Top 10 Mind-Blowing Powers in Anime
#10: Burst Element
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“Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld” (2019-) And Alice just keeps giving us reasons why she’s borderline best girl. By channelling the souls of the dead into her blade, the Integrity Knight is able to unleash what appeared to be a giant clover made of light, which can then unleash a beam of such force and magnitude that it can annihilate a whole group of marauding monsters. You have to wonder why everyone is so afraid of the Dark Territory when you have Alice on the front lines. It’s like bringing a nuke to a knife fight.
#9: Direct Drive Zone
“Kuroko’s Basketball” (2012-15) Oh, you thought the super athletes with their multi-coloured lightning eyes was the pinnacle of basketball transformations? You’d be dead wrong. Faced with the overwhelming force of Akashi and his cohorts, Kagami finds a way to go beyond and access the Direct Drive Zone. This new mindset allows all the Seiren players to enter a level of focus and skill capable of overcoming even the top tier skills of Rakuzan’s forces…along with some really trippy visuals that makes us think these guys just entered the matrix.
#8: Anne of Abyssal Red
“Bungo Stray Dogs” (2016-19) Before Lucy became comic relief and possible love interest for golden boy Atsushi, she was a member of The Guild, ergo she was a dangerous and obscenely wealthy lunatic that had zero issues with dragging her victims to hell courtesy of her strange and startling ability. In this instance, it’s an entire pocket dimension complete with a beastly doll that can pummel its targets before throwing them out the door into an endless void. It’s like Alice in Wonderland, only with even more LSD.
#7: Stardust Breaker
“Dragon Ball” Franchise (1986-) Isn’t it nice to step away from the Kamehameha for once and focus on something a newer and shinier? Well, in the case of this all-powerful fusion, his signature technique turns out to be a tad more…sparkly than we imagined. That’s not to say it doesn’t pack one hell of a wallop, since this handful of pixie dust was so intense that just a sprinkling was enough to not only rip apart Janemba, but also did a number on Broly when he smashed his way into the canon-verse.
#6: All Fiction
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“Medaka Box” (2012) The power to instantly erase aspects of the universe, and it’s in the hands of the ultimate loser with a never-ending desire to witness all the panties he can. You’d think being able to put the literal screws to people would make Kumagawa someone to be feared, but it’s through his Minus was he able to establish himself as one of the most underrated antagonists in anime. Who else do you know that can not only erase mortal wounds from their body, but also strip away color from existence until the cosmos has literally be plunged into black and white?
#5: Ultimate Madoka
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“Puella Magi Madoka Magica” (2011) How does one show a normal person ascending to divinity and reconstructing all of creation while she’s at it? Well, if you’re Madoka, you not only snipe down a planet-sized witch with your new god bow, but weave yourself into he very fabric of time itself, removing all witches from existence and allowing magical girls across all the centuries to find peace in death. Honestly, if you think about it too hard you’ll feel your brain melt, which is true testament to just how incomprehensible Madoka became in her shining moment of sacrifice.
#4: Inner Self
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“Mononoke” (2007) You’re unlikely to find a more artistic transformation scene in all of anime. Upon deducing the nature, origins and truth behind a demonic spirit known as a mononoke, the Medicine Seller unleashes his ace in the hole – the Sword of Exorcism. With its infinite reach and potency, it’s the only weapon capable of slaying creatures born of pure negativity, not to mention takes the pale, feline fellow and gives him a supernatural makeover, one with plenty of luminous markings that make him looking he has a living painting across his skin!
#3: Another Dimension
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“Saint Seiya” (1986-89) You know you’ve made it in life when you can casually walk up to your opponent, hoist them up, and toss their ass into an alternate plain of reality that lurks between time and space. That’s Gemini Saga for you; a Gold Saint with such swag that he sent the likes of Shun and Hyoga packing with zero effort, to the point where they had to float around in what looks like a retro game screen, complete with the 80s grid effect we all know and love. It may not be flashy with its build up, but the result is all kinds of awesome.
#2: Adolla Burst
“Fire Force” (2019-) While the true nature of this blazing phenomenon remains a mystery, what we do know is that it has allowed for some really freaky shit to happen. In between all of the literal fire fights of course. In the case of Shinra and Sho, it not only lets them manipulate heat to the extent they can freeze time and move faster than light, but can also link up with one another’s emotional states. On top of that, the White Clad plan on using both of their precious, pure flames to help turn the planet into a second sun.
#1: Gold Experience Requiem
“JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind” (2018-19) When a Stand is revealed to be so monumental in ability that it ends up confusing half the fandom, you know you’ve reached peak JoJo. After absorbing the power of the arrow for himself, both Giorno and Gold Experience ascend to the stage where the rules of reality really don’t matter, to the point where King Crimson and its time erasing powers wasn’t able to touch them. Not only was this new Requiem capable of pummelling the hell out of his foe like they were nothing more than a sandbag, but was able to sentence them to an endless loop of death and rebirth – purely because it refuses to let anything it touches reach the truth.
