13 Anime Characters With Very Specific Weaknesses

Dark Shadow, Fumikage Tokoyami's quirk, gains power in darkness. However, bright light severely weakens it. The shadow, a quasi-sentient birdlike being, retreats into Tokoyami's body when lights attack, stopping its function. Darkness boosts Dark Shadow's strength, but Tokoyami loses control sometimes, turning it into another weakness.

Inuyasha resists taking orders from others. However, Kagome wears a necklace forcing him to obey her by yelling, "sit, boy!" When she uses this, he must comply. He resists, though, and often falls flat.

High-level Dragon Slayer Magic users get motion sickness after mastering their skills. Dragon vision clashes with human semicircular canals. Gajeel developing motion sickness proves he leveled up his Dragon Slayer Skills.

The world of One PieceEating a Devil Fruit grants amazing powers. Every power has a drawback, but all Devil Fruit users cannot swim after eating one.

Devil Fruit users do not forget their swimming skills. Seawater itself becomes the problem. Users wearing full diving gear can swim because the water does not touch their body.

Devil Fruit powers often offset the swimming issue. This becomes a problem for pirates who spend all their time on the ocean.

Rain weakens Roy Mustang. His alchemy powers use flame, so he cannot ignite in heavy rain or humidity. Mustang remains a combat expert with weapon skill, but alchemy fails.

All demons share a weakness: wisteria flowers. Demons suffer poisoning from this purple flower, which keeps them away. Demon Slayers carry wisteria. A wisteria grove keeps large groups of demons contained because they fear the lethal flower.

Death The Kid is the son of Death. People think a descendant of Death should be steady, but he is not. He is totally obsessed with symmetry. He loves symmetrical things and panics or faints when things around him lack symmetry. His own hair is a mystery.

Ghouls eat human flesh because eating other things makes them vulnerable. Many feel guilty about eating another living being. They simply cannot eat anything else. Any other food, meat, vegetables, grains, or dairy tastes repulsive and makes ghouls violently ill. This makes blaming them for their diet hard, even if humans don't gain anything.

Titans are nearly invulnerable. Slash their necks, and they fall. Titans are giant meat mecha. Humans pilot them inside the nape.

Members of The Survey Corps.use ODM gear to fly through the air and land on the Titan's backs.

Sweet Mask ranks A-Class. He faces defeat easily. Being ugly causes him distress. He collapses or freezes seeing people or monsters he finds ugly. Ugmon, former ugly humans, can easily beat him.

Ayame Sohma is one of the most steady characters in the world of Fruits BasketAyame finds everything a joke. He has one small weakness: cold weather. All Sohmas are delicate, but Ayame is especially so.

He is the snake of the Zodiac. Snakes have cold blood, meaning they react to the body temperature around them. Ayame is likely warm-blooded in human form, but cold weather still affects him.

The cold weather causes symptoms ranging from feeling sick to turning into a snake. This stops him from leaving home in winter, though he usually finds a way around it.

Cats cause surprisingly common problems in anime. There are at least two examples: Omamori Himari.andNyan KoiThe plot centers on a cat allergy. Many characters fear cats for various reasons. Ranma Saotome and Gilbert Nightray are examples.

Mad Pierrot from Cowboy Bebop.A cat watched him during painful human experimentation. Mizore Shirayuki now links cats to his trauma. Seeing a cat makes him sob and scream. His strong reaction to a toy cat's meow lets Spike and the crew beat him.

Fire endangers almost everyone. Mizore Shirayuki faces special danger. She is a snow woman, a yokai with ice powers. This means she struggles against fire users in fights. She also has trouble cooking on a stove.