Bunta may be in his forties and retired from street racing but put him behind a wheel, he can still leave today’s racers eating his dust from the starting line to the finish line! He’s a master at drifting to the point that he can do it without holding the wheel while lighting a cigarette with his eyes closed (does he ever open his eyes in this series?).

The only time he ever actively raced in the series was when he showed up with his new Subaru Impreza WRX to ambush Takumi, his own son, while he was out training (usually by tofu delivers). He just did it just to show that Takumi still has a ways to go. Takumi has been (officially) undefeated as he has faced some challenging opponents on both Akina and other mountains, but when it came to his own father, he might as well go back to training in go-karts. Thankfully, Bunta is an overpowered character that isn’t abused in Initial D and is only subjected to serving as a mentor, while he lets the racing to young ones.

The titular Haruhi is a different kind of overpowered by being the fun kind. The thing about her is that she isn’t even aware that she’s overpowered, and her emotions can affect the fate of the world! Due to these abilities, some members of the SOS Brigade just happen to be what she’s looking for; a time traveler, an Esper, and an alien; and they’re there to make sure Haruhi’s emotions are stable enough to keep reality as we know it in check. Whenever she’s bored or in a bad mood, she could subconsciously send weird giants to wreak havoc.

Due to her unawareness of her abilities, she causes the Endless Eight saga in season 2. Haruhi may be beyond eccentric, but it’s that personality of hers that keeps the world the way it is. While Kyon may not agree with her antics, he has learned to go with the flow after he witnessed the true nature of her, and still manages to live a (not so) normal high school life with his friends in the SOS Brigade.

All Might is a novelty overpowered character from Boku no Hero Academia, and he’s past his prime due to his body catching up with him due to untreatable injuries. He presents himself with great confidence and charisma. Thanks to years of training and field experience, he is the world’s greatest hero and is an inspiration to many. The fact that the world of heroes need him shows how overpowered he is. When he officially retires, the community is in a panic. The fact that not only regular citizens but his own peers feel powerless without him just further demonstrates that. Thanks to his great strength, he can defeat many foes with relative ease by naming one of his punches after a US state or city. However, Father Time catches up with him when he has to once again face his greatest foe, All For One.

It was a tough fight for All Might as in his weakened state (on the brink of no longer using One For All ever again), he uses all of his remaining strength to finally defeat All For One once and for all. The fact that he defeated a villain with limited strength is also the ultimate statement of how overpowered he is. Even so, All Might is still humble and knows what being a hero is all about. Despite the loss of his quirk, his wisdom and experience are still intact to teach Midoriya and his classmates what it means to be a true hero.

So, who do you think is the greatest fighter to ever live? Is it Fedor? Brock Lesnar? Georges St. Pierre? Mike Tyson? Floyd Mayweather? Manny Pacquiao? Hulk Hogan? Bill Goldberg? Or Mirko Crocop? We can’t say for certain in the real world, but in the world of anime, we give that title to Yujiro Hanma from Baki, who is the father to the titular character. What qualifies Yujiro as overpowered? For starters, he can withstand nuclear blasts point blank like it’s nothing, and he’s immune to AIDS, cancer, and all diseases you can name. Plus, he can stop earthquakes just by punching the ground!

And just to prove that he’s capable of taking over the world, he took out Bill Clinton’s security in a matter of seconds (with no weapons), ran to the Oval Office, and got him to cry on his knees like a baby. Unfortunately, Hillary couldn’t find a way to fake his suicide later on. Thankfully, the anime does nothing to abuse his presence. He’s capable of taking over the world, he just chooses not to. He’s without a doubt overpowered, but he does want his son to be strong enough to be a worthy opponent and largely sticks to the background as everybody else is fighting.

If you ever read the popularity polls for this series, Levi tends to be the most popular character of Attack on Titan. So, what makes him popular? It just happens to be that he’s presentably overpowered, and the series does an excellent job of portraying that. He’s a true veteran of the Scouts and has battle hardened experience. Whenever he’s in action, he demonstrates quick reflexes and efficiency every time he faces a Titan without a sense of fear or hesitation. In addition to his training and experience, he grew up in the slums within the walls and was raised by his uncle, who happened to be an assassin. Due to his upbringing, he just has that sense of will that you can only get just by knowing what true hardship is, and in a literary sense, that contributes to his strength and makes his overpowered qualities believable and likable.

However, as the series progresses, it turns out that his strength is genetic in relation to being a member of the Ackerman family. Like his distant cousin, Mikasa, she also exhibits the same kind of natural combat abilities, but she isn’t as seasoned as Levi. Even though he’s overpowered, he’s still capable of getting hurt, and is still limited to whatever manpower or resources he has. Even when he loses a large fraction of his soldiers, he still pushes on, and the fact that Levi admits that he isn’t invincible and still needs to rely on others shows that being overpowered can still have its limits.

Cloud from the Advent Children movie is one negative examples of an overpowered character. In the manner that Cloud is portrayed in this movie, his portrayal of being overpowered is ridiculous and inconsistent. For starters, when he’s shot point blank in the face in the opening fight of Advent Children, all it does is knock off his sunglasses. Then in the climax, he takes a shot through the chest just a few meters away and it injures him! Can anyone explain that (as a matter of fact, none of the physics makes sense in this movie)? Plus, he’s supposed to be sick with geostigma, and yet, he’s more useful than the rest of the cast who can barely hang with Bahamut.

Speaking of the fight with Bahamut, first Cloud needs his friends to boost him in the air and when he fights Sephiroth, all of a sudden he’s practically flying! Did he achieve a new level that gives him that ability? Last, all of a sudden, it turns out he can heal geostigma with holy water! Praise Cloud Jesus! The problem with Cloud being overpowered is not simply being overpowered, just how the movie does a terrible job at presenting it.

In the first season, he was your typical over emotional teenage hormones raging pilot. Then when he’s re-introduced in SEED Destiny, well, it puts a whole new spin to resurrection and character development. He’s so overpowered to the point that Gundam fans have named him Jesus Kira. You thought he died, but he didn’t and he has all these incredible abilities. But we have to remember that Kira was designed to be the ultimate coordinator, so him being overpowered is intentional, but in more ways that one. Not only is he the ultimate coordinator, he has the ultimate Gundam, the Strike Freedom. With what it can do, it’s more or less an extension as to why Kira is overpowered. That thing has more firepower behind that sucker is an NRA wet dream.

As to why he’s called Jesus Kira, he survived a direct hit to the cockpit and survive. But thanks to the cockpit’s overpowered features, he was able to live. After that, he’s so overpowered to the point that he ends up stealing the lead after the first half centered around Athuran and Shinn. As he enters the battlefield, it’s as if he turned on a video game, put on every cheat code you can think, and just dominates. That’s pretty much the best way to describe how he’s overpowered.

Throughout most of Berserk, Guts has shown an inhuman amount of strength and stamina, and it’s not just because he can easily wield a sword that matches his height and weight. In his younger days as a Captain to the Band of the Hawk, he slaughtered 100 enemies by himself! He also managed to go toe-to-toe with Zodd in his human form. Not only can he dish out pain, he can also take an insane amount. It’s not that he’s super genetic or anything of that nature. Guts was born and raised in the battlefield, and his experiences just shaped him into the man he is.

So, what makes him overpowered? If you thought he was a maniac before, just wait to you see him put on the Berserker Armor. It makes Guts into the perfect lean mean fighting machine! It not only makes him stronger, faster, and more agile, it just nullifies any emotion and makes him focused on the fight. Granted his reflexes were already superhuman for someone his size and all the armor and weapons he carries on him, but the Berserker armor also makes him into an acrobat like Spider-Man. What’s even better (or worse), the armor also nullifies him of any pain and if he breaks an arm or leg, the armor will automatically heal him. And as you can guess, the Berserker Armor does come with a price as it progressively makes him more dangerous and fearsome than the monsters he slays to the point that even his own friends feel that way about him, and that’s what makes him overpowered.

Coming back from a previous incarnation of this list, we have Saitama from One Punch Man. However, Saitama is a perfect example of how to use an overpowered character and have fun with him. As the title suggests, he can destroy any foe with a single punch. However, he’s very humble with how he uses his abilities. Whenever he trains with Genos, he’s willing to hold back against him and show restraint when he gains victory. And every time he saves the day, he doesn’t mind not getting any credit.

Saitama sees being a hero more as a hobby rather than a full-time job. Stan Lee once taught us that with great power, there must also come great responsibility, and Saitama is one of those characters that excellently personifies that famous saying with the way he conducts himself. Just like Spider-Man, he’s still a relatable character. He lives in humble conditions, is always trying to find ways to save money, and is just trying to get by. At the end of the day, he’s still an ordinary person and doesn’t try to present himself as some kind of god. He may be ridiculously overpowered in strength, but it doesn’t live up to his overpowered heart.

If there’s someone to the equivalent to a god, or a supreme being in the Dragon Ball universe, it is without a doubt, Zenno. He may seem like a kid on the outside, but he is someone who can make Beerus and Whis become (appropriately) god fearing. If he can make those two tremble in his presence, that’s enough to qualify as overpowered. Even with all the strong beings in the Tournament of Power such as Toppo and Jiren dominating the scene, they were just ants compared to Zenno, who can make them (and their residing universes) disappear at the touch of a button. Even with Zenno’s strength is far superior to those characters, at least he (and his alternate future counterpart) gave them and Ultra Instinct Gokuu their props when it counted.

When Gokuu and Vegeta couldn’t defeat the fusion of Gokuu Black and Zamasu, they had to resort to calling the Zenno of that alternate future in order to defeat him. In the end, the Zenno of that future pretty much destroyed the Earth, came to Gokuu’s home universe of universe 7, and befriended the Zenno there. Together, they just enjoy their time together and amuse themselves. Despite all his power, he does very little to get involved with the actual affairs of all universes other than the instance of when Beerus and Champa’s universes held a tournament. Even with all his power, he still has that open minded curiosity of all things are possible showing that sometimes being overpowered doesn’t mean you can affect the outcome or destiny of certain situations.

Kore wa Zombie Desu ka jumped into viewers’ hearts back in 2011 with its trope breaking and fast-paced humor. It starts off one night with high schooler Ayumu Aikawa walking home. All of a sudden he is murdered by a serial killer, and then is just as unexpectedly revived by a necromancer named Eucliwood Hellscythe. So now he’s a zombie and is required to serve under Eucliwood. Quite enough gold there to keep a series going, but things go completely off the charts when he takes a magical girl’s uniform, stealing her powers, and thus now responsible for handling the creatures known as Megalo.

Despite being a comedy at heart, Kora wa Zombie Desu ka has quite a bit of glorious action. Though, Eucliwood Hellscythe doesn’t necessarily show off her powers like the others, it becomes quite evident as to why once her powers are fully revealed. She has the power to make her every word (spoken aloud) become a reality. Thus, by simply muttering “die” she can take someone’s life away. The main drawback and reason she is so far down the list is that she doesn’t have full control and her ability causes her intensive pain. Thus, she can only use it so much, such as when she takes several lives away from Kyoko but is unable to deal the final blow.

Madoka’s just an average middle school student, with her main quirk being pink hair. However, that changes rather quickly after her and her friend, Sayaki Miki, meet the extraterrestrial, cat-like Kyuubey. Kyuubey offers them a strange proposition: he will grant them one wish, and then they will need to become magical girls. For the most part, the two are quite excited about the prospects of being a magic girl and achieving their dreams. However, one girl, the mysterious Homura Akemi, continuously tries to prevent this contract, as she understands the truth behind being a magical girl.

From the get go we get the idea that Madoka will make a badass magic girl. However, it’s not until the end that we see just how powerful she is, and thankfully so, or otherwise there wouldn’t have been much of a story. If you haven’t watch the show, Madoka’s magical presence is so powerful that she will become one of the greatest magic girls ever, however, in becoming exactly that, she will also prove to be the deadliest witch and destroy everything. Solution to the problem? Madoka becomes an omniscient goddess/angel who alters the universe by negating the possibility of witches forming from magical girls.

Diomedea invented a decidedly imaginative world where the fate of your community is determined by games and challenges. Anything from rock paper scissors to riddles to straight up brawls are allowed. Sadly, one community has been stripped of everything and are at the verge of being wiped out. Of course, that’s when Asuka Kudou, You Kasukabe, and Izayoi Sakamaki, each possessing a unique power, suddenly find themselves transported into this world.

Though each of these characters are quite powerful in their own right. Asuka Kudou can command control of people and animals, while You is able to capture the powers of any animal she befriends. However, Izayoi Sakamaki’s power is on a completely different level. The guy is ridiculously strong and is able to essentially cancel out the abilities of others. He’s made to be a god-breaker and can easily flip this whole society on its head. Furthermore, despite having awesome bronze as explicitly shown when dueling Weser, the real Pied Piper of Hamelin, he is also quite cool-headed and calculatingly. Out of everyone, he has by far contributed the most to the community of No Names’s revival.

The moon gets cut into a permanent crescent and the international culprit, who committed said act, has created a home for himself as the teacher of Class 3-E at Kunugigaoka Middle School. With national defense agencies unable to so much as touch this alien invader, it somehow ends up the responsibility of the students of class 3-E to assassinate the creature before the Earth is destroyed.

If you haven’t watched this heartwarming and hilarious anime, then it should be known that Koro Sensei is in fact the alien invader who has taken an interest in teaching. His abilities include flying at speeds up to Mach 20; a body that is essentially indomitable to everything, but a very specific substance; extreme adaptability; inhuman intellect; and incredible teaching skills. He shows off each of these abilities on an episodic basis from flying around the world and deflecting missiles to helping a student with a personal problem. However, would you expect anything less than an overpowered character is a show that’s whole story is contingent on whether or not said character can be killed at all?

In this world magic has become an established part of society. It has been analyzed and institutions have sprung about offering a formalized study and practice for those capable of using it. Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei follows Tatsuya Shiba, an extremely skilled magician, as he embarks with his sister, the heir of Yotsuba family who Tatsuya is ordered to protect, into the daily struggles of first year magicians at First High School. Making this transition extremely difficult is that Tatsuya’s powers are not quite recognized by the system and he is assigned into a lower course group, marking him as an irregular.

If you haven’t seen the show, you can get an inkling that Tatsuya will in fact have a certain power index that’s just being skimmed over for dramatic affect. While this is correct, it’s rather hard to comprehend a system that was able to overlook his vast abilities. It’s like an explorer observed the ocean from a cliff side and instead of realizing it was water, declared it “blue land.” Tatsuya is essentially a being of incomprehensible power. He can cancel magic, revive people instantaneously, heal himself, and vaporize people. They call his abilities miracles and there’s good reason for that. He’s also incredibly intelligent and part of the most elite military units.

Medaka Box follow the adventures of Medaka Kurokami, the Student Council President of Hakoniwa Academy, and her childhood friend Zenkichi Hitoyoshi. Together, they accept every request put into the suggestion box in order to make Hakoniwa Academy a sphere of happiness and righteousness.

Though, the show is filled with extremely powerful characters, few are as powerful and none as magnetic as the protagonist, Medaka Kurokami. To begin, she has a certain raw aura that pulses about her, immediately attracting many people to her either out of adoration or simple fear. It’s this reason why she was elected as the Student Council President with 98% of the vote. Then there’s the fact that her special ability, “The End” allows her to copy practically anyone else’s quirk and perform it even better than the owner. Thus, along with her already incredible physical prowess, she can use such quirks as “All Fiction,” which allows her to essentially erase people from existence, a well as “Reading Minds,” which lets her receive the electrical impulse of others. Essentially, she’s not just a jack-of-all-trades, but a master of everything.

The Kara no Kyoukai series of films follow in particular a sudden burst of murders that entangle the fates of Mikiya Kokutō and Shiki Ryougi. It’s an extremely intense and suspenseful series, as it follows the two into increasingly disturbing and paranormal mysteries. From a string of school girl suicides to an apartment complex where the residents are caught in a repetitive murder spree, Kara no Kyoukai never fails to intrigue with its supernatural presence.

Leading the foray against the forces that wish to disturb the city is the demon hunter, detective Shiki Ryougi. Now, Shiki has incredible endurance, agility, and strength. She is quite capable of dispatching a horde of undead or even spirit like beings, especially when in possession of a katana. However, what sets her above and beyond most if not every single being in her universe is her innate ability “Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.” This power allows her to see lines of death; and when she cuts along those lines, she can obliterate any object as well as even concepts and ideas.

Your virtual world is shutting down and your reign as a powerful wizard and leader of a guild will soon be nothing more than memory. It’s depressing, but as captain you’ll stick to your ship until the bitter end. Well, time has run up and somehow you still exist in the virtual space as a sort of god-like figure while all the NPC’s become life-like.

This is the premise for Madhouse’s anime Overlord. Being at the head of a guild and a wizard does suggest quite a bit of power at Momonga’s disposal. However, that is a cruel understatement to the magnificent and dark powers belonging to this singular living being in a virtual world. Momonga can’t really be harmed by physical attacks unless the weapon is able to crush his bones. This is pretty evident in his fight against Clementine, albeit she’s a much lower level, but she stabs him in the eye sockets and blows up his skull to no effect. Then there’s the fact that he can withstand any holy attack with very little damage done to himself. Truly this skeletal freight train is not one you would want to mess with.

Madhouse’s hit 2015 action/comedy/satire definitely made a mark on the anime community. It follows around what would appear to be your average guy, Saitama, as he entertains his hobby of being a hero. However, Saitama can basically kill anyone with one punch and after meeting a 19-year-old cyborg has decided to embark on a quest to make heroism more than just a hobby.

One Punch Man came in and K.O’d everyone by the first episode. Yes, it might be a series that even the creator has admitted to being a gag. Something he created just for the fun of it, to laugh at a constant trope in the anime world. However, being overpowered as a joke doesn’t stop Saitama from beating people down everywhere he goes. It just makes it hilarious to watch as he destroys mosquito ladies and star heads in a single blow with his awkward half-satisfied grin. Also, he at least had to pay two hefty prices instead of just being born with his godly skills. First, he had to sacrifice his hair. Second, he must live in eternal boredom as no one can come close to beating him.

The Hellsing Organization has long been keeping Britain safe from the supernatural forces of the night. In no small part has this relative safety been employed through the work of the organization’s personal vampire, Alucard. However, Britain’s next threat moves with the determination that it will be able to dismantle the Hellsing Organization and then conquer the world

This anime is a nightmarish ride through Britain where Nazis, vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural beings rampage. Though the power of a Nazi force of vampires dwarfs anything man can do, it cannot hold a candle to the satanic abilities of Alucard. He can regenerate, call upon hell hounds from his own body, and essentially devour anything and everything before him with the power of a thousand souls. The creators even paint a pretty portrait of how such power is transported through blood, the moving force of humanity, which contains every moment of a person’s life.

By the end, Alucard even becomes an abstract power that no longer exists within a singular dimension. Basically, after Alucard absorbs Schroedinger and disappears for some years, he comes back able to exist in any state without the need of blood. Immortal, check. Master gunslinger, check. Literally untouchable, check. Oh, and by far his powers get the most gory and glorious screen time when compared to any other character.