Who was your anime rolemodel as a child/teen/adult?

As a child, I wanted to be like L in Death Note. It made me more studious and helped at school. As a teen, like most people, lots of shit happened to me. I chose to think a bit like the Joker from Batman. "Nothing matters, everyone is fake. Why not just laugh about it"! Whenever I felt a bad emotion, I smiled in public or laughed in private. It really made me feel better. Nothing evil though ^^, only his philosophy interested me. As an adult, I don't have a rolemodel. I don't want to copy characters or people anymore. I want my own personality. Although, I'm still stuck with a natural smile and I laugh instead of crying. I can control it though, I don't burst in a sad laughter in public.

Lloyd Irving! Yeah, I know Tales of Symphonia started as a video game, but there was an anime adaptation of it, so I count it!

Probably when I was tiny, the fully formed Voltron robot, then as a teen, Dragon Ball's Vegeta, and from my college years to now, Hellsing's Alucard

Naruto Uzumaki probably, I looked up to him so much and to this day watching the series still gives me that motivated feeling and brings back that optimism

zetsubo-sensei https://thumbs.gfycat.com/FlatGlumFlatfish-size_restricted.gif jk, im not one for role motels