Hey youtubers it’s charlie, welcome to emergency anime club 4.
This week we’ll be talking about our favorite anime characters both good and bad.
I feel like a lot of lists I see are mostly the good characters, but I always like the
evil characters too.
At least the ones that are written well.
Maybe that will be a theme for a future video.
Forever Evil.
Also a lot of you guys have been making some great suggestions for future topics, please
keep it up.
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So let’s get started, here’s my top 10 favorite anime characters.
Number 10 - Guts from beserk.
Easily one of the best swordsmen ever.
The lone warrior archetype has always been a favorite of mine.
The story of his childhood is developed in this incredible way and watching him become
a better fighter, largely without the aid of magic is really cool.
I feel like it’s hard for non-magical characters to compete but his story is so compelling.
Number 9 - Alucard from Hellsing.
He’s Dracula, and all my favorite vampire stories are dracula stories.
But his fights are so much fun especially with the addition of his taunts.
Plus you wouldn’t expect to see Dracula fight with guns.
I’m also a big fan of the victorian outfit and duster coat he wears.
Number 8 - Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop.
He’s one of the best noir crime thriller anime characters ever.
He has this casual nature that really misleads you into thinking he’s soft.
But he’s one of the more violent characters on my list.
Favorite Spike episode hands down is ballad of fallen angels.
Number 7 - Levi from Attack On Titan.
Yes he’s overpowered, but he’s the best fighter on the best new anime series in the
world right now.
He’s really the unsung hero of titan right now.
At least in the world of the show.
The fandom gives him the credit he deserves.
I’m interested to see if they de-power him a little in season 2 though.
Although it seems like everyone is secretly a human form titan in disguise, so they may
not have to.
Number 6 - Totoro from Totoro.
He’s so ubiquitous around the world that he became the avatar of studio ghibli.
So you could argue that he’s so awesome he has to be in every movie they make.
At least in the logo.
I’m sure if you looked hard enough you could find him drawn in a background frame in all
their subsequent films.
He’s like the R2D2 of anime.
The best mascott ever.
Number 5 - Kurapika from Hunter X Hunter 2011.
The red eyes of vengeance.
I love how powerful the nen abilities made the character
and how they added all the restrictions to keep it from getting ridiculous.
Favorite fight though was watching him go all out with Uvogin.
The phantom troupe arc is a good one to revisit if you ever want to jump back into the series.
Number 4 - Mikasa from Attack On Titan.
Eren might be the real protagonist of the series, but Mikasa is the most identifiable.
Unless you count the titans.
She’s the the backbone of the ensemble.
She has to protect the person that has to protect everyone.
For a long time I thought the show was secretly about her.
Number 3 - Lust from FMA Brotherhood.
Favorite bad girl ever.
I definitely have a bias towards bad girls.
She has the benefit of being a major character for pretty much the entire series and it was
so much fun watching her be downright evil, then turn away from her mission and try so
badly to become human, just so she could die permanently.
My favorite lust scene was definitely her last scene.
Number 2 - Paprika from Paprika (2006) - She’s like scarlett johansson’s character from
her, living in the world of inception and the matrix trilogy.
She’s like the most epic digital avatar in all of anime, so it’s only natural that
the characters of them film manifest her to lead them through the digital dream world.
I guess you could argue that because dreams and reality begin to merge, she is one of
the most powerful anime characters of all time.
Number 1 - Edward Elric from FMA Brotherhood.
I should really include alphonse on this list two, because the brothers really need to be
taken as a duo.
If it weren’t for the two of them I don’t think Brotherhood would have been one of the
biggest anime shows on the planet.
The reason Edward and said brother are my favorite are because their characters can
swing so easily from funny to sad, and from warriors to scientists and from normal kids
to tragic heroes.
So as with all lists, there are a billion awesome anime characters.
Be sure to let me know who your favorites are in the comments.
I’m always looking for new characters to knock some of these older ones off the list
and attack on titan has been the first in a long time to do that.
I don’t totally know what next week’s anime club is going to be yet, so leave me
your suggestions in the comments below.
Right now click here to for last week’s anime club video and click here to learn all
about my walking dead countdown.
Thanks for watching, see you guys tonight, high fives!