Over the years I have enjoyed many diffrent styles of anime. I have loved everything from those that would probably have been considered too childish not to be embarrassed about, to some anime that seemed more blood, sorcery, and mature themes to be much to my liking. However, in those years of experience, a have noticed a strange reaccuring preferrence in the kind of characters that I tend to like.
Kuririn is a prime example:
Overall, I tend to like charcters that are shorter and not as "attrative" as most other fans would label them. I tend to like the sweet, somewhat dumb characters of a niave and loyal nature. Usually I like the supporting character rather than the one in the spot light.
Sweet but unpopular - they are the ones who gain my favor.
This could be related to the type of person that I am, I suppose. Who's to say that the profile above is unique to me in and of itself? To say that it is mine would be iggnorant and stupid.
However, there is one more irregularity that I must mention - something that makes the characters that I love stick out to a degree that has time and time again made me want to cry.
Whether it be the cruelest irony of life or divine intervention - every character I have ever called my favorite has died!
That's right! Every single time, without fail. They die, sometimes only minutes after I have decided that I liked them. Yes - minutes after! Once I stared at a charcter for the whole length of the program, and at the end, when he had not died the whole time, I risked saying I liked him. Then... Out of the blue a monster ate him.
Irony.
Perhaps, you say, this annomily is just the result of my own ill fated choices. I just *happen* to pick out those doomed characters on accident. Sure. Of course.
Are you suggesting that in any given anime, in any given book, in any given movie that there is a character that dies - and I select that chracter as my favorite - all of that, is a simple conicidence.
Sure it is.
Maybe I'm just jinxed! That's it, I'm jinxed. I mean, think of poor Kuririn. I've had to watch him die 15 times since I started watching. Fifteen times! (including Gokuu *dreaming* that he died.) It's all my fault.
Darn Toriyama. Maybe it's all a conspiricy. |
