your death note L answer makes me laugh because some of my friends and i were L fans despite only seeing him as an antisocial creepy potato (best description, thanks) from the start. (the others were Light fans so it was fun having different people to root for until uh one of them died...)
Oh, I don’t doubt his creepy potato persona could be lovable, too! it’s just the english version had left the viewers no other choice but to find him lovable from the get-go, you know? which is why the original was so eye-opening. (and “until uh one of them died” was such a major point of aggressive yelling for me for a long while, can you believe it XD)
















