Anime can be pretty out-there, and sometimes, it’s the characters that can make it that way. This isn’t just in terms of a character’s outward appearance either. Anime’s large library has given birth to characters with some pretty strange behaviors and habits that make them stand out from the crowd.
Not that weird is a bad thing per see. Normal is oftentimes overrated, and every one is unique and quirky in their own way… with some anime characters being a little bit weirder than most. From strange cravings and mannerisms to bizarre obsessions, there’s no limit to how weird anime characters can get.
10 Deku And His Creepy Muttering (My Hero Academia)
For the longest time, Deku could only really dream of being a hero. Unfortunately, he didn’t have a quirk of his own and could only watch heroes do their work while keeping a record of them and their quirks in his notebook, all while mumbling his findings out loud. This is something that Deku still does, even after gaining his own quirk.
While Deku’s habit of muttering his hero analysis isn’t a bad thing in and of itself (in all fairness, he’s just thinking out loud), he can get a little too sucked into it and not realize how weird and creepy it makes him look.
9 Jango, Who Keeps Hypnotizing Himself (One Piece)
An early antagonist of the Straw Hat Pirates, Jango is a former member of the Black Cat Pirates who now serves under the Marines. The pendulums he uses in battle also double as tools for his most notable ability, hypnotism. This is something can use to make his enemies fall asleep or even buff the strength of his allies.
The only problem is, Jango has a bad habit of forgetting to close his own eyes while using hypnosis, which often results in him hypnotizing himself and accidentally putting himself to sleep.
8 Gray And His Inability To Keep His Clothes On (Fairy Tail)
Gray is a member of Team Natsu and the Fairy Tail Guild’s resident ice wizard. He learned well from his teacher, Ur, who taught him pretty much everything he knows. However, the training came with an unfortunate side-effect. Occasionally, Gray ends up unconsciously taking off his clothes in public.
This habit ends up being much to Gray’s constant embarrassment, as he doesn’t even realize he’s done it most times until someone tells him about it. While he usually stops before getting to his underwear, he’s been known to accidentally remove them too.
7 Death The Kid And “Perfect Symmetry” (Soul Eater)
Death the Kid lives life under pretty much one golden rule, “perfect symmetry.” For Kid, everything must be perfectly symmetrical, from his clothes to his weapon partners and even his favorite number. Anything that’s even slightly asymmetrical can enrage him, depress him, or make him physically sick.
This symmetry obsession can even affect how he fights, refusing to attack something if it’s perfectly symmetrical but fighting with reckless abandon if something is asymmetrical. Ironically, despite his insistence on it, Kid himself is not perfectly symmetrical thanks to the white streaks in his hair.
6 Mako And Her Hyperactive Tangents (Kill la Kill)
Always energetic and optimistic, Mako is already a strange character in her own right, but that energy is what makes her so likable. Mako has a number of strange habits, including her ginormous appetite and her inability to stay awake in class, but the weirdest habit has to be her hyperactive (and bizarrely motivational) tangents.
Every now and then, whether it’s before, during, or after a big battle, Mako will strike a pose and launch into an insane fast-paced rant about the situation. It’s so hyper and crazy that those who witness it aren’t even entirely sure what just happened.
5 Toge And His Language Of Rice Ball Ingredients (Jujutsu Kaisen)
Jujutsu Sorcerer, Toge Inumaki’s technique is “Cursed Speech,” turning nearly everything he says into powerful curses upon anyone that hears them. Since that power is always active, Toge has to watch what he says at all times so that he’s not accidentally hurting the people he cares about. To do this, Toge only limits himself to only saying the names of rice ball ingredients.
Anytime Toge wants to speak normally, his vocabulary is made up of words like “salmon” or “bonito flakes.” What’s even stranger is that, over time, his friends have more or less learned to understand what he’s trying to say with his rice ball language.
4 Doppio And His Bizarre Phone Calls (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)
In all fairness, there are more than a handful of JoJo’s characters with weird behaviors that could’ve made this list or even fill up one of their own. That being said, Vinegar Doppio has one of the strangest habits the series has ever seen and that’s saying something. Unknowingly having a split personality and sharing a body with Passione’s boss, Diavolo, Doppio is contacted by his “boss” in bizarre ways.
Whenever the Diavolo personality wants to speak to Doppio, Doppio starts making a ringing noise, picks up the “phone,” which can range from being an ice cream cone, a frog, or even a used cigarette, and talks into it. During these moments, Doppio remains completely unaware of the true nature of his phone calls.
3 Dazai And His Wild Fixation On Suicide (Bungo Stray Dogs)
Suicide is certainly not a laughing matter and is not something one speaks of so casually about, but Bungo Stray Dogs’ Osamu Dazai has a rather strange fixation on the subject. While he may not look like it at first glance, Dazai is obsessed with death has a pretty morbid wish t0 commit suicide, though “comfortably” and “with a beautiful woman” as he puts it. He even made a song about it.
Because of this obsession, Dazai is seen throughout the series attempting various methods of suicide on himself, each stranger than the last, and all of which fail every time. Weirdly enough, it’s because of one of these attempts that Atsushi met Dazai in the first place.
2 Rikka And Her Extreme Level Of Chunibyo (Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions)
Chunibyo or “Middle School 2nd Year Syndrome” is when someone has delusions of grandeur due to wanting to stand out, often believing that they have some sort of special powers. Rikka Takanashi may have one of the most extreme cases of chunibyo ever seen, claiming herself to be a sorceress with the power of the “Tyrant’s Eye” hidden under her eyepatch.
In reality, she’s just a normal girl dramatically living out her own fantasies, which serve as a coping mechanism for her own personal tragedies. Regardless, Rikka lives life as if it were all true, acting like she opened automatic doors with magic and having pretended battles out in the open.
1 L With His Weird Sitting Habits & Sweet Tooth (Death Note)
L is Death Note‘s iconic detective, bent on catching the serial killer known as “Kira.” His reputation and appearance would lead most to believe L to be a rather serious and standoffish sort, but his behavior and strange habits make him rather quirky.
For starters, L doesn’t so much sit down as he does crouch, claiming that his deductive reasoning would diminish if he sat normally. If that wasn’t enough, L has something of a famous sweet tooth, pretty much only eating sweet foods, like desserts and fruit. Not exactly the first things that come to mind when talking about a world-class detective.
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