Top 10 Most Memorable Anime Rivals
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Nov 20, 2012 19:49 JST
- Tags: Code Geass, Death Note, Dragon Ball Z, Gintama, Naruto, Rankings, Sengoku Basara
The only thing more intense than the legendary rivalries between some of these anime heroes are the rivalries between their respective fandoms, who have somehow mobilised to keep One Piece, Naruto and Bleach out of the top spots…
1. Sakata Gintoki & Takasugi Shinsuke (Gintama)
2. Date Masamune & Sanada Yukimura (Sengoku Basara)
3. Son Goku & Vegeta (Dragon Ball)
4. Yagami Light & L (Death Note)
5. Lelouch Lamperouge & Kururugi Suzaku (Code Geass)
6. Lupin III & Koichi Zenigata (Lupin III)
7. Uzumaki Naruto & Uchiha Sasuke (Naruto)
8. Kazuma & Ryuhou (s-Cry-ed)
9. Amuro Ray & Char Aznable (Mobile Suit Gundam)
10. Hikaru Shindo & Akira Toya (Hikaru no Go)
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holy crap they went old school gundam ftw!
Oh! Oh! Another list?! There's only 1 right answer here! It's #4! Everybody else is wrong! OK!?
6. Lupin III & Koichi Zenigata (Lupin III)
is right too
Char vs Amuro wrong? Are you an idiot?
White Devil vs Red Comet is the only thing that qualifies as true rivalry in this list.
should be placed better tho
In first place.
Trypticon and Metroplex
9 is the strongest number... couldn't argue with its spot really... :3
Pfft. Amuro and Char butted heads maybe four times in the series, and they're only "rivals" in the sense that nobody else matches them-- they're shoehorned into the role because there isn't anyone else that can fill it from their respective sides, and later it's not even so much a rivalry as Char being a thick-headed downer and Amuro having to slap some sense into him. (Presumably because he never comes within arm's reach of Bright.)
Lupin and Zenigata spend damn near every other episode at each others' throats, and it's regularly shown that others can match wits with the both of them. Lupin could probably take the old man out easily if he cheated, but he works against him on even grounds: it's a duel between respected foes. For all the huff and puff Zenigata makes about doing anything to take Lupin down, he doesn't want it to be handed to him on a platter, he wants to straight-up outwit him.
Gundam's a good show, but the "rivalry" is tepid at best. They fight each other only because they have to. They're on opposing sides. They even end up working together several times, and their interaction mostly boils down to "yeah, I believe the same thing as you, but you're a dick, so no." There are also just as many times that either one has tried to short-change the other in a fight.
Lupin and Zenigata are polar opposites in creed and desire: chaos and order, shadow and light, yin and yang, Gadget and Claw. Evenly matched, they fight ever onward. They hate each other deeply, but respect each other too much to cheapen it. A far better rivalry than a self-centered prong with delusions of grandeur and a whiny runt that waffles more than IHOP.
that should go straight to old museum's dusty corner. The anime isn't that great ⊙︿⊙
Oh yeah, here comes the shounem jump tard whining because zoro vs mihawk, ichigo vs renji and others aren't in the list.
UC is overrated. Japan loves its crappy space soap operas too much. Gundam's pretty awesome, but look at the main hero/villain dynamics for ninety percent of the "universe defining" subseries (IE, anything that's not in a pre-existing universe, like UC). Wing: Heero/Milliardo. Seed: Kira/Athrun. Unicorn: Banagher/Frontal.
Milliardo, Frontal, and Char even have the same "Blonde hair/white mask/red mech" shit going. The ones that don't, don't wear masks at all, because fuck, that wouldn't look right, they're not blonde ponces! (And one pilots a GREEN suit! The travesty!)
They're practically carbon-copying the Amuro/Char dynamic for every damn series. Unicorn even double-dips in that they're basically rebooting UC WITHIN THE FUCKING UC STORYLINE.
Amusing, though, that the ones that don't fall into the UC framework until recently were relatively panned in Japan but did halfway decent across the pond in America, and Japanese honestly don't understand why we like Wing or God Gundam. BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT FUCKING UC ALL OVER AGAIN.
So, yeah. UC Gundam? A *little* overrated. Plenty of the side-stories and tangent shows about UC characters that aren't Amuro and Char (or carbon copies of them) are quite good, but Amuro/Char?
Yeah, that shit's been played out waaaay too long.
Dude, don't tempt fate.
was going to shoot myself i didnt see them on this list
agree with #4 & #9, but where the fuck is Hanamichi VS Rukawa?
dou aho
Hmmm...
Does Astro Boy and Atlas count...?
they forgot Ash vs Gary.
Get out of here kid.
Dawg, that lasted a shortly.
Red vs Blue fits more, dawg.
Red vs Green. It's a Japanese ranking.
Red vs Green.
Blue is a girl.
and you too.
No Spike Vs. Sid from Cowboy Bebop?
switch s-Cry-ed, Hikaru no Go, Code Geass
with
yugi & kaiba
ash & gary
hyuga & ozora
Yeah, the Code Geass one wasn't really a rivalry.
erm,
rivalry = same goal, diffrent ppl/method
they both went for world peace as their goal yet not working together/diffrent plan = rivalry
Hurray GINTAMA ALL THE WAY ! Seems like people doesn't watch it here , shame.
I watch Gintama. Its one of my favorate anime, for that matter... But Gintoki and Takasugi topping this list just seems wrong. I didn't even realize they had a rivalry. Gintoki with Hijikata, maybe. Or even Jirocho. But Takasugi? Who even voted on this list?
Ok, not really much to complain.
And hey, it has Lupin.
no Rao and Kenshiro
bleh
Amen to that brother!
AH-TA-TA-TA-TAAAHHH!!!
The guy who makes this list is already dead...
WTF is up with all these lists of top 10s? I'm getting sick of seeing them. There's been like almost 10 lists of top 10's this month. That's both ironic and funny. The most 10 ten lists we have had in a month.
why not try making a top 10 list of ironic and funny lists so far :p
Or maybe do something like David Letterman's Top Ten List. Like, I don't know, Top Ten reasons Tite Kubo got tired of doing "Bleach".
Why not trying to make your own list and see that you won't get sick of seeing it yourself.
May turn out good, because the oversupply could help them become more elaborate or surreal after a while. The requirements for making a list of, say, anime which have a summer festival episode, but no beach episode, would be higher as well.
First rating i dont want to vommit on/ in like 3 years
CG all the wayyyyyyy ! Best rivals, naruto one is just a emo vs hipster rivalry
Where is Guts and Griffith?!
That's not rivalry, but just plain Guts trying to kill Griffith.
No, thats AFTER Griffith goes crazy. Before that they are clear rivals. Look up to each other but griffith start to feel that he gets left behind and goes ape shit.
Meh...
No Sakura and Syaoran
It got negated because they became lovers instead...And the better point of Rivalry is that they get along even though they're on the other end of each spectrum.
Look at the list, not one of them stayed too long as "friends"
Lelouch and Suzaku shouldn't be in the list either...
Ummmm Goku and Vegeta are friends throughout the series
WHERE'S DR. KENZO TENMA AND JOHAN LIEBERT FROM MONSTER???