Top 20 Anime Ladies That Would Kill You

Welcome to WatchMojo, and today, we’re counting down our picks for the waifus who are more likely to kill you than kiss you!

“Akiba Maid War” (2022)

Imagine for a moment, that instead of smiles, all maids came armed with weapons, because that’s the bloody reality inside this version of Akiba. Where maid café’s slaughter each other for profit and ranking. And among them, Ranko is the deadliest of them all. Put a gun in her hand, and she will drop bodies perfectly in time to a karaoke beat. And yet, despite a dangerously high kill count and shown to be perpetually stoic, Ranko still finds a way to be the most dazzling maid of the bunch.

“Shangri-La Frontier” (2023-)

The online sphere of PVP can be brutal, and none are more efficient at wiping out virtual avatars quite like this lethal vixen. While she’s a gaming buddy of Sunraku and a junkie for lore like the rest of us, Pencilgon also has no qualms about taking down other players. With high stats, rapid reaction time and a habit of backstabbing, there’s a reason she worked her way to a high-ranking member of a guild that specialized in Player Kills. If you want to keep your loot, it would be best to avoid squaring up to her.

“Death Note” (2006-07)

The only thing more dangerous than an obsessive girlfriend is one armed with a notebook that snuffs out lives. Easily manipulated given her devotion to Light, the would-be God of the New World uses Misa as a tool to eliminate his enemies. While she’s very much a victim to Light’s narcissism, she’s also way too happy to use the Death Note to ensure no one can ruin the little slice of heaven she’s crafted for herself. Girl needs a lifetime worth of therapy, but knowing her, she’d just add any voices of reasons to the notebook.

“Deadman Wonderland” (2011)

Nobody who ends up in the death matches known as Carnival Corpse are likely to have all their screws in, but this little lady is a special kind of basket case. Posing as a sweetheart, Takami is actually as sadistic as she comes, using both her lies and her branch of sin to ensure any competitors meet a gruesome end. There’s no feeling safe around someone who at their best will manipulate you with a sweet façade, before taking your life with whips made from blood!

“Date A Live” (2013-)

She’s called the Worst Spirit for a reason. With over ten thousand dead by her hand, she’s as lethal as cutesy, magical, space-girls come. With a desire to slay the First Spirit, her time manipulation ability, skills when it comes to guns, along with frequent psychosis, paints the picture of a crazy tsundere who is bound to shoot you a smile…while actually shooting you. Is she still the most interesting character in the series? Oh, without question.

“Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny” (2004)

Granted, anyone who ends up as the love interest to Shinn Bloody Asuka aka the most loathed Gundam protagonist in history, already had to be teetering on the fringes of madness, but Stella is…well…something of a tragic case. With the horrors of war already leaving her in a broken state, being forced to pilot a Mobile Suit while her team-mates perpetually used death as a motivating factor…you can see how it was only a matter of time before she snapped. Throw in a giant robot into the mix, and things were always going to get messy.

“Haruhi Suzumiya” (2006-10)

Even the most pleasant and sociable of individuals have their odd quirks, or in the case of Ryoko, they happen to be a Data-Integration-Thought-Entity that loves to stab folks with a combat knife. As part of a collective of data organisms who observe the reactions of would-be-deity Haruhi Suzumiya, this humanoid-interface is unable to grasp emotions, but is excellent at playing the part of the ever-lovely class president. Don’t let that friendliness fool you… she’d happily end your life just to see if Haruhi would react.

“Fullmetal Alchemist” series (2003-10)

As a Homunculus that more than lives up to her namesake, this beautiful lady will poke a hole through your heart after your usefulness has run out. Certainly not afraid of putting her womanly charms to good use, it’s not hard to see how she can wrap men around her fingers so easily. Unfortunately for her, dishing out so much heartbreak does indeed come back to bite her, but she caused more than her share of chaos while she was kicking.

“Black Lagoon” (2006)

This lady is a special kind of dangerous. Why? Because even on an island filled with gangsters and mercenaries, she is still the one to be feared. As a former international assassin, Roberta found herself thrown onto the battlefield once again when the son of her employer was kidnapped. Don’t let the maid outfit fool you, she’s a master of combat, utilizing every kind of weapon you can imagine. Including fisticuffs!

“Akame ga Kill!” (2014)

The sister of our titular heroine, Kurome’s path into the vicious world of assassination turned out to be a far darker one than her sister’s. A fragile mental state and tough training led to Kurome developing a dependence on drugs as well as an obsession with corpses. Her macabre yet effective skillset found her joining the Jaegers as one its strongest members. She may like to eat sweets and look rather unthreatening on the outside, but just wait until she busts out the corpse dolls

“Danganronpa: The Animation” (2013)

Chances are you won’t know that this little fashion icon is cuckoo before you’re already ensnared in her trap. While originally thought to be just another victim in the mutual killing games, it turns out Junko doesn’t live for the limelight, she lives for despair. Willing to go as far as murder her twin sister and even execute herself when her despair finally lost to hope, this is one girl you won’t be forgetting anytime soon, no matter how hard you try.

“Bleach” (2004-)

Figuratively and literally, Bambietta is the bomb. In that she’s one of the Sternritter’s most alluring warriors, and that she can create colossal explosions with a mere flick of her wrist. A walking weapon, there’s no limit to the destruction that Bambietta can cause when she’s ticked off. Even more unsettling appears to be the habits she has in regards to her own soldiers. Apparently getting down and dirty means something completely different to her…on account she prefers to slice any potential partners in half.

“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba” (2019-)

As one part of the sixth strongest demon in existence, Daki is all kinds of deadly, able to summon a seemingly limitless number of threads that can bind and slice flesh with ease. She’s also completely without empathy, prone to jealousy, and will eviscerate out anyone who irritates her. The fact she spends her days disguised as a courtesan gives her ample opportunity to kill anyone beguiled by her beauty. Her backstory may be all kinds of sad, but any sympathy shown to her is likely to be returned with a brutal end.

“Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World” (2016-21)

Don’t get distracted by any of her outward appeal, because as gorgeous as she is, this lady only lives for one thing; tearing out the bowels of her victims, something that Subaru is made to experience on a frequent basis. As he continues his constant cycle of death and rebirth, his ever-bloody encounters with this beautiful killer keep layering on the fear. By the end of it, her thirst for exposing insides will have you just as scared as Subaru is.

“Tokyo Ghoul” (2014-18)

Picture it; you’re Ken Kaneki. You have had a pretty tame life, when all of a sudden an enticing woman by the name of Rize enters the picture, and soon you end up going out with her. Sounds good, right? Wrong. It just so happens Rize is a Ghoul - one with a particularly ravenous appetite for human meat. Not only will she happily toy with you before eating you alive, but she also makes for one of the worst first dates in anime.

"My Hero Academia" (2016-)

As is tradition, every supervillain squad needs that one psychotic high schooler with a penchant for stabbing. Or maybe that’s just Toga. An obsession with blood and disturbing outlook on what she finds beautiful would be enough to inspire unease, but given that Toga can also use her quirk to disguise herself into anyone
and use their abilities – she’s one of the League of Villain’s greatest assets. It's hard to tell what’s the worst scenario - if Toga falls in love with you, or if she grows to despise you.

"Future Diary" (2011-12)

One of the most famous yanderes in all of anime, Yuno only cares about two things – her relationship with Yuki, and killing anyone who threatens her relationship with Yuki. Forgoing the fact Yuki is the most useless waste of space protagonists in anime, Yuni’s obsession ensures that is more than happy to bust out the axe if her happiness is in any way disturbed. Other diary users, innocents, men, women, children, even Yuki himself – Yuno will always respond with violence, and something sharp.

“Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan” (2005)

Sure, it's posed as a comedy, but can you imagine the horror of being given the power of immortality, only for a pint-sized angel to smash your skull to pieces with a spiked club every chance she gets? That’s Sakura’s reality, and it is a bloody one. Even though Dokuro comes across shy and sweet, whenever she gets flustered, embarrassed or ticked off, out comes her weapon of choice to turn the human boy she’s crushing on into mincemeat. Either that or she’ll just resort to her bare hands. Yikes.

“Elfen Lied” (2004)

Vilified, despised and abused for the majority of her life, it’s easy to see how someone like Lucy would want to take revenge on the whole world for her mistreatment. As a Diclonius, Lucy is gifted with numerous, invisible arms known as vectors that can slice apart flesh in an instant - which she uses to great effect when she’s on one of her signature bloodfests. While it’s very easy to see her as both a monster and a victim, the one thing that can’t be debated is that she can and will kill you.

“Higurashi: When They Cry” (2006-21)

Never has there been a town filled with so many cute little girls that come with homicidal tendencies. As Keiichi finds himself in a new home with a history of murder, curses and insanity, he soon finds that his seemingly innocent-looking friends can turn into deranged murderers at the flip of a switch. With various overlapping timelines highlighting a new level of insanity to the cast, pretty these supposedly sweet youths are killing civilians left and right. Sometimes with a little bit of torture thrown in for good measure.
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