One Punch Man depicts the life of what seems to be a bald headed loser who has secret; he can defeat anything that he comes across with one hit. This has led to our main character, Saitama, into crushing depression because he can no longer experience the thrill of battle and combat that he once felt. Everything has simply gotten too easy. Everything changed when he comes across a battle cyborg, and from there his life spirals into a mess of countless monsters…that he one-shots anyway.

This is an anime that exploded into popularity from the very moment it aired. And who can blame the fans? From the very outset, we experience an energetic rock song of an opening that hypes the whole show. This proceeds into some of the most surprisingly good fight scenes to grace the anime scene; all in spite of the fact that he can defeat all his enemies in one hit.
Of course, the coolest part of the whole deal is how he acts about defeating these world ending enemies. He simply walks away in boredom with his back turned to the chaos. Cool guys don’t look at explosions after all.

Mirai Nikki centres around the life of an isolated and friendless boy named Yukiteru Amano, who spends all his time writing his life into a diary instead of socialising. His only friend is an imaginary god Deus Ex Machina, but it seems he isn’t so imaginary after all. Deus throws Yukiteru and 11 others into a life and death battle wherein their diary can predict the future. In his desperation, he teams up with an obsessive fangirl named Yuno Gasai, but there’s something about her that makes him wary.

Unlike the previous entry, the coolness of this anime doesn’t come from a single character. Each and every one of them in this series has such varied and wild personalities that explain the nature of their own diaries. The crème de la crème of the bunch is the crazy yandere fangirl, Yuno. Whilst wearing a smile on her face, she visits extreme violence combined with ingenuity upon any who stand in her way. Despite her violent nature, she always does her executions with style, leaving a trail of corpses in her path. Of course, the coolest thing about her is how far she’ll go just to protect Yukiteru. This gets fully explored in the anime, so go ahead and watch it.

Fate/Zero follows a death battle known as the Holy Grail War, in which 7 participants summon a servant that embodies the powers of a mythological hero to fight for the Holy Grail. Each war for the Holy Grail paints a horrific and bloody picture because the reward is too great to behold; a single wish without limitations. Now at the fourth war, Kiritsugu Emiya must team up with his servant Sabre to strike down all in their way.

Fate/Zero is often known to many as the darker renditions of the Fate/Stay Night universe, despite being a prequel. This is partly due to the presence of “Magus Killer” Kiritsugu Emiya, a hard-boiled mercenary that does everything with a cool demeanour. He is not the strongest of the participants, but he is the most dangerous because of the way he carries out his duties. Nothing can get in his way because his calculating and cruel mind won’t let them do so. Kiritsugu is the pinnacle of the cool and (mostly) silent type.

No Game No Life follows the life of two shut-in siblings as they are thrust into a world where all conflicts are settled through games. Previous war-like races and creatures have to throw down their weapons in favour of exercising wit to win conflicts. This suits the NEET siblings of Sora and Shiro just fine because their previous experience with games make them perfectly suited to conquer the world.

It’s not often that intelligence is cool in real life. Being intelligent is no doubt an amazing thing, but only when applied to real world problems like science and stuff. This anime turns real world conventions on its head by creating a world where intelligence is literally a weapon. If you’re smart enough, you could basically by holding an Excalibur in your hands. This applies to the siblings as well. By our world logic, they are completely useless. But in the right situations, they suddenly shine through and seem almost…cool.

Atsushi Nakajima is kicked out from his orphanage because they suspect him to be behind the attacks on his very own home. Only he knows that these attacks were in fact conducted a mysterious white tiger. Whilst dying of hunger, he rescues a man from drowning in the river. It turns out this man is Osamu Dazai, a detective with a supernatural power. He is part of a firm of other such detectives and invites Atsushi to join him on their supernatural adventures.

So who doesn’t find detectives cool? Because if you don’t, you might change your mind after watching this anime. Despite the premise of characters having supernatural powers, it’s not centred on all out slug fests between super powered fighters. Each character contributes in their own unique way with their powers to solving the case. And the way they do it is well, cool.

A bunch of teenagers are thrown into a land that they have no memories off. In fact, they don’t have memories of anything but their own names. With no skills whatsoever, they can only survive by accepting the only job that is willing to pay them; being a soldier in the Reserve Army. But they are ill-prepared to face the dangers that plague the world, and when it’s kill or be killed, they must do all that they can to fight for survival.

Grimgar is cool because its main characters are quite relatable. If any random person was dropped into a random world, they would have problems with fighting anything sentient. This differs from the usual Jesus-kun format, where the main character just rips apart all the monsters in their way. Here, the characters take half an episode just to kill a single goblin. The natural progression from the weakness to doing raids on dungeons is cool because it shows us that we can be the same.

In the world of Death Note, Shinigami can kill any human being by writing their name in a book known as the Death Note. One day, Ryuk, a Shinigami, drops a Death Note into the human world for fun and is soon rewarded when Light Yagami picks up the book. Light is a prodigy of a student in High School that is extremely bored with his life. When the power to kill anyone comes into his hands, he starts a crusade to extinguish the unsavoury elements of the world, convinced of his divine mandate.

What can be said about Death Note that hasn’t been said over and over again? It is quite simply one of the coolest anime to ever exist to the point that even non-weebs know about it. Death Note has one of the most mind-boggling games of wit to ever exist in anime history, keeping the viewer in suspense. It does such a good job of making the villain cool that we actually start rooting for him, which is amazing.

In an alternate universe, the Holy Empire of Britannia has conquered a large amount of the world, establishing itself as an oppressive superpower. One such country that was conquered is Japan, that was renamed Area 11 to signify their submission. Lelouch Lamperouge is an exiled prince who finds himself caught in a fight between the rebellion and Britannia. However, it is a blessing in disguise as he obtains a Geass, the Power of Kings. Realizing the potential he holds in his hands, he leads a ruthless campaign against the Britannian Empire, seeking to crush them completely.

Do you like Gundams? Because Code Geass has that for you. Do you enjoy intelligence and competent protagonists? Because Code Geass also has that for you. From moment to moment, whether it be the all-out fights between the Knightmare Frames and the strategizing of Lelouch, nothing fails to send a shiver down the spines of all who bear witness to the coolness of this anime. Lelouch really delivers, and we mean both the character and the anime.

Right as the world enters the age of industrial revolution, the populace is beset by monsters that can only be killed by piercing its heart. However, their hearts are protected by a layer of iron. Furthermore, they can create more of their kind by infecting humans. In response, humans have created fortresses out of train stations and the only safe form of transport left are heavily fortified steam trains. Ikoma is living in one such station, and he plans to create a weapon that will allow him to defeat these monsters that have taken so much from the land.

Kabaneri is one of the new anime of the current season, but its popularity seems to have exploded off the charts. Coming from the creators of Attack on Titans, the cool fight scenes, and fluid animations are back and better than ever. Each moment is filled with tense standoffs are intense battles for the survival of each and every character. But it’s not just the drama and action that make it cool, but the very desperation that they put into fighting for their lives.

Who hasn’t heard of Sakamoto? He is smart, stylish, sophisticated and suave. His charm and demeanour has captured the hearts of all the girls in his school from the very moment he stepped on campus grounds. All the guys are naturally jealous and try to mess with him in all sorts of ways. But Sakamoto is too cool to fall for any of their schemes and always gets out of them; in the coolest possible manner of course.

Sakamoto is cool, cooler and the coolest. Nothing else can compare to what is perhaps the coolest character in anime. It is impossible to compare to the guy whose entire series is dedicated to bending the laws of logic and reason to impossible lengths just to maintain his cool image.

This can include but is not limited to; running across a wall whilst dribbling a stone, flying in a tornado in order to save an injured bird and even stepping from side to side really fast in order to put out a fire. It all sounds very absurd, and it actually is, but that only makes him even cooler, because they are very normal feats for him. All we can do is admire the Chuck Norris of anime, but only because he chooses to let us do so.