I’ve seen quite a few posts floating around the internet of people (girls in particular) ragging on poor Kotetsu for not being young enough, or pretty enough, or badass enough, ect. ect. It really baffles me to be honest, because Kotetsu is probably one of the best leading men I’ve seen in anime. I’m just confused as to why more people (people around me anyways) don’t see this.
He’s a single father in a medium in which 90% of single parents portrayed are single mothers (at least), he’s not emotionally / physically abusive to his child (quite the opposite, he loves his daughter more then anything in the world), he’s an older man who is not overly beautiful and who lacks any sort of bishi sparkle action going on (I love that…I understand fangirls loving their bishi sparkle…I at times love it too, but seriously…I love that he’s older and looks like a normal guy), he has incredibly strong morals and beliefs and is willing to be unpopular for them (something that I lack the courage to do), he’ll take bullets fireballs for his friends, he wouldn’t hurt a fly, he deals with people giving him crap with a smile, he’s adorkable, he tries to make his friends laugh whenever he can…and oh yeah. He’d rather save your life then get points in a game show.
All these things just add up to a wildly different, and amazingly lovable protagonist, and I wouldn’t change a thing about him. Japan needs to take more risks and make more truly unique characters like Kotetsu, cause if they end up being a tenth as awesome, they’ve done good.
Just thought I’d let everyone know how rad I think he is. I respect differing opinions of course, but it’s silly to discount such a beautiful personality just cause a guy is pushing forty or whatever. He really is the incredibly large heart of the show.
