These beings give a storyteller an option to create a serious world that deals with death and its ramifications. On the other side, taking a humorous approach can make all our lives feel more whimsical. Angels and demons as story devices not only explore human nature but expand upon it. 10. Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan
Whether they're kindhearted souls who happen to be monsters, or inhuman beings helping their human friends, demons are not always villains in anime. Over the centuries, countless characters have made unfortunate deals with the devil.
After the shy Akira and the bloodthirsty Amon joined forces in one body becoming a Devilman, the new powerhouse with Akira’s pure heart and Amon’s strength brought change for the world. 24. The Demon Girl Next Door What would you do if one day you’d just wake up with horns and tails? The young girl named Yuuko had this exact problem.
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The 15 Strongest Demon Lords In Anime, Ranked1 Satan - Devilman Crybaby.2 Lucifero - Black Clover. ... 3 Anos Voldigoad - The Misfit Of Demon King Academy. ... 4 Void - Berserk. ... 5 Sirzechs Lucifer - High School DxD. ... 6 King Piccolo - Dragon Ball. ... 7 Raizen - Yu Yu Hakusho. ... 8 Mephisto Pheles - Blue Exorcist. ... More items...•
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun sidestoriesSaten Ruiko (佐天 涙子 Saten Ruiko?) is a character from the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun sidestories. She is voiced by Kanae Ito. She is a Level 0 Academy City student and is a classmate and close friend of Uiharu Kazari.
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The Demon King (real name: Kyouichi Yasaka), also known as the Devil King, is a demonic dark lord and the main antagonist of the Konosuba: God's Blessing on this Wonderful World! 2012 Japanese comedy fantasy light novel series, as well as its manga and anime adaptions of the same name.
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Toaru Kagaku no Railgun sidestoriesSaten Ruiko (佐天 涙子, Saten Ruiko?) is a supporting character from the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun sidestories.
Her ability is Thermal Hand (lit. "Fixed Temperature Preservation"), which allows her to conserve part of the objects temperature she touches, and is registered as a Level 1 esper.
Rin Okumura is the main protagonist of the manga/anime series Blue Exorcist. He and his younger twin brother, Yukio, were born from Satan and Yuri Egin. He attends the True Cross Academy to become an Exorcist and get revenge on Satan for killing his adoptive father, Shiro Fujimoto.
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Attack on Titan ranked first with 23.70% of the votes, while Demon Slayer was second with 16.38%. Both series delivered high-quality episodes, with Attack on Titan focusing on Eren's dark path and Demon Slayer highlighting Tengen's fight with amazing animation by studio ufotable.
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Living in a tiny coal-mining village, Tanjirou is the sole provider for his family. Setting out to find work one day brings disaster upon his family. His sister is the only survivor of a demon attack, but she isn’t left unscathed. Tanjirou joins the Demon Slayer Corps to destroy the demons.
The Demon Girl Next Door (Machikado Mazoku) Yuko, a student, suddenly has a tail and horns one morning. Her family is descended from a dark, cursed clan. To break the curse, she must defeat a girl who uses magic that lives in her town.
Bahamut is a legendary demon bent on destroying everything. Humans, gods, and demons united and sealed the demon away. Thousands of years later Amira has appeared and with her the gods’ half of the key of sealing. If the key pieces are reunited then Bahamut will be released.
Demons are drawn to Karasumori Academy. Two boys possess the Kekkai: the ability to create barriers used to catch and kill the demons. But the demons become stronger the longer they remain in the land. A quest to seal the demon drawing power begins.
Demon attracting energy has been released. Ushio finds a monster name Tora trapped in his basement that has been held for years by a legendary beast spear. To save everyone from the demon onslaught Ushio must release Tora and keep him in check with the beast spear.
Not for the faint-hearted, Yusuke takes his share of punches in tournament battles. 6. Black Butler (Kuroshitsuji) A boy trades his soul to get revenge for his family and gain success with the family business. The demon masquerades as his butler Sebastian, obviously dressed in black.
Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan (Nurarihyon no Mago) Rikuo is a quarter yokai ( demon). By day he’s a teenage boy, by night he takes his yokai form. He must assume his position as head of his clan house while taking on all forms of opposition.
Jujutsu Kaisen won over a lot of shonen fans in the late months of 2020, and for good reason. A stellar cast of characters, a dark and often violent premise, and monsters galore all came to life thanks to MAPPA's excellent animation. Where Jujutsu Kaisen falls a bit short, arguably, is in its terminology.
While most demons appear in action or horror-fantasy series, every so often they take center stage in a comedy. Such is the case in The Devil Is Part-Timer, which brings the idiom of "giving the devil his due" to a very literal conclusion.
Family drama factors into everyone's life, but it's hard to fathom how Yukio manages to cope with his circumstances. Raised by a priest, Yukio and his unruly twin brother, Rin, believe in good and evil, heaven and hell.
If any character is following the textbook Faustian model for dealing with devils, it's Ciel Phantomhive of Black Butler. After his parents are mysteriously, brutally murdered, Ciel survives and goes on to make a deal with a demon. Sebastian Michaelis serves Ciel under the guise of being his butler but holds the contract to Ciel's immortal soul.
Siblings make for great protagonists. Most audiences can relate to the bond that exists between brothers and sisters, and some of the best series of all time feature this relationship front and center. Recently, Tanjiro and Nezuko of Demon Slayer have charmed fans around the world.
It's not really fair to say that Akira and Ryo work together in Devilman Crybaby. It's Ryo's fault that Akira becomes fused with a demon in the first place, and his reasons for manipulating his so-called best friend are nefarious indeed.
Yu Yu Hakusho is among the most beloved shonen series to indulge in the supernatural, and many of its characters fit into the demonic category. Notable among these is Raizen, a former Demon King who swore never to eat humans again after falling in love with a human woman.
Since his loving father’s death, the responsibility of caring for the family has been placed on Tanjirou the Kamado’s shoulder. However, they live in poverty. The Kamado family is living a serene and pleasant life. Then, Tanjirou decides to go to the nearby village to earn cash by selling charcoal.
Demons and humans are two faces of the coin, and so are Assiah and Gehenna, the worlds they inhabit. The only way to move between realms is through the process of possession, similar to ghost stories. But, Satan, the ruler of Gehenna, cannot locate an appropriate host and, as a result, is trapped in his realm.
While savoring the nonsense of rituals with the Occult Club High school student, Yuuji Itadori is usually in the clubroom or hospital where he stays with his ill grandfather. However, his life quickly turns into the odd when he meets a cursed item.
The demons can strike fear into the heart of ordinary people and mortals alike. The Demon Lord Satan begins to take over the territory of Ente Isla with his vast army of demons.
A high schooler Issei Hyoudou is the typical pervert who isn’t doing anything productive in his life, observing women and fantasizing about being the owner of his own family someday. Things are getting better in the case of Issei when a gorgeous girl invites him to an evening date. But she is an angel of the night who murders him brutally.
Young Ciel Phantomhive is referred to by the title of “the Queen’s Guard Dog,” responsible for the numerous unsettling happenings throughout Victorian England for Her Majesty.
Thirty-seven-year-old Satoru Mikami is living his monotonous lifestyle in Tokyo. While having an unintentional encounter with a coworker, he is subject to an accidental attacker in the street and gets wounded.
Genres: Action, Harem, Comedy, Magic, Ecchi, Fantasy, School, Anime Demons .
Beelzebub is a Japanese manga series about a first year student at a school for juvenile delinquents, written and illustrated by Ryūhei Tamura. This was followed by an anime television series which aired in Japan between January 9, 2011 and March 25, 2012.
With blue flames, possessed people, prayer, religion, Satan, God and exorcism. This one of the greatest examples of ‘The antagonistic character actually wanted to do something good but his way of doing things is so messed up that the entire world is put in danger because of his one wish.’.
15. Ao no Exorcist. Blue Exorcist is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazue Katō. The manga has been serialized in Jump Square magazine by Shueisha since April 2009, with individual chapters collected into twenty-three tankōbon volumes as of February 20, 2020.
The Devil Is a Part-Timer! is a Japanese light novel series written by Satoshi Wagahara, with illustrations by Oniku. ASCII Media Works has published the series in Japan, while Yen Press has published the series in North America.
Humanity is on the brink of extinction. The human world isn’t as open as it used to be, with lycanthrope roaming around in the open field. They are monsters that have forced humans to live in glass walls.
Ushio to Tora follows the adventures and conflicts of Ushio Aotsuki, who is continuously pursued and helped by Tora, a vast, magical, and sometimes unseen tiger-like monster.
We all love anime centered around children who have mysterious powers that make them unique. Don’t we? Makes us imagine all sort of possible realities if we had some kind of powers. How we could save the world, land some girl or two, and become very popular, right?
When life knocks you down, wipe your tears, put your Tiara back and binge watch the show again, cause chances are things are way better in anime than in real life.
Losing a loved one is so heartbreaking that it is understandable to want to be able to bring them back to life, a weakness that the enigmatic Millennium Earl exploits.
We all love an anime filled with a slice of existence, a hint of comedy, and a world full of magic. Right? Lucky for you our very next anime is exactly like that and for the record NO! it’s not like the anime version of the famous Hollywood movie “The girl next door”, although it shares some of the thrilling and seductive clippings with that movie.
The Misfits of Demon King Academy has one of the strongest MC in the whole world of anime. Centuries back, a time when there was only chaos between demons and humans, a place where there was constant bloodshed.
10 Blue Exorcist. This shounen anime takes place in a world where the supernatural has formed an uneasy coexistence with the humans. However, one day young Rin Okumura starts witnessing strange creatures, only for it to be revealed that this is because he’s the son of Satan.
Nanami Momozono is an average high school girl who ends up being homeless because of her father’s accrued debt. A man offers to let her stay in a rundown shrine that he owns, but she isn’t convinced as the place is in a dilapidated condition.
Chihiro Furuya has always dreamt of wanting a zombie girlfriend, and things get into motion when he tries to revive his dead cat with a homemade resurrection potion. Rea Sanka, his classmate, gets caught up in his misadventures and mistakenly drinks the potion, believing it would kill her.
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However, Rin rejects his demon side and decides to go to a school that trains exorcists, where his brother (Yukio) and his future love interest (Shiemi) are also training to become different types of exorcists.
As a minor God, Yato is often ignored by most believers, who prefer to pray to bigger and more powerful gods. One day, a young high school girl named Hiyori saves him from being run over by a bus (not knowing that he’s immortal), and in doing so, her soul gains the ability to leave her body.
I know what you are thinking. Black Clover does in fact have some devils, many of which possess such great power that it can crumble the human world. While Asta is not a devil himself, it was revealed some time into the series that a devil lives inside his grimoire.
What happens when a devil and a man merge? They become Devilman. I’m not trying to joke around here, but this conclusion is truly a simple case. The anime is pretty neat all around though. The first-ever adaptation for the original manga came out way back in 1972, but that derailed from the story so much it eventually became a failure.
What would you do if one day you’d just wake up with horns and tails? The young girl named Yuuko had this exact problem. Her mom stated the issue: they are the descendants of the Dark Clan of demons, and the curse cast on them makes their lives miserable. The only way to get rid of this is to murder the successor magical girl from the Light Clan.
Have you ever had trouble sleeping? Trying to fall asleep in a creepy haunted house might even be impossible for some, but for Princess Aurora, sleeping is the only thing in the world. Despite being imprisoned in the Demon King’s castle, she is trying hard.
We have a Vampire Lord instead of a demon at our hands, but the careless Staz is just as entertaining as any other Dark Lord. He is the ruler of the Eastern District in Demon Lands, but he only focuses on the important stuff: Japanese culture.
Let me ask you a question: In your opinion, how many anime will show up here which include a demonic companion for the main girl? Make sure to write your prediction down right now in the comments, and count the entries as you read.
Shonen protagonists usually lack basic human sense. They can’t make strategic decisions, can’t stay away from danger, and most importantly, they love to get into action. Ushio is nothing like your average MC, he gives up at the start.