The Otaku Awards

[BlackJack]

THE OTAKU AWARDS
This is an Awards/Voting system that I run on The Otaku.
I wanted to run it here so I can see if you guys make different decisions than our Otaku members.
(BTW, Kendra gave me the OK to run this here.)

Here's how it works:
Vote for two characters once a day.
When a contestant gathers 20 votes, he passes.
CARRY ON DEMOCRACY!!

First category:
BEST ANIME ANTAGONIST
(ROUND ONE)
[CANDIDATES]
Sosuke Aizen (Bleach)
Frieza (DBZ)
Ikari Gendou (NGE)
Viral (Gurren Lagann)
Alexander Anderson (Hellsing)

Remember to vote!

[Contra Fates]

Man, I hope you add a better cast onto the second round! xD None of those characters are really what I consider to be 'great' villains.

I hope Griffith from Berserk, The Count from Gankutsuou, and Light from Death Note make it to the list! xD

Eitherway, my vote goes to Viral and Gendou! Viral was the only reason I watched TTGL, and Gendou was...truly hate-worthy.

[BlackJack]

Man, I hope you add a better cast onto the second round! xD None of those characters are really what I consider to be 'great' villains.

I hope Griffith from Berserk, The Count from Gankutsuou, and Light from Death Note make it to the list! xD

Griffith? No.
The Count? No.
Light? He was the PROtagonist. An evil Protagonist, but still.

This is Antagonist, not villain.

Also, I may accept impeachments of candidates.
And I must disagree with you, anyway.
These are all great villains.
They may not be villains from shows you like, but that's a different story.

EDIT:
Remember that you can revote every day, people! Me and Kendra (well, only Kendra, really) are going to (somehow) reset the polls.

[Contra Fates]

Griffith? No.
The Count? No.
Light? He was the PROtagonist. An evil Protagonist, but still.

This is Antagonist, not villain.

Also, I may accept impeachments of candidates.
And I must disagree with you, anyway.
These are all great villains.
They may not be villains from shows you like, but that's a different story.

1.) Have you seen Berserk?
2.) Have you seen Gankutsuou?
3.) True enough.

The villainy of Griffith and The Count puts these guys to shame. To shame. So, I can only assume you haven't seen the shows. xD

[BlackJack]

1.) Have you seen Berserk?
2.) Have you seen Gankutsuou?
3.) True enough.

The villainy of Griffith and The Count puts these guys to shame. To shame. So, I can only assume you haven't seen the shows. xD

True enough, I haven't seen these shows.
But I also haven't seen enough of Bleach to know Aizen was a villain at all.
While most of my list highlights villains I know, not all of them were me idea.

And like I said, I'm willing to accept suggestions.

[Ryvius]

I'm not a fan of Bleach, and never even watched DBZ so that basically left the bottom two. In the end, I decided Alexander was out. Why? His interesting moments in the story are really when he's not being an antagonist. He's also a pretty flat character, so Viral kinda beats him out. As for Gendou...well he's the only truly "epic" one on the list, so he gets an automatic vote everytime.

[Fuyumine]

Ha! I like this idea. Voted for Viral.

[Contra Fates]

True enough, I haven't seen these shows.
But I also haven't seen enough of Bleach to know Aizen was a villain at all.
While most of my list highlights villains I know, not all of them were me idea.

And like I said, I'm willing to accept suggestions.

I'd say we give Frieza the boot. xD

And, you really need to watch those two shows! Berserk is really, really awesome. The ending will probably make you murderous, but it's all so worth it. There's a reason why I'm always raving about these two shows. xD

[Fuyumine]

You know... Frieza might be a great candidate.

One of the jobs a villain has is to tug on your emotions, and for big DBZ fans he did just that. We (as in the DBZ nerds) lost our shit when he killed Freiza, lost our shit even more when he killed Piccolo, and we crapped our pants when it looked like he was going to beat Goku.

Now that we're older we definitely look at Dragonball Z in a different light. But that's mainly because the lot of us has migrated from Shonen to Seinen, so the show full of screaming and 5 minute fights that took several years to complete in real life, seems pretty lame to us now. LOL.

But Frieza pretty much did his job when he was supposed to.

[BlackJack]

As far as Frieza goes, I guess genocide, destruction of several whole planets and the murder of several main characters (however brief) just doesn't make you as evil as it used to. >_>

But I'll consider it.

EDIT:
I agree with Fuyu.

[Fuyumine]

As far as Frieza goes, I guess genocide, destruction of several whole planets and the murder of several main characters (however brief) just doesn't make you as evil as it used to. >_>

But I'll consider it.

EDIT:
I agree with Fuyu.

I can't really blame her, though. Like, DBZ is one of those shows that – if not for the nostalgia it provides – does not hold up at all (not very well, at least). Watching the refurbished Dragon Ball Kai is pretty to look at for me, but I found myself shaking my head at all the excessive melodrama that takes place throughout the series. So yeah, I can understand not wanting Frieza up there.

But he deserves to be up there, dammit. XD

[xLorrainex]

Gendou. 'Nuff said...