You'd love Blake's 7. Not anime, of course, but there's a wonderful character called Avon (that's him in the icon) who professes to despise everyone and ends up saving their lives on a regular basis, then claiming that of course he did it for entirely selfish reasons. Stellar stuff, even though the special effects weren't very special (hardly surprising, considering the show was made on a microscopic budget) and the science truly sucked in places (oh, my word, we can put patrols just here at the edge of the galaxy to stop the Andromedans invading!). But the characterisation... ah, it was worth all the rest for that. :-)