2014 - Characters who "Just couldn't catch a break " 

It is funny how all the top tier candidates for this category belong to the summer releases (Don't you just hate summers) .Anyway no matter which season ,there are always times when you come across characters who can be considered  role models for the bad luck brian meme .No matter what these characters do , they ultimately end up in the dumps .Sometimes you just just wanna drag these chars out of the screen ,give them a tight hug and tell them "It's ok ,you've done good " and other times you wanna shoot them in the head (Damn, that brought out some bad memories of the last season )  .Anyway there are 3 takers for this category (more precisely they are 4 but since two of them act as a pair ,i am counting them as three) Also this article contains some major spoilers ,so make sure you have seen the series mentioned or don't tell me i ruined your fun  .So in ascending order here goes the winners :

Third place : Nine and Twelve (Zankyou no terror ) 

If you are an avid anime watcher you can usually by the middle of a series recognize the fact that this might end in a tragedy .Znt had from the very beginning shown all signs that it will not have a "happily ever after" .But still being a sentimentalist that i am i didn't lose hope and then cried my heart out when both nine and twelve died .I was actually expecting twelve to get away and spend a fulfilling life with lisa but the scriptwriters had other plans.Orphans deprived of their freedom ,being raised up in a medical facility ,experimented upon through many years of their childhood while watching their friends pass away one by one .I mean you simply can't not feel your heart cringe at the plight .Even after those two manage to run away ,they decide to spend the rest of their remaining lives (which if i may point may end anytime) trying to expose the misdeeds of the country to which they and their companions fell victims to .Although it is true that they manage to expose the truth in the end but it is still sad that they did not live to see the day when their efforts bore fruit .I mean from the point of view of the creators ,they did a perfect job wrapping it up into a clean ending .But personally i would have appreciated if at least one of them had lived to tell the tale .

Second Place : Kaneki (Tokyo ghoul ) 

Well what to say about tokyo ghoul .I mean every time i saw an episode i got hungry for some very weird reason which i don't want to ponder upon .If i am to look from an overall perspective the whole tokyo ghoul series is plain ...................twisted( Don't get me wrong ,i never said it's bad )  .It's like shingeki no kyojin with the average killing rate of two people per episode .No one and i mean absolutely no one get's off scott free in this anime .( Oh so your dad died himani ? No problem i'll kill your mom in the next episode too ) .Amongst all the tragedies lies our protagonist who suffers blows probably from every angle possible .I mean the progression goes as follows :

Getting attacked by ghoul > turning into an involuntary ghoul > getting beaten up for tuning into a ghoul > Getting his friends beaten up cause he turned into a ghoul > Getting eaten up for turning into a special ghoul > becoming a ghoul and still can't use the powers of a ghoul >Getting tortured for becoming a ghoul >Fighting to save other ghouls >Get's two coke can sized holes in his head in place of his eye sockets and (probably )ending up dead cause he resisted being treated as a worthless ghoul .

*the last part is a spoiler from the manga. Mind it , his death is not confirmed .

Although the new edition of the manga( Re: tokyo ghoul) may offer some respite to our bad luck kaneki but then that is a story for another time .

Meanwhile :

First place : Slaine Troyard (Aldnoah zero ) ding ! ding ! ding ! Haters all aboard .

I know many of you would be thinking  (whaaaaaaaaaat ) after seeing my choice for the first place .Slaine is probably one of the most hated character of the last anime season or even of the whole year up till now.Trust me i was one of those people who wanted to choke to him death that is until i got a hold of my nerves and examined the situation from his point of view .I know his stunt in the last episode of Aldnoah has called upon the wrath of millions of fans but if you examine it carefully Slaine is a victim amongst everything else .Let's asses this shit .Usually whenever we have a troubled protagonist or even a secondary character he/she has a friend ,a relative or a upcoming love interest who he/she can rely upon or come to rely upon in the future .But Slaine was all one. Being brought up in an alien (literally) environment and being majorly discriminated against Slaine probably had no allies .He had no family ,no friends ,no companions .Among his disdain his only source of comfort was this princess who treated him kindly. Surely when in your life you have nothing but one person who offers you love and kindness ,you will do anything (and i mean anything ) for them .It is clear that apart from loyalty , he had feelings for the princess but that does not exactly make him a bad person .He did everything he could within his power to save the princess ,betraying authorities ,getting tortured ,even helping out the enemies (well they were his enemies ,Inaho did not exactly shoot his jet down as a welcome present ) .Even after exhausting every possible method to save the princess (who had already died twice and resurrected *damn she's one tough nut*) he was bound to "SNAP" when he saw her lying lifeless in front of him .When the only person who loves in the world is lying dead in front of you ,you are bound to snap .It is true that i do not sit well the fact that he shot inaho so coldly but for him it was either kill or get killed .Inaho had been hostile towards him from the very beginning and now he even got his love interest killed (which is what slaine believed has happened) .He could not have taken the risk since now he has something which he has to do or at least that is what i derived from the season ending .

Well we can only assume as to what will happen next but i can't wait for january .(come quickly pwease)  But all in all i do not think slaine is a bad character .


That is all for this article .Please feel free to comment as to what you think .Also having your opinions or not being agreeable with mine is perfectly alright but if you act like an ass ,you'll be persecuted ^^