What Are The Worst Character Designs You Have Ever Seen?

LOL when they were released some SJW vocaweebs went "#YASSSS BLACK REPRESENTASHUUUUN" and forgot about them the next day.

Also, while we're on the topic of shitty designed PowerFX Vocaloids:

Fucking wow . At first glance I thought his suit was patchwork for some terrible reason, then I realized the truth was far worse. They added arm warmers and leg warmers on top of his jacket sleeves and pants legs. :story:
 
View attachment 516979

PreCure is full of really gaudy offputting designs but Cure Melody's is the one that really sticks out to me
Suite is certainly not my favorite season for designs, but I'd hardly call it the worst. Though I can agree that Melody is the worst of the Suite bunch.

I'm always up for critiquing Pretty Cure designs. My dark passion. So here goes. Under spoilers since not everyone cares for magical girl sperging.

maxresdefault.jpg

Futari Wa was a good start for Pretty Cure. The designs of Black and White were distinctive while being consistent with each other, interesting without being too busy, and kept to a limited palette.

2b8014d90b89976cee69627742c85b71.jpg

Max Heart made very few changes to the designs, and nothing changed was detrimental. It didn't add much, but didn't make it bad. And Luminous isn't a design I'd write home about, but she's fine. Futari Wa remains some of the better PreCure designs.
dCOJ9nV.png

After Futari Wa came Splash Star. And oh boy was it a downgrade. Egret doesn't look too bad, mostly she just looks like a more cluttered version of White. Bloom however, is an eyesore. Fuchsia and maroon harkens back to Black's design, but now there's this pastel green and neon yellow, on top of her ginger hair, it's just too much.

But these are still better than...
8215582.gif

Bright and Windy. Windy could probably be worse, but the colors are unnecessary, and again there's just too much going on. But at least she doesn't hurt to look at. Bright however, looks like vomit. The yellow and green have taken over, but there's still fuchsia and maroon for some reason. He whole outfit somehow got more cluttered than before. Her shoes are now orange for some reason. It's awful. Bright might be the worst PreCure design to this day.
 
Last edited:
It's like if you got someone who hated anime to describe the average anime character. God, I feel like I got put on a list just looking at this.
To be fair, every female character from Eiken is... bad. Their outfits are super garish, so much so that it almost manages to detract from all the... fanservice.
69ba3978c9ca08d73bfad5668fdad8c145b256c2_hq.jpg

chiharu.jpg

latest

latest

In a more controversial pick, the character designs for il sole penetra le illusioni always bothered me for a reason I couldn't quite describe. The character designs in the first place aren't terribly interesting, but the transformations are just... lazy, almost, or overdone. And inconsistent. They either do too little (ESPECIALLY the purple haired girl) or too much. And the main character's stupid side thing is distracting.
1364655699-1916359595_n.jpg

1364655699-1650415626_n.jpg

1364655699-817991724_n.jpg

Why does this one gain animal ears? I get it's her power, but no one else is animal themed. It stands out in a bad way. Also, nothing else really changes.
1364655699-3820823142_n.jpg

The laziest design. Her hair doesn't even get longer like the rest of 'em. I guess she gains a dumb braid.
latest

Garish colors that don't look good... despite having basic color schemes.
61r%2BjGzIl6L._SL1275_.jpg

LOOK AT HOW BIG PURPLE GIRLS HEAD IS
5688-1157397978.png

Literally just slightly longer hair and some witch accessories.
5688-729458961.png

I should probably mention that all of these are meant to be tarot-themed, so this one is obviously The Fool, but it just looks... so dumb.
5688-2111460640.png

charaImg01.png

The last two just don't seem to fit with everyone else's design. They just seem like they're from a different show.
 
To be fair, every female character from Eiken is... bad. Their outfits are super garish, so much so that it almost manages to detract from all the... fanservice.
69ba3978c9ca08d73bfad5668fdad8c145b256c2_hq.jpg

chiharu.jpg

latest

latest

In a more controversial pick, the character designs for il sole penetra le illusioni always bothered me for a reason I couldn't quite describe. The character designs in the first place aren't terribly interesting, but the transformations are just... lazy, almost, or overdone. And inconsistent. They either do too little (ESPECIALLY the purple haired girl) or too much. And the main character's stupid side thing is distracting.
1364655699-1916359595_n.jpg

1364655699-1650415626_n.jpg

1364655699-817991724_n.jpg

Why does this one gain animal ears? I get it's her power, but no one else is animal themed. It stands out in a bad way. Also, nothing else really changes.
1364655699-3820823142_n.jpg

The laziest design. Her hair doesn't even get longer like the rest of 'em. I guess she gains a dumb braid.
latest

Garish colors that don't look good... despite having basic color schemes.
61r%2BjGzIl6L._SL1275_.jpg

LOOK AT HOW BIG PURPLE GIRLS HEAD IS
5688-1157397978.png

Literally just slightly longer hair and some witch accessories.
5688-729458961.png

I should probably mention that all of these are meant to be tarot-themed, so this one is obviously The Fool, but it just looks... so dumb.
5688-2111460640.png

charaImg01.png

The last two just don't seem to fit with everyone else's design. They just seem like they're from a different show.


that's a major gripe i had with the show. at least sailor moon had a change in outfit.
 
To be fair, every female character from Eiken is... bad. Their outfits are super garish, so much so that it almost manages to detract from all the... fanservice.
69ba3978c9ca08d73bfad5668fdad8c145b256c2_hq.jpg

chiharu.jpg

latest

latest

In a more controversial pick, the character designs for il sole penetra le illusioni always bothered me for a reason I couldn't quite describe. The character designs in the first place aren't terribly interesting, but the transformations are just... lazy, almost, or overdone. And inconsistent. They either do too little (ESPECIALLY the purple haired girl) or too much. And the main character's stupid side thing is distracting.
1364655699-1916359595_n.jpg

1364655699-1650415626_n.jpg

1364655699-817991724_n.jpg

Why does this one gain animal ears? I get it's her power, but no one else is animal themed. It stands out in a bad way. Also, nothing else really changes.
1364655699-3820823142_n.jpg

The laziest design. Her hair doesn't even get longer like the rest of 'em. I guess she gains a dumb braid.
latest

Garish colors that don't look good... despite having basic color schemes.
61r%2BjGzIl6L._SL1275_.jpg

LOOK AT HOW BIG PURPLE GIRLS HEAD IS
5688-1157397978.png

Literally just slightly longer hair and some witch accessories.
5688-729458961.png

I should probably mention that all of these are meant to be tarot-themed, so this one is obviously The Fool, but it just looks... so dumb.
5688-2111460640.png

charaImg01.png

The last two just don't seem to fit with everyone else's design. They just seem like they're from a different show.

Unsurprisingly this show did super poorly in Japan
 
What's wrong with them? They look like just the model kits....but if you mean the "How to Draw Manga" book sample characters that make up the cast...
Yeah the character designs. Although I've seen people grouse about the different scale the Zoids are on now, too.

Hawaiian Shirt Robot Dude is pretty cool, but the rest are really goofy.
 
  • Feels
Reactions: Y2K Baby
Yeah the character designs. Although I've seen people grouse about the different scale the Zoids are on now, too.

Hawaiian Shirt Robot Dude is pretty cool, but the rest are really goofy.
These? Couldn't find a Hawaiian Shirt guy with a quick Google.
chara_img.png

I wouldn't mind longcoat-afro man if he lost the clown shoes and the girl is generic Yugioh trash, but there's like two Pikachu ripoffs.

In a more general vein, basically any Yugioh-style knockoff will have horrible character designs.
16aeec16629cabe6728a06b84a523a32--public-character-inspiration.jpg

Duel.Masters.(Game).full.12406.jpg

Duel.Masters.full.12722.jpg

totally not knockoff Maximillion Pegasus, no sir!
Actually, Yugioh designs were always pretty meh on the humans, but as time went on... It managed to get worse. There's hyperstylized hair, and then there's just ridiculous and bad. Mostly in regards to color choices.
tumblr_oprpe6lYkb1v6bs4yo2_250.gif

e43d0f93236404fe0a828ec3ae1b035d.png

Alit.png

This brown-haired guy looks incredibly stupid from the front, but at the very least his hair makes some sort of sense, even if it does there's a dead spider on his head. But in general the more colorful the hair, the stupider it gets in Yugioh, a trait that carries over into the Yugioh knockoffs most of the time. But Yugioh has turned into a parody of itself.
rXaNakr.png

HomuraTakeru.png

Really generic aside from the color palette.
Soulburner.png

There is such a thing as being too dedicated to the theme.
Flame.png

Looks like a Ben10 alien.
Bowman.png

The FREE! version of Poseidon at a glam club, I guess.
HaruOrHal.png

Just has too many elements.
Edited to fix broken images.
 
Last edited:
These? Couldn't find a Hawaiian Shirt guy with a quick Google.
chara_img.png

I wouldn't mind longcoat-afro man if he lost the clown shoes and the girl is generic Yugioh trash, but there's like two Pikachu ripoffs.

In a more general vein, basically any Yugioh-style knockoff will have horrible character designs.
View attachment 521087
View attachment 521088
View attachment 521090
totally not knockoff Maximillion Pegasus, no sir!
Actually, Yugioh designs were always pretty meh on the humans, but as time went on... It managed to get worse. There's hyperstylized hair, and then there's just ridiculous and bad. Mostly in regards to color choices.
tumblr_oprpe6lYkb1v6bs4yo2_250.gif

e43d0f93236404fe0a828ec3ae1b035d.png

View attachment 521089
This brown-haired guy looks incredibly stupid from the front, but at the very least his hair makes some sort of sense, even if it does there's a dead spider on his head. But in general the more colorful the hair, the stupider it gets in Yugioh, a trait that carries over into the Yugioh knockoffs most of the time. But Yugioh has turned into a parody of itself.
rXaNakr.png

HomuraTakeru.png

Really generic aside from the color palette.
Soulburner.png

There is such a thing as being too dedicated to the theme.
Flame.png

Looks like a Ben10 alien.
Bowman.png

The FREE! version of Poseidon at a glam club, I guess.
HaruOrHal.png

Just has too many elements.
Edited to fix broken images.
I addressed Yuuma's hair in this post.
 
  • Feels
Reactions: Y2K Baby
These? Couldn't find a Hawaiian Shirt guy with a quick Google.
chara_img.png

I wouldn't mind longcoat-afro man if he lost the clown shoes and the girl is generic Yugioh trash, but there's like two Pikachu ripoffs.

In a more general vein, basically any Yugioh-style knockoff will have horrible character designs.
View attachment 521087
View attachment 521088
View attachment 521090
totally not knockoff Maximillion Pegasus, no sir!
Actually, Yugioh designs were always pretty meh on the humans, but as time went on... It managed to get worse. There's hyperstylized hair, and then there's just ridiculous and bad. Mostly in regards to color choices.
tumblr_oprpe6lYkb1v6bs4yo2_250.gif

e43d0f93236404fe0a828ec3ae1b035d.png

View attachment 521089
This brown-haired guy looks incredibly stupid from the front, but at the very least his hair makes some sort of sense, even if it does there's a dead spider on his head. But in general the more colorful the hair, the stupider it gets in Yugioh, a trait that carries over into the Yugioh knockoffs most of the time. But Yugioh has turned into a parody of itself.
rXaNakr.png

HomuraTakeru.png

Really generic aside from the color palette.
Soulburner.png

There is such a thing as being too dedicated to the theme.
Flame.png

Looks like a Ben10 alien.
Bowman.png

The FREE! version of Poseidon at a glam club, I guess.
HaruOrHal.png

Just has too many elements.
Edited to fix broken images.
Kai from Beyblade has a decent design, as do the first protags of the show.

Blue jacket guy from Zoids looks like a mix of adult Simon from Gurren Lagann and Domon Kashu from G Gundam.
 
  • Thunk-Provoking
Reactions: Y2K Baby
These? Couldn't find a Hawaiian Shirt guy with a quick Google.
chara_img.png

I wouldn't mind longcoat-afro man if he lost the clown shoes and the girl is generic Yugioh trash, but there's like two Pikachu ripoffs.

In a more general vein, basically any Yugioh-style knockoff will have horrible character designs.
View attachment 521087
View attachment 521088
View attachment 521090
totally not knockoff Maximillion Pegasus, no sir!
Actually, Yugioh designs were always pretty meh on the humans, but as time went on... It managed to get worse. There's hyperstylized hair, and then there's just ridiculous and bad. Mostly in regards to color choices.
tumblr_oprpe6lYkb1v6bs4yo2_250.gif

e43d0f93236404fe0a828ec3ae1b035d.png

View attachment 521089
This brown-haired guy looks incredibly stupid from the front, but at the very least his hair makes some sort of sense, even if it does there's a dead spider on his head. But in general the more colorful the hair, the stupider it gets in Yugioh, a trait that carries over into the Yugioh knockoffs most of the time. But Yugioh has turned into a parody of itself.
rXaNakr.png

HomuraTakeru.png

Really generic aside from the color palette.
Soulburner.png

There is such a thing as being too dedicated to the theme.
Flame.png

Looks like a Ben10 alien.
Bowman.png

The FREE! version of Poseidon at a glam club, I guess.
HaruOrHal.png

Just has too many elements.
Edited to fix broken images.

The first guy looks like a rejected Pokemon protagonist.
 
I didn't mind the first few live action Resident Evil movies (the first 2 anyway), but when they decided to introduce some of the video games main characters, I really disliked their versions of Chris and Leon, both design wise and their personalities:
Z1phuPq.jpg

9FdKSZo.jpg
Where are his famed boulder shoving muscles?

At least they got Barry kind of alright, which isn't that much of an achievement:
eMtDOsa.png
 
View attachment 522530
What the fuck am I even looking at here? These all look like racist stereotypes of races that don't even exist, and half of them have soy boy face.

They aren't the worst, though I've never understood Japan's obsession with this showm
 
Back