Anything from Inuyasha. If I need to explain this, you've never watched good anime to know the difference. May God have pity on your soul if that's the case.

Failing that, I'd go with the princess from Voltron. Cuz C'mon.

I don't hate anime! I just don't watch it! CURSE YOU, BRICKEN! I'm never gonna get a shirt at this rate.
This is gonna take some thought. I only ever really watch Miyazaki stuff....

Lynn Minmay from Macross/Robotech Saga. Dear god, I have to cringe every time I hear the phrase "To be in love...".

There's no fucking question about it, it's Gendo Ikari. Now, he's quite the bad ass, obviously, but he's easily biggest asshole of a character that has ever existed. Let's just take a few seconds to recount his unparalleled dickishness...

Disowned his kid, warping him into a whiny little cunt.

He put his dead wife's soul into a giant robot, which seems awesome, but is quite the douche move, considering the EVAs periodically have large tubes containing emo kids inserted into their spinal columns.

He fucks a chick's mom, gets her killed, then fucks the aforementioned chick years later, THEN shoots her into a pool of angel blood.

He seemingly makes up for all his dealings with Shinji by giving him a giant robot, which every kid wants. How is this evil? He paints the thing fucking bright purple. Not cool.

He eventually gets tired of having a little bitch for a kid and clones his dead wife into the kid he really wanted, then forces his real kid to work with her constantly. Meaning, not only is he torturing Shinji by making him work with a kid that his own father pays more attention to, he's making him form a romantic relationship with a chick who is basically his mom, possibly just so he can laugh at him and call him a mother fucker behind his back.

He triggers the end of the world, then feels it necessary to feel Rei, an underage clone girl, up before shit gets real. Sure, it may look like he's doing to combine ADAM and LILITH, but he's really just a flaming pedobear. Why else would he have Rei and Asuka run around in skin tight scuba suits all the time?

In the end, yeah, he's awesome, but he's easily the biggest asshole in the medium of anime.

4kids.

Worse character ever: the tentacle monster. From: hentai at large. Explanation: I... I don't really need to explain, do I?

This isn't really an anime character but the first thing that popped in to my head was the narrator from Dragon Ball Z.
Yes, I know Vegita's dead; you don't need to tell me at the beginning of every single episode after the fact. GAH! That was annoying.
I always ended up fast forwarding.

All of them that aren't from Trigun.

Koenma in Yu Yu Hakusho. It's bad enough to have someone withhold knowledge and expect you to solve any (and every) problem that crops up with out it, but this kid, is a kid. As in baby.

The annoying voice really seals it, and all the comic relief he's supposed to be is ruined.

What about 4Kids versions of One Piece characters? They all suck.

And if not than Naruto. Nobody can argue otherwise that Naruto is not a terrible, terrible character.

Makoto Itou from the school days anime. do I even NEED to explain what is wrong with this litle fucker?(no pun intended)

I know this is going to be viewed as a Troll, but....

Can there possibly be anyone worse than Shinji Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion?

Seriously?

Look, let's just pull straight from the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinji_Ikari

Start at Paragraph 2, sentence 2 under "Asuka."

..."At the start of the movie, Shinji is shown with Asuka in her hospital room, begging her for help and trying to rouse her from unconsciousness. He accidentally pulls loose her vital sign monitors, exposing her breasts; he masturbates to this sight, but is horrified and disgusted with himself for doing so."

Followed later in the same paragraph with, "...Again, he begs Asuka for help, while also revealing his true feelings for Asuka ("I want to help you [in some way]... and to stay with you....You're the only person who can help me.") Asuka denies his pleas, attacking (in her view) the selfish nature of his perceived motives. Overwhelmed with his own hopelessness, Shinji loses control and strangles her."

Seriously, what else needs to be said?

the entire cast of k-on.
even though i have wasted countless hours of my life watching pointless youtube clips, staring into the refrigerator, stoning, trying to cure my hangover etc... i have never ever felt as empty as watching a single episode of k-on. not to mention the entire series.
the gags are unfunny, the characters are plain dumb and they don't even give off the slightest sense of eroticism. not to mention that it hardly has a storyline (it being a slice-of-life and all....).
even after watching macross frontier, i don't get the feeling of having my soul drained as much as watching k-on.
give me FFF anytime. at least that's entertaining while it crushes my soul...

oh this is easy, it has to be sakura from naruto. i swear I've never seen such a useless person. all she does is cry hold a kunai and then cry some more saying thats she too weak and begs some one else to help her, or promise herself to do better but she doesn't. she a complete douch, like the show isn't bad enough these days without her being in it.

I imagine I'm going to tick somebody off for this, but for me, the title of Most Awful Anime Character has to go to Vash the Stampede.

And, yes, I know. I know he throws off his insipid wackiness by series' end and that the whole thing is supposed to be some sort of long con. But, god damn it, you can't center a show, any show, around a character that is so annoying I'm constantly rooting against him. I can't tell you how many times I wished his enemies would just fucking end him. He's like the horrifying love-child between Jar Jar Binks and Edward from Cowboy Bebop-- a soul-crushingly, yet competent, irritant that you simply can't shut up or turn off. If he were my child, I would sympathize with all those parents who "accidentally" kill their kids. Seriously, I hate Trigun, despite it being a decent show (when considering the overall story and the other, much, much better supporting cast), because of Vash the Stampede's characterization throughout the first half of the series. God, I wish I could put his creator in the middle of Pamplona's Running of the Bulls and, once he's crushed to death by the rampaging horde of beef, quip, "How's that for a stampede?"

Also. That hair. Absurd even by Anime standards. Everything about Vash is just... fucking ugh.

My vote for worst character is Yuki from the Vampire Knight series. The reason being, is very close to the same reason I hate the Twilight series. She's a high school girl who is supposedly so clueless and naive to see that she is a total cock tease. Not just any cock tease, but plays against both the humans and the vampires. She knows damn well what she's doing and is the most evil character in the series for putting the guys through the turmoil she instigates. Every problematic situation in the series has its roots back to her and her supposed innocence. She knows good and well what she's doing and I know behind the scenes, she laughs maniacally at all the trouble she causes. Someone should have bled her out in the first episode and saved us all a lot of trouble.

Ash from Pokemon, asides from the obvious reasons and he didnt ball the bloody rodent, I worked in a kindergarten during on one of the peaks of Pokemoncraze.
Try to work with children whose primary interaction is: "Pikachu, I choose you" and Pika Pika

Bonusinfo: In Danish and on other Scandinavian languages Pikachu sounds like dick-anchovy

Holy shit, RIni from Sailor Moon, I fucking hated that little shit. But then who the fuck doesn't hate her? Whiney brat from the fucking future.. treating her mother like shit, but the main reason I hated her so goddamn much is that she was like friends with Sailor Pluto and I fucking loved Pluto, so that wasn't fucking fair...my childhood hatred being friends with my favourite fuck that...but I still love Pluto!

it's hard to say; I rarely hate characters. I guess Thundercats doesn't count - else my choice would be the snarf. in hindsight my manual should have been about how to breed them out of existence but I think I made my feelings clear there especially witht the black box. that said, if I were forced to choose, it would have to be Kikyo. bitch should have stayed dead for starters. plus, she never really did love Inuyasha, she just used him in a selfish plot to get rid of the jewel (by having him use it to make a wish and become human) that way should be free to live the life of a normal woman. how dare she! and then when she came back as a doll/zombie she just had to keep leading Inu was from Kagome and all of that. not that Kagome was any better, sitting him and everything, but at least Kags isn't out to drag Inu into hell with her.

The answer is the ENTIRE cast of Love Hina.
"Hey! Let's reamke a really wonderful series like Maison Ikkoku and totally strip away its soul... no one wil know the difference!"

If it is a single character?

Coul anything be worse than Anzu-chan from Hanamaru Kindegarten?

I mean c'mon, a Kindergarten age kid trying to make her teacher fall for her is 10000000% worse than Nymphet, another reprehensible series...

I'm going to open myself to ridicule here and say Vash the Stampede from Trigun. I know most people love this guy, but his stance as a pascifist (a.k.a. giant pansy) is directly responsible for the death of the greatest Anime charecter ever, Nicholas D. Wolfwood. And for that there can be no forgiveness...

Also, He allows the man who tried to wipe out the entire human race live. Yes it was his half brother Knives, but the guy was batshit insane and probably beter off dead.

Anyway, just my two cents.

Whoever that damn stretchy pirate guy was from that one show. Yeah, way to rip off Mr. Fantastic AND Jack Sparrow, Japan. Anime, Lol, am i rite?

No, my answer is pretty simple. Amuro Ray, simply because he's an ungrateful asshat. Do you know how many other ten year olds would give their testicles to be badass hotshot robot pilots you snot nosed sniveling brat? It's not like he got cooler as he grew up. he was such a chud that he ended getting upstaged by a 'dead' guy that came back to life and named himself Quattro Vageena? Seriously, you're more of a pussy than a guy who nearly (re)named himself 'four vaginas'?

anyone from death note because they are all emo/gay/stupid peaces of shit and only spawn more and more otaku/emo idiots.
(f.y.i: before anyone atacck me, there´s nothing wrong in being gay)

Naruto Uzumaki

My vote's for Mikuru from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Most of the cast is pretty likeable despite being total stereotypes (snarky male lead, overbearing genki girl, silent robot alien/Rei-clone, overly-nice psychic guy of questionable sexuality), but Mikuru takes every moe stereotype and amplifies it to unbearable levels. Gratingly squeaky voice, huge tits even though she looks about 8, breaks down crying at the slightest provocation, gratuitous maid outfits, you name it. She's a time-traveler, but a completely helpless one. To be fair, Haruhi literally picked her for the team BECAUSE she's a huge moe stereotype, but it doesn't make her any less annoying.

I'll throw my hat into the ring and say Ichigo from Bleach. I've never been a fan of the heroes that win "because they have to," or that get stronger, just get insulted/depressed because someone is stronger than them. To make the whole situation even more ridiculous, when that epic battle finally happens and he is about to lose...he hears someone tell him he HAS to win, and pulls out that last bit of power that makes him stronger than ever. How many "power up" reserves he has? If every one were just as fueled by raw encouragement as he is I think the world would be a far far better place.

Hmm...that's a hard one. There are so many annoying characters out there. I'd have to say Kaname Chidori from Full Metal Panic. The most annoying female besides Sakura from Naruto as I suspect she will be on this list a lot.

James, the Team Rocket dude, from the Pokemon anime. Dude's got freakin' ISSUES relating to his sexual...whatever. He's way too lovey-dovey with his sister--who is, in all fairness, hawt--and at one point he dressed up like a chick as a disguise and seemed to not mind. At all. He acted the part with clarity and conviction.

It's a fucking kid's show.

Volkan and Dortin in "Orphen." Oh God, they were so annoying. The main story of "Orphen" is actually pretty dramatic and a really good fantasy story. But then these two dwarves (I assume they're dwarves, either that or they're just in super deformed all the time) show up all the time just to annoy the lead characters and pad out the 24 episodes.

And then apparently some genius looked at "Orphen" and said, "Hey, you know what that needed? More Volkan and Dortin!" And they made "Orphen: The Revenge," which basically makes them main characters and spends more time on meaningless unfunny filler than actual plot, which could fill all of about 6 episodes. Even the characters who weren't annoying, or were at least bearable, get turned into obnoxious idiots who are only there to make repetitive gags. It's horrible. It's the worst anime sequel I've ever seen, even worse than the third season of "Hell Girl," which I generally try to pretend doesn't exist. It is an abomination, and it at least 80% the fault of Volkan and Dortin. Orphen ought to have killed them off in the first series for pissing him off. That would have been awesome.

Most characters from Naruto, because of the fandom's response to them. Even though I have some of the volumes and enjoy the series, it's the main reason why anime fans are associated with assholes who speak mangled Japanese, refuse to read an american comic book and are obsessed with a country because they have a cool popular culture. It's people like this that make me sad that I love Bleach and Haruhi Suzumiya.

Since the obvious pic of Shinji Ikari was already taken (in my circle of friends, admittedly quite a small circle, ok fuck it, both of us, use the term 'Shinji' if the other is being flaky, noncommittal, or just a total ass. As in "Dude, stop being such a fucking Shinji". But I digress), I'll have to go with my second pic, who is awful by sheer annoyance.
That would be Rurouni Kenshin's premier cheerleader character, Sadojima Hoji. Although valuable through his skills as Shishio's administrative assistant, in all the fight scenes between Kenshin and Crew, he clenches his fists and wails "Shishio-sama" as if he is some starving infant mewling for a load from Shishio's mummified member. Along with endless play by play prattering on the fights as the unfold, he acts as an annoying announcer/narrator/glee club captain. He's so pathetic that in the end, after the Mad Mummy combusts and dies, he takes his own life as it no longer has any meaning for him.
For being an annoying, dickless loser with no self-worth, Hoji-san gets my vote with Shinji already taken.
Runner-up: Anything and anyone associated with Kokoro Library. Fuck you all.

Megumi Kobayashi from Welcome to the NHK. She preys on a socially inept and metally unstable hikikomori, the series protagonist Tatsuhrio Sato and convinces him to buy into a pyrimid scheme by playing on his obvious weaknesses.

Not only that but her voice actor is annoying and I just don't like how she looks in the anime. She looks like a bitch and clearly she is.

Sasuke from Naruto. That guy is the most horrendous Gary Stu that has ever been animated. He can do anything with this plot device called "Sharingan" without having to actually practise anything. The author just spends the whole time showing off how incredible the character is and even cuts out ridiculous amounts of time from the main character in the process.

Why they didn't choose the name for the series as Sasuke is beyond me because frankly said everything revolves around him. Sasuke is speshul little snowflake; he's the last of his kind, he's so hot that every chick is drooling after him and he can magically act like a dick and get away with it without any consequenses. He constantly changes the people around him and it's not for the better direction. He turned Naruto into a whining emo kid, he made Orochimaru seem like a pedo and he made Sakura seem like a useless no good wall flower, but his character has not evolved at all.

For some reason we are supposed to be amazed by his talent, but everytime I look at the character I just want to rip him into pieces. Seriously, every other character spends ridiculous amounts of time learning things while Sasuke just snaps his Sharingan on and learns it in that instant. I just wish they would kill him off and the series would have happy ending.

Uchiha Sasuke from Naruto. Seriously, the show is called Naruto, but the real focus is the emo wangsting and whiny douchebaggery of a bishi anti-hero. He bitches and acts like an arrogant little fuck in Part I, runs away, defects to the enemy, and then beats up his best friend. In Part II, he gains cheap h4x0r powers goes batshit insane, causing the show to once again focus on his problems and motivation. Instead of all the side characters interacting with Naruto, you have all of them doing various things to deal with Sasuke. He makes an already lame show suck even more, and that's worse than one lame character in a good show.

I would also agree with SpecterM91 and add that Gendo's son is on par with being one of the shittiest anime characters of all time (in hindsight).

I'm tempted to just say Goku's daughter-in-law after last week.

But no. No, I'm going with Kekko Kamen. She has some OVA so it counts. I realize it's parody but it's not funny, it's shallow, it's repetitive, and it's one hell of a mixed message. "The penalty for sexually humiliating women is to have a naked superhero rub her crotch on your face." As satire it fails, as titillation for people who don't get the joke it fails, and as entertainment it punishes. Who would have thought a naked rabbit superhero would be so boring?

See, I could even forgive KK if it was straight-up hentai. It takes diff'rent strokes to move the world, I don't begrudge anybody their fantasies...But it's not even that. It's an 11 year old kid's idea of hentai. They know they want the girl to get naked, they just don't know what comes next. And there is a fucking EMPIRE based on this that ends up making Japan not only look perverted but juvenile, and JAPAN DOES NOT NEED ANY HELP IN BEING EITHER OF THOSE THINGS. Similarly, I could abide this being just another terrible senshi program about fighting sexual harassment; even if it was terribly boring I might applaud it as a lonely, lonely bright spot in Japanese gender politics. But no. Her finishing move is killer scissoring.

Leave us not forget, Lenny, that KK was never even supposed to get approved. This was one of those concepts that even her creator thought was too stupid to actually live. Put this bunny down.

The worst anime character has to be Gonad the Barbarian. If this doesn't win, I have lost my faith in humanity. There is no need for explanations, if you have seen it, you know. If you havn't seen it, you are among the lucky few. Do not seek out the terror that lies within.

Krillin from The Dragon Ball Universe, he's died like 7 times, isn't funny, and only makes for good target practice, why anyone thinks he's cool is a mystery to me, he's worthless.

I'm not a huge anime fan. The only anime series that I own is "Gundam Wing" (shut up, it's awesome!), and I haven't really watched anything else very faithfully. But there was one series that was on the SyFy channel on Mondays, of which I can't even remember the title, but the basic plotline was this:
young noble hero kid teams up with various misfits, learns to use his special sword, and gets into fights with members of the group who killed his father(?), though he actually turns out to be still alive later in the series... Anyway, there's a small creature included in their group that bugs the shit out of me - this thing is small, white, and has some weird narwhale-like thing protruding from its face. It's mentioned in the opening theme song during the intro: "a dog with a carrot for a nose". I have never seen anything that looked less like a dog, carrot for a nose or not. And not only does this creature not look like a dog or any other animal whatsoever, it's annoying as hell. THAT is the worst anime character ever - so hateful that I don't even have to know its name or the name of the series from whence it came. I hope you die, you stupid little not-dog!

Joey from the first Yugioh series. Not only was he a ridiculous characature/negative stereotype of what Japanese people must picture New Yorkers sounding/acting like, he was a cocky little whiner.

Sure he had a bigger role than some of the other characters in the show, and got cooler monsters, but he was annoying as hell.

I'm not a huge anime fan. The only anime series that I own is "Gundam Wing" (shut up, it's awesome!), and I haven't really watched anything else very faithfully. But there was one series that was on the SyFy channel on Mondays, of which I can't even remember the title, but the basic plotline was this:
young noble hero kid teams up with various misfits, learns to use his special sword, and gets into fights with members of the group who killed his father(?), though he actually turns out to be still alive later in the series... Anyway, there's a small creature included in their group that bugs the shit out of me - this thing is small, white, and has some weird narwhale-like thing protruding from its face. It's mentioned in the opening theme song during the intro: "a dog with a carrot for a nose". I have never seen anything that looked less like a dog, carrot for a nose or not. And not only does this creature not look like a dog or any other animal whatsoever, it's annoying as hell. THAT is the worst anime character ever - so hateful that I don't even have to know its name or the name of the series from whence it came. I hope you die, you stupid little not-dog!

Mr. Popo from DBZ. He's just an awful racist caricature. He's as offensive as black pete, aka European santa claus's black servant. The fact that a character on any cartoon that dates after 1930 can still feature blackface "tar babies" is ridiculous to me. And they left the character in the US version!

Well, if you count Fanfiction, Videl definately has to be in there.

Couldn't resist.

Tracey from Pokemon. Constantly keeps saying OOH I GOTTA MAKE A SKETCH OF THIS. Who the fuck cares about your sketches? You weren't useful in the slightest. Brock could fucking cook at least.

Anything created by Nick Simmons as the comic book 'Incarnate'.
'nuff said. to quote a real comic book creator

The most hated character in anime? Its the main character of almost every single Gundam series ever made. Nevermind that the entire franchise has mostly been mediocre-terrible, what makes almost every major Gundam series particularly unbearable are the protagonists.

There are two different traits in all major Gundam series protagonists can have:

1. They can either be incredible naive, untrained kids who happen to stumble upon the world's most advanced war machine ever created and just by random chance understand how to pilot it. Then, inexplicably, the people who made the machine? They let the clueless, 14 year old pilot keep piloting the thing! These are your Amuro Ray's, Garrod Ran's, Loran Cehack's and Kira Yamato's. They're all exactly the same character with a few minor, non-important differences, and they're all just as annoying, childish and nonsensical as the next.

In a story with any SENSE, these kids would have no damned clue how to pilot these machines and would, at the very least, require months and months of training before they got a chance to turn the ignition in one of these things (Not to mention the complete stupidity of Kira Yamato completely reprogramming the Operating System of a Gundam in about 15 seconds flat, while under duress. Yeah, right, whatever...). In a story with any SENSE, these kids would be arrested and thrown into a cell once the military who made the machines they were piloting got their hands on their precious, all-powerful prototype killing machines.

OR...

2. They can be highly trained, emotionless, genetically engineered teenagers who have been bred for the sole purpose of piloting insanely powerful military machines for whatever ulterior motive their organization has. These are your Heero Yuy's (Really original name by the way...the lack of originality there made me want to stab myself) and Setsuna F. Seiei's of the world, and they're even worse than the first type. Both of them are about as interesting as cardboard boxes. They're emotionless, they don't really care about anything, they're dedicated to whatever mysterious "mission" they've been told to carry out. Every moment these characters are featured in their storyline is another moment that I want to tear my eyes out and rip off my ears.

The funny thing is, Gundam has done a protagonist correctly before. The 08th MS Team is a delightful departure from an otherwise mediocre franchise, in that it includes more down-to-earth, realistic, understandable characters placed in a darker and more mature setting. Its protagonist, Shiro Amada, departs from both of the aforementioned Gundam Protagonist Templates by being a trained military officer and pilot, while not being as boring as brick from an emotional standpoint. He has none of the properties of a standard Gundam protagonist, which makes him one of the very few decent Gundam protagonists out there.

But you know what the worst part of Gundam is? I keep watching every new series they make in the hopes that someday they might be decent, and I'm disappointed almost every single time the moment I see an untrained child climb into the cockpit.

Touma Inaba from the Sakura Diaries is the most disgusting piece of shit ever. If you ever read the manga or see the anime, you will agree this is the worst protagonist in the history of Manga/Aanime. Technically he's a player, but only because the girls around him are stupider than Star Wars Episode 1. His all too loyal girlfriend is his cousin (which in Japan is legal, but it still doesn't wash away the creepiness of it), but he cheats on her at every turn. He knows she's stupidly and hopelessly in love with him and takes full advantage of that. He even goes to "massage parlors" and inadvertently sleeps with his cousin's best friend. He's chummy with a guy that got him hooked on cocaine on the premise that it's a study drug. When he didn't pass his college entrance exams he wrecked up the place and the blame got shifted on his cousin, causing her to have to bail on going to college. He failed his college entrance exams twice, which would be excusable if he tried really hard, but instead he's spending all his time and parent's money trying to score with every impossible rich girl at a University he pretends to be going to. He's even responsible for getting his best friend stabbed and his cousin's best friend kidnapped and gang-raped. This character is the epitome of human failure. I can't help but read this because I want to see Touma Inaba commit suicide (which he tried a few times) and succeed. I can't help but hope for an ending where some horrible zombie infestation occurs and the whole cast dies horrible horrible deaths.

The worst character I can think of is Sae from Peach Girl. She was so awful that I had to stop watching the anime because she made me to angry. Back-stabbing little bitch. I still don't know how it all ends and don't care.

Ash Fucking Ketchum.

Ash, or should I say Ass Ketchum wants to be a Pokemon Master. He wants to catch them all and be what they call the best of the best. he is never going to be a Pokemon master. He keeps giving them away to people or letting them go so that sick fucks like Gavin or Dave or whoever the hell chopped up his balls in The Pokemon Stroy can rape them day in and day out.

Worse, being a pokemon MASTER is about owning a pet, not the pet owning you, hence the word MASTER. Why the hell won't he put his foot down and stuff that little piss colored rodent into a damn ball? It's like letting the dog walk in front of you! We've all seen that dog whisperer crap! I think Ash could learn a lot from him.

It's like Ash is afraid of sucess sometimes. I mean, shit, he's an annoying guy to watch.

As big a fan as I am this isn't difficult at all. Sasuke Uchiha hands down. Most characters I can't stand cause of a dumbass decision they make or a fetish driven character trait they possess or some combination but Sasuke takes it into the fucking stratosphere! Let's see...you wanna talk about an ungrateful whiner? Okay yeah so his clan was wiped out including his mother and his dad because of his brother. What did this result in? Initially a solid motivation early on...but ultimately his brother doing it results in him (by default to be explained later) becoming the second most powerful ninja to ever live. Oh and let's not forget he's ridiculously talented so everyone likes him and he's a golden boy. Real shitty life you left me. And Sasuke proceeds to "honor" his brother by going off to destroy Konoha (which gave Sasuke everything and his bro loved). You know who else got their whole species wiped out? Vegeta. But what did Vegeta do? Rather than going on a horribly misplaced vengeance spree to span the galaxy...he goes back to the planet that gave him new-found power and fucks Bulma. That's right, rather than crying about it endlessly he says "What it is. Time to propogate!" Sasuke should take a lesson and give Sakura something to do.

Secondly, he's pulled so many abilities out of his ass it's nauseating. He's the one who introduced such crap as "Dimension Substitution" and even though he was trained by one of the weaker villains of the series at all of 16 he's supposedly the baddest SOB around who can take on characters with decades more experience...problem is we never see the little shit train and he can pull any deus ex machina he feels out of his ass thanks to his eyes. And this is all because he's gotta be the main villain but there isn't a logical way to go about it so Sasuke gets strong by being the biggest crybaby the world has ever seen.

By my count he's killed more notable villains than the main fucking character...why?

His very existence screws any further character development for Naruto that could be meaningful or enjoyable. Instead a noble cause has been reduced to a one note boy-love story that's been going on for years and rivals that of Riku and Sora. Because of this we have to endure his BS even further. Shit like this is what breeds FFF.

So yeah...screw him. A whiner who cries emo-bitch black fire for a power who steals the spotlight from other characters far more deserving and weighs down virtually every element of Naruto which is incredible given the series' bloated nature.

For a runner up I'd have to go with Aizen for similarly unfounded godlike ability for doing jack squat.

Tuxedo Mask, because holy shit, if I was as knee deep in school girls who soaked their panties at the mere mention of my name, I sure as hell wouldn't spend my time not banging the hell out of every one of them.

Dude could have had more ass then Nsync and Backstreet boys combined, and he spent his whole time being a douche.

Shinji Ikari.

Almost all the characters in Neon Genesis Evangelion are interesting. Shinji, however, is a sniveling little runt. He allows others to suffer through his whiny inaction and thinks that since he's had a rough life, he gets to be a whiny bitch.

He's so boring they had to make his character more interesting by writing a scene into the movie where he jacks off over an unconscious Asuka.

How lame is Shinji? Near the end of the series, my friend and I would erupt is uproarious applause whenever somebody would bitchslap him. Not the response you want for the main character of your series.

I'd have to go with the main character from Fate/Stay Night (Shirou, maybe?)

Oh, hey! A trained knight lady! Omg, a villain! No lady! You're clearly stronger than me, but I am a MAN! MEN FIGHT! WOMEN COOK!

So, aside from Saber almost dying constantly protecting him from "protecting" her, he also slowly transforms her from an assertive and mature female character into the retarded "moe" blushing girly-girl stereotype of the rest of the female cast.

I have a friend who has a metric ton (in bit terms) of anime pr0n. so I have sampled some of the various one-offs (no pun intended) and series, and one of the most notorious is called "La Blue Girl". The only thing I can remember from that series is some possibly-not-random thug who says, and I quote: "I didn't come here just to air-f*** you!" and that is the only thing I remember from La Blue Girl. so sad.

Tenchi Muyo.

Really, your choices are this awesome, sexually ripe and experienced teleporting space pirate, or whiny princess bitch, and you can't make up your mind? Really?

Be a man and pick one already!

The one character I can genuinely say has no redeemable qualities of any kind from Inuyasha was Mouryoumaru. He was supposed to be a big villain, one of the offshoots of Naraku if I recall correctly (or at least he was leagued with Naraku's side), but his entry into the series may as well mark its decline and the point at which it started to drag on and on and just wander in plot circles without going anywhere.

To summarize, Mouryoumaru had no personality to speak of. I'm not sure he even really talked much at all. Secondly, he was an absolutely hideous character design, super tall (20 feet I'll guess?) with some armor shell junk attached to his shoulder, tentacles, and a scar on the face in lieu of any character development. He was one ugly fucker. Third, he walked around naked. So you were always aware of his super large junk dangling in Inuyasha's face, even though it was almost always off panel.

To illustrate how long the Mouryoumaru story-arc dragged out, he appeared in Volume 35 of the manga and didn't meet his end until 10 volumes later! In that time, no memorable story revolving around him developed. He was always there, a looming threat, another villain to battle and escape from countless times so that the fangirls could argue for 10 more volumes whether Inuyasha should end up with Kikyo or Kagome.

So what makes this a truly useless character?

HE DOESN'T EVEN DIE.

No, Inuyasha doesn't even get to defeat him in battle, after all that build up. Mouryoumaru was built up so much, and after the anime/manga had run so long, that many, many fanfics depicted him in the "final battle", only for the series to end years later. Or maybe it only felt like years later. But yeah, Mouryoumaru was nowhere near the final battle. Takahashi introduced him as false hope that here was one more antagonist to beat at the end, only to make him a completely pointless trail mark along the way.

No, Inuyasha didn't defeat Mouryoumaru. Naraku simply absorbed him and went on his way. Like the author was saying, oops, my bad, this character sucks. Nothing to see here, let's move on. You could remove the entire 10-volume subplot of Mouryoumaru and you wouldn't miss anything.

Just the thought of Mouryoumaru sours the thought of Inuyasha for me... and this from a rare fangirl who actually liked the series and most the characters in it! Including both Kikyo and Kagome!

Chi-Chi from DBZ. Jesus Christ bitch, the world is about to be blown up and all you want is for Gohan to do school work! Not to mention, she's yelling in a very annoying manner 75% of the time we see her on the show.

I'd have to say Colonel M'Quve from Mobile Suit Gundam, for a couple reasons.

First of all, the name. Try saying it right now. Just try. It's got a random apostrophe and and M followed by a Q, it's just a nightmare.

Second of all, he was the least interesting villain and he got the most screen time. In the middle of the series they stop everything to go and fight him in Odessa. When Char finally comes back, M'Quve is always hanging out with him.

Late in the series, there's a pivotal duel between Amuro and Lalah at Texas. M'Quve is randomly there and he contributes nothing.

It's like his entire reason for existing is to fill up time. Even in the movies, where he was almost entirely cut out, they still included a random scene of him talking about a vase.

That's another thing. Our big introduction to this guy? Both in the series and the movies, it's him bragging about an expensive vase he owns and how he's going to send it to his boss as a present. Real menacing.

Garma and Ramba Ral were only around for a few episodes, but they were infinitely more compelling. Why is M'Quve so special? Why did he get to live for half the series when the better villains got killed?

I don't even remember what kind of Mobile Suit M'Quve had. Maybe he didn't even have one. That's how little of an impression he made, yet he got more screen time than any of the Zabis, or Lalah, or Ramba. It just isn't fair.

For me, it's got to be Mokuba from yu-gi-oh. He is, without a doubt, one of the bitchiest characters in an entire series of bitchy characters. Let's take a look at his first appearance in the show. Yugi's just hanging out, kicking some ass, as is his wont, when all of a sudden, some fucker in a shitty hat and bandana mask leaps out and challenges him. After they bullshit, Yugi, pitying the poor fuck, accepts his challenge, only for the bandito to reveal that he's the younger brother to the series badass, Kaiba. Considering that Kaiba is one of the richest fuckers on the planet, you'd think his little brother, whom he adores in his stoic way, would have some sort of custom ass-whomping machine of a deck. WRONG. He stole his deck and entry fee from some poor random fuck that got in his way. After Yugi shoves his lifepoints up his ass, Mokuba goes on to have a useless career as kidnap victim and plot tool extraordinaire. God damn.

Tohru Honda from Fruits Basket. While I can usually put up with shojo heroines, this one is a huge exception. She's always bubbly, cheerful, ever-so-helpful, and simply such a nice person that wants everyone to be happy that there's no room for her to have any sort of personality whatsoever. I have no idea how such a vapid character managed to get a best-selling manga. She's got all the nuance of a motivational poster (Hang in there, Kyo!). I'd suspect her of being stoned constantly, but a plot twist like that might end up actually being interesting. She's clearly meant to be the perfect little girl next door. Perfection has never been so unappealing. I can understand why her mother died. Variety is the spice of life, after all, and nothing is blander than a life full of Tohru Honda.

Orihime from Bleach!! ugh! She's completely crap, all she does is cry "kurosaki-kuuuuuuuun"

Fat Buu from DBZ. Villains in a fighting show shouldn't be baby talking bubblegum.

i know this has already been said, but im going with chi-chi, as the reasons already been stated

/yes im using my vote to agree she sucks so much

All of them?

Shinji Ikari from Evangelion. The kid was a douche. He has his own personal fighting Giant robot that kills aliens from space, as well as living with a drunk chick with tits who actually has a thing for him. She even offered him sex near the end of it.

And what does he do?
He cry's, he whines, he's like a typical myspace user who has everything anyone would ever want. EVER.

Honestly, i could understand daddy not loving you, and efectivly forcing you to operate giant doom-bot(of awesome), but the point where you live with a hot chick who only really owns a fridge full of booze, your not allowed to be sad anymore. By this point, your just TRYING to be sad for the sake of being sad, and that's pathetic. its myspace degree of pathetic.

Light fucking Yagami from Death Note.

I despise the entire show because of him. I don't care if it has a sort-of-interesting concept. I don't care if L is awesome. This one asshat emo kid with a God complex and the power to do something about it killed it all. He's insane, has an ego the size of Jupiter and his motivation is stupid ("I'll stop crime by killing people, and in the process become the ruler of humanity! Damn, I'm awesome.").

I've never seen a main character so goddamn unsympathetic as he is. Vash becomes cool at the end, Shinji is atleast relatable at times (I'd freak out in that situation, too), Naruto has his moments of bad-assery, but Light?

If ever there was a character that deserved to be skull-fucked by bullets, Light was it.

Damn you albanaeon, I was just about to say that.

My other choice is young Simon from Gurren Lagann pre-Lordgenome fight. Why this version of Simon? Because he is pretty much the only main person responsible for the death of one of my favorite character, Kamina. Seeing the rest of the series and how badass Simon becomes later on piloting the Gurren Lagann, it would have been just as awesome if not more had Kamina been right there piloting gurren. I hadn't been so saddened by an anime death since Nicholas D. Wolfwood died in Trigun, also because of a whiny bitch moment. But let me state my reason even clearer.

1. Had Simon had his head in the game, Kamina would not have been in the position he was in to get impaled by the Beastman general.

2. Had Simon grown a pair of balls upon watching Kamina get owned, Kamina would have possible been able to conserve his last remaining energy that could have saved his life instead of getting up again to snap Simon out of it once again.

3. His lack of concentration was due to watching Yoko and Kamina kiss. Are you fucking kidding me? Kamina died because Simon was too busy being jealous and hurt to concentrate on the battle. Shit.

So that is my reasoning as to why I hate that version of Simon.

I'm going to be obscure and say Gora from Innocent Venus.

When the guy wasn't whining or generally being a pain in the arse, he was betraying people.

I watched the thing 3 years ago and he still annoys me. -_-

Akane Tendo from Ranma 1/2. Admittedly, I haven't seen much of the anime, but I read the entire manga and pretty much all she did the entire time was bitch about how much she disliked her fiance, then kick him over a building every time he said something similar about her. In fact, she typifies Rumiko Takahashi's female protagonists--whiny, clingy, insecure, and prone to unreasonable violence.

Misa Amane from Death Note. She totally seems to have just wandered into the wrong anime. She should get her ass back into a magical girl show where her perkiness won't throw off the vibe DN goes for. Aside from the perky overload, she's also very stupid and an easily manipulated tool.

Kamui from X, is one of the most annoying SOB's around, why, the prick is the most powerful character until Fumma gains his powers, and does nothing, let bad things happen to his friends, at least Spawn was an ass that didn't care about unknown people, but this guy, was not cold, was a bum, sacrifice everyone and still cry about it. His lack of resolution is so sickening

so far some of the choices i was going to say have been said . but to me the one animie character i find annoying is angel the katue katue from out law star. for one she does nothing but scream that she is a katue katue. for the whole series and too when jim and co try to get rid of her she starts bawling . and she is suppose to be some warrior cat .but mostly that she keeps screaming i am a katue katue.

Okay, I'm going 'Full Metal Comic-Book Guy' on this, but I don't F---ing care.

Jareten; from Urusei Yatsura. The worst character comes from my favorite Manga and Anime.

Why?
Anytime Ataru wants to get away from Lum, and get with Shinobu, (or Benten, or Ran, or Kurama, or Oyuki..) he is there, breathing fire at Ataru and screaming that he'll tell Lum and blackmailing Moroboshi at any chance he has.

Anytime Lum wants to get with Ataru, or prove herself to him, once again, he's there; chiding her for her misdirected love and pouring salt on her wounds, asking her to give him up.

But whenever there's a cute gal he's interested in (Sakura, Flower Girl, ghost-kitty, ect.) he does the *EXACT SAME* S--t as Ataru, making excuses the entire time as to why he can do it, but Ataru can't, all the while tripping up Ataru at every step.

This little S--t can't make up his mind!

He was introduced wayyyyyyy too early in the anime; the 2nd episode, smothering the breathing room that was established between Lum and Ataru in the original Manga (around a year's worth of time, I believe) and making demands on the Moroboshi household that drove Mrs. Moroboshi into a deep rage, and Mr. Moroboshi even deeper into his nightly paper.

I was happy when his Fire-fighting mother came by, 'cause then he wouldn't breathe fire, and get what was coming to him.

Have I mentioned that I hate Jariten today?

Shinji from Evangelion. I hate that little bastard and insist HE made Gendo the jerk he is. C'mon, if that came out of me, I'd rage against God too, clone his mother over and over again and kill her repeatedly with my penis. That's why God was mad. Gendo made Shinji and then spent a billion hours in MS Paint trying make himself look like the good guy.

Hell the only person from Evangelion I wouldn't kill is Misato and her weird penguin.

This may seem way too obvious, but I'm going to say Pikachu. Granted, the show is childish and juvenile, so there isn't a whole lot of character depth or development going on, but Pikachu sucks. The main basis for this argument? The games.

Pokemon, in its time, was a pretty fun game with some excellent monster designs and fairly enjoyable gameplay. So what's wrong with Pikachu? Well, nothing much in the game; he's a standard order Electric-type that isn't any more impressive than the other Pokemon of his type. Somewhat cute, but forgettable.

Yet...

The entire franchise now revolves around this thing. Why? I don't know. I'm guessing because he's cute, but still, imagine how heartbroken children must have been when they realized Pikachu wasn't the strongest Pokemon and would have failed miserably in the first few gyms. Yet how does the show portray him? As an obnoxious little mouse creature with awesome electrical powers who, as a poster before said, leads his trainer and master around. Pikachu is awful because of his mediocrity.

Plus Bulbasaur is awesome.

Okay I'm gonna go with Tsukune Aono from Rosario+Vampire. This guy has got FIVE girls practically Raping him and he can't do it with any of them, for NO REASON!!! I'm gonna say that again, HE'S GOT FIVE GIRLS PRACTICALLY RAPING HIM, AND HE WON'T DO IT WITH ANY OF THEM. Why! I HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE!!!! Okay one of the girls, Yukari, is jailbait, but that still doesn't explain why he won't jump Moka, Kurumu, Mizore, or Ruby, it's FAIRLY obvious they wouldn't mind going nuts on his cock in a massive orgy, but this jackass for some UNKNOWN REASON will not do it. He just won't do it!!! I am beginning to think his balls have dropped off and he's no longer a man. At least other Harem Characters have reasons for their indecisiveness, Tenchi (from Tenchi Muyo)wasn't in love with the girls, Keitaro(from Love Hina) was madly in love with the girl from his childhood, hell even Negi (from Negima) put his magic training and finding his father over falling in love, but Tsukune has no reason, literally none to turn any of these girls down, even if I even remotely believed that he just liked Moka that much, then why does he still keep bouncing from girl to girl. He's not even dead set on Moka right now any way. Hell even his childhood friend thought she still had a chance at him, that's how obvious he makes himself. His own childhood friend, who has known him for most of his life, couldn't even tell he was in love. I mean if NOBODY can tell if your in love than are you really in love to begin with or is this clown just going through the motions.

Tamahome from Fushigi Yuugi. Not only is he the REASON that Miaka is so annoying ("TAMAHOOOMEEE KUUUUUUUUUN!"); he's basically the anime equivalent of that douche who keeps sending drinks to your table, no matter how many times you refuse him, and doesn't have room in his tiny brain to understand why you might want to refuse him.

Plus he's a total Mary Sue. His power is... being effective at beating people up. There's another guy who has a fucking FIRE SHOOTING FAN, yet Tamahome still gets to be the deciding factor in most battles. And you know that Watase Yuu wanted to do him.

Haraguchi from Genshiken cause he looks like Gabe Newell but is a complete bastard so that makes me hate him even more.

Ah,man...if only I hadn't used Aizen in a previous contest already.Oh well

I'm gonna go with Marechiyo Omaeda from Bleach.No wait,I meant Marechiyo Yoshiamenosuke Nikkotaroemon Omaeda.
Sure,he might be a relatively minor character,but I swear to god that every time his enormous ass shows up on screen it makes my skin crawl,my blood boil and makes me prone to unreasonable violence involving my television...one of these days I might have to explain to my poor mother why there's a gaping hole in the wall...

But back to the point,the reasons I just fucking hate him are as follows:

1.He's a walking sack of lard(seriously,if he accidentally falls on anyone,they're gonna need reconstructive surgery stat)and one hell of an ugly motherfucker at that

2.He's completely fucking useless.Even though his Zampakutou(that's fancy talk for "magik sword on steroids) turns into a big-ass flail,even tough he's Vice-captain of Squad 2 which is better known for being the Assassination Squad, and even though he could theoretically kill enemies by just flattening them with his ginormous ass...he still sucks in battle.How the hell did he end up being Soi Fon's vice-captain? How the hell did he get into squad 2 in the first place?! My newborn kitten can do more damadge than him for god's sakes!(I got a few nasty little scratches this very morning)

3.He's just disgusting, a man that the Bleach wiki describes as "cowardly, loud, vain, elitist, snobbish, greedy, and sluggish".Doesn't that make for a likable character? Also he's insanely rich and does not need to do any of this shit at all,especially since he ha no discernable skill other than being a complete pussy in fights,treating everyone like crap and cramming food down his throat.Oh,and he calls his little sister "ugly",based solely on grounds that she's the only normal looking one in the family,just wanted to add that.

So yeah,that pretty much sums up my reasoning for the hate,and thank Mr Robot for us fellow anime fans a chance to vent.

I always feel bad for male characters that are fuck-off nobodies and somehow save the world ten times over and still can't get a date. Anime women have the highest standards of the tri-dimension area and I hate them so much for it.

I also hate characters that have to look away from you when they talk because they're cheap answers to studios who spent their whole budget on the 15 seconds of good animation in the opening sequence. I'm trying to watch cartoons not things that have as much range of motion as a drinking bird.

Mr. Popo from Dragonball Z. Why?

He's a fucking racist Mammy dressed up like a genie. Let me make this more clear.

The servant of Kami is a racist caricature of an African American. A servant Mammy...I'm sorry but what in the fuck?

Merle from Escaflowne.

All she does is get in trouble or be a cock blocker between Van and Hitomi, and if I had to listen to one more "Oh! Lord Van!" I'd put a screwdriver to my ears. Seriously, it's almost as bad an ear worm as Navi's "Hey! Listen!".

The American version of 'Astro Boy', 鉄腕アトム or 'Mighty Atom'. The American version of Astro Boy is a horrific crime against Man and God (of manga...) America's taking of a beloved Japanese childhood icon for 50 years and 'adapting' it to American tastes is the same if the Japanese took Shirley Temple and adapted her to 'Japanese' tastes: A cute, doe-eyed girl with gold curls, who interacts predominately with middle aged men and tap dances with elderly men. Imagine...just imagine what Japan would do with that situation....twisting it beyond recognition and lacing it with themes that were not found in the original product (THE HORROR), the horrible marketing products they would produce (body pillows, figurines covered with 'milk', naughty outfits)....and we KNOW how big Moe is there. The American version of Astro Boy is the same as a Japanese version of Shirley Temple: adopted to the new 'tween' pandering and American pop culture cliches, not to mention the political messages that are woven throughout. In essence, it is a piece of shit that should never exist because it would warp the minds of those that love it. WORST ANIME CHARACTER EVER!

Every single one of them Anime sucks.

Easy.

Gainer Sanga, from Overman King Gainer.

Why? Also Easy. He's the most wishy washy, not caring character in the world. He hates the fact that the main characters take his 'city scapes' on an exodus and the fact his parents were killed by this exodus people, but goes along with the exodus ideal, and even fucking helps them for no good reason, except for they asked him! GAH!!!!!!!! And he's character doesn't even grow or evole over the course of the show. He just pretty much accepts the fact his life sucks.

My chosen character is actually the protagonist of a porn game, but since the game got made into a VERY WELL-KNOWN anime (in term of batshit crazy content, not for good story...) so I guess he should count.

My choice is Makoto Ito from the infamous anime 'School Days', and this shithead represents everything that is wrong with eroge and harem animes...

(Warning: this is going to be a long, confusing description with bad grammar because I am typing this with RAGE. Make sure that you look at puppy photos before and after reading it.)

First, Makoto is into this hot girl (let's call her 'Girl A') whom he has never even talked to. He just looks at her every day and secretly takes a photo of her in his mobile-phone, which ISN'T CREEPY AT ALL BECAUSE IT IS OBVIOUS THAT HE LUVS HER. Another hot girl (let's call her 'Girl B') finds out about that, and instead of being freak out, she offers him a lesson in approaching girls. By the end of the first TV episode, he SOMEHOW becomes a boyfriend of Girl A (because mediocre horny guy is such a catch, you know), and by end of the 5th episode, he screwed Girl B because Girl A won't let him sex her up. Girl A, who has no idea that her fuckhead of a boyfriend is cheating on her, is bullied by another hot girl (Girl C) who is secretly in love with Makoto (for---unknown reason). When Girl A finds out what a cheating whore her boyfriend is, she just can't break up with Makoto because he is--err--such a nice guy, you know. While Girl A and Girl B are having cold war, Makoto sexes up Girl C because she offers it. Since by then, Girl A still won't have sex with hi, Makoto wants to break up with her, intending to go for Girl B who is sluttier. When Girl B's best friend (who is also secretly in love with Makoto for whatever crazy reason) finds out that Makoto is cheating on Girl B with Girl C, she offers herself to Makoto asking for him to be faithful to her Girl B as an exchange (BUT BY HAVING SEX WITH HIM, SHE IS HAVING HIM CHEATING ON GIRL B--WAIT--THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!) Girl B then finds out anyway that Makoto is cheating with Girl C, but she just can't bring herself to stop loving him, so she stops coming to school in distress. On Girl A's side, she is slowly turning crazy because of her unfulfilling LUV for Makoto. While Girl A and Girl B aren't around, Makoto goes on sexing other random chicks because he is obviously such a catch. Girl B soon finds out that she is pregnant, so she informs the entire school and Makoto just that. Since he is getting a cockblock, and he doesn't want to become the daddy, he goes back to Girl A since he hasn't have the chance to sex her up yet. Girl A is soooo happy her manwhore comes back that she totally doesn't mind how he has impregnated another girl, and kindly suggests Girl B to get abortion (KIDS THESE DAYS!) Sadden by the fact that Makoto isn't going to marry her and raise up their baby, Girl B stabs Makoto in the gut killing him. When Girl A finds out, she kills Girl B before cutting her stomach opened just to check if there is actually baby inside, then crazily announces "I know that she lied (BECAUSE MAKOTO IS OBVIOUSLY SUCH A KIND AND LOVING BF)". The anime ends with the scene of Girl A alone on her family's yacht, hugging Makoto's decapitated head (that she cut off, so they can be together forever and ever!). THE END.

Tell me if that isn't screwed up. It is like some otakus deciding to write a FFF while being overdosed on eroge games and animes. To top all that off, this anime ISN'T a hentai (/porn)! It is obviously otaku's fantasy gone wrong... The main character is such a douchebag with no redeeming factor, but every hot girl decides that he is such a catch to the point that they are willing to carry his baby or turning insane for him...

The only worse thing is that, I have seen some people making argument for Makoto, saying that he isn't THAT bad and it is all Girl B's fault while praising the anime for giving a realistic portrayal on the modern society... SHIT ME NOT!

For all these reasons, Makoto Itou is one of the most screwed up anime character ever. PERIOD.

Punch and Judy, from "Cowboy Bebop"'s bounty hunter advertising show, Big Shot. Seriously, besides being generic stereotypes, they're also often worse than useless. You'll rue the day, cast of Big Shot. You'll rue the day.

If it counts, the answer is those butt ugly doujin artists that draw themselves accurately in their works. While putting yourself into a doujin is depraved and contemptible on the same level as most of the FFF entries, if I wanted to read smutty comics, I'd at least like the characters to look nice, instead of naked warty old japanese men with permanent five o'clock shadows and bulging waist lines.

Anyone and anything from Inu-Yasha. Boring, repetitive, cheesy show that has no ending in sight. And forgive me if it has ended, because I wouldn't know, I couldn't stick around to watch more than 50 episodes. Or whatever.

I'm going to have to go with one of the more popular girl animes broadcast to North American kids in the mid-90's on networks like YTV and Teletoon.

I'm going to have to go with my favourite anime, Sailor Moon. This was my gateway anime, as it was for lots of people.
I loved Serena/Usagi, I found her very relate-able. I was clumsy and silly. She was clumsy and silly! I was teased, she was teased! I have a penchant for older men, and guess what? So does she! My hair was super long and blonde, and so was hers.
The similarities are endless.

However, only until recently did I realize that I cannot like Sailor Moon anymore, even for its nostalgia. Why?
Because of the worlds favourite Mormon, Stephanie Meyer.
Bella Swan is clumsy and silly. She definitely has a penchant for older men. She, like Serena/Usagi, was protected by her man, in Sailor Moon's case it was Tuxedo Mask. These are not proper role models for girls. Okay, let's all go out and try to be independent and all Girl Power! about this, but you're def. gonna fuck up and a big strong man will save the day and protect you and you're going to fall in love with him for it.
One throws razor sharp roses and the other calls you Spider Monkey.

I don't know which one's better. (OK, I'd totes go for a razor rose) But as of three years ago, I was blind. Twilight came out. I read it. Now I wish I hadn't wasted a good portion of my time on something that I find so annoying now.
She whines constantly. The amount of time Serena is NOT whining is comparable to the amount of time Kristin Stewart is NOT sucking at acting.

I probably won't win for this entry as I took the cheap route and called upon the Twilight card, but the similarities are too close. And because I found Serena so relatable WHAT DOES THAT MAKE ME?
This is why I hate Sailor Moon. If it wasn't for Serena, I wouldn't have found similarities between Sailor Moon and Twilight, and then I wouldn't be stuck with the knowledge that I am somewhat Bella Swan and that quite frankly makes me gag.

*does the Serena whine*
I betcha you can hear it too, in your head. Your welcome :)

Agito from Origin:Spirits of the Past.

In the very beginning, him and his friend Cain run down into Druid territory. They take backpacks for storing water down to the "forbidden" forest that resides at the bottom of one of many chasms in the city. There is already a conveyor belt that carries plenty enough water up to the human inhabitants up top, so all they are producing is greater hostility between them and the Druids. Agito swims/runs from the Druid horde and leaves Cain to fend for himself, resulting in the discovery of a large cube loaded with ancient stasis pods. He inadvertently activates the cube and frees a girl from the past, blah blah blah. An older man named Shunack had been recovered from a stasis pod decades earlier in a rival city and needs her and her necklace to awaken the powers of ESTOC; a giant moving fortress that will wipe out all vegetation on the planet so life can start anew. (pretty much a copy of Spriggan's Noah's Ark) The girl, Toola, succumbs to the man's persuasion and willingly leaves with him. Agito naturally takes on the task of getting her back. This when he already has Minka, the only other girl in town, who is dying to marry him one day and actually has a personality unlike Toola. It is remarkable just how little happens between them before Agito commits himself to changing her mind. He doesn't even know about ESTOC until much later on. And in order to save Toola, he melds himself with the forest for superhuman strength. All the other silver-haired characters, such as Shunack, have done the same. Agito's very own father had died from the side effects of doing it (turning into a tree and dying prematurely) on the very same day. Agito is eventually captured by Shunack and is given time to speak with Toola briefly before she turns her back on him and leaves him to be executed, finding greater importance in wiping out the forest. In the final battle, Shunack is defeated by Agito when he lets loose his "forest power" and turns himself into a tree, dying just like his father. Toola has been saved, and manages to shut down ESTOC before she cries at Agito's roots, as she finally has found reason to. Then a giant fruit appears and out drops Agito, given a free pass on the whole death by metamorphosis deal. In the end, Agito and Toola escape ESTOC and wave at siblings Cain and Minka as a loving couple as they return to Agito's home.

Every black character in anime that

A.) looks like they are wearing black face, and/or have big red lips. (Joco, Mr.Popo, Claudia from robotech).

B.) Are dark skinned and have completely white features.

C) Wears a cap backwards.

Before everybody starts defending the Japanese as a homogeneous culture spare me it's 2010!

Yoko, from Gurren Laga-
SIT BACK DOWN!
Yoko's a totally useless whore. She's there for TWO THINGS; TITS and ASS. She has a non-evolving, absolutely bitchy character. She's like Misato, from Evangelion, but with a period from hell and nineteen times more fan service. She also does nothing for the entire episode.
While putting a pair of sweater melons onto the amazingly manly Kamina would truly be the worst thing ever... I'd gladly do that than look at the uber cunt Yoko Littner for 25 episodes and two movies.

"Kaishounachi (worthless man)" from Oruchuban Ebichu.

Cheats on Ebichu's owner, lies to her about it, and promises to meet for dinner at 8 then stays out until 10 gambling, only to offer to make it up by letting her suck his dick.

Kira Yamato from Gundam SEED. It's just that very time I saw him agonise about something or start crying I just wanted to strangle the little bastard by the neck until he just FUCKING dies.
I'm surprised the little git didn't down in his own space suit from the amount of tears he shed inside that gundam.

Cheza from Wolf's Rain. She's really the root of the entire problem. Beacuse of her, Kiba becomes obsessed with finding paradise. Because of her, Tsume, kiba, toboe and hige spend their lives searching for something that they never really reached. Because of her they got into trouble and got multiple injuries. Because of her, Darcia hunted the wolves down. And lastly, because of her, they all died. So screw Cheza.

RULES BE DAMNED. I'm gonna go ahead and say it: Walt Disney.

Japan gave the world Anime, which is awesome. Because of Walt Disney, America gave the world... The Little Mermaid.

I'm not saying The Little Mermaid (or WALT'S version of Snow White, or WALT'S version of Sleeping Beauty) aren't great, but it's all Walt's fault that most Americans think cartoons are automatically for kids, and automatically G-rated. It's 2010 already but I can still state, with all certainty, that this weeks animated "How to Train Your Dragon" features not ONE dragon-related evisceration.

Screw you, Walt. I'm gonna go fire up my Samurai Champloo DVDs and take a shot every time someone dies from extreme blood loss. GOD BLESS AMERICA.

A hard contest for my first one because normally I like the tertiary characters in anime that other people find useless and/or annoying, and I'll suffer through the show's protagonist to watch the little guys go.

The one protagonist who keeps me from watching the show at all? Yusuke Urameshi from Yu Yu Hakusho.

I find the character utterly unlikeable. I don't mind strong punk characters, I don't mind arrogant characters who can back up their arrogance, or at least have some redeeming features. But Yusuke? Despite practically starting the series dead, he seems to think he's incredibly important, and is granted his powers because heaven and hell weren't ready for him. Personally, Id've just stuck him in an acid enema until we had his place ready, seriously, does anyone think he had a shot at heaven previously?

And then there's his primary attack....making a gun with his fingers and calling out 'Reigun'! Real punks use their fists, or chains, or manhole covers, but little kid guns? Nu-uh

And as main protagonist who comes back from the dead, you know he's gonna be fine. Oh sure, he'll get kicked around, but then dig deep and overcome, or his allies will bail him out for some reason (Why the heck does anyone hang out with him?)

The other characters look neat, but I just can't suffer You-Sucky long enough to get to them. He combines all the worst elements of Ranma 1/2 and DBZ, and gets fans! I'd watch any of the above characters and probably the below characters before giving him 5 minutes more of my attention.

Relena Peacecraft from Gundam Wing. She stands on a cliff and shouts "Heero! I'm right here so come and kill me!" because she has a crush on him, while he is nowhere in sight. She preaches pacifism, it's in her name, and she shoots her brother.

Fuck you Rob! Miaka is far from the most awful anime character. That honor belongs to Vegeta from Dragonball Z. People are under the belief that he's a bad ass, but he's a pussy who whines about how he should be the most powerful Sayian warrior. He's a dick.

I rescind my ealier choice.

The first and only answer is Lynn Minmei. It doesn't matter if it is in Macross or Robotech. Minmei is like herpes of anime because no matter how long she is gone, somene relicenses Robotech or Macross again and reminds us... MINMEI MUST DIE~!

Sakura, she represents every girl that would not go out with a “nerd” that would do anything for her but was in love with the person that treats her like poop. Who can be more hated than that? I still hate several Sakuras.

Okay, this one may take a while...

When I was younger and Toonami was still fresh out of the oven, they ran a series called Outlaw Star. I repeatedly attempted to catch episodes of it, but never managed to get anything coherent. Skip forward several years, to the point where I have become bitter, hairy, world-weary and with access to a Netflix account.

So one day I hunted Outlaw Star down once more in hopes of finally watching it all the way through, and while there were many characters that I occasionally disliked, there was one above all who would earn my eternal blazing hatred. This character was Harry McDougal.

Harry McDougal, evil bounty hunter.

Harry McDougal, recurring villain.

Harry McDougal, painfully bishonen freak with bows in his hair and a sort of pale muppet vibe worthy of Leeron from Gurren Lagann.

Harry McDougal, crazed stalker cyborg who will not die.

You see, by his second appearance Harry establishes himself as not only criminal scum, but obsessive attempted cyber-rapist test tube baby criminal scum. Upon hacking into the systems of the titular spaceship, navigated by the then-connected mysterious love interest character Melfina by way of cybernetic linkup, Harry invades the archetypal cyberworld of glowy Tron lights and goofy jumpsuits of the Outlaw Star's inner workings, and chases Melfina throughout them while peppering his nightmarish chase scene with increasingly creepier lines about how desperate he is to get into Melfina's pants.

Fortunately he gets the shit beaten out of him before he can do anything especially traumatizing to Melfina. This time.

With each appearance he becomes more and more obsessed with Melfina and dangerous to the life and limb of everyone around him while his body deteriorates due to the natural consequences of being the protagonist group's set of tagalong villains. The creators fake us out repeatedly regarding whether or not they've actually killed him this episode, and every time they lie until the very last episode, where the bastard finally gets gutted by Lord Hazanko in an especially badass manner. It is at this point that my hatred for this character reaches critical mass.

For at the end of the series, they pull a complete moral 180 and say to the viewers: "Hey, you know that insufferable monster you've wanted to reach into the screen and strangle since he started talking? Yeah, he actually did all those horrible things because he was hopelessly head-over-heels in love with her, and is not a horrible reprehensible stalker after all! See? He's doing something noble!".

And indeed he does. The bastards that were the writing staff of this spurt of mediocrity they dared to call a show gave him a Heroic Sacrifice. The woman he assaulted? She returns one day to place flowers on his grave.

FUCKING. NO. I DENY YOUR REDEMPTION. BURN IN ANIME HELL, McDOUGAL, you and your FUCKING EXCUSE OF A BACKSTORY. "I was grown in a tube, so I have every right to be a weepy emo bastard, and you were too, so I have every reason to attempt at every turn to make you my love slave because I'm the only one who understands you!"

My ENTIRE ass.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to cleanse my palate a little.

Damnit you already mentioned Miaka! A character so bad that it gives the (not bad at all) series a bad reputation just because of her existance.

I'm going with two characters but they fill the same stereotype: Cherry from Saber Marionette J and Ayeka from the Tenchi Muyo series. The most worthless, irritating character type ever. The girl who thinks she is the perfect match for the man that she loves, tries to win him over with her deceptive "perfect wife and homemaker" routine, bitches about every other female on the show, is constantly in his face with her fake high-pitched sweet voice trying to woo him constantly. Ugh, I can't rewatch either series simply because of these characters. If I met a woman like this in real life I'm pretty sure I'd punch her in the face within five minutes of meeting her. All of the worst female stereotypes in one lying bitch character.

Van from Gun Sword / GunXSword. He's the typical brooding, close-mouthed blandyman that one so frequently finds in anime. He lacks any kind of interesting personality, except when dictated by the plot, which is driven by his Quest for Vengeance. He's a cliched archetype of the highest order. However, I have come to accept such things. Not everyone can be Spike Spiegel, after all.

No, the thing that really bothers me about this character is the completely lackluster attempt that was made at giving him a personality. There is a running gag whereby Van will order every single condiment in existence with which to slather his food, usually while another character doles out important plot points to him. This usually involves about thirty or so bottles. His plate is hardly more than a pile of goop by the time he's finished.

It's a completely inept attempt at manufacturing characterization for this wooden block of a man. It's as if the creator(s) were just sitting around the lunch table one day, shrugged, and decided a jar of mayonnaise was enough to build a character on. Now, this kind of thing would be fine for a supporting cast member, but Van is the main character. He inspires no sympathy, he garners no respect. All he does is make me think twice about putting ketchup on my hamburger.

Every Naruto character ever.

Except for David Bowie.

EVERYBODY AND EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT THE GUYVER

Trigun!!! VASH!! That blond ass hat! I HATE him! I hate the whole series!! The character designs were cool enough but GOD those characters are so stupid! By far the most annoying main character ever. Vash the Stampede was a good looking design that was given the personality of a twat! AND he had a stupid peace sign flipping catch phrase that gets repeated by little anime loving jerks EVERYwhere! I like anime....I really do...but I dont think anything good has come along since Cowboy Bebop. Trigun is a beloved series for some strange reason. But than again..most anime watching tardos are fucking retarded to begin with!
One Piece is ok too. But not as good as Saint Seiya...or Devilman.

Hayato Maeda, otherwise known as Chumley Huffington, from Yu-Gi-Oh GX is a massive pile of failure.

I'm going to call him Chumley, because that name fits him better. It's a failure of a name for a failure of a character. I hate him for three reasons. Usually, one of these reasons is enough for me to hate a character, but Chumley combines THREE of them into a mega-fountain of hate.

Reason 1.) Chumley is a walking stereotype, like many other characters already entered. Only, instead of being a mildly entertaining stereotype, his archetype-de-jour is that of the Fat Pussy. When Chumley isn't talking about food, specifically grilled cheese sandwiches, he's being a big useless coward. Those are his defining character traits: he likes grilled cheese sandwiches and he hates conflict. That is not a personality.

Reason 2.) He's a gimmick character that adds nothing. I watched Yu-Gi-Oh GX because it was like an entire series based on a Fan Fiction Friday premise. The show was ludicrous. Batshit insane. Every stupid, stupid character was another dish to sample on this show's buffet of unbelievable ridiculousness. So what does Chumley bring to the table? He looks vaguely like a koala. That's it. His lack of personality makes his resemblance to a koala the only memorable thing about them. And because he looks vaguely like a koala, he duels with a koala-themed deck. Is he some sort of crazy koala-obsessed freak? No. Is he a reverse-weeaboo, infatuated with Australia and everything about it? No. He just uses the deck for no real reason, and he doesn't even use it much as he only duels twice in the series. Thus, the combination of his appearance and his deck turn him into a joke character, which brings me to my next point...

Reason 3.) He's a joke character who is inexplicably also a main character. Unlike other characters who fall into this category, Chumley's joke is lame. It's not funny whatsoever because Chumley isn't funny. It's worse because he's supposed to be the comedy relief. You can tell because he never does anything important and he's always attempting to be humorous. Except instead of attempting humor by being funny, he just muses about his beloved goddamn grilled cheese sandwiches and stands around being fat. Since he's in a series packed with unintentional hilarity, Chumley's unintentional anti-hilarity is palpable and painful. Every time he pops his fat ugly koala face into the frame to make a quip about cheese, the humor just stops. Syrus can be making one of his amusing soliloquies that make it obvious he's in love with Jaden, or Dr. Crowler can be going off on a high-brow rant that's absolutely hilarious coming from a failed Liberace clone like him, and then Chumley opens his mouth and the show is no longer funny. It's like he's the guy who farted in the middle of a rockin' party, except that has some potential for humor. So, I guess it's more like he shit himself or something equally pathetic.

There you have it. Chumley is nothing but a gimmicky, stereotypical joke character who is inexplicably the third wheel in the main trio, pissing all over the bounty of unintentional humor with his nigh-fetishistic love of grilled cheese sandwiches. He makes it impossible to sit back and laugh at the stupidity of it all, and that should be a sin.

Yeah, maybe he's better in the Japanese version but I highly doubt it. Chumley's beyond saving from the beginning.

Kaede Fuyou from Shuffle her whole thing is basically she's a guilt ridden codependent who cant have Rin but ultimately feels she must abase her self for past actions committed against Rin and even ends up beating up Asa then throwing her slef at Rin just so he wont leave her in short she's just crazy and unable to move on from the past

7-Zark-7.

THIS CONTEST IS BULLSHIT!!!! You just pulled this so you wouldnt have 600 entires to wade through on Monday. Well I'll show you...even though I know jack shit about anime,I'm STILL gonna compete. The most annoying character in anime is...that one guy. With the big eyes. You know the one...that guy who spoke Japanese and got raped by a tenticle before he turned into a robot...and it took place in space.

I had to think about this one for a bit, and I settled on Akito Tenkawa from Martian Successor Nadesico (Yes, I had to look it up to remember it). Now, when I started watching Nadesico, it was a fun anime. It made fun of the characters who were your stereotypical anime staples, and it poked fun at itself with the anime inside the anime, of Gekiganger 3. You get to the half point for the recap episode, and it's the characters from Gekiganger 3 talking about their favorite anime Martian Successor Nadesico, which was hilarious.

And then, somehow, it all went horribly wrong.

The second half of the series went dramatic, they put in a time warp which really just fucked with your head, and every. single. female. character. wanted the lead male. Except for one who didn't. And her boyfriend got killed off. Whatthecrap.

So, with all sincerity, fuck you Akito Tenkawa. You were in an awesome show, and dragged it down to typical giant robot/love dodecahedron status.

Chikane Himemiya from Kannazuki no Miko.

This is going to be a bit different from the other, more vitriolic entries, because I did not start off hating her. In fact, I can't bring myself to hate her ENTIRELY even now. That's the root of the problem, actually. Allow me to explain.

Kannazuki no Miko is a yuri anime with giant robot battles. The giant robot battles are played up for their cheesiness factor, but the relationship between the two heroines is the heart of the story. In theory, this should be completely awesome.

Chikane's situation at the beginning of the anime struck close to home for me. She's desperately in love with her best and only friend, a kindhearted but emotionally troubled girl named Himeko. Himeko, for her part, is dating a boy, oblivious to Chikane's feelings for her. Chikane does her best to be a good friend and be supportive of Himeko, and even encourages her in the relationship, but all the time she's sick to her heart. I've been there; it hurts. I felt for Chikane. I IDENTIFIED with her.

And then she goes and joins the bad guys and rapes Himeko.

The assumption I clung to desperately from that point onward was that she gave herself over to the Orochi in a moment of weakness, and that the rape and everything else that happened afterward was the result of demon possession. If that was the case, and if she sincerely repented, I believed that I could forgive her. I knew Himeko would. I wanted that to happen, and I wanted them to get a happy ending together.

Then it turns out the Chikane wasn't really with the Orochi, that everything she did was to manipulate Himeko into killing her — because either she or Himeko had to die for the world to be saved, and she didn't want it to be Himeko. Which is still stupid and fucked up, but, again, forgivable. But. BUT! THEN it turns out that she can and does REINCARNATE. And she appears to have KNOWN this. Sure, when they find each other again it's a happy ending, but in the interim Himeko is left alone and in mourning. So what was Chikane trying to protect her from, exactly? And it's passed off like what she did was noble and not completely fucking horrifying!

Kannazuki no Miko is still a guilty pleasure of mine, because how many animes are there where the girl gets the girl and they live happily ever after? But I can't enjoy it without indulging in all sorts of gross rape-apologist thoughts that make me feel like I ought to hand in my ovaries in shame.

TL;DR? I hate Chikane Himemiya because she makes me identify with and root for a rapist.

Oh this is an easy one: Scrappy Doo.

Now before anyone goes whining "but he's not an ANIME character he's a CARTOON character!" you need to remember something important. Anime is a shortened version of the word Animeshon which in english translates "Animation". So just as Astro Boy is a japanese cartoon character, Donald Duck is an american Anime character.

With that out of the way I defy anyone to name a japanese cartoon character more annoying and show ruining than Scrappy Doo. No one can do it, because there is no such character.

Scrappy served as a the very first time many children like myself realized that at least some of the people behind the shows we loved thought we were drooling idiots. Despite huge popularity among children everywhere some executive somewhere figured that we needed a younger character to relate to. They also decided that he needed a cute catchphrase to make him more memorable and thus was born "Puppy Power". Well fuck puppy power and fuck Scrappy. All he ever did was disrupt the well established dynamic of Mystery Inc. and talk shit on Scooby's behalf ("you just wait til my uncle Scooby beats you up") because he was too deluded to realize that Uncle Scooby was a pacifist who wanted nothing to do with fighting and was only interested in getting baked with Shaggy, giving into the munchies that resulted from getting baked with Shaggy, and tripping balls on Scooby snacks.

At some point in the show, Fred and Velma disappeared and we were left with only Shaggy, Daphne, Scooby and Scrappy. As far as I know there's never been an explanation for their departure. My best guesses are that either:
A) After getting really high and drunk one night Fred and Velma hopped in the sack, and a few weeks later Velma came up late for her period. Once a pregnancy test confirmed her worst fears she had Fred take her to an abortion clinic and along they way they got kidnapped by cannibal hillbillies.
or
B) They both got so sick and tired of putting up with Scrappy's bullshit that they slipped away one night, took a bus to bumfuck nowhere, created new identities so they'd never be found and took boring jobs all to get away from that annoying fucking puppy.

I'm sure the truth lies somewhere in the middle, but the fact remains that Scrappy ushered in the era of a reduced cast, a lost dynamic and continually lamer episodes. Once the producers realized how boring the show was without the whole gang, they decided to redress this problems, not by bringing back two beloved characters and getting rid of a hated one, but by "reinventing" the show as "The 13 Ghost of Scooby Doo" and adding the lame ass character of Flim Flam.

Scrappy can also be blamed as the source of "inspiration" behind "A pup named Scooby Doo" which absolutely sucked donkey balls. All the shittiness in the Scoobyverse can be traced back to the introduction of Scrappy Doo.

Once again I defy anyone to name any anime/cartoon character, american, asian or otherwise worse than Scrappy.

Misa from Deathnote. At first she seemed like quite an interesting and promising character, being obsessively devoted to Kira and willing to do anything for him, killing his enemies without batting an eyelid and even sacrificed half of her remaining lifespan to further his cause. She had that interesting mix of being crazy and crazy-loyal to Kira and his cause, a sort of psychotic stalker fan if you will.

After she finds out that Kira is Light Yagami she just becomes an annoyance. She goes from being a crazy kick-ass bitch to a whiny clingy cloyingly-cutesy girlfriend and(failed) comic relief. Her "comedic" scenes really detracted from the underlying mood of deathnote, transforming ot from a vicious and cerebral thriller into just another anime. Even L got affected and changed from quirky to goofy.

Let's not forget that it was her meddling and utter uselessness that forced her loyal shinigami Remu to sacrifice his/her/it's life to kill L, THE BEST CHARACTER IN THE DAMN SERIES, thereby paving the way for his godawful bratty replacements, near and mello.

her inclusion into Deathnote completely ruined the series and contributed to it's lacklustre and convuluted ending.

also her voice was FUCKING ANNOYING!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2qNiZ72lRk&feature=related

I hate Alexander the Great from Reign: The Conqueror, if only because his character design is hideous! It's almost like... Michael Jackson minus the flat chin. Damn you Peter Chung!

ALL
OF
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Nobita Nobi from Doraemon. AKA anime's sad Milhouse.

I've got a few pet peeves of characters really.

1. Moe girls. Oh my God, Japan, knock it off! Girls are NOT that pussy of girls that you make them out to be. Few anime actually make girls what they're capable of. Soul Eater is a great example of great female leads. Every girl/woman in Soul Eater is somehow kickass. I really give credit to Ohkubo for relizing what most Japanese men don't notice.

Yeah, moe is offically a sereotype in Japan. For otaku men anyway.

2. Tsundare type characters. Nothing is more annoying then having a character scream to a guy that she likes she hates him. I'm looking at your characters, Rie Kayamiya. They're REALLY annoying, and you should voice better characters. 'Kay?

3. Whimpy male leads. Nothing makes me more mad then this, and this is why I hated Death Note so much. Light was just a huge whimp, that couldn't get over the fact that the real world was just UNFAIR.

4. When a character suddenly turns bad. Wait, what just happened? You adbandon all your friends, just to save someone/your memories or something even more stupid? What the hell are you thinking?!

This was a bit more longer then I thought it'd be. Heh.

i'm surprised there are so many entries. i don't have an answer, just a question. is there any simple, objective difference between anime and cartoon?

All of them.

I really did try to like anime. I really did. As mentioned in the obscure nerd lvoe conterst, I fell in love with Flight of Dragons and The Last Unicorn when I was a child, so I was already exposed to the anime style that would later be seen in 80s tv cartoons I would watch.

When Pokemon, Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh came out, I gave them a try. Hell, for a couple of years that was the ONLY thing on at 7 am when I was waiting for the bus, even when I was in high school. I even used to watch Escaflowne until I realized it was garbage. I realize that these are not great animes, but here me out. By knowing about animes, it set me up for meeting other nerds who would show me what they deemed to be better anime. In university I even suffered through InuYasha only because I really loved that song at the end credits, Deep Forest, or whatever.

So, in my budding nerdom, and being what I think an attractive girl, I found myself nerd boyfriends. Joy! Someone to play D&D with, watch geeky movies with, talk geeky stuff about, etc. However every single one of them liked anime. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, and each had their own level of anime intensity. Some it was okay, they understood thatI just didn't like anime. I tried it, but it wasn't for me. Others would say "Hey...watch this series, I think you'll like it" One had me watch the entire Hellsing Series, and I have to admit, I liked parts of it, but it isn't my favourite thing in the whole world, and it certainly did not make me love anime. A couple of them were obsessed with Japanese culture. Obsessed. They would talk in half Japanese sentences. They would tell me how they want to go to Japan and learn to make samaurai swords. They would sigh and express a desire to marry a Japanese girl while dating me (Damn my Anglo-Saxon heritage!). One suggested that I die my hair pink like some girl from anime they liked. They would send me pictures of the anime girls they lusted after, or try to comnpare me to some character from somewhere.

I guess what I'm trying to say here is, I'm not a fan of anime. I see why people like it. I think people should be free to like it. But I think every anime character is awful because of anime fans who try to convince others than anime is for everybody (when it isn't), for getting obsessed about it (yes, I know, you could say that of all nerd culture, and even outside of nerd culture, for trying so hard to become as Japanese save being born from a Japanese parent (I like the Japanese and their culture, don't get me wrong!), for trying to force anime onto their significant others, and having an unhealthy fixation with a made up character (yes, we all have nerd crushes, I mean the really bad ones, like Bonita Prime).

Whoooo, feels good to get it all out.

Relena Dorlan/Peacecraft from Gundam Wing, and I'll break down why she's simply awful:

1. "HEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOO!!!"

2. She a stuck-up rich girl that has everything handed to her, and the only person not sucking up to her is the one she has this stalker-like fixation with. Did I mention the guy told her to her face that she wants to kill her (and comes close many times)?

3. "HEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOO!!!"

4. For someone oblivious to the world around her, Relena somehow becomes not only a princess of a pacifist kingdom, but, not unlike Luke Skywalker judging Han Solo who mocked The Force despite learning about it a few hours earlier, she decided to rule the kingdom in the ideals of the parents she never knew. Oh, and her brother is a masked mobile suit pilot.

5. "HEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOO!!!"

6. After surrendering the kingdom she just started leading, Relena became the face of the world's government and, wait for it, queen of the world. Again, the boy who wanted to kill her at the beginning still wants to kill her because she represents the enemy.

7. "HEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOO!!!"

8. After losing her crown to the military leaders, she tries to stop her brother from leading the war against the Earth. She wasn't successful. She retakes her adoptive father's name and became the Vice Foreign Minister of the Earth. Remember, she's still a teenaged girl.

9. Who got kidnapped by a new group of military leaders hoping to start a coup to take over the Earth Alliance. Their mission was a failure, and Relena went back to work, still lusting, still infatuated with her beloved homicidal savior. His name?

10. "HEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOO!!!" She shrieks this. A lot. It got very annoying.

11. Did I mention the closing credits of Gundam Wing was basically Relena on safari with a preppy, bouncy song that was way too inappropriate for an action-packed drama about rebellion, chaos, geopolitics, and terrorism? Thank GOD the good guys at Williams Street/Toonami decided to air a brief closing credit segment that was the instrumental version of the first opening theme.

Monster Rancher was one of several “me-too” anime series that bounced around on Fox Kids and later in syndication in the late 90s/early 00s. The plot concerned a boy named Genki who got sucked into a video game Monster World and had to ally a group of strange creatures. The thing that separates Monster Rancher from others shows of its’ time is that Genki is perhaps one of the most obnoxious characters in the history of animation. Genki was prone to a frightening degree of hyper-activity and attention deficit disorder that he makes Bart Allen looked like narcoleptic.

For those who don’t remember the show Genki’s reaction to just about every near-death situation is to jump up in the air in joyous rapture. Nothing about the dangers of his world seem to sink in for him. This is particularly jarring in the first episode where upon realizing that he’s in a dangerous world and at risk of never seeing his family again. What’s his reaction to this situation. “Oh that was great I can’t believe it it was so fun, Yeaaaaaaah! My dream come true! Wow. Yee-haw! I am the champ-champ-champ!”

Here’s a clip to show why Monster Rancher was a much more effective advertisement for Ritalin than the actual video game series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8czeGWfT8b8 .

I used to like Astro Boy....but not as much as Iron Man liked Astro Boy......

Nagasumi from 'Seto No Hanayome'. Because he gets all the fucking chicks. Fuck him.

Tentacles

I would definitely have to put my entry as Lord Fulkan (is that spelled right?) from Escaflowne the movie. In the series, he was a passable antagonist. However, in the movie (with a story that had little relation to the series) he had become a villain with a motivation that has spawned an eternal hatred of poorly motivated villains. This douchenanny wanted to the world to be destroyed to "end his suffering". Now wait just a minute, silver-locks, you're telling me that because you didn't like your daddy and little brother, you have embarked on a genocidal campaign to exterminate the entire world so that you can stop feeling like a loser bitch-face? For Tenant's sake, just eat a fucking bullet like a normal person.

I say that the most annoying character is the fu­cking horn in Neon Genesis Evangelion, that constantly goes off all the fu­cking time in the city. For several episodes I thought they were corrupted or I had something running in the background...

I say that the most annoying character is the fu­cking horn in Neon Genesis Evangelion, that constantly goes off all the fu­cking time in the city. For several episodes I thought they were corrupted or I had something running in the background...

Setsuko from Grave of the Fireflies. She's a whiny, starving toddler.

"Waaa, my mommy got burned-ed up. My aunt is a bitch. This dirtball is delicious."

Way to go, crazy-pants.

Momoko (aka-Hyper Blossom) from "Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z"

Now, I really dislike this whole show in general as it really does the original Powerpuff Girls cartoon a injustice. But Momoko's character in general I found just threw the entire shows credibility as an adaptation out the window.

If you're not familiar with the American Powerpuff Girl's Blossom. She was a leader and bossy, but she was smart, independent, tried to be the best person she could be, and a bit of an activist for woman's rights.

Momoko however is ditzy, ate food all the time, lazy, and spent most of the time chasing hot boys. Basically she was just a shallow rip-off of everything Sailor Moon was and every other magical girl and shojo drama character that was made in the past decade or two.

She had no originality on her own and a terrible interpretation of what was once an fully rounded and in-depth character.

I LOVE THAT ONE PIECE ENTRIES ARE DENIED THAT'S SO AWESOME THERE IS NO BAD ONE PIECE ANYTHING.... The worst anime character is Rangiku Matsumoto from Bleach. She is just fanservice. She is walking, huge breasted, fanservice, and that pisses me off. Tite Kubo has some sort of fetish or something. Every other character has huge boobs... Rangiku just distracts everyone from everything in Bleach (Which is a good series), and that pisses me off...

Jin Kariya, from Bleach. Y'know why?

Because he was one of the very first characters from the very first "not the manga" arc in the anime to show his face. AND IT HAS BEEN ALL DOWNHILL FROM THERE.

I used to watch the anime. I used to ENJOY the anime. I DID. But since it started diverting away from the main storyline to dart away down rabbit holes of idiotic, FFF-level characterization and plot (YOU HAVE A GIANT ENERGY ARROW, URYU. SHOOT IT AT THE MOTHERFUCKING BAD GUY!), I... just lost all hope of ever enjoying it again. About to start the most epic and enjoyable arc of the series? Too bad! You get some bullshit about an HR problem with the new guy in Squad 3. Care to continue the tale about the most important battles the afterlife will ever see? Tough shit. Your swords are going to start turning into people! Ha! That's what you get for wanting to see your awesome manga in colour and motion! Now get back to work and vote for the silver-haired kid in the popularity polls! Kubo's going to go work on some extraneous and ultimately useless costume designs! I...

I... I...

...

*crumbles and cries*

Shin Chan. Full stop. I only saw about a minute of the show while channel surfing and he is the most vile, hateful bastard I've ever seen. He is animated like a steaming pile of shit tried to draw, and constantly moons everyone. How anyone finds this to be anything but completely reprehensible is beyond my comprehension!

If anyone has any question on how terrible the character is, this image I found a moment ago online should stop any questions regarding the absolute hatefulness of the character: http://steveneilans.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/shin_chan_culet1.jpg

The anime character I cannot stand, no matter what, is Kouta Oyamada from Kanokon. Kanokon is one of those harem shows, which are often terrible, yes. But Kanokon is the harem genre at its absolute WORST. Horrendously blatant fanservice, literally NO good reason for the women coming after him, and really bland character designs that all look like they're from some other show. But Kouta. Kouta is the worst of the lot. As the main character, you'd think he'd have some sort of msculine qualities that make him actually worth pursuing,even if they are buried deep inside. Kouta, however, is spineless as all hell. He is everyone's bitch. People do things to him and he just takes it. He's so pathetic and poorly designed. Not only does he look eight years old, but he is also nickamed "The Great Perverted King" at school for literally no reason. It's as if the creators of the show just glued together different facets of a harem male found in the bargain bin of anime ideas, but none of them matched up. There is nothing redeemable about Kouta. Nothing at all. If I saw him in real life, I would kick him straight in his tiny junk for not tapping all those girls that seem to want him for some reason, then punch him in the face for being such a loser, then choke the ever-loving fuck out of him to erase him from this world. Kouta is the most pathetic, spineless, disgusting harem anime character ever, and appears in the most contrived, boring, and blatant harem show ever. Kouta and his anime are what is wrong with the anime industry right now. The fact that this boy is actually the main character of a show is enough to make me sick. Oh my god. I want him to die.

Also, I agree that every One Piece character is balls-to-the-wall awesome.

Merle from Escaflowne. Seriously, if I hear Pikachu's voice say "Van-sama" one more time, I'll stab someone.

Orihime Inoue from Bleach. Why? Because she was, at her first introduction, just a classmate, who, though she was slightly annoying, she was not that important. Then, she discovers her powers, which come in the form of fairies. not just any fairies, either, MAGICAL HAIRCLIP FAIRIES.
Now, although this idea sound like something that Kubo (the author) pulled out of his ass, hung-over, at the last minute before his deadline, I might have forgiven it if she just USED THE CRITTERS.
She is COMPLETELY USELESS in a fight where her life might be in danger (like in the Soul Society arc, when she had to have Uryu save her life, not once, but twice against Jirobo Ikkanzaka, when she lacked the will to kill him in her attack) but, when there's no real danger, she apparently can just use the skills Tatsuki taught her (like in Soul Society, where she knocks out two shinigami to steal their clothes so she and Uryu can blend in).
THEN, she tries attacking Yammy, who utterly obliterates her attack-fairy. She tries to fight a fight she knew she could not win (Chad also knew she couldn't win, which is why he tried to send her away), declaring that she didn't want to rely on Ichigo to protect her anymore. A noble effort, I suppose, but, guess who needs to step in at the last moment to prevent her from being hurt (because, apparently, with the loss of her attack-fairy, she no longer has the sense to try to shield herself)?? ICHIGO, the poor over-worked bastard. Can't even rely on his friends to handle themselves in a fight FOR ONE DAY without having to help.
Her fairies are very indicative of her nature- Three fairies are needed to create a shield, two are used for healing, and one, only ONE is an attack-fairy. Now, I can understand that this is because she isn't a fighter, a killer by nature. The unforgivable prat of this is that she KNOWS this, has been told this TWICE, by two different people (Urahara, and Hachi) and STILL she insists on trying to fight, knowing full well that she would not be of any use in a fight, because she can't bring herself to kill. Even after being TOLD by Urahara (who is kind of the Gandalf to her friends' Fellowship) to stay off the battlefield because she would be of no help, she INSISTS that she can help, and goes off to Soul Society to train.
Again, I would have had no problem with this, if only she had been training to be able to kill, and, if not to kill, to be able to heal the Division Four healers more quickly, but, instead, she just practices on attacking Rukia (her friend, which meant that she would never even try to kill her, even for training purposes). She doesn't even improve on this, and then Karakura Town is attacked by arrancar, including several espada.
She, of course, against Urahara's advice, tries to fight, and is abducted on her way back. Why is she abducted? Because she is the EASIEST PERSON EVER TO ABDUCT! She is shown images of her friends fighting, not them as Ulquiorra's personal captives, not being defeated in their fights, not their severed heads, just fighting. Ulquiorra threatens to kill them if she does not come with him, so she agrees. WAY TO HAVE FAITH IN YOUR FRIENDS' FIGHTING ABILITIES, ORIHIME. WAY TO HAVE FAITH IN THEM IN GENERAL. Stupid bint just AGREES to be abducted. And not even right then and there. She agrees to be abducted IN 24 HOURS. Now, you would think that she would, in her 24 hours left alone, she would run to find somebody to help her, to defend her against being abducted (Urahara and Yoruichi, along with Ururu, Jinta, and Tessai would be more than up to the task, no?). But, instead, she goes, writes a CHORE LIST for her friends staying at her house, and then goes to molest the unconscious Ichigo, before just going willfully to Hueco Mundo with her... I'm not even sure they can be called 'captors' because she WILLFULLY WENT WITH THEM WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A MURMUR OF DISSENT.
When her friends come to save her (I wouldn't) all she ever does is sit there and "watch" the battles by monitoring their reiatsu (spiritual energy) from her room. MOST OF HUECO MUNDO IS SLOWLY FALLING TO YOUR FRIENDS, AND ALL YOU CAN DO IS SIT IN YOUR ROOM AND *WAIT* FOR THEM?? WHY, OH WHY can't you just BREAK OUT OF YOUR ROOM and go to find them, make their job a bit easier??
And then, the **BESTEST** part EVER is when Ichigo fights Ulquiorra, gets his butt whooped, and, when Uryu tries to help, he gets his HAND CUT OFF. Orihime, being the completely useless waste of space she is, simply cries for Ichigo's help, even though he just GOT HIS BUTT WHOOPED. So, Uryu's lost a hand, and, when he tries to prevent Ichigo from going too far in his Hollowfication, he gets STABBED IN THE CHEST. Ulquiorra dies, Ichigo collapses, and Orihime, continuing with her air-wasting ways, asks, sobbing, "What should I do, Kurosaki-kun? What should I do?"
OH, GEE, I DUNNO. WHAT *SHOULD* YOU, A PERSON WITH HEALING ABILITIES, DO ABOUT THE FACT THAT ONE OF YOUR FRIENDS IS COLLAPSED AFTER A FIGHT, AND THE OTHER IS ***MISSING A MOTHERFUCKING HAND, AND HAS BEEN RUN THE FUCK THROUGH***??? I certainly have NO CLUE what you should do, except just die in a fire. It's girls like YOU that make me ashamed to share the same gender with you, because all you do is perpetuate the stereotype that Big, Strong Man Need Protect and Save Weak, Powerless Woman. By the way, when you go die in your fire, please note that you would redeem yourself completely if you would also take Stephenie Meyer with you.

Here goes ...

Babidi from DBZ. He uses mind control in a battle anime ... and fails spectacularly.

Inspector Heinrich lunge from Monster

You will never find a more awful anime character than him. For one thing, He have his face up his ass, He truly believe that Johan is a alternate personality of Dr. Temma despise the fact that has A PICTURE OF JOHAN WITH HIM. When lunge's wife told him she and her pregnant daughter is leaving him what does lunge do? Nothing, that what.

I'm a younger guy who, in general, doesn't watch too much anime. But I still am certain I know what is possibly the most annoying anime character ever. It's from Pokemon, which may seem like a cop out. After all, who liked the Pokemon anime?

Well, I did. As a kid, I was obsessed with Pokemon like it was nobody's business. I watched every episode of the first 3 seasons, right up until Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire came out for the GBA. Now, I'm sure that a lot of people will name characters from the show as the worst, people like Ash or Team Rocket. Well, you're wrong. As a kid, nothing is better than seeing Team Rocket BLASTING OFF AGAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaain...*ding*

But there was one character who was so annoying and unavoidable that I have to mention him. I'm referring, of course, to Wobbuffet, that stupid blue fucker that Jesse accidentally traded for her Lickitung. Why was he so awful? Because he was completely and utterly worthless.

When I say worthless, I don't mean in the sense of Ash's Muk that just stayed with Professor Oak. He didn't do much most of the time, but when the Elite Four came around, at least he actually did something. Wobbuffet is in a class of all his own. I will now, for your benefit, reenact every scene involving Wobbuffet on the show ever.

EXT. SCENE: RANDOM FIELD

(Jesse and Ash are about to face off in a Pokemon fight)

Jesse: You're pathetic Poke-pipsqueaks are no match for my superior Pokemon!

Ash: Oh yeah? We'll see about that! Chikorita, I choose you!

Chikorita: Chicka!

Jesse: Go, Arbo...

(Suddenly, a burst of light from one of Jesse's Pokeballs. Wobbuffet comes out of his ball!)

Wobbuffet: Wobbuffet!

Jesse: Grrr... Get back in there!

(Wobbuffet is put back in his Pokeball)

That's it. Nothing else, just coming out of the Pokeball before each battle and never fighting. And it happened for every episode. EVERY. FRICKIN'. EPISODE. Without fail. I hate him, the stupid cyan bastard...

wow, all the good ones have been taken, shinji, kamui, pikachu...guess i have to try my hand on a more obscure character: Kokopelli, from the high-octane nightmare fuel "Bokurano" (translated as "Ours"). beware, here be spoilers!

sooo...the only way to weed out the parallel universes is to have each representatives of each world duke it out on a mecha deathmatch with said universes' survival at stake? okay, still reasonable enough. so then, why should the pilots be children? no explanation. why should these 11 innocent innocent kids be tricked into thinking they are heroes of justice instead of educating them in the nobility of their purposes? no explanation. why should the mecha be powered with the pilot's soul instead of, oh say, unobtanium? no explanation. why should the kids die even after they did a good job of saving their home universe? no explanation.

well...FUCK YOU KOKOPELLI! see this stick of dynamites? they'll be up your ass and down your throat at the same time to erase YOU out of existence, because it is clearly noted that your entire reason to exist is to piss people off and nothing else!! not even the sick bastard who created the series (who was kind of a douche anyway) offered any explanation on why Kokopelli couldn't pilot the mecha himself and be off on his merry way. oh sure, there's the "reasoning" that if they want to save the world, they have to do it himself. well, in that case, why not scout for military personnel whose actually TRAINED for this kind of shit? and if the universe was to survive, doesn't it make much more sense to send the adults off to the war, and prepare the kids (who naturally have a longer lifespan than some old coot who'll die in two-three years tops) to carry on the race? how is that simple logic POSSIBLY eludes "one so wise" as you so claim? what the FUCK is wrong with you?

hey rob, if you can reinstate another "Death List" contest specifically for anime characters, i wanna submit this fucker first and foremost! i got the dynamite sticks, and i got nothing but time...

I'm at a tie, it could only be both Momo and Sae from Peach Girl. I couldn't decide which of them I should hate more to be honest, Sae is a complete and total bitch who's inexplicable constant jealously and driving need to be an asshole daily make her torment Momo every day. On occasion, she's purposely mimicked her to make everyone else hate her, spreads rumors, and ruins Momo's potential love life at every turn. Momo, on the other hand, calls this person her friend, which makes me hate her too. Sae might be an obvious villain type who we're not supposed to like, but how can we like a heroine proper when she doesn't think the villain isn't villanous enough or something weird? Not only that, but Momo spends the entire series deciding between the "hot but ignores you" guy and the "comforts when when the other guy ignores you or when Sae is a bitch" guy despite the first one treating her like crap constantly, she still seem incapable of noticing the other equally bishonen dude because...I dunno, different shade of hair and not as tall?
So we've got a series in which Sae, the queen bitch, spends every waking moment trying to make the Momo's life a living hell while Momo takes it then asks for more. How can I not hate both of them? And these two are the main characters! The series follows Momo being an annoying twit, Sae being a bitch, and the two guys kinda ignoring/comforting her and Momo can't see for whatever reason who to date and who to not call her friends.

Fuma from the movie version of X. Obviously, the manga and anime have a chance to develop him, but in the world of the movie, he's the world's most malleable man and he just happens to get into the position to destroy all of mankind. It's almost casual the way he decides to turn against his best friend and becomes responsible for the death of thousands. Becoming the source of the armageddon's like choosing what you're going to wear today, really.

The only value of him as a character is to have a badass final confrontation with his best friend for the fate of the world. And you know what? He gets taken down in ONE SLASH in the final confrontation. Fuma, you betrayed everything you had in your life, and you couldn't even last FIVE SECONDS. Fuma, you are the most WORTHLESS AND IRRITATING PART OF ONE OF THE WORST MOVIES EVER MADE!

Hiro from Fruits Basket... I hate that little angsty bastard..

Videl from DBZ...

Come on. Really.

Nobody's gonna say it?

VIVI.

Let's see: Sir Crocodile is spending years with an elaborate scheme to destroy your country.

So let's fix it! Sneak into his organization to locate the real villian, but then let's SCREAM and KVETCH until some pirates fix it for you!

Don't hire mercenaries. Don't involve the World Government. Pirates.

Dessicate to death.

The Fat Esper from Akira. that bastard was fucking annoying regardless of the voice actor. In every version of the film, he never failed to piss me off.

Professor Oak from Pokemon.

My, what an asshole. It might take a while, but i can explain. I have this insane retarded theory, that apparently a good number of people share. I'm pretty sure Oak is Ash's father, but doesn't want to tell him. Seriously, look at Ash, and Professor Oak. Now imagine Ash aged up a few decades. He looks remarkably similar, doesn't he? This would also Professor Oak sometimes treats Ash better than his own grandson, Gary.

Additionally, Ash has no apparent father figure, (as far as I know. I stopped watching around when Misty left the show and it went stupid again), so Professor Oak not wanting to tarnish his reputation as a foremost pokemon researcher and expert would never reveal that he had an affair with Ash's mom. Now, this alone is not enough to show why Oak is an asshole I'll get into that now.

Professor Oak really cares little for Ash other than the few times he does something nice for him. really, he's more interested in banging Ash's mom. Now that Ash is old and smart enough to notice suspicious behavior from his mom and Oak, Oak needs to get the kid out of Pallet town so he'll never find out and tell anyone about the affair and cause a scandel. So, he gets the kid all excited about going on a pokemon journey, gives him a pokedex and sends him out on many cross contintental journies to keep the kid away from home. Now Oak is free to bang Ash's mom and no one seems close enough to find out.

Of course after the Orange Islands (filler) story, Tracy, becomes his apprentice or something. Tracy's creepy and really seems to have a hard on for the old guy. I suspect, given Tracy's unwavering loyalty to his hero, he not only knows about Oak's screwing around, but actively helps him cover it up. Man, Tracy's a fucking bastard too.

If Professor Oak were not such a coward, he would let Ash know about this kind of shit. I know a lot of people who would have given an arm or two to know who their real father is. It really puts a lot of stress on young minds. He only keeps up this lie so he can continue to bang Ash's mom without letting Ash find out. He needs to put more trust in his son and let him know. I think Ash can keep a secret.

For those who skipped to the end, Professor Oak is secretly banging Ash's and sending on long pointless journies to distract him. For that, he is an ass.

Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV

Now look, I'll be blunt and admit that Cowboy Bebop is not only my favorite anime, it changed the way I looked at anime as a medium and affected my tastes in all visual media from the first watching forward. Which is why this is all the harder to admit.

Ed is a vestigial character that does nothing but bring down the show. We already had a skilled hacker(Jet), the requisite cute "thing"(Ein) and a female(Faye) when we reach Ed's first appearance in "Jammin' With Edward". She comes off as a standard strange, eccentric savant character that often appears for a short time in other series. This would have been fine. But instead after one of the weaker episodes of the whole show, we get a dead end character tacked onto our main cast for the rest of the series filling space.

Let's break down the main reasons she is a completely useless character and an actively annoying at that.

1: She ends up with the least development of any major character(hell, Jet's informant Bob develops more). She has no true progression in any sense I would usually associate with a well written character.

2: Her personality extends no further then "I SAY THINGS STRANGELY AND MAKE NOISES AND HAVE NO SOCIAL SKILLS. I ALSO AM A BRILLIANT HACKER, MEANING TAKEN TOGETHER, I PROBABLY HAVE ASPERGERS SYNDROME.

3: Jet's hacking skills, which were demonstrated in "Honkey Tonk Women", could have simply been written to be on the same level as Ed's, thus rendering her one skill redundant and unnecessary.

4: The show has some wonderful comedic moments before the introduction of our painfully obvious stooge character. The best comedic moments post-Ed NEVER involved her.

5: She on at least one occasion completely disrupted the tone of an episode to almost the point of no return(Pierrot Le Fou)

6: The dropping of Ed before the finale of the show leads me to believe that because of the character's incongruity with the rest of the shows tone, the writers realized she needed to be quickly dispensed of so as to not detract from the series finale's overall feel. Me thinks that smells of a badly written character.

7: Her dialogue, by and large, is reminiscent of Uhura in TOS. She just ends up telling everyone what the computer says without any thought or interpretation behind it. It's up to the more well rounded characters to do more with that info the repeat it.

8: SHE'S A THINLY VEILED CAT GIRL AND SHIT NEVER WAS, IS, OR WILL BE CUTE/FUNNY!!! No anime was improved by neko. Evar.

Bottom line, the entire series could have done without her. There wasnt a single point where she did something that another character, with minor alterations, couldnt have done themselves. So fuck Ed for being the only true black mark on an otherwise brilliant series.

"as always, if you dismiss an entire genre, you are an idiot. Saying all anime sucks is essentially no different from saying all television shows suck"

Rob puts this right at the beginning of the article, and a bunch of fucknuts still chime in with their "All anime sucks" comment bullshit...

Congratulations, idiots! Way to out yourselves!

(Spoiler Alert! Everyone losing their shit over Orihime in this contest is most likely a Rukia x Ichigo 'shipper. Everyone else knows the worst character in Bleach is Ichigo!)

Anywho, my pick is a character that was added into a series during localization: 7-Zark-7 from the first adaptation of Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Battle of The Planets. Sandy Frank (not to be confused with the purveyors of rainbow unicorns and kittens) didn't seem to know what he was getting into when he decided to dub Gatchaman, that show is full of silly things like death and proto-panty shots. So in order to make up for the time that was lost when his company edited the living shit out of it, new scenes were (very poorly) animated to make some sense out of the wreckage.

Star Wars was still wholly and purely awesome back then, with kids throwing down their hard earned cash on anything remotely resembling the new craze. So thus was introduced 7-Zark-7 into the show, a mash up of R2-D2 and C3P0. He was the nanny figure for the show, he told the kids everything about the plot and that everything was OK, despite it looking like some dudes just got mauled by an explosion. They are fine. It wasn't that bad. It was just a flesh wound. That isn't Hell, it is the Home For Infinte Losers... er, wrong show. Ol' Zarky even got a robot dog to chum arround with for more kid appeal.

Even though they turned one character into a bumbling, jiberish spouting robot instead of a bumbling, jackass-y kid, 7-Zark-7 still went above and beyond to effectively pussify the show, and thus is the most awful.

(P.S. Joe the Condor is a badass mofo in Tatsunoko vs Capcom. His move of drawing someone over to him and then busting a few caps in their ass would make Zark freak the hell out.)

I am honestly suprised no-one has said this yet.

Katz Kobayashi from Z Gundam.

*SPOILER*

I cheered when he crashed into that asteroid.*

*END SPOILER*

english dub? (minus full metal alchemist)
everyone loses.

ohh and without anime i wouldnt be the geek i am today and i wouldnt have found topless robot. im glad my cousin made me watch devilman guyver and ninja scroll when i was 8 years old. bad grammar? i just got in from a club. apologies.

I know he has been mentioned twice before but I nominate Kira Yamato from Gundam SEED

Kira. In a long line of Gundam protagonists, Kira is one of the dullest, as well as one of the mopiest. If Murrue was not the captain, the kid would be getting his ass kicked from one end of the ship to the other for being emo all the time. Unfortunately, this is not Zeta Gundam, so that does not happen. He does improve a little bit as the series progresses, thankfully, though, like Cagalli, he cries far too often. I suspect that it runs in the family.

The worst part? He's constantly voted as one of the most popular anime characters in Japan. :(

if i stay drunk do i win a tee?

Okay, I'm going to nominate a minor character from an anime nobody's heard of, but damnit, Mario from Law of Ueki frustrates me to no extent. First of all, his outfit. I found a single picture of him through about 11 pages of Google Images, and although it only displays a black fluffy scarf thing and his haircut, MY GOD LOOK AT THAT GODAWFUL HAIRCUT.

http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/characters/10/37293.jpg

But wait, there's more. Law of Ueki is a series in which teenagers are given superpowers (in the form of changing A into B), and considering that other powers in the series include changing beads into bombs, tomatos into magma, your voice into freezing gas and fans into buzzsaws, Mario decides to pick the ability to turn himself into a giant billiard ball. I kid you not, the way the hero defeats him is by shooting him into a hole while screaming "BILLIARD BALLS NEED TO GO INTO THE POCKET!" That's the best line they could think of for the protagonist to scream, because he's that awful a character.

Thirdly, he's in denial about how terrible his chosen power is. This isn't the funny sort of denial either, it's the pathetic 'hey my power is cool' He doesn't flat out deny it either, his argument is that he's not a billiard ball, he's a 'Super Dynamic Elegant Ball!' But, because it's an anime, it's really pronounced "Supaaa Dainamiku Ereganto Booru!"

Fourthly, they rub it in by saying that his best subject in school is English, and in the character introductions they don't even give him a last name. If people somehow think that I'm talking about the Super Mario Bros Mario, I don't blame you.

Although Law of Ueki is one of my favourite series, it has a lot of minor characters that make me bang my head against the desk.

Congratulations Mario, you've managed to outrank the guy who constantly expresses himself through colours (quote: 'I'm blue! Navy blue!) and the guy wearing what appears to be a leather zentai suit who punctuates his sentences with 'baby.' Good job.

Buu from DBZ. Pink, squishy, all smiley and laughing and stupid. Fuck you buu for ruining a show I liked when I was a kid!

Spritle Racer.

Every incarnation.. especially the live-action one.

Heh. Too easy: Taarna, from Heavy Metal. See what I did there? Heavy Metal isn't really an anime per se, it's just a really shitty American attempt at one. I can sorta imagine how the planning went:
"hey, these gorram Japs are making a killing with all these comic books I don't understand!"
"What we really need is to showcase the best American/Canadian/Western animation has to offer! Then we can compete!"
"So, how do we do that?"
"Ha ha! Nah, I'm just kidding. Let's just make up some bullshit story about an evil orb, and then have a half-dozen animation houses throw together a short about some part of the story. It won't have to make any sense, or have any narrative continuity, or consistent visuals. Just make sure every segment has tits and dragons or whatever, and Westerners will love it!"
"Genius!" *snorts a line*

...

See, this film is absolutely everything that was wrong with American animation at the time: lazy production values, bad storylines, awful characterizations, and infantile treatment of female characters. I hated the film in the first five minutes, but forced myself to watch the rest of this hot steaming heap of fail, just to see if it got any better. It didn't, and Taarna is the worst example of what's wrong with it. I see her, walking through that pool naked, and all I can think of is some greasy middle-aged guy breaking a sweat trying to animate her breasts right ("right" = "huge and unnaturally buoyant")

The fact that the film enjoys a cult following just further confirms all my bad stereotypes of American tastes. I hate myself and am unable to perform sexually just thinking about it.

Boy, i HOPE this hasn't been said already, and I HOPE that it counts as anime, because my entry is the only FFXIII character to spend more time on his knees than... well... someone from Gran Pulse who happens to be slutty, I... suppose...

The character known as Hope is easily the best magician in the game. He secretly harbors the need to kill another pivotal character. He (eventually) learns to pull the summon Alexander out of his repertoire (wrist, maybe. I don't really know, as I'm only 35 Mu$#38Fu@%i^@ hours into this "straight [linearly] as something that is totally not gay" game).

Yeah, that's right, I have yet to finish the game, and even though I can see SOME growth in the character, it doesn't change the fact that for the first 20 hours of Final Fantasy XIII he spends more time on all fours than Sasha Grey (god bless her).

I'm the first person that will admit, that in a traditional Japanese telling of this story, this douche-hat's actions make sense. However, in a traditional NON-jrpg, Hope is just Fecking irritating to all of the players, new-school, old-school, PS3, and XBOX alike.

This shit might fly in Japan, but in an American cross-platform release, I require that a tad more balls be equipped to my character's available accessory spaces.

At the very least, I feel that I should be able to subject Hope to the trailer for FFXIII Versus, as that'll gain the little whiner some experience points...

Roan from Ragnarok the Animation. Yuufa was horrible, but how much more horrible do you have to be to put up with her for so long?

I really quickly skimmed the entries since I didn't want to feel like I was repeating anything or be sad cause someone said the same character.

I have to say one of the most annoying and awful anime characters I have ever seen is...

Heero from Gundam Wing

"Oooh I'm an emotionless badass who wants to kill people." Seriously, most boring protagonist ever. You know why they used 5 Gundam pilots in the series? Cause Heero sucked so much, they needed 4 other characters to make up for the epic sucking he exuded. Every single episode that focused on him bored the hell outta me.

Plus, he's a damn liar. He never did kill Relena did he? Good guys shouldn't lie, he shoulda capped her pacifistic ass when he had the chance. (the preceding was sarcasm for those who are impaired)

And he's the main character of the absolutely terrible Gundam Wing, With the exceptions of Treize, Duo, and maaaaybe Wu Fei. Everything about Gundam Wing was just so bad. Zechs is the worst rip-off of Char EVER, in most series the Char analogue is more of an homage. Zechs coulda been his damn clone. I mean WTF. And don't forget the fangirls spawned by the black hole of crap. Every time someone tells me they loved Gundam Wing I ask if they have seen ANY other Gundam, the answer is a universal no. Anyone who actually watches classic UC Gundam prefers it over Wing. Or the fantastic G Gundam for that matter. Seed/Destiny were just boring, but they don't compare to my hate of Gundam Wing.

Why did I end up ranting about Wing itself rather than Heero? Cause it's fault! He's the main character. it's his responsibility to carry the damn show. Maybe if he didn't suck so bad, then the show might have had a chance at being good.

I have quite a hate for Natsuru from Kampfer. He's the main character who's major characterization is his love for this girl who's major characterization is that she's a giant lesbian. Natsuru then gets super powers that give him tits and turns him into a girl. His love interest then proceeds to jump his(her) ass.

His idiocy, and retarded love triangle with himself brings down the better, more interesting characters in the show. Then the fanservice starts up and shits on everything.

While most of these entries are very well-written, they're ultimately futile since Sosuke Aizen rigged the contest in his favor with a plan that began roughly thirty minutes before Rob's conception.

this is a trick right? everyone know every anime character is terrrible.

I spent the night contemplating this one but couldn't escape this name- Sakura Haruno from Naruto. This is largely out of disappointment.

After the second Chuunin exam it looked as though Sakura would develop into a strong individual character who could hold her own in a fight and actually contribute something to the overall story. However soon after the exam she reverts to her default position of hovering in the background whilst Naruto and Sasuke continue to have a storyline. Her only interjections into the story are of little comedic value or wimpering pleas to either Naruto or Sasuke.

Recently in the manga it appeared as though she was about to do something worthwhile (I won't ruin it for those of you who haven't read it up to the most recent point). Even this though descended into another Sakura-being-weak-fest.

She represents a annoyance of mine in all anime and manga- casual sexism. As a character she's only there to dote on one of the male characters and to be the object of other's affection. I mean throughout the naruto universe there are a handful of female ninja that could be considered strong (of which I do not include Sakura or Hinata), whereas there are masses of strong males. Ultimately as a woman she is considered only good enough to have a healing role...a secondary role.

Although Naruto is one of the less sexist of the anime Sakura is still indicative of one of the worst points.

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo worst character with the worst name. Granted I dunno if you can count that show as anime...

Ok I didn't even think I was going to like to watch Nana, an anime about two girls named Nana who meet on a train going to Tokyo. There's the cool Nana who is in a punk band and the other Nana (who gets named Hachiko for looking like a puppy) who is all into boys and shopping. The anime goes on and you actually start to understand Hachiko. Then enters Demonking Takumi. Hachiko sleeps with him because he's famous. He assumes since they slept together one night that they are a couple and he doesn't need to call her for months because that's understood. So she figures its a one night stand and starts to get in a relationship. Then she finds out the one night stand got her pregnant and that Takumi is cool or something. I don't know. I rage quit at this point. Never found out what happened. Still makes me angry.

Excel from Excel Saga but here is the kicker it is one of my favorite animes and I watch it 3 or 4 times a year, the problem is no matter what version I watch it in Excel just ends up pissing me off.

A few months pass and I get the urge to watch it again so I put it in and after a few disks I need to switch it off and take a break from her.

I'm going to nominate the three side characters from Tora Dora here. They all pissed me off every single time they appeared, they were so bad that the two main characters just shone in comparison. Which is an accomplishment because Taiga is just Louise/Shana with a different hair colour.

Why do i hate them? Easy, Minori is a spazz, loud obnoxious and doing totally random stuff every time she appears. She's obviously the "moe" character of the group but she fails so hard at this, that kind of behavior isn't cute it's a reason for your friends to shun you. It isn't helped when near the end of the season we see her breakdown and learn that is just a facade she puts up. So now she's not your average moe, no she's "deep". Not going to comment on Kitamura much, he's supposed to be uber smart and responsible and just a swell guy overall but really he is a male Minori.

And then the one i hate the most, Ami. She's a condescending bitch, but that's ok. She's 16 and already a popular and highly paid model. I can forgive her for being a bitch, i would be too. What pisses me off is that she's supposed to be the mature one, she knows Taiga and Ryuji love each other before they do. And she wants to play matchmaker, fine. But at the same time she's in love with Ryuji, who is oblivious to other peoples feelings, and she keeps hinting at it in every conversation they have, she gives him advice on how to win over Minori/Taiga and at the same time almost tells him he should just choose her. And when he doesn't get it she gets all mad and goes into full on bitch mode oly to try again the next episode,her constant hinting at things and never just saying what she means annoyed me so much i practically shouted " just tell him you want his dick" when she tried to seduce him in the most hard to understand terms.

It's been a year since i watched this so i don't really recall all details which is why this is pretty vague. I'm still surprised at how much i hate these characters, i actually erased the folder the minute i watched the last episode because i knew i was never going to watch it again, all because of these three. And i keep a lot of mediocre anime on my hard drive.

Misao from Rurouni Kenshin. What a waste of ninja. Instead of being what a ninja SHOULD be (useful, quiet, tactical, etc.) she spends most of the show whining, yelling, crying for Aoshi, and overall just being a useless addition to a cast of interesting characters.

Not to mention how she looks like a quinticential anime girl, and the voice actress tries to pull off the worst southern-bell impression ever and GOD I HATE HER.

Mikoto Misaka from To Aru Majutsu No Inxed and To Aru Kagaku no Railgun (rolls of your tongue, huh?). Its important to note that Im a BIG anime fan, I enojyed all sorts of crazyiness like Lucky Star, Haruhi, Sailor Moon, Digi Charat and all shounen action titles available. I can understand why people like different things then I do, its a matter of taste after all, but one thing I cant get over is WHY is Mikoto so popular? She