Fave anime character round #5 - closed

Drax · Post by **Drax** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 8:55 am

Kenpachi - Bleach
Urahara - Bleach
Spike - Cowboy Bebop
Edward - Full Metal Alchemist
Motoko Kusanagi - Ghost in the Shell
Alucard - Hellsing
Sai - Hikaru No Go
Howl - Howl's Moving Castle
Ashitaka - Princess Mononoke
Mugen - Samurai Champloo
Kiba - Wolf's Rain

syan · Post by **syan** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 2:02 pm

I'm using my last vote to help out Medicine Seller - Bake Neko/Mononoke

irmgaard · Post by **irmgaard** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:26 pm

Oh, thank you very much, Syan

( as well as Kata, and Kathpatty). I will try not to let it be wasted!

Voting for:

1. Medicine Seller -Bake Neko/ Mononoke

Just because he isn’t human, doesn’t mean that the Medicine Seller is immune to strong emotions.
Though he usually plays it reeeal coool (well, the new manga based on this series is classified as seinen, or Young Men’s manga) you get the feeling these still waters
run very deep….

In the third story of Mononoke, Noppera-bō, (a faceless ghost in Japanese folktales, but here used to illustrate how we wear different faces, or masks, to hide the truth from others…or ourselves) our Medicine Seller is seen incongruously sharing a prison cell with a woman who is a supposed mass murderer of her husband and her In-laws. He quizzes her, but she can’t seem to recall anything about the murders…curiouser and curiouser…

Then a Mononoke appears. He is masked (i.e., faceless), but there is no mistaking who he is by this point in the series!
The Medicine Seller is having a disagreement with himself, and this is llustrated by him literally fighting with himself.

At first, the emotional, take-action part of him wins… and sweeps “O-chou-san” away to a grove of flowering trees, proposing escape from her prison, and
marriage to him….

But at this point, his rational side reasserts itself, and relentlessly brings the truth to light.

Then he drops the honorific from the end of her name, and asks, for the final time,
(click screen to play clip-but, Warning:spoiler)

"O-Chou, who did you kill?”

Yes,

she has killed herself

and now

exists as a mononoke

…and the Medicine Seller MUST purify all mononoke….

So as his warrior form

stands behind her in the classic position of the Japanese executioner, holding the burning sword of exorcism,

there is this...
heartrending exchange

(click screen to play)

Kanashi ki, Mononoke...

And so, at the end, he is left smoking the pipe his warrior form used to fight with him,
sitting in the kitchen from which O-chou’s

purified spirit has now been freed

...alone.

*edit - spelling, of course

GuyvarIII · Post by **GuyvarIII** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:55 pm

Voting for:

Madarame Ikkaku from Bleach

Medicine Seller from Bake Neko/Mononoke

Birdy from Birdy the Mighty

Nodame from Nodame Cantabile

Griffith from Berserk

Kaneda from Akira

Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star

Shikamaru from Naruto

klet · Post by **klet** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 5:20 pm

Ack, votes!

Gotta at least get my boys in.

1. Zoro - One Piece
2. Urahara - Bleach
3. Luffy - One Piece
4. Hotohori - Fushigi Yuugi

Er, more later, I hope.

irmgaard · Post by **irmgaard** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 5:43 pm

I wanted to make long posts for these great characters…

But even with an extra week I’m all out of time!!!

I’ll just have to try harder next time…. If they make it….

Voting

2. Himura Kenshin - Rurouni Kenshin

Got the clips ready…but ran out of TIME! I sure hope he’ll last ‘til I
can get a decent post together

3. Birdy - Birdy the Mighty

She deserves much better treatment than I’ve given her, but she’s pretty tolerant

4. Hiei - Yu Yu Hakusho

He’s not tolerant at all, so I hope he isn’t too mad at my holiday induced neglect…

5. Lelouch Lamperouge - Code Geass

Yes, my Lordo!

6. Mugen - Samurai Champloo

Strong and Enduring!

7. Griffith - Berserk

A facinating character, both as the man and as the monster!

8. Deidara - Naruto

Art in Action…kinetic and captivating!

9. Nodame - Nodame Cantabile

Funny, touching, frustrating, inspiring…all the things an engaging character should be!

10. Ikkaku - Bleach

An all around fun guy…in a crazy, fight obsessed nut-case kinda way…..

11. Inuyasha - Inuyasha

Not as pretty, not as powerful, not as gifted…but with ten times the heart…and an unbreakable spirit!!!

duotrouble · Post by **duotrouble** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 7:12 pm

And that's what we call time.

This round is officially CLOSED. I hope everyone got their votes in during this 2 week period.

Check out the results Saturday.