personality, or insight. * 5. Degree of Exposure * ---I would be more inclined to relegate her to the "worthless side-characters not worth recalling" bin if she didn't have as high a profile as she does within the story. While she very rarely overshadows the primary players and her role diminishes considerably during the second part of the series, I believe that the attention and she does get, which far and exceeds that given to many supporting players more interesting and/or crucial to the plot, acts as a significant enough distractions as to noticeably disservice the plot. * 6. Character Potential * ---And the final nail in the coffin is that she, in at least two capacities, had the potential to be, if not an appealing character, a relevant one. Firstly, her family history ties her to Lelouch's in that they know of Lelouch and his sister's pedigree and history, and protect their identity. Never, though, is her or her family's connection to him or his sister explored, never does it endanger her, never is it used as an impetus for her or Lelouch's actions. In fact it's never really acknowledged after it is established, which squanders an opportunity for compelling conflict for her and the protagonists on the personal level. Additionally it makes her obliviousness to Lelouch's alter-ego all the more nonsensical. ---The second instance of wasted potential is her bizarre engagement arc. Her she was set to marry the chief scientist/weapons engineer for the state military (an aristocrat) so her family could regain some of its lost status. Again, the engagement was seldom spoken of, and mostly in passing in those rare instances; the only thing rarer was screentime shared by the two. In the end she just called it off. Just like that. And neither side seemed to appear much more than indifferent to the dissolution. The potential for relevance comes from the opportunities to (A.) demonstrate her ability to assert herself, which would have happened if the dissolution amounted to more than a meekly proposed request that was apathetically accepted, (B.) explore the politics of aristocracy within that world through case study, and (C.) influence larger events, as her fiance, served in an extremely vital capacity in all of the story's conflict (plus he could have been fleshed out better, himself). * ---So in summation, I believe my candidate for most awful character, Code Geass' Milly Ashford, warrants the title due to her grating personality, her irrelevance to the plot, her poor progress trajectory, her failure to either fulfill the purpose of her archetype or transcend it, her disproportionate exposure given all the above, and her inability to realize her very real potential as a interesting and relevant character. Now I advise you to get up and stretch your legs. They may have atrophied by now.

• There can only be one. So i'll nominate LYNN KAIFUN from "SDF Macross"/"Robotech". From the Moment he first shows up in the Story he states that he hates the Military (witch includes essentially every Person that showed up to his Wellcome Party at his Aunt's Restaurant). Witch get's more and more infuriating over the corse of the Show since we as Audience See Hikaru, Roy, Max & Co risk there lifes day after day battling the Zentradi/protecting the Civilians aboard the SDF-1 for more than a Year. But not only badmouthes the Ass-hat the Military that does it's best with the limited resources they have, he also tries to get in to his Cousin's Minmay's Pants. After Space War one the lazy bastard survives by pimping out Minmay's Singing to the masses as her Manager. All while becomming even a bigger Dick, who belittles and slaps around his only source of income. He also drinks heavily when he's not ralling up the masses against the Military who protects the civilians from roaming Zentradi and up hold the Law out side the rebuild Citys. Witch results with the lose of very important Equipment that the Anti-U.N. Zentradi use to strenghten there ranks. He starts out unlikable and trough out the Show only get's worse. Adding on bad Cliche after another to his already rotten Character. Some one should have stepped on his dumb ass/back handet him with a Valkyrie.

• Chris Thorndyke from Sonic X. He makes big look awesome.

• I prefer Rukia/Orihemai. What says you to that?

• You know, it's funny, my first thought was also Miaka. She actually wasn't that bad, but I understand EXACTLY why people think she is: because when the one thing you do through the majority of the series is scream "TAMAHOMETAMAHOMETAMAHOMEEEEEEE," people forget everything else about your character. But she had some fun personality quirks, particularly at the beginning of the show. Granted, they're quirks lifted wholesale from Sailor Moon's Usagi, but that doesn't make them any less endearing to me. And she believes in and inspires her friends, and loves them unconditionally - even Yui. That alone should win her a few points. The big problem with Miaka (and with Usagi, for that matter) is simply that she lets her man define her for so much of the show. But that's Japanese culture for you. Now, as for the ABSOLUTE WORST character... Let me get back to y'all on that.

• For the record, on average, real swordfights last for 3 swings.

• Dude, I've seen a lot of Clamp stories to know that they reuse the same old shit all over again, and that they are dead freaky with pairings and storylines. I do agree that one of Sakura's friend's love of her teacher (which is felt back) is creepy, but i stil find the way Tomoyo clings to Sakura is freaked out. Don't blame me for the way i interperate this, blame Clamp.

• The worst anime characters are the 'mascot' characters that appear in shonen titles - cute little buggers that serve as the comic relief (for a modern example, see the mod souls of Bleach fame). However, Dragonball GT has the most annoying example by far. Now anyone who watched anime in the 90's watched Dragonball Z. As a child I was addicted to it. When I heard about Dragonball GT being crap I naturally decided to give it a chance. The first few episodes were actually pretty good and I thought it was nice that the focus had shifted to the comedy stylings of a classic hunt for the dragonballs. Then along came Giru. Giru is by far the worst character to piss all over a beloved shonen series. He's a robot who in his first apperance eats the dragon radar (greatly hindering the protagonists search) and procedes to annoy the fuck out of the audience with his every apperance. He has it all! Annoying voice, terrible attempts at humour, far too much screen time and generally acting like a dick (frequently putting everyone's life in danger as a result). To top it all off, the dragon radar becomes fused with his systems, meaning the protagonists have to keeep him with them on their search for the dragonballs (joy of joys!). This alone wouldn't be enough to hate him - so far he's only slightly worse than the average mascot. However, what makes him the absolute worst is that he BETRAYS the heroes, turns them over to their enemy and put's their lives in mortal danger (moreso than normal). Worse yet, when he finally apologises they FORGIVE HIM IMMEDIATLY! To add insult to injury, Giru is one of only 3 characters to not die during the series. Remember, Dragonball is a series infamous for killing damn near everyone in the series at least once, and the little bastard gets away scot free! Where is the Justice!? Dragonball GT could have been good, or at the very least, forgettable. However, Giru ensures that any child who watches GT will remember it as the absolute low point of their childhood and the begining of a rapid decent into lowered expectations, crushed hopes and alcohol abuse. THAT is why Giru is the most awful anime character!

• I'm gonna go with this again(same as my one magic bullet character.) Yajirobe....everytime he would be in an episode of DBZ would just ruin the whole episode and his part in one of the movies where he has the senzu beans for Goku and says "Oh ya, I'm the BEAN DADDY" will stick with me forever in nightmares.

• My vote is for Sir Isaac Newton. Now bear with me. First this bastard ruins everyone's childhood both in waking and sleeping life. He writes his Principia, laying the foundation of classical mathematics and thus indirectly laying the groundwork for a long tradition of forcing kids like ME to waste a whole period every day studying multiplication so we can become "better citizens" or some shit. And then he ruins my dreams by coming up with this whole gravity thing that says I <i>can't</i> just jump off my parent's roof and fly like Superman, go to Mars and destroy the mole people with laser beams. Fast forward a bit and here's teenage j-me discovering the vast depth of entertainment and camraderie in the slowly growing anime community on this side of the pacific. After having gotten through primary school on stuff like Sailormoon, she's moving on to bigger, more "mature" things. Every week the local university anime club holds screenings of such mysterious and marvelous fare as Captain Tylor, Rurouni Kenshin, and Escaflowne. Toward spring, the remaining episode counts are dwindling, the shows are moving to their climaxes, the answers to all the mysteries will SOON BE REVEALED, things are starting to get REALLY EXCITING!!! and... wait. Just... wait a second. Rewind. .... what. the. flying. <b>fuck?!</b> Emperor Dornkirk is Sir Isaac Newton?? Thanks, asshole. You've now ruined my youthful faith that anime is superior to "cartoons" and that I'm part of something special. That's how Isaac Newton ruins adolesence.

• I thought she just did all that shit so she wouldn't have to kill her again...

• I'm just going to go out on a limb and say Serena/Sailor Moon. And by that I mean specifically, the Sailor Moon from the awful Americanized dub. Throughout the entire run of that series, she was the most shrill, spoiled, whiny brat I've ever come across in Anime. All she ever does is bitch and complain about how much she hates being Sailor Moon because it takes up all her time for important things like boys and other dumb teenage crap. Despite being the leader of the Sailor Scouts, she's largely incompetent, clumsy and dimwitted. If she didn't have her friends to bail her out all the time, she'd have been killed off within the first couple episodes.

• http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/domo/ That's why.

• The most awful anime character is Ninja Ninja from Afro Samurai. As an anime fan and NOC (nerd of color) I'm always searching for characters that look like me. So when Afro Samurai first came out I was very exicited. Then within the first five minutes I see Ninja Ninja and he nearly ruined the whole thing for me. Ninja Ninja is nothing more than a modern day minstrel character who adds nothing to the show. He only shows up to say something like, "Damn Afro you f*cked him up something terrible!" or "That girl got a big ole ass you should holla at her Afro!" He's loud, buffoonish for no reason and just embarrasing to black people. When he finally got "killed" at the end of the series all I could say was thank God.

• I think my most hated anime character is Sesshomaru from InuYasha. I didn't mind him so much in the beginning, he was an aloof pretty boy who wanted revenge. Id seen it before, so okay. Then the last 100 or so chapters of the series happened. It was like Rumiko Takahashi figured out that the fanbase adored the guy and featured him more. ...Sure? Let's recount: The Hell arc was basically, "Aw he cares about Rin" fodder to the over 9000 level. He got another sword. I was expecting this, but not to the god-moding level that it's at. In the same god-moding sword incident, HE GOT HIS MISSING ARM BACK! I mean, really? I don't care if the explanation was that he got over his Tetsusaiga obsession, that arm should have not magically reappeared. But the biggest thing that gets me is this: He replaced Kouga in the final battle. I don't care if nobody really liked the wolf, he had a reason for going after Naraku that should have been dealt with, but wasn't. For Sesshomaru, aside from having Rin stolen again, he had no real reason to be there. Kouga did. Having Sesshomaru present for the final instead of Kouga made me hate him by the end of the series.

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