When it comes to hire some great anime killers, this list has the ultimate best of them.
The characters on this list are killers: assassins, warmongers, serial killers, and would-be gods who paint the world red and give us the creeps. Check out the top 10 most deadly killer characters.
10. Annie Leonhart (Attack on Titan)
What makes Annie stand out as a ruthless killer in a world ravaged by giant, man-eating fiends? It’s not simply her intellect, revealed in and out of combat, as she bloodily and dispassionately dispatches legions of her comrades in arms.
What seals the deal for Annie as a stand out is that when she’s finally backed into a corner and asked to explain the motives behind her barbaric actions, she refuses to offer anyone even the simple relief or understanding, or an answer.
9. Zank (Akame ga Kill!)
Once an executioner for the Empire, Zank went rogue after being haunted by the voices of his victims. Zank works out his schizophrenia with wholesale slaughter, aided by his Imperial Arms Spectator, which gives him precognitive abilities.
8. Nui Harime (Kill la Kill)
The world of Kill la Kill is ruled by gangsters, warlords, and monsters, for whom might makes right. But strength alone isn’t enough to succeed.
You’ve got to have things like courage and determination… or, in Nui Harime’s case, pure unadulterated insanity. When the skies rain blood, it takes a special kind of crazy to whip out a parasol and laugh.
7. Yuno Gasai (Mirai Nikki)
At only 14 years of age, Yuno Gasai has amassed a warehouse’s worth of weapon proficiencies, able to kill with everything from toothpicks to tommy guns.
6. Shion Sonozaki (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni)
The village of Hinamizawa has an unfortunate secret: it’s home to a parasite-borne psychosis that causes violent delusions in those infected. Nobody catches it quite like Shion Sonozaki though.
Her disobedient, manipulative actions at school mark the beginning of a rampage that includes taser torture, crucifixion, and murder… all for a promise she made to a guy she barely knows.
5. Shogo Makishima (Pyscho-Pass)
Society in the dystopian world of Psycho-Pass is the result of the Sibyl System, which actively scans the brains of citizens in order to detect an individual’s likeliness to commit a crime.
Shogo Makishima, the psychopathic murderer who revels in bloodshed and embodies the inherent evils in human nature, is the result of that society.
4. Hidan (Naruto: Shippuuden)
There was once a town called Yugakure, home to pacifists that call it the Village that Has Forgotten Wars. One of its inhabitants converted to Jashinism, a religion which demands more or less constant bloodshed and destruction from its followers.
Sectarian strife ensued. Now Hidan has fallen in with the Akatsuki and discovered the secret to eternal life, giving this deadly anime killer all the motive and time he needs for murder… as if he needed an excuse.
3. Killua Zoldyk (Hunter X Hunter)
Killua Zoldyk is an assassin boy raised by the infamous Zoldyck family of professional killers. He can be the best of friends you could ever have, but he can also be your most terrible nightmare if you get on his cold, cruel, bad side.
2. Johan Liebert (Monster)
Referred to by other characters as a monster, as the devil, or even the next Hitler, Johan Liebert is a remorseless killer whose intention is simply to revel in the suffering of others.
1. Light Yagami (Death Note)
In what seems like a rather responsible use of a notebook that bestows the bearer with the ability to kill indiscriminately with the powers of a death god, Light sets himself on a mission to rid the world of evil, by dispatching one criminal at a time.
It isn’t long before Light becomes enamored of his role as judge, jury and executioner, and starts abusing his power. In the end, Light became no better than the criminals and killers he sought to stop in the first place.
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