What qualities make for a good protagonist in anime and manga?

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-- easily self-insertable (bland personality, no special features, as well as attractive [done for the sake of delusional people])
-- overpowered
-- """smartest person""" [more than the retarded girls he's surrounded by]
-- bitch magnet
-- A Nice Guy™
-- has one special ability in his given universe
-- clumsy as fuck // alpha as fuck (it matters not)

> good protagonist

oh wait. Maybe a flawed individual who has certain redeeming qualities and is humanized plenty by the author.

> anime and manga

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That they project my sexual preferences and gets romantically involved with my favourite character, of course.
I don't self insert, for the record.

Intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor

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>>160021127
Genki baka

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>>160021127
Mental illness.

>>160021127
Personality

BIG TITS

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Ruses

>>160025911
PLOT

>>160021127
Ruu~

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Being goku

Unforntunately no other main character has ever managed to be goku but at least luffy has been trying to be goku for decades and sometimes gets really close

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Amnesia

They must be a completely sexless, aromantic, stuttering sperg. Now the intricacy comes in what it takes to get them angry; having them be either a complete doormat or an idiot who flies off of the handle at everything.

>>160021127
>cute
>not annoying
All you need

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Being cute and a dork.

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>>160021127
A main character is only as good as his bro

>dense
>happy go lucky
>uneventful life until story starts
>no family or family is indisposed
>has a certain paraphernalia that they can't stand to lose and always keep with them
>either the most talented or has a special property no one else has
>moralfag

>>160026544
Good answer

>>160021127
Unquenchable thirst for battle, regardless of the consequences.

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>>160027237

>>160027757
This is the face of a true übermensch.

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