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Anime DanganRonpa and My Hero Academia have shown us that not all anime girls are made to be cute. Some of them are more creepy than cute. There is a very specific image that comes to mind when thinking of “anime girls.” Often cutesy with impossibly fluorescent hair, typical anime girls are feisty while still being naive and innocent enough to need the protagonist’s protection. Then there are the anime girls who flip that script entirely, becoming the kind of monsters that make Freddy Krueger afraid to fall asleep at night.
By being delightfully, horrifyingly creepy, these anime girls terrorize both fictional characters and audiences alike. Here are the 10 best creepy anime girls who are legally required to stay 30 feet away at all times.
10. Himiko Toga (My Hero Academia)
This villain from My Hero Academia possesses a shape-shifting ability, which she can trigger by ingesting another person’s blood. Already, the creep factor is high with Himiko.
Himiko looks like a typical cheerful anime school girl but is quick to fly into a murderous rage at the first inconvenience. She has a twisted view of interpersonal relationships. Himiko once attempted to befriend two teenage girls while simultaneously trying to kill them. Even those she admires aren’t immune to her murderous tendencies. Himiko has expressed a desire to kill and “become” her role model, Stain.
9. Road Kamelot (D.Gray-Man)
Road Kamelot is another anime girl villain with a childish nature. But considering the fact that she’s at least 35 years old, this personality trait adds to how creepy she is. She can also disguise herself as a talking doll, and dolls are always creepy.
In a show where the heroes have to destroy the corrupted souls of resurrected loved ones, Road’s creepy nature fits right in. She’s sadistic and will kill her own subordinates just to upset Allen Walker, the protagonist of D.Gray-man. Additionally, despite claiming to be in love with Walker, Road once stabbed him in the eye with a candlestick—a classic creepy anime girl move.
8. Hana Midorikawa (Prison School)
Prison School is an extremely bizarre anime about an underground school prison. Any of the sadist female student council members could qualify as creepy anime girls. But Hana Midorikawa truly takes the cake with the file baked inside.
Upon first impression, Hana seems like a cheerful witchy neighbor. She loves four-leaf clovers and brewing dandelion tea. Upon second impression, Hana is actually a violent sociopath with a urination fetish. That’s not even the end of her creep factor.
7. Junko Enoshima (Danganronpa)
When most teenage girls want to shake things up, they get a new hair cut. Junko Enoshima, shakes things up by getting her classmates to kill a fellow student. She does this by using robotic teddy bear to hound her victims and murdering her own twin sister.
Obsessed with despair, Junko is the villain of Danganronpa. Her ultimate goal is to inflict despair onto others by pressuring them into making terrible decisions. When she’s ultimately unmasked and backed into a corner, Junko gleefully executes herself with maniacal laughter.
6. Shiro (Deadman Wonderland)
Adopted for the sole purpose of being used for human experimentation, Shiro had no choice but to become a creepy anime girl. The painful experiments caused Shiro’s body to fall apart and she developed a second personality, “The Wretched Egg”,” to cope. Technically, it’s the Wretched Egg who’s the real creepy anime girl.
The experiments also led Shiro to develop supernatural abilities. The Wretched Egg uses these powers to murder all of her adopted brother’s classmates and frame him for the crime. And that’s just episode one.
5. Ai Enma (Hell Girl)
Buried alive by her own village at the age of seven, Ai Enma crawled out of her grave as a spirit of vengeance. She burned the entire village to the ground, killing all the inhabitants.
In punishment for the horrific (albeit justified) act, Ai was sentenced to spend her afterlife as “Hell Girl.” Frozen as a child, Ai drags souls to hell, regardless as to whether or not the victims deserve their fate. The cold, unfeeling manner in which Ai goes about her work is what makes her truly creepy.
4. Sachiko Shinozaki (Corpse Party: Tortured Souls)
Image if Casper the Friendly Ghost ripped out Chirstina Ricci’s tongue in the second act of the 1995 Casper film. That’s basically Sachiko.
An antagonist from the Corpse Party video game series, Sachiko unleashes a host of horrors in the OVA series Corpse Party: Tortured Souls. In the anime, Sachiko is the ghost of an elementary school student who cut out her classmate’s tongues shortly before her death. In the afterlife, Sachiko continues her reign of terror by torturing children in a living hell called Heavenly Host Elementary School.
3. Sekai Saionji And Kotonoha Katsura (School Days)
Sekai and Kotonoha are the ultimate frenemies, so they share a spot on this list. Sekai sets Kotonoaha up with Makoto, a boy from school. Not long after, Sekai has an affair with Makoto, and things escalate. Someone is stabbed to death with a kitchen knife, someone has their stomach cut open, and someone sails away with a severed head.
There’s an argument to be made for both girls, as both were driven to madness due to Makoto being an awful person.
2. Yuno Gasai (Future Diary)
While many creepy anime girls don the disguise of an innocent schoolgirl, no one pulls it off quite as well as Yuno. Sweet and innocent on the surface, Yuno quickly reveals herself to be a cold, obsessive psychopath.
Stalking a crush on social media is bad enough. In Future Diary, Yuno has a supernatural journal that shows her everything that will happen in her crush’s life. She gladly uses this to kill anyone who could harm him. Granted, having watched the love of one’s life die in an alternate reality could drive anyone to drastic measures.
1. Esdeath (Akame Ga Kill!)
The Ice Queen of the Empire, Esdeath from Akame Ga Kill! is a manipulative sadist. She justifies torturing her enemies and killing innocents by following her father’s creed: The strong survive and the weak die. As a general in her Empire’s army, Esdeath once forced the prince of a failed rebellion to strip naked and lick her boots before she killed him.
Most creepy anime girls let their unhinged nature turn them into outcasts with no real power in the social structure. What makes Esdeath so terrifying is the fact that she keeps her sadistic impulses in check just enough to remain in a position of authority. This empowers Esdeath to unleash her cruelty on even more defenseless people. That said, she has no loyalty for the empire she serves. Esdeath once stated that should the Empire fall, she would start another war herself so she could keep killing.