Anime Quotes About Pride
The line between self-respect and the thing that gets people killed, argued out loud by characters standing on both sides of it.
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“When you lose to someone smaller than you, it destroys your soul.”
Inosuke Hashibira · Demon Slayer
The strongest objection, answered→
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“A blow to my pride is nothing. Not when compared to my clan's suffering.”
Kurapika · Hunter x Hunter
Read against the character's own history→
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A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Isaac Netero · Hunter x Hunter
The contrarian read→
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“You know, you talk too much. Let me tell you, in battle there is only one way you should be using your mouth!”
Guts · Berserk
Set against another series→
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“Now, my friend, you have a choice: Admit defeat, or I will be forced to dislocate your shoulder. Either way makes no difference to me. Now choose.”
Griffith · Berserk
The contrarian read→
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“All you care about is swinging your sword against others. You don't care at all about the lives of the men you lead; you're just a mad dog!”
Casca · Berserk
Set against another series→
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“I've encountered two men who are able to inflict wounds on my body. A shame I have to kill them both. I'll start with this one.”
Zodd · Berserk
The case against this line→
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A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Homura Akemi · Puella Magi Madoka Magica
What the Japanese does→
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A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Homura Akemi · Puella Magi Madoka Magica
The case against this line→
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A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Sayaka Miki · Puella Magi Madoka Magica
The case against this line→
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“One may train a dog with food, or a man with money. But taming a Wolf of Mibu...that, none may do.”
Hajime Saito · Rurouni Kenshin
Read against the character's own history→
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A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Makoto Shishio · Rurouni Kenshin
What the line costs later→
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“Don't give me that weepy crap just because you lost!!!!! We're Fairy Tail wizards!!!!! We're the guild that doesn't know how to quit!!!!”
Natsu Dragneel · Fairy Tail
What the story had to build→
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“Spirits aren't shields! I fight alongside them! That's my style!”
Lucy Heartfilia · Fairy Tail
The contrarian read→
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A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Gendo Ikari · Neon Genesis Evangelion
The strongest objection, answered→
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“This is the "unbreakable Wall of Jericho", Third Child.”
Asuka Langley Soryu · Neon Genesis Evangelion
The case against this line→
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“Hardly. Begging doesn't work on you, remember? Even if it's coming from the man who took you in and made you what you are.”
Spike Spiegel · Cowboy Bebop
Read against the character's own history→
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“Don't be dense. I started wailing the blues when the doctor whacked my bottom on the day I was born.”
Jet Black · Cowboy Bebop
Set against another series→
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“Women are hopeless. They don't work on reason.”
Jet Black · Cowboy Bebop
The case against this line→
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“Definitely. Men are extremely predictable.”
Faye Valentine · Cowboy Bebop
Set against another series→
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“Perhaps, but he was a beast who lost his fangs. That's why he had to die, Spike. And that's why you have to die.”
Vicious · Cowboy Bebop
Read against the character's own history→
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A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Laughing Bull · Cowboy Bebop
What the story had to build→
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A line from the ending — shown on the character page, behind a spoiler shield.
Kazuma Kuwabara · YuYu Hakusho
What the Japanese does→
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“The only reason I saved you is because I might need your help.”
Hiei · YuYu Hakusho
Read against the character's own history→
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