ZOMG the anime gurl hotness...

To tell the truth much of my anime girl infatuations are purely regulated to the fighting game world. Although less characterly developed than typical anime characters (a comment in which is an oxymoron unto itself since most anime characters are shallowly developed), they fit well into my fighting game interest. So when I hear so much stuff about anime girls this and anime girls that, I being a person with marginal anime experience, find most female anime characters to be possibly the worst kind of characters in all of creativity.

It's hard to find creativity within the anime world considering most of them rely on blatent stereotypes to make them appealing in a sort of possessive way. Even a character as well developed as Faye Valentine of Cowboy Bebop fame, doesn't really strike a chord of resounding sexiness that she exudes most of the time. I appreciate her as a character, but appealing she is not. To tell the truth, too many buxom ladies or school girls are in the anime scene for me to really take notice.

Alas enter Seras Victoria:

(picture blatently stolen from this personality quiz site)
She's basically a new fledging vampire in the anime/manga Hellsing. I've always wanted to see this anime since it seems to have a rich history and basically had a neat enough character design for me to take a look. Even though I'm quite the purist when it came to anime, I decided to watch the series in the english dub as opposed to the Japanese with sub-titles. It wasn't entirely bad considering it all, the writing was consistent enough with anything that Anne Rice might write...or at least some non-horrible Anne Rice fanfiction. But when Seras appeared and knowing that she'll eventually become part of the main cast, I didn't think much of it. But then when she reappeared, vampired up with red eyes and with a capacity to kick some ass...for some reason the whole idea of a female anime character being boring and unappealing changed entirly for me.
Red/Orange hair aside, you noticed that she looks very very youthful. This is pretty much seen in most anime, but certain characteristics kinda emphasize that. It does kinda concern me insofar that it makes me think I'm a total pedophile because I'm liking the fact that she looks younger than she really looks, but this is anime really....everyone looks like they are 17 but developed like they're 27. It doesn't help that she was called "kitten" for a while. At least I'm not alone in the anime world in thinking that she is sexy.

So yes...I like a character even though by all means she probably encompasses all the boring aspects of what I described of the typical anime female character. She's a weak little kitten who needs to grow up and embrace her powers a vampire blah blah blah drink blood etc. But character flaws aside, I absolutely LOVE the character design. At first glance she doesn't look all that appealing, and yet in someways she encompasses some stupidly fantastical aspects of geeks.

Of course being a main character, she has to wear garb that is entirely different from the rest of her co-patriots who are pretty much filler for the rest of the attack squad. Instead of camo green, she appears as is in police woman blue. She typically carries a weopon that is far too heavy for a normal human, so in some sense, she's an amazon. The red eyes are something new and almost give way to more emotional expressions of her face. But as my primary facination with fantasty characters seem to dictate, one would wonder why I would like a character with absence of that feature? Well in some what really appeals to me is that it's cleverly hidden. It's clear that she has big breasts, but in no way is that emphasized by cleavage or something skin tight. In fact what really appeals to me is how it's almost designed to hide the fact that she has big breasts. The front pockets almost make a patterned effect that just takes away any breast form. There is something to be appreciated that you could make a woman feminine looking without resorting to something so simple and cliche as cleavage. What's more interesting is how the gloves basically cover her hands which make her a bit more unfeminine by not having pointy delicate fingers.

In some ways she reminds me of Bjork in which I used to describe a game character that I like.

Shermie from the King of Fighters series is one of the most loved characters in the entire series. So much so that upon her return to an installment, a lot of animaiton was used for fanservice type animations. She has one of the biggest chest measurements in the series, but you could never know that considering how they cover it up in her clothing. She has a mysterious side to her but also a sort of child-like aura in how she acts, talks and even fights. And yet all those attributes combine to make her very sexy in a very a typical way. It is sort of like Bjork's music where it sounds infantile, innocent and yet it resonates with something very powerful, mature and dangerous even.

I'm not saying Seras is exactly like that, but something about her character design is very appealing from a design standpoint. Even if she sports a very unpractical anime hair cut.