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NEWS: Which Anime Character Do You Wish You Could Be Friends With?

Yang Wenli or Reinhard Von Lohengramme.

If Goku was your friend, your odds of dying would shoot through the roof.

The only kind of friend Rei would be is a "right hand girlfriend." (or is that Asuka's job...)

Actually, most anime girls would make crappy friends; all the ones from boys' series are vapid wish-fulfillment projections and all the ones from girls' series are addled Ritalin-deprived case studies. You can't even hang out with a Miyazaki heroine without being accused of being a pedo. I can see why Minami from Touch was the only other girl on the list; she's the only one that's remotely normal.

All of the answers make sense except for Rei Ayanami. I can't imagine a worse person to be friends with. She'd be such a downer all the time, would never have fun when we went out, and would make a terrible conversationalist. That must have been a guy's pick, since I can't imagine any female wanting to go out on the town and be girls with Rei.

Patachu wrote:

The only kind of friend Rei would be is a "right hand girlfriend." (or is that Asuka's job...)

Seems like more of an Asuka thing to me ....

Impossibly hot for 12. Good grief, what is it with anime people that they make middle- and high-schoolers so darn hot? Pedophilia, anyone???

Cloe wrote:

All of the answers make sense except for Rei Ayanami. I can't imagine a worse person to be friends with. She'd be such a downer all the time, would never have fun when we went out, and would make a terrible conversationalist. That must have been a guy's pick, since I can't imagine any female wanting to go out on the town and be girls with Rei.

Maybe you didn't know, but there's a huge, huge following for Ayanami Rei, mostly among the male fanbase. In other words, a lot of guys think she's really hot. My guess is that was the reasoning behind that choice.

If I had a dime for every time I've read, "She is cute, that is why she is called Rei-chan."

potassium wrote:

Cloe wrote: All of the answers make sense except for Rei Ayanami. I can't imagine a worse person to be friends with. She'd be such a downer all the time, would never have fun when we went out, and would make a terrible conversationalist. That must have been a guy's pick, since I can't imagine any female wanting to go out on the town and be girls with Rei. Maybe you didn't know, but there's a huge, huge following for Ayanami Rei, mostly among the male fanbase. In other words, a lot of guys think she's really hot. My guess is that was the reasoning behind that choice. If I had a dime for every time I've read, "She is cute, that is why she is called Rei-chan."

I've never really understood the mass fanaticism over Rei...sure she's attractive in a way, but even on the "friends with benefits" route, her personality screams "cold fish." That's part of the reason why out of the main EVA female leads, she's third on my list behind Misato and Asuka. (And if secondary females were included, then there'd be others I'd take over her, such as Maya, Ritsuko, etc.) [quote=Actually, most anime girls would make crappy friends; all the ones from boys' series are vapid wish-fulfillment projections and all the ones from girls' series are addled Ritalin-deprived case studies.] I'm gonna have to go ahead and disagree a little there...I'd say Love Hina's Kitsune would make a great platonic drinking buddy.

As for me, there are some guys I'd pick, like Kazuharu Fukuyama from Girls Bravo or that Hiroyuki guy from DearS -- now they could teach me the Ways of The Force, I mean "picking up chicks" or whatever you call it.