Top 10 Most Popular Male Anime Characters Of All Time

Anime is always on the rage because of the surprising plot twist, drama, amazing visuals – and most important, cool characters. Not to overexaggerate, but characters are what define an anime.

Today, let’s take a look at the top 10 most popular male anime characters of all time. 

Top 10 Most Popular Male Anime Characters Of All Time

10. Katsuki Bakugo (My Hero Academia)

Katsuki Bakugo is a well-known male character in My Hero Academia manga and anime. He has an average height, a slim, muscular build, and a fair skin tone. His hair is short, spiky, and blonde with choppy bangs hanging over his eyebrows. He has sharp bright red eyes.

When you first read this manga, Katsuki comes off as a crude, arrogant, aggressive, and short-tempered person. For people who don’t know him, he is even villainous. He behaves like that because of his early childhood, which you will understand when you keep reading this series.

He slowly changed into a less antagonistic person, yet still keeps a lot of his annoying traits. Even though often portrayed in a bad way, he’s still popular thanks to his fierce character and competitive motivation.

9. Light Yagami (Death Note) – Most Attractive Male Anime Character

Light Yagami – the most attractive male anime character is the main protagonist of the Death Note series. After he discovers Death Note, he takes advantage of it to rid the world of criminals. With this note, he can kill whoever he wants without leaving any marks or consequences. People in Japan think of his killings as the work of “Kira”.

Light Yagami has light brown hair and brown eyes, with above-average height. Apart from his school uniform, he usually wears quite simple, such as a dress shirt underneath a jacket or V-neck sweater, and a collared T-shirt inside.

He is described as dedicated, talented, and a natural genius. He has high perception and excellent problem-solving abilities. He is also good at making plans and mapping out situations. Due to the continuous praise from other adults, he become even more arrogant when he got the notebook.

8. Ken Kaneki (Tokyo Ghoul)

Ken Kaneki is one of the most popular male anime characters in the Tokyo Ghoul series. He is Touka’s husband and Ichika’s father. He used to be a student in the Japanese literature department at Kamii University but then his whole life changed when Rize Kamishiro’s kakuhou was transplanted into him. After that, he became a one-eyed ghoul.

He was a short and scrawny young man, but his appearance changed dramatically after being tortured. He then has white hair, blackened nails, and is more muscular. He usually dresses in monochrome clothing and a form-fitting black bodysuit with cutouts for battles.

7. Ban (The Seven Deadly Sins)

Ban from the Seven Deadly Sins is known as the hottest anime character. He is Elaine’s husband and Lancelot’s father, and also the king of Benwick.

People know about him for his super resilience because of his time spent in Purgatory. He used to have immortality but he gave it up to resurrect his wife.

With his tan skin, muscular body, short, spiky pale blue air, thin black eyebrows, and scarlet-red eyes, no wonder why people love this character.

Ban is portrayed as passionate and all his actions depend on what he cares about. He is sometimes a little selfish but he will stop if people give him a good reason. His strange trait is that he makes singing tones while talking.

6. Karma Akabane (Assassination Classroom)

Karma Akabane is the cutest character from Assassination Classroom. He was suspended from school because of his violent act. He is known as one of Nagisa’s best friends.

Karma has a pale skin tone and sharp eyes, with short red hair. He may look innocent but is actually torturous and sadistic. He is quite slim with super sharp canine teeth.

He is popular among teenagers because they can relate to his stubbornness. People know about him as violent and troublesome. Even when he is described as sadistic, manipulating, cunning, aggressive, he is still a little soft inside. That’s what makes this character special.

5. Hak Son (Yona of the Dawn)

Hak Son is the tritagonist of the manga and anime series Yona of the Dawn. He is the former General and Chief of the Wind Tribe. People know about him as the “Lightning Beast” because he has amazing martial arts skills. He is considered the strongest fighter in the country.

He is a tall, attractive man who has sharp blue eyes, broad shoulders, and a six-pack. With his short messy black hair and bangs hanging below his eyes, it’s easy to understand why he is voted the most good-looking male anime character.

His weapon is a Chinese glaive-like called a Hsu Quandao. He always brings it with him in a white cloth held by a black strap. His favorite accessory is the Lapis Lazuli necklace Yona gave him.

4. Kakashi Hatake (Naruto) – Best Male Anime Character

Kakashi Hatake, known as the best male anime character, is a shinobi of Konohagakure’s Hatake clan. He is one of the most skilled ninjas and people usually come to him to ask for advice and leadership even though he dislikes responsibility.

Kakashi was an independent and confident person since he was little. He also has great intuition and perception to realize the situation immediately. After his father passed away, he got more aloof, stern, and cold. He will punish anyone who disobeys him and abandon his teammate to accomplish missions.

He is known as “Copy Ninja Kakashi” because of his ability to copy the moves of any other ninjas thanks to his Sharingan.

3. Lelouch Lamperouge (Code Geass)

Lelouch Lamperouge is the coolest among these most popular male anime characters. He is the main protagonist in Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion and Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2. Lelouch Lamperouge is his alias after he was exiled.

He is a good-looking man with considerable height. He has black hair and violet eyes, which are like his mother. His daily outfit is the Ashford Academy uniform or the Zero uniform. As he is an Emperor, he wears a white robe with gold accents and a hat, both having a red-eye pattern to express his Geass power.

He is an especially intelligent student that figures out a way to change other people’s lives. Not like Light Yagami – who is also a genius, he doesn’t put his ego first.

He always focuses on his target and he cares about the lives of people who are loyal to his resistance movement. He also aims to give the best interests to everyone when he reaches his purposes.

2. Tomoe (Kamisama Kiss)

Tomoe is a fox yokai, playing the role of the familiar Nanami Momozono in the Kamisama Kiss manga series. He attracts a lot of fangirls thanks to his good looks but he doesn’t like the attention and refuses any closer connection.

His actual age is several hundred years but he looks like an early twenty. He has short silver-white hair with large and fox-like ears. His tail is very fluffy, full, and white.

Tomoe is described as cunning and sly as he knows how to use his attractive look when he needs to. He tends to use sarcasm because he cannot trust people easily. At the beginning of the series, he was so cold and arrogant towards Nanami but then he slowly fell in love with her.

He is exceptionally strong and has the ability to use kitsunebi or fox-fire to dominate others.

1. Levi Ackerman (Attack on Titan) – Most Favorite Anime Male Character

Levi Ackerman, known as Captain Levi, is the most favorite anime male character. He is the captain of the Special Operations Squad within the Survey Corps and is considered the most powerful soldier in humanity.

Levi is portrayed as a handsome man with short, straight black hair styled in an undercut curtain. He has narrow, intimidating dull gray eyes and an irresistible young face. He usually doesn’t express any feelings in his face, which makes it’s hard to tell what he has in mind.

What makes this character special is that he has flaws too, like other human beings. He is dealing with his personal emotional trauma and insecurities. His stern face, tactful personality, and power are what people love about him.

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Final Words

As you can see through these most famous anime boys, the Japanese prefer a laidback, charming, gentle guy with a cute appearance and a weird personality than a muscular, hot man. These popular male characters above have a perfect combination of delicate, sensitive, and manly – and people love that.

Which one is your favorite? Leave comments to let us know.