The Greatest Anime/Manga Protagonist Ever (Nomination Thread)

[LumRanmaYasha]

You can delete my posts all you want, but I still ain't gonna put your obvious troll nominations in the competition.   

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Nagate Tanikaze (Knights of Sidonia)
Shinn Asuka (Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny)
Shirou Emiya (Fate/stay night)
Shiki Ryougi (Kara no Kyoukai)
Illyasviel von Einzbern (Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya)
Yang Wen-li (Legend of the Galactic Heroes)
Hajime Ichinose (Gatchaman Crowds)
Keiichi Maebara (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni)
Takao Kasuga (The Flowers of Evil)
Mikey Fuccon (Oh! Mikey)
Space Dandy (Space Dandy)
John Estes (Mad Bull 34)
Momotaros (Kamen Rider Den-O: Imagin Anime)
Isaac Dian (Baccano!)
Miria Harvent (Baccano!)
Violence Jack (Violence Jack)
Yoshiyuki Tomino (Mobile Suit Gundam-san)
Celty Sturluson (Durarara!!)
Geist (MD Geist)
Kantoku-kun (Insufficient Direction)
Inferno Cop (Inferno Cop)
Ken Izumi (Chargeman Ken!)
Masaki Michishita (Kuso Miso Technique)
Motoko Kusanagi (Ghost in the Shell)
Dean Winchester (Supernatural The Animation)
Arsene Lupin III (Lupin III)
Koyomi Araragi (Monogatari Series)
Sasuke Furuta (Hyouge Mono)

[The Shadow Gentleman]

Jonathan Joestar (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
Josuke Higashikata (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
Simon (Gurren Lagann)
Kamina (Gurren Lagann)
Bruce Wayne (Batman: Gotham Knight)
Convoy Prime (Kiss Players)
Reinhard von Lohengramm (Legend of the Galactic Heroes)

[LumRanmaYasha]

I give you guys credit for mixing in your legit nominations with your troll nominations.  Seriously, though, I won't be putting the latter in the competition anyway, since I'm savvy enough to know which of those your being serious about and which you aren't. 

[Dr. Insomniac]

Jesus Christ (Saint Young Men)

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

I have a few more:

Hajime Saito (Rurouni Kenshin)
Aoshi Shinomori (Rurouni Kenshin)
Steiner Hardie (Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket)
Jubei Kibagami (Ninja Scroll)
Captain Kraft (Level E)
Jimbei (One Piece)

[Spark Of Spirit]

Thorfinn (Vinland Saga)
Einar (Vinland Saga)
Hachimaki Hoshino (Planetes)
Hanamichi Sakuragi (Slam Dunk)
Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star)
Amuro Ray (Mobile Suit Gundam)

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

I was thinking of nominating Sakuragi,  but I basically consider Nomiya to be the better version of that character.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Why not both? 

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Why not both? 

Well, it can never hurt to have more Inoue Takehiko characters in this competition.

[Pharass]

A few characters from me (Apologies in advance if any of them have already nominated and I somehow missed them):


Reinhard von Lohengramm (Legend of the Galactic Heroes)
Ginko (Mushi-Shi)
Fujiko Mine (Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine)
Mendoza (The Mysterious Cities of Gold)
Itto Ogami (Lone Wolf and Cub)
Daigoro (Lone Wolf and Cub) - Hmm, perhaps we should put him and Itto together?
Oscar Francois de Jarjayes (The Rose of Versailles)
Captain Harlock

Those are all I could think of at the moment.

[LumRanmaYasha]

Ryo Narushima (Shamo) - If villain-protagonists count.

I'm afraid not. This competition is basically for all non-villain anime/manga characters. It's called a "protagonist" tournament just because I didn't think "heroes" or "good guys" were appropriate labels to encompass the broad variety of characters that'd be in the competition.

Does The Mysterious Cities of Gold count as anime (it was a French-Japanese collaboration)? I was thinking about nominating Mendoza.

I'll count it. Go ahead and nominate him! 

[Pharass]

Modified my previous post and replaced Ryo with Mendoza.

[LumRanmaYasha]

Just going to remind y'all this'll be the last day to make any additional nominations for this competition. Everyone has until midnight tonight, after which I'll add in my some more nominations of my own (however many that will be), and start the competition. So if you've got any more nominations to make, better get 'em in while you still can!

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Wizardmon (Digimon Adventure)
Takato (Digimon Tamers)
Henry (Digimon Tamers)
Vegeta (Dragon Ball)
Tenshinhan (Dragon Ball)
Bardock (Dragon Ball)
Portgas D. Ace (One Piece)

With Bardock, while he performs villainous actions, I do think that he eventually redeems himself by trying to save planet Vegeta in the TV special, whereas in the manga he clearly becomes a good guy at the end of his story, so that's how I justify him.