Gia's List: The 6 Most Painfully Shy Teens in Anime

Shy characters in anime are sometimes comedic fodder. Sometimes they're fan-favorite moe characters, and sometimes they're completely psychotic. Regardless of how they're used it sometimes seems that every anime has at least one ostensibly shy character...but some are more problematic in their shyness than others. Here are six of those.

6. Code Geass) Einstein descendent? Maybe. Psycho shy girl? Definitely. (Warning: Spoilers Ahead!) Nina Einstein is an awkward nerd who attends school with Lelouch and co. However, she's not a sweet shy girl: she's kind of a racist due to her terror of "Elevens" (native Japanese people). She even has trouble trusting uber-nice guy Suzaku when he first appears. Things really start to go bad for Nina after she develops a huge crush on Princess Euphemia, who (under an accidental Geass command) begins shooting up all the Elevens she can find and is killed by Zero. Nina goes nuts and attempts to avenge Euphemia by installing a mech with a prototype nuclear reactor, which fortunately fails to go off. In the show's second season, she works for the Britannian army and develops the weapon F.L.E.I.J.A., which kills over 35 million people. Talk about overkill.

The new poll: In here and check back next time for the results!

The previous poll: Last week, we kept things simple: we wanted to know whether you prefer sci-fi or fantasy (if you really have to choose). Fantasy won with a solid but not overwhelming majority of 57%, with sci-fi taking 43%. (Interestingly, the spring 2012 anime season had a fantasy to sci-fi ratio of about 2:1.)