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The 14 Greatest Anime Villains of All Time

By YPB Team

Charismatic masterminds, cosmic tyrants and quiet manipulators who never throw a punch, from franchise-defining monsters to cult picks. Where do you stand?

  1. Sosuke Aizen — ranked #11
    Sosuke Aizen
    Bleach's soft-spoken captain whose betrayal recontextualises everything that came before it.
    1000pts
  2. Pain — ranked #22
    Pain
    Naruto's Akatsuki leader, whose argument about cycles of violence is hard to simply dismiss.
    840pts
  3. Donquixote Doflamingo — ranked #33
    Donquixote Doflamingo
    One Piece's Warlord and Dressrosa's smiling dictator, built on generational cruelty.
    800pts
  4. Dio Brando — ranked #44
    Dio Brando
    JoJo's immortal vampire aristocrat, the family curse that spans a century of the series.
    800pts
  5. Ryomen Sukuna — ranked #55
    Ryomen Sukuna
    Jujutsu Kaisen's King of Curses, sealed in fingers and utterly indifferent to everyone around him.
    692pts
  6. Light Yagami — ranked #66
    Light Yagami
    Death Note's protagonist, who is also its villain — a student who kills by writing names in a notebook.
    692pts
  7. Madara Uchiha — ranked #77
    Madara Uchiha
    Naruto's resurrected Uchiha patriarch, who takes on an entire allied army by himself.
    491pts
  8. Johan Liebert — ranked #88
    Johan Liebert
    Monster's antagonist, a man with no powers at all who ruins lives purely by talking to people.
    491pts
  9. Meruem — ranked #99
    Meruem
    Hunter x Hunter's Chimera Ant King, an antagonist who becomes more human the longer he lives.
    491pts
  10. Frieza — ranked #1010
    Frieza
    Dragon Ball Z's galactic tyrant, the benchmark every later shonen villain is measured against.
    360pts
  11. Muzan Kibutsuji — ranked #1111
    Muzan Kibutsuji
    Demon Slayer's first demon, a petty and vain tyrant who created every monster in the series.
    360pts
  12. Hisoka Morow — ranked #1212
    Hisoka Morow
    Hunter x Hunter's magician, dangerous less for his power than for his total unpredictability.
    360pts
  13. Shogo Makishima — ranked #1313
    Shogo Makishima
    Psycho-Pass's criminally asymptomatic antagonist, invisible to the system built to catch him.
    360pts
  14. Makima — ranked #1414
    Makima
    Chainsaw Man's Control Devil, who runs the whole story from behind a kind expression.
    0pts

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Comments

Aizen's betrayal rewrites everything a Bleach reader thought they understood, and Light Yagami is in the same field of fourteen: https://youpick.best/articles/one-piece-vs-naruto-vs-bleach-ranked https://youpick.best/articles/death-note-ranked-many-ways

YP
ypb-team·Aug 21·

Muzan spends most of the story off-screen punishing subordinates, and his plan is simply to keep existing, which is a thin CV for this field: https://youpick.best/articles/demon-slayer-ranked-many-ways

YP
ypb-team·7 days ago·
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