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Sep 15, 2021 4:46 PM
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Makise Kurisu (Steins;Gate) - <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Suzuha
Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist) - I really don't think he's a good MC, he looks cool, but he's annoying af
Eren Jaeger (Attack On Titan)
Oshino Shinobu and Koyomi Araragi (Monogatari Series) - Like them, but common: <<<<<<<<<<<<<< Kaiki and Ononoki
Emilia (Re:Zero)
Asuka (Evangelion) - I hate her, Misato best girl
Nami (One Piece)
Sep 15, 2021 5:03 PM

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Oh boy! There are a good bunch of them, i will take a look at the top favorite characters to remember. Hmm I will go for 10 picks.

1) Levi (Attack on Titan)
Generic badass Overpowered guy, i understand that he looks cool af with his spinning swords and stylish combat, but making overpowered characters shouldnt auto put you top 10 characters of all time.
2) Edward Elric (FMA)
Another Generic shounen hero, i mean ok his character arc and growth is good, but he never strikes me as someone who is very impressive, he is the typical shounen hero character, who starts a bit weak but with determination and growth and practices reaches his goals and becomes strong, also the jokes about his height are cringe and a bad spot on the anime itself.
3) To keep things short, most of the big popular shounen heroes..e.g (Naruto, Ichigo, Goku)
All the generic shounen heroes. for same reason above.
4) Mikasa (Attack on Titan)
I see no good reason for her to be this high, she is an obsessed girl with Eren, does good spinning moves and is strong because childhood reasons and blood related genes and talent but i dont find anything interesting about her, she looks cool i guess, lol.
5) Ken Kaneki (Tokyo Ghoul)
This guy, lmao. One of the most annoying characters i have ever watched, the usual edgelord screaming pussy hidden op character that has almost zero redeeming features to make me care about him, put him on miserable situation so he can suffer and by the power of plot armor and hidden op special one tricks he comes back to slay, by becoming the edge/cringe lord. No thanks.
6) Rem (Re:Zero)
Oh my god it feels like 90% of MAL list is actually overrated af lol.
Rem is a waifu bait in the Isekai Re:Zero, awful show, her looks are awful, her character is boring, she cares about this loser just 1 day after they met, her voice cringe, she is also special one hidden op for some reason, i mean as usual duh. Yeah nothing about this character is interesting, waifu baits only, the usual trick works on the Anime Fandom sadly.
7) Kazuto/Kirito (Sword Art Online)
Gary Stu FTW, this guy is the best online gamer it seems, he gets everything, very skilled and gets all the waifus, no trouble will ever stop him, he can overcome anything by his determination and hidden magical talents, the most impressive talent he has is being able to get all the waifus despite being very skilled at games, and a loser irl. Weird. Escapism fantasy generic character, i mean im joking a bit yeah? but still this character has nothing going for him to deserve such huge popularity.
8)Hitagi Senjougahra (Bakemonogateri)
I made spelling mistakes here, fuck that long ass name who cares.
Ok so this girl is kinda hot actually, i mean she looks cool, but what else is there? i never found anything else, her personality is boring, her development felt very shallow and she has nothing unique going for her, she looks good, thats it. xD
9) To keep things for being repetitive I'll add 2 that dont belong directly after those.
9) Dio (JOJO)
I find this villain to be so obnoxious, so annoying and so tryhard it actually stains the series, all other JOJO villains were more interesting and better, this guy is bad because he likes being bad, his jokes became boring quickly and i hated everything about him and his fans are as bad as him, perhaps he succeeded at making me hate him but that is not what i consider a good villain.
10) I can say a lot of other characters here, like Sora from NGNL, or Saber, or Asuna or pretty much any of the generic characters who got popular because the series was popular or for their looks.
But i will go for something controversial and say Johan Liebert (Monster)
I think the aura of mystery around this villain is interesting and the way he was made and his background certainly do justify how his characterization is built, but man fuck that he is damn overrated af, this guy is often mentioned to be the best villain in all anime and i honestly do see how it is, after all he is good character but i dont consider him that well made as a villain. He barely talks or does anything other than act pretentious and weird, his voice is laughable, most of his actions leave a lot of questions and he looks very bland, his way of doing his psychic power or something is stupid. I dont know how he is highly regarded, just because of his mysterious aura and he makes people do bad stuff but they dont explain or show much about it, this villain i mean is ok but not that good.

Ofcourse he is not top 10 overrated or bad characters, i just included him for more spicy post, i dont want to simply talk about the usual popular ones, has to add something spicy and new here.
Sep 15, 2021 5:39 PM
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Gojo satoru, till this day i still don't understand why people hyped him up so much.
Sep 15, 2021 5:53 PM

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Literally more than half of AoT's cast are lazily-written, shallow, 1-dimensional characters that remained the same character throughout the entire series, Mikasa being the worst of them. And Eren's character arc is probably the messiest and most retardedly-written character arcs I've ever seen.
. It's beyond me how people genuinely think these characters are "complex".

Also amusing how often L and Light gets regarded as "smart, high-intellectuals, geniuses" without people realizing that the adults on the show are just lazily-written to be so unbelievably stupid that it makes them infinite times smarter in comparison. Their "mindgames" are reasoned with typical bullshit battle shonen logic without the actual battle. Not to mention Light is too unnecessarily a highschool edgelord, while L is just bland.
Shaw_ said:

3. Mikey
Like seriously people love this guy? This guy is cringe as hell, his fight just awfull. Mikey is just Levi rip off version Made in china.

As someone who finished/caught up to both manga, I can tell you that Mikey has 10× more depth and personality than Levi ever had. Still the same fujoshi-bait, generic op character, but the depth's there. Nothing too special though.
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Most characters honestly. And knowing how repetitive both shows and fan's overreaction are, there are some type of characters that I already say I don't see the appeal, like "empty badass" (Gojo, Levi), Waifus (specially the ones that have 100% unrealistic personalities), "Weird but special" (like the Hashira on KNY) and chilsidh.
Sep 17, 2021 2:01 PM

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Asskelad from Vinland Saga. He has no redeeming qualities and I hated everything about him.
Sep 17, 2021 2:06 PM
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Gojo
I know it's cliché to say that he's just a poor mans Kakashi... but he really is just a poor mans Kakashi.
Sep 19, 2021 7:01 PM

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Yuno Gasai.

Never understood the appeal behind her (or any yandere broadly speaking).
Sep 19, 2021 7:55 PM

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Katsuki Bakugo from My Hero Academia, for me he is just a brat who thinks the world revolves around him.
English is not my main language
Sep 19, 2021 8:22 PM
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Characters from AOT, Jujutsu and Demon Slayer. Lets see, Rem of Re:Zero. Mai of Bunny Girl, for me she wasn't that special there's tons of female MC that deserves more attention.
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PiyushSan said:
adnan_ said:
Rem- [Upto the point Anime has adapted the LNs] I heard everywhere 'Best WAIFU Best WAIFU' but she was literally nothing else than-

1. I'll kill the MC.
2. Oh wait. He is actually nice.
3. Now I'll be always loyal to him and sacrifice everything for his sake.
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Rem. I don't think she's very attractive and her personality is pretty boring imo. With other popular waifus like 02 I can kinda see the appeal but I was really surprised with how popular Rem got.

Then again I'm probably not her intended target audience. Ram best girl btw
Sayali567 said:
The only character's popularity I can't understand is Rem, out of all characters in Rezero I found her least interesting not to mention her fanbase is absolutely obnoxious which made me dislike her even more, Their logic if female character doesn't sacrifice herself for the mc than she isn't Best girl

Why not Rem? People love to fantasize about having an extremely loyal waifu that will devote her entire life to serve you.
wait, rem fans want a waifu or a mascot? lol
@Leoradiuju2004 funny enough, I watched an interesting video on why Rem sucks. One of the lines said "the fans don't want a wife. They want a slave." So, it could be that's why she's so liked
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Basing off of the most favorited characters on Mal.

Lelouch: at first when watching s1 I kinda got it, but as the story progressed he started annoying me and I thought this dude is actually pretty dumb lol ... so yeah, no thanks

L: He is smart and all but weird, creepy and pretty boring. And I just can't understand why people find him hot lmao

Luffy: Haven't seen much of One Piece but he seems like a very generic shounen mc

Edward Elric: he is not funny even though they try SO hard to make him be, he's just annoying

Naruto: same as Luffy, I guess he is one of the first generic shounen mcs? Part of the originators, thanks Naruto –.–

Mikasa: an annoying Ereh simp all the way to the end (yes I read the manga), she has no personality whatsoever

Eren Yeager: I've always hated him so it made me laugh when after the final chapter his simp fans got sooo disillusioned lol

Kaneki: seriously? Kaneki? EWWW

Rem: oh look, a loli simp who likes violently murdering people uwu best girl ever what a wAiFu

Kirito: you know

Hisoka: he is a *cough* you know what *cough* ugh disgusting

Yuno Gasai: I hate her, she is disgusting. I hate yanderes with passion.

Asuna: she has no personality, just a bland "waifu"

Midoriya Izuku: generic shounen mc the new generation, but make him even MoRE ANnOyInG
A crybaby broccoli with his naive ideals and thicc plot armor, I hate him. What does anybody see in him?

Natsu: generic shounen mc

Emilia: the girl with the one personality trait

Tanjirou: he is like Midoriya but with (a bit) less annoying looks and doesn't cry (much) and has a pet. With that said...Nezuko as well.

Gon: generic shounen mc but a little kid?

Armin Arlelt: he is a generic shounen mc except he isn't the mc (or is he) anyway he is annoying especially that they try to act like he is so fricking smart when he just has some common sense, whereas most characters in AoT don't.

Subaru: ugh

This got so long, I apologize.
@Xerx62 Subaru: ugh. Short, sweet, and to the point. The funniest one
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subaru from Rezero
I don't think he has the qualities of a main characters.. he is NOT lovable


I haven't seen RE:Zero but isn't this character arc about him evolving from someone unlovable to a better person?
@maha_thecat true, but sometimes he reverts back to his dumb, obnoxious self sometimes. It's like teppei forces subaru to remain stagnant, which damages his character.
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Chrollo Lucilfer (Hunter x Hunter) and Bruno Bucciarati (JoJo Part 5)
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When jjk was airing everyone was like "dude Gojo is the best character in the last decade" and "Nobara just saved females in anime" but when I watched it I was seriously underwhelmed by both of them.
@Theo1899 I agree, my guy friend is obsessed with gojo so we watched jjk together and my other friend and I (both girls) instantly hated Nobara bc she was so bland and just thought Gojo was one of those generic overpowered anime guys teenage boys like, not bad but nothing special.
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Sinbad from Magi. Overpowered, overwanked gary stu with no weaknesses or shortcomings? Yawnnnnnnn. Give me Alibaba any time of the day. Doesn’t help that Sinbad no Bouken is pretty much Sinbad wank the manga.
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