In other words, I would like NON-ROMANCE manga (preferably shoujo-esque) with a PROTAGANIST that is tsundere, kuudere, whatever they are calling it these days, personality.
He must be a GOOD person deep (deep, deep, deep) down who is actually self-sacrificing and caring, but does not like to or just does not get the chance to, read:misunderstood, show this side of himself very often. Will probably blush endearingly when he accidentally does show kindness.
His exterior is unlikeable, whether he is rough, tough, delinquent, cold, brief, hot-headed, violent, prickly, snarky, stoic, arrogant, socially-awkward, indifferent, loud and obnoxious, mentally unstable (here's looking at you Oz), or just plain MEAN supposedly. He will leave you thinking, what an asshole. Right? Wrong!
If this were a romance, the girl's eyes would widen at XXX kind act (i.e saving a kitten, lending a jacket to the shivering maiden, helping someone in an indirect, roundabout way) and smile/giggle softly to herself, thinking "so he's really this type of person" or "maybe he's not such a bad person." CUE THE FAINT BLUSH. But I DO NOT want that typical shoujo, pink, steamy fluff. So that would be a bad example. Sasuke from Naruto would also be a BAD example.
The Yaoi/Shounen Ai Example (i would rather not, since they can be as bad as het romances in the amount of cavity-inducing scenes, but if you have an atypical one, go right ahead):
Tightrope
Totally Captivated - romantic interest, BEAST
The Shounen Example (haa, i want GOOD ART PLEASE):
Beelzebub - Oga is actually a really good example but his kind/not completely rotten heart is buried seventy thousand feet underground, aka HELL
Darker than Black - big bad contractor my ass, Hiei is a sweetheart in the anime
Fullmetal Alchemist - lots here
Junjou Karen na Oretachi da! - another really GOOD example
Prince of Tennis - Atobe
Others:
Monochrome Factor - The way the main treats his best friend, and that spectacular BLUSH
Teen Spirit
Illegenes
Kagerou Nostalgia - it's not that he thinks you have cooties, it's that
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he was molested when he was younger and really does NOT need you touching him right now
Kurosagi
GameXRush
NG Life
Hands Off
Hetalia - America and Prussia
BEST EXAMPLES I CAN THINK OF:
Haigakura -
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how he always resorts to violence and cutting comments, how cute and child-like he is with the big cat-demon-thing, his little pep-talk to the kid, the scene where the prideful main bows his head to save the pikachu-boy-creature! asdfghjkl!!!
and
Barakamon
For those of you who actually read this entire monster of a post, thank you so much!
Godspeed.
Last edited by hollyivy at 10:05 am, Feb 25 2011