lordlee said:
Misterian said:
Most: One Piece.
Least: pretty most any with female characters that are unrealistically psychotic, bipolar, frantic, seemingly emotionless, seemingly blank.
pretty much any anime/manga with characters like Anna Kyoyama from Shaman King, or most of the cast from Magikano.
Did you actually FINSIH the Shaman King manga? Or at least get to the flashback that EXPLAINS why Anna is like that?
I read the manga, but lost interest somewhere in the middle.
I saw Anna's wikipeida article, however. but I don't let motives or background become any good excuse to portray a character as an a**hole without either being potrayed as a villian, or doing so toward another a**hole, or something like that. I understand she's got evil demons on her, but it would've been better, at least, if that fact is made clear to the reader at the start.
You might say I'm the wrong kind of person for stories with the kind of characterization Anna is given. you can have her seem cold and harsh to people who might not have done any evil to deserve it, at 1 point then at rare times collapse into tears over Yoh.
even if it makes clear Anna is not the foul evil demon of a woman she makes herself seem like, it can also bring out a sense of inconsistency on her personality.
you might see something in a character like Anna, but if nothing else remember this: there's just no way you'll see me potraying a character like her in a story, at least not without the said character being considered at least slightly a villain, or not without any victums of the character's a**holeness getting even with said a**hole of a character.