So Honya finally started the sec­ond round to the anime fam­ily project. Yay! It also means it’s time for me to pub­lish this post that I started two months ago. About time. There’s been quite a few changes in my anime fam­ily, reflect­ing upon how my views have shifted over the two years since Honya’s first anime fam­ily project startup. But I think this time, a few more of the char­ac­ters have entered the frame to set­tle down permanently.

The anime fam­ily project is, in a nut­shell, a selec­tion of char­ac­ters from anime, manga, vis­novs, et cetera, that are assigned to roles in your ideal fic­tional family.

First, I start with…

Per­sona: Rita Mor­dio (Tales of Ves­pe­ria)

Ratio­nale: Seri­ous, shy, and socially awk­ward, Rita is a mild tsun­dere whom I con­sider my per­sona because she is in many ways a spit­ting image of myself: she’s nor­mally focused on her work and projects and hates to be both­ered by triv­ial busi­ness; she responds to silly and/or shame­less behav­ior by call­ing them out on stu­pid­ity, even if she likes some of them; she’s very vocal about many of her social and moral beliefs and isn’t afraid of voic­ing them bluntly; she cares deeply for her friends and fam­ily yet either doesn’t know how to show it, or is sim­ply too shy to; she’s extremely loyal towards those same peo­ple and will help them no mat­ter what it takes; she has a quick tem­per that boils quickly, yet she’s very for­giv­ing towards oth­ers (Judith) who are sin­cere and apolo­getic about their mis­takes; I could go on for a while. Okay, I’m not quite as nice as she is on some of those. But really, I’ve never been able to pre­dict a character’s response to each and every moment so well, and all I had to do was apply my own feel­ings. I only wish I had her genius brains and magic pro­fi­ciency: peo­ple con­sider me smart at my work, but noth­ing like a prodigy, and I only wished I could use “fire­ball” as one of my responses.

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My Fam­ily Grow­ing Up

Otou-sama: Emiya Kir­it­sugu (Fate/Stay Night, Fate/Zero)

Ratio­nale: As Fate/stay night and Fate/zero presents their oppos­ing views, we learn about both Emiya Kir­it­sugu the father, and Emiya Kir­i­tusu the Mage Assas­sin Eter­nal Badass. Despite his shady past of being a ruth­less trained killer who spe­cial­ized at tak­ing out mages using every method at dis­posal, Kir­it­sugu has a pure and remark­able, if not twisted, sense of jus­tice that even Saber had to admit “if there was a Mas­ter in the war wor­thy of obtain­ing the Holy Grail, then he would undoubt­edly be Emiya Kir­it­sugu”. In my opin­ion, Kir­it­sugu was the truest of heroes in the Nasu­verse, and maybe the entire ani­mev­erse, as not only did he desire to save the world (through the least black-and-white means imag­in­able), he was absolutely self­less, will­ing to take up all of its sins, carry all of the evils in the world, in his path for a holy grail rev­o­lu­tion, for a bet­ter future with his beloved fam­ily. Yet despite this, Kir­it­sugu pro­tected both the well-being and inno­cence of his fam­ily, start­ing with Irisviel and end­ing with Emiya Shi­rou. He would hide his blood­stained past and become the model father for his kids: just, car­ing, and com­pas­sion­ate, yet seri­ous and not pam­per­ing, steer­ing his off­spring into the cor­rect direc­tion while shel­ter­ing them from the darker secrets of the world that they do not need. How­ever, after the tragic events of Fate/Zero, Kir­it­sugu needs some­one to revive his desire for life and happiness…

Yes Kir­it­sugu will teach me magic. I’ll be suc­ceed­ing his mage­craft seal so I can cast Tidal Wave even faster…

Hon­or­able Men­tion: Maes Hughes (Full­metal Alchemist), I love you to death for your happiest-pappa-in-the-world atti­tude and the ten­der lov­ing care you give your fam­ily, but if I was your daugh­ter I’d be spoilt rotten.

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Okaa-san: Otomiya Haine (Shin­shi Doumei Cross)

Ratio­nale: Opti­mistic and strong-willed, Haine has the per­fect com­bi­na­tion of cute­ness, com­pas­sion, ini­tia­tive, and resolve for a hero­ine; an ideal can­di­date for pulling dear Otou-san back to human­ity and give him the mean­ing to live his remain­ing life with a lov­ing fam­ily. Haine had already shown capa­ble abil­ity as an older sis­ter dur­ing the events of Shinkuro. As a mother, I think many of her finer traits would make her a model par­ent: she’s strong but not unnec­es­sar­ily stub­born; she’s warm and car­ing towards the peo­ple around her, yet isn’t plagued by inde­ci­sive­ness when mis­for­tune strikes; she’s remark­ably self­less when it comes to the prob­lems of her close friends and fam­ily; et cetera. Fur­ther­more, after the fam­ily issues she had to over­come dur­ing her child­hood, she would be excep­tion­ally strong and capa­ble in deal­ing with any fam­ily trou­bles of mine (which might be needed with 6 kids).

Hon­or­able Men­tions: Minase Akiko-san (Kanon) you’re also like Hughes and would be the per­fect mother in almost every way, except one: you’re too soft.

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Onii-sama (old­est): Shan­non Casull (Scrapped Princess)

Ratio­nale: Over the years I’ve seen so many good big-brothers in anime and all of them have touched me at one point or another; but when I look back to the moment when Shannon-nii made his stand against the entire world for the sake of his sis­ter in Scrapped Princess EP20 (4:29 here), I can firmly claim that none of the oth­ers even holds a can­dle against him. Shan­non has all the traits of a good older brother to look up to: car­ing and pro­tec­tive of his sib­lings, self­less and devoted to his fam­ily, cool and depend­able in a pinch, always reli­able for help, skilled in any fight, and canny in intel­lect. He also comes with the fully hug­gable Zephiris that dou­bles up as an Earth-saving Dra­goon assault craft.

Although, when Shan­non isn’t doing his assigned house­work, he’ll be laz­ing around behind some tree in the back­yard, pos­si­bly even lazy-stalking Kud or Italia (always nap­ping in a tree near where they are).

Hon­or­able Men­tions: Lelouch and Suzaku (Code Geass) were really close; they also belong together and made the best pair. But even aside from his half-related sib­lings, Lulu ended up putting the World before his fam­ily, aban­don­ing Nun­nally and elim­i­nat­ing his par­ents. Damn.

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Onii-san (sec­ond, adopted): Emiya Shi­rou (Fate/stay night)

Ratio­nale: What can I say Shi­rou? Your badassery truly inspires me, and your actions in Heaven’s Feel (def­i­nitely true end) is a per­fect model exam­ple of the self­less choices we must make for the sake of our beloved’s hap­pi­ness. Even before and after those fate­ful 15 days, your dis­ci­plined day to day life is a paragon role model for ded­i­ca­tion and hard work — two of life’s most impor­tant aspects that would surely wear off on me and my other sib­lings. Lastly, I want to savor and learn from your post-doctorate mas­tery of cook­ing, as just the descrip­tions of those dishes make me mouth­wa­ter at times.

Unlike Shan­non, the worka­holic Shi­rou would be tak­ing care of like half the house­work, and enjoy­ing tea with us…

Hon­or­able Men­tion: Morita Kenichi (Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shoujo) is another GAR fig­ure that I would love to have as an older brother… well, except for the fact he was a real wuss as a lit­tle kid before unfor­tu­nate events sparked his manliness.

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Onee-sama: Higuchi Ririko (Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shoujo)

Ratio­nale: Ririko might have some strange tastes, but she was still a good older sis­ter who put her fam­ily above all else, end­lessly push­ing Morita Kenichi to become the man that he should be. I also find her care­free atti­tude refresh­ingly funny, and her manip­u­la­tive actions insid­i­ously hilar­i­ous. While I would likely be annoyed by her “don’t mind, Watashi” response, I also admire that zero-pressure my-pace atti­tude behind it. Also, I can blame my odd per­son­al­ity on her, see­ing as it would really prob­a­bly be her fault. Besides, with her atti­tude, who knows, maybe Otouto Ita-chan might actu­ally grow up to be just like grandpa Rome (although I doubt it).

Ririko onee-sama would prob­a­bly be spend­ing all her time bul­ly­ing the three younger sib­lings of the family…

Hon­or­able Men­tion: Tok­iha Mai (Mai HiME) has proven to be a remark­able older sis­ter to her sickly lit­tle brother, which was pretty impres­sive given the other issues in her life at the time (love, poverty, super­pow­ers, bat­tle royale). But she sim­ply lacks the charm, not to men­tion she’d be a con­stant source of worry for dear Okaa-san.

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Otouto: Italy/Chibitalia (Axis Pow­ers Het­alia)

Ratio­nale: Ita-chan is so cute and adorable and fun to tease and cute and— ahem. I think that cov­ers it pretty sim­ply. Fur­ther­more, Holy Roman Empire x Chibitalia is one of my favorite pair­ings, so as onee-san I’ll sup­port their rela­tion­ship the whole way!

Hon­or­able Men­tions: Amer­ica (Axis Pow­ers Het­alia) is so cute when he’s lit­tle; but such an ass when he grows up!

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Imouto: Kudryavka Noumi (Lit­tle Busters!)

Ratio­nale: Cute, respect­ful, and lov­ing, with a some­what vul­ner­a­ble appear­ance, she fills all the roles of an imouto with per­fec­tion, her very sight spark­ing an irre­sistible urge to hug and pro­tect her. Her opti­mistic and care­free per­son­al­ity will always bring light to my day and fill me with energy, and her hard­work­ing atti­tude will become a great source of pride and joy for every­one in the family.

Hon­or­able Men­tion: Poor Aoi Nag­isa (Straw­berry Panic) just lacks Kud’s ultra-huggability, not to men­tion I’d be too wor­ried try­ing to keep her away from that Shizuma woman and pair up with Tamao instead.

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My Own Family

Waifu: Nia Tep­pelin (Gur­ren Lagann)

Ratio­nale: Nia is per­fect; that’s pretty much what I think. I both admire and love every bit of her char­ac­ter: her pure inno­cence and shel­tered view; her curios­ity and desire to under­stand oth­ers; her benev­o­lence that is every bit as saintly as Rita’s beloved Estelle; her sin­cer­ity that knows no lies; her unyield­ing faith and res­olute deter­mi­na­tion in her part­ner; her hard­work­ing atti­tude and wish to help out; her strange man­ner of speech that’s filled with warmth. Talk about a char­ac­ter that’s the epit­ome of loy­alty, resolve, com­pas­sion, and sin­cer­ity. Her mere pres­ence makes me mel­low and filled to the bring with hap­pi­ness and con­fi­dence, impart­ing to me a desire to hug and love and pro­tect her. Oh, and I would totally eat her cook­ing and love it!

Hon­or­able Men­tion: Nono (Top wo Nerae! 2 / Die­buster). Tech­ni­cally I have trou­ble treat­ing Nia and Nono as sep­a­rate peo­ple in my mind. The voices aren’t help­ing. There’s also Estelle (Tales of Ves­pe­ria) since she also has the inno­cence, com­pas­sion, the hard-work-and-guts atti­tude, and trusts in her friends; fur­ther­more, she and Rita are OTP.

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Musume (older twins): Shi­rakawa Kotori (Da Capo), Shi­rakawa Nanaka (Da Capo II)

Ratio­nale: As the Chi­nese claim goes: while sons carry on the fam­ily busi­ness and dreams, it’s the daugh­ters who bring great joy to the par­ents (at least before they marry and leave). Both the Shi­rakawas have all the best per­son­al­ity traits of an ideal daugh­ter, being self­less, con­sid­er­ate, agree­able, and mod­est. Also, both are exem­plary char­ac­ters of what I con­sider the three most vir­tu­ous traits in life: loyalty/devotion, resolve, and com­pas­sion. Lastly, they are blessed with an abun­dance of the three traits essen­tial to suc­cess in life: intel­li­gence, cun­ning, and charisma. With all these traits com­bined and Nia set­ting a good exam­ple, I believe they’d grow up to be the pride of any family.

Kotori and Nanaka would be twins in my anime fam­ily, given their sim­i­lar­i­ties and the fact they’re spir­i­tual suc­ces­sors within the Da Capo fran­chise. Kotori is the older one who helps out around the fam­ily and keeps every­one happy. While Nanaka is the mis­chie­vous but benev­o­lent one whose antics will keep every­one laugh­ing with­out ever being annoyed; not to men­tion her band per­for­mances will become another source of our proud fam­ily activities.

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Musume (younger): Shi­ina Mafuyu (Seitokai no Ichizon)

Ratio­nale: “My hob­bies are games soft, games hard, boys soft, boys hard” pretty much cov­ers it. Mafuyu is the care­free gamer/blogger/artist otaku that I some­times wish I was. Fur­ther­more, with two respon­si­ble older sis­ters to watch over her, I don’t have to be as exces­sively wor­ried over her.

Mafuyu will be busy play­ing games and fan­ta­siz­ing about the neigh­bor­hood boys, then writ­ing yaoi man­gas and enthu­si­as­ti­cally show­ing them to us.

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Pet: Potato (AIR)

Ratio­nale: IT’S TOO CUTE!!! I melted upon see­ing it for the first time. I hug the soft­est things near me when­ever I see it. My eyes are drawn to wher­ever it is. It’s also my favorite char­ac­ter from AIR (Kano is my sec­ond, thanks to it).

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Time to see who else links back to Honya’s page and what their fam­i­lies all look like…

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