Tragic Backstories
Villains and Antagonists
Power Systems
Romance
Release Years
100

After his younger brother lost his body in a failed attempt to bring their mother back, this boy searched for a way to restore them. 

Edward Elric

100

This villain seeks to create a world without suffering by placing everyone under an illusion where they can live in their own personal reality. 

Madara Uchiha

100

A unique, superhuman ability that serves as the next stage of human evolution. Formerly called "Meta abilities," these powers are unique to each individual and are categorized into three main types: Emmiter, Transformation, and Mutant. 

Quirks 

100

A smart, popular student who hides her real life and a dark, gloomy boy who hides his tattoos and piercings. 

Horimiya

100

This anime is about a young boy with a sealed creature inside of him that first aired in 2002. 

Naruto

200

His clan was wiped out in a single night by someone very familiar towards him, leaving revenge as the driving force behind his life. 

Sasuke Uchiha

200

This antagonist leads a group of powerful criminals and believes that the current system of heroes is corrupt and needs to be destroyed. 

Tomura Shigaraki

200
This allows living beings to manipulate their vital aura, channeling it to produce extraordinary and supernatural abilities. It is split into 4 principles: Ten, Zetsu, Ren, Hatsu

Nen

200

A brilliant high school student takes a high paying job tutoring five identical twin sisters. 

Quintessential Quintuplets

200

This anime is about a boy who gains the power to transform into a giant creature that first aired in 2013. 

Attack on Titan

300

Orphaned at a young age, he was raised by his older sister Tsutako. The day before her wedding, their home was attacked by a demon; Tsutako sacrificed her own life to hid the boy to save him. When he tried telling others, they didn't believe him and viewed him as unstable. 

Giyu Tomioka

300

She wants to use her underling to eliminate all fears, suffering and 'bad' things from the world to establish a peaceful utopia under her hands. 

Makima

300

In this you utilize a physical text or spellbook as a manual for practicing the supernatural. These books contain recipes, incantations, rituals, and instructions for summoning things or creating magical objects. 

Grimoires 

300

A working class scholarship student at an elite academy accidently breaks a vase owned by her schools club. To pay off her debt, she is forced to join the club, cross-dressing as a boy to entertain female clients. 

Ouran Highschool Host Club

300
This anime film about two teenagers connected by a mysterious body-swapping phenomenon was released in 2016. 

Your name

400

Treated as a pushover all of his life, unable to say "no", his parents sell him to the devil and have him sent to hell, although things aren't as bad as they seem, 

Iruma-kun

DOUBLE POINTS!!!

400

This character wants to remake the world order, disgusted by how the soul society blindly worshiped and relied on the soul king. He sought to ascend to godhood and create a world free of subjugation and fear. 

Aizen Sosuke

400

A fundamental concept in Eastern philosophy and traditional medicine, referring to the vital life force or energy that flows through all living things. Depending on the context, it also refers to concepts in martial arts, pop culture, or chemistry. 

Ki

400

A centuries old wolf deity agrees to travel with a merchant in exchange for being taken back to her homeland. 

Spice and Wolf

DOUBLE POINTS!!!

400

This psychological anime about a detective hunting criminals through a futuristic system first aired in 2012.

Psycho-pass

500

Before being sentenced to death as a criminal, this character grew up in a brutal ninja village where she had a younger sister named Saya. Saya fell terminally ill with an incurable disease. Because of the village's harsh and impoverished nature, there were no resources to care for the sick. This character took on increasingly dangerous, near-suicidal assassination missions just to afford medicine and keep her sister alive.

Yuzuriha of Kuroha (Hell's Paradise)

500

This characters core motive is to create a peaceful world for his blind and crippled sister, Nunnally. This initial desire for a safe home evolves into a crusade to dismantle the oppressive Britannian Empire, culminating in the "Zero Requiem"—a massive sacrifice where he makes himself the ultimate enemy of humanity so the world can unite in lasting peace.

Lelouch Lamperouge

DOUBLE POINTS!!!

500

This is the physical manifestation of a user's soul, fighting spirit, and life energy. It hovers near the owner and grants supernatural abilities. If this thing is damaged, the owner is also damaged. 

Stands

500

A socially awkward boy's goal of helping his quiet classmate make 100 friends slowly develops into something more.

Komi can't communicate

500

This anime is about a genius doctor trying to uncover the truth behind a mysterious patient first aired in 2004. 

Monster

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