20 Most Violent Anime

Berserk appears in the list of 20 Most Violent Anime.Guts, a lone mercenary, finds belonging with the Band of the Hawk.The Band of the Hawk.Griffith, the group's leader, sacrifices nearly the whole band to join the God Hand and gain power. Guts, one of the few survivors, focuses on saving Casca, another survivor, and fighting Griffith.

Berserk shows intense violence.The Eclipse, where Griffith sacrifices the Band of the Hawk, stands as one of the series' most infamous violent moments. It shows intense bloodshed, physical violence, and massive emotional betrayal and sexual assault. This scene is the worst, but it is not the only horrible moment.

Serpico burns his dementia-stricken mother at the stake. The Incarnation Ceremony claims thousands of lives. The Conviction Arc shows brutal torture. You need a tough stomach for this series.

Elfen Lied appears in the list of 20 Most Violent Anime.Lucy is a diclonius.A diclonius with telekinetic arms that give her huge strength. After escaping the government facility, she forgets her memory. She finds herself with normal humans, who quickly get pulled into a violent world of government plots.A humanlike species with telekinetic arms granting Lucy immense strength. After escaping the government facility, she loses her memory. She finds herself with normal humans, who soon enter a dangerous world of violence and government conspiracies.

Elfen Lied contains violent moments.Lucy's classmates torment her puppy. Lucy fights back by killing everyone nearby, splattering blood everywhere. This is not the only upsetting part; nearly every episode has multiple gruesome scenes, many ending in death.

Attack on Titan appears in the list of 20 Most Violent Anime.Gigantic monsters called Titans overrun the world. After his hometown burns and his mother dies, Eren Jaeger wants to wipe out the Titans. To do this, he joins the Survey Corps.The Survey Corps.A group focused on venturing past the barriers keeping humanity safe and killing as many Titans as possible.

The truth about the Titans proves much harder than anyone expected. This changes Eren's view of the problem entirely.

Attack on Titan features violent moments.The series centers on humans being eaten alive by giant monsters. These attacks happen offscreen sometimes, but often they show graphic, gross details. Miche Zacharius' slow-motion death is a prime example. Being eaten is not the only violent end; Hange and Armin both get severe burns from a Titan's steam. Also, the Rumbling is a huge event that wipes out 80% of the world's people.

Hellsing Ultimate appears in the list of 20 Most Violent Anime.The Hellsing organization protects people from dangerous vampires. Their main weapon is Alucard, a vampire who fights his own kind for personal reasons.

Hellsing Ultimate has violent moments.Whether it’s caused by Hellsing’s Nazi opponents or their terrifying vampiric ally, this series is packed with violence. Sometimes, the violence is purely physical, with characters tearing each other apart, impaling one another, and inflicting serious bodily harm. Other times, the violence is also ideological, as some characters are based on real Nazi figures. For instance, the Doctor and his experiments are inspired by Josef Mengele.

What It’s About:Jubei Kibagami is a swordsman for hire who prefers to avoid politics whenever possible. However, when he encounters Kagero - a man capable of hardening his body who is investigating the source of a plague - Jubei tries to stay uninvolved. But after being poisoned, he must help in order to receive the antidote, leaving him with little choice.

Most Violent Moments:As expected in a story centered around an assassin, this series is filled with brutal violence. It features electrocution, stabbing, limb removal, and other intense scenes. One of the most unique moments involves a man being burned alive with molten gold.

What It's About:Saya Kisaragi has dedicated her life to slaying the monsters that threaten her village. When she hears the monsters discussing a broken covenant, she begins to get a little concerned. Later, she encounters a strange dog that asks her who she promised her labor to. She starts to realize that the situation with the monsters is far from what it seems and that everything she currently believes might be a lie.

Most Violent Moments: Blood-Cis known as one of the most violent anime in existence. The most violent moments come from the Elder Bairn attacks. In one instance, they slam a girl into the ground again and again, with the pool of blood beneath her growing each time. In another instance, a boy is eaten after his head is squashed like a grape. A girl is torn limb from limb while she screams in pain. The whole thing is absolutely petrifying.

What’s About:When Koichi Sakakibara transfers into Class 3-3 at Yomiyama North Junior High, he befriends a girl named Mei Misaki. This turns out to be a grave mistake - Mei is being ignored deliberately to avoid triggering a curse that could claim the lives of the entire class.

Most Violent Moments:The series centers around a group of students trying to avoid falling victim to a potentially fatal curse. Few characters survive until the end, and the deaths are gruesome. In one memorable moment, a girl falls down a flight of stairs and impales herself on an umbrella. This is one of those shows where you can't get too attached to any characters, as they’re likely to be gone by the end.

What It’s About:Hinamizawa looks like a normal small Japanese town. But things are much trickier and more deadly. Keichi Maebara learns this the hard way. He moves to Hinamizawa and gets caught up in deaths and disappearances. These events all link back to a festival honoring the town's god.

Most Violent Moments:Hinamizawa Syndrome causes dangerous events in this town. This mental illness triggers extreme violence. Rena hacks Mion apart with an axe, aiming for everyone else until Keichi calms her. Mion forces her twin sister, Shion, to remove her own fingernails using a machine.

What It's About: Devilman Crybaby.Akira Fudo is kind and empathetic. This makes him not suspect anything when his childhood friend Ryo Asuka suddenly appears, wanting an adventure. That adventure turns into a night of wild behavior and violence. It ends with him becoming a human-devil hybrid.

Akira must control his new violent urges. He also needs to shield the people he cares about from other demons. He faces the betrayal of his childhood friend while doing this.

Most Violent Moments:The violence uses style. Viewers see demons torn in half; the blood appears green or another unreal color. This shift from reality does not lessen the terror; it only emphasizes it. Akira's shock at the violence he tries to stop makes things worse. The ending is hidden, but the violence reaches its limit.

What It's About: Chainsaw Man.Denji owes a huge debt his father left him to the yakuza. To pay it, he fights devils with his devil friend Pochita. When the yakuza betray him, he merges with Pochita, becoming the half-devil Chainsaw Man. A government agency then recruits him to fight stronger devils.

Most Violent Moments: Chainsaw ManThis is a shonen series, but younger viewers should be careful. The series has huge violence. Every fight with a devil causes massive bloodshed. Denji battles on top of a giant pile of organs in one scene. Because he regenerates, his life can end repeatedly without lasting harm, causing more blood. The bloodshed increases once he meets the Gun Devil.

What It’s About:Nine students perform a ritual with charms to say goodbye to a friend. This action causes a grave mistake. The charms link to an elementary school marked by violent murders before it burned down. The students end up trapped in an alternate dimension with vengeful ghosts. If they cannot escape, they stay with these spirits forever.

Most Violent Moments:This series stems from a game with more violence than this OVA shows, but the anime remains intense. Characters face horrors like being skinned alive, losing limbs, and having their heads blown off.

What It's About:Renzaburo Taki works for the Black Guards, an organization that keeps peace between humans and demons. His latest task involves guarding Giuseppe Mayart, a mystic, during a dangerous fight against demons aiming to end that peace. Giuseppe could make the job easier if he paid attention and stopped chasing girls for a few minutes.

Most Violent Moments: Wicked CityWicked City shows many violent moments, including slicing demons in half. People get shot, aliens get stabbed, and everyone drips blood. The most upsetting violence involves sexual assault. Three men assault the female lead, and this is shown without softening.

What It’s About: GantzThe story begins like an isekai. Kei Kurono dies trying to save an unhoused man from a train and wakes up in a strange world. Kei does not land in a magical place. Instead, he hunts aliens because of a large black ball. His afterlife becomes much scarier than he could have imagined.

Most Violent Moments:The first episode shows the protagonist getting hit by a train. Viewers see his head fly off; there is no censorship. Other violence includes a person's back melting, organs fully visible, limbs ripped off, people chopped in half, and heads exploding.

What It's About:One-armed Fujiki Gennosuke and blind Irako Seigen aim to be the successors to the Iwamoto school of sword fighting. They both join a battle tournament run by Lord Tokugawa Tadanaga. This tournament uses real swords, unlike earlier ones that used wood.

Most Violent Moments:Tournaments are common in shonen anime, but this series pushes the trope to its violent limit. Battles are bloody and graphic, often ending in disembowelment. Knowing that this happens—and it has a basis in real history—makes the whole thing more intense.

What It’s About:Rin Asogi, an immortal private detective, fights to escape those who want to end her or steal eternal life secrets. She takes a case with Kouki Maeno, a man claiming wrong memories. But Kouki holds more than meets the eye; working with him brings Rin closer to the man who can actually kill her.

Most Violent Moments:Immortality shows gruesome regeneration. Rin does not just die and return; she regrows destroyed body parts in a painful, explicit way, screaming during the process.

Other violence exists. This includes brutality against normal humans and scenes where dogs get shot. Also, the extremely bloody scene where angels devour immortals stays with you for years.

Tokyo Ghoul: What It's About:Ken Kaneki, a mild college student, has the worst date. Rize Kamishiro is a ghoul. During an accident, Kaneki survives because Rize's organs transplant into him. This makes him half-ghoul, meaning he must eat human flesh to live.

Most Violent Moments:Anything involving eating human flesh becomes very violent, andTokyo Ghouldoes not disappoint. Ghouls eat humans, and humans violently hunt ghouls. Both humans and ghouls attack their own kind.

One disturbing scene shows Kaneki tortured at the end of season one. They chop off his fingers, regenerate them, then chop them off again. This causes severe pain and trauma, changing his personality completely.

Violence Jack: What It’s About:Based on a manga by Go Nagai, the creator ofDevilman, Violence JackViolence Jack centers on a human-adjacent being named Violence Jack. Jack tries to stop a civil war sparked by a disaster that submerged cities underground. However, violence seems like the only way to stop it.

Most Violent Moments:This series started the post-apocalyptic wasteland genre. Series likeFist of the North StarandBerserktrace their origins toViolence Jack. The genre's key feature is the intense physical violence and bloodshed it shows.

Terra Formars: What It’s About:In the 21st century, humans sent cockroaches and algae to Mars. They hoped these species would help terraform the planet for human life. This failed: the cockroaches evolved into something truly dangerous.

In the 26th century, humanity must return to Mars to get a cure for an alien plague. To do this, they must face the monsters they made.

Most Violent Moments:Most of the show’s violence comes from the evolved roaches themselves. They tear chunks out of people’s bodies, exposing organs, severing spines, and ripping off heads. Basically, you don’t want to be anywhere near these creatures.

What It’s About:Alien parasites have been taking over human hosts, controlling their minds and transforming them into dangerous fighting machines. Shinichi Izumi manages to prevent a parasite from fully taking over his body, keeping it trapped in his right arm. Instead of being fully overtaken, he develops a partnership with the parasite, which he names Migi. However, this alliance puts them in serious danger, as other parasites can sense that they are not normal and want to eliminate them.

Most Violent Moments:One of the most disturbingly unique elements of the show is watching human bodies being disassembled to create parasitic weaponry. However, the purposes for which they use these weapons take the violence up a notch.

One of the most harrowing moments occurs when a parasite takes over Shinichi's mother’s brain, forcing him to fight her to survive. Ultimately, she drives a blade straight through his chest.

What It's About:The town of Sotoba seems like a peaceful, quiet place to live - that is, until a teenager named Megumi Shimizu randomly passes away from a mysterious illness. As more people fall victim to the same disease, a doctor named Toshio Ozaki begins to suspect that there's more going on than just a health crisis. In fact, it seems to have something to do with the new family that just moved into town.

Most Violent Moments:While there are many scenes inShikithat are relatively tame, some moments are truly intense. In the first episode, there is a close-up of decomposing bodies filled with maggots. Several scenes show the shiki, who are akin to vampires, attacking and biting their prey. The end of the series features an all-out war, which involves significant bloodshed and numerous deaths.