True except that you almost never see the master manipulator type as a protagonist (and a GOOD person!) Except maybe Lelouch from Code Geas. (Though I hear he’s not that nice.)
Of course you can argue that the real protagonist of Yugioh is lil’ Yugi…
Yeah, Lelouch was a dick. I mean I hated him more for those that were close to him died and cheered when shit didn’t go his way. I’m sure there’s more manipulative protagonists in anime. Shame we can’t count Delita and Jowy, since they’re not anime characters.
I wouldn’t count Delita anyway. There’s a difference between thinking you’re a good person doing the right thing and actually being one.
Even outside Anime manipulative heroes aren’t that common. Sheridan from Babylon 5 is one, The Doctor too, Batman…
There is Light Yagami from Death Note (although he may not count since he’s a straight up villain rather than just a magnificent-bastard anti-hero like Lulu was).
But at least you knew that he was going to eat those motherfucking potato chips.
Spike Spiegel
Farnese/Serpico
I like Haruhi from Ouran. As well as Kyoko from Skip Beat, Tsukasa from Tokyo Crazy Paradise, and Yuko from xxxHolic.
I’ve also nearly finished watching Cowboy Bebop and I gotta say Edward’s a very amusing character… she has to be one of my new favourites along side Jet as well!
Ikkaku Madarame and Renji Abarai from Bleach
Alucard from hellsing
Love those animes as well.
While Lulu is a douche he’s at least well meaning. Also he’s hopelessly screwed by his circumstances even before the series started. Plus he’s up against douchebags so douchey that they’re almost Universal Century era Gundam level douches (hilariously enough the biggest douche of that series ended up being Lulu’s Mom (man did R2 suck)).
Wait, who was his mom?
Vegeta is my favourite in Dragon Ball Z episode 11.
This thread has become really infested with spambots lately.
Everywhere is infested by spambots and sadly they’re becoming increasingly more difficult to tell apart from real users. Mostly because they don’t really spam, they just post rubbish.
And related to the thread: Isn’t it pretty obvious?
If the problem is automated systems creating accounts and posting within the forums (if that’s possible… i’m not sure), why not incorporate captcha’s in the registration process?
However, if the spambots were actual people… then it wouldn’t work! ^^
We already do. Bots can bypass it. Everyone with less than five posts are also spam filtered. As you can see, they still get through.
Those flights to Nairobi are an excellent deal. Im gonna go this summer.
If you mean the girl from your avatar… is she from Bleach? (Have only seen a few episodes.)
Yeah I’m guessing they are actually people as oppose to automated systems. But I’ve never seen this on any other boards… why do they target this one in such masses?
Probably because of the relative inactivity compared to other boards?