Howdy class. In celebration of getting 50 members today..okay not really. I was going to make a topic focused on discussion but since having spoken briefly about it to the group and people have become more talky I don't have to, which is great. Thanks for that, good work and all that jazz.

Instead what I'm going to do is talk about what I believe are the three of the most common protagonist archetypes in anime and manga.  The traditional romantic hero, the Byronic…