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15 Anime Characters Who Deserved All the Hate

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Nobody's rooting for you.

Nazarii Verbitskiy

Entertainment - June 7th 2026, 11:00 GMT+2

Boruto Uzumaki from Boruto — 15. Boruto Uzumaki
Boruto Uzumaki walked into a franchise built on years of fan devotion and immediately started complaining about how hard his privileged life was. The kid gets ninja tech, a peaceful village, and a legendary father, then spends most episodes whining about tradition while acting like he invented rebellion. Watching him dismiss everything Naruto fought for feels like watching someone trash a gift they never earned. That disconnect between his attitude and his actual circumstances made him the perfect target for every fan who grew up with the original series. | © Crunchyroll

Sakura Haruno from Naruto — 14. Sakura Haruno
Sakura Haruno spent most of Naruto obsessing over Sasuke while treating Naruto like dirt, then somehow expected viewers to root for her growth. Her combat contributions felt minimal compared to her teammates, but the series kept insisting she was strong and important without actually showing it in ways that mattered. The gap between what the story claimed about her and what she actually accomplished on screen made every "Sakura moment" feel unearned. Fans watched her for hundreds of episodes waiting for real development that never quite landed the way it should have. | © Viz Media

Ribrianne — 13. Ribrianne
Ribrianne turned what should have been Dragon Ball Super's most exciting tournament into a drawn-out showcase for magical girl poses and love-themed attacks that felt completely out of place. Her transformation sequences ate up precious screen time during the Tournament of Power, while her constant speeches about love and beauty made every fight feel like it stopped for a commercial break. The character design looked like it wandered in from a completely different anime, and her voice acting somehow made the dialogue even more grating. Dragon Ball fans wanted high-stakes combat between universes, not a pink warrior who treated universal destruction like a chance to preach about romance. | © Funimation

Minoru Mineta — 12. Minoru Mineta
Minoru Mineta from My Hero Academia proves that having superpowers doesn't automatically make someone heroic when those powers get used for perverted schemes against female classmates. His grape-based quirk could have been genuinely useful in combat situations, but the character exists almost exclusively to grope women, make disgusting comments, and turn every scene into an uncomfortable reminder that anime still hasn't figured out how to write teenage boys without making them sex pests. The worst part isn't even the behavior itself but how the show treats his actions like harmless comic relief instead of the harassment it actually represents. When fans consistently rank him as the most hated character in the entire series, that says everything about how badly this particular joke has aged. | © Funimation (now Crunchyroll)

Nina Einstein from Code Geass — 11. Nina Einstein
Nina Einstein starts as a quiet, brilliant student in Code Geass, then transforms into something far more disturbing as her obsessions take control. Her fixation on Princess Euphemia crosses every uncomfortable line, while her later work on weapons of mass destruction makes her complicit in genuine horror. The character becomes a perfect storm of creepy behavior and moral bankruptcy that gets worse with every appearance. Watching her spiral feels less like character development and more like witnessing someone who should have been stopped episodes earlier. | © Adult Swim

Rachel from Tower of God — 10. Rachel
Rachel from Tower of God starts as Bam's closest friend and the driving force behind his entire journey, then betrays him in the most calculated way possible when she realizes he might overshadow her dream. The betrayal hits harder because it comes after episodes of watching Bam sacrifice everything to reach her, only to discover she was never worth saving in the first place. She pushes him off a ledge with her own hands, then spends the rest of the series making excuses about destiny and fairness that fool absolutely no one. Rachel earned every bit of hatred because she represents the worst kind of villain: the one who destroys genuine love out of pure selfishness. | © Crunchyroll

Akainu — 9. Akainu
Akainu represents everything wrong with absolute justice taken to its most brutal extreme. He burns through subordinates, civilians, and even his own moral code without hesitation, turning the concept of military duty into something genuinely terrifying. The Marineford arc made it clear that this wasn't just another tough antagonist but someone whose twisted sense of righteousness could justify any atrocity. When a character can murder his own soldiers for retreating and still believe he's the hero, the hatred writes itself. | © Crunchyroll

Marshall D Teach — 8. Marshall D. Teach
Marshall D. Teach breaks every rule about how pirates should act in One Piece, and that betrayal cuts deep because the series spent so long building trust in found family bonds. He murders a crewmate for a Devil Fruit, destroys Whitebeard's legacy from the inside, and hands Ace over to the World Government with a smile on his face. The worst part is how he wraps all that cruelty in speeches about dreams and destiny, using the same idealistic language that makes other pirates heroic. Blackbeard earns his hate by being exactly what Luffy could become if he lost every decent impulse. | © Crunchyroll

Danzo Shimura from Naruto — 7. Danzo Shimura
Danzo Shimura spent decades convincing himself that every horrific decision was for the greater good of the Hidden Leaf Village. He experimented on children, orchestrated massacres, and betrayed allies while wrapping it all in patriotic rhetoric that fooled no one. The worst part wasn't his cruelty but his absolute certainty that he was the hero of his own story. When he finally died, even his last words were about how everyone else failed to understand his noble sacrifice. | © Crunchyroll

Kyubey — 6. Kyubey
Kyubey looks like the kind of cute mascot character that belongs on a lunchbox, with his big round eyes and fluffy white body that screams "please love me." The truth hits differently when you realize he's been systematically manipulating teenage girls into life-threatening contracts by withholding crucial information about what they're actually agreeing to. His emotionless explanations for why he technically didn't lie make every interaction feel like getting scammed by someone who thinks they're being helpful. Few anime villains manage to be this infuriating while maintaining such an aggressively innocent face. | © Aniplex

Nobuyuki Sugo — 5. Nobuyuki Sugo
Nobuyuki Sugo takes everything wrong with anime's worst villain archetypes and cranks the creep factor to eleven. The Sword Art Online antagonist combines corporate manipulation with sexual predation in ways that feel designed to make viewers physically uncomfortable. His scenes with the unconscious Asuna cross lines that even fantasy settings shouldn't touch. That combination of power abuse and implied assault made him one of the most universally despised characters in modern anime. | © Crunchyroll

Makoto Ito — 4. Makoto Ito

Makoto Ito from School Days represents everything wrong with harem anime protagonists, but amplified to genuinely disturbing levels. He cheats on his girlfriend with multiple women, lies constantly, and treats every relationship like a video game where consequences don't exist. The character becomes so irredeemably selfish that when the show's infamous bloody finale arrives, most viewers are actively rooting against him. School Days knew exactly what it was doing when it made Makoto this hateable. | © Crunchyroll

Shou Tucker — 3. Shou Tucker
Shou Tucker from Fullmetal Alchemist commits one of anime's most unforgivable acts when he fuses his daughter and dog into a chimera just to keep his State Alchemist certification. The scene works because it arrives after episodes of him being presented as a harmless, bumbling father figure. What makes it worse is how casually he discusses the experiment afterward, treating Nina's suffering as a minor inconvenience in his research. The betrayal hits so hard because Tucker represents every adult who fails a child for their own selfish gain. | © Funimation

Gendo Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion — 2. Gendo Ikari
Gendo Ikari proves that being a terrible father can somehow get worse when you add religious apocalypse and psychological manipulation to the mix. He abandons his son after his wife's death, then drags the kid back years later to pilot a giant robot and fight monsters, all while treating him like a disposable tool in his twisted plan to reunite with his dead wife. The worst part is how he occasionally shows just enough fake warmth to keep Shinji hoping for real affection that will never come. Every scene between them feels designed to maximize emotional damage. | © Netflix

Griffith from Berserk — 1. Griffith

Griffith spent most of Berserk as the golden boy everyone wanted to believe in, which made his ultimate betrayal feel like a personal wound. When he sacrifices his own loyal Band of the Hawk to become a demon lord, the horror comes not just from the brutality but from how completely it destroys everything the story had built up about friendship and trust. The Eclipse sequence turns him from a complex antihero into something genuinely unforgivable, and fans never let go of that rage. Decades later, people still argue about whether his actions had any justification, but the fury in those debates proves how perfectly calculated his fall was. | © Funimation

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Most anime villains earn a certain grudging respect, but the characters on this list didn't even manage that. These 15 were disliked for good reason, and the fans who couldn't stand them were usually right.

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Most anime villains earn a certain grudging respect, but the characters on this list didn't even manage that. These 15 were disliked for good reason, and the fans who couldn't stand them were usually right.