By a vote by the Japanese magazine Voice memoThe 10 best protagonists of the manga series published in the popular magazine have been announced Weekly Shonen jump. During the voting phase, participants, all from Japan, were asked to express their views on power, charisma, leadership and other traits that are considered appropriate for a perfect protagonist.
Here are the results:
10. Light Yagami (tie)
Light Yagami is the protagonist of the manga Death notice. Light is a teenager whose intellect and ability to strategize are his greatest strength. Despite the fact that he lives a fairly ordinary life, he feels deeply overwhelmed and bored with everyday life until he finds the supernatural βDeath Noteβ notebook, which enables him to end everyone’s life when he has his First and last names at the time you visualize the face of the written person; Since then, he has promised to use his power for the good of mankind while proclaiming himself to be a deity, knowing that over time he would win more enemies and endanger his life.
Since its appearance, the character has become one of the best-known and best-known anime on a cultural level and has been the subject of parodies, honors and products such as action figures or cosplay among various fans around the world.
10.Kusuo Saiki (tie)
Kusuo is the main protagonist of Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan who was born with all kinds of psychic abilities, although he was born into a fairly ordinary couple, Kuniharu and Kurumi Saiki. Because of his constantly growing strength, he always has to wear two pink antennas on his head to limit his strength. Because of the misery that comes from the attention he receives as a clairvoyant, Kusuo tries to avoid being noticed as much as possible by using his telepathy to read people’s minds and avoid such a confrontation. Kusuo doesn’t speak like an ordinary person either, but through telepathy. You should also wear green glasses to prevent people from turning to stone. This happens when someone looks you in the eye. Kusuo has stated that it cannot reverse this effect because it is the same as dying for the body, although the petrification reverses the next day.
At first he was always seen alone, but in the course of the story he eventually gets on well with his schoolmates, especially Riki Nendou and Shun Kaidou.
9. Lucky guy
Luckyman is the protagonist of the Manga series Totemo! Lucky man. This character is the happiest person in the entire universe. Despite being a superhero, he has no real strength or speed, just relies on luck to win his fights. All of his attacks are very slow, but they do a lot of damage because some luck always happens. Luckyman needs the presence of a bright star, the lucky star, for his happiness to happen, in other words, if it is a cloudy day or if the presence of the lucky star does not reach him. He is very unlucky and is about to die. The happy appearance of man is a parody of Ultraman. He has the Kanji “Daikichi” on his chest (good luck, luck in a Buddhist temple) and a Chabashira (standing tea stem in a tea cup) on his forehead, another Japanese symbol very happy.
8. Kenshin Himura
Kenshin is the protagonist of the manga Rurouni Kenshin. He is a former samurai assassin who becomes a vagabond and travels all over Japan to provide protection and help to those who need him to redeem for the murders he has committed in his past. It has an unusual katana with an “inverted edge” (the cutting blade is on the opposite side) to never kill again. Throughout history, Kenshin has built relationships and encounters that allow him to find a true reconciliation of his past and a life of fullness.
7. Cobra
Cobra is the protagonist of the manga Cobra super agent. This character is a space pirate tired of hiding from his space mafia enemies by modifying his face through plastic surgery. He clears his memory and travels to the country to get a job and live five years as a shop assistant. After that, his lost memory is accidentally activated and he is discovered by the gangsters of the Mafia Vialactica organization, who are forced to return to fleeting life until he can defeat the space mafia and restore his peaceful life.
6. Monkey D. Luffy
Monkey is the main protagonist of the manga One piece. His body is made of rubber after eating a devil fruit, especially the “Gomu Gomu fruit”, which gives it a strength similar to that of other cartoon characters such as Plastic Man, Elongated Man or Mr. Fantastic. In addition, the 3 types of haki are also used.
He is the captain of the Straw Hat Pirates pirate crew, a group he founded to fulfill his crew’s dreams. It is from East Blue. His reward of 1,500,000,000 Berrysymbol.png is the highest of his crew. It is part of the so-called Elf Supernovas; Pirates whose reward Berrysymbol.png exceeds 100,000,000 when they reach Sabaody Island. He is considered “The Fifth Emperor” after defeating cute commanders Katakuri and Cracker and escaping Big Mom territory.
His main motivation in the series is to become the Pirate King and find the One Piece (treasure hidden by the pirate Gold D. Roger), a task that continues regardless of his resistance as he never gives up. The One Piece series mainly focuses on the adventures of Luffy and his crew through the Grand Line. Though usually clumsy and ruthless, he gets serious when someone is in danger, especially his crew, whom he considers to be his family. Luffy has also appeared in all films and other related materials such as video games.
5. Ryotsu Kankichi
Ryoutsu is the protagonist of the manga Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kouen Mae Hashutsujo, Commonly known as KochiKame. He is a 36 year old policeman with the mentality of a 12 year old boy. He doesn’t like to work and is quite greedy, but with a very good heart and loved by all of his colleagues, even though he has to endure his strange and crazy things.
Ryotsu’s golden dream is to become a billionaire quickly and easily. He has a rare talent for it and always comes up with a series of crazy plans that are stranger, but when his plans seem successful at first, his greed makes things get out of control and end up as before or ruined. Aside from not knowing how to ration his wages, he tries to search for, crawl, or lose food in the containers in the middle of the month. Aside from Ohara, his boss forbids other colleagues from helping him so that he can mature a little. He is also a bum who is always up to date on the latest models and video games. He has a good relationship with the district’s children, who appreciate him very much. It also has exceptional strength and endurance that you often have to rely on. He’s a bachelor who doesn’t seem to care about women, and the few times he flirts he doesn’t have much success.
To make matters worse, he has declared a fight against the police officers from the traffic department who have conspired against him to make a mistake in all surveys at the police station (already a bit simple due to Kankichi’s behavior), and name them often “gorilla” or “caveman”, the least wanted bachelor in police marriage surveys. Sometimes they make peace, but Kankichi always messes up so they’re always on the war path. Oddly enough, one day Kankichi, the head of the Police station of the Kameari district.
4. Kinnikuman
Kinnikuman is the protagonist of his manga of the same name. He is a quirky superhero and prince of the planet Muscle (Kinniku). First, Kinnikuman is responsible for fighting the monsters that invade the earth when all other superheroes are busy. Throughout history, the plot focuses solely on the wrestling death matches between the superheroes and the bad guys, until Suguru finally proves to be worthy of inheriting his father’s throne.
3. Arale Norimaki
Arale is the protagonist of the well-known manga Dr. Burglary. It is a robot that was developed by the scientist Sembei Norimaki and is characterized by its great strength and can split the earth in half a stroke. Though Arale is a robot, she shows up as a pretty mischievous girl who goes on endless adventures with her friends. Arale has also appeared in Dragon Ball, another manga by Akira Toriyama, and in his anime version.
2. Kenshiro
Kenshiro is the protagonist of the manga Hokuto no Ken. In history, Kenshiro is the legitimate successor to an ancient art of murder called Hokuto Shinken, which allows Kenshiro to defeat his opponents with hidden meridian points. Throughout the original manga, Kenshiro has fought several life-threatening rascals of post-apocalyptic survivors, as well as numerous rival martial artists, including his three honorary brothers trained in the art of Hokuto Shinken.
Kenshiro is also known as “The Man with Seven Scars” due to the seven scars engraved on his chest with the pattern of the Big Dipper (symbol of the Hokuto School) and as “The Savior of the End of the Century”. Kenshiro’s famous catchphrase shortly before the death of an enemy is “You are already dead” (Omae wa mo shindeiru).
1. You are Goku
Goku is the main protagonist of the manga and anime from Dragon Ball created by Akira Toriyama. His birth name is Kakaroto and he is one of the few Saiyans who have managed to survive the total destruction of the Vegeta planet in universe 7. He is the second son of Bardock and Gine, younger brother of Raditz, adoptive grandson of Son Gohan, husband of Chi -Chi, father of Son Gohan and Son Goten, is in turn Pan’s grandfather and ancestor of Son Goku Jr.
It was originally sent to Earth to conquer it. A fall into a canyon hit his head, however, and this injury changed his memory and abolished all violent instincts of his species, which made him grow with a pure and kind heart, but retained all the powers of his race. However, the new Dragon Ball story states that he was sent down to earth by his parents to survive Frieza’s destruction of his planet at all costs. Later, Kakaroto, now known as Son Goku, became the leader of the Z warriors and the greatest defender of Earth and Universe 7, and managed to protect them from destruction countless times, even though they were not considered to be a hero or a savior.
Source: SoraNews24