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Oct 10, 2020 6:54 AM
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I'm sure many of us have seen threads talking about "what anime characters you hate" or something along that line. But I decided to flip that question around and ask what make you really dislike anime characters. For me personally, very few things make me dislike anime characters. But if I had to pick a few, I would say that I dislike characters who are arrogant or who are so deceptive in their actions that they think they can get away with it. An example of an arrogant character for me would be Sasuke Uchiha. Now, I know that part of the reason why Sasuke acted the way that he did was because of his hatred for brother and his desire to kill him. But I felt like a lot of his actions and behavior were too easily understood by the other characters. A deceptive character I disliked would be Myne from the Rising of the Shield Hero. Now I'm sure that there are plenty of other reasons for why people hate anime characters, such as how their written and other things. So feel free to let me know .
Oct 10, 2020 6:56 AM
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Characters who don't get the most obvious advances from a girl, mostly in harem stuff.
Oct 10, 2020 7:01 AM
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Being a heckin crybaby like Bell from the Dungeon show.
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Oct 10, 2020 7:30 AM
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Crybaby characters like Deku and Zenitsu.
Oct 10, 2020 7:44 AM
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  • Bad behavior (eg: abuse, bullying, rape, harassment) being portrayed as something positive/romantic using "but s/he develops" as an excuse.
  • Falling in love with a character that has any traits from the above point.
  • Over the top trusting, forgiving and good to everyone to the point of being unrealistic.
  • Overly horny/perverted characters.
  • Fujoshi characters
  • Characters that exist for fan-service/have unrealistic body proportions.
  • Character's personality mainly consists of tropes (eg: most tsunderes) or doesn't have a personality to begin with (otome game MCs)
  • Writer putting down other characters to make their favorite look good instead of trying to impress the audience with good writing
Oct 10, 2020 7:55 AM
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Being the only and most righteous person because he feels like he's the main character, addition for a breaking 4th wall joke that the MC realizes that he is the main character and can do whatever he can, even though it's wrong.
Oct 10, 2020 8:10 AM
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Little pussy characters, like Yukiteru Amano and Natsuki Subaru

Oct 10, 2020 8:11 AM
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Mainly these types:

- Edgelords are my no go, I like some more reserved characters that open up, but edgelords are for well... edgelords.
- The wishfulfillment boy, who has either no interesting characteristic on his own and is very generic or is this one, overpowered cool dude.
- In general the typical action hero-guy.
- Characters that fall too much into a stereotype and don't have going on more for them.
- Very annoying and loud characters or overly aggressive characters. Hot-headed is okay, but it depends...
- Some violent tsunderes.
- Horndogs that also don't have anything else going for them.
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Oct 10, 2020 8:19 AM
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My mood.

I don’t think I need have any other reason other then that...
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Oct 10, 2020 8:26 AM

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when they make me wanna choke them full-throttle for their dumb-ass moby dickery
Oct 10, 2020 8:27 AM

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Being a comic relief, I have no problem with characters being jokier than others, But these goddamn characters who insert jokes in every goddamn scene they're in really get on my nerves, They really feel unrealistically clowny.
I know this doesn't fit here because it's a manga but probably my most hated comic relief is kyousuke from Horimya, and on the other hand a jokie character that's done well are stuff like Leorio and Poppo from Anohana.
I don't speak English that much, so please cut me some slack
Oct 10, 2020 8:32 AM
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I usually hate the characters who're too hopeful and optimistic like pretty much every shonen protagonist ever. (Makoto Naegi, Izuku Midoriya, etc etc etc.)
Oct 10, 2020 9:04 AM

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basically in all romance anime when this happens:
girl: I like you
boy: ehhhhh
girl: do you have a girlfriend or what?
boy: I sorta have feelings of respect for a girl but I don't know what happened to her/she doesn't know I exist/etc
girl: so, do you wanna be together
boy: I think I will refuse you

but I blame myself for falling into this trap for I am a sucker for romance and harem anime.

Also I tend to lose it when a bad guy hurts main character's waifu, that's why I hate Grimmjow, Ulquiorra, Aizen, Pain, Raoh
Oct 10, 2020 9:09 AM
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Those whose actions are obviously just to advance or stall the plot and don't make much sense.
Oct 10, 2020 9:13 AM

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In my case the characters I dislike most are those who think they're good and moral but are actually evil. Seryuu from Akame ga Kill is an example of that
Oct 10, 2020 9:16 AM

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I hate every one dimensional pretentious character who had only one purpose in their story which is a plot device to boot. Like 90% of the cast of God of High School
Oct 10, 2020 9:25 AM
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TSUNDERES.
KILL THEM
THEY DESERVE NOTHING
LEAVE THEM OUT IN THE COLD WHERE THEY FREEZE AND DIE
KILL TSUNDERES
I hate how they get angry with others for no friggin reason. hollering "Baka!" non-stop and just being a absolute pain throughout the entire show.
Oct 10, 2020 9:27 AM

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Crybaby characters or characters that scream or whine too much. Shut up, you're hurting my ears.
Or that one female character who's only purpose is to be walking eye candy and is pretty much useless in helping the main characters do their thing.
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Oct 10, 2020 9:42 AM

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Characters that usually act overly cutesy/genki more often than not female characters (especially in idol shows shivers) Almost all the time tey just come off as plain annoying


Also overly optimistic ones (especially when everything somehow goes their way) like most recently Natsume from Deca Dence for instance. Although that depends more on the tone of the show.

And also the naive/innocent ones who end up creating so much drama because of it like Hitomi from Iroduku for instance, although that again depends on the tone
Oct 10, 2020 9:44 AM

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I tend to have a staunch hated for substance abusers. The more often a character is shown drinking or smoking, the more I'll hate them.

Oct 10, 2020 9:58 AM

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Uselessness, crying or screaming too loud, bitchy behaviour like how tsunderes behave, child/women abusers.


"elles sont bien noires
les pensées des nuits blanches"


Oct 10, 2020 10:41 AM

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When they're super oblivious, you know those 90% of harem MCs.
Oct 10, 2020 10:47 AM

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I don't have any criteria for hating any character but some can be just annoying like Iroha from Oregairu her whole existence was unnecessary and others like rin from fate zero at the first glance I didn't liked her and dropped the show others are mostly thieves
Oct 10, 2020 11:02 AM
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If there name begins with Danzo and ends with Shimura
Oct 10, 2020 12:47 PM
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I really dislike characters who are obsessed with another character. I find it really annoying when all of a character's thoughts and actions are focused entirely on someone else, like they don't have any dreams, ambitions, or interests of their own.

This type of character is usually a female who is in love, but can go the other way as well (ie the males from Maid-Sama). This type of character is also common among bodyguards who have no personality outside of "I must protect my master."
Oct 10, 2020 1:05 PM

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Cry and hopeless and thick like doesnt get the hint

SCHOOL DAYS ( all character) dumb and lost their way
Kazuya Kinoshita
Orimura, Ichika

"Don't give up after failing just twice.
We'll be able to do it next time.
Failure is the stepping stone to success."

Oct 10, 2020 4:16 PM
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I will add a few traits that I can't take even from characters I like:

1. surprise face or notorious shock to indicate there's a change (major) in plot, maybe lampshading but I won't buy it
2. abusive mentors, they give important lessons and are assholes because they "care"
3. machiavellic geniuses that plan eveything to the most ridiculous level of detail for the greatest good
4. big fight every now and then, characters come out unscathed and/or saved by some deus ex machina
5. everything black and white, absolute good vs. absolute evil
6. natural knack at arts, humanities, cooking or other form of crafting which is meaningless to the story
7. fair skin with birghtness up to eleven
9. plot device resets deaths, lost wars, etc
10. he/she is the one
Oct 10, 2020 4:44 PM
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  • Too loud for no reason
  • Unjustifiably foolish or dumb
  • Just there for asthetics (Ex: the heroine that's there just to give the hero a girl, or the contrast character who's there just to be a rival)
  • Over-expressive of a trope-like motivation
  • Unchanging


I think all of these matter much more in a serious show vs. a comedic one.
Oct 10, 2020 7:16 PM

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Either...
1. A very obnoxious character that exists just to be obnoxious
2. Violent Tsunderes
3. Characters that only exists to be a self insert.

Oct 10, 2020 8:19 PM

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Characters who are frequently inconsiderate of others.

This can take a variety of forms, such as:
* regularly gloating at others' misery, or taking advantage of others to subject them to misery, for one's satisfaction
* being excessively sexually forward at people who don't desire that sort of attention
* ignoring others' feelings in some social situations, such as dragging along people who don't want to be involved in a recreational activity, and basically forcing them to participate despite their expressed desire not to do so...and then not suffering negative consequences for doing this

In short, assholes.
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Oct 11, 2020 12:54 AM

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Uselessness, whining, being a douche, just basic traits that would make me hate a human.
For ex; Shinji from Fate, an absolute fucktard
Zenitsu from KnY, an absolutely annoying crybaby.
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Maou_heika said:
  • Bad behavior (eg: abuse, bullying, rape, harassment) being portrayed as something positive/romantic using "but s/he develops" as an excuse.
  • Falling in love with a character that has any traits from the above point.
  • Over the top trusting, forgiving and good to everyone to the point of being unrealistic.
  • Overly horny/perverted characters.
  • Fujoshi characters
  • Characters that exist for fan-service/have unrealistic body proportions.
  • Character's personality mainly consists of tropes (eg: most tsunderes) or doesn't have a personality to begin with (otome game MCs)
  • Writer putting down other characters to make their favorite look good instead of trying to impress the audience with good writing


See, this is clearly not an unpopular set of opinions and yet these characters are wayyy too common...

Similar to your first one but I would also add: When a character "accidentally" fondles another character. Sure buddy, you fell over and your hands just happened to grab her in that exact location... it's not even that funny as a gag...
Oct 11, 2020 7:21 PM
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Lol.. Being useless, whiny, annoying, and a crybaby.
Oct 11, 2020 9:56 PM
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oh my god 'smart' characters make me want to DIE whenever they show up. the nerds whose entire personalities are knowing a lot about science or whatever the fuck. i could barely make it through like three episodes of dr stone because of this. if your character is truly intelligent, let us see it through their actions, how they deal with conflict, not by making them look at the world through math equations and constantly talking about how much they read textbooks for fun.
Oct 11, 2020 10:08 PM
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If their name is Geordo Stuart... or they're from Rent-a-shitfriend.
Oct 12, 2020 7:21 AM
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- characters who are blocking the plot to evolve and waste screen time
- characters who are crying the whole story than have a badass scene and than crying again
- characters which only characeristics are that they're chasing female characters
- female characters who are loving but too shy to admit
Oct 12, 2020 8:32 AM
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Characters like Zenitsu Agatsuma for example..
Oct 12, 2020 7:26 PM

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-probably characters that have tsundere's traits
-annoying and being useless
-being arrogant/selfish
-being dense/oblivious
-being so trusty to everyone, forgives everyone and is good to everyone to point where's unrealistic
-overly optimistic charaters
-characters that are way to shy to admit they love someone


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Oct 13, 2020 9:39 AM
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Might be a very uncommon take but I HATE yanderes. I think the trope died out really quick and usually they have zero personality other than just being a yandere.
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Saekosannn said:
-probably characters that have tsundere's traits
-annoying and being useless
-being arrogant/selfish
-being dense/oblivious
-being so trusty to everyone, forgives everyone and is good to everyone to point where's unrealistic
-overly optimistic charaters
-characters that are way to shy to admit they love someone
CHARACTERS BEING OVERLY DENSE IS SO ANNOYING!!
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TSUNDERES.
KILL THEM
THEY DESERVE NOTHING
LEAVE THEM OUT IN THE COLD WHERE THEY FREEZE AND DIE
KILL TSUNDERES
I hate how they get angry with others for no friggin reason. hollering "Baka!" non-stop and just being a absolute pain throughout the entire show.
@SuEsighdal thank you! I couldn't agree more! Holy christ, they're horrible! They never even apologize for their shit either.
Sep 4, 2024 12:49 AM
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I hate characters that do something without reasoning. Not as a characteristic but the failure of the mangaka. No character does that all the time but as a popular example Eren: he really died for me when he said he doesn’t want another man for mikasa. Imo that was purely "fan service" it was never hinted and served no purpose to the plot
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It takes a lot for me to hate a character, but the biggest one is those who cause harm to innocent children.
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It takes a lot for me to hate a character, but the biggest one is those who cause harm to innocent children.
@ToG25thBaam so that mean you hate Johan even though in his case it serve the purpose to show is villainy?
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@ToG25thBaam so that mean you hate Johan even though in his case it serve the purpose to show is villainy?
@Otakupervert890 I don't remember if Johan harmed any innocent children, but the ones that were on my mind were the Kanehira group members from Darwin's Game, they shot down 2 unaware children for some game points.
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Being a villain that get away with their horrible crimes without punishment.
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maybe if their against my beliefs like morals? i dont know
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Rudeus Greyrat from Mushoku Tensei.. He is Jobless deranged pervert.. some people consider him one of the worst main character in anime history..
I consider him to be the worst..

Rudeus exhibits a lot of morally questionable actions, which are criminal offenses . He is a pedophile.. He has been shown to engage in criminal behavior, such as using force to undress Sylphie against her will and stealing Roxy’s underwear.

Rudeus is reincarnated with the mind of a middle-aged pedo, his perverted actions continue to surface throughout the series.. This includes peeking, groping, and general sexual harassment of women.
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I don't know if I would even call it hate for me it feels more like contempt and it does happen for the same reasons as IRL, like abusing weaker People or Animals.

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