Which anime has the best character designs?

By YPB Team

Silhouette tests, costume variety, and one artist who draws nothing but clean lines. Style over story this time.

  1. One Piece — ranked #11
    One Piece
    Oda's cast of hundreds, where silhouette alone tells you who is who.
    1000pts
  2. Attack on Titan — ranked #22
    Attack on Titan
    Uniform gear against grotesque, unmatched titan faces.
    703pts
  3. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure — ranked #33
    JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
    Hirohiko Araki's fashion-plate poses and shifting art style.
    569pts
  4. Demon Slayer — ranked #44
    Demon Slayer
    Haori patterns that identify a character at a glance.
    568pts
  5. Sailor Moon — ranked #55
    Sailor Moon
    Naoko Takeuchi's colour-coded guardians, a template still in use.
    481pts
  6. Bleach — ranked #66
    Bleach
    Tite Kubo's monochrome-and-accent styling and its enormous costume variety.
    481pts
  7. Dragon Ball — ranked #77
    Dragon Ball
    Toriyama's clean lines and readable shapes, copied across four decades of shonen.
    374pts
  8. Hunter x Hunter — ranked #88
    Hunter x Hunter
    Togashi's deceptively simple leads against baroque Chimera Ants.
    374pts
  9. Trigun — ranked #99
    Trigun
    Yasuhiro Nightow's red coat and desert-western silhouettes.
    374pts
  10. Chainsaw Man — ranked #1010
    Chainsaw Man
    Tatsuki Fujimoto's devil designs, ugly on purpose and unforgettable.
    374pts
  11. Neon Genesis Evangelion — ranked #1111
    Neon Genesis Evangelion
    Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's plugsuits and Eva units, still endlessly reprinted.
    240pts
  12. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood — ranked #1212
    Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
    Hiromu Arakawa's military coats, automail and homunculi.
    240pts
  13. Cowboy Bebop — ranked #1313
    Cowboy Bebop
    Toshihiro Kawamoto's lean, lived-in cast.
    240pts
  14. Mobile Suit Gundam — ranked #1414
    Mobile Suit Gundam
    Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's pilots and Kunio Okawara's mobile suits.
    240pts

Comments

Toriyama drew for readability, Oda for density, and this ranking asks which approach won. Thirteen other ways to compare them: https://youpick.best/articles/dragon-ball-vs-one-piece-ranked

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