Alright, who's your personal favorite anime character of all time? I personally can't decide between these

~~anime Stalin~~ I haven't watched anime in a while but based on vague memories, maybe Johan from Monster
if manga counts, probably Guts from Berserk or Baku from Usogui

There is a Chinese anime about young Karl Marx if that counts
- I haven't watched that one yet, maybe Young Marx(TM) will take the top spot

I barely watch anime, but I found Saitama from One Punch Man's ennui to be relatable.

He's such a good character tho. I really wish the anime didn't start sucking in s2 and that the dogshit comic wasn't waaay more popular than the webcomic
- What's wrong with the Murata manga? I haven't read it but it certainly doesn't look bad
Kinda afraid to ask, but since one-punchness is rather out, it's about being bald or dead inside?
- Being dead inside. Ennui.

I never got into anime but the only one I like was Avatar, and people said it wasn’t even anime lol

If it makes you feel better, amongst my friends we usually let avatar slide for these discussions, it probably deserves it. Maybe we're idiots, but at least we're idiots together!
- Lol I can agree with that. It isn’t anime and I can sorta recognize why, it has more of a Chinese influence than a Japanese one, it also is drawn slightly differently from full-on anime where the characters have faces shaped like a home plate from baseball(i don’t mean this as a criticism, I only say this because of the angle of the chin they draw lmao)

Guts from Berserk

Everyone from Slayers

Allen Walker from D.Gray-Man

I think mine is Luffy from One Piece

I always found Oda's cavalcade of interesting villians the bigger draw.

Yes, Luffy does some clever stuff, but it's the classic main-character problem: you know the hero's going to win so it's just a matter of how.

I was always fascinated by Arlong for the narrative of "how do power structures change when humans aren't the dominant species", and loved the back-reference where we find out Arlong Park was designed to mimic Sabaody Park, leading into the whole "society is stratified in a very broken way" story that reaches its peak absurdity with the Tennryubito.

The relationship between CP9 and Spandam is perpetually comical.

Even Axe-hand Morgan, for a throwaway villian to establish the main narrative model, he had an interesting character design, and then the Jango side-story that shows his cherished career is built on a lie is an amazing piece of exposition.
- Luffy kinda suffers from the annoying MC syndrome literally all long seasonal anime i ever seen have (except D.Gray Man, and just look what they did to Allen ffs) - he's too quirky. Actually most of other characters too, but the one we see the most have a time to get old on us.
Luffy really is the default #1, gotta do #2 for these kinds of things because luffy is too goated

I haven’t seen any anime in a while, but I’ll say Yugi is gender envy.

Luffy for being based. Team Rocket for their transness. Favorite despite everything is probably fucking Sailor Neptune or Sailor Moon. That show gets emotion more than almost anything else I've watched, legit all the dark magical girl shit made in response has nothing on Sailor Moon, which is way darker and handles emotions with more maturity.

I really don't like the edgy/dark magical shows (which is why I'm only interested in viewing traditional/light magical shows like Sally the Witch and Cardcaptor Sakura; wish these were trending again), although I am interested in seeking out Sailor Moon.

Going to have to say Nagatoro Hayase. I'm a sucker for romance and rom-com.

Bojji! Rank of Kings

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Sasuke is my spirit animal

Same lol. Moody? Yup. Kinda a little removed? Yup. Into blonde dudes. Yuuuup
As I've matured and begun to appreciate his vision for anarchy, it makes me regret exclusively seeing him as an edgelord while I watched/read the series. Seeing him in Boruto has helped be better appreciate him, even though he's a it of a shell of his former self in it.
- If you have time, could you elaborate on your thoughts for his vision for anarchy? I haven't watched in a couple years, and definitely just have young sasuke as am edgelord, would be cool to see another point of view.