Top 10 Edgy Anime Characters That Defined Our Childhoods
Top 10 Edgy Anime Characters That Defined Our Childhoods
These edgy anime characters from Bleach, Naruto and other popular shows defined and influenced our childhoods.
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Anime has played a key role in defining various facets of modern media. There’s just something about watching the Naruto run, singing along with the Pokémon theme song, or giving Goku spiritual power for the Spirit Bomb that just opens up the genre to imitation in real life.
And, for the better or worse, the anime characters most prone to love, imitation, and admiration have been the edgy ones. They are the brooding sort who keep a cool head and lay low yet unleash teeth-gritting barrages of power and skill. Typically adorned in all black and probably, at one point, a cape, they are considered the “serious” character who gives the series its depth. Looking through everyone’s old picture books, this list will be running down the top, edgy anime characters that defined everyone’s childhoods.
10 Ichigo Kurosaki: Bleach
Starting off this list is a moody high schooler everyone can relate to. He’s literally so done with life that he joins an entire organization dedicated to protecting the afterlife, fending off occult creatures ranging from demonic samurai to things that were definitely, at one point, on the cover of a heavy metal album.
Everything about Bleach and Ichigo screamed early 2000’s grunge, as near every single character carried a pouty look, the music consistently has some steel guitar going off, and everything was draped in black. Ichigo was just the grunge king who had to fight off his inner demons but later befriend and bond with them, fusing with the death mask that once tormented him. There are surely some My Chemical Romance lyrics somewhere here.
9 Sasuke Uchiha: Naruto
If there was anyone to surpass Ichigo within the early Big Three as the King of Shonen Edge, it would be Sasuke Uchiha. Not once in this series has Sasuke ever worn bright colors. Everything about this guy was incredibly gothic. Even his early power up animations included him being overrun by black tattoos.
Sasuke has it all: a constant brooding demeanor, takes things really seriously, has an incredibly dark past, and later joins the dark side in an iconic display of teenage impulse. Whether people like it or not, at some point, everyone loved and related a little too much to Sasuke.
8 Kirito: Sword Art Online
As divisive as he has become among the community, Kirito really was the type of guy everybody wanted to be. He was a brilliant hero living an actual fantasy who showed that spending several hours a day playing video games could actually pay off. Plus, he acted as if it all wasn’t all that big of a deal.
Being all too prepared, Kirito understood the gravity of the SAO situation, trying not to build hard relationships and traversing the virtual hellscape as a rogue loner. It took a special few to actually break him out of his shell, increasing the stakes for the boy who was just trying to hold onto something to love. He is the definition of the perfect fanfic character.
7 Shadow the Hedgehog: Sonic The Hedgehog
Shadow the Hedgehog is a fundamental character among the canon of edgy characters that marketing execs make to connect with the young people. He is literally just the edgy antithesis to Sonic the Hedgehog; a black-painted evolution of the arrogant, attitude-filled ’90s protagonist.
His grim demeanor somehow made the series as a whole; video game, anime and movie tie-in, more anime-like, and his entire being played such a huge part in inspiring people that a Sonic character really could take on any persona, creating plenty of heavy fanfics all circulating the curious world of superpowered, anthropomorphic animals.
6 Meta Knight: Kirby
Within the same token, if not outright the same drawing board as Shadow, Meta Knight is the edgy, brooding force that seems so incredibly out of place within the colorful Kirby universe, yet still befits its grander, fantasy adventures. He is near the only character that actually seems like he was brought up like a warrior, always standing at the ready for all the world’s mayhem and telling of bad omens to the core crew.
Also, in the English dub of the anime, he was voiced like Dracula, Eastern European style, something that just really tried to emphasize his gothic roots. In any case, he’s a lot of people’s favorite pick for Super Smash Bros.
5 Yami Yugi: Yu-Gi-Oh!
When Yami Yugi entered the stage, everyone knew things were about to go down. A literal edgy, taller evolution of his successor’s otherwise small, innocent form, Yami Yugi was there to deliver cool lines and draw cards with a huge flourish.
That’s not even counting the fact that Yami and Yugi had one of the most iconic, if not one of the most impractically overdressed character designs in anime history, sporting a dark overcoat, a cryptic chain, and a hairstyle that would influence all card game anime for generations. Even his original incarnation in Season 0 was just an outright badass, directly punishing bad guys in cruel death games.
4 Hiei: Yu Yu Hakusho
Hiei is Yu Yu Hakusho’s brooding elite character who the series never really tried to make less edgy or even remotely happier. Every second he’s on the screen, Hiei is coming out with his harsh stare, grim lines, and a little something from his tortured past. That past literally involves him being abandoned by his mother to an icy death pit fall, surviving, being raised by bandits and dedicating his life since the age of five to just killing a bunch of people, earning early A-Class infamy in the process.
His powers and battles can quickly change from focused precision to outright sadistic overkill if his opponent so much as tries to look him in the eye. He’s a strong model for a lot of anime edge today and, for that, fans are thankful.
3 Roy Mustang: Fullmetal Alchemist
Though Fullmetal Alchemist followed the existentially tormented adventures of Edward and Alphonse Elric, the character that fans everywhere instantly fell in love with was Roy Mustang.
He was the strict, cool-headed lieutenant whose focus and confidence just screamed cool older brother to all watching. That’s not to say he’s necessarily all cold and calculating either. Cross him in a bad way, and Roy could reveal quite the mean streak at the literal snap of a finger.
2 Guts: Beserk
Including Guts here may be a bit of a cheat. He is a Seinen character who came to be the poster child for horrific manga and anime violence, a figurehead that Japan definitely didn’t market to kids and didn’t intend to influence childhoods.
However, to be fair, that really didn’t stop a lot of curious young kids, significantly more than everyone is willing to admit, from tuning into or renting out Berserk. From there, fragile young minds were blown away by the carnage and a brooding beast who gives Batman a run for his money.
1 Vegeta: Dragon Ball
Last but not least, this list reaches one of if not the most influential Shonen character for defining the base fundamentals for anime edge for generations to come. Vegeta’s constant scowl played the perfect rival and antithesis to Goku’s everlasting, sunny outlook.
Even his fights carry extra weight to their gravity as Vegeta puts on an entire performance of arrogance, sadism, and personal stakes to nearly all of them. He is the perfect anime rival and a strong embodiment of what it means to take things really seriously within anime.
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