Welcome to the Anime Walk of Fame, a series of retrospectives on the many characters of the anime world. You'll see all your favorites along with a few that deserve more than their reputations give.

So sit back relax and enjoy the show.

Hinata's Ramen Feat is Based on an Actual Eating Challenge

If you think these little reviews are small then it's because I hope to revisit the characters again later to maybe talk about something else, so expect a few of them to make reappearances later on, for now we start with some fact hunting.

Hinata Hyuuga to most is the shy girl who loves Naruto and eventually became his wife, but looking at her history, the moments we do get from her including her shadow like dance on the water, her brave attempt at fighting Pain, her big moment of finally becoming Naruto's true love and her insatiable appetite for Ramen.
Naruto's affinity for ramen created a couple of one off episodes centering around a ramen eating contest where a select group of characters battle it out by consuming as many bowls of Ramen as possible, the winner is not Chouji whose whole jutsu revolves around eating, it's not Kiba who likely has the appetite of an animal and it's not Naruto who pretty much eats it every day, it's actually Hinata.
This feat pays homage to a real life Ramen eating challenge in a century old Ramen shop called Azumaya, the challenge is to consume as many small bowls of Wanko Soba Noodles, for context 15 small bowls equals 1 standard size.
The current world record is 570 bowls set by a Japanese woman of whom the owner described in his own words "toothpick thin" it's mind boggling to think that anyone could consume that much.
For context Hinata's equivalent record would be 690 bowls after a small bit of math, but what really can be taken from this is that it's always the person you least suspect beating these challenges and this little bit of Japanese history inspired this popular Naruto gag.

Hating Boruto Just Means You're Old

Boruto gets plenty of criticism even from me although my reasons are for recycling plots from the OG Naruto and making them worse as opposed to the characters themselves but every complaint is reserved for Boruto himself but it's not really his fault.

Boruto is of course Naruto's son, he has the same trouble making persona but while Naruto acted out in order not to feel lonely, Boruto acts out on daddy issues and the fact that the leader of a friggin country is not spending more time with him. You can already see the difference and already you can see Boruto as a spoiled brat, but that's kind of what kids do, they have different priorities especially as Boruto is growing up in peacetime as opposed to the wars Naruto battled in, his attitude reflects the world around him and he decides to follow a path that better suits him although he seems predestined to become a hybrid of Naruto and Sasuke if the teaser time skips are to be believed.
Those who hate him watched the original and Shippuden and would've been happy to end it there but Boruto wasn't made for you it was made for the new weebs and they'll either grow some taste later or think Naruto is a Fortnite character.

Fujiko Mine was Supposed to be Multiple Women

Following on from Faye Valentine, let's cover Fujiko herself and some insight into her design.

Fujiko Mine is a master thief who frequently teams up with the Lupin gang mostly for her own interests and she's one of the few characters who can act on Lupin's level, but her original creation was quite different.
Late author Monkey Punch designed Fujiko as the woman of the week, inspired by the women of Ian Fleming's James Bond stories and films, so called Bond girls, sexy femme fatales that the lead character can hook up with or become a convenient plot device to drive the narrative.
As the franchise continued, readers were confusing the female characters as the same character and Fujiko was born, becoming a foil for Lupin as well as the prototype for all femme fatales that followed, the irony of becoming her own character is that her origins became more mysterious which gave us the art house project Woman Named Fujiko Mine as well as allowing her more freedom in her design as the decades go on.
Definitely a worthy contender for best female character in anime.

Faye Valentine is a Poor Woman's Fujiko Mine

I won't harp on too much longer about Cowboy Bebop, god knows the internet has already done that to death with the Netflix series, so I'm going to bring up something different which covers Faye Valentine.

A quick background, Faye was introduced as a thief who crossed paths with Spike on one of his bounty hunting missions, from there she got involved with the Bebop crew as she was useful at obtaining information on other targets and being sort of half good at looking after herself and is more than capable of getting involved with the crew's weaponry.
The fact that she was a late 90s anime sex symbol hasn't really gone unnoticed but her design, actions and untraceable past is reminiscent of Fujiko Mine, the femme fatale thief of Lupin the 3rd.
The main difference between the two women is that were still no closer to finding out the truth about Fujiko where as Faye we find out pretty much everything.
Faye isn't a bad character, in fact she's probably alot more capable than Fujiko, this is more of an observation into how her character came to be in the first place, Lupin the 3rd will be 55 years old later this year and Faye isn't the first and certainly won't be the last femme fatale to be inspired by Fujiko Mine, I just wish they remembered that in the live action version when they gave Faye some of the worst most cringy lines of dialogue I've ever heard; not every action orientated female character has to be Harley Quinn!

Goh is a Typical Pokemon Player in Anime Form

I've mentioned Goh a few times in the past, all of it not so positive but there is an obvious reason why that is.

Other than obviously being named after the mega mobile hit Pokemon Go, Goh acts like a typical player of any Pokemon game, he picks up any and all new Pokemon he sees and only seems to carry his starter along with anyone deemed necessary for the episode task, what makes his character so annoying is that some of the Pokemon he's captured have quite unique personalities which would thrive in any other season but not with Goh.
If he were in the video games, he'd be celebrated as a challenging and unique rival trainer but in the anime he's boring.
Many question why the anime doesn't follow game logic more or why Red isn't the protagonist. Well it's because the anime's design doesn't support Goh's design, nor does it support Red's design who shares the same traits.
Pokemon is still primarily a kids anime, it's protagonist needs to share the same wide eyed enthusiasm as someone doing it for the first time and making friends for life, this is why Ash is still the protagonist 20+ years on.
Someone who just acts the same as the game is no different to the average player who's done it several times before, in short Goh is a joke at the expense of a regular Pokemon player.