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  • Haruka, the main character of the manga Agape. It's explicitly said that her "talent" is unconditional love for everyone, even criminals, demonstrated when she immediately forgives and even comforts a man who had just killed her father. For this reason, she is sought out by a special negotiations team.
  • Belldandy of Ah! My Goddess generally falls into this trope; even her (astoundingly rare) bouts of anger are more likely to result in her forcibly healing the soul of whoever she's fighting, rather than harming them. When she's drunk (on cola), she goes around causing small miracles to help animals, children, the elderly, stray animals, demons, inanimate objects, and anything else she lays eyes on.
  • Aoi from Ai Yori Aoshi. She loves everyone, and everyone loves her.
  • Tokidoki Rikugou of Amatsuki is either this or is taking the positive shell of Stepford Smiler to extremes. He has gotten in trouble trying to help other people several times, with devastating consequences for him and his friends, but he still keeps it up.
  • Seiichirou Kitano from Angel Densetsu. He's one of the kindest, most considerate, most selfless characters around, described from the start as having the heart of an angel. However, he also has the face and scream of a demon from the deepest pits of Hell, and he knows all too well that everyone's afraid of him, despite the fact that he wouldn't hurt a fly.
  • Misaki of Angelic Layer; not only her core circle of friends but everyone she's ever fought comes to every one of her matches, cheers for her to win (even the ones that hated her at first) and tries desperately to find out what her opponent's secret is, even though she can't accept any help during the match.
  • Anpanman himself from Anpanman. He shows so much love and kindness that he's even kind to Baikinman, his arch-enemy (at least, when Baikinman isn't doing anything bad. They become enemies again when he harms someone).
  • Nadja from Ashita no Nadja holds compassion and forgiveness for everyone, even those who do her harm.
  • Astro Boy from Astro Boy. Firmly believes that humans and A.I robots can coexist peacefully as equals. Whenever possible, he tries to talk his enemies down instead of blasting them to ashes. Ultimately forgives the Big Bad for all his evil and this causes his final defeat.
  • Attack on Titan:
    • Krista Lenz is a Deconstruction of this. She's certainly not a bad person, but her kindness stems completely from her desire to be seen as this kind of person by others. Ymir calls her out on this, saying that while she does have good intentions, her constant need to prove her morality to people will get her or someone else killed uselessly. Once forced to confront the truth about this and begin dealing with the demons from her past, she goes through a period of claiming to hate the world. But ultimately, she reconstructs things once she comes through her Character Development. Once crowned Queen, she realizes her greatest wish is to help all the people abandoned and made to feel as though they don't matter. She seizes the land of corrupt nobles, imprisoning, or heavily taxing them as punishment for their past crimes. The funds and the seized land are used to create an orphanage, and she frees all the people that had lived trapped in the Underground City. While ultimately still a loving and kind person, she's no longer reckless or desperate for approval.
    • Falco Grice is a more straight-forward example, never losing his compassion for others even while keenly aware of how cruel the world can be. He's introduced tending to an injured enemy and consistently goes out of his way to help complete strangers. Eren exploits this kindness, convincing the boy to sneak letters out of the ghetto for him. Even after his kindness towards a stranger backfires in his face, Falco continues to give others the benefit of the doubt and works to resolve conflict peacefully as best he can.
  • Baccano!:
    • Isaac and Miria are the clueless type who unwittingly spread joy and inspire people (i.e. Eve, Ennis, Jacuzzi, and Czeslaw).
    • Jacuzzi is the type that proactively (and almost suicidally) goes out of his way to help even complete strangers...unless you hurt his True Companions. In that case, you're fucked.
  • Battle Spirits Franchise:
    • Dan Bashin, the protagonist of Battle Spirits Shonen Gekiha Dan. He's willing to give everyone a chance, typically trying to reach an understanding with his opponents. He'll jump to save anyone, even if he hardly knows them or they're an enemy. Naturally, all his friends and most of the cast adore him.
    • Rei, the protagonist of Battle Spirits Saikyo Ginga Ultimate Zero. To him, anyone is a "serious friend", even those who have really done nothing to deserve the title or have been actively antagonistic towards him. As more proof that he's one of these, he's found worthy by the titular "Ultimate" cards left-and-right.
  • Valt Aoi from Beyblade Burst is definitely this. He's friendly and kind to everyone he meets, even those that are outright rude to him or try to sabotage him. It's very rare for Valt to be genuinely pissed at someone. Only a few people have managed to make Valt angry and upset at them on a personal level, and even then he's very quick to forgive them.
  • Enju Aihara from Black Bullet is a 10-year-old cursed child who virtually holds no grudge against anyone and loves everyone unconditionally. In fact, after her status as a cursed child was found out in school, she stated that she'll continue fighting just to protect her former classmates.
  • Rock from Black Lagoon is the company's Token Good Teammate. He tries to save people and be a Nice Guy in a Crapsack World. Ironically, the only time he succeeded in the first he had to deliberately fail the second.
  • Bleach:
    • When Orihime's captured by the Arrancar, she refuses to hurt them, shows them love, and heals those who torture and abuse her. In the Nestle to Night novel, it's confirmed that the reason Harribel and her fraccions are still alive is that Orihime healed them. When she steps between Shishigawara and Tsukishima, Tsukishima notes her reputation and admits he's not surprised to see her trying to protect a man who had just threatened to kill her. However, he turns out to be wrong; she was trying to maintain Tsukishima's attention so she could confirm whether or not he was the person who had almost killed Uryuu.
    • Ichigo once made a vow to himself to never let anyone suffer a sad face the way he did when his mother died. As a result, he'll protect anyone who needs protecting, no matter how well he knows them or even if they're supposed to be on the enemy's side. The need to protect is the main driving force for his resolve. In the Lost Agent arc, the villain's plan was to isolate Ichigo from being able to protect everyone in such a way as to cause his resolve to collapse utterly. The end result was a Darkest Hour that required Soul Society to step in and save not just his life but his entire sense of self.
  • Blue Ramun: Protagonist Jessie Jackson is sweet, kind, and driven to care for those around her. This is partially due to her upbringing as a member of the Blue People (who use the curative power of their own blood in their work as doctors, and are trained since childhood to put aside their own pain in order to heal others), and partially her own personality. Jessie can't bring herself to hurt others, even in self defense, and she has thrown herself in front of a blade rather than see a stranger get hurt. She even willingly puts herself into the Garicalege's clutches so that she can treat Rowan — a man she knows to run an organization that hunts Blue Doctors and kills half-Blue children to harvest their blood — because she can't ignore the fact that he's in constant pain.
  • Mighty from Bomberman Jetters is perhaps the nicest person to ever grace any form of media ever. According to his grandmother, she could never figure out his likes and dislikes because of how selfless he was. Despite being regarded as a remarkably powerful and calculating being, he has almost never shown anger to anyone, responds to a death threat from his enemy with a serious polite greeting, and despite his power, tries his hardest to never resort to violence except as a last resort. To top it all off, after seeing his younger brother playing one day, he was convinced that he wasn't kind enough.
  • Buso Renkin: Kazuki Muto often declares his intention to protect everyone, and will defend people who were trying to kill him a few moments before, if he thinks they're redeemable and even if they have betrayed him in the past or if it means going against the wishes of his Action Girlfriend.
  • The titular character of Cardcaptor Sakura. She has a kind and cheery demeanor, she simply loves everyone — and it's stated several times that they love her back. She is a firm believer in The Power of Friendship and is also a Reluctant Warrior when she is forced to battle rather than befriend. She also has quite a streak for granting second chances, defrosting several ice kings, and wanting the best for her loved ones even if at her own expense — as illustrated by her actions toward Yue, Eriol, and Yukito in particular.
  • Kamijou Touma from A Certain Magical Index, a guy who just wants to protect everybody, even the people who've been trying to kill him. That doesn't mean he won't give his enemies a good socking to get them to knock it off, however. Also, Orsola Aquinas, who forgives everybody, including the very nuns who beat her black and blue and intended to kill her for "heresy".
  • Chrono Crusade: Mary Magdalene fits all of the requirements to a T. Gentle and constantly smiling, Mary shows kindness even to the demons who kidnapped her, becoming like family to them. She willingly helps them when a prophetic vision revealed to her that she would be killed by one of them. In the anime, they decided to make it obvious who she is by giving her stigmata, as well.
  • Several characters on Code Geass — and they stick out all the more since most of the show is a nasty battle of either Grey-and-Gray Morality or Black-and-Gray Morality, depending on your point of view.
    • Lelouch's half-sister, Princess Euphemia vi Britannia: always chipper; loves everyone; doesn't get angry even when people threaten her with death, which happens more often than you might think. To the annoyance of her family, she takes bolder and bolder steps to fight anti-Eleven (that is, anti-Japanese) prejudice, and eventually she sacrifices her place in the royal line of succession to give herself the leverage to make an attempt at lasting peace between Britannia and Japan / Area Eleven. She also places herself in danger for the sake of others on no less than three key occasions. Unfortunately, she's accidentally Geassed to commit genocide against the very people she sought to emancipate, and Lelouch had to gun her down to stop the massacre. Finally, she dies in Suzaku's arms, falsely believing that her original intention was successful.
    • Shirley Fennette. Unlike Euphemia, Shirley generally avoids discussions of politics and current events, but like her, she actively and bravely opposes prejudice and cruelty whenever and wherever she sees it; she feels tenderness toward everyone; she can't bear to see anyone get hurt; and she's nearly always chipper — except when jealous (back to that in a moment) or when things are going really, seriously wrong. Admittedly, she gets upset whenever she suspects her beloved "Lulu" of liking another girl more than her — which is often — but even then, she's never mean, just, at worst, sullen and gloomy. Shirley is a bit how Euphie might have turned out had Euphie not been stuck as a princess of the world's greatest superpower. Then she mention Nunnaly in front of Rolo, without knowing that he actually wants to be Lelouch's sole sibling, and eventually got shot to death. She dies in Lelouch's arms, at least finally able to tell Lelouch about her feelings towards him.
    • Princess Nunnally, Lelouch's younger sister and reason for living — and, though she has no idea, for killing. Like her older half-sister Princess Euphemia, she's always chipper, always ready to think the best of everyone. Unlike Lelouch, she has no interest in revenge against her family (or anyone else) for the many ways they have wronged her; she just hopes the world will become a nicer place, where Britannians and Japanese can live side by side in peace, and she can return to the family that has betrayed her. Ultimately unlike Euphemia and Shirley, she manage to survive in the end though after some serious Break the Cutie moments and thought to be dead by Lelouch. She then becomes Britannia's 100th Empress and remakes it into a good nation.
    • Lelouch himself has shades of this. It's as if he's maturing into this, or would be were it not for the influence of his father's worldview which is still in his life through C.C., his father's one-time ally who still shares a lot of his beliefs — things like telling Lelouch that if he loves someone he should push them away and not get attached, and that he should be more ruthless if he wants to succeed at anything.
  • Yumoto from Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! is an all-loving, all-forgiving super naif who literally heals the emotionally wounded with a shower of love.
  • Daimos: Princess Erika. She believes that hate is a terrible thing, and that there should be peace in place of conflict. While her brother launched an Alien Invasion of Earth, Erika seeks to stop him from killing innocent people and help the main character from afar.
  • The dark-haired woman from Death Parade is the only genuinely empathetic character in the entire cast, and her compassion for the deceased human guests that are being judged by the arbiters is what ultimately drives the progress in the show. It's her realization that everyone has someone who cares about them that sparks any change in Decim after all.
  • D.Gray-Man's protagonist, Allen Walker. He's intensely dedicated to destroying Akuma, and by gum, he'll save everyone doing it. His Empathic Weapon is powered by his will to fight for both the well-being of the living and for the salvation of the Akuma's souls, who systematically try to kill him and all of his friends. Without the will to save both of them, the weapon won't work. In fact, it showed him getting an epiphany and coming to the realization that he loves both humans and Akumas alike.
  • The Digimon, more often than not has one of these. Masaru picks up where his father Suguru left off as far as reaching out to Digimon and trying to create the world where Digimon and humans can live together. Daisuke, Takato, and Takuya also have their moments.
    • Taichi's younger sister Hikari plays the role straight in Adventure, but plays it for drama. it in 02. Her Crest of Light helps her channel spirits, reach for others and all. However, in 02 Hikari shows huge emotional damage as she's much less able to handle the stress, to the point of having two serious Heroic BSODs that Takeru and Miyako have to pull her out from.
    • Taiki from Digimon Fusion, he never holds a grudge with anyone and always prioritizes in helping everyone and will jump at the moment when someone's life is in danger.
  • Konatsu of Don't Become an Otaku, Shinozaki-san! is willing to try and be friends with just about anybody. She even considers it her life's goal to befriend a space alien, so doing something as potentially intimidating as befriending a foreigner is easy for her.
  • Dragon Ball:
    • Son Goku wasn't this in the first series, but he matures into this by the time of Dragon Ball Z. Forgives enemies? Most story arcs involve this. Turns enemies into friends? This is how he makes friends. Purehearted? He has a flying cloud to prove it.
    • His son Gohan is actually even more all-loving than his father; he hates hurting people and will only fight when he has no choice. He also goes out of his way to look for people to save, hence why he became Great Saiyaman, while Goku only help those who happens to be around him at that moment.
    • Goku's other son Goten is the same way; a trait he shares with the rest of his family.
    • Android 16, despite being designed by Dr. Gero for the sole purpose of killing Goku, also turns out to be this. He's completely uninterested in fighting and refuses to harm anyone else, preferring to peacefully enjoy naturenote ...and only seeks to kill Goku because that's hardwired into his programming. And the "hero" part emerges when the first actual threat to Earth since 16's activation emerges, Gero's later "bio-android" creation Cell. 16 finds a loophole to his programming that allows him to fight Cell and protect the world whose life he's come to love: the bio-android is a genetically engineered chimera of all the strongest fighters to set foot on Earth, including Goku. Thus, Cell is partially Goku and 16's programming accepts him as a valid target.
  • Fist of the North Star:
    • Kenshiro and Toki. Ken's compassionate heart, especially later on, was so grand and encompassing it became a Genre Turning Point in Shonen fighting genre.
    • Their counterparts from the Nanto Roku Seiken; Rei, the Star of Justice, who must live and die for others, and his best friend Shu, the Star of Benevolence, who sacrifices himself for the sake of one hundred innocents.
  • Tohru Honda from Fruits Basket is kind to everyone, forgives even the most evil, and encourages everyone she befriends to overcome their issues with her love. However, Tohru actually turns out to be a Deconstruction: even though she is genuinely all-loving, she also tries to help others because her low self-esteem and grief over her deceased mother make her feel like she doesn't deserve to have others be kind to her, causing her to sideline her own problems and hide them behind her relentlessly upbeat attitude. Rin, in a moment of insight, notes that under her bright smile, Tohru is "quietly falling apart", and part of her Character Development is allowing herself to be helped and feeling worthy of being helped.
  • Fullmetal Alchemist:
    • Alphonse Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist generally is considered the level-headed brother who always looks on the bright side of life. He has also converted two chimera soldiers to his cause just by showing them that they are still human.
    • His brother Edward qualifies as well despite being The Napoleon, especially in Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), seeing how he tried to stop a pair of now-disembodied Serial Killer brother duo from commiting suicide and is clearly anguished at having to kill Greed.
  • Future Robot Daltanious: The children of Adalus Base are loving, innocent youths at the core, especially Kento and Sanae, who don't care how much they're scrapped and scarred - they'll continue to believe there is good in everyone. Kento refuses to abandon people to their deaths, even if they're truly villainous, and heeds Gascon's words of balance and peace, while Sanae was willing to let herself get beaten up by Danji as long as it meant his anger wouldn't harm other people.
  • The titular character from Galaxy Fraulein Yuna is a prime example of this. A 9-year-old out-of-control android girl, Ayako, is destroying a hospital in a temper tantrum, and all the characters (almost all former enemies) are trying to contain the destruction and destroy the android. Not Yuna; she admonishes "You're going in to fight an enemy, I'm going in to make a friend!" Which she does. Her title is the "Savior of Light".
  • Albert from Gankutsuou becomes something of this at the end. The Count destroys his family and his life, murders his best friend who loved him, and tries to kill him in front of his father. However, instead of wanting revenge, he readily forgives The Count and uses The Power of Love and Forgiveness (along with a kiss to save the day.
  • Ginji Amano from Get Backers is even referred to by this moniker several times in the anime and manga, and is very much loved and respected by his allies as a result of his Love Freak tendencies. When his Superpowered Evil Side kicks in (partly because he's the kind to want to take on others' pain and suffering), you'd never believe it...
  • Weed from Ginga Densetsu Weed is a kind puppy who is willing to forgive his enemies even if his comrades don't do so. Thus, this causes some dogs like Kyoushiro to call him out for this.
  • Kintaro from Golden Boy. He is a pervert, but he has morals, and is very sensitive and kindhearted
  • Tendou Rushuna from Grenadier, who is a more Martial than Vash, but has likewise never killed anyone, even in the face of them apparently killing a new friend of hers. Even her name is a play on this: Rushuna is a play on a Rushana Buddha, a statue exemplifying the essence of the Buddha, while her surname, Tendou, translates to "Heavenly Path."
  • Hinata Shouyou in Haikyuu!!. He is an all-around loving guy who is always amazed by other players' skills, including his opponents. He can be enthusiastic about even the littlest things. In any training camp or social situation he is a positive force of nature and easily makes friends with people like Kenma (who is highly introverted), Aone (who is a quiet big guy), and even Kageyama (who becomes Hinata's best friend while still reserving his status as his rival).
  • Honoo No Alpen Rose: Lundi Courtot's first action in the series is finding an injured girl and giving her a proper home. He also loves birds and risks his life getting beaten by [[Nazi Nobleman Count]] Georges de Gourmant for defending them from his hunting. He has a huge case of Chronic Hero Syndrome and risks his life for Jeudi on many occassions and his sacrificial nature even inspires The Dreaded hitman Tarantula into changing sides. This is also lampshaded in the manga:
    Jeudi: "Lundi is kind even to a rabbit!"
  • Idol Densetsu Eriko: Eriko loves music as much as she loves life itself, and she also loves dogs, children and her fellow idols. She shows compassion to Rei even after she's been horrible to her and is always ready to drop whatever she's doing to make her fans happy.
  • Gundam tends towards these depending on what side of the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism the series is:
    • Amuro Ray in Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack sacrifices himself to save people from an asteroid and show them "the light" helping them to gain hope. Lampshaded in the video game Gundam Dynasty Warriors 2 where Amuro claims he is "no Messiah" before this storyline. His rival, Char Aznable, is a Dark Messiah in the film.
    • Mobile Suit Gundam Wing:
      • Relena Peacecraft. Although by Endless Waltz she has developed a more critical view of the doctrine of total pacifism, she certainly tried to make it work and went on to become an ambassador of peace. More importantly, she plays a large role in bringing Heero around from the emotionless "kill whoever it takes to accomplish the mission" mentality brought on by his implied Training from Hell into someone capable of sympathy.
      • Quatre also counts a lot toward this, being the Apologetic Attacker and kind heart of the 5 Gundam pilots. Unlike others, however, he does have his limits: when his father dies, his favorite sister is injured and he's betrayed by his colony, he goes violently insane under the effects of the ZERO System and doesn't recover until a friend makes a borderline Heroic Sacrifice. Then he reaffirms his All-Loving Hero-ness by making what he can to atone and slowly but surely maturing into The Leader of the Gundam pilots and keeping the group together and snapping the aforementioned friend out of his Easy Amnesia.
    • Tiffa Adill in Gundam X, once she comes out of her shell and gains confidence. She's a Newtype but has no intention of ever using her abilities in combat and while she can calmly call people out on their bull, she still believes in humanity as a whole.
    • Loran Cehack of ∀ Gundam's position throughout the series is, essentially, that both sides of the war would get along just fine if they sat down and listened to each other for five minutes. He's unfailingly kind and generous, tries to help everyone, and kills a grand total of one person in fifty episodes — the only reason he fights at all is to protect people. He'd rather use his Gundam to transport livestock or do laundry.
    • Mobile Suit Gundam SEED:
      • Kira Yamato refuses to kill others or let others kill. Because of his Bigger Stick, he singlehandedly brings battles that would otherwise have casualties, to a grinding halt.
      • His girlfriend, Lacus Clyne, combines this trope with Guile Hero for interesting results; a shining beacon of love and forgiveness, who can also use her father's political clout and her own social clout to influence events.
    • Chairman Durandal thinks he's this trope but in truth, he's more of a Dark Messiah because his Evil Plan involves a good deal of death and The Evils of Free Will.
    • Setsuna F. Seiei in Mobile Suit Gundam 00 after his Character Development in S2. He gets really into using the quantum brainwaves to connect with his enemies and making them connect with each other so that they resolve their differences and quit fighting.
    • Kio Asuno, the final protagonist of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE takes this attitude after being held prisoner in Vagan and seeing that they're not the inhuman monsters his grandfather has taught him they are (bananas though their Glorious Leader is) and uses his Mid-Season Upgrade to fight nonlethally, although he tends to fail once his enemy's skill level rises above that of Mook.
  • Hello! Sandybell: Sandybell is loving and friendly to humans and animals alike. She risks her life by jumping in front of a car to rescue a sheep that wandered on to the road and her kindness drives even the most terrible people (like Kitty Shearer and Honor Longwood) to like her. This trope is most exemplified in the first episode where she rescues a shot bird (as she believes Hunting Is Evil) and entering the Countess' castle (to retrieve the kid's lost ball) even though it gets her in trouble. And no matter what, she never expects anything in return.
  • Tomoki from Heaven's Lost Property is either a parody of this or a more humane one. While a pervert and having many, many flaws both in character and belief; he is the most loving, caring, compassionate being in the entire Verse and ready to put his life on the line for his friends and those in need without a second thought, to the point that nine out of ten CMOA and CMOH are done by him in the series.
  • Gon Freeccs from Hunter × Hunter but downplayed. He is extremely nice and forgiving and has a tendency to make people like and admire him. But he is more self-serving than your typical shonen hero and he is also The Fool to an extent, mostly because of sheer brute strength and dumb luck. Also features some Blue-and-Orange Morality. Enhanced trait of Son Goku above, of whom he is a Homage to.
  • Captain Kizuna Hida from Hybrid × Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia becomes one in the later volumes of the light novel after getting a chance to see the conflict from the other side and discovering his foes aren't as bad as he thought they were, while still being on the side of good.
  • Etienne from Innocents Shounen Juujigun is the sweetest, most loving boy you will ever meet. In just the first couple chapters, he hugs and comforts a leper, accepts a shunned pair of twins, and saves a hated bandit boy from being executed, all for no reason other than being kind.
  • Inuyasha:
    • Before her initial murder, Kikyo served the village by repelling demons and illness and she was kind to everyone, including rude half-demons that tried to steal the Sacred Jewel; both Inuyasha and Naraku. Even after being revived from the dead, she is frequently seen helping weak and helpless people, although her personality undergoes significant change.
    • Kagome. As the reincarnation of Kikyou, she has the Jewel of Shikon sealed inside her, and once she comes into Inuyasha's era she tries to help all the people she can while searching for the Shikon shards. A great example is her interaction with the very angry Cute Ghost Girl Mayu, who died in a fire and is full of anger and pain at her grieving mother; Kagome singlehandedly turns Mayu back to the side of good and saves her from Hell. She even saves Kikyou's soul from her dark fate.
  • Jewelpet:
    • Akari Sakura from Jewelpet Twinkle☆. Highly compassionate towards others and never hate or bad-mouths anyone who is mean to her (especially Juliangeli/French sisters and Alma). It's so much that her kindheartedness is the biggest reason why she was able to change from bumbling newcomer at first into one of the greatest Rare-Rare (humans from human world) Magic-user in Jewelland history, not to mention earning respect from Marianne, her staunch rival and successfully saving Alma in the end.
    • Momona from Lady Jewelpet. Resident Eldritch Abomination(s) want to destroy Jewelland and turns it into a world filled with negative emotion, and she wishes to understand and save it instead, knowing that The Beasts were actually Spirits that suffers as it absorb humanity's negative emotions. Just like Akari, her All-loving personality also overlaps with Messianic Archetype, even Lilian said that she was able to "turn miracle into her ally".
  • Jonathan Joestar from Part 1 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure likes everyone. Even Dio Brando, the man who ruined his life, home, and happiness. His last act was to embrace Dio — who had just mortally wounded him — and acknowledge him as his brother.
  • Jiyu Nanohana from Jubei-chan. She's the reincarnation of one-eyed Yagyu Jubei, and she turns into a powerful swordswoman when she put on a magic eye patch she becomes a badass, busty version of her predecessor. Jiyu, who is nicknamed Jubei-Chan by her father who ghostwrites samurai novels, doesn't want to hurt anyone and hates turning into Jubei. She is pressured into it when she discovers that the Ryujoji clansmen who keep trying to kill/challenge her as Jubei end up living happier lives after she defeats them because her Healing Shiv frees them from the magically-enhanced hatred that dominated their (after)lives. Jiyu fits this archetype well; not only does she go to great lengths to avoid hurting the people who are trying to fight her, but everyone loves her — even opponents she has defeated will go to great lengths to protect her.
  • Misaki of Junjou Romantica spends his entire life caring and looking out for other people and will do whatever he can to help someone in trouble. This backfires more than once for him. The one character in the entire series who actively dislikes (and bullies) him, he thinks is his own fault. By the time he's finished his university course he discovers that he's spent so much time looking after everyone else that he has absolutely no idea what he wants to do with his life. ... Until someone suggests that he gets a job where he spends day after day looking after highly volatile authors and managing their fragile psychological health while trying to extract from them some sort of publishable artifact that could somehow be construed as a piece of prose — i.e. become an Editor.
  • Kagerou Project: Ayano Tateyama, who was initially introduced as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl for the series' protagonist, Shintaro Kisaragi, has touched practically the whole main cast with her kindness, first as a Cool Big Sis for Kido, Kano, and Seto when everyone else regarded them as monsters, then as a stabilising force for Shintaro's crippling depression and (otherwise) apathetic outlook. When it became clear that the lives of her surrogate younger siblings and her friends Haruka and Takane were in danger, she allowed herself to be swallowed by the Daze and possessed by a snake to screw with her possessed father's plans. It's no surprise her Eye Ability turned out to be the Favouring Eyes — the power to project the emotions and memories in her heart into others.
  • Kaleido Star:
    • Sora Naegino, despite being bullied by some of her companions and having to face Training from Hell to compensate for her lack of training compared to others, actually manages to win the hearts and respect of even her most bitter rivals.
    • Sophie also has some elements of this, being a kind yet determined girl who alongside her brother Leon works hard to fulfill her dreams. Too bad she's also the Sacrificial Lamb.
  • Katri, Girl of the Meadows: Katri is friendly to everyone (even people who are horrible to her), dotes on her pat dachshund, and refuses to abandon Akki as a friend even as he's arrested for his political activities. Her kindness actually causes some of them to become better people and feel ashamed for how they treated her.
  • Nanami Momozono from Kamisama Kiss. She starts out with Chronic Hero Syndrome and then gains actual divine powers early on in the story.
  • Kabane Kusaka, the protagonist of Kemono Jihen is said to be incapable of hating anyone and always treats everyone with respect regardless of how they treat him. However, while he's a sweet kid at heart, this trope is less due to his niceness and more due to the fact that his aunt's treatment of him crushed his feelings of self-worth, meaning that he tends to see everyone as being more important than him and thus worthy of his respect.
  • Sawako of Kimi ni Todoke, who is so kind, compassionate and forgiving that she even manages to turn her romantic rival into one of her close friends.
  • Yui Hirasawa from K-On! never shows hate or dislike towards anyone in the series. She loves her fellow band members, adores her sister Ui, gets along well with the grandma that she and Ui live close to, the list goes on.
  • Kyo Kara Maoh!:
    • Shibuya Yuuri. He doesn't even kill the Big Bad. He befriends dragons, breaks down race walls, has managed to overturn every foreign policy his country ever had in less than a year in favor of world peace, and trusts and loves everyone even after he's been betrayed by them twice, then used as a Person of Mass Destruction to wipe out an entire naval fleet. It gives his bodyguards migraines and is driving his fiance toward an aneurysm.
    • Susannah Julia Von Wincott, Yuuri's previous incarnation is the absolute embodiment of this trope. Yuuri is said to have inherited many of her former traits.
    • In fact, apparently God engineered him through several reincarnations for this. Soushuu states that Yuuri himself was required to put the final seal of worthless mediocrity on his perfect vessel, but Shinou wanted him to outright surpass him so as to defeat Shoushuu.
  • Nao from Liar Game, who is incredibly selfless and honest and willing to use the money that she has won to pay off the debts of people who had previously schemed, lied and tricked her. Her reason for continuing in the game is to essentially save everyone in the game.
  • Miyuki Takara from Lucky Star. Always remains the voice of reason among the four mains. Case in point: When she visits Kagami when she's sick during the first episode, Kagami explains to her some stuff that Konata said moments earlier. The way Miyuki interprets it leads Kagami to wonder if she's a saint.
  • Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow: Lucy May is a friend to dingos, koalas, sheep, chickens and various animals. Even though she has a selfish personality, she's always ready to put the wellbeing of others above her own.
  • Chisato of Lycoris Recoil is such an all-loving heroine that she uses rubber bullets to take down terrorists. And her job is an assassin. Naturally her commanders would rather she actually kill them, but she's too good to fire despite using rubber bullets on terrorists.
  • Lady!!:
    • Lynn Russell is an optimist and is willing to befriend anybody, full stop. When she thinks about leaving England, she thinks of all the people she's met and all the happy memories she's made and balks at losing them. She still reached out to Sarah even though Sarah resented her, cared for Andrews the horse even after he was frosty to her at first and was even happy to see Mary when she joined her school, when for the past eight years Mary and her family did nothing but treat her like crap. Even Victor Reynolds, a cold-hearted businessman, is touched by Lynn's gentleness and realizes that she is an example he wants his terrible granddaughter Mary to follow.
    • Arthur Brighton believes in Gray And White Morality and is convinced that there's good in everyone. He thought that if he nudged Sarah, she'd accept Lynn (he was right, but he went about it the wrong way) and he even forgave Mary after she demeaned his lover Sarah's illness by comforting her and telling her that she should still strive to be a Proper Lady in spite of his rejection.
  • Basara Nekki of Macross 7. Only uses violence as an absolute last resort. Prefers to try to resolve conflicts with his songs. Absolutely flips out when said song causes one of the Protodeviln to get killed. Even comes close to killing himself to save another Protodeviln.
  • Nanoha Takamachi from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha; she helped Yuuno with his jewel seed problem immediately and without needing persuasion. She fought with Fate because of the girl's 'sad eyes' and when Vita attacked she said 'I can't help if you don't talk to me'. She meets most of her friends on the battlefield. It's worth mentioning that the Nanoha fanbase uses the term "befriend" as a synonym for "beat the hell out of". She does, however, possess an astounding success rate for turning villains into lifelong allies.
  • Yumi Fukuzawa from Maria Watches Over Us. Everyone who isn't charmed by Yumi within an episode is either a Jerkass one-shot character or a part of a Pseudo-Romantic Friendship with a facade of a jerk.
  • Mashin Hero Wataru Series: Wataru's a boy who genuinely loves all the people who he befriends. Which makes every moment of friendship betrayal towards him very tough to watch.
  • Mayoi Neko Overrun!'s Otome Tsuzuki. She brings in stray orphans, travels around the world, and is generally a force of derring-do and near impossible feats.
  • Medaka of Medaka Box loves everyone, individually and as a group. She loves the delinquents who took over the karate club, the Manipulative Bastard who tried to get them ousted, and every single villain she's ever fought. This, more than her Story-Breaker Power, is repeatedly stated to be her true strength; her power is only as good as her personality makes it. Deconstructed when she deals with a villain who ripped his girlfriend's face off just to see if he loved her for more than her beauty; she tearfully asks her friends if she has to love someone like that as well. Reconstructed when she redeems him anyway.
    Zenkichi: Everyone has friends who will come to cheer them on. But Medaka is the only one with enemies who will do the same.
  • Mon Colle Knights:
    • The eponymous Knights Mondo Ohya and Rokuna Hiiragi. Their Badass Creed states "We will protect the monsters from all evil! And keep the peace in Monworld!" Bonus points to the latter since she is an empath and feels others' emotions.
    • Shiru would also count, for being able to forgive Zaha and hope for his redemption when there was reason enough to believe that he had already crossed the Moral Event Horizon.
  • Dr. Kenzo Tenma from Monster. This is both a large advantage and similarly a large disadvantage to him because of the complex location on the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism that Monster inhabits.
    • This is epitomized by his decision in the ending: rather than returning to private practice, Tenma signs up with the MSF, proving that he's willing to take bullets to help complete strangers. All this after a sociopathic Manipulative Bastard devotes himself to putting him through hell and showing him that this is a Crapsack World.
  • In Moriking, the eponymous character loves every creature on Earth, seeing them as subjects of his kingdom as the King of the Forest. Because of this, he can't help but rush to someone's aid when he sees them struggling, constantly displaying his superhuman prowess to Shoko's chagrin. That said, he has strong feeling of rivalry with fellow king Oki Samura and there is always a sense of tension when the two are around each other.
  • My Hero Academia:
    • Izuku Midoriya aka Deku is friendly and welcoming, always expecting the best out of people. However, as time goes by, Izuku is becoming more and more reasonable about this and gradually develops a wary side. This eventually leads to him questioning the reason why villains turn to villainy and wondering how to address these issues before they turn evil, and his desire to save Shigaraki.
    • Like her best friend and love interest Izuku, Ochaco wants to put smiles on people's faces and make them feel safe, feeding into her development as a hero growing beyond her initial monetary motivations. It's this empathy that convinces her to try to save Toga, despite her terrible crimes, and is softly encouraged by Izuku to follow her instincts since he plans to do the same with Shigaraki. Although he also reminds her there might be no way to avoid a battle despite their best efforts, which Ochaco agrees with.
  • Mai Tokiha from My-HiME is an interesting case. She spends much of the series struggling to come to terms with her feelings and is capable of expressing a wide range of negative emotions, ranging from mere disgust to violent rage. In spite of this, she seems to be the type who wants to see the best in people, and never seems to be able to bring herself to feel actual hatred towards anybody, even those who have tried to hurt her. Furthermore, despite her claims that she doesn't have "the time or energy to deal with other people's problems," when push comes to shove she's just not the type of person who can abandon others when she has a chance to help them. In the end, it's her love that allows her to save her possessed best friend/veritable little sister Mikoto, as she chooses to meet Mikoto's berserk rage with open arms and hope that her feelings can reach the other girl.
  • Arguably Jean from Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water. Aside from being Adorkable and brave, he is caring, intelligent, and nice to everyone. He's very patient and forgiving as well, as evidenced when he stays loyal to Nadia despite the latter sometimes losing her temper at him. Even Gargoyle finds something to appreciate about him.
  • Nana "Hachi" Komatsu from Nana can turn even the toughest punk rocker into silly putty just by smiling cheerfully.
  • Arika Yumemiya from My-Otome. She initially takes on her newfound powers with relish, but after she learns about what an Otome's duties truly are, she tries to keep up her vow to change the system in order to save the lives of her friends.
  • Naruto:
    • Naruto himself, to the point where it makes you wonder why he had such an abnormally hard time making friends prior to the start of the series. Hinata, Shikamaru, Temari, Neji, and Gaara all note that he has the power to influence people. It's worth noting that Naruto tends to get off to a bad start with most of the people he befriends, and they're often completely dismissive of him for reasons typically unrelated to him having the fox inside him. Unlike many of the other examples, he's not always civil in response, but his determination and honesty cause many of these people to see him, and often themselves, in a new light.
    • Hinata Hyūga is another example. She is not fond of competition and fighting (though she will if pushed), and is shown to be incredibly empathetic thanks to her upbringing. Neji's troubled soul was all but clear to her, and she feels sadness in the fact that she cannot help him. In fact, she was one of the first people to identify with Naruto's painful childhood and desire to be acknowledged. She has admired him for it since childhood, which eventually paved the path to love. This is one of the many reasons that makes her and Naruto Birds of a Feather, despite their different personalities.
    • Hashirama Senju, the First Hokage, counts as well. Even as a child, his fondest wish was to bring an end to the constant fighting and dying that plagued the world by forming villages where kids could learn and grow instead of being slaughtered on the battlefield. When he was head of the Senju Clan, he was constantly trying to convince the Uchiha Clan to stop the fighting and join him, eventually succeeding. When he and the other previous Hokage are brought back with Edo Tensei for Sasuke to question, Hashirama immediately realizes that Sasuke needs help, and proceeds to sit the boy down and talk to him. He ends up proving his status by succeeding where Naruto failed: with mere words and wisdom, he convinces Sasuke to pull a Heel–Face Turn. Dude earned his Hokage credentials, that's for sure.
  • Nausicaa from the Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind manga/anime. An example: in a scene near the beginning of the manga she meets a cute squirrel-creature. It bites her hand, but she just smiles at it as it gets the biting out of its system, then feeds it. The next thing you know it's her cute animal companion.
  • Negima! Magister Negi Magi
    • Negi Springfield starts looking like one of these (exhausts himself helping his students, befriend a vampire out for his blood) but as the manga progresses, he starts becoming more painfully aware of his own weaknesses and is willing to use questionable means to combat them. However, his motivation is as pure as ever and so is his Honor Before Reason.
    • His father Nagi is a straighter example; he more-or-less saved the world singlehandedly, ending a world war in the process, and he's one of the most popular people in the magic world. So of course, he had to go MIA right around the time Negi was born.
    • The manga has another example: Princess Arika, Negi's Missing Mom. She was accused of being the opposite, as well as tried and apparently executed, but the common people didn't buy it because she was genuinely kind to them.
  • Shu from Now and Then, Here and There. In a series so heavily on the cynical side of the sliding scale, this is far less effective than it would be in other places.
  • Ayase of Okane ga Nai. He forgives everyone, he cares for everything and everyone, and he will do anything he can to make someone happy.
  • Yuuto Amakawa from Omamori Himari is an example. While demon hunters and ayakashi are generally depicted as being very violent towards each other, Yuuto refuses to have anything to do with demon slaying, and strongly believes that demon hunters and ayakashi can live with each other in peace-and was willing to step into a fight armed with only his belief in Shizuku's ability to let go of her past and return to a peaceful life.
  • Luffy from One Piece will always be this as long as you don't anger him. Normally by hurting your friends (or even worse, hurting his) or the fact that he will fly into a Roaring Rampage of Revenge if you so much as touch his precious straw hat without his permission. Downplayed due to the fact he's an idiot and a criminal, therefore he is by nature selfish and irrational instead of tolerant and rational, he's just not as bad as the evil pirates he interacts with in his series.
  • Ouran High School Host Club's Suou Tamaki is an exceptionally compassionate, friendly, and forgiving person with an often annoyingly optimistic outlook on life. All the Host Club members have him to thank for some of the positive changes in their lives. He's extremely genuine and can find the beauty in even the most ordinary thing or person — his compliments toward the girls he hosts or runs into are all honest. Despite his grandmother's verbal abuse toward him he remains motivated to earn her acceptance of him.
  • Behoimi from Pani Poni Dash!. Main character Becky even asks her to ask herself if she really believes herself to be a Magical Girl or just wants to help others.
  • Vince, the hero of Pikaia. He's incredibly caring and idealistic. As opposed to Hanna, who's distrustful towards Wendy after her Heel–Face Turn, Vince is simply thrilled to have her as an ally. He's even willing to reason with Evol and give him a second chance.
  • Ash Ketchum in Pokémon: The Series is known for loving any and all Pokémon, and this is not lost on them, as legendaries are drawn to him consistently. Even when Meowth fake-joins the team and betrays them, Ash states he will treasure the time they spent together.
  • Pokémon Adventures:
    • Red accepts old foes (that tried to kill him) through Enemy Mine situations a little too easily. His All Loving-ness is most prevalent in the FLRG arc, where he readily accepts Deoxys since it shares his blood, even though it nearly massacred his team. He is the aforementioned Ash's counterpart, after all.
    • Dia calls out Cyrus for trying to destroy all of existence with a simple yet very heartfelt speech, Dialga and Palkia decide that they'd rather listen to him than Cyrus and earlier his own courage inspired Regigigas to fight Team Galactic as his teammate! His actions are so moving that they convince Cyrus himself that the world was a beautiful thing as it is, provoking a Heel–Face Turn. This incredible feat is shared by the below-mentioned Hareta (who admittedly is his AU Counterpart).
  • Hareta in Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure!. He apparently feels little-to-no hatred toward anyone and cares for everyone. Your best friend's life was made miserable by these guys, she's probably dead due to being Driven to Suicide, and this guy plans to destroy the whole world? Pff, no problem. Hareta just sheds some Tender Tears-Manly Tears and brushes it off.
  • Persia, the Magic Fairy: Persia herself. She's fascinated by Japanese culture and seeks to protect her new friends from the forces of evil, and while in Africa, grew up with wild animals which she considers her second family. She's a Genki Girl who isn't afraid to show her love for others, even if other people find her annoying.
  • From Hayao Miyazaki, Prince Ashitaka from Princess Mononoke fits the trope as the voice of peace between the humans of Iron Town and the animals/spirits/deities of the forest. Without him, the movie would have been much shorter and very bloody.
    Lady Eboshi: What exactly are you here for?
Ashitaka: To see with eyes unclouded by hate.
  • Madoka from Puella Magi Madoka Magica loves everyone. She refuses to join the magical girl infighting of others, and makes the only truly Selfless Wish in the series; spend eternity preventing magical girls from becoming witches by comforting them at their death and draining away their grief. Because she ascended to a higher plane of existence, no one is aware she's doing this except for Homura (due to her Ripple-Proof Memory).
  • Read or Die: Yomiko Readman is a Nice Girl, a very trusting person, always try to see the good in someone else, and is willing to forgive and give a second chance. She also always remain polite even when talking to a enemy. Many characters point out to her that this is not the best attitude for a secret agent.
  • Sawada Tsunayoshi from Reborn! (2004), though he was initially The Fool and the Butt-Monkey. However, as the series went on and got more serious, he became this. Especially noticeable with his relationship with Mukuro.
  • Romeo from Romeo × Juliet. This becomes obvious when he is assigned to rule over the mine his father created to punish miscreants. Through his gentle nature he manages to befriend all the miners (despite their initial mistrust of him) and later he manages to start a farming village with not only them but also their former guards.
  • Rurouni Kenshin's titular character is known for helping others and avoiding massacres. A friend of his thinks in one scene that he will save his life even if Kenshin didn't want his help since there are several people in Japan who need him. Ironically, most of Kenshin's rivals tend to be Dark Messiah.
  • Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon, though she started as The Fool matures into this as the series continues. This is more in The '90s anime than in the manga, where despite still being very compassionate and a good person, she's much less forgiving of those who hurt her loved ones. If you want to know how all loving Usagi is in the live-action Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, look for signs from the second episode. You've definitely got an All-Loving Hero in play when, in the middle of a fight, she's hanging by one arm off a balcony and trying to convince the next senshi-to-be not to become a senshi if she doesn't want to, using lines like "Don't worry, it'll work out somehow!"
  • Kambei from Samurai 7 is a downplayed example. He inspires great loyalty with words alone, and he forgives and sees worthiness where no one else would. He protects Kanna Village for nothing but rice. However, he's also jaded because of the war and so he finds Katsushiro's idealism irritating.
  • In the Sands of Destruction anime/manga series, Kyrie fits this to a T. Kind, gentle, and not wanting to fight anyone, he's always trying to find a way to talk things out instead of going on killing sprees like Morte wants to do. He thinks of everyone around him before thinking about himself (which Toppi lampshades this in the manga that Kyrie would give him the water bottle despite the fact he was thirty AND wandering the desert for three days straight.) In the manga when he leaves the group, everyone splits up with Toppi and Naja going with him and leaving Morte and Agan behind after Morte crossed the Moral Event Horizon by blowing an entire village up with innocent people.
  • Gerda from The Snow Queen (2005). She can befriend anybody: children, adults, animals, flowers, ghosts, you name it.
  • Nagisa Aoi from Strawberry Panic! is friendly toward everyone she meets, and at least three girls have a thing for her. She's very outgoing and honest and a little naïve, and Amane even notes that she stands out among the more reserved girls of Miator.
  • Sunday Without God has Ai Astin, the twelve-year-old adorable gravekeeper protagonist. She's friendly toward nearly everyone she meets and does her best to help others, and she wants to believe the best in others, even getting angry or sad when people refer to themselves or others as monsters, and as she travels the world in hopes of finding a way to save it, she ends up helping everyone she meets.
  • Starzinger: Princess Aurora loves the universe, loves her adoptive mother Dr. Kitty, loves the friends she makes on every planet, loves the Earth for taking her in as a refugee from the moon and fights for the weak based on her strong sense of justice.
  • Exa from Superior, in part because of his Thou Shalt Not Kill philosophy, always tries to find alternate solutions than violence to conflicts. He's willing to help anyone in need, even those trying to kill him. The only being that he makes a deliberate exception to this is the demon lord... who, unknown to him, is one of his companions.
  • Akira from Sweet Blue Flowers has some of this, since she has the ability to be friends with most other girls. Later she is surpassed in that regard by Haruka, who drags everybody along by sheer enthusiasm.
  • Hibiki Tachibana from Symphogear is usually warm and friendly to absolutely everyone, including each season's villains, whom she always tries to reason with and avoid having to fight.
  • Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: A constant inspiration to others? Check. Never seems to express genuine rage even during combat? Check. Group starts to fall apart when he's gone? Yep. This may sound slightly insane, but that sounds a lot like Kamina, but downplayed since he's also a hot-blooded maniac who tends to be mostly battle addicted and perverted to the point of shamelessness. After his death, the role is debatably shared by Nia and Simon also they play this straighter.
    • Further cementing things is Kamina getting a final Moment of Awesome from beyond the grave when he rescues the trapped Dai-Gurren Brigade from the Anti-Spiral's inescapable Lotus-Eater Machine, allowing them to save the day.
  • Noelle from I'm Gonna Be an Angel! is pure beyond pureness, loves everyone (especially Yuusuke), and in the end saves everyone, especially the two most troubled individuals who caused her a lot of problems.
  • One of Kotetsu's defining characteristics in Tiger & Bunny is that he cares about the safety and wellbeing of everyone — to the point that he'll be shaken even by the death of some nameless Asshole Victim.
  • Subaru Sumeragi from Tokyo Babylon and X/1999. A subversion occurs when it doesn't work and, without losing the core of his kindness and compassion, he loses everything and becomes the opposite of what he used to be.
  • Ken Kaneki from Tokyo Ghoul starts the series as one, actively trying to look for the best in others and repeatedly putting his trust in people he really shouldn't believe. This goes about as well as expected, with multiple people taking advantage of him to horrible effect. Some of this is motivated by his mother's advice that it's better to be hurt than to hurt others, a belief he clings to until his Despair Event Horizon. Afterwards, he actively abandons this mentality and comes to believe that some people are "bad beans" that need to be gotten rid of for the greater good. It's ultimately a Deconstruction of this trope, as while Kaneki is genuinely a compassionate person.....he's also an abused child desperate to be loved by others, and gets systematically ground down by the Crapsack World he lives in.
  • Star Saber of Transformers Victory, being an Expy of Optimus Prime personality-wise, naturally fits the bill. Finds a child who was orphaned in one of his battles? He adopts the kid. One of his enemies offers up his life to save the rest of his team? He spares all of them. Yeah, he qualifies.
  • Trigun:
    • Vash often has to be prodded into shooting the bad guys instead of trying to reason the virtues of life with them. Even then, he refuses to kill humans, even if it means bandaging up the people he just took down. Wolfwood occasionally seems to see Vash in this light, and well beyond his Technical Pacifist stance above he will do anything to save people. From diving into blows that carved the scars all over him to stripping naked and barking like a dog to get a hostage free to training constantly so that his skills are up to pulling off his signature miracles. His whole identity is tied up in saving people. Finally, he's the primary defender of the human race on his planet and main proponent of the creed that everybody can theoretically live in harmony. Even his True Companions aren't a big help — Millie has a good measure of Incorruptible Pure Pureness but doesn't do abstracts, Meryl tends to be a realist, and his best friend is an Anti-Hero. And a mercenary assassin and The Mole.
    • Rem. Everything Vash believes in the main narrative Rem taught him in the backstory.
  • In Trinity Blood, Esther fits better thanks to Character Development. She starts out as a vampire-hating sister who kills someone, but she eventually learns the truth behind the man she blamed for losing her mother figure and decides to join the church and find a way to help vampires and humans co-exist. Eventually she becomes a queen and starts this process, which is where the anime ends. However, the notes from the original novel author before his death paint a bleaker picture.
  • Kenji, after his return, becomes this in 20th Century Boys. He saves the world by travelling around singing a song (which in turn makes legions of people idolise and follow him), kills no one, and apologizes to the Big Bad for a past misdeed. His attitude is Be All My Sins Remembered and somewhere between bemused and irritated that people are looking to him to save the day.
  • Unico the Unicorn from the Unico manga series created by Osamu Tezuka strongly prefers being non-violent with villains (especially some who have depressing backstories) who mainly uses his horn to spread happiness and love or as a tool and defense mechanism. Depending on the antagonist, he would reluctantly use his horn to defeat a villain out of self-defense or showing no remorse for their actions which he doesn't like doing. When being attacked, Unico would mainly run away and avoid their attacks and prefers defeating them by talking them down or finding a peaceful solution. This aspect is most notable in Sanrio's Unico in the Island of Magic and Saving our Fragile Earth: Unico Special Chapter where he sympathizes with them and concerned after hurting themselves. Even after attacking The Baron in The Fantastic Adventures of Unico and the original manga, who has no redeemable qualities. He's horrified witnessing The Baron gushing green blood since he never expected his Horn Attack to be that effective.
    Unico: Please Kuruku break the spell and release all your puppets! If you don't I'll be forced to fight you and I might have too... (Beat) destroy you and I would rather not do that.
  • Marin from Umi Monogatari is prone to randomly hugging people and saying that she loves them. Kanon, her sister, a giant turtle. It doesn't matter. The girl's got plenty of love to spread around.
  • Akane Isshiku from Vividred Operation wants to be friends with EVERYONE and doesn't take "no" for an answer. Also, she is very kind and did everything to save Rei even after knowing she was responsible for the Alone attacks.
  • Shinya from Watashi No Messiah Sama accepts his duty to save the planet of his beloved by defeating the Big Bad, but refuses to harm anyone, including the Big Bad even after having ripped his heart off and left off to die. Earlier in the series he fires a lightning at himself to make Hime, who was trying to kill him, to back off without harming her.
  • Toboe from Wolf's Rain. He's about the closest thing a predatory animal can get to a Friend to All Living Things, and, as a clincher, he's willing to protect and die for the guy who's actively trying to exterminate wolves!
  • Yu-Gi-Oh!:
    • The original Yugi actually possessed an inherently evil item that drew out his worst traits and inflamed them to the point of murder... and it never gets used unless someone did something horrible to deserve it. The kid's so good that all of the negative traits he has will at worst deliver Disproportionate Retribution, then suddenly vanish until he needs them again. Also, he befriended Jonouchi and Honda by forgiving them for bullying him and protecting them from getting beaten up.
    • Judai/Jaden Yuki of the Post Modern Yu-Gi-Oh! GX. Originally used straight and frequently noticed and discussed by characters like Sameshima, Saiou, Asuka, Ryo, and Ed; but by Season 3 the pressure of being everyone's source of strength and inspiration is finally too much for him. His True Companions' dependence on him was the key the next Big Bad used to kill them, and Judai's heartbreak at his failure to live up to being this character contributed to his fall to The Dark Side. It took him a lot to pull himself back from the despair.
    • Yusei from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds is this even more so than his predecessors, despite his quiet and more mature nature. His father named him after a particle that bonded other particles together because he wanted Yusei to be able to bond people together; he did.
    • Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL: Yuma (in both the anime and manga) befriends many people, like a Stoic blue alien, a Reformed Bully, and a Number Hunter after his soul (earning Kaito's trust in both anime and manga was no cakewalk, yet he did it twice). He even attempts to redeem (successfully) Vetrix, Vector, and Kyoji by appealing to their better nature and wins his duel with Nash because he refused to hurt his friend.
    • Yuya from Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V is even more than his predecessors as he believes dueling should be something used to make people happy and refuses to allow it to become used as a tool of war and hate. Throughout the series he suffers for this ideal and see the worst in people but refuses to give up on the idea of making everyone happy. This becomes even more interesting when we find out he's 1/4th of the Big Bad.


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