For video games:
-Fortnite's been doing good lately; it's like once they saw how popular Meowscles was, they got more anthro characters, and the recent additions like Thunder, Oscar, Wendell and Rufus (aka Twink Thrash) have been great, in their own way.

-Of course the Star Fox crew was a very early influence
-Ajani Goldmane from Magic The Gathering is a common target of simping on my stream.

For VNs (which are video games, but too broad to include under this subset):
-Spencer from Extracirricular Activities and he was the first non-Harold Route I completed. Overachieving nerd who "performs"? OMG HE ME FOR REAL!
-There's a lot of, uh, good, fanart of Theroretical Adult Syndey from Echo
-Eddy from Chord Progressions is just so friggin ADORABLE. A lot of the other characters you've noticed have been the more muscular side of bara, kudos to the art team, Eddy/MC is so CUTE, I can tell why he's the focus of a lot of the marketing even though you sparesly see him.