Thirty Days of Anime, Day 6: Most Annoying Anime Character

[seawasp]

The anime saga continues!


"Most Annoying"... You know, that's a hard choice, not the least of it being that there's so many WAYS to be annoying. I think I'll reserve the one that crosses the line from "Annoyance" to "Detestable" for tomorrow.

There's still an awful lot of choices. All the little girl characters that exist only to whine or interfere. All the characters who can't get a clue even if it was driven into their skulls with a Kame-Hame-Ha. All the bubbleheaded girl characters whose competence evaporates as soon as a male appears in the room. All the "cute creatures" that exist to steal the show and yet contribute nothing useful to the show.

But after reflection the award must go to Galaxy Police Officer Mihoshi, from Tenchi Muyo! (original). No link provided because I can't tell WHICH of the billion Tenchi DVDs on Amazon is, in fact, the original OVA series.

Mihoshi is the single largest flaw in the original sequence. The original hints of her coming made it possible to interpret her as being the Dirty Pair in a single being, which would have fit with the overall theme of the series and been fairly interesting as an addition to the crazy cast.

Instead, we get what may be the single stupidest character in all anime, vying for the title against such heavyweights as Tatawake Kuno of Ranma and C-Ko Kotobuki from Project:A-Ko. Every scene she's in is less for her appearance, and her worst annoyance is the constant interspersing of scenes with her in them during the climactic battle against Kagato. There were many ways to achieve all the things she did (which weren't many) without having to have her be the literal distillation of every Dumb Blonde joke EVER. Mihoshi, all-time champion of Annoying. Accept ANY substitutes!



Day 1 - Very first anime:Saint Seiya
Day 2 - Favourite TV series: : The Vision of Escaflowne
Day 3 - Your anime crush: Belldandy, from Ah! Megamisama/Ah/Oh My Goddess! and Shun from Saint Seiya
Day 4 - Favourite Film: Tonari no Totoro/ My Neighbor Totoro
Day 5 - Anime character you feel you are most like (or wish you were): Shikamaru from Naruto Shippuden
Day 6 - Most annoying anime character: Mihoshi, Tenchi Muyo!
Day 7 - Character you’d most like to slap
Day 8 - Most epic scene ever:
Day 9 - Saddest anime scene
Day 10 - Favorite slice of life anime
Day 11 - Favorite mech series
Day 12 - Best instalment of a franchise you don’t like
Day 13 - Worst instalment of a franchise you do like.
Day 14 - Current (or most recent) anime wallpaper
Day 15 - A reality check for a genre you like
Day 16 - An anime classic that simply doesn’t work for you.
Day 17 - Best Background Music
Day 18 - Best Five-team (?)
Day 19 - Change you’d like to make to any one anime
Day 20 - Most ambiguous anime character
Day 21 – Favourite OAV Series
Day 22 - Animation studio you'd most like to slap.
Day 23 - Anime you think had the best, or most intriguing art
Day 24 - Favorite anime hero or heroine
Day 25 - Best anime villain
Day 26 - Your favorite harem anime
Day 27 - Favorite anime opening theme song
Day 28 - Favorite anime companion/summoned creature
Day 29 - Best Anime Music Video
Day 30 - Favorite anime ending theme

Comments

[arcadiagt5.livejournal.com]

Every scene she's in is less for her appearance

Amen.

Kuno I see as light relief for the most part so long as he doesn't show up too often. Then again, given that I generally stop watching Ranma after the first series he doesn't get the chance to show up that often.

C-ko I can tolerate as a necessary conceit to make Project A-ko work. At least for the first movie...

[rdmasters.livejournal.com]

The only - and I mean only - positive thing is that she provides fodder for the fan-vid of 'Cause I'm A Blonde'.

[melchar.livejournal.com]

If she isn't the -most- annoying anime character, then I've managed to blank whoever is worse from my mind.

But I liked Kuno ^_^ Happosai was MUCH more annoying.

[seawasp]

Jebus H. Particular Christ in a Handbasked you've just forced me to remember another entire CATEGORY of annoying people -- the Ecchi Old Men (one of the more tolerable examples above). The Ecchi in general but the Dirty Old Man category is particularly annoying.

Happosai would be right up there with Mihoshi.

[arcadiagt5.livejournal.com]

Yes but there was already plenty of fodder for that AMV courtesy of Sailor Moon...

[arcadiagt5.livejournal.com]

And thus my decision to only watch the first season of Ranma is again justified. :)

[full-metal-ox.livejournal.com]

I've gone so far as to coin the blanket term "Squeakiko" for an anime archetype I find particularly aggravating: the shrill ingenue the narrative insists that the audience adore. (Bonus points if berserk violence and psychotic jealousy are supposed to be part of her charm; double it if, as is often the case, she's forced the male lead into an engagement.)