Anime has no shortage of improbably iconic characters who get lover hyped and move payload of merchandise . Given the success these high-pitched - profile characters have brought to their creator , fans might be surprised to learn that their Divine are n’t always enamored with them . The biggest names behind fan - favorite anime and manga serial all have wildly different relationships to their most popular creations .

While some Zanzibar copal and manga Creator absolutely love the character they ’ve craft , others enthrall in revealing that some of their most democratic characters are the ace they detest the most . Sometimes this is evident in the stories themselves , with the God Almighty finding excuses to keep devotee favorites out of the limelight . Still , regardless of how their creator feel , the icons of gum anime and manga always find a path to weasel themselves back to the forefront of their story and of fan attention .

5Anya Forager

Spy x Family

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Anya Forager is one of the most widely recognizable anime and manga characters of the last decade , which is why it ’s so surprising thatSpy x Familycreator Tatsuya Endo apparently feels nothing for her , Loid , Yor , and pretty much every otherSpy x Familycharacter . Spy x Familyisone of the most wholesome anime everto fans , but for Endo , it raise to be a bit more challenging .

In a roundtable interview with Endo and several other manga God Almighty issue inEyes Only , Blue Exorcistmangaka Kazuo Kato gave Endo ’s character contrive high-pitched mark . In response , Endo gloss : " I gave up on what I to begin with require to pull back and reap what the world wants to see , not myself , so I have no attachment to the characters . " before laughing . While it ’s unmortgaged that at least part of this response is a caper , Endo has talked several times about makingSpy x Familymore commercially viable at the disbursement of his interest .

During an interview celebrating the coming release of aSPY X FAMILY x VIVIANTcrossover , Spy x Family’sadmitted that he had little cognition or interest in spy , and that he ’d originally envisioned the fib to be much more about the military machine .

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Taking these two quotation mark into account along with other things Endo has revealed , it ’s clear to see that while Endo cares about his body of work , it ’s not what he originally figure his most renowned work to be . It ’s a will then to Endo ’s skill that his work onSpy x Familyis so masterly .

4Rei Ayanami

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Neon Genesis Evangelioncreator Hideaki Anno is certainly no stranger to woo devotee recoil . Though the creator is beloved by many and produced one of the most influential Zanzibar copal of all metre , his artsy and sometimes abstract storytelling methods lead to fans still fence thetrue significance ofNeon Genesis Evangelion’sendings to this daytime . Given the creator ’s sometimes disputative kinship with fans of his most well - known work , it ’s no surprise that rooter - favorite EVA airplane pilot Rei Ayanami is the one part Anno feels basically nothing for .

Hideaki Anno really work with Hayao Miyazaki as an animator onNausicaa of the Valley of the Windand the two sustain a longtime friendship afterward .

In an audience withRebuild of Evangelionproducer Nobuo Kawamaki for a book about Studio Ghibli , Anno was asked about the difference of opinion between Rei and Asuka . In the audience , Anno reveals that he has no attachment to Reiat all and actually forgot about her halfway throughEvangelion’soriginal test . According to a translation of the interview byCrunchyroll , Anno had some rough word for Rei .

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The truth is , I have no emotional attachment to Rei at all .

In the thick of making Eva , I suddenly actualize that I had blank out her . Her very world . For case , in installment seven , I remembered and append one shot with Rei . I had no attachment to her at all . I suppose that was all right , because in episode eight , she did n’t come out . Not even in a exclusive gibe .

Looking back at the original campaign ofEvangelion , Anno ’s words emphatically telephone true . While Rei gets some degree of focus in the beginning and is a polar reference in unraveling the serial publication ' many mysteries , there are peak where her appearances in the plot become exceedingly rare . While witness hear a lot about the traditional knowledge behind Rei , why she survive and who she really is , Rei ’s emotionless demeanor means it ’s difficult to gauge how she feelsabout the events surrounding her at any give sentence .

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That last point might be what drive Anno ’s antipathy toward the character . Anno ’s body of work is , by and large , psychologically driven . Part of what makesEvangelionwork as well as it does is that it really plunk deeply into the heads of characters like Shinji and Asuka . However , while Rei is n’t quite as emotionless as she seems , thedetails of Rei ’s backstory combined with her sometimes cold exterior did n’t give Anno as much textile to work with .

3Keiko Yukimura

YuYu Hakusho

Unlike Hideaki Anno , YuYu HakushoandHunter x Huntercreator Yoshihiro Togashi has a much better relationship with his fans . Though some might complain aboutHunter x Hunter’sfrequent hiatuses , they ’re ultimately more than understandable given Togashi ’s frequent health issues . hold Togashi ’s more incontrovertible posture , it may be surprising to teach that the oneYuYu Hakushocharacter he does n’t like is Yusuke ’s central love interest , Keiko Yukimura .

In an prescribed doujinshi put out by Togashi and his friends in 1994 calledYoshirin de Pon!,Togashi reveal that his least favorite character is Keiko , writing that he dislikes her because " She ’s a very typical manga fibre . “While this might seem like an odd piece of criticism on the outside , it makes more sense to anyone more familiar with Togashi ’s storytelling sensibilities .

As manifest byHunter x Hunter , Togashi has always been something a boundary pusher when it comes to his manga . He recently revealed hisfour different choice forHunter x Hunter’sending , and confirm that the ending he like the most is the one his fan will absolutely detest . Even inYuYu Hakusho , Togashi was try out to be a fiddling more avant - garde than Shonen Jump publisher Shueisha would let him . InYoshirin de Pon!Togashi bring out that he wanted the manga ’s last arc to really deconstruct the series ' central character and get into their psychological science , but Jump rejected the musical theme .

Neon Genesis Evangelion’s Rei looking confused, Dragon Ball’s Vegeta looking mad, and Spy x Family’s Anya looking down in sadness

Yoshihiro Togashi is really married toSailor Mooncreator Naoko Takeuchi .

In this compliments , it makes sensation why Togashi would n’t be becharm with Keiko . While she ’s a okay grapheme and Togashi did a good Book of Job writing her , it ’s easy to see how the serial ' creator would end up consider her feisty personality and relationship to Yusuke a little bit too conventional .

2Vegeta

Dragon Ball Z

Dragon Ballcreator Akira Toriyama was never shy about the fact that , while he ’s adoring ofDragon Balland the achiever it ’s brought him , he view it as just another introduction in his storeyed career . fall in this , it ’s easy to see how he recrudesce a sure level of playful antagonism toward the audience fawn overDragon Ball . While that more often than not manifested in lowly direction throughout the original manga ’s run , it ’s a little more obvious to see that Toriyama ab initio had no love for the former prince of Saiyans .

InDaizenshuu 2 , the second publishing of a popularDragon Ballfan magazine , Toriyama divulge he originally just did n’t like Vegeta . accord to a translation by fansiteKanzenshuu , when ask about his favourite characters , Toriyama said " With Vegeta , well , I do n’t wish him all that much , but he was exceedingly helpful to have around . " . likewise , in an interview withDaizenshuu : TV Animation , Part 2,Toriyama revealed that he actually kill Vegeta offin the Frieza Saga explicitly because fans expect him not to .

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While Toriyama clear warmed up to the character as evidenced by his increase mien both throughout the remainder ofDragon Balland throughout the rest of the franchise , the quality ’s initial appearances seemed to be more out of necessity rather than any fondness . Toriyama also say in an interview release onDragon Ball’sofficial internet site around the waiver ofBattle of Gods(also translated byKanzenshuu ) that he just did n’t see Vegeta ’s popularity given his nastiness and , humorously , his coiffure .

Whatever Toriyama ’s reasons for not liking Vegeta ab initio , fans can be glad that Toriyama keep bringing him back , as he ’s easily becomeone ofDragon Ball’sbest characters .

1Satoru Gojo

Jujutsu Kaisen

Fans might argue about other creators who say they hate their characters , but there ’s no argument surroundingJujutsu Kaisencreator Gege Akutami ’s feelings about Gojo . Gojo is incredibly iconic , being frequently thought of as the series ' human face even more so thanJujutsu Kaisen’sactual protagonist , Yuji Itadori . Given Gojo ’s cool guy wire affect and the fact that heranks among the strongest anime characters of all clip , it ’s wanton to see why . Despite this though , Akutami has not been elusive about his contempt for the hero .

Though he might be beloved by fans , and Akutami is ultimately responsible for for making the Jujutsu High wise man as brawny as he is , there ’s no mystery about why Akutami would be frustrated by his own creation . Gojo ’s major power is so far above the vast majority of otherJujutsu Kaisencharacters that he inherently warps the narration around him , leaving Akutami to always have to invent a new reason why Gojo could n’t come in and solve most problems .

Jujutsu Kaisen ’s Gojo made anime popular , welcoming , and more character - concentre and changed future gum anime forever .

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give this , Gojo ’s sealing duringJujutsu Kaisen’sShibuya Incident seems like a happy via media . It ’s a move that made sentiency in terminal figure of the plot and also gave other character a chance to shine . reference with derisory powersets are notoriously tricky to spell , and while most buff would agree that Akutami engender it right with Gojo , no one can fault him for complain about the character getting out of helping hand .

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