Name That Anime
Powers, Weapons, Abilities
Who Am I?
Worlds & Stories
Anime Nerd Level
100

A young man realizes that the collapse of society has unexpectedly removed the obligation that once consumed nearly every waking hour of his life. Instead of trying to restore the old world, he creates a list of things he wants to accomplish before becoming one of the undead.


What is Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead?


100

Rather than simply fighting the creatures threatening Japan, this character has the unusual ability to become one of them while retaining his human consciousness.


What is Kafka Hibino’s kaiju transformation?


100

This character’s greatest difficulty isn’t defeating monsters. Having lived far longer than most of the people around her, she gradually realizes that she understood her former companions far less than she thought.


Who is Frieren?


100

Much of the story takes place in a massive virtual world where people conduct business, communicate, and maintain digital identities. When that world is compromised, the consequences spill into reality.


What is OZ?


100

This technique requires two fighters to perform a synchronized series of movements. When performed correctly, it combines their power into a single warrior—but getting the movements wrong produces a very different result.


What is the Fusion Dance?


200

A young woman with an unusually practical interest in poisons and medicine finds herself solving mysteries within a highly controlled environment where seemingly insignificant illnesses can have political consequences.


What is The Apothecary Diaries?


200

This ability doesn’t make its user stronger or faster. Instead, anyone who makes physical contact with its user can be subjected to an extremely unfortunate consequence.


What is Unluck?


200

This teacher is responsible for a classroom of students who have been given a seemingly impossible assignment: kill their own teacher before he destroys the Earth.


Who is Koro-sensei?


200

In this futuristic city, wealth can buy increasingly extreme technological modifications. But pushing the human body beyond its limits can eventually produce a condition where the distinction between enhancement and madness begins to disappear.


What is cyberpsychosis?


200

This character’s Nen ability allows him to transform his aura into a substance with properties resembling both rubber and chewing gum, making his fighting style unusually difficult to predict.


Who is Hisoka?


300

A boy from an isolated society is condemned for a crime he didn’t commit and thrown into a place where discarded objects can become something much more dangerous than trash.


What is Gachiakuta?


300

In this world, certain objects can become powerful weapons when someone forms a strong enough connection with them. These weapons are known by a name that suggests they are instruments rather than ordinary tools.


What are Vital Instruments? 


300

This character is often mistaken for a delinquent because of his intimidating appearance, but he works at his family’s bakery and is far more comfortable around cakes than confrontation.


Who is Rintaro Tsumugi? 


300

The children living at an apparently idyllic orphanage are given food, education, and affection—but eventually discover that their home has a purpose far darker than they imagined.


What is the orphanage’s role as a farm for demons?


300

The protagonist’s attempt to make amends years after bullying a deaf classmate is complicated by the fact that he has spent much of that time socially isolated and unable to forgive himself.


Who is Shoya Ishida?


400

A young girl discovers a mysterious underground world after encountering a strange being, eventually becoming involved in a journey connected to a civilization that exists beyond the boundary between life and death.


What is Children Who Chase Lost Voices?


400

In this world, extraordinary abilities aren’t simply determined by biology or training. A hero’s power is connected to how strongly people believe in that hero—and losing public trust can mean losing the ability itself.


What is Trust? 


400

This character appears to be a small, innocent child serving as a soldier, but her personality and worldview are anything but innocent. Her military career is driven as much by calculated survival as by loyalty.


Who is Tanya Degurechaff?


400

The story takes place in a world where a conquered nation has been stripped of its name and reduced to a number. A young prince uses an ability that allows him to command people in an attempt to reshape that world.


What is Britannia’s rule over Area 11?


400

This character’s relationship with music changes dramatically after a traumatic experience leaves him unable to hear his own piano playing. His return to performing is closely connected to someone who challenges his understanding of what music is supposed to be.


Who is Kōsei Arima?


500

An exceptionally talented young animator dies unexpectedly and awakens inside the world of an anime she once watched. Her professional skills turn out to be considerably more useful than simply knowing the story.


What is Zenshu?


500

This ability doesn’t defeat an opponent by preventing an event from happening. Instead, it allows its user to erase the experience of a portion of time, leaving the consequences while those caught inside it cannot remember what occurred.


What is King Crimson?


500

Unlike other hunters, this character receives access to a mysterious system that allows him to grow stronger through something resembling the mechanics of a video game. Eventually, his greatest strength comes not from simply increasing his own power, but from what he can command.


Who is Sung Jinwoo?


500

After losing an important party member deep within a dangerous dungeon, a group of adventurers decides that ordinary provisions aren’t going to get them very far. Their solution involves using the dungeon’s inhabitants as ingredients.


What is cooking and eating the monsters?


500

The notebook’s power isn’t completely unrestricted. The person using it must know the target’s face and name, and the circumstances surrounding a death can only be manipulated within certain limitations.


What is the Death Note’s rules?