1. Favoritest of All Time: Mello (Mihael Keehl)
I get the url to this blog from him. Keehl desu. *fangirl squeeeee* You and your chocolate and your bombs and your mafia connections...OMG.
JK. Mostly I just like underdogs. You know how it is, if you try and explain it, it sounds really dorky, so...
Not like this post isn't dorky in itself but
It's cuz he's like y'know second best. And he's really smart but the reason why he can't beat Near is because he's more emotional. So he'd rather do things than think them through. And I can relate. To being weird, and violent without meaning to be violent, and emotional and foolish, and having an inferiority complex. And um...*shifty eyed* I also like to watch things asplode...
/dork time over
NO IT IS NOT DORKY. THERE IS NOTHING DORKY ABOUT DEATH NOTE!
(The manga's better than the anime.)
I'm really excited for the live-action movie coming up. In English! I really really hope they put in Mello and Matt this time. If they make them a couple, it'd (A) Really make the fangirls (and fanboys) happy and (B) Support gay rights.
So. If you're working on the movie, DO IT.
Anyway, I have made Mello my brother on Facebook <3
2. Fai D. Flowright.
It took me forever to find a good picture of Fai. He's from Tsubasa, yeah I know Fai's not really his name whatever, I like it. He's the dude holding the heart sign.
We like happy people. Fai is a happy person. We like Fai. (Law of what? Syllogism?)
I think of all the anime characters, Fai's personality is most like mine. ^^ It's funny because my sister said her personality is most like Kurogane's, Fai's friend. Gosh Kurogane's such a grouch. Fai is so much cooler.
3. Yoruichi Shihoin
Most female anime characters are as boring as hell. All they do is act cute and worry about the male protagonist. Which is why I don't have many favorite female anime characters, among other reasons. >///<
But Yoruichi! She kicks butt. ^^ Plus she's happy like Fai too. I want to be like her when I grow up. You know, I want to kick butt.
(Which reminds me, I read an article saying we like people who are like ourselves. So that makes sense. None of that opposites attract crap, I suppose.)
The dude is Kisuke Urahara for the uninitiated; they're both from Bleach. He's sketchy and funny. I like him too.
Anime is awesome because, unlike in real life, it's full of likeable people.
In real life, people are too frickin complicated to attract this kind of simple likefulness, you know?
4. Earl Cain
Last one! He's from Godchild, which is a manga light on overall plot but with an unparalleled atmosphere and art that blows your mind. (Other art that blows minds: D. Gray Man.)
So: Cain. Goth emo kid with a wicked streak. What's not to love?
He reminds me of the rant I wrote about the glorification of evil in our society. I ended up contradicting myself in it so I deleted the whole mess.
But I'm sure you've thought of it too.
Why do we like the badass people so much? The rule-breakers?
I'm guessing it's cuz we're all cowards and conventional so rule-breaking inspires a kind of fear in us. Fear is related to excitement. We find badass rule-breakers more exciting. We like exciting. We want to be able to overcome our fear of breaking the rules. We want to be "brave" like them.
But, it's only "brave" (a word with a positive connotation) if they're breaking rules that don't make sense. Please remember that. There's nothing "brave" about killing people or unnecessarily breaking rules that are there for good reasons.
I think...Cain is guilty of breaking those rules. In which case, I have made a bad decision, haven't I, putting him here and thus approving of him though he might not be morally flawless.
Jesus Christ. Mello's a million times worse.
(Whereupon we face the conflicts between judging people by set standards and judging people intuitively. The solution: DON'T JUDGE OTHER PEOPLE THEN. JUST DON'T DO IT.)
Well whatever. He's kind of hot.
(Was that a judgement?)
(Don't negatively judge other people...Judge their actions...)
(Me and my stupid rules to live by. I much prefered Mr. Roundy's Life Lessons. I wish he'd write a book full of them. I'd buy it.)
(Anyway.)
You guessed it: Manga and anime are awesome. <3
August 30, 2011 at 10:02 AM
Actually I think the fear = excitement thing isn't always true. I mean if that were so we'd actively seek out things we fear.
Maybe we like badass people because they can do things we wish we could do; they live out our fantasies; aka they break the rules we don't have the balls to break.
I'm sure it's more complicated than that.
August 30, 2011 at 10:02 AM
But then, I'm making a generalization. Not everyone likes badass people.
Post a Comment