Disabled or handicapped characters in anime

Madzack · Post by **Madzack** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 4:49 pm

Which anime feature disabled or handicapped people as characters?

Heero_Yuy84 · Post by **Heero_Yuy84** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 5:03 pm

Gundam 0080:
The character Dick Lumumba (who, for the record bears a kind of creepy resemblance to Nelson Mandela) is in a wheelchair

Gundam 0083:
Zeon pilot Kelly Lazner is missing an arm

Also, (while it's debatable if you would count this) there's always Captain Harlock's missing an eye

delta shell · Post by **delta shell** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 5:05 pm

er Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust has an old man in an electric wheelchair in it. (Charlotte's father).

Grove (if that's how you spell it) of the Marcus Brothers is in pretty bad shape if you ask me.

Carmilla...well she's dead!!

THere are plenty of others i just can't seem to think of them right now...

Get back to ya..

tacooe · Post by **tacooe** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 8:38 pm

the old guy in Rojin-Z, how could you forget him or that guy in Perfect Blue, there's loads but often they have 'special' abilities so they have been compensated

RichLather · Post by **RichLather** » Fri Feb 21, 2003 11:34 pm

There's a wheelchair kid in Doozy Bots who turns into a Guntank.

And there's a wheelchair-bound girl in the American live action/animated version of Sailor Moon.

KLin · Post by **KLin** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 12:59 am

The psychic sisters who eventually transform into Genocyber are handicapped because they were supposed to be born as one person, but were manipulated into two individuals. Diana is pretty much a head placed on an artifical cyber-body, and Elaine is seemingly mentally retarded. Diana was originally supposed to be Elaine's reason and thought process, which is why they ended up being like that when separated from each other.

In the final episode of Genocyber also, the main female character is blind. The final episode is centered upon what happens when she and her husband go to a seemingly wealthy colony to get an operation to restore vision to her.

In GetBackers...

*spoilers alert*

....hudo takuma, who was mido ban's ex-partner from his Plunderer days. Somehow he lost his left hand to ban, and it wriggles crazily at the prospect of killing ban. If that wasn't enough, he also has an eyepatch over his right eye. Although it is unknown if it is because of a disability or he just does it to psych people out. He seems to like the look though. Must be masochistic or something...

Heero_Yuy84 · Post by **Heero_Yuy84** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 2:07 am

Just remembered another one:

Masaru in Akira had to use the floating wheelchair to get around (well, when he wasn't hovering on his own)