Anime and manga characters: There's a whole world of amazing food out there! I understand having your favorite dishes. Mine is Katsudon. I understand the importance of your food passion to your character, but you're not the Hamburglar. I know it's not your fault -- blame your creator. And I understand that you're not actually real, but you have to realize that some anime/manga fans aren't that smart, and they may pick up your poor eating habits.
As a service (that will serve absolutely no one), we've chosen the top ten anime and manga characters in need of a diet intervention. Your animated/drawn body won't get the animated/drawn nutrition it needs eating that one favorite food of yours all the time. If you're on this list, order a salad next time. Try some lean meats. Change things up!
Hit the jump for our list.
Official Japanator Pat On The Back:
Ryuk from Death Note - Addiction: Apples - Our long-limbed friend Ryuk is the only entry on this list of characters that will not be reprimanded for his diet. Let's face it, he eats pretty well for a shinigami. You know what they say: an apple a day keeps... I don't have the eyes, so I can't see you, but I'm sure you're looking fit and trim. Congrats!
Now for our offenders:
Mizuho Kazami fromOnegai Teacher - Addiction: Pocky - Mizuho is full-figured, healthy, and red-headed. That's good in everyone's book, right? But she needs to know that her Pocky addiction is putting those good looks in jeopardy. One little serving of those delicious, crunchy biscuit sticks has 10g of fat and 14g of sugar. Normally that wouldn't be so bad, but she's just as hot for these as she is underaged schoolboys. She's insatiable!
Naruto Uzumaki from Naruto - Addiction: Ramen - Naruto, it was cute at first knowing that you liked a food that was so closely related to your name. But it got pretty old as time went on. It's great that you're a ninja, and that you can burn off those calorie-heavy meals, but there's got to be something else better to eat in your village. Talk to your friend Choji. I'm sure he has plenty of recommendations.
Karasuma Ooji from School Rumble - Addiction: Curry - Karasuma seems like a nice enough guy at first, but the more you get to know him, the more you become concerned for his health... mentally. I like curry as much as the next bowl cut-headed guy, but I'll never like any food more than I do girls. But Karusama does. That's right, curry is Karasuma's porn. He has an (almost) perfectly normal girl following him around, but he's too into his food addiction to notice. Admitting you have a problem is the first step, man.
Shana from Shakugan no Shana - Addiction: Melon Pan - Nothing gets Shana more fired up than Melon Pan, the sweet, soft, melon-flavored bread. If she were more human and less Flame Haze-y, she'd always be yelling "Urusai! Urusai! Urusai!" at all the people calling her a fatty, as melon pan is packed with belly-busting amounts of sugar. Might I recommend a healthy bowl of corn flakes for breakfast instead?
Mello from Death Note - Addiction: Chocolate - Mello claims to be a chocolate addict, but all he's ever eating is that crap Hershey's knock-off. I'm not going to tell him to lay off the chocolate, but rather recommend some better brands. On the cheap, Dove makes a good bar. Godiva is okay, but Ghirardelli is better. Hell, even a Kit Kat is better than your Hershey's bar. Mello, head out to a konbini and get something different, or I'll put another scar on your face.
Ayu Tsukimiya from Kanon - Addiction: Taiyaki - You can uguu~ all you want, but you don't need one more taiyaki, Tsukimiya. They're fattening, and you're a spoiled brat. Here's some tough love: those wings on your back won't take you anywhere if you keep eating these snacks. Grow up and try something more nutritious, like a steak dinner or something.
L from Death Note - Addiction: Sweets - Here's the king of the bad eaters, from the king of food-obsessed character anime/manga. L, you need to eat something healthy. No wonder you look like shit, man.
C.C. from Code Geass - Addiction: Pizza Hut pizza - C.C. is as shapely and fit as ever, despite cramming down order after order of Pizza Hut pizza. I don't know if it's her witch powers or what, but she can really put it down. And, like a show off, she's somehow always near naked when she eats her favorite dish, as if to say "look at me, I look amazing, even still." C.C., I would say that you need to limit your intake. Maybe go with a thin crust pie. No one likes garlic breath. If you keep this up, your precious Cheese-kun will be the only one that wants to hug you.
Kuroyanagi Ryo from Yakitate!! Japan - Addiction: Bread - Kuroyanagi loves his bread, so much so that he'd even change forms for it. Hell, one time he actually died and went to that hostess bar in the sky after eating it. It should be obvious, man. Really. If something you eat is making you slam into the celiling, transform into animals, and blast off into space, then I think that's a pretty good sign that you need to lay off. I'm going to recommend a low carb diet.
I disagree about Ryuk, it is mentioned that apples are sort of an addicted drug to shinigami. To humans its harmless but to them its like crack. Is Japanator now condoning addictive substances?
In some of those cases, we're talking about people who have energy abnormalities. Mello and L fall in the "Too much of a Genius" category, and if I've learned anything from actually watching genius people, they tend to eat all that because their body demands the excess: They just burn too much energy, too fast.
I mean, just look at Micheal Phelps... He eats four times what a normal person eats. A regular swimmer wouldn't need that much: It's just the way his metabolism works.
And yes, Karasuma does worry me... Of course, closer to the ending of School Rumble you also realize why he doesn't seem to pay attention (In the romantic sense of the phrase) to the not-so-normal Tenma... But that's another story.
Melon pan isn't actually melon flavored its a bun of bread with a layer of cookie on it. It's freaking awesome. Its called melon pan because it looks like a melon, though sometimes melon essence in put into it.
And all that chocolate can't be good for you. That's why these are fantasy though. Anyone who gets a food addiction like these will find themselves in the 'fatty' category.
Which remind me of why I never date using online network sites.
Come on, at least you've seen Shana eat other food in the show before, unlike the others. Remember the scenes with Wirhelmina and Shana at the table eating dinner and Shana being told to eat her veggies?
God Len is right. They just eat a lot of everything.
I ain't even mad at C.C. I LOVE pizza. Of course, she should be eating Papa Johns if anything, but Pizza Hut's stuff crust is great too. Mizuho is hot, but the pocky obsession was pretty creepy, even if it did remind her of her father.
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