Top 10 Most Unforgivable Villains in Manga and Anime

5. Johan Liebert, Monster

Johan Liebert is a serial killer that would make Hannibal Lector step back and say “whoa.”

He killed his adoptive family, he killed the co-workers of the surgeon who saved his life, he even managed to talk all the students and instructors of a secret Germany military training program into killing each other.

He’s actually so evil and murderous that a Neo-Nazi party tried to get him to become the new Adolf Hitler — which wasn’t Johan’s style so he massacred most of them so they’d leave him alone.

When people are asking you to be Hitler 2,0, you know you’re the villain of the most hated.

4. Father, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

The antagonist of the original Fullmetal Alchemist manga and the second anime Brotherhood bears a striking resemblance to protagonists Ed and Alphonse Elric’s father Van Hohenheim, but he’s quite different.

Mainly in that he is willing to kill the citizens of whole cities and even entire countries in order to advance his own power, and that he succeeds in both, killing millions.

The reason why he does the former is to free himself from the flask he was trapped in, which is kind of understandable, but the country sacrifice was simply to absorb the power of God, which is a feat as arrogant as it is evil, and it’s pretty evil.

Oh, and he’s more than willing to kill his own children, the Homunculi, in order to achieve his ends.

3. Light, Death Note

Young Light Yagami only wanted to help the world when he found the Death Note, a magical notebook that would kill anyone whose name he wrote in it, in the manner he described it.

He used it to kill criminals who escaped justice or were in the middle of their schemes… and then he just started

killing all the worst criminals, even if they were already in jail.

And then he killed a detective who had stumbled onto his secret — in order, he told himself, to serve the greater good.

That was a first step on a slippery slope to eventually killing everyone he decided was a criminal, regardless of what the law said, as well as anyone who tried to stop him.

2. Teach Marshall D, One Piece

The name you’ll recognize him as is Blackbeard, a former member of the Whitebeard Pirates second division.

One of Portgas D. Ace’s underlings, his first appearance in One Piece was not really memorable. He was arguing with Luffy over some food in a restaurant.

Luffy’s brother, Ace, told him about Blackbeard and how he betrayed the Whitebeard Pirates, and that he was searching for Blackbeard.

Next we heard of Blackbeard, he had captured Ace and joined the government, leading to the death of Whitebeard and Akainu punching a hole through Ace’s back, killing off one of the most loved characters.

After that, Blackbeard has become one of  the most hated characters in anime.

1. Frieza, Dragon Ball Z

To many anime fans, Frieza is one of the most legendary manga villains in history.

He is cruel, he is cunning, he plays dirty, and that ain’t even he’s final form.

Taking the top spot in this list definitely ain’t no surprise as Frieza has done so many atrocious acts, including wiping out entire civilizations alone.

Don’t let those villains you hate ruin the anime that you love. As Ace said, “We have to live a life of no regrets.”