So While your creating your own cartoon or anime... You need some characters. Lets start with characters to avoid. 1. The Stupid Character. Ditzy and Cluless dumb blonde is ok. Characters who say one word, or they are incredibly mentally challenged should be avoided. Don't pick them, they get annoying fast. 2. The Hero with no flaws. Watch out for overpowered characters, they need emotional and physical flaws too. Serena the leader from Sailor Moon was perfect. Thats a kind of character you need as a leader. 3. 300 Co-stars. A Show I'm making suffers from this, too much leader characters can create confusing times, for example Digimon. Their faces are so similar, and learning their names took a while. You really want characters to stand out. If you have a group, limit them down to 3 or 4. When you have alot, they get bunched into One Personality per character. The snobbish rich guy would always be the snobbish rich guy. Kids Next Door suffers from this alot, and sometimes the characters blur with each other. Numbah 3 and Numbah 1 blur together that if it wasn't for the accent, I wouldn't be able to tell them apart. 4. Relatives. When you have stars who are relatives, things easily get dumbed down into the I hate my sister/brother. Its a tired formula, and its prevelant on almost all Disney Channel shows. When relatives have conflicts, make sure their conflicts are valid, or funny. Family Guy's Meg And Chris suffer from this, but because the show puts Meg in this Daffy Duck situation, everyone at one point hates her or don't care about her.