10 Best Anime With Emotionless Characters

⏱ 9 min read📅 Updated: December 24, 2022

Top 10 Anime Where Main Characters Are Emotionless But Strong As Hell

When it comes to emotionless anime main characters we all know that they may not be as flashy as their more enthusiastic friends, these anime guys are low energy to the max, but that hides some extraordinary skills in their pockets. Throughout anime, there have been plenty of characters that appear emotionless (or perhaps even cold). With no further addition, here is a list of ten such unemotional characters that shine well in the face of adversity.

10. Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai kara Kuru Sou Desu yo?

Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Supernatural
Studios: Diomedea / Winter 2013

Among the best anime with emotionless main characters is Mondaiji Tachi. Here we follow three teenagers: the badass and emotionless main character Izayoi Sakamaki, the pretty Asuka Kudou, and the kawaii You Kasukabe receive mysterious letters that transfer them to another fantasy world. This world’s name is, “Little Garden”. Kurousagi greets the trio, and explains to them, that they must use their psychic powers.

Here, the inhabitants use their beyond-human gifts to compete and participate in special high-stakes games. In order to participate, they must first join a community. Hence, the trio starts their journey to discover the land named Little Garden and tries to protect its resident.

9. Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World

Genres: Action, Adventure, Psychological, Slice of Life
Studios: A.C.G.T.

Kino is an emotionless anime character, a 15-year-old traveler, who forms a bond with Hermes, a talking motorcycle. Together, they wander the lands and venture through various countries and places, despite having no clear idea of what to expect. After all, life is a journey filled with the unknown.

Throughout their journeys, they encounter different kinds of customs, from the morally gray to tragic and fascinating. They also meet many people: some who live to work, some who live to make others happy, and some who live to chase their dreams. Thus, in every country they visit, there is always something to learn from the way people carry out their lives.

It is not up to Kino or Hermes to decide whether these asserted values are wrong or right, as they merely assume the roles of observers within this small world. They do not attempt to change or influence the places they visit, despite how absurd these values would appear. That’s because, in one way or another, they believe things are fine as they are, and that “the world is not beautiful; therefore, it is.”

8. Code Breaker

Genres: Action, Comedy, School, Shounen, Super Power, Supernatural
Studios: Kinema Citrus

Code Breaker is a good anime to watch, the series story starts off when: while Riding the bus one day, Sakurakouji Sakura looks out the window to see A teenage cold boy burns people alive. His name is Oogami, and he is a Code Breaker, one who “does not exist”.

He is undoubtedly one of the most seemingly cold-blooded anime characters of all time, who follows the principle of “an eye for an eye”, to “use evil against evil”. Sakura will then focus on trying to stop supernatural assassins from killing morally corrupt people.

7. Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom

Genres: Action, Drama, Seinen, Thriller
Studios: Bee Train

Mafia is rife in America where assassinations are a regular occurrence on the streets. Inferno, a mysterious company, is behind most of these dealings through the use of their near-invincible human weapon, “Phantom.” One day, a Japanese tourist accidentally witnesses Phantom’s latest murder. Desperate to escape, the tourist hides in a secluded building. However, the leader of Inferno “Scythe Master” brainwashes the tourist.

Given the name “Zwei,” this once peaceful tourist is now one of the most emotionless anime characters you will ever see. He turned into a puppet of Inferno with no memories. Drawn into a world of lies, Zwei must fight to survive, hopefully to one day regain his memories and escape from this world.

6. Darker than Black

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Super Power
Studios: Bones

Another cool anime with an emotionless main character is Darker Than Black. This dark anime series kicks off the story when one night, as meteors streak across the star-studded sky, Shion Pavlichenko becomes a Contractor. Despite her brother’s transformation, Shion’s twin sister Suou continues to live a fairly ordinary life, attending middle school with her friends and getting caught up in the awkwardness of growing up.

However, everything changes when her home is invaded by a masked man cloaked in black, destroying any sense of normality she once had. Revealed to possess latent Contractor abilities of her own, Suou is caught between family, friends, and her own sense of purpose as she ventures into the ruthless world of cutthroats and espionage that Contractors call home. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, an investigation surrounding Hell’s Gate’s sudden collapse is underway, and prophetic signs of doom point in the direction of a silver-haired doll.

5. Oregairu

Genres: Slice of Life, Comedy, Drama, Romance, School
Studios: Brain’s Base

Oregairu is an anime that features and emotionless and antisocial Mc named Hachiman Hikigaya. He is an apathetic high school student with narcissistic and semi-nihilistic tendencies. He firmly believes that joyful youth and everyone who says otherwise is just lying to themselves. In a novel punishment, Hachiman’s teacher forces him to join the Volunteer Service Club. It is a club that helps students who seek support in achieving their goals.

The only other club member is the beautiful ice queen Yukino Yukinoshita. Hachiman finds himself on the front line of other people’s problems—a place he never dreams he would be. Hachiman and Yukino use their wits to solve many students’ problems. Will Hachiman’s rotten view of society prove to be a hindrance or a tool he can use to his advantage?

4. Hyouka

Genres: Mystery, School, Slice of Life
Studios: Kyoto Animation

Energy-conservative high school student Houtarou Oreki ends up with more than he bargained for when he signs up for the Classics Club at his sister’s behest—especially when he realizes how deep the club’s history really is. Begrudgingly, Oreki is in an investigation concerning the 45-year-old mystery that surrounds the club room.

Accompanied by his fellow club members, the knowledgeable Satoshi Fukube, the stern but benign Mayaka Ibara, and the ever-curious Eru Chitanda, Oreki must combat deadlines and lack of information with resourcefulness and hidden talent, in order to not only find the truth buried beneath the dust of works created years before them but of other small side cases as well.

3. Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Supernatural, Magic, Romance, School
Studios: Madhouse

In the 21st century, magic, long thought to be folklore, became technological and is taught as a technical skill. In First High School, the institution for magicians. Students are divided into two groups based on their entrance exam scores.

1.” Blooms,” those who receive high scores, are in the First Course.

2.” Weeds” are reserved students in the Second Course.

Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei follows the siblings, Tatsuya, and Miyuki Shiba, who is in the First High School. Upon taking the exam, Miyuki is in the First Course, while Tatsuya is in the Second Course. Though his practical test scores and status as a “Weed” show him to be magically inept. He possesses extraordinary technical knowledge, physical combat capabilities, and unique magic techniques While making Tatsuya the irregular at a magical high school.

2. The Fruit of Grisaia

Genres: Drama, Harem, Psychological, Romance, School
Studios: 8bit

Yuuji Kazami is among the greatest anime emotionless characters. He is portrayed as a transfer student who has just been admitted into Mihama Academy. He wants to live an ordinary high school life, but this dream of his may not come true any time soon as Mihama Academy is quite the opposite. Consisting of only the principal and five other students, all of whom are girls, Yuuji becomes acquainted with each of them, discovering more about their personalities as socialization is inevitable.

Slowly, he begins to learn about the truth behind the small group of students occupying the academy—they each have their own share of traumatic experiences which are tucked away from the world. Mihama Academy acts as a home for these girls, they are the “fruit” that fell from their trees and has begun to decay. It is up to Yuuji to become the catalyst to save them from themselves, but how can he save another when he cannot even save himself?

1. Classroom of the elite

Genres: Drama, Psychological, School, Slice of Life
Studios: Lerche

On the surface, Koudo Ikusei Senior High School is a utopia. The students enjoy an unparalleled amount of freedom, and it is ranked highly in Japan. However, the reality is less than ideal. Four classes, A through D, are ranked in order of merit, and only the top classes receive favorable treatment.

Kiyotaka Ayanokouji is among the most popular emotionless and cold anime characters of all time. He is a student of Class D, where the school dumps its worst.

There he meets the unsociable Suzune Horikita, who believes she was placed in Class D by mistake and desires to climb all the way to Class A, and the seemingly amicable class idol Kikyou Kushida, whose aim is to make as many friends as possible. While class membership is permanent, class rankings are not; students in lower-ranked classes can rise in rankings if they score better than those in the top ones. Additionally, in Class D, there are no bars on what methods can be used to get ahead. In this cutthroat school, can they prevail against the odds and reach the top?

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