Don't you hate it when you get a one dimensional protagonist in a anime who doesn't know what the hell he's doing and all you want to do is curse him.. If you can name any who would it be and from what anime is it?
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ENSIGN KOU URAKI. This shit bumbles his way through Stardust Memory (which is already a bad plot) and do you know what I learned about him?
Motherfucker doesn't like carrots. Like, I cannot tell you anything else about this guy. He's just. Yeah. Tip of the iceberg, though.
This piece of shit was for a very, very long time the worst main character in a Mecha anime I had ever seen. Lucky for Shinn Asuka of Gundam SEED Destiny, SDFM's Hikaru Ichijo (TV version) turns out to be worse. Shinn's actions make exponentially less sense as the series goes on, and as far as I can tell his only real goals are: WAAAAH U KILLED MY SISTER KAGAAAAAAAARRRIIIII and HOW MUCH JIZZ CAN I SHOOT ALL OVER THIS GUY AFTER I KILL HIS FRIENDS?
But really you could boil Shinn down to this noseless, screaming horror who incoherently shouts, screams, cries and bitches for 50 episodes until Kira and Athrun beat the shit out of him. For as much as Kira gets blamed for crying, at least he did shit other than that. Shinn's eyes are like fucking faucets.
If you stripped Sousuke Sagara and Iori Sei of every trait that made them interesting and combined their boiled down archetypes to a gunpla loving child-soldier and then drained that concept of any novelty or entertainment value well before the halfway point of the series, you'd have Setsuna. All 00 Gundam's Setsuna cares about is being Gundam and that's something that is neither well explained nor well thought out. It just is his goal.
Hibiki Kanzaki is Frank West if Frank West were the biggest loser ever. Like holy shit. All he cares about is "The Scoop!" Do yourself a favor and never watch Macross II. Even with two girlfriends Hibiki still only thinks about his Scoop.
Mobile Suit Gundam AGE is the charming story of Adolf Hitler's establishment of the Eternal Reich. Hitler, as you might imagine, only has two goals: First, murder all the Space Jews he can, even though they already live in Space Auschwitz. Second: Bend time to fuck a little girl. Yes, Adolf Hitler is a pedophile AND the hero of Level 5's beloved Gundam show. Somehow people will still tell you that this pedo nazi propaganda is somehow better than Destiny.
Both Michel and Cleo are awful protagonists, but Cleo is the one whose goals make no fucking sense the entire series. He's just like "I have to be a HUGE bitch right now and even though it defies all reason I WILL be justified in 7 episodes!" To be perfectly honest, by the end of the series I was rooting for Evil Emperor Betty to win.
The entire Human race is a worthless sack of shit in Attack on Titan, but ESPECIALLY Eren Jaeger. Holy fuck what is even the point of this piece of shit? To cry and bitch until Mikasa bails him out? AGAIN? Fuck off, Eren. You're nearly as bad as the pacing of the hellspawned show that shat you out.
I WISH Kirito had a one track mind, because then at least his actions would make sense. But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Kirito has a no track mind. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the "Beater"'s super power at some point. I mean, "Oh I should rescue my wife but I think I'll spend time going on dates with my little sister and not telling her I don't want to fuck her." And "Oh sure this guy held me prisoner in an online death game and murdered people en masse BUT I WILL PRAISE HIM IN THE FINAL BATTLE.
God Kirito is so bad that I get mad when people compare him to Batman because it doesn't make Batman sound that good.
Hazuki of Yami, the Hat and the Book Traveler. Her goal is to find and probably rape her sister, considering how forceful she is about it. In the end she winds up pregnant with the sister she wanted to fuck. And pancakes. In fact, Hazuki's one-track pursuit of Eve is the ONLY thing that's consistent throughout the series. For what that is worth.
Earth Maiden Arjuna's protagonist has literally no idea what she is supposed to do or how to do it for basically the entire series. In her defense, Kawamori refuses to tell either her or the audience and basically forces her at gunpoint into doing the opposite of what she is supposed to for most of the show.
I still hated her by the end.
