Shounen and shoujo anime are, as the word suggests, marketed to younger fans, and thus their main characters rank among strongest kids in anime. These heroes embody the action-packed fantasies of the audience. Not only can they become the absolute best at what they do before they finish school, but they’re also stronger and more impressive than their peers and the adults around them.
Even if they have small beginnings, these heroes’ journey to greatness is thrilling. The best of them not only have the bottomless determination to push them through any problem, but also the physical strength that allows them to do everything from knocking human opponents aside to to divide the world in two. And, of course, they look the best doing it.
10 Uzumaki Naruto
Naruto’s problem isn’t necessarily a lack of power: not only is he descended from several legendary ninja clans, but he also has the Nine-Tailed Fox’s chakra to strengthen himself. It was his lack of skill and inability to tap into his own potential that made him fall behind his classmates at the beginning of the series. However, advanced training changes all that.
Naruto is very good at coming up with creative solutions in critical situations. He also uses this creativity to practice difficult and complex techniques, such as using clones to help him master the Rasengan. He unleashed a lot of raw power at the age of twelve, but by the age of sixteen, he had surpassed the entire shinobi world, defeating Tailed Beasts and the gods in some difficult battles. Naruto’s worst.
9 Son Goku – Dragon Ball
As an adult, Goku is Earth’s most powerful protector. However, he was only eleven years old in the original Dragon Ball series. Thanks to his Saiyan powers and his grandfather’s training, he may be small, but he is strong enough to shock anyone who meets him. Throughout the first series, Goku battles many fearsome enemies, from the pterodactyl to the entire Red Ribbon Army. He also mastered his signature technique, Kamehameha, at a young age. Notably, Goku was one of the first shounen protagonists to range in age from children to teens to adults as the story progressed, something mangaka Akira Toriyama had to fight against the editors wanted. another permanent child hero.
8 Manjiro Sano – Tokyo Revengers
Tokyo Revengers focuses on some of the scariest kids in anime, revolving around groups of evil high school students vying for dominance. To the horror of the relatively weaker protagonist Takemichi, most of them are stronger than any real kid their age. The scariest of them all is Manjiro “Mikey” Sano. The leader and eponymous of the Tokyo Manji Gang at the age of fifteen, Mikey already has a well-deserved reputation for being invincible. In elementary school, he was strong enough to easily take down teenagers; Now that he’s a teenager, he’s stronger than most adults. His short stature and friendly, carefree manner give even those who know him a false sense of security before they get kicked through the wall by a guy half his size.
7 Bill Watkins – The Family of Spies
Anya’s telepathy might give her an edge at school and help her spy father on his missions, but in every other way, she’s a four-year-old. normal age. Not quite so with her classmate Bill, who was ahead of his peers and had the muscles of an award-winning athlete at the age of six. He idolizes his equally strong father, a superior in the Ostanian army, and wants to be like him.
As seen later in the story, Bill is actually a good kid, eager to make his father proud of him and protect his classmates. He was just hot-tempered about the competition, completely knocking out the other kids in dodgeball with his throws that were both precise and incredibly powerful. It’s a major sign of Damian’s growing friendship with Anya that he’s willing to take a direct hit from Bill on her behalf.
6 Nagisa Shiota – Assassination Classroom
One of the best characters in the Assassination Classroom, Nagisa at first seems to be the weakest member of Class 3-E. Shy and quiet, he never retaliates when bullied and is a people pleaser, stemming from his abusive home life. The fact that he’s one of the shortest in the class doesn’t help him…until that happens.
Although Nagisa is not a fighter like Karma or Terasaka, he is the only one in his class who has the qualities of a professional assassin as his instructors. In a single battle, he is fearlessly good at controlling the situation, causing frosty terror to even tough soldiers like Takaoka, who have underestimated him for his unscrupulous appearance. his. If he hadn’t been more inspired by Korosensei’s time as a teacher than by his career as an assassin, the world would be a much more dangerous place for him to find his calling.
5 Izuku Midoriya – My Hero Academy
Izuku has always had a sharp mind. Even without the ability, he was busy taking notes and analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of the heroes. However, after receiving one of the strongest Quirks in My Hero Academia, Izuku quickly gained a reputation as a wild, reckless powerhouse. One For All grants Izuku immense physical strength, endurance, and speed through the ability to harness all of the previous eight users’ power reserves. Izuku’s favorite moves in battle are focusing all of his Quirk energy on one arm or one leg for a terrifying smash. Working hard with this technique spurred him to develop Full Cowling: dispersing energy evenly throughout his body to make his attacks stronger and keep him from breaking bones every time he fought.
4 Mitsukuni Haninozuka – Ouran High School Owner Club
Looking at Honey, no one would doubt that he is alarmingly strong. He bases his image on being a cute and innocent presenter, and his biggest concerns in life are buying sweets and keeping his stuffed bunny close by. . However, don’t be fooled. Honey is a black belt in karate, trained all her life in her family’s dojo, and is capable of taking down an entire army of armed men with her bare hands. He was banned by his father, whom he once sent to the hospital during a match, from fighting at full strength for fear that foreign governments mistook him for WMD and caused an international incident.
3 Shigeo Kageyama-Mob Psychology 100
Psychic powers are not usually used by shounen heroes, who tend to possess physical or magical powers. However, of the few, Shigeo “Mob” Kageyama is definitely the strongest. Mob begins the show by suppressing the emotions associated with his powers, for fear of losing control of both.
Even in a world full of powerful Espers, the fourteen-year-old Mob is capable of eliminating any of them if they force him. Although he dislikes violence and will only fight as a last resort, he is devoted to his loved ones and will be thrust into an explosion if they are harmed. In these states, Mobs can not only absorb attacks, but also unleash their own unstoppable forces, causing widespread destruction and natural disasters when out of control, and easily save the day Mobs handle them better.
2 Gon Freecss – Hunter X Hunter
Looking at the boy’s bright, cheerful face, almost no one who first watched Gon guessed that 12-year-old Gon could be one of the scariest characters in Hunter x Hunter when he wanted to. What is clear from the start is that Gon is an extraordinary warrior with a huge source of strength and endurance to rely on before he unlocks Nen. He and his friend Killua are described as “one in ten million” generation talents, with the potential to be the strongest in a world already overflowing with talent.
While Killua’s full potential is yet to be seen, Gon forced himself to explode at the end of the Ant Chimera Arc, with horrifying consequences. Entirely devoted to killing Neferpitou, who had easily killed Gon’s mentor and seasoned Hunter Kite, Gon sacrificed all of his future strength for one ultimate power-up. Building it alone forces his body into a giant adult form that radiates power: actually releasing it would destroy his body and level the surrounding forest.
1 Jotaro Kujo – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
Seventeen years old at the time of Stardust Crusaders, Jotaro is older than the young Shounen protagonists. However, he did not reach the height and muscularity of the classic JoJo protagonist overnight. When forced back to his childhood by one of the scariest Stands in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, he’s still strong enough to take down people twice his size.
In the episode “Set’s Alessi”, Alessi enjoys torturing children and taking down his enemies so he can do it more. Alessi is also a huge coward, rendering him defenseless when twelve-year-old Jotaro leaps out to swing instead of cowering. Even without Star Platinum, Jotaro is stronger than many of the other protagonists of the series at that age.
With so much of the anime industry targeting younger audiences, it just means that a lot of the main characters in anime will be young. Far from being ordinary kids, however, many of the genre’s best young heroes are incredibly powerful fighters who can even expertly fight against the adults in their lives. if I have a chance. While they can often be aimed at younger audiences, strongest kids in anime captures universal themes that anime fans of all ages can understand.