Top 10 Most Unlucky Anime Characters

@Yamato

I would say Misaka Mikoto hurt him more.
He wanted to help her against Accelerator, she shocked him until his heart stopped.
She hits/electrocutes him when she fails to convey what she thinks with words.
One time he got shot in the belly and her politic of "hit first, ask later" make him suffer when he got electroshocked again.

From vol.9+10, Touma is actually a masochist for Index's bites

It´s true that IB nullify all of his lucky , but it´s not the same of been unlucky , he is in a neutral state , you could see that by how Touma survived against foes whom were stronger than him...

You're thinking of luck in a different way. From my understanding, luck works differently from an eastern point of view. Basically, if you run out of luck completely, you die.

But having that many women want you is a curse if you thank about it, since many of them are violent & jealous types.

You're off by a factor of 10. Rika claims she's lived for about 100 years, so she's died at least 8 times, but every time she does she reincarnates older than before, so it's never known exactly how many times she's been murdered.

Otherwise I agree she deserves to be put high on this list, but I still think Touma tops her. Because of his hand he'll face misfortune for his entire life.

Nagato Yuki them?

Spend thousands of years repeating the same two weeks because she should only observe.

Is the only one of her kind with real emotions but is unable to demonstrate them.

Change the entire world for Kyon just for him to decide that he liked the old world better.

Her love interest was just an accidental effect and stopped liking her when she fixed the bug.

I remember on the last episode when it's finally over she states her 1000 year journey was over.

We only get to see nine deaths but it's implied the time loop happened so many times Rika had lost count.

I gotta go with the Nagato argument.

Lots of characters are responsible for their own plight due to their being wretched rather than being unlucky (e.g. Kaneki).

But Nagato, as mentioned, is competent, tries hard, takes chances, makes changes, etc… all to no avail.

It's made even worse since, again as mentioned above, she can't just walk away. And even worse, Kyon does like her. How doomed can you be?

I'll add a couple of other names as well…

Homura… also fiercely competent, who was continuously re-dealt a hand that could never win, and who despite taking on the entire universe for Madoka, had to bury the emotions she felt even when she was around her.

Taichi from Chihayafuru… who despite being blessed in so many ways, and was successful at everything he didn't really care about, couldn't succeed in the three things that did have meaning to him, all centred around Chihaya.

Hanekawa… beautiful and intelligent but cursed with a character flaw that kept happiness out of reach for her.

Note… someone mentioned Okazaki from Clannad, but I think that while he certainly had much bad luck, he did at least find the love of his life, who returned it. Characters such as Sakagami, or Ichinose on the other hand, struck out with him and may never get another chance because while they have a lot of positives, they have some serious flaws as well. Ryou, who's cute, and Kyou, who's hot, are both personable and have each other for support, and will probably land on their feet but those other two… they're on their own.

anon 09:16
Keep in mind, whether it was 100 or 1,000, she was repeating the same month for all of them. 12 months to a year, and that's how you come to that number.

anon 18:14
Well, Tomoyo does have her brother (and in the anime, outside the OVA, she seems completely indifferent towards Tomoya), but so fucking agreed on Kotomi. Best girl, and she didn't even get a happy ending in an OVA like the others did (the anime may've covered her arc, but she still got nowhere with Tomoya despite clearly liking him, which makes it all the sadder). Her best hope is her route in the game, and even there, it's implied that it goes nowhere as the world keeps resetting until the player gets the "true" ending.

Yamato 22:49

Didn’t know that about her in the game but I can’t say that it surprises me. Given the unusual way in which they met and began to talk, along with how everyone knows who she is but no one knows her, it’s easy to see a forecast of continued loneliness with no break in sight. I thought she was rather charming in her own way but….

I should probably give the show a re-watch re: Tomoyo, to see what I missed or misinterpreted. My impression though, is that she’s also headed for a future of much solitude.

Well, he doesn't have many magical girl friends in the anime yet (just Kanzaki IIRC. Arguably Index). Do not confuse espers and magicians.

Forgetting for the moment that Kanzaki as a girlfriend would be enough great fortune for any guy, you might say that his misfortune is that most of the magical girls he knows are nuns or older than him. Glorious Orsola… sigh.

I guess it depends on what you mean by unlucky. While he certainly has adversity in his life, he has a lot going for him as well. Although, it isn't really luck that has so many attractive young women interested in him. I don't think that he'd want to trade his current life either.

Except that practically every single one of them abandoned him in NT 10. Not a single member of his "harem" trusted his judgment in trying to save Othinus and put him through a hellish marathon of battles. Can't really say they're at his beck and call if a problem arises.

Actually, Index did trust him. But was angry at him because he just got away without telling her anything.

Aren't we all? Just most of us don't get to be cute Japanese schoolgirls before we die.

There are worse fates. (Not *many*, but a few.)