Your favourite anime/manga Class Representatives

Exactly What It Says on the Tin: List your favourite anime/manga Class Representative(s), be they good/upstanding or bad/corrupt, and if possible why you like them.

My favourite: Ayaka Yukihiro, for managing to come across as a stingy Rich Bitch while being actually a good-natured Auntie Pennybags at heart (not that she'd admit it out loud ), as well as the time-and-again proven purity of her feelings towards Negima's male lead, and her Large Hamminess, and her flaunting of her Fiction 500 fortune (for ultimately good/unselfish goals, though).

On a related note: Name the first anime/manga Class Representative-slash-Alpha Bitch that comes to your mind.

edited 23rd Dec '11 5:07:55 AM by MarqFJA

Asakura Ryoko, especially in The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya. She is the god of class representatives; her charm is out of this world.

edited 23rd Dec '11 5:24:35 AM by Trollkastel

Oh yes. She got an edge.

Medaka from Medaka box- she wins everything forever.

Kanou Sumire

1. I just watched Tora Dora

2. I have horrible memory

3. She was the only one in recent memory

4. She might be Class President, but she's the only student council member i remember.

5 Asakura gives me nightmares

edited 23rd Dec '11 3:46:08 PM by eternalNoob

Medaka Box's article has made me want to start reading it.

She's apparently not a Class Representative, but rather a Student Council President.

First one that came to mind was Tsukasa Ayatsuji mainly cause of my avatar.

Thanks to Asakura and Ayatsuji, I believe all class representatives are good people.

Most of them don't make that big an impression on me.

Hm, I'll consider this as meaning class reps who actually have that as an important part of their character, otherwise you could include the likes of Kyou from Clannad.

I think I'll go with Ayatsuji from Amagami. She is quite entertaining and an admitted jerk. Jerks who don't have their jerkiness brushed over or ignored can be quite interesting.

Wasn't Chiyo-chan a class rep in her second year? And wasn't Tomo vice-rep? I think I'd pick them. The stereotypical class-rep character type doesn't really appeal to me at all; I'd rather see more varied stuff.

edited 23rd Dec '11 9:36:54 PM by Sporkaganza

Are you implying that Ayaka Yukihiro is a stereotypical Class Rep?

Ayatsuji. As per Arha's reasons.

Parts where I hail from, we call that an "exception".

Also I've never read Negima. (And I'm certainly not going to watch any of the anime adaptations, as I heard that pretty much all of them fucked up.)

As the Defender of Negima Second Season on the forums... Not all of the Adaptations are bad. (Negima Second Season is pretty good if ya go into it not expecting a straight adaptation of the manga but go into it fresh or expect Studio Shaft.)

Anyway Ayaka isn't a queen bitch really she does have shades of the Steriotypical one when dealing with Asuna.

Amagami SS however really deconstructs the type hard.

edited 24th Dec '11 5:12:10 PM by Raso

Well, yeah. I have heard there've been some good Negima series, but no good adaptations.

@Raso: Ayatsuji's more of a deconstruction of Bitch in Sheep's Clothing than Class Representative.

There's also Anri Sonohara and Mikado Ryugamine from Durarara, although their characterization doesn't stem from them being a Class Representative.

Not so much "no good adaptations" (AFAIK, that only describes the first Negima anime), but rather "no faithful-to-manga adaptations" (excluding the Ala Alba and Another World OAD series, covering important parts of the Magic World arc).

Tsukasa Ayatsuji for reasons mentioned.

Deviating from the manga canon is a big no-no for way too many fans.

Personally, I really like Ryoko.

Other than her, Kyou is really the only one I can think of... Well, of good characters, that is.

Deviating too much, you mean. Padding that doesn't break the story flow or ruin characterization is okay, for example; pointless filler that is obviously an attempt to avoid having to end the current show run and wait until there's enough manga material for another "season", however, is not.

Since Ayatsuji has already been mentioned:

• Chidori Kaname: Well, it's Chidori! She's like the class queen.
• Izumi Segawa: Remarkably ad'awwwrable even in the generally cute cast of Hayate no Gotoku. Also: "I kind of like getting picked on".
• Hideo Kuki! I think he's the only large-ham class rep I know of.

And a class rep I hate: Ume Shiraume.

Everyone hates that bitch.

I actually like Ume. I still think she's a bitch, and that her characterisation has some minor problems, but somehow, I actually do like her.

Actually, I don't mean too much. Any deviation is enough to set people off. Not reasonable people, mind you, but people*

Still, the real issue I have is that the concept of something being different is somehow a bad thing. It's disliking something because it's differently done, rather than done badly (and only incidentally differently), that I have an issue with. I mean, Adaptation Decay didn't use to be an inherently bad trope. I don't think it should be. I mean, people were dissing the Lot R movies because they didn't include everything, despite that including everything would mean several times longer movies, and a less interesting story as a movie, since what works on a page doesn't necessarily work on screen. (Should I leave my soapbox where it is or toss it?)

She's not a class representative though, she's a student council president. Those are completely different things.

Although I suppose she might also be a class representative, given that she's sort of the only person in her class. I'm pretty sure she just sits in an empty classroom by herself all day.