The 25 Most Evil Anime Villains Ever, Ranked (2024)

In Japanese anime, a villain's depravity was usually intended to make the hero look better in comparison. Though sometimes given sympathetic qualities, they're meant to represent forces fundamentally opposed to the beliefs of the hero and audience. In this regard, a villain was almost as responsible for making a protagonist likable as the hero themselves.

However, only a few anime villains could claim their place among the most sinister and unapologetically violent characters in anime. Many anime villains demonstrated the depths of their evil and what they would have accomplished without the hero's epic intervention, making them the most evil anime characters in both the medium and all fiction.

Updated on November 19th, 2024 by Louis Kemner: This list of the most evil anime characters of all time has been expanded with five more examples of anime villainy and now conforms to CBR's current publication standards.

25 Akito Sohma Abused Her Family Verbally and Emotionally

She Was Desperate to be Loved By All

Akito Sohma was incapable of the many brutal crimes that define the worst anime villains ever, and she was never interested in slaughter or torture anyway. Instead, Akito Sohma is evil for more realistic reasons, being the verbally abusive head of the Sohma family in Fruits Basket's story. She is the "god" of the Chinese zodiac, and will say or do anything to keep the Sohmas loyal to her above all else.

Akito even robbed the other Sohmas of their memories, scratched their faces, threw them out of windows, and pitted them against each other to secure her position as the universally beloved head of the clan, so it's no wonder she earned a place among the worst anime villains. However, her misdeeds were limited to her own family and a few outsiders, not entire nations or worlds, so Akito ranks last among the evilest anime characters out there.

Fruits Basket

TV-14

Anime

Comedy

Drama

After Tohru is taken in by the Soma family, she learns that twelve family members transform involuntarily into animals of the Chinese zodiac and helps them deal with the emotional pain caused by the transformations.

Release Date

April 5, 2019

Cast

Manaka Iwami , Laura Bailey , Nobunaga Shimazaki , Jerry Jewell

Main Genre

Anime

Seasons

3

Studio

Production Company

TMS Entertainment

Number of Episodes

63

Streaming Service(s)

Crunchyroll , Hulu

24 Uragami Was Eviler Than Any Parasite

He Could Also Identify Parasites On Sight

In Parasyte: The Maxim, the Parasites were monsters who took control of people's bodies to hide in plain sight and indulge in cruelty. It says a lot that Uragami, an evil but otherwise ordinary human serial killer, was even more monstrous than the literal monsters. Uragami was so twisted that he overshadowed the most evil Parasites.

Even without a Parasite controlling him, Uragami enjoyed killing, torturing, and cannibalizing his victims. Uragami was so monstrous that he could even spot his fellow monsters, the Parasites, when they were in disguise. Uragami wasn't Parasyte: The Maxim's overall villain, but he was still one of the most evil anime characters.

Parasyte: The Maxim

TV-MA

Action

Horror

Science Fiction

Animation

Original title: Kiseijû: Sei no kakuritsu.
17-year-old Shinichi Izumi is partially infected by a Parasyte, monsters that butcher and consume humans. He must learn to co-exist with the creature if he is to survive both the life of a Parasyte and a human as part monster, part person.

Release Date

October 9, 2014

Main Genre

Anime

Seasons

1

Studio

Madhouse

Creator

Hitoshi Iwaaki

Production Company

Forecast Communications, Madhouse, Nippon Television Network (NTV), Video Audio Project (VAP)

Number of Episodes

21

Main Cast

Nobunaga Shimazaki, Aya Hirano, Rinka H.B.B., Atsuka Tanaka, Brittney Karbowski, Adam Gibbs and Joanne Bonasso

23 Sosuke Aizen Betrayed the Soul Society to Become Heaven's King

Countless People Died & Suffered Because of His Deceit

Aizen was not Bleach's final villain, but he was still one of Bleach's strongest characters. When he debuted, Sosuke Aizen looked like the nicest and most loyal Captain in Soul Society during the Soul Society story arc, but it was all an act. He wanted to become the new Soul King, and he was willing to do terrible things to accomplish this goal.

Thanks to his zanpakuto, Kyoka Suigetsu, Aizen had the power of complete hypnosis. This allowed him to manipulate everyone—especially Momo Hinamori, who loved him, and who he left for dead twice. He killed the entirety of Central 46 to orchestrate Rukia's execution, and he killed countless more innocent souls for the sake of his research. He even abandoned and mocked his own Espada minions, getting frustrated with their repeated failures on the battlefield.

Bleach

TV-14

Animation

Action

Adventure

Bleachrevolves around Kurosaki Ichigo, a regular always-grouchy high-schooler who for some strange reason is able to see the souls of the dead around him.

Release Date

September 6, 2006

Cast

Johnny Yong Bosch , Michelle Ruff , Stephanie Sheh , Jamieson Price , Derek Stephen Prince , Wally Wingert

Seasons

16

Creator

Production Company

Story By

Tite Kubo

Writers

Tite Kubo , Masashi Sogo

Number of Episodes

Network

Funimation

Directors

Noriyuki Abe , Jun'ya Koshiba

Showrunner

Tite Kubo

Producers

Tasuku Honda , Yoshihiko Tominaga , Genki Negishi

Character(s)

Ulquiorra (voice) , Ryūsei 'Kenryū' Kenzaki (voice) , Ugaki (voice) , Avirama Redder , Kurōdo (voice) , Noitora (voice) , Uncredited , Maki Ichinose (voice) , Jinta Hanakari (voice) , Noba , Aaroniero Arruruerie (voice) , Lirin (voice) , Mashiro Kuna (voice) , Wonderweiss Margera (voice) , Hyōrinmaru (voice) , Uryu Ishida (voice) , Nel Tu (voice)

22 Junko Enoshima Threw Everyone Into a Survival Horror Scenario

For Her, It Was Great Fun

Junko Enoshima was the overarching villain of Danganronpa: The Animation, a murder mystery anime in which over a dozen students were trapped in a survival game. Junko orchestrated the entire ordeal, and she did so because she is a malicious and selfish individual who fed on other people's misery and despair.

Junko habitually organized survival games because she wanted to see innocent people turn into monsters. She was so sadistic that she even told her sister and love interest that she never really cared for either of them. She did this just before their deaths in order to get the maximum amount of grief and pain from them.

Danganronpa: The Animation

TV-14

Animation

Action

Adventure

Drama

Mystery

A group of teenagers enroll in a prestigious high school, which turns out to be a devious trap designed to tempt the pupils to murder one another in order to graduate.

Release Date

July 5, 2013

Cast

Megumi Ogata , Yoko Hikasa , Chiwa Saitô , Akira Ishida , Miyuki Sawashiro , Masaya Matsukaze , Nobuyo Ōyama , Kanata Hongô , Junichi Suwabe , Takuya Eguchi , Toshiyuki Morikawa , Saki Fujita , Rie Kugimiya , Mai Nakahara , Keiji Fujiwara , Kenta Miyake , Hidekatsu Shibata , Inori Minase , TARAKO , Takako Sasuga , Aya Hirano , Aya Uchida , Hekiru Shiina , Kouki Miyata , Kohsuke Toriumi , Kappei Yamaguchi , Takahiro Sakurai , Kazuya Nakai , Kujira , Makiko Ohmoto , Megumi Toyoguchi

Main Genre

Animation

Seasons

1

Character(s)

Makoto Naegi , Kyoko Kirigiri , Aoi Asahina , Byakuya Togami , Touko Fukawa , Yasuhiro Hagakure , Monokuma , Ryota Mitarai , Juzo Sakakura , Sonosuke Izayoi , Kyosuke Munakata , Seiko Kimura , Daisaku Bandai , Chisa Yukizome , Koichi Kizakura , Great Gozu , Kazuo Tengan , Ruruka Ando , Monokuma/Monomi , Monaka Towa , Komaru Naegi , Celestia Ludenberg , Chihiro Fujisaki , Kiyotaka Ishimaru , Hifumi Yamada , Leon Kuwata , Mondo Owada , Sakura Ogami , Sayaka Maizono , Junko Enoshima

21 Griffith/Femto Sacrificed His Loyal Soldiers to Become Powerful

He Also Violated Casca Just Because He Could

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Unlike the nobles in Berserk, Griffith was well-mannered, and he fought in many battles as the commander of the Midland Regular Army. Thanks to his leadership, he was viewed as the savior of the entire continent. The Band of the Hawk were a band of mercenaries, and they held Griffith in high regard as a comrade.

Unfortunately, Griffith craved power, and when given the opportunity, he sacrificed his comrades to become Femto, a powerful demon. His comrades trusted him, but he killed them so he could obtain a kingdom of his own. Worst of all, he assaulted the honorable Casca right in front of Guts. All that made Griffith both the antihero and the ultimate villain of the famed Golden Age story arc in Berserk, and it was fascinating and horrifying to see his villainy unfold firsthand.

Berserk

Guts, a wandering mercenary, joins the Band of the Hawk after being defeated in a duel by Griffith, the group's leader and founder. Together, they dominate every battle, but something menacing lurks in the shadows.

Created by

Kentaro Miura

First Film

Berserk: The Golden Age Arc 1: The Egg of the King

First TV Show

Berserk

Latest TV Show

Berserk

Where to watch

Crunchyroll

Video Game(s)

Berserk: Millennium Falcon Hen Seima Senki no Sho , Berserk and the Band of the Hawk , Sword of the Berserk: Guts Rage

Manga Volumes

42

Genre

Fantasy

Where to Stream

Crunchyroll

20 Tamaki Tsunenaga Built a Vicious Prison for Fun

He Wouldn't Let Anyone Interfere

In Deadman Wonderland, a massive earthquake struck Japan, and Tamaki Tsunenaga was more interested in saving his video games than helping his injured mother. He helped to create the eponymous Deadman Wonderland Prison, where he forced the inmates to participate in death games for his own amusement.

Tamaki made inmates fight each other in horrific matches, and he got very upset whenever someone ruined his fun or threatened his ownership of the games. For example, he made a prisoner fight his pregnant wife. When the prisoner threw the match, Tamaki ripped the baby out and turned it into a research subject. He certainly did some terrible things, but Tamaki's crimes are somewhat tame compared to what the nastiest villains of all have done, so he ranks modestly among the most evil anime characters ever conceived.

Deadman Wonderland

TV-MA

Action

Thriller

Drama

After being falsely convicted for the murder of his entire class, a young man must learn to survive in a mysterious prison with a perverted take on incarceration while also looking to clear his name.

Release Date

April 17, 2011

Cast

Romi Park , Kana Hanazawa , Monica Rial , Greg Ayres

Main Genre

Anime

Seasons

1

Streaming Service(s)

Crunchyroll

19 Kazundo Gouda Created a Crisis for Selfish Reasons

He Pretended it Was For the Good of Japan

Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex was set in a post-war Japan filled with criminals and terrorists. However, the true villains were cold-hearted bureaucrats like Kazundo Gouda. As the Cabinet Intelligence Service's head, Gouda orchestrated a refugee crisis and a virus outbreak to drive Japan to the brink of war for nationalism's sake.

Although he wrapped his cruelty in patriotic fervor, Gouda was really driven by his desperate need for more power at all costs. The most terrifying thing about Gouda was how his plans and motives were disturbingly true to life. Gouda wasn't just one of the most evil anime characters of all time, but arguably one of the most realistic as well.

Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045

TV-14

Animation

Drama

Action

Sci-Fi

Release Date

April 23, 2020

Creator(s)

Kenji Kamiyama , Shinji Aramaki

Cast

Atsuko Tanaka , Akio Otsuka , Koichi Yamadera , Yutaka Nakano , Tôru Ôkawa , Takashi Onozuka , Taro Yamaguchi , Sakiko Tamagawa , Osamu Saka , Megumi Han , Kenjiro Tsuda , Megumi Hayashibara

Main Genre

Animation

Streaming Service(s)

Netflix

Character(s)

Motoko Kusanagi , Batou , Togusa , Ishikawa , Saito , Paz , Borma , Tachikoma , Daisuke Aramaki , Purin Ezaki , Standard , Takashi Shimamura

18 Bondrewd the Novel Was a Twisted Scientist

He Couldn't Resist Experimenting on Others, Often Ruining Their Lives

Bondrewd the Novel wasn't Made in Abyss' overall threat, but he was a vile yet interesting villain nonetheless. Unlike most evil anime characters, Bondrewd was a genuinely altruistic scientist who lacked his fellow villains' malice. This, instead, meant that he was a hyper-logical and inhuman scientist who pursued progress no matter the human cost.

Bondrewd coldly experimented on whoever crossed paths with him, including children. He irreversibly transformed them into hideous monstrosities, and couldn't logically deduce why they prayed for death. In both his appearance and work "ethic," it was made clear that Bondrewd lost whatever humanity he had during his long stay in The Abyss.

Made in Abyss

TV-14

Action

Adventure

A girl and her robot companion search for her mother, who's lost within a vast chasm.

Release Date

July 7, 2017

Cast

Luci Christian

Main Genre

Anime

Seasons

2

Creator

Akihito Tsukushi

17 The Major Waged One Last War for the Sake of It

He Went Out in a Blaze of Foul Glory

Between being a fanatical Nazi officer and a self-absorbed narcissist, there wasn't much to like about The Major from Hellsing Ultimate. He spearheaded a contingent of Nazi vampires as they attacked London just to satisfy their grudge that was over half a century old and satiate their selfish death wishes.

The terrifyingly verbose Major was directly responsible for a bloodbath that claimed thousands, and he enjoyed war for its own sake. He knew that the remnants of the Nazi organization had no place in the world, so he defied the entire world by throwing his army at London so they could die fighting, thus earning glory in their own eyes. There is little else to know about The Major, because evidently, there's nothing else that defines him.

Hellsing Ultimate

Animation

Action

Fantasy

The vampire Alucard, his master Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing, and his newly sired ward Seras Victoria try to protect England from a war-crazed SS-Major who seeks to start an eternal war with his vampire army.

Release Date

December 5, 2006

Creator(s)

Kohta Hirano

Cast

Katie Gray , Crispin Freeman , Victoria Harwood , Ralph Lister , Jōji Nakata , Fumiko Orikasa , Yoshiko Sakakibara , Gildart Jackson

Main Genre

Animation

Rating

Seasons

1

Creator

16 The Demon King Cared for No One But Himself

Meliodas Refused to Be Like Him

As his name suggested, the Demon King from The Seven Deadly Sins ruled over the underworld, his minions, and the Ten Commandments. He sent hordes of monsters to Britannia and eventually even arrived himself by using Zeldris' body as his vessel. That's because the Demon King would gladly exploit anyone around him for his own use, even family members.

Willing to kill his own subjects in order to increase his power, the Demon King was completely apathetic to all lives but his own. The only stopping him was the fact that he was still confined to a single continent. Nonetheless, his betrayal of his family and his ability to expand rendered him a capable and malevolent threat.

The Seven Deadly Sins

TV-14

Action

Animation

Fantasy

The story of the Seven Deadly Sins, a group of warriors who were wrongly accused of a crime they didn't commit and went on a quest to vindicate themselves.

Release Date

October 5, 2014

Cast

Rintaro Nishi , Yûki Kaji , Sora Amamiya , Tatsuhisa Suzuki , Misaki Kuno , Aoi Yuki , Jun Fukuyama , Ryōhei Kimura , Mamoru Miyano , Marina Inoue , Yuuya Uchida , Mariya Ise , Yuuhei Takagi , Takahiro Sakurai , Maaya Sakamoto , Ryôtarô Okiayu , Katsuyuki Konishi

Main Genre

Action

Seasons

5

Creator

Production Company

Character(s)

Narrator , Meliodas , Elizabeth , Ban , Hawk , Diane , King , Hauser , Gilthunder , Jericho , Hendrickson , Giula , Gowther , Griamore , Merlin , Helbram , Dreyfus

15 Dio Brando Abused and Exploited Others to Feel Good About Himself

Even for a Cartoon Villain, Dio Was a True Monster

Consumed by his own hubris, DIO (formerly Dio Brando) wrought misery wherever he went. In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood, he obliterated the Joestar manor, killed his loving adoptive father, and took over his brother's body to use like a puppet when he came back from the dead. These were just the beginning.

DIO's early atrocities paled in comparison to his return in Stone Ocean. Alongside Enrico Pucci, DIO plotted to rewrite reality itself and make his Stand, The World, utterly unstoppable. Considering that Jotaro Kujo and company defeated him before he could follow through, it's fortunate that DIO never realized any of his grandiose ambitions. All of Dio's petty, cruel, and selfish scheming and murders make him rank among the worst anime villains of all, and he was hugely entertaining along the way.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

TV-14

Action

Adventure

Fantasy

Supernatural

Release Date

October 6, 2012

Creator(s)

Hirohiko Araki

Cast

Kazuyuki Okitsu , Tomokazu Sugita , Daisuke Ono , Unshou Ishizuka , Takehito Koyasu

Main Genre

Action

Seasons

6

Writers

Yasuko Kobayashi

Streaming Service(s)

Crunchyroll , Netflix , Hulu

Franchise(s)

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Directors

Naokatsu Tsuda

Showrunner

Crunchyroll , Netflix , Hulu

Character(s)

Jonathan Joestar , Joseph Joestar , Jotaro Kujo

14 Orochimaru Experimented on People and Used Them as Disposable Pawns

He Also Sought Immortality at Any Cost

Orochimaru the Sannin was later eclipsed by other villains in Naruto in terms of sheer power, but as for the most evil anime villains, no one could surpass Orochimaru. He spent many years delving into forbidden research and experimentation to unlock the secrets of immortality and all jutsu, which got him ejected from his native Hidden Leaf Village.

Orochimaru's wicked ways only intensified when he started using and exploiting his own Sound Village followers, using them as test subjects for new weapons and sacrificing them to fuel the likes of Edo Tensei. Orochimaru constantly sought new sources of power for purely selfish reasons, such as going after Sasuke's and Itachi's eyes, which often drove the story's plot in bizarre directions. He even launched an assault on the Leaf Village in Operation Konoha Crush just to spite his former home.

Naruto

TV-PG

Action

Adventure

Naruto Uzumaki, a mischievous adolescent ninja, struggles as he searches for recognition and dreams of becoming the Hokage, the village's leader and strongest ninja.

Release Date

September 10, 2002

Cast

Junko Takeuchi , Maile Flanagan , Kate Higgins

Main Genre

Anime

Seasons

1

Creator

Masashi Kishimoto

Production Company

Pierrot, Staralis Film Company

Number of Episodes

220

13 Donquixote Doflamingo Ruled Dressrosa With an Iron Fist

He Made Sure Dissidents Vanished From Memory

Even if Donquixote Doflamingo's villainous crimes weren't on the same scale as what the World Government did in One Piece, he still proved himself one of the most evil anime characters ever created. His backstory was almost sympathetic as a royal-born who wanted to reclaim his family's birthright, but he went way too far trying to become a king.

Doflamingo tormented his father and his own subjects to reclaim the Dressrosa throne, creating a vicious regime whose villainy hid in plain sight. He had all dissenters morphed into toys while ridding everyone of their memories of those dissenters, allowing all rebels to vanish from their loved ones' hearts. In battle, meanwhile, Doflamingo was cruel and vicious with his String-String Fruit and treated all fights and injuries like they were a game.

One Piece

TV-14

Action

Adventure

Comedy

Drama

Fantasy

Super Power

Follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy and his pirate crew in order to find the greatest treasure ever left by the legendary Pirate, Gold Roger. The famous mystery treasure named "One Piece".

Release Date

October 20, 1999

Creator(s)

Eiichiro Oda

Cast

Mayumi Tanaka , Kazuya Nakai , Akemi Okamura , Kappei Yamaguchi , Hiroaki Hirata , Ikue Ôtani , Yuriko Yamaguchi , Kazuki Yao , Chō

Main Genre

Action

Seasons

20

Creator

Production Company

Writers

Junki Takegami , Shoji Yonemura , Hirohiko Uesaka

Number of Episodes

Streaming Service(s)

Crunchyroll

Franchise(s)

One Piece

Directors

Kônosuke Uda , Junji Shimizu , Munehisa Sakai

12 Ryomen Sukuna Destroys and Kills Without Hesitation

He's One of the Darkest Half-Other Powers in Anime

While some half-other powers have their good side, such as Kurama the nine-tailed fox or even Ichigo Kurosaki's inner Hollow, there is nothing whatsoever good about Ryomen Sukuna. He was introduced as the feared king of curses in Jujutsu Kaisen, a savage being who held nothing sacred except for himself.

Sukuna was the one who tore out Yuji Itadori's heart while possessing him, and he also destroyed half of Tokyo fighting Jogo, a scene of utter carnage that broke Yuji's spirits. After Jujutsu Kaisen fans saw the destruction and Sukuna's flippant attitude about it, the stakes felt that much higher with Yuji being Sukuna's living vessel. It became horibly clear why the sorcerers were so afraid of Yuji and the monster inside him, but Yuji will fight on regardless.

Jujutsu Kaisen

TV-MA

Animation

Action

Adventure

A boy swallows a cursed talisman - the finger of a demon - and becomes cursed himself. He enters a shaman's school to be able to locate the demon's other body parts and thus exorcise himself.

Release Date

October 2, 2020

Cast

Junya Enoki , Yuma Uchida , Yuichi Nakamura , Adam McArthur , Asami Seto

Main Genre

Animation

Seasons

3

Studio

MAPPA

Creator

Gege Akutami

Main Characters

Yuji Itadori, Satoru Gojo, Ryomen Sukuna

Production Company

Mappa, TOHO animation

Number of Episodes

47 Episodes

Streaming Service(s)

Crunchyroll , Amazon Prime Video

11 Muzan Kibutsuji Let Countless Humans Die for His Selfish Goal

He Never Did Anything For the Sake of Others

Some of Muzan's demonic minions were somewhat sympathetic or pitiable, such as the Hand Demon or even Daki and Gyutaro, but the demon king himself, Muzan Kibutsuji, was different. 1,000 years ago in Demon Slayer's chronology, Muzan the human became a monster who couldn't survive sunlight, so he made it his mission to fix that.

Muzan created countless demons to find a cure, and he allowed them all to terrorize Japan, killing and eating humans by night. An entire organization was formed to stop Muzan, the Demon Slayer Corps, but Muzan didn't care, because he was interested not in protecting his own kind from the slayers, but finding immortality. If every human and demon had to die to give Muzan what he wanted, then so be it.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

TV-MA

Animation

Action

Adventure

Where to Watch

Season

• stream
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*Availability in US

Release Date

April 6, 2019

Cast

Natsuki Hanae , Zach Aguilar , Abby Trott , Akari Kitō , Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

Main Genre

Animation

Seasons

5

10 All For One Wanted to Become a Comic Book Villain

He Believed Such a Being Was Destined to Exist

All For One leaned into his mantle as My Hero Academia's "Symbol of Evil," illustrating his twisted tendencies and desire to inflict suffering just for the sake of it. All For One proudly relished in his evil in ways that even the most evil anime characters rarely did. He didn't even have to become a supervillain, but he wanted to, inspired by the "demon lord" characters found in comics. AFO decided that the world was "supposed" to have such beings, and resolved to fulfill that role himself.

What made All For One especially formidable was his ability to understand symbolic victories. He knew that by defeating essential heroes like All Might, Endeavor, and Deku, the world would be demoralized and more easily subjugated. Though initially contained to Japan, he's now recognized as a worldwide threat if not dealt with promptly. Such selfish cruelty makes All For One rank moderately high among the worst anime villains of all, and one of the most memorable, too.

My Hero Academia

Action

Superhero

Animation

Izuku has dreamt of being a hero all his life—a lofty goal for anyone, but especially challenging for a kid with no superpowers. That’s right, in a world where eighty percent of the population has some kind of super-powered “quirk,” Izuku was unlucky enough to be born completely normal. But that’s not enough to stop him from enrolling in one of the world’s most prestigious hero academies.

Where to Watch

• stream
• rent
• buy

Not available

Not available

*Availability in US

Release Date

April 3, 2016

Cast

Aoi Yuki , Ayane Sakura , Christopher R. Sabat , Yûki Kaji , Nobuhiko Okamoto , Luci Christian , David Matranga , Justin Briner , Kenta Miyake , Clifford Chapin , Daiki Yamashita

Rating

Seasons

7

Website

https://www.funimation.com/shows/my-hero-academia/

Franchise

My Hero Academia

Characters By

Kohei Horikoshi

Distributor

FUNimation Entertainment

Main Characters

Tsuyu Asui, Katsuki Bakugo, Ochaco Uraraka, Izuku Midoriya, Shoto Todoroki, All Might

Production Company

Bones

Story By

Kōhei Horikoshi, Yōsuke Kuroda

Number of Episodes

113

Streaming Service(s)

Hulu , Crunchyroll

9 Frieza Casually Slaughtered the Namekians

He Saw Them as Tools at Best and Pests at Worst

Frieza was Goku's greatest enemy in Dragon Ball Z, and a villain with aggressively imperialistic goals. He was responsible for multiple invasions of Earth, only being narrowly thwarted and causing great calamity in the process. Before arriving at Earth, Frieza was already guilty of committing countless genocides across the cosmos.

Frieza felt that his self-proclaimed supremacy absolved him from any accountability he should have for taking countless lives. Unfortunately for his underlings, Frieza killed them as quickly as he would his actual enemies. Considering how frequently he appeared in the series, Frieza had many opportunities to commit more atrocities than the most evil anime characters.

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Dragon Ball Z

TV-PG

Anime

Action

Adventure

With the help of the powerful Dragonballs, a team of fighters led by the saiyan warrior Goku defend the planet earth from extraterrestrial enemies.

Release Date

September 30, 1996

Cast

Sean Schemmel , Brian Drummond , Christopher Sabat , Scott McNeil

Main Genre

Anime

Seasons

9

Studio

Toei Animation

Creator

Akira Toriyama

Number of Episodes

291

It Became Hugely Arrogant in the Process

The greatest evil in Psycho-Pass weren't the Criminally Asymptomatic people who failed to comply with society's algorithm, but those who made the algorithm in the first place. The Sibyl System was said to be a paragon of logic and objectivity, when it was more of a hive mind of the disembodied brains of the worst Criminally Asymptomatic people imaginable.

The Sibyl System used its unquestioned authority to roll back nearly all of Japan's civil liberties, and turn the country into a technocratic police state. They claimed this had to be done for the greater good, when it was clear to Akane Tsunemori and audiences that the Sibyl System was really relishing in its self-importance and legalized cruelty.

Psycho-Pass

TV-MA

Anime

Crime

Science Fiction

Thriller

Believing in humanity and order, policewoman Akane Tsunemori obeys the ruling, computerized, precognitive Sibyl System. But when she faces a criminal mastermind who can elude this perfect system, she questions both Sibyl and herself.

Release Date

October 12, 2012

Cast

Kana Hanazawa , Takahiro Sakurai

Studio

Production I.G

Creator

Tow Ubukata

7 Imu Is Responsible For the World Government's Many Crimes

Imu Will Even Kill Elders Who Fall Short in Battle

Imu was the true leader of the villainous World Government in One Piece. Shadowy and clandestine, the only thing truly known about him was that he was responsible for the Void Century. Imu also lorded over the Five Elders themselves, and made them follow and impose his oppressive whims on the world.

Considering that the World Government enables a hierarchy of oppression where everyone suffers, Imu may be directly blamed for all the evils in One Piece. Instead of attempting to amend his mistakes, Imu hopes to extinguish the last flickers of hope that might rise to stand against his new global order. One of Imu's most recent and shocking transgressions was to destroy the entire Lulusia Kingdom with an Ancient Weapon, fueled by the Mother Flame swiped from Dr. Vegapunk.

6 Ragyo Kiryuin Sought Power and Wealth at Any Cost

Her Own Daughter is Her Enemy

Ragyo, the ruthless CEO of REVOCS, succeeded in ways that even the most evil anime characters did not. In Kill La Kill, she spread Life Fibers throughout the world, had her husband killed for attempting to stop her, and experimented on her own daughter Ryuko in order to make her the perfect weapon.

Additionally, the unbelievably wealthy Ragyo's grand plan was to destroy the world and lap up its final bursts of energy. She was willing to end billions of lives all for her personal ambition to become stronger. Considering that she never even explained why she needed such power, Ragyo's obsession with herself was a detriment to everyone she knew.

Kill la Kill

TV-14

Action

A young girl arrives at a school of superhumans to find out the truth behind her father's murder.

Release Date

October 4, 2013

Creator(s)

Kazuki Nakashima

Cast

Eric Mendez , Matthew Mercer , David Vincent , Christine Marie Cabanos , Carrie Keranen , Patrick Seitz

Main Genre

Action

Seasons

1

Studio

Studio Trigger

Writers

Kazuki Nakashima

Streaming Service(s)

Crunchyroll , Hulu

Franchise(s)

Kill La Kill

Directors

Akira Amemiya , Masahiko Otsuka , Hiroyuki Imaishi