The Most Heroic/Noble Anime Character

Basically, who do you think is the most virtuous anime character, The Messiah, you've seen? Heroic in human scale would be preferrable. If you ask me, I have two:

• Kenzo Tenma from Monster.
• Yuzuru Otonashi from Angel Beats.

In before Fate/Stay Night jokes are launched

Basically, I think most of Pretty Cure heroines count. Growing girls? Character developed? Determined to fight for justice? I'm sold

edited 1st Mar '11 6:32:29 AM by Cassie

If I absolutely had to pick, I'd say Kamijou Touma.

He's got no real reason to do the things he does, he just does them. Why? Because it's the right thing to do.

Damn, beat me to it.

What about Kazuki Muto form Buso Renkin? Kid goes charging off in the dead of night, with a weapon he doesn't know how to use in order to save someone he's only just met. After escorting his sister home first of course. Hell, the kid's even reluctant to kill his non-human enemies.

Mister 2 Bon-Kurei is maybe my favourite non-main character ever, partly because he's hilarious, partly because he's much more heroic than you'd think a dude wearing mascara would be. The guy did at least THREE Heroic Sacrifrice, saving twice our heroes even if he knows they are supposed to be enemies, and in between he saved his fellow camarades, which he may have NEVER met, thus ending in Impel Down He isn't as impressive as many, but he truly put friendship before everything else.

Hiruma Youichi Blackmails anyone and everyone extending to policemen from another country, totes around a hyperspace arsenal of weaponry and tends to shoot his teammates when he's angry with them. Virtous to the core.
Seriously though, probably Hayate.

Vash The Stampede? Himura Kenshin, maybe? I know they regularly make me feel like slime walking upright by comparison.

Hayate is way way up there give him 100 thousand yen and he will spend it helping people instead of getting a hotel. Chew Toy The Universe will put it infront of him if he ever has anything nice

Goku is up there too at almost the same level.

Goku kind of loses points for letting a known mass-murderer get away just so he can have a fun rematch later.

I don't see how Otonashi's first name is a spoiler. I mean, sure, you don't find it out until fairly late in the series, but it's not as though you expect him not to have one.

Anyway, on topic: Noriko Takaya and her male equivalent Simon are pretty hard to beat here. Both of them take some time to get into it, but once they do...

Nagisa Furukawa. Also, I third Hayate.

Well, Simon' is pretty heroic but I don't think that's his defining character trait. I mean, no one pegs him as being noble or anything. Even he states that he's just a digger in the end, and he's more epic than heroic.

Fourthing Hayate.

Van Hohenheim.

Well, Luffy declared war against the world to save a friend.

Of course, he loses points for the whole Impel Down thing.

I don't know that possessing great virtue and being incredibly heroic go terribly well together. Virtues are things that make light of your heroic deeds after all. At least that's how it seems to me.

If you're talking about The Messiah, I would probably say the titular Character from Sailor Moon.

A virtuous character would be Shirou

A heroic character would be someone who faces a great struggle, and leaves great deeds, like Lelouch.

Supporting Ayasaki Hayate, Kamijou Touma, Emiya Shirou of the Fate and UBW routes, and possibly Fate Testarossa.

Nanoha herself could possibly qualify.

I don't know that possessing great virtue and being incredibly heroic go terribly well together. Virtues are things that make light of your heroic deeds after all. At least that's how it seems to me. If you're talking about The Messiah, I would probably say the titular Character from Sailor Moon. A virtuous character would be Shirou A heroic character would be someone who faces a great struggle, and leaves great deeds, like Lelouch.

I fail to see how virtues make light of one's deeds. I would interesting in seeing your reasoning. Also I really think that your analysis depends on how you define hero. To give an example, here are some definitions from the webster dictionary:

1. a man distinguished by exceptional courage, nobility, fortitude, etc.

2. a man who is idealized for possessing superior qualities in any field

3. the principal male character in a novel, play, etc.

What I got from your post was the definition of 2. 3 I'd say we can eliminate 3 as a definition, because it's better suited to the word protagonist. As for number 1, virtues are required to qualify for hero under that definition. I think Lelouch falls into the category of Anti-Hero anyways.

Seconding Vash, btw.

edited 2nd Mar '11 9:18:58 AM by Thenamelesssamurai

The interesting thing about Vash and Kenshin being so heroic is that it is brought on by both of them possessing a metric fuckton of guilt. Doing their damned best to help others is really the only way they can cope with their pasts.

That's interesting? I thought that was how most people got to be heroic. You start out as either an insensitive kid or an overly-sensitive kid, something or a series of things happen(s) that either wake(s) you up to the idea of other people as worthwhile and you as a selfish person or shocks you so badly that you're certain it's at least partially your fault, and then you resolve to do better.

I didn't really see that so much. I mean, Hayate, and Touma don't really have those kinds of pasts.

Nah, I meant real people.

I agree with the Hayate and Touma choices. Tough pick over who's more fitting.

Touma is a little too shallow. I almost want to say Shirou, but he's a little too crazy. Actually, never mind, I'll still go with Shirou.