Counting Down the 20 Coolest Characters in Anime - #14 Isaac & Miria, Baccano!

"As long as we're together I could be a king or a queen! Even a joker!" - Isaac

If there was an award for the ditziest characters in anime, Isaac and Miria from Baccano! would probably be close to the top. However, they have an amazing quality about them, something that makes you love and cherish every moment that they're on screen. Yes, I'm copping out here by putting two characters in one slot here but you can't have one of this lovable duo without including the other.

Robbing from the mafia dressed up as baseball players

Isaac and Miria are the glue that connects all of the storylines that happen in Baccano! stumbling into the several different storylines that play out over the course of the series. Isaac and Miria are world famous robbers who are actually lethally efficient at what they do. However, they're also a pair of space cadets which leads to them pulling a few heists that are questionable at best. For example, Isaac once claims that they are "robbing gold from the Earth" by mining for gold (Miria also states that normally one finds gold in a river not a mine which Isaac promptly disregards) Other times however, they show themselves to be highly competent at their work despite being ridiculously silly while doing it. They get away with most of their crimes, sometimes even robbing people in broad daylight, because civilians believe them to be actors. They are the common bond that joins such a disjointed (and yet brilliant) series together. They show up in each of the three different storylines and find themselves embroiled unwittingly in the main plot. They have a propensity for getting themselves in incredibly dangerous situations and managing to wiggle their way out unharmed. Hilariously, later in the series the two become IMMORTAL without even realizing it (they hadn't realized that they hadn't aged in about 30 years).

Absolutely adorable

My favorite quality about Isaac & Miria is that they have this innate ability to make everyone around them happy. Sure they're absolutely ridiculous and hammy while doing it (they might not even know what they're doing to be honest) but they're incredible at it. In fact, theres an episode of Baccano! titled "Isaac and Miria Unintentionally Spread Happiness Around Them" in which they go around engaging in such activities. I think everybody has an Isaac & Miria in their lives. Somebody who makes them happy by simply being an awesome person. This is their role to many of the characters on the show whose lives become a lot more exciting and colorful when Isaac & Miria enter the fray. For example, the character Ennis had a pretty bland and boring life being Szilard's servants. Isaac and Miria instantly become her best friends and transform her life. Like I said before, Isaac and Miria are the glue that holds the show together. While the show loves to brag that it doesn't have a main character, Isaac and Miria are the closest the show has to main characters. They show up in every storyline making everybody's lives better. Despite their craziness, they tie everything together and sometimes speak the most sense of anybody. (Isaac is also voiced by the one and only J. Michael Tatum, who is probably the best voice in anime right now)

I loved Isaac & Miria when I watched Baccano! In fact they probably established themselves as my favorite characters from the show. Theres something great about an adorable (yet dimwitted) couple that do almost everything in unison and spread happiness all around them. Part of me wants to describe them as little happiness fairies but I think I'll just keep that to myself. For being humongously entertaining and awesome, Isaac & Miria are #14.