2012 Year-Ender: Coolest Characters
Shana, Azunyan and Inori walk into a bar…
Day three of the Metanorn Year-Ender awards! Next up we focus on the characters that live and breath in some of our favorite animes of 2012. This is where you get to pick the best sidekicks, villain, and of course the ever popular main character! So what kind of characters did you love to watch this year? There were certainly a lot of entertaining ones to choose from.
As an update, so far the following Year-Ender posts are out and open for nominations:
Aki wants you to vote for your favorite characters of 2012!
Shows that are acceptable for nomination of the anime year 2012 are from Winter ’12 to Fall ’12 anime series. This does not include animes that will continue on into the Winter ’13 season that are 20+ episodes.
nominate as many as you want for each award or just one if you are having trouble choosing. As well, if you can, please add why you chose that nomination.
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Best Wingman (Male Supporting Role)
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Best Gurlfried (Female Supporting Role)
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Wicked Villain
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Kick Ass Main Dude (Main role)
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Fantastic Lead Female (Main Role)
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Romantic Couples Are Moe
Onward to the next set of awards!
About Foshizzel
Is huge anime fan from Florida! who loves to watch anime and also enjoys drawing and collecting pictures, my favorite genre of anime has to be Mecha, there is just something awesome about giant robots beating the crap out of each other! Other than that type of show, I love a good comedy or action series :D
POWUH: Meta Team and The Mad Scientist with 5525 comments
WE CAN VOTE? HOT DAMN.
Best Wingman: Satoshi (Hyouka), Waver (Fate/Zero), Rider (Fate/Zero), Jigen (Mine Fujiko)
Best Female Supporting Role: Karen (Nisemonogatari)
Wicked Villain: Freecell (Phi Brain)
Kickass Main Dude: Houtarou (Hyouka)
Female Lead: Yuno (Mirai Nikki), Koko (Jormungand)
Couple: none lol
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
Best Wingman (Male Supporting Role): Satoshi from Hyouka comes quickly to my mind, as a winger he sometimes flew a bit to close to his lead, but that’s a rainbow database for you. Tetsuro from Ano Natsu advanced the characterization, and provided a calm character who’s heart was still in turmoil, to a perplexed Kaito.
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
Best Gurlfriend (Female Supporting Role): Karuta from Inu x Boku SS provided a calm, but very direct point of view, while Kukko from Nyalko was just so unstoppable adorable in her attempts to spoil her female lead.
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
Oh, my. I hope she will forgive me. How could I forget my ever lovable Sanea Dekomori! Moe, kawaii, Mjolner Time! Whereas we knew Rikka would be beautiful with our without her chuuni, with Dekomoir, who knew she was such a cutie.
Plus she stood by her friend, and adapted best she could to the changes around her.
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
Kick Ass Main Dude (Main role) Kirito from SAO (not AOL), The Dark Flame Master tops the bill, however. He was a great mix of embarrassment, confidence, sympathy, and empathy. He knows how to win a girl’s heart without even knowing he’s doing it.
Fantastic Lead Female (Main Role) I just have to put Rikka Takanashi at the top of this list. So much about her is praise-worthy, but I will take her sheer scope of imagination as the best. She’s cute, but her dreams are sweeter. Nyarlko-san could almost win thou sheer genki and exotic food ingredients. But she still has to contend with the awesome that is Captain Marika. Let’s Pirate!
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
Romantic Couples Are Moe
Ano Natsu should have had Kanna in the lead, but that is why it was so bitter sweet.
Acchi Kocchi: Io and Tsumiki were so kawaii I could just die.
Say I Love You: Mei and Yamato really found each other, and was such a pleasure to watch them get things right.
But….I have to put Yuuta and Rikka as my personal best. I love those guys to pieces.
POWUH: and LOLi Defender with 10998 comments
I would have put Mitzutani and Haru from Tonari in there, but I was confused from episode to episode which one I wanted to kick down the metaphorical flight of stairs.
POWUH: iLurker with 2 comments
Best Wingman:
Aru Akise
Wicked Villain:
Makishima Shogo
Kick Ass Main Dude:
Fuwa Mahiro
Fantastic Lead Female (Main Role):
Gasai Yuno
POWUH: 1000-1099 and Pirate King with 1048 comments
Best Wingman (Male Supporting Role)
Tanuma from Natsume Yuujinchou Shi. Great episodes that he was a part of in this past season.
Best Gurlfried (Female Supporting Role)
Remon from Ano Natsu. Probably the easiest award for me to pick out of all of these.
Wicked Villain
Misogi Kumagawa from Medaka Box. Even in a final episode without the titular character, Misogi’s episode was great. Where’s the color? Oh… it no longer exists.
Kick Ass Main Dude (Main role)
Hitoyoshi Zenkichi – A normal dude that can hang with any special or abnormal is cool in my book. Also a male tsundere.
Also, Akatsuki from Hagure Yuusha for being a tough guy and a creative perv (that shower scene). Koyomi from Nisemono primarily for that scene where he breaks free from the handcuffs.
Fantastic Lead Female (Main Role)
Marika from Mouretsu Pirates and Asuna (during the SAO arc).
Romantic Couples Are Moe
Mix & Andy from Aquarion Evol. Death flags be damned! Better couple than the main pairing.
POWUH: iLurker with 1 comments
Best Wingman (Male Supporting Role):
–Iskandar (Fate Zero): The Best Bro Ever. I like Fate Zero as much as I did purely because of him. (And maybe a bit because of Gil. That guy is just a darn fabulous hedonist.)
–The Fairies (Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita): They are so adorably creepy. They are also in the very best episodes of the show too. Or perhaps those episodes were the very best because of them?
Wicked Villain:
–Deishuu Kaikil (Nisemonogatari): He is such a perfect villain. It is hard to put in proper word why he is so. How he carry himself. How the whole tone just change when he appears… His evilness almost seem effortless.
–Sugou (SAO): He is very badly written in the best way possible. Technically, everything he did should fill me with fire of thousand exploding sun, but I can’t stop grinning like an idiot whenever he shows up.
Fantastic Lead Female (Main Role)
–Watashi (Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita): While the fairies make a great part of the series, the show will fail if she is any less than a great character, which fortunately she was.
My memories aren’t terribly great lately, so I guess I’m forgetting a lot of good characters. These are the ones that are constantly on my mind, however.