Updated May 20th, 2020: Much like any other industry, the anime world has a competitive atmosphere whose landscape is constantly shifting.
#THE ANIME CHARACTER DATABASE SERIES#
Whether they perfectly condense all that one loves about a series into a personified form or just absolutely steal the show, anime characters are a performance worth paying for on their own. Bringing things back to the glory days of that middle school lunchroom, this list will be deciding who really is the coolest of the cool, as it runs down the Top 10 most popular characters in anime history (according to the community votes of My Anime List as of this writing). Whether it be the best looking, more intriguing, or most badass character, anime as a medium is one that is often defined by its most popular characters. Which kid had the coolest shoes? Who had a cookie in their Lunchables? Whose dad "works at Nintendo"?Īs is constant with the early days of humankind, those who stand at the top are those who are most popular, and this is no different for anime and its characters, where the next casual fan may have their next anime of choice dictated by what they see the most, either in the recommendations of YouTube or on the backpacks and t-shirts of their fellow weebs. More often than not, it brings fans of any age back to the wild tribalism of their middle school lunch room as dominance is decided, not by wit or strength, but by a popularity contest.
As hard as it is to admit, judging an anime is not always about the quality of the writing or animation.