Most Attractive Anime Characters poll 2014: where do I start

[Fappy]

Joseph Joestar isn't #1 on the list?!


These lists always remind me that I apparently have very atypical taste when it comes to anime.

In all seriousness I'd probably put GitS Arise Motoko at #1. I actually really like her design in the OVAs... >.>

 

[Loop Stricken]

Most importantly ... hah ... I see Rin from that list ... but no Saber.

I preferred Kuro myself.

Anyway, where the fuck is Tomoko from Watamote? They have no excuse, there was an OVA this year. Not even on the list... I guess the Tomoko love is more of a Western thing? I've heard so before.

Aww man, Tomoko is awesome and now I need to watch this OVA.

Edit: Actually, let me continue to say. I'm shocked as fuck because characters from Date a Live, Akame ga Kill!, D-Frag, and No Game No Life. Shows with large, Moe casts.

Indeed. No Kurumi? No Shiro?!

Terrible list.

 

[Lightspeaker]

I remember making a similar list with a friend in second grade regarding the girls in our classroom. So, I'd like to think that while I've heard of none of these characters, I can still relate to this bizarre listing of girls that I can never attain.

Er...nearly half of them are guys, you know?

Good list anyway. Reminds me of some anime series I need to catch up with.

 

[Ryotknife]

(looks at list)

(scratches head)

that is an odd list. Most of the women look normalish (by anime standards), meanwhile the guys are like greek gods.

 

[NiPah]

I've read the list a couple times now and I'm completely baffled the issue you have with it. The only thing that surprised me is the amount of males on the list... that and that people from Tokyo Ghoul are even on this list. Is it the horror that people enjoy Moe or SAO? Or God forbid not care for the Fate series?

Edit: Actually, let me continue to say. I'm shocked as fuck because characters from Date a Live, Akame ga Kill!, D-Frag, and No Game No Life. Shows with large, Moe casts.

It's more just a shrug of complacency at this point seeing Asuna on that list again and SAO still ranking so high. Shocked at Psycho Pass having a spot and I'm still annoyed with the anime community

the more I think about the people on the list, the more I feel that the trends I really dislike will continue for a long while and the shows I do like will be misappropriated or just watched for less than desirable reasons.

Holy shit could you be any more demeaning to other anime fans who had the audacity to pick characters you don't like for a character popularity poll? It's bad enough you constantly complain that the anime I happen to like exists and spells doom and gloom for the anime industry, please go on and spout off about how funding for one of my favorite shows was misappropriated.

I love Sword Art Online, with the amount of shit it's gotten you'd think it was on the level of sister princess, but it's just a fun little adventure show, ffs.

 

[Someone Depressing]

I think moe's creepy as hell. If I walked away from Evangelion having had learned something, it's that moe moe kawaii loli desu is something that will forever be uttered in the deepest of my nightmares in an unholy Eldritch tongue.

I don't like impossibly skinny massive-boobed moe blobs and beautiful brooding boys all that much, so this list isn't really for me. All it does is make me wonder what planet anime fans are on.

And how I can get to that planet.

 

[laggyteabag]

Either they picked some terrible pictures for some of the characters, or people just have some weird ass tastes. Hell, look at No 21, what the fuck is that?

And why the fuck is there a Paras in there?

*googles character's name*

Ooooooooooooooooh

 

[Izanagi009_v1legacy]

What the hell is wrong with liking moe? does all animes need to be the same as western cartoons? This attitude really pisses me off, don't like moe? Don't watch anime with moe, not everything needs to go according to your narrow world view.

I don't hate moe, if i did, I would hate kittens and puppies since the psychology behind moe is also responsible for our reaction towards the basic physiology of young animals.

I hate what moe represents which is the diminishment of writing in order to cram in as much cute as possible even if that makes me feel like I'm being stringed along.

Oh, so you have cute girls doing cute things (and nowadays with a subtext of yuri), is there any point to them acting like this, or looking like that? Is there a story or conflict I need to be invested in? if not, you fail to hold my attention.

Moe is an art aesthetic, it does not give it license to dictate the entire course of a story or show just to make shallow appeals

(now, that I read this out loud, I sound like an old grumpy critic)

 

[Izanagi009_v1legacy]

I've read the list a couple times now and I'm completely baffled the issue you have with it. The only thing that surprised me is the amount of males on the list... that and that people from Tokyo Ghoul are even on this list. Is it the horror that people enjoy Moe or SAO? Or God forbid not care for the Fate series?

Edit: Actually, let me continue to say. I'm shocked as fuck because characters from Date a Live, Akame ga Kill!, D-Frag, and No Game No Life. Shows with large, Moe casts.

It's more just a shrug of complacency at this point seeing Asuna on that list again and SAO still ranking so high. Shocked at Psycho Pass having a spot and I'm still annoyed with the anime community

the more I think about the people on the list, the more I feel that the trends I really dislike will continue for a long while and the shows I do like will be misappropriated or just watched for less than desirable reasons.

Holy shit could you be any more demeaning to other anime fans who had the audacity to pick characters you don't like for a character popularity poll? It's bad enough you constantly complain that the anime I happen to like exists and spells doom and gloom for the anime industry, please go on and spout off about how funding for one of my favorite shows was misappropriated.

I love Sword Art Online, with the amount of shit it's gotten you'd think it was on the level of sister princess, but it's just a fun little adventure show, ffs.

fair enough, I suppose that I do sound demeaning.

It's just that with Sword Art Online, given what the characters are like, I feel that people are either watching for self-insert power fantasies or waifu bait. These are not exactly reasons that lead to a good anime in general.

To pose a different question, how many holes in each of the character profiles would you need to fill in order to get a rough approximation of a real person? Good characters are either symbolic with their actions and personalities for the sake of the narrative or they are developed to the point that you conceive them as being real. Bad characters either revolve around a single trait or are loosely designed that they are meant to impart substance-less badass or cute to the audience.

Like the show as much as you want, even I can admit that the designs are well done and the animation is solid but the writing is the killer and I really don't want to like any of these characters since the writing around them is so weak.

Edit: you want a show that is a fun little adventure? Rage of Bahamut: Genesis. I will be writing a review soon but to summarize, it's characters are larger than life but have some semblance of humanity and real depth to them. Animation does drop at times but all and all remains at a constant high. It's scenarios are insane and grand in scale. It's a fun adventure with something to it.

 

[VanQ]

As a long time denizen of /a/ all I have to say is this;

Japan has shit taste? You don't fuckin' say!

As a member of a slightly less tactless forum such as this one, I also have this to say;

It was to be expected. Japanese folks have always had a massive boner for "futsuu moe" or "normal fetish". Where the most mundane and boring characters get their rocks off far more than characters like Tohsaka Rin or Chitoge Kirisaki who might actually rock the little boat that is their lives.

Case in point is Onodera ranking a whole 16 ranks above Chitoge. In fact, going down the list you'll notice that all the characters from the same series all in the top 30 appear to be ranked in order from least to most boring.

 

[VanQ]

Yay double post!

Edit: Actually, let me continue to say. I'm shocked as fuck because characters from Date a Live, Akame ga Kill!, D-Frag, and No Game No Life. Shows with large, Moe casts.

Not to mention there are no characters from Amagi Brilliant Park, Ai Tenchi Muyo, Ore Twintail ni Narimasu, Shirobako, Grisaia no Kajitsu, Inou Battle wa Nichijou-Kei no Naka de or Trinity Seven. That's absolutely preposterous! Really, the major thing this list suffers from is lack of diversity.

I too, however, am deeply hurt by Rin's 27th place.

That's just cold.

Spoiler: For those that don't get the joke.

The kanji for Rin's name is 凛
凛 = cold, frigid

 

[NiPah]

I've read the list a couple times now and I'm completely baffled the issue you have with it. The only thing that surprised me is the amount of males on the list... that and that people from Tokyo Ghoul are even on this list. Is it the horror that people enjoy Moe or SAO? Or God forbid not care for the Fate series?

Edit: Actually, let me continue to say. I'm shocked as fuck because characters from Date a Live, Akame ga Kill!, D-Frag, and No Game No Life. Shows with large, Moe casts.

It's more just a shrug of complacency at this point seeing Asuna on that list again and SAO still ranking so high. Shocked at Psycho Pass having a spot and I'm still annoyed with the anime community

the more I think about the people on the list, the more I feel that the trends I really dislike will continue for a long while and the shows I do like will be misappropriated or just watched for less than desirable reasons.

Holy shit could you be any more demeaning to other anime fans who had the audacity to pick characters you don't like for a character popularity poll? It's bad enough you constantly complain that the anime I happen to like exists and spells doom and gloom for the anime industry, please go on and spout off about how funding for one of my favorite shows was misappropriated.

I love Sword Art Online, with the amount of shit it's gotten you'd think it was on the level of sister princess, but it's just a fun little adventure show, ffs.

fair enough, I suppose that I do sound demeaning.

It's just that with Sword Art Online, given what the characters are like, I feel that people are either watching for self-insert power fantasies or waifu bait. These are not exactly reasons that lead to a good anime in general.

To pose a different question, how many holes in each of the character profiles would you need to fill in order to get a rough approximation of a real person? Good characters are either symbolic with their actions and personalities for the sake of the narrative or they are developed to the point that you conceive them as being real. Bad characters either revolve around a single trait or are loosely designed that they are meant to impart substance-less badass or cute to the audience.

Like the show as much as you want, even I can admit that the designs are well done and the animation is solid but the writing is the killer and I really don't want to like any of these characters since the writing around them is so weak.

Edit: you want a show that is a fun little adventure? Rage of Bahamut: Genesis. I will be writing a review soon but to summarize, it's characters are larger than life but have some semblance of humanity and real depth to them. Animation does drop at times but all and all remains at a constant high. It's scenarios are insane and grand in scale. It's a fun adventure with something to it.

I always thought the Sword Art Online characters were extremely human, human's don't have some character profile to fill out to become a real person, humans are habitual, chaotic, imperfect, and prone to making poor decisions. Honestly Kirito just seemed like he found a role he wanted to play, was extremely introverted, and was stuck in a seemingly impossible situation. Asuna seemed like someone who at first hated having days stolen from her life and became absorbed in beating the game, only to become attracted to and fall in love.
I always got the feeling like the characters in SAO weren't soldiers or people who were born in a fantasy world, they were modern day kids and adults playing an extremely immersive game which then stuck them there and made the possibility of death real.

Sure it's not perfect, but I feel a much closer connection to a character like Sachi when she was just a high school girl in a computer club playing with friends, then say a character in a fantasy world so much different then ours.

I looked up Bahamut and dear god that character designs... it looks interesting so I'll look it up but why is Dandy and Nabeshin teaming up to fight gods and dragons?

With all that said I will advise against bullshit reasoning like "I feel that people are either watching for self-insert power fantasies or waifu bait", you're just pissing off people and makes you look like quite an asshole. Don't delude yourself into thinking you have it figured out why people like such and such a show, because to me it seems like the only people who dislike SAO are people who spent too much time on tropes.com and ruined all anime for themselves, or are just angry because it stopped being a murder porn show so they went with Attack on Titan or what ever the latest anime is where people get horribly killed for their amusement (but I would never say that because it would be rather mean and incorrect).

 

[Izanagi009_v1legacy]

As a long time denizen of /a/ all I have to say is this;

Japan has shit taste? You don't fuckin' say!

As a member of a slightly less tactless forum such as this one, I also have this to say;

It was to be expected. Japanese folks have always had a massive boner for "futsuu moe" or "normal fetish". Where the most mundane and boring characters get their rocks off far more than characters like Tohsaka Rin or Chitoge Kirisaki who might actually rock the little boat that is their lives.

Case in point is Onodera ranking a whole 16 ranks above Chitoge. In fact, going down the list you'll notice that all the characters from the same series all in the top 30 appear to be ranked in order from least to most boring.

The question becomes why does this "futsuu moe" exist in the way it does. My understanding of anime is that most people watch it for escapism and extravagant fantasies. That would apply to how women are portrayed in anime.

Why won't someone want to go for a more boring person. In real life, a boring person is dull to hang around with and doesn't do anything. It is possible for someone to be interesting and stable at the same time so is it possible that something about the viewing audience of anime is overly concerned about their life.

 

[Izanagi009_v1legacy]

I always thought the Sword Art Online characters were extremely human, human's don't have some character profile to fill out to become a real person, humans are habitual, chaotic, imperfect, and prone to making poor decisions. Honestly Kirito just seemed like he found a role he wanted to play, was extremely introverted, and was stuck in a seemingly impossible situation. Asuna seemed like someone who at first hated having days stolen from her life and became absorbed in beating the game, only to become attracted to and fall in love.
I always got the feeling like the characters in SAO weren't soldiers or people who were born in a fantasy world, they were modern day kids and adults playing an extremely immersive game which then stuck them there and made the possibility of death real.

Sure it's not perfect, but I feel a much closer connection to a character like Sachi when she was just a high school girl in a computer club playing with friends, then say a character in a fantasy world so much different then ours.

I looked up Bahamut and dear god that character designs... it looks interesting so I'll look it up but why is Dandy and Nabeshin teaming up to fight gods and dragons?

With all that said I will advise against bullshit reasoning like "I feel that people are either watching for self-insert power fantasies or waifu bait", you're just pissing off people and makes you look like quite an asshole. Don't delude yourself into thinking you have it figured out why people like such and such a show, because to me it seems like the only people who dislike SAO are people who spent too much time on tropes.com and ruined all anime for themselves, or are just angry because it stopped being a murder porn show so they went with Attack on Titan or what ever the latest anime is where people get horribly killed for their amusement (but I would never say that because it would be rather mean and incorrect).

I'm pretty sure that there are other critical reasons to dislike SAO and even if there wasn't, what is wrong with a critical mind. To accept all that is served to us is to have no distinction of quality. Understanding the tropes of our medium and the traits that make classics the way there are can help us analyze why we like the things we like and why some are considered bad. In SAO's case, it's adherence to tropes of the medium make it less than ideal

I understand that the last part post was made in some small amount of jest but here's the thing; just as I hate self-insert, I hate violence for violence's sake. Akame ga Kill got on me because it felt like it was trying to be grim and gritty without any investment or weight behind it. To put it into perspective, one big scene in the first season of Psycho Pass had a person killed with no blood or even the body, it was focused on the emotions at play and the malice of the villain. Akame ga Kill made me bored with the violence because it was just blood and guts with no backing to it.

I will be critical, I suppose I can tone down the snobbishness but I will not stop calling substance less material out for what it is.

 

[cleric of the order]

As a long time denizen of /a/ all I have to say is this;

Hey, I heard last year /a/ was nuked when /v/ was.
That shit on the up and up or did you jump ship earlier.

 

[VanQ]

As a long time denizen of /a/ all I have to say is this;

Hey, I heard last year /a/ was nuked when /v/ was.
That shit on the up and up or did you jump ship earlier.

/a/ was mostly spared if only because the new mods don't seem to give a shit about anime.

It's business as usual there now that the Naruto threads have died down.

As a long time denizen of /a/ all I have to say is this;

Japan has shit taste? You don't fuckin' say!

As a member of a slightly less tactless forum such as this one, I also have this to say;

It was to be expected. Japanese folks have always had a massive boner for "futsuu moe" or "normal fetish". Where the most mundane and boring characters get their rocks off far more than characters like Tohsaka Rin or Chitoge Kirisaki who might actually rock the little boat that is their lives.

Case in point is Onodera ranking a whole 16 ranks above Chitoge. In fact, going down the list you'll notice that all the characters from the same series all in the top 30 appear to be ranked in order from least to most boring.

The question becomes why does this "futsuu moe" exist in the way it does. My understanding of anime is that most people watch it for escapism and extravagant fantasies. That would apply to how women are portrayed in anime.

Why won't someone want to go for a more boring person. In real life, a boring person is dull to hang around with and doesn't do anything. It is possible for someone to be interesting and stable at the same time so is it possible that something about the viewing audience of anime is overly concerned about their life.

As for why futsuu moe exists, I couldn't say because I don't really understand it myself. But it is quite noticable that a lot of anime tend to be underdog stories, especially fantasies. So if I had to wager a guiess, I'd say that because in amongst all the extravagent and outlandish characters and themes present in anime that a little bit of normalcy may seem quite appealing.

SAO is a good example if you think about it. Trapped in a fantastical death game like something right out of an anime, it might have been a real breath of fresh air that Asuna was not only stable and normal but that even her appearance and use of her real name might have made her seem more "real" to the people in the game. Of course, I know damn well that the author of SAO didn't put any thought in besides "make her pretty and a loyal wife" but it could explain her popularity amongst readers/viewers.

 

[cleric of the order]

/a/ was mostly spared if only because the new mods don't seem to give a shit about anime.

It's business as usual there now that the Naruto threads have died down.

Thanks, thats pretty nice actually.
lucky bugger, /tg/ might as well have become cyoa and quests featuring sjw tripfags the board.
I heard /d/ ended becoming a sjw colony, same with lit and /pol/........ yeah.
weird times we live in anon. weird times.

 

[Tsun Tzu]

Not to mention there are no characters from Amagi Brilliant Park, Ai Tenchi Muyo, Ore Twintail ni Narimasu, Shirobako, Grisaia no Kajitsu, Inou Battle wa Nichijou-Kei no Naka de or Trinity Seven. That's absolutely preposterous! Really, the major thing this list suffers from is lack of diversity.

The lack of Yumiko is damn near unforgivable.

[IshABirdiePic]

Spoiler: For those that don't get the joke.

The kanji for Rin's name is 凛
凛 = cold, frigid

Also-

Somebody noticed muh non-clever cleverness!