- Dragon Ball
- One Piece
- Soul Eater
- Naruto
- World Trigger
- Witch Hat Atelier
- Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
- JoJo
- Ascendance of a Bookworm
- Hunter x Hunter (2011)
HxH is the clear best, and I’m surprised that WHA came close. Both are really excellent systems that make the others in the list (that I am aware off) look amateurish in comparison.
I wanna throw Kill la Kill’s hat into that ring. Does it deserve the TOP spot? No, but I like the origin story of where the power comes from.
Aliens come to Earth looking for food back in prehistoric times, if they go about it the usual way (feeding directly off the energy/electricity of a living brain) then the body usually dies very quickly BUT, if they feed off this energy from the outside via skin-to-skin contact then they have a host that lasts longer than 5 minutes. So they choose the most advanced species (us) and after setting up some intentionally-vague groundwork, they go into hibernation until humanity has progressed far enough for a worldwide monopoly on clothing to become a reality, even converting several humans to work with them directly.
Practically all the power in the show comes from/through the school uniforms which have various amounts of these silent, patient, alien beings as part of their fabric. Only real exception is the power of friendship but this is anime we’re talking about, that’s always going to win. Speaking of winning, the main villain of this show should’ve won like 3-4 times over by the time it’s all said and done. Oh well, “La Vie est Drôle” after all
Edit: Also some other little nuances that they manage to throw in: a reference to the “original sin” with Adam and Eve covering themselves; the age-old adage “It’s not the clothes that make the man, but the man that makes the clothes” only in this case both are correct; or even how the more powerful uniforms need to show increasingly more skin i.e. reduce the surface area of the ‘vampiric’ clothes otherwise the host would pass out or die. Idk, there’s a lot you could discuss about this show beyond “all the characters are hot” but nobody ever really does
Idk, there’s a lot you could discuss about this show beyond “all the characters are hot” but nobody ever really does
People think the middle-aged doctor whose house the MC is living at is hot? Must be a definition of the word that I haven’t come across before. 🤔
Lolol new fetish unlocked. Also, did you see him before he disguised himself? Dude was at least passable
It’s been at least five years since I last watched the series, so no, I don’t remember what he looked like before.
Still, the set of people who think that he and the girls and the disembodied seifuku (who are certainly characters in their own right) are all hot must be vanishingly small. And that’s ignoring the kid and the dog, whom I certainly hope people don’t find hot. (Mind you, of all the characters, the dog seemed to be the most likely to keep its clothes on, which I’m sure was conscious irony on someone’s part.)
1-Yeah, I was debating putting an asterisk there at the end to say ‘except the literal prepubescent child’ but I was already starting to ramble and I had some errands to run so I just left it as was. Also you’d probably have some trouble finding someone who thought that kid’s dad was attractive (for several reasons) but regardless, THE VAST MAJORITY of characters have at least one moment where you can’t help but gaze, awestruck at their beauty.
2-Oh they absolutely knew what they were doing with that dog and his hoodie 😂
3-Here’s what the mad doctor (actually the MC’s dad) looked like before he disguised himself and went into hiding:
I wish I had more HxH…
I’m not at all surprised to see WHA near the top of a list like this. One of the things about the magic system that works really well is that it relies on the ability for the characters to draw these shapes quickly and perfectly under high-stress situations, and that’s a skill that a normal human can actually relate to. When Naruto beats up some dude I mostly just think, “I guess the author chose for Naruto to be stronger this time” or “holy shit the fight is finally over that took so loooong” but when one of the characters in WHA dips their shoe in some ink and draws a massive magic circle on the ground using their whole leg or something crazy like that I can actually imagine how difficult that would be to do quickly and accurately.
