I barely watch anime, but I found Saitama from One Punch Man’s ennui to be relatable.
Kinda afraid to ask, but since one-punchness is rather out, it’s about being bald or dead inside?
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.
Nico Robin from One Piece, I relate to her the most. I also like Reki from Haibane Renmei and Lain from Serial Experiments Lain.
Spike from Cowboy Bebop.
I haven’t seen any anime in a while, but I’ll say Yugi is gender envy.
