We hope Narumi doesn’t get mad at us for saying this, but Hirotaka is just our type! It’s not every day that you find an otaku who’s also a cute anime boy. He’s so early on the list because he hasn’t had to wade through as many difficult life problems as the others, but he still has to suffer through that most soul-crushing of situations; banal office work.

Hirotaka seems like the kind of guy who opens up little by little once you get to know him, and we’d love to do that by playing video games with him at his apartment and maybe getting a little kiss at the end, just like Narumi did. Since he likes fighting games, we think that gifting him a new multiplayer game would do the trick to melt his heart.

Suggested Present: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on Nintendo Switch.

Yuuta is just an ordinary kid, but his life completely changes when he suddenly loses his memories while over at his friend Rikka’s house. On top of that, the Hyper Agent, Gridman, tells him to “fulfill his purpose” and drags him into battle against dangerous enemies from the Demon World.

To Yuuta’s credit, he takes to his new reality quite well and tries to make new friends while reconnecting with Rikka. We want him to know that he’s appreciated no matter what his history might be, and that “fulfilling his purpose” comes second to living a life that he’s happy with. Such a young kid shouldn’t have to shoulder such big burdens all by himself.

Suggested Present: a framed photo of him with all of his friends .

Not much is known about Joe—his history, his family, and even his real name remain shrouded in mystery. All we know is that he used to be an underground boxer who purposefully lost matches for gambling profits, but got frustrated with just being a pawn and quit that life. Now he wants a real fight against the top boxers in the world in the Megalonia competition.

We’d be happy just to be groupies, cheering for him from the sidelines, but what would truly make him happy would probably be a friendly match against one of the top boxers in the world. It would allow him to learn and adapt to new fighting styles while coming up with ways to take down his greatest rival, Yuri. This man without a past should be able to work towards his future with all the support he can get.

Suggested Present: sparring time with a legendary boxer.

This poor guy really needs a break. All day, every day, his classmate Takagi tortures him with pranks and he can never come up with a good comeback. He has a crush on her and still considers her his best friend, but Takagi is still quite the tsundere and never lets up on him—even though she likes him a lot, too.

Despite thinking that it isn’t manly, he also loves cats and romance anime. We want to give him a relaxing afternoon at a local cat café, hopefully with some shoujo manga available to read while playing with the cats. It’ll give him time away from Tagaki to catch his breath, and also some thinking time to finally out-prank her.

Suggested Present: a gift certificate to a cat café.

Mista is a badass gangster and the resident gunslinger for Bucciarati’s team, helped by his stand Sex Pistols. His calm skill and the Pistols’ ricocheting bullet ability make for a deadly combination that decimates his enemies during the many battles he finds himself in over the course of Golden Wind. Unfortunately, he also has a tendency to get shot by his own bullets when an enemy stand can reflect them back at him.

With the sheer amount of damage he takes, he really should’ve died many times over. Giorno always heals him with his stand Gold Experience, but that process is so excruciatingly painful that Mista has likely suffered more than the characters who actually do die. We’d love to give him a “get well” present to help him soldier on through his many, many injuries.

Suggested Present: a new cashmere crop top to replace the one he keeps getting bullet holes in.

Bakugou has a tendency to express any emotion he’s actually feeling as anger once it reaches the surface, but he finally breaks down after he’s saved from the League of Villains in season 3. He idolizes All Might just as much as Deku does, and the crushing realization that his rescue drained the last vestiges of power from the Symbol of Peace drives him to self-loathing.

His jealousy for Deku as All Might’s apprentice boils over and he takes it out on him in an unlicensed brawl that brings out his true feelings about the whole situation. Bakugou may be a bully with a hair-trigger temper, but he’s a confident kid with a good heart deep inside. We want to let him know that he isn’t All Might’s “killer” and that he still has a bright future ahead of him.

Suggested Present: an action figure of himself.

Yes, it’s a bit strange to be so sympathetic to literal cancer, but if anime can make us weak in the knees for warship waifus and zombie idols, this was bound to happen eventually. The cancer cell that we see in Cells at Work pretends to be a normal member of the crowd while secretly manipulating others into allowing him to spread and try to eventually kill the body that they all live in.

However, he didn’t want to be this way. He was born with an error in his DNA, so the other cells have always hated him and he harbors resentment for being shunned because of factors he can’t control. The cancer cell clearly shouldn't be allowed to hurt anyone else, but we wish we could tell him that he isn’t defined by the circumstances of his birth. We still want the best for him.

Suggested Present: a Petri dish where he can live out his life in peace.

Similar to the cancer cell from Cells at Work, Ash never wanted to be the violent gang leader that he is now. His upbringing as a mafia sex slave and subsequent escape to New York City’s seedy underbelly shaped him into a highly efficient killer with master manipulating skills. He envies his friend Eiji for not having to wield a gun just to get through daily life.

Later in the series, Ash’s enemies have caught on to his deep affection for Eiji and use the threat of killing him to force Ash to follow their orders. All he wants is a quiet life with his boyfriend, far away from the mafia and prostitution and drugs. If we could protect him while he spends some quality time with Eiji in safety, we absolutely would.

Suggested Present: a heavily guarded vacation to Japan with Eiji.

If there exists a maximum singularity of suffering, the version of Okabe from Steins;Gate 0 has reached it. Unlike the timeline from the original series, where he searched for a way to prevent Kurisu’s seemingly inevitable death, this Okabe is so devastated by seeing her corpse for the first time that he spirals into a terrible depression.

Something tells us that words or material gifts aren’t going to help him feel any better, so we’d just want to give him a hug. People going through depression and trauma need lots of time to recover, and as much as we wish Okabe could return to his adorkable normal self right away, we can only hope that he realizes our good intentions and takes them to heart.

Suggested Present: a nice, warm hug.

It’s a mystery how Akira and Ryo became such good friends in the first place since Akira is a cinnamon roll frosted with sunshine and Ryo is a calculating killer, but the truth is that they care deeply for each other. In fact, Ryo cares so much for Akira that he turns him into a demon and burns the entire planet to the ground just to be with him.

Akira suffers more in 10 episodes than most anime characters will over multiple seasons, and it’s all because of his attachment to his mysterious childhood friend. We wish he could’ve spent more time with his parents, progressed his relationship with Miki, and lived out the normal life that he deserved to have. But if he could just get away from Ryo for one day, it would’ve made his miserable existence just a little bit better.

Suggested Present: we’ll occupy Ryo for a day so that Akira can spend time with Miki.