Anime Series Characters, Dragon Ball and Evangelion remain an inexhaustible source of movies and other novelties for anime lovers. After reviewing the 20 best anime films and the 20 best anime series, today we have decided to select the 20 characters from anime series that drive us crazy, taking a tour of the most iconic titles of recent years.
Any list, you know, is necessarily partial and subjective, so we invite you to participate with your votes and suggestions in choosing the best character. To make it easier for you, we have divided the selected ones into ten male characters and another ten female characters. Who is your idol?
20. Vegeta (Dragon Ball Z)
By far, Vegeta is the character created by Akira Toriyama with the most charisma and personality in Dragon Ball. If the Namek saga is so good it is due, without a doubt, to the prince of the Saiyans. Throughout the story arc, Vegeta manages to drive Frieza out of his mind by defeating his minions and stealing the Dragon Balls. His Majin status, his pride, and his brain make him the best.
19. Julian Ross (Oliver and Benji)
That’s right, the captain of the Mambo has been chosen to belong to this list of mang anime characters because of his courage or rather stubbornness. Was the “bloody” game so important that he risked his life playing Oliver Atom in a regional fry competition? During this meeting, Ross knew how to make things difficult for the New Team by taking advantage of Atom’s good heart and provoking him out of games, one after another.
18. Ling Yao (FullMetal Alchemist Brotherhood)
Ling is the arrogant twelfth son of Emperor Xing. The heir to the throne embarks on a journey to find the secret of immortality in Amestris. His combat skills make him one of the strongest characters in Brotherhood. His union with the Homunculus Greed transforms him into a much more greedy being and allows him to modify the tissue of his skin in graphene (a very resistant material). His two fights against Wrath are among the best moments of the series.
17. Light Yagami (Death Note)
Who has not ever imagined putting himself in Light’s place and possessing the Death Note to impart each one his own justice? If you wonder who would be the best person to handle said notebook, indeed, that would be Kira. His cunning and coldness make him a demigod capable of standing up to L. himself. And as if this were not enough, on top of that he has a “take the bread and wet” girlfriend. Kira for president.
16. Mugen (Samurai Champloo)
Superb, lazy, and bloodthirsty. They are three of the many adjectives that could be applied to the ronin of Samurai Champloo. His strong temperament is due to the fact that he spent part of his life in the Ryukyu Islands surrounded by pirates, bandits, and assassins. He is a born fighter who combines his skill with the katana and martial arts with his own style similar to breakdance. Mugen’s goal is to live day by day and become the strongest in the world.
15. Wolfgang Grimmer (Monster)
It is about a freelance journalist who pursues the truth about his forgotten childhood. Despite Grimmer’s lack of feelings because of a macabre experiment that took place in the Kinderheim 511 orphanage, Monster fans managed to convince us that he was a great character because of his physical and mental strength. He has a double personality since when he unleashes all his anger, Steiner the Magnificent appears and everyone who is in the same room with him dies brutally.
14. Sanji (One Piece)
Also known as Black Leg, Sanji is one of the pirates that make up the Straw Hat pirate gang. Although this character is not the strongest of the band (Monkey D. Luffy and Roronoa Zoro are ahead), Sanji takes care of taking the chestnuts out of the fire to the band on several occasions. In Arabasta he freed his companions from Crocodile’s cells and in Enies Lobby he was the only one who thought about the escape from the judicial island. In addition, his love for women brings out all the value that he carries inside.
13. Shikamaru Nara (Naruto Shippuden)
Asuma’s 10th team member is chosen as Naruto’s best character for three reasons: he is the first to rise to the rank of chunin, no enemy resists him when he uses his intelligence, and he seems to be the only true ninja out there. in Konoha. As the shinobi of the Hidden Leaf Village grow, they develop abilities more typical of Dragon Ball than of a mang anime of ninjas. Thank goodness Shikamaru exists to remind us that kunais, smoke bombs, and other gadgets are still good for defeating a rival in battle.
12. Himura Kenshin (Rurouni Kenshin)
If there is one samurai who is best not to face, it is Kenshin. No one is faster or more skilled than this renegade warrior. To atone for his sins he roams Japan offering help and protection to the weak. His sword is a sakabato, an inverted blade katana whose edge is on the opposite side to avoid killing his enemies. The scar on his left cheek is accompanied by a story that has made many of the fans of the manga anime excited.
11. Shiryu (Saint Seya)
Shiryu is the Bronze Saint of Dragon and the Golden Knight of Libra. This character is worthy of being on the list for faithfully representing the values that a saint of Athena must have. He is noble and loyal and does not hesitate to risk his life for his friends. If it lasted little in the Galactic Tournament it was because he had to fight against Seiya, and how was he going to lose against the protagonist? The only time he displayed all his anger was against Death Mask for attacking Shunrei.
10. Launch (Dragon Ball)
Chi-chi , Bulma , Android 18 , Videl … The many girls Akira Toriyama conceived for his most famous work, Dragon Ball, have plenty of charisma and character. Women in a world of men can become more fearsome to Goku and company than Tao Pai Pai, Freeza, or Cell. For us, the mythical Launch (or Lunch) takes the cake, which with a sneeze went from brunette to blonde, from sweet and complacent object woman to angry female addicted to firearms.
9. Sakura (Naruto)
Naruto and Sasuke’s regular running partner is a character with quite unusual physical and psychological characteristics: she’s neither a hottie nor is she made in one piece. In addition, under his broad forehead crouches another Sakura, his true self, showing the complexity that Masashi Kishimoto wanted to impress on the character.
8. Rei Ayanami and Asuka Langley (Evangelion)
How many wallpapers, cosplays, hentai fan-art, and teen obsessions have the two main female characters in Neon Genesis Evangelion spawned? Rei Ayanami is tall, enigmatic, suggestive, and ghostly. Its mysterious origins are revealed as the narrative progresses. Asuka is aggressive, individualistic, and exotic. Both, in their own way, left a deep mark on the hypersensitive Shinji Ikari, the protagonist of the series … and on millions of pubescent people across the planet.
7. Harumi Chouno / Maria (Paranoia Agent)
Few characters are as eloquent in expressing the existential frustrations around which this masterful television work by Satoshi Kon revolves as Harumi by day, Maria by night: a delicate and introverted university professor who, when the sun sets, transforms into a volcanic prostitute. In the third episode, Double Lips, we witness the disturbing confrontation between their two personalities, who try to win the battle for their identity.
6. Shampoo (Ranma 1/2)
Shampoo the Amazon has been chasing the female version of the transsexual Ranma from China, where she was defeated by the protagonist of the series. From an occasional villain she will go on to become one of the regular characters – and one of the best! Her expressive coldness and her difficulty in speaking Japanese correctly are deceptive, as she was a lethal fighter, possessing a mind as cold as a calculator, putting the protagonists in more than a hurry.
5. Sapphire (Chopy and the Princess)
With Chopy and the princess, the long-awaited Osamu Tezuka inaugurates the shōjo, that is, the manga or anime aimed at female audiences. Her character echoes the feminist demands of those 1960s: a princess whom her father disguises as a man so that she can inherit the kingdom since the Salic Law prevents the enthronement of women. In her adventures, she was accompanied by the little angel Chopy, an endearing sidekick with a tragic ending.
4. Matilda Ajan (Gundam) and Sayaka Yumi (Mazinger Z)
Girls have also had very important roles in the worlds of glory, masculinity, and steel of anime with highlights. In the classic and immortal Gundam, the heroic sacrifice of Commander Matilda Ajan was one of the most moving and remembered moments in the history of popular Japanese animation. Sayaka Yumi is not far behind either: her admiration for Koji does not prevent her from being a self-sufficient and fearless woman. She was the one who piloted the robot Aphrodite A, whose unbeatable and deadly breasts helped to overcome more than one fight.
3. Belldandy (Oh my goddess!) And Sailor Mars (Sailor Moon)
Among the more markedly pink sleeves stand out for their popularity and influence the series Oh my goddess! and Sailor Moon. The first offers the Goddess Belldandy a model of sweetness and selfless dedication. For her part, Rei Hino, alias Sailor Mars, is a female prototype that adds to her attractive outfits a submission to her creed (as a good priestess) that leads to a complete disinterest in the male gender.
2. Arale Norimaki (Dr. Slump)
Arale is a kind of postmodern, feminine, and old-fashioned version of Tezuka’s Astroboy. An android (although no one intuits it in Villa Pingüino ) who lacks a middle ground when making decisions, supplying his scarce emotional intelligence with enormous physical power and a privileged intellect. To her, we owe the most delirious and funny moments of the wonderful Doctor Slump.
1. Kaoru Kamiya (Rurouni Kenshin)
Kaoru is the perfect comic/dramatic counterpoint to the androgynous samurai Kenshin Himura. A lonely survivor forced to take over her father’s dojo after his death, whose lonely fate will unpredictably intersect with that of the former Battousai the Assassin. His character combines sensitivity and empathy for others with an infinite strength of spirit.
