My favorite anime girl is Bleach Captain Unohana
Dakki from houshin engi
Nami
Literally every single one of these legends! Peak!
And Cardcaptor Sakura. I remember reading the manga in middle school.
Definitely Ai Enma from Hell Girl! She's very dear to my heart (I watched the show repeatedly for years, all 4 seasons)
Made me really like red spider lilies too
Idk, do these count as anime?
Any female character?
I don't know about "most," but I was impressed with Nagumo's design from CITY recently. Simple, unique, tells us a lot about both the character and the setting.
Ngl, best one posted in this thread so far (safe my own biased posts haha)
Yeah, "great character design" is a totally different question than "character I happen to like" but people treat them the same.
The line does get blurred, at least for me. When a character is well designed I already like them just a bit more than others haha.
You can also tell I love designs like Vi and Mizu, because well, they share a lot of design traits with Kyara.
and honestly i'd run out of room but a lot of the character designs from dungeon meshi
i feel like there's plenty of "standard attractive" anime women designs but the ones i'm often the most fond of are those that reflect real life or do something unique with familiar shape language
Anthy Himemiya from Revolutionary Girl Utena, the show packs a lot of symbolism into a lot of rather innocuous aspects of her design, and I’m very impressed she can pull off red purple and green all together.
Noticing a conspicuous absence here, Abby
I forgot about them! Thank you dude! ️
Dude!
Name a better combo
The art style of this show is honestly stunning
There’s also Yotsuba she’s so cute!
Does Akiko by Mark Crilley also count?
I love all of them here
This was a very difficult question for me...generally, I'm drawn to anime series by character design first and foremost, so my answer could justifiably be "every girl from every anime I've ever liked". But after a bit of hair-pulling, I managed to narrow my list down to a top 2:
Black Rock Shooter (BRS 2012)Takes her original simple character design concept and greebles it up just enough to make it look more interesting and protagonist-y, but without losing the qualities that made it iconic (effortlessly edgy silhouette, monochrome color scheme, contemporary clothes with fantastical styling). She looks cute yet mysterious, innocent yet dangerous; like a hero and a villain simultaneously. BRS will forever be my inspiration~
Sayaka Miki (Madoka Magica)Filled to the brim with character. The mermaid theming, hero theming, musical theming, and fantasy knight/swordsman theming all blend together seamlessly and masterfully on this single design. If not for the fact that BRS appeals so strongly to my personal taste, Sayaka would be my #1 pick; she's probably THE best anime character design I know. She looks cute and unique, the clothes suit her fighting style and body language, and her color scheme is just delicious-- I love the interactions between pure blue and green-blue; I love the use of white and the bright yellow accents to soften the design. And the fortissimo hairclip looks so perfect; it's hard to believe they didn't add it until the Blu-Ray edition of the anime. Just a 10/10, 100/100 S-tier design....Lemme tell ya, it's been painful to watch the designs in this franchise devolve into "generic pretty dress", "overdesigned RPG waifu" or "external reference so obvious it might as well be a Halloween costume" when THIS used to be the standard.
It's hard to pick just one, but here's Coco from Witch Hat Atelier.
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