Welcome to the Anime Walk of Fame, a series of retrospectives on the many characters of the anime world. You'll see all your favorites along with a few that deserve more than their reputations give.

So sit back relax and enjoy the show.

Gouenji Shuuya Does Not Sound Right in English

I try to avoid criticizing dub performances but I can't over look this one.

Gouenji Shuuya or Axel Blaze in the dub has quite the unusual dub voice as it sounds cool in normal speaking but then feels like it breaks like a teen voice while in matches, it's especially hard to hear during special attacks where it really goes high pitch, while the Inazuma Eleven is more hammy than a ham joint wrapped in bacon, Axel would've benefitted more from a cooler more suave voice with Kidou Yuuto/Jude Sharp getting it instead, but with how the dynamic works in Inazuma Eleven, Axel doesn't stay long with the team anyway.
So a quick summary of some mismatched voice acting in Inazuma Eleven, if there are anymore voices that don't sound right, be sure to tell me and they might get a feature here.

Kisshu is Why We Can't Have Nice Ships

The Shipping Community is a strange set of fans and it's hardly a new thing as since Gundam Wing, you'll always find someone trying to force together incompatible characters so it baffles me that the remake of Tokyo Mew Mew made an already revolting character ten times worse.

I've always hated the term "not aged well" and I'm of the opinion that nothing should be altered from the authors original intent regardless of what modern standards say but with Kisshu he's even more of a sexual predator than his older counterparts, I get that he's a villain but my god, they're teenage girls!
And there are still people who ship him with Ichigo.

Ran Mouri is the Most Tortured Heroine in Anime

Detective Conan's leading lady has had her fair share of angst over the years.

Ran is the childhood friend of Shinichi Kudo and more than frequently the damsel but not always depending on the level of danger, she's the best example of a damsel done right as she's the one who can best measure the threat levels, a simple purse snatcher will get a beat down but a determined assassin not so much, but the fact that she badly misses Shinichi Kudo makes her ordeals all the more tortuous culminating in some of the series more tender moments with some of the highlights including a love confession while taking control of a plane about to crash, she's also not immune to brain fade as some of her lesser moments got herself in avoidable danger. Ran is in this character dead zone where no one can really place her character compared to say more well known anime heroines, she's kinda just there so it's kinda no surprise that Haibara is viewed in a better light but more on her another time

Haru Urara The Shining Star of Losers

A sad day yesterday for fans of horse racing and underdogs

Uma Musume is a popular horse racing game where famous horses in Japanese Horse Racing history are recreated into anime horse girls, each character parallels the history of the actual race horse, still to come is Gold Ship's eccentric personality and Tokai Teio's incredible comeback but we start with Haru Urara who sadly passed away yesterday at 29 years, which would make her nearly 90 in human years.
Haru Urara has the unwanted record of 113 losses with no wins, but to the people of Japan, she came to be known as the shining star of losers, an example of determination and never giving up, Haru Urara gained even more popularity with Uma Musume's release and double when the game went international earlier this year, so much so that a funding page to keep Haru well fed in her retirement years ended up crashing due to so many donations, her fans include international music artists and the Japanese prime minister and has even been referenced next to other athletes with equal underdog status.
Everyone just loves an underdog, her last race had the highest turn out of any horse race in Japanese history.
She did achieve one victory where she won a time trial for retired race horses, so she at least won something even if it wasn't an actual horse race.
It's not unusual for the real horses the Uma Musume characters are based on to have passed on as many of them rode in the 90s with the most prominent one Gold Ship being one of only a couple still alive, more on him next time.

How Much Control Does Ranma Really Have?

One of the more interesting elements of Ranma 1/2 is Ranma himself.

Ranma while training in China fell into the spring of drowned girl meaning that he will change gender whenever splashed with cold water and change back with hot water; Ranma being a clear jock and not really enjoying his numerous changes into a girl, however quite frequently, he sees no problem gaining advantages in his female form by dressing provocatively and using sex appeal, so it brings us to an interesting question as to whether or not Ranma has full control in what his female self does, the curse implies that a girl drowned in that spring so were led to believe the same girl is now possessing Ranma, there's one episode where he meets his female self. The remake introduced alot of new language that wasn't present 40 years ago, the downside being that any translation may change the narrative if certain words are brought up in the wrong context, the Japanese language doesn't really cater for these new words as they have their own language for transgender literature.