00:00My Mount Rushmore of anime characters,
00:03the first one's gonna have to be Faye Valentine
00:05from Cowboy Bebop.
00:07One of my big gripes with early anime
00:08is like how two-dimensional
00:10a lot of the female characters felt.
00:12And Faye was all of those kind of like misgivings
00:16of being like obsessed with sex
00:18or just, you know, her appearance.
00:20But that was kind of just the surface.
00:23And below there was this really tragic,
00:25well-thought-out character
00:26who was a victim of chance.
00:28Second, I would have to put Tetsuo from Akira.
00:32As I watch Akira when I was younger,
00:34you relate to the protagonists.
00:37And then as you get older,
00:38Tetsuo becomes more and more of a sympathetic character.
00:42I'm gonna go Rock Lee from Naruto.
00:44I have never felt more for a character in a fight
00:49than Rock Lee versus Gaara.
00:51Man, the genius of hard work,
00:53the master of taijutsu.
00:55He embodies everything that I think a shounen should be.
00:59And then my final character,
01:01I'm gonna go Takun from Fooly Cooly.
01:03He's so sympathetic.
01:04And those feelings of inadequacy and lust and desire
01:08that a lot of young men scramble their brains
01:12as they are going through their adolescence.
01:13He's so sympathetic in the way that he approaches those.
01:16One of my favorite animes of all time.
01:18Get out of here.
01:19All time.
01:20Amen.
01:20All time.
01:21Amen.
01:22All time.
01:23Okay.
01:24Amen.
01:24Absolutely.
