After Bubblegum Crisis, Masaki Kajishima and Hiroki Hayashi played with the trend of having a cast largely comprised of one gender, plus a representative of the other. They mixed that in ideas in a comedy version of the cyber-action show with the little brother at its center. And, they got Tenchi Muyo. That sci-fi comedy sounds simple and fun enough, but they wound up contributing to popularizing the harem genre and developing a singularly powerful character intermarried with the ruling bodies of the universe through a convoluted mythos. And, that's unforgivable.

Ranking site Goo has published the results of their poll, asking fans which characters are so overly blessed/cursed with their ability to gather members of the opposite sex that you can't help but feel unforgivable jealousy. Of course Tenchi is near the top, but he's up against Kirito, who couldn't stop at in-game marrying Asuna plus hooking up with her IRL, not to mention Rito Yūki, who has peers, teacher, even married women in his entourage.

20. (tie) Nagasarete Airantō's Ikuto Tōhōin (CV Hiro Shimono)

20. The Irregular at Magic High School's Tatsuya Shiba (CV Yuichi Nakamura)

20. Familiar of Zero's Saito (CV Satoshi Hino)

20. IS <Infinite Stratos>'s Ichika Orimura (CV Kōki Uchiyama)

20. Monster Musume's Kimihito Kurusu (CV Junji Majima)

20. Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend's Tomoya Aki (CV Yoshitsugu Matsuoka)

19. Bladedance of Elementalers' Kamito Kazehaya (CV Makoto Furukawa)

18. A Certain Magical Index's Tōma Kamijō (CV Atsushi Abe)

17. Shomin Sample's Kimito Kagurazaka (CV Atsushi Tamaru)

15. (tie) Date-A-Live's Shido Itsuka (CV Nobunaga Shimazaki)

15. Strike The Blood's Kojou Akatsuki (CV Yoshimasa Hosoya)

12. Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!'s Yamato Naoe (CV Hiroshi Kamiya)

12. Heaven's Lost Property's Tomoki Sakurai (CV Tomoki Sakurai)

12. World Break: Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman's Moroha Haimura (CV Kaito Ishikawa)

11. Oreshura's Eita Kidō (CV Ryōta Ōsaka)

10. Campione!'s Godou Kusanagi (CV Yoshitsugu Matsuoka)

9. The Ambition of Oda Nobuna's Yoshiharu Sagara (CV Takuya Eguchi)

8. The Fruit of Grisaia's Yūji Kazami (CV Takahiro Sakurai)

7. Love Hina's Keitaro Urashima (CV Yūji Ueda)

6. The World God Only Knows' Keima Katsuragi (CV Hiro Shimono)

4. (tie) Nisekoi's Raku Ichijo (CV Kōki Uchiyama)

4. Haganai's Kodaka Hasegawa (CV Ryohei Kimura)

3. Tenchi Muyo's Tenchi Masaki (CV Masami Kikuchi)

2. Sword Art Online's Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya (CV Yoshitsugu Matsuoka)

1. To Love Ru's Rito Yūki (CV Akeno Watanabe)

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.