Top 10 Anime With Cool MC

Updated:

10 Aug 2020

The coolest protagonists star in these anime.

Anime is the perfect medium to have a cool main protagonist. The two main attributes that can make a character cool is either their style or how badass they can be. Anime’s use of art instead of real life footage lets the creator perfect every aspect of the character's style. They can create outfits and body features that might otherwise look odd. Anime can also exaggerate the badass moments when it depicts action. In animated fights, characters do not have to maintain their original appearance, animators can enlarge parts of their body and draw in different styles to add emphasis to the most important blows. So if you are looking for a cool main character, anime is the perfect place to find it.

10. Violet Evergarden

Violet Evergarden Trailer

After a war between two continents met its bloody conclusion, Violet searches for a new purpose. Her early life consisted of constant training and battles to become a gruesome force when it comes to combat. Now Violet decides to work as an Auto Memory Doll, a job that entails turning people's emotions into written words. She not only hopes to learn more about other people’s feelings but also to understand the last words of her fallen comrade.

Violet's innocent appearance lets enemy soldiers underestimate her abilities.

9. Attack on Titan

Attack on Titan Trailer

The Scouts Regiment of the Army pulls in the bravest individuals to fight the grotesque giants named Titans. Eren and his fellow soldiers must risk their lives to protect civilization and to hopefully expand humanity’s territory in a land dominated by the Titans.

The Colossal Titan lacks any skin and also pumps out massive amounts of steam.

8. Hellsing Ultimate

Hellsing Ultimate Trailer

After Van Helsing defeats the vampire Alucard, the gothic being devotes his life to helping Helsing. Alucard joins the Hellsing Organization, becoming their best weapon against the supernatural creatures that terrorize England.

Alucard uses a custom made pistol called the Hellsing ARMS. 454 Casull, its size dwarfs other semiautomatic pistols.

7. Samurai Champloo

Samurai Champloo Trailer

Taking place in Edo Japan, a waitress, Fuu, finds herself in a quarrel with a group of samurai. A rogue samurai comes to her rescue while also picking a fight with a ronin, a masterless samurai, and ends up killing a magistrate’s son. Before the authorities can execute the two samurai, Fuu saves them and asks them to accompany her on voyage to find the samurai who smells like sunflowers.

Although the anime takes place in historic Japan, the soundtrack is stylized with hip hop influences.

6. One Punch Man

One Punch Man Trailer

Saitama trained his body to the max in order to become a superhero and now can defeat any enemy with only one punch. He meets Genos, a cyborg who wants to avenge his massacred town, and joins a superhero organization that “tests” his ability. One Punch Man manages to create stakes for fights between side characters and comedic, anticlimactic battles for it’s protagonist.

Saitama used to have a full set of hair but due to his rigorous training, it all fell out.

5. Seven Deadly Sins

Seven Deadly Sins Trailer

Elizabeth’s search for the knights called the Seven Deadly Sins comes to a close when she finds Meliodis at the Boar Hat Bar. Ten years ago, the Seven Deadly Sins were framed for planning a coup of the Kingdom. Elizabeth and Meliodas go on a search for the other Sins so they can defeat the Holy Knights, the group that framed them.

Although Meliodas have a childlike appearance he has lived for more than three thousand years.

4. Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion Trailer

In this world, Japan has been taken over by the Britannian Empire, with excessive military force they are able to keep the japanese oppressed. One resident, named Lelouch, wants revenge against his father, the Britannia King, when he dismissed finding the murder of Lelouch’s mother. This revenge seems like a pipe dream until Lelouch comes across the power to control minds.

Lelouch, wanting to keep his identity secret from the Britannian Empire, goes by the alter ego Zero.

3. Death Note

Death Note Trailer

Coming across a notebook called the Death Note, Light’s once boring life becomes engulfed by this newly found item. Any person’s name written in its pages will die by a heart attack. With this power, Light dedicates every waking hour to becoming a new arbiter of justice.

Before Light finds the Death Note, his student life was normal and lacked any excitement.

2. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Trailer

The Joestar family finds themselves in constant clash with evil villains. The Joestars use beings called Stands to fight other evil stand users like vampires and mafia kingpins. Each stand’s ability is unique, like a powerful fishing pole or bomb that attaches to your back, which makes every fight different from the last.

The Stardust Crusaders, pictured here, travel from Japan to Egypt to defeat a vampire named Dio.

1. Cowboy Bebop

Cowboy Bebop Trailer

The once, last frontier, space, has now been explored and other planets have become homes for humanity. With a wide and vast solar system for people to hide, authorities use bounty hunters to obtain criminals. Spike and his team travel the solar system looking for bounties in this episodic space western.