Hinata is definately my favorite side-character...I liked her from the very first episode, where we were introduced to her and found out she's cute, timid, and has a thing for Naruto...only to never see her again for about sixty episodes...and no telling how many eps till she shows up again. *sniffle*

Since the topic summary asks if anyone disagrees about Neji....I have to say I do--he's my least favorite character. Only a total jerk could take out their hatred for the "head" family on the nicest person to ever come into existence. There's no way that Hinata would maintain the division between the head family and the branch families, when she becomes head of the clan--can you see her going around putting seals on three-year-old kids that give her the power to kill them without twitching a finger? There's not a mean bone in her body. But Neji's so blind with hatred, he tries to kill her spirit, and then to kill her outright when she doesn't back down, and I still can't forgive him for that.

I'll admit, he's gotten a lot better since then, and his fight against spider-ninja was pretty cool...but there's no way it makes up for trying to kill Hinata-chin. If he saves her life someday, then I'll be able to forgive him, but until then I'll have to consider him very much un-cool.