Summary
Unique weapons in anime are often tied to the character’s theme or possess unique characteristics, making them incredibly powerful. These strange weapons range from a shape-shifting living spear to a shotgun that shoots exploding baseballs, showcasing anime creativity. Despite their unusual nature, these bizarre weapons highlight the characters’ skills and uniqueness, setting them apart from the usual weapons in the genre.
When it comes cartoon, the rules about what is and what is not a weapon are surprisingly flexible, with some truly unique weapons proving to be surprisingly powerful. In fact, some of the medium’s strangest weapons tend to stand out for not even really looking like weapons at all.
Sometimes, these strange weapon choices are a theme for the character use them, explaining their odd choices as a consequence of who they are. Sometimes, they simply find themselves in possession of a strange object that turns out to be extremely powerful and it eventually becomes their weapon of choice. And of course, some of these were originally designed as weapons, but are so extremely strange in characteristics or construction that one might not even recognize them as weapons at first glance. Firstly.
Spear of Longinus
Evangelical Neon Genesis
The Spear (or sometimes Spear) of Longinus was a strange two-pronged spear discovered in Antarctica. The two prongs intertwine to form a spiral, like DNA. It’s an alien weapon that arrived on Earth long before humanity existed, and it’s capable of overcoming AT fields that are necessary for EVA’s defenses and helping humans become sentient beings. individual. The strangest thing is that Lance is technically still alive and it often changes shape after being thrown. In the Evangelion TV series, the spear is lost when Rei has to throw it into orbit to destroy the attacking Angel, Arael, but it is not the only one of its kind…
Punisher of the cross
Trample Trigun
The Cross Punisher is Nicholas Wolfwood’s signature weapon, and its enormous size gives an accurate impression of its destructive power. Cross Punisher has various means of attack, including rapid fire like machine guns and beam weapons. Its bulky size also makes it an effective melee weapon, and it can even provide some cover. The Cross Punisher is said to be especially heavy, which Wolfwood claims is because “it is so merciful.” It is not unique, as other characters are sometimes seen using them, but they are exceptionally rare and unique weapons that can only be used by a select few. .
lariat
A piece
Lassoo is Mr. 4, ate the “Dog Dog Fruit” and became part Dachshund, turning it into a living weapon. It used to be a bazooka and how the weapon ate fruit is an absolute mystery in the series. This gives it the ability to move and aim on its own, firing baseball-like exploding cannonballs, of which it has seemingly limitless quantities. Mr. 4 is capable of hitting these baseballs with tremendous force, redirecting their target and making them much harder to dodge. Interestingly, the dog-gun dreams of one day becoming a tank, showing that even living weapons can have ambitions.
Kagura’s fans
Inuyasha
Kagura is a wind witch in Inuyasha and possesses a fan that allows her to control and create wind-based attacks. Using the fan, Kagura can create blades of wind or even entire tornadoes that can devastate opponents. However, its unique power is the “Dance of the Dead”, which allows Kagura Control corpses with wind, resurrecting them for his own purposes. Kagura isn’t one to really fight directly, so a weapon like this that allows her to keep her distance from enemies would suit her character well.
Winker
Hunter X Hunter
Shizuku is a member of the Phantom Troupe and a Nen user, specifically a magician. Her ability allows her to summon a vacuum cleaner named “Blinky”, which has eyes on the main body and a mouth at the end of the vacuum tube. It has infinite capacity, able to absorb as much non-living matter as Shizuku wishes. It is not known what happens to the objects she picks up, only the most recent item can be ejected from the vacuum cleaner’s container. Shizuku’s most dangerous attack is when her opponent is bleeding, ordering Blinky to drain their blood, causing the body to be drained of every drop.
Fabric capture
My Hero Academy
Capture Cloth (or sometimes “Capture Weapon”) is a scarf always worn by Shota Aizawa, a UA teacher and a pro hero known as Eraser Head. Since Aizawa’s Quirk allows him to neutralize other people’s Quirks, it does not give him offensive power, so Aizawa must practice with this cloth to trap enemies when they are helpless. This fabric is made from carbon nanofibers, making it virtually indestructible and uncut. However, Aizawa is not the only one to use such weapons; He later also trained Hitoshi Shinso on how to use it, as he also had a similar Quirk that kept him from being offended.
Killua’s Yo Yo
Hunter X Hunter
Hunter X Hunter may be the king of bizarre weapons, but Killua’s Yo-Yos stand out as one of the strangest. The two Yo-Yos themselves are said to be weigh over a hundred pounds eachand is made of a special alloy that is durable enough to withstand use and conducts electricity well. Killua uses them the most in the later chapters of the series and can also utilize his Nen abilities through them. Killua uses their sheer weight to attack opponents, but also uses strange tricks that make the direction of the attack difficult to predict.
Disciplinary regulations
Kill La Kill
In the Three Cities Raid, Ira Gamagoori leads a group to attack a school in Kobe, Japan. His primary weapon of choice, both for himself and his men, is the school rulebook. The books seem to be easily thrown away and have the potential to break soccer gear on impact. The books are also shown to be able to increase in size, allowing members of Gamagoori’s team to use them as cover against enemy attacks. Gamagoori claims that it is the burden of rules that makes these books effective weapons.
Haruko’s bass guitar
FLCL
FLCL is a strange series in every way, but by far one of its strangest and most notable aspects is Haruko’s penchant for using a guitar in battle. Haruko mainly obtains these guitars through the NO port of a nearby teenager, pulling it directly from their forehead. The guitars themselves are very diverse and Haruko can usually recognize them on sight, especially if it is a rare model, such as The rarer the guitar, the more powerful it seems. Haruko also uses the guitar to fly in one episode and spins it like a chainsaw in another. With it, she takes down towering Kaiju-like monsters with surprising ease.
Super density seal
My Hero Academy
As a salaryman hero with a Quirk unsuited for combat, Sir Nighteye uses these heavy stamps (used to sign documents) as throwing weapons. Weighing around 11 pounds each, Sir Nighteye carries a half-dozen or more of them at a time and can strike opponents with them with surprising accuracy. While these may not be the strongest attacks, they are more than capable of taking down villains with a targeted strike, often catching them by surprise.
While most of the weapons here won’t see much use in real life, they have all proven to be extremely useful in the world they come from, even though most of them are considered options strange even in their home universe. These characters’ ability to wield such exotic weapons is often a testament to their skill, and while many of them could use something more conventional… why would they? So? By giving cartoon characters with such bizarre weapons, the creators give their creations a unique shine and help them stand out from the crowd.