Favourite anime protagonist

[drednoahl]

Most anime protagonists do my head in which was probably the cause of me falling out with anime in the late nineties. After 'Berserk' and 'Cowboy Bebop' there wasn't anything made that I wanted to watch until GTO came out (and very little since) so most of mine favourite protagonists are quite old.

Hasukawa Kazuya from 'Here is Greenwood'

Sakuragi from 'Slam Dunk'

Moroboshi Ataru from 'Urusei Yatsura'

Justy Ueki Yylor from 'Irresponsible Captain Tylor'

Bean Bandit from 'Riding Bean'

Hazumi from 'Flaming Campus Guardress'

 

[solemnwar]

I like Mugen, from Samurai Champloo. He's unrepentantly crass and brutal but he also has this teeny tiny sliver of goodness in him that is brought out by Fuu.

Also he's ADORABLE with his boofy hair. Fffffft.
[sub]Except in a few episodes, specifically the second part involving Sarah. Holy crap was he animated really ugly and awful.[/sub]

I also like Tatsumi Saiga (Speed Grapher), but I think that's partly because of my age disparity fetish >>;; But it's interesting how he's the only character who receives powers and doesn't go completely morally bankrupt. Although that might be because he wasn't morally bankrupt to begin with, not sure about the other characters.


I don't watch much anime really. I only own three DVD sets (Ergo Proxy, Speed Grapher, and Samurai Champloo). I prefer manga for the most part... and I have way too many to pull out protaganists... okay I'll throw out one: Kyoko from Skip Beat! because she's absolutely adorable and simultaneously a DEMON.

 

[Issurru]

Who's got two thumbs and is pretty damn awesome?

Spoiler: Answer

His natural skill and stupid amount of luck makes him one of my favourites, but I would tie him with

Spoiler: This Guy

due to the fact that A) I just re-watched both sets of Fullmetal Alchemist which reminded me of his raw natural talent, his undying determination to do what's right just because and him being so smart and somewhat grown up for being so young

Off Topic: HA! I'm surprised that I remembered how to do spoilers and images, go me!

 

[Queen Michael]

Kino from Kino's Journey. She's quietly contemplative in a very nice way.

 

[Little Woodsman]

Going seriously old-school and saying Ataru Moroboshi.
Poor bastard just can't catch a break. He saves the world so many times I lost count, but instead of being thanked for it he's continually lambasted, criticized, punished and outright *assaulted* for y'know, being a *teenage guy* with a teenage guy's hormones.

 

[Little Woodsman]

Most anime protagonists do my head in which was probably the cause of me falling out with anime in the late nineties. After 'Berserk' and 'Cowboy Bebop' there wasn't anything made that I wanted to watch until GTO came out (and very little since) so most of mine favourite protagonists are quite old.

Hasukawa Kazuya from 'Here is Greenwood'

Sakuragi from 'Slam Dunk'

Moroboshi Ataru from 'Urusei Yatsura'

Justy Ueki Yylor from 'Irresponsible Captain Tylor'

Bean Bandit from 'Riding Bean'

Hazumi from 'Flaming Campus Guardress'

Woo-hoo! Another old-school anime fan! Ataru is my fave, but Tylor is up there on the list as well!

 

[neonsword13-ops]

Due to my recent addiction to Bakemonogatari, I'd have to say Koyomi Araragi.

He's a good guy. He helps girls with their paranornal problems just out of the goodness of his pure heart. Sure, he beats up lolis from time to time, but when there's a girl in trouble, he's always there to help!

Plus, he can take a beating like a man.

 

[ecoho]

Mines a tie between Rikka Takanashi from Love, Chuunibyou, and Other Delusions and Natsu Dragneel from Fairy Tail

Rikka is a hilarious no matter what she does. Either bothering the main character with her delusions or getting into epic "battles" with her "slave" and older sister. She also has a very depressing back story on how she developed her eight grader syndrome aka schizophrenia, which made me like her all the more.

Natsu is a fire mage who has the potential to become the most powerful mage in the world if he took himself seriously, but he rather destroy entire cities trying to stop one bad guy than train. He can use flaming punches and absorb fire, need I say more?

Natsu is in my top10 of worst character ever.

He's reduced to guy who cares about his friends and gets sick everytime he travels.

Every speech he makes is about nakama bullshit. I mean, shounens usually have protagonists like that, but Fairy Tail did it horribly.
Unless you're a Kid or has just gotten into anime I can't understand how would someone enjoy Natsu.

that's a nice opinion you got there the manages to insult a large group of people, Good job! might wana try reading the manga the guy has a pretty good arc, and acts a lot like luffy from one piece.

OT: gotta be Jean Starwind from outlaw star. I mean the guy literally falls into the whole space captain job and is just bad ass at it from the start.(helps to have the fastest most advanced ship in the galaxy

 

[FirebirdXR]

I have plenty of favorites, but my current favorite is Saitama from One-Punch Man.
I think I say this since it's already the second time mentioned it today.

A goofy, bald, self acknowledged hero who can beat anyone with one punch and superhuman abilities.
It sounds boring, yet it's the most awesomely hilarious thing I have read recently.

Also adapted from a crudely drawn webcomic into an awesome manga.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Spike Spiegel for the win, ladies and gentlemen.

As much as I would want to name a Gundam character, I'll have to go with Spike as well.

I have yet to see Unicorn, but I know that was going to be popular since Char is still a main character in it.

Go see Unicorn, you will not be disappointed. One of the best pieces of Gundam media out there.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Harima Kenji from School Rumble. A badass with a soft heart, and a pension to being kind of a sucker. He also is head over heels with possible the dumbest girl currently living.

Kintaro Oe from Golden Boy. The totally not sexist, white knight idiot savant.

 

[Ultress]

Joesph Jostar(Jojo's Bizarre Adventure),Hot blooded as hell and honestly kind of an ass However it's fun to watch him BS guys who could clearly kick his ass and then win.He's constantly planing and while not the first shonen to really play with mis-direction during fights I still say he probably does it best Heck this guy can make running away look heroic.He also get more awesome with age becoming a cool grandpa in Part 3 and while it's sad to see him so frail in part 4 he still manage to be cool.

Maya Kitajma(Glass Mask),she's an amazing actress and just a good person.It's just a joy to watch her as she struggles with the things life throws at her.Watching her rise to fame,lose it,and come back stronger than before.She can be oblivious when involved in acting and it does hurt her relations with people.


On the other side we have Sasaya,Yuu(Tomorrow's King).She has a good attitude and is very dedicated to being a playwright.She starts out as a bit of a riff on Maya but slowly develops into her own character as she pursues her dreams.Like Maya it's just fun to watch her life and how she deals with them. It's hard to describe why they are great protagonist's they just are.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

There's only two anime I've ever gotten into: Tenchi Muyo and Cowboy Bebop.

Out of the protagonists of those two I'm going to have to go with Ryoko from Tenchi Muyo

But Spike from Cowboy Bebop comes up right behind her as second.

 

[VodkaKnight]

I'm going to say Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.
I mean, it's difficult not to like him.
SPOILERS: He tried to bring his mother back to life, lost his leg, lost his brother, used his arm to bind his brother's soul to a suit of armour, constantly gets into fights, endures getting his artificial limbs repaired, opened a portal from Limbo to heaven then back to Earth, and devotes nearly all the effort into getting his brother's body back as opposed to getting his arm and leg back.
I like him.

 

[KOMega]

I'd go with either Alucard from Hellsing or...

Rune Balot from Mardock Scramble

Or maybe Madlax.

Maybe I just really like graceful gunslingers.
(Alucard has a special type of graceful.)

 

[StormShaun]

*Cough*
I don't have to say it ... but I will.

Tomoya Okazaki.
If you don't know what he looks like, kindly look to my avatar or below.

Spoiler

He is the protagonist of Clannad and Clannad: After Story (The Visual Novel, anime and manga).
I liked him enough to play him in a RP on the very site for multiple years.

The progression of his character grabbed me, the unique design of his character stayed in my mind and I love how he handles most things.

 

[MrHide-Patten]

I honestly can't pick one of the top of my head, but it's good to see what people think are good protagonists, if only from a creative and narrative standpoint. Totally not DIYing my own little comic project.

 

[James Crook]

Well, there's of course Light from Death Note and Alucard from Hellsing.
But there's also Accelerator from A Certain Magical Index. It's like he won the superpower lottery.