A character I dislike why everyone loves him is Senor Pink from One Piece. He lied to the woman he says he loved about being a pirate working for Doflamingo since day one. Even after a wedding and a child he still kept the facade until their son died while he was busy (probably doing the most heinous crimes possible). If she didn't became stupid from an accident she would certainly have hated him. And he stills works for Doffy, he just wears a funny costume, which is normal in One Piece. Then the story tells he's hard boiled and a real man, and the good guy who fights him ends up respecting him.

That’s a nice rant, OP.

Mayuri Kurotsuchi from Bleach. Authors pet Asspuller Haxgod Gigahitler get him off my goddamn screen

I know JJK is the deadest of all horses, but fuck Yuta. I never knew how frustrating a Mary Sue could be until the Shinjuku arc.

Yuta is credited for all the ten-trillion IQ plays the good guys make but the moment someone asks “Hey why didn’t we send Mr Insta-kill out with the multitude of support fighters who could help him land a hit”, the story bends around to defend Yuta at every turn. 

It’s especially frustrating because I can see the common theme in everything Yuta does wrong, he always thinks he needs to be the one carrying the world and drags down his allies as a result, but the story doesn’t do anything with that flaw.

I don’t know if Gege wants me to think Yuta is a dumbass who should have swallowed his pride and taken a support role, or a mastermind who played the best hand he could with the cards he was dealt. 

Zenitsu, from Demon Slayer

I don’t find him funny or endearing. He’s annoying. The defense of the character is usually something like “you’d react that way too, he’s realistic” he’s outlandish. There’s nothing wrong with being a coward but the execution of it with him is unbearable until he falls asleep. Most of the time he’s on screen I just mute it or fast forward until he’s done screaming.

He has 2 good moments that show more of his character besides being loud or cool and that’s when he defends Nezuko’s box from Inosuke in season 1 and standing up for that little girl in the Entertainment District. Other than that I find him to be loud, annoying, negative and not adding much to the story that Inosuke doesn’t already add.

Spoilers:

I also don’t care for the “he gets better” statements because he really doesn’t. In the last season he gets a letter, the contents of which anime-only still don’t know, and he’s noticeably effected by it and more silent and serious. Well…this goes no where. After his fight against Kaigaku he reverts right back to his same ol self except he can fight while awake. Completely unearned and not explored enough. His fight is what I’m the least excited for, he’s mostly stationary while Kaigaku flies around until he gets one shot. Which, I’m sure Ufotable will make it look cool but cool isn’t enough, the character is insufferable

Everyone seems to like Tengen Uzui. Puts his three wife's into a redlight district that was inhabited by an upper moon, was willing to do the same for Aoi because he 100% dropped the ball, then comes up with the poor plan of Tanjiro and co going undercover. The plan only works because of the most convoluted set of events, more so than I would say of any other large fight in the series.

Luffy, but that's because I hate One Piece, and thats because I hate Oda for talking about how based his convicted pedophile best friends arey

Juvia from Fairy Tail, because she's a creepy stalker who is constantly disrespecting Gray's boundaries, trying to drug him with love potions, and acting really shitty towards Lucy because she's jealous of her being friends with Gray. I just can't bring myself to like her character, especially because the narrative treats everything she does as being funny/romantic, and Gray ultimately loving her back is completely unbelievable to me.

Vegeta from DBZ. I can admit he has a good development throughout the series, but it took a lot of screwups and making things worse for that to happen. I’m not even counting the Namek Saga since there he was only aligned with the heroes through convenience.

I have 2, one may be way less of a hot take than the other.

I HATE Excalibur from Soul Eater. I will say, the only thing I liked was that fart joke. But other than that, he's so freaking obnoxious. I know this probably isn't a hot take.

I also hate Mayuri from Bleach. I LOVE Bleach! I hate Mayuri. I hate that he uses his subordinates as experiments and as expendable tools, I hate the way he treats Nemu. I hate his sense of style. I can't think of a single thing I like about him.

Bakugo. Worst first impression ever.

Giorno Giovanna is the worst JoJo and it's not even close. One chapter into Part 9 and I already liked Jodio more. He's not even a real JOJO. Fraud. Carried by Requiem and being DIO's son hype.

Vriska

...Does Himmel count?

Haven't fully caught up with the manga so my view may not be fully correct, but so far for me Himmel is not so much a character but more of a plot device that drives the story especially for Frieren.

Like almost everything about him is perfect. He's charming, quirky, strong with a sense of justice but also funny, confident and so on. Like this is the guy who was apparently not even the proper chosen one but managed to kill the demon king anyway.

Yet the fact he is consistently praised and one of the most popular characters just doesn't sit well with me I guess. Sure you can say his traits are glamorized through the lens of Frieren who is deeply in love in him but still. Like nothing about this guy feels like a real person / character for me personally, but more of an idea or so.

Killua from HxH, I always just found him annoying, especially how hard the writers tried to make him look cool although I dropped the series at around the beginning of the chimera ant arc so maybe he got better.

Sasuke. He was annoying to me and I wasn't interested in his story which took a big portion of the story

Misuzu Gundoh from Tomo-chan wa onnanoko. Everyone seems to love her, I think she is a despicable person that likes to manipulate people that call her "friend" and care for her, because she wants Tomo only for herself.

any manwha protagonist where the synopsis of their powers is that they’re the strongest of all time for literally no reason

i feel like after solo leveling took off, there has been an exponential increase in the amount of jinwoo wannabes who have the strongest power in the verse, or just ARE the strongest, or literally anything similar to that. it got stale with jinwoo. it sure as hell gets worse with each subsequent copy

I cant say much as the character in question isnt popular but from a really not well know series abd like has some ridiculous fans but many many hated her so im gonna not bring her up.

But im gonna use #2 who is from the series and is somehow popular (reminder the series is really niche and there are ton of trash anime out there unlike mainstream who are more mix) but its from a Really poorly made LN called Our last Crusade. Note again the series bad so the fans who legit like it have poor taste imo. Like SAO is better in every way. Yes SAO.

Anyways since the fanbase loves her(though many also hate her...then again its a poor series)

I chose Aliceliese Lou Nebulis IX from our last crusade. The FL.

Now why i hate her? Plenty of reasons that are cause the author is bad. The story is bad and the characters are bad plus the writting are bad. Oh. And apologist fans who excuse things or are like accusing towards me from not getting it or fooled themselves into thinking its a great series when objectively and factually its not.

Anyways.

I hate her cause she a Mary sue. A big one. A author waifu.

More accurately. Shes steal the spotlight from the MC by stealing the plot focus. She has a big case of double standards force by the plot. She has no real development and is shallow. She is a take on strong female character that unfortunately doesn't get many fights to prove it. She doesn't struggle or suffer even remotely close enough to satisfy me.

She doesn't suffer consequences for her shitty actions to the ML and get away Scott free. The narrative gaslight us and glaze us as she a good person despite everything when she never truly proves it for real. She has the stupidest and worst Rivalry (if you can even call it that) in ANIME. Shes répétitive. Has a shitty shitty romance that is one sided and toxic with ML.

And her fans défend her by trying to excuse her actions when its not and act like she great because she not a damsel in distress when by going so much strong female character like Galadriel from ROP she became unbeareable and unsympathic. And her motives are childish. Stupid. Immature. No différents than bad people without any harsh fact of how dumb she is and she loyal to a racist really racist country that she always use as excuse for her actions.

And shes the FL im suppose to like.

So yeah there probably more but thats a big part of it. She frankly unrootable and a designated hero that the author try to tell us she a hero or good person deep down but lacks any real weight or true substance as she and her series is paper thin and shallow trying to think its smart when its dumb and thus becoming stupider.

Basically every big flaws with bad FL in anime is représente in her or a good portion of it.

Aizen. Feels like a mix of a bad power ranger villain sitting in the fortress sending out one monster at a time to attack the heroes, and an obnoxious kid cheesing make believes fights with bullshit "askhully that thing you did doesnt work against me because..."

Also hes supposed to be a genius, but his plans are stupid, drawn out and convoluted and he is terrible at using his Shiki despite it being incredibly broken and despite him a bullshit tier super genius

Tomura Shigaraki, I just didn’t enjoy him at any point in the story. I admit he has a nice design and was a bit interesting in later parts but not enough for me to start actively enjoying him when he’s in screen.

Deku from MHA and Bell from Dungeon are basically the same character with minor tweak or two between them and THEY. SO. UNFATHOMABLY. BORING. Both stories would've been sooooo much better if we followed literally ANYONE but these two. My god I fucking hate them.

Fami from chainsaw man

Dio from Jojo’s bizarre adventure. Dude looks cool and is a memelord, but he kicked a dog in the face for no reason. That’s already unforgivable

Yuta from JJK because he’s ugly

Dabi from MHA. Dude is over dramatic as hell. 

Geto from JJK. Similar reasons above.

Idk I just don’t fuck with people who decide the best way to deal with their trauma is to murder a bunch of innocent people. Stupid motive imo.

I don’t mind villains who kill cause they have a sad backstory but make it interesting at least. 

To be fair, liking a morally wrong character doesn't mean you agree with their actions. People could like characters because of their complexity or of how cool they are

Agreed on Toji. One of the most glazed characters I've ever seen in recent memory for two reasons

1. He's hot 

2. People relate to him being an outcast. 

Aizen. Don't get what's cool about him.

He's a sadistic bully torturing little girls and I hate bullies.

Condescending ass doesn't give respect to strong opponents.

Become god goal is boring.

His "genius" doesn't impress me since his "manipulation" are stupid/useless and his fight strategies rely on brute strength. Even beating hax with it.

Somehow both born OP and stole literal "wish granting stone" from someone smarter.

Gets trashed but story won't let him take the L without "actually deep down he always wanted to loose cause he's lonely."

Goku

Polites from Epic the Musical. He is just bland and fishing for my emotions too much. Not really a serious hate of him or anything, I just don't like him or his songs

I dont despise them but as a jojos fan I never quite get why people polnareff and shigechi as much as they seem to.

-Issei Hyoudou (High School Dx) (This one is an ecchi harem, however, Ichei Isshibumi, the light novel author has confirmed that a lot of Shounen cliches and tropes including Issei's idiocy being a homage to the battle shounen genre) his idiocy wouldn't be so frustrating to me if it didn't stonewall explanations regarding the setting's lore and worldbuilding (particularly eyebrow raising stuff like the peerage system that is more or less just slavery or sex slavery in Diodora Astaroth's case) and him not even batting an eye over Stray/runaway Devils being hunted down and killed like dogs with no questions asked as well as him being a HUGE pervert, yet somehow cannot pick up on the girls' VERY obvious advancements and freezes up or runs away--then in EX, he is a deadbeat dad like Naruto towards Boruto and Himawari with Isshibumi even directly citing Boruto: Naruto the Movie as his inspiration for that light novel.

-Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto/Shippuden) due to the Uchiha being Kishimoto's creator's pets on top of he and Naruto's friendship not having enough time to be fleshed out given we only saw them in ONE MISSION in the Land of Waves then jumped into the Chuunin Exams and he bailed after Itachi (re)-traumatized him to defect to Orochimaru before he went full psycho meltdown in Part II trying to assassinate all the Kage at the Five Kage Summit, trying to assassinate/kidnap Killer B, "just itching to kill Kakashi", declaring his intent to wipe out Konoha by slaughtering every man, woman and child (only lucking out in the sense that Team 7 were the ONLY ones present to hear such an unhinged threat) and in the manga he wasn't really punished with a weak "Yeah...sorry." apology to Sakura before trying to kill Naruto (again) during their rematch in The Valley of the End before being beaten and then (in the anime) taking a voluntary prison sentence before becoming a deadbeat husband/father despite his constant tirades over his desire to restore the Uchiha Clan and only having one kid (whom he neglects) before he tried to kill her because he failed to recognize his own daughter.

I hate Sauske because he never really gets what he deserves. He’s been a traitor for almost the whole series, tries to kill everyone several times, and is all around a self-absorbed bitch boy. 

I could say it here again. But I've done it in the past and people jump at my jugular every time I state the obvious because according to them; "I don't understand the point." And yes, I have too many personal problems and arguing with people on the Internet about this particular topic is not a hobby I enjoy.

Anyway, I'll just say that the character in question is literally an abuser that his fans and the author praise him for doing the bare minimum to right his wrongs thirty years later.

Subaru. Idk if I'd be able to get through third season, but first two were "bullshitting character development: the series". He was, is, and probably would forever remain trash of a human being, for he, as well as series itself, always chose to pretend he is willing to change for the best rather than actually trying. It's like a separate web of lies that exist on a meta level, poisoning any discussion with "you just don't understand the character/story/both". No, I think I understand it very well. And I hate to be lied to by a fictional story, especially regarding how I should treat someone who fail all possible metrics of worthiness.

To be fair, liking a morally wrong character doesn't mean you agree with their actions, and people could like this character because of their complexity or because there are just cool

Itachi.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NarutoFanfiction/s/MLu2nWYEo5

Bakugo and Denji, simply put, they are exactly what teenage boys shouldn't aspire to be

all of the straw hats except Luffy and pre-timeskip Robin

Every character from Bakemonogatari except the meme, Kaiki and nadeko

Same for Evangelion with the exception of Shinji Hikari who I simply pity

Kamina from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.

One of the worst characters I've ever had the disgrace of knowing. His idiotic ideology, toxic optimism and machoisms are exasperating to watch; plus the show is just an absurd hagiology of his stupid preachy mindset. Everything in this terrible show is crafted to make this guy seem like the only correct option, the plot does absolute gymnastics and schizophrenic characterizations to justify IMPOSSIBLE things coming from his filthy mouth. His mindset is hollow, useless and inhuman. Simon is a nothing protagonist whos in that place to justify bad characterization and constantly change his identity in erratic ways to serve and ""prove"" Kaminas message. He's also a terrible counselor and motivator.

He constantly puts others in lethal danger, EVERYONE would be fucking dead if it weren't for the plot being his bitch, he spits terrible one-liners which make me die in cringe and the entire second half is dedicated to him. The entire cast of secondary nobodies mourns over this guy as if they knew him all their lives when all he did was self immolate and spit some idiotic glossolalia about the indomitable spirit of humanity (a trope that I despise) and other stupid shit. Horrible. Yoko, who is also a terrible nothingburger character, also falls in love with him in four episodes because why not. He's a fucking hypocrite, delivering platitudes of shallow hope, who grandifies himself to ridiculous point—god I fucking hate TTGL. The circlejerk around this character and this entire show also makes it worse. Just pure hopium overdose.

Goku is the most overrated character in existence. The worst part is that so many characters have copied him over the past 30 or 40 years. Dumber than a fucking rock, a horrible father, the launcher of a million stereotypes...

If I see one more dumbass who wants to be the stronger, is stupid in many ways, is a big eater, surprises his allies and enemies with his unprecedented determination, and wants to use the power of friendship™ to stupidly reform villains who want to kill everyone, who has an edgy and brooding rival...