Welcome, anime fans and stans. We all love a good villain or antihero. When you're hanging out with your otaku friends, eating ramen and sipping on boba tea, it's pretty easy to play devil's advocate and defend your favorite baddie, but what if you were a lawyer, and you had to defend an anime antagonist in a court of law? Your arguments might change, then, as you devise a strategy for your 2D defendant. How much evidence did that character leave behind of their crimes in the anime, or are they crazy enough to be considered 'not guilty by reason of insanity?' Some characters on this list might actually be intelligent enough engineer their own win in a court case with your help as a lawyer. In any case, enjoy this amusing thread where anime fans discuss which anime character they would choose to defend before a judge and how they would do so.