So who's the nicest anime character of them all? MY vote is for Tohru from Fruits Baskets, but who do you guys think?

God, I hate that word 'nice'. It's so nondescript. I have no clue what kind of characteristics you're looking for in a character to fit this thread.

I agree with Chibi-Usa, Tohru is sssooo nice.

Care to explain how she's 'nice'?

Tohru Honda manages to still have compassion and understanding for people even after they try to physicaly and mentaly harm (Mostly Akito) her and people close to her, while actually helping the offender by "healing what's aflicting them", so to speak. Some might consider her attitude to be down right stupid and weak, but many others after reading or watching Fruits Basket come to feel that Tohru's deep understanding for others is indeed strength. Tohru's compassion seems endless, thus she is often thought of as the "nicest" Anime character.

So she's a doormat... that sounds like a character flaw to me.

tohru was so nice it made her unbelivable. perfection is a flaw.

Some characters are so nice they're scaring me and make me feel like the devil itself... Beside Tohru, there's maybe Yugi from Yugioh or Miki Kaoru from SKU (Though we can see he isn't so nice during some moments in the anime.)

Kisa is nice, too! She's shy, but nice

same here

Tohru = Evil!! I think Envy is "nice" Because
[spoiler] He killed ed! [/spoiler]

OMG! Riza! I love you!

When I first read the Fruit Baskets manga, I thought Tohru was really really way too sweet (In my mind sweet = bad)... May I say Mary Sue ish?

Lol, in the umm I really Love you kind of way or as a Friend?

I've seen a lot of Tohru hate, it's almost scary. She is a... pretty close to perfect person, but she's not so perfect that she's inhuman. If anything, she's a character I can relate to a lot wherein she takes so much blame upon herself that it gets to the point of being almost physically overwhelming. (Ritsu also comes to mind in that aspect, except he gets... insanely violent when it comes to his uber self-hate) I don't think I would give the label doormat so easily; She's a lot smarter than people give her credit for, and she knows what she's taking on when she seems to be going all wibbly and submissive. Her polite exterior serves like a clever facade for when she gets to the point of reaching into another person's core emotional traumas and whipping out the proverbial katanas. If she had been a typical tempramental anime heroine; acting sweet only some of the time, and then turning bratty/violent at the drop of the hat, I don't think she could have had the effect on people that she did. For example, Kyou. He keeps everyone away from himself, and I think if she were standardly selfish and defensive, he would have blown her off and never have accepted her helping advances, but I think her bizzarely innocent exterior intrigued him, confused him, and ultimately lowered his defenses for once.

Well, personnally, I don't hate Tohru, far from here I only read the first volume of the manga so I can't really have a real opinion yet but it really impressed me how sweet and nice and already so much in fusion she was with Kyo and Yuki. I shouldn't have been surprised even if I don't read that sort of manga often.

There will never be a nicer anime character than Trigun's Vash The Stampede.

*gasp* I can't beleive I forgot him!!!!! He's soooo awesome and nice (so far I only read one volume)

Volume 1?

What about the anime?

Just because someone isn't a complete a**hole doesn't mean they're a doormat.

I don't think standing up for yourself/your own personal well-being registers as being a complete a**hole.

Not defending the 'doormat' idea; just saying.

I agree, Toby-Chan. Branding someone who stands up for them selves, even if it is not necessarily in the most 'peacefull' fashion, an a** hole is a bit extreme. However, I don't agree that Tohru Honda is a "doormat". Though she does let people walk all over her at times, when it comes to really important matters she generaly finds a way to handle them in the best way possible. Where many people would thrash out at the people who were offending them or the people they cared about, Tohru usually finds some way to put an end to the problem by actually helping not only herself or her loved ones, but also the offender.

i think this is turning into the tohru honda thread !

Toby-chan, that wasn't what I was saying. You can stand up for yourself, it's just that you don't have to be arrogant about it.

This is kinda turning into a Tohru thread. But she is cool; I admire her a lot. I'd love to be more like her. Or Hana-chan... Or Tohru and Hana-chan's future lesbian love-child. (Impossible, but if you think of it, they'd have awesome kids...)


*Ahem* Moving on...

Belldandy from Ah My Goddess, is *extremely* nice, borderlining Mary-Sue in most respects. I like her too, although until I watched the movie, there jsut wasn't all that much about her that I found exceptional; she seemed way too perfect, almost flat. Then, of course, the movie proved that to be absolutely not true. o.O

There is no such thing as perfect. It makes your head hurt if you try to thinkn about it too much. Everything has some sort of flaw. This includes our lovely Tohru. She's nice and all, but her niceness makes me itch to do horrible, horrible things and do horrible things to her. Besides, nice is not very descriptive. If by nice, you mean someone who helps others for no reason, is polite and says nice things about people, that would be Tohru. Nice could also mean people who influence others to help other people. This would not be Tohru. As said before, she makes me want to kill someone. This is not generally considered nice. In my opinion, the nicest anime character I can think of is Sesshomaru. Or Naraku. Don't get me started on why.

I can understand why you said Sesshoumaru was nice. He does have his moments. But Naraku? If you don't mind me asking, would you please explain?

Kira Yamato...yeah he was nice, except for when he killed

She makes you want to kill someone because she has ovaries, dear. And what do you mean that Tohru dosen't influence others to help other people. Crap, the whole show is about how one person through patience and love can influence the lives of so many other people. Some of those characters come off as complete jerks, but by her acceptence, can soften, and change because of the faith she has in them. The Sohmas are a huge dysfuntional nightmare, but she influences them slowly but surely to come together and face their problems. What part of that isn't nice?

Oh, is it that you like Kyon-kyon when he's being a bratty low self-esteem a**hole, and you're upset when he opens up and becomes emotionally honest under her influence? Yes, bad Tohru for helping a lonely mixed up teenager. Bad, bad Tohru.



Is it perhaps for the above reason you stated that they (By ways of being twisted psychotic bastards) influence others to help eachother due to the hardship they face? Then, by that logic, a ruthless genocidal dictator is really nice too, because his sadistic megalomaniacal actions drive people to band together and help each other in the face of adversity. Okay. Yeah. Sure.

Tohru.... any questions? Al too... he's so sweet... Also Hinamori from Bleach, she's nice~

I have a list of characters that are nice

RGU:Utena,Anthy,and Miki
Fb:Yuki,Ayame,Tohru,Uotani, Hanajima,and Kisa

Well... Anthy pretty much is a doormat/human punching bag. Miki is definitely sweet. Utena's nice too, although she has quite the whoopass instinct in her...



Uo-chan?... But she threatens girls with lead pipes. And Ayame is more flamboyant and self-absorbed than kind and compassionate to others, although his efforts with his brother are really cute.

But she does it out of love for her friend, Tohru

The nicest characters I've ever seen are Alphonse Elric,Trisha Elric,Tohru Honda,and Sayoko Shiranagatani. ^_^

Nicest characters would be:

Hinata (Naruto)
Rin (Inuyasha)
Melfina (Outlaw Star)
Quatre (Gundam Wing)
Al Elric (FMA)
Trisha Elric (FMA)

Hmm... yeah... "Nice" can be taken in so many ways and I'm sure that there are many nice characters in many series...
Well as alrady mentioned Tohru Honda, definitely... others:
Kisa Sohma (Fruits Basket)
Haku (Naruto).. His character really touched me...
Choutarou Ootori (Prince of Tennis)
Yugi Mutou (Yu-gi-oh!)
Ryo Bakura (Yu-gi-oh!)
Hikari Yagami (Digimon Adventure)
Yukito Tsukishiro (Card Captor Sakura)
Tomoyo Daidouji (Card Captor Sakura)
Rin (Inu Yasha)
Kohaku (Wish)
Hisui (Wish)

Really... there are so many characters that could be considered nice and almost everyone is and can be nice in their own way.(and I know I've forgotten some).. I suppose it's just that with some it's maybe more striking than with others and usually those people are probably more the type to think only about others, which turns out to bring trouble/discomfort to themselves....

the nicest Characters I've seen in any anime show are:

Azmaria Hendrich ( Chrno Crusade)
Alphonse Elric (FMA)
Tohru Honda (Fruits Basket)
Shima Katatse (Stellvia)
Yayoi (Stellvia)
Riku Harada (D N Angel)
Daisuke Niwa (D N Angel)
Toboe (Wolf's Rain)
Yanagi Sakoshita (Flame of Recca)

Nodoka.. From MSN.

She never does anything. >_<

I will have to say Tohru Honda from Fruits Basket..... she's just too nice.. (and is an idiot I may add...)

Toboe from Wolf's Rain gets my vote. He's also an example of nice guys finishing last.

Wow, Bacon...You're so blunt and precise with your reasons.

I think Alphonse from FMA.

IMO, Tony Tony Chopper from One Piece

Roy Mustang & Riza Hawkeye of FMA... they ROXX!!! lurve them lotxa...
alphonse elric is nice too...

Momiji... he's sooo sweet! XD

And Al. He's very nice, too

momiji he always helping and being nice to people even when he have problem on his own.

this is hard one...

Alphonse from FMA
Sora from Kaleido-Star, but she gets upset amazingly easy
Yukito from Cardcaptor Sakura
Takato from Digimon Tamers ("can't we all be friends?" XD)

mmmmm
i think my vote is for toboe from wolf's rain --- ginji or kazuki from get backers

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'Nice' is a really basic word. Void's right about that. But as in sweet, loving, and devoted...cute maybe...I thought of these characters:

(Mary-sues are NOT included. I think a trully "nice" character has flaws to make them real.)

Chrno (Chrno Crusade)

Alphonse Elric (FMA, odviously)

Momijii (Fruits Basket)

Toboe (Wolf's Rain)

Loki (Mythical Detective Loki Ragnorak)

Daisuke (DNAngel. Althought he DOES border along Gary-sue.)

Tohru is comepletely insane ( too much nice! ahhhh!)

Hinata from Naruto is also nice

i agree but i still think she's one of the nice ones in anime
P.S. i also hate the word "nice"

I think Toujo (sp?) from Ichigo 100% is one of the nicest.