Top 10 Evil Anime Characters List of All Time

Light and darkness base this world. There can be no good life without a tint of bad smudged on the corners. The same goes for plots, no matter what genre it is, it needs a little bad here and there for you to enjoy it fully, and actually feel the development. Can anime heroes really be complete without their tint of antagonists, psychopaths, or just cold-blooded killers? Guess not! Today, we bring you the top ten evil anime characters.

10. Shou Tucker (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Characters don’t need to kill anyone with their bare hands to prove how drenched with blood they are. And how psychotic their thoughts are.

Shou Tucker is an alchemist, a simple one, at least. His obsession with money and the research he was running on Chimeras brought a thought to his head. He turned his own adorable daughter, plus her dog into a chimera.

He merged them together, forming a hideous monster, much to their chagrin. The monster suffered nothing but pain, anguish, and betrayal. Very Frankenstein, right? That moment just brought disgust and perhaps tears to anyone who’s watched Fullmetal Alchemist.

9. Lucy (Elfen Lied)

Torture changes people. Lucy is one of the characters that are in between due to her memory loss when she escapes the compound she was in, leaving behind trails of corpses along with pools and pools of blood flowing from every direction. her vengeful side is quite understandable; under the circumstances she was in and the plenty of bumps meeting her along the way, no person would remain sane.  She can show acts of kindness when her childish persona Nyu takes over.

However, it vanishes once Lucy takes over, and it turns her into a sadist that wants to annihilate the human species, often leaving her enemies crippled, writhing, groaning in pain just for the sake of it.

8. Gantz (Gantz)

Nothing is more disturbing than playing a game, a game much similar to the one in the movie Saw. Gantz uses humans as tools to a vicious, brutal game of hide-and-seek, where aliens and monsters are in hiding.

The penalty of losing is a more brutal death than the first one that got them there in the first place.

It adds up, but doesn’t help that the people he brings are far, far away from sanity.

His first acts of cruelty is to bring a naked girl on the arena and see how they react, and it’s just to see how it all goes into plan.

7. The Major (Hellsing)

Nazi’s are the worst when it comes to bloodshed. The Major is basically a Nazi, which says a lot about him. Probably makes him as evil as Hitler, or much worse. After fleeing Germany at the end of World War 2, he made plans, schemes for fifty years to take his revenge on England, collecting armies of any species he laid eyes on—vampires, monsters, and war-zeppelins.

His thirst for war, finding it enjoyable, even, makes him rather well-prepared and good at it. His ultimate plan is to rage war, make it continuous.

He killed three million people just for kicks, and destroyed Alucard in a trick that made him suck up all the blood of the annihilated London.

6. Naraku (Inuyasha)

While he may not be the most evil in the anime world, he is certainly the cruelest, sadistic bastard there is so far. He is not the type to kill people, or cut to the chase, on the contrary, he likes to see them suffer physical—Naraku will bleed his enemies to death with millions of paper cuts, making sure he’s far away once he’s done with— and emotional pain by manipulating people, tricking them just like a sly fox into doing his bidding without them knowing entirely what was wrong or right. His plan took action slowly while he turned Inuyasha and his lover Kikyo’s affection into undisputed hate.

Inuyasha’s brother turned against him and made Kohaku kill his entire family. If that doesn’t make him evil, I don’t know what does.

5. Griffith (Berserk)

Hannibal at least didn’t psychologically disturb his victims before he ate them, or cherished their parts. Griffith, on the other hand, is light years away from that. Though, he has a feminine look, but don’t be fooled, he’s far from being a nice fella. After his friend left, Griffith joined the dark side, sacrificing most of his friends to become a powerful demon named God Hand.

One of his famously disturbing acts was rape his friend Casca, Guts’ lover, just in front of him, in his demon form, whilst not breaking eye contact as Guts watched helplessly.

Eventually his child was born deformed due to all tentacles rape. That’s the lowest crime any villain can commit.

4. Majin Buu (DragonBall Z)

This one may fool you with his chubby, cuddly appearance at first, but once he’s pissed off, he turns into this buffy guy that can annihilate the human race with just a flick of his middle finger and thumb.

Majin isn’t naturally born evil or one that just has a twisted, dark soul; nothing of such, nor revenge to back up his acts. He’s just an A-hole with a lot of power.

Majin Buu has many forms, so he’s just like a guy with multiple personalities, and he chooses each to suit his current mood. All his forms are made out of bubble gum.

3. Father (Fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood)

Many villains suffer from daddy issues. Father is one of them. But he doesn’t just kill one person for satisfaction, he’s quite the opposite, with a striking resemblance of Edward’s father, Van Hohenheim.

Father lives on a hunger, a lust for being dominated and most powerful, for he is willing to kill millions of people for the sake of an upgrade in his power. The only reason provided is to get rid of the things that trap him like a bird in a cage.

Arrogance mixed with his evil acts, such as a will to kill his own children to achieve his goal, make him a successor as the worst father there is.

2. Light (Death note)

Light Yagami is one of the most known people who wanted to do good but drifted away in the stream of darkness once too much power was spilling away, free falling from his finger tips. he has the power of the Death Note, which enables him to kill anyone he wishes provided that he has their full name. Ironic, isn’t it? Who would’ve thought your name could be used against you in such a way.

So, his goal at first was to eradicate the earth from evil, but with his high intelligence and ego, it hit the fan pretty quickly as he was considered a psychopath who killed bad people. Pretty Dexter, right? His dream of being a judge, jury and executioner soon faded away as he killed bad people who even were in jail, serving their sentence.

1. Johan Liebert (monster)

This serial killer is nothing like any psychopaths we’ve encountered. It’s obvious that psychopaths are aware of what they’re doing, and they like it. Thus, rending this little fella Johan as one of the most dangerous ones so far in the anime world. The word evil wouldn’t begin to describe his actions. The kind that would make Hannibal Lecter’s eyes gleam with malice and they probably would have a competition to decide who’s a more capable killer. He went on a rampage against the hospital, killing most of the surgeons that were associated with the doctor who saved him, he killed his adoptive family, and he managed to turn students against each other to create a killing rampage of their own. He’s the kind of killer that has his place in hell, next to Lucifer and Hitler, probably sipping tea and discussing their kills.

That goes for the top ten evil characters or villains. This list is surely not complete without a little of opinions spreading here and there in the comments.