Please note that, except for a few exceptions, the only characters that are receiving commentary are those within the Top 10.
Anime is an amazing art of storytelling.
I can still remember the Saturdays back in middle school when my friends and I held conference calls late into the night in order to hold a dialogue about the anime series we were watching – your friendly neighborhood blogger Brandon Lewis included.
It is in part because of those memories that this list was created. As we shared the drama and characters, we helped to define our childhood experiences. We found characters to look up to and to hate; we found characters that went through - albeit highly exaggerated - versions of non-sense we dealt with; we found characters that were simply down right badass.
As for me, Brandon, anime also represented a higher level of television entertainment that Saturday morning cartoons wouldn't dare to reach. While many shows were fun-loving, cheerful, and inspiring to their watchers, a good and healthy portion of them represented the darker, realer side of the human condition. The ability of the anime genre to portray the good, the evil, and the in between of the world has made it a tool of molding for many people all over the world, myself and Ryan included. it not only offered hours of entertainment; it also helped in sculpting our own ideas and morals of the world surrounding us.
And so here we are, years later, making a list of some badass folks from various Animes. Before we get to said list, we must humbly offer one caveat: this is much more akin to a list of our favorites instead of the boldly colorful statement ‘of all time’. It is widely indicative of the time we grew up in. But for any old school anime fanatics, we got you covered with some shoutouts.
Now without further ado, let's list some damn characters shall we?
It is in part because of those memories that this list was created. As we shared the drama and characters, we helped to define our childhood experiences. We found characters to look up to and to hate; we found characters that went through - albeit highly exaggerated - versions of non-sense we dealt with; we found characters that were simply down right badass.
As for me, Brandon, anime also represented a higher level of television entertainment that Saturday morning cartoons wouldn't dare to reach. While many shows were fun-loving, cheerful, and inspiring to their watchers, a good and healthy portion of them represented the darker, realer side of the human condition. The ability of the anime genre to portray the good, the evil, and the in between of the world has made it a tool of molding for many people all over the world, myself and Ryan included. it not only offered hours of entertainment; it also helped in sculpting our own ideas and morals of the world surrounding us.
And so here we are, years later, making a list of some badass folks from various Animes. Before we get to said list, we must humbly offer one caveat: this is much more akin to a list of our favorites instead of the boldly colorful statement ‘of all time’. It is widely indicative of the time we grew up in. But for any old school anime fanatics, we got you covered with some shoutouts.
Now without further ado, let's list some damn characters shall we?
25. Mugen - Samurai Champloo
24. Shin - Shin Chan
23. Ketaro - Love Hina
22. Julia - Cowboy Bebop
21. Sakura - Cardcaptors
20. Roy Mustang - Fullmetal Alchemist
19. Haruko - FLCL
18. Abel Nightroad - Trinity Blood
Abel Nightroad is easily one of the most enigmatic characters in recent anime history. He is a gentle natured man who works for the post-apocalyptic Vatican in their effort to prevent the vampires from destroying humanity. He just so happens to be a vampire himself, a technologically enhanced vampire that feasts on other vampires, no less. His struggle to find peace in a world without one while controlling the beast within leaves for a richly complicated character in a intricately-woven story I loved in 2007 (Brandon)
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