The most complex anime character

Knù¢klés · Post by **Knù¢klés** » Tue May 04, 2004 4:35 pm

you mean that little funny looking yellow thing with the red cheeks?...
i ran that over yesterday with my car.. it aint so cute now.

DDramone · Post by **DDramone** » Tue May 04, 2004 4:56 pm

roadkill = breakfast when your on the run.

Touya_girl · Post by **Touya_girl** » Tue May 04, 2004 5:06 pm

don't you guys know that Freud is an actual fraud?

Giver-of-Will · Post by **Giver-of-Will** » Tue May 04, 2004 5:09 pm

DDramone wrote:roadkill = breakfast when your on the run.

oh crap, that was road kill?

otakusakura · Post by **otakusakura** » Tue May 04, 2004 8:10 pm

well I haven't seen as much as I wish I have, but of what I have seen I'd have to say Tsukasa... Gyah, he confuses me... he wants to get out of The World... no, he wants to stay because of some weird stuff in the real world.... no he wants to get out... but he can't remember anything except little flashbacks... *head spinning* .hack//sign in general is like that...

generalhs · Post by **generalhs** » Tue May 04, 2004 8:15 pm

otakusakura wrote:well I haven't seen as much as I wish I have, but of what I have seen I'd have to say Tsukasa... Gyah, he confuses me... he wants to get out of The World... no, he wants to stay because of some weird stuff in the real world.... no he wants to get out... but he can't remember anything except little flashbacks... *head spinning* .hack//sign in general is like that...

Yeah, Tsukasa is definitely a complex character. He changes a lot through the series and has reasons for the way he is. Subaru goes through some changes as well, but she really isn't as complex.

I echo the statement on Lain as well. Hmm, how about Kenshin or Vash the Stampede? They are actually pretty complex people if you think about it, both usually act really goofy and carefree, but they mostly do it to forget the pain in their pasts.

bubblehead · Post by **bubblehead** » Tue May 04, 2004 9:13 pm

Otohiko wrote:Hm. Well, it depends on what you're looking for.

Some series, like Evangelion for example, build their characters around a sort of psychological study of sorts.

But if someone were to make a psychiatrist scratch his headin confusion... it's definitely... mmm...
Osaka! (from Azumanga Daioh)

...hey! I'm kinda like Osaka, y'know... weird random thoughts, easily distractable, but then again, I don't dream about Chiyo-chan...

...umm I'd say... ummm... Yes! run over pikachu!

...ummm (should the elipses go after the ummm?) ummm... freak-ay!
the guy in the chair, upside down, in .hack//sign, I never could understand him. Oh wait, he's not necessarily complex, just the things he says are weird and he's totally inscrutable

so, in that case, maybe Toutousai from Inu-Yasha... but again mostly inscrutable, more than complex...

About Radical Edward: sure she's weird, but I think that she just wants to have a good time and lives in the moment. She has a love of clowning around which is why she acts weird.

the above were my (mostly unedited) thoughts while trying to respond to this question, just to show my thought process.

so there!

madbunny · Post by **madbunny** » Wed May 05, 2004 1:39 am

Well... Lain seems almost like a character study of sorts, then you have Faye, how did she end up the way she did.. what's the hidden past etc..

How about all those people in Boogiepop Phantom?

Touya_girl · Post by **Touya_girl** » Wed May 05, 2004 9:01 am

what's that show about?

thistledown · Post by **thistledown** » Wed May 05, 2004 1:16 pm

For complex characters, I would have to say Reki from Haibane Renmai, Alita from Battle Angel, Chise from Saikano, and Anita from R.O.D. are at the top for me.

Osaka, while strange, isn't that complex really. I'd agree on the guy in Strawberry Eggs though.

As a whole, I'd say most of the characters in Ryvius are pretty complex, though not as much as the others listed.

Alpha, from Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, while not that complex, is extremely well thought out I think.