Anime What's an anime character you actually relate with?

[SorenFireEmblem]

For me, it's gotta be Hougetsu Shimamura from Adachi to Shimamura.
Her struggles with genuine attachment, and her general struggle with empathy are something that helped me better understand myself a lot in high school. I approach the world from a new perspective after reading that novel, and I'm better for it.

 

[Iguana-0]

Kenshiro From Fist Of The North Star and if i get a 2nd one. Sailor Mars from Sailor Moon. I can relate because they are both almost always angry. Just like what i feel on a regular basis.

 

[DunkeyKong]

Definitely relatable

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

I don't really compare myself to fictional characters, so none.

 

[Cheela]

Kinda sad but i kinda relate a lot to Tsubaki in the sense I had done a lot of things for a friend I loved, and still do. Only to them being interested in another person, then trying to pursue a personal dream and failing. But never giving up nor faulting my friend’s not reciprocal feelings. Is a tragic character of a tragic story of a moment in life. And thats how i am treating now that aspect of my life, just a moment not the whole life.

 

[Jediuser]

Vash the Stampede. A goofball who uses humor to hold back a ton of pain and self-doubt hiding just beneath the surface.

(I noticed the jacket's bulletholes are a detail not included in the anime. I mean, I can kinda understand why. Looks hard enough to draw, let alone animate).

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Is it sad that I unironically relate to Tomoko sometimes

 

[hembruh]

Idk Brock from Pokémon. I like the ladies.

 

[micheI]

Subaru Natsuki.

 

[RageBurner]

The answer is in my pfp.

 

[Zachery2112]

Char Aznable, my beloved. Sometimes I feel like One Year War Char, sometimes I'm Quattro Bajeena, but a lot of the times I feel like Char's Counterattack Char.

 

[neromero]

I'm just a silly guy :3

 

[FeralElement]

The answer is in my pfp.

We all relate to him one way or another as we are all strugglers on this path called life.

 

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Corny generic answer, but i can relate in almost all aspects to his life, i just never found a Misaki to help me irl and i somehow managed to not be a hikikomori anymore after many years(does this term even works for western people?)

 

[RageBurner]

We all relate to him one way or another as we are all strugglers on this path called life.

Yes, that's true. I envy his dogged determination to see things through and the capacity and strength to destroy those that would deter him or bring harm to those he cares for, all while still managing to hold on to his own humanity in a world that cares not for those living in it.

 

[AncientBehemoth]

You know the losers ones.

 

[FeralElement]

Yes, that's true. I envy his dogged determination to see things through and the capacity and strength to destroy those that would deter him or bring harm to those he cares for, all while still managing to hold on to his own humanity in a world that cares not for those living in it.

That's why he's my all time favourite character in any media.

 

[Asian girls lover]

Shinobu Sensui

"I don't want to destroy the world, on the contrary; I like flowers, and trees, insects and animals. The only thing I hate, are all human beings."

 

[Zerthyam]

He is literally me.

 

[GuyZero32k4]

Same. Same reasons you've said. Even gotten hurt trying to do the right thing.

 

[Elwiwi]

Ayumu kasuga AKA Osaka

 

[goregoregoregoregoregore]

Ayumu kasuga AKA Osaka

 

[Stare best girl]

Akira Fudo(OG Manga/Oh! Production's OVAs)

 

[Prism_Red]

Asuka Langley Soryu.

As a kid, I'm not particularly bright, no one ever paid attention to me (still is) despite of my achievement, half of the family didn't like me, people often think I don't even exist (still is, and I'm thankful for that), the only person who doted on me was my mum, and she was battling cancer back then when I was 9 or 10 years old. I remember I always go straight to the hospital after school to see how she was doing every single day for months, I got into trouble since I would just skip class pretty often. But mum never changed, she always smiles and gave me a pat on the head like nothing was wrong.

Fast forward few weeks after she beat cancer, I watched Eva.
There I realized, it could've happened to me. I could become that wreck. It was the very first time I ever felt a connection to a fictional character.
Asuka serves as a grim reminder that I might very well be laying half-naked somewhere in the ass end of nowhere with a sissy boy staring on top of me trying choke the shit out of my life if I wasn't so lucky, and so I should cherish this life more.

 

[SpcDaicon]

Kanji Sasahara from Genshiken. Just a mild mannered dude that is really passionate about his interests but is lowkey about them to people that don't share the same hobbies but opens up around fellow otaku.

I never felt so represented in any type of media as much as Sasahara in last episode of seasson 2. He is literraly me.

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Corny generic answer, but i can relate in almost all aspects to his life, i just never found a Misaki to help me irl and i somehow managed to not be a hikikomori anymore after many years(does this term even works for western people?)

Classic answer. While NHK shows the bad/toxic side of otaku, I think it is somewhat exagerated. I think Genshiken has the more down to earth approach to otaku culture and behavior.