Top 10 Greatest Anime Beatdowns of the Decade
And the punches don't stop coming! Join Ashley as we count down the most vicious, one-sided fights in anime
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00:00 (dramatic music)
00:02 Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down
00:11 our picks for the most brutal beatings
00:14 delivered to an anime character in the 2020s.
00:18 So far at least.
00:19 (grunting)
00:29 Number 10, Sanji vs. Queen, One Piece.
00:33 Although Sanji's entire fight with King the Plague
00:36 is fantastic, the finale is what we'll be discussing.
00:41 - Sparking Queen!
00:42 - Given his chivalrous nature, Sanji is infuriated
00:51 that Queen attacks a female bystander.
00:54 His rage, along with his newly awakened
00:56 physical enhancements, allows his fiery Diabla Jamba
01:00 ability to go even hotter, turning his leg blue.
01:03 Using the newly minted Ifrit Jamba,
01:14 Sanji kicks the Beast Pirates all-star repeatedly
01:17 in a stunning animated sequence that sends Queen flying.
01:22 (explosion)
01:24 It's not every day you see a pirate chef
01:41 with his leg on fire pummel a cyborg dinosaur.
01:46 Number nine, Jolene Ora Ora's Langrangler.
01:50 JoJo's bizarre adventure.
01:52 Jolene Cujo delivers plenty of punch barrages
01:55 during her time as the resident JoJo.
01:58 She is her father's daughter after all,
02:01 but our pick goes to her finishing blow to Langrangler.
02:05 In addition to being a contender for having
02:13 the most impractical outfit in JoJo,
02:16 which is really saying something,
02:20 Langrangler has a stand jump and jack flash
02:23 that proves tricky to deal with.
02:25 Basically, it can remove gravity.
02:28 However, after reinstating its effects,
02:37 Langrangler gets pushed towards her,
02:39 allowing Jolene to honor her Joestar heritage
02:42 by Ora Ora-ing him.
02:44 A flurry of blows send Langrangler into the laundry
02:47 like the jeans his name sounds like.
02:50 Number eight, Geld Rex Shogo.
03:00 That time I got reincarnated as a slime.
03:04 Shogo was reincarnated as a cocky bully,
03:08 though he was probably one to begin with.
03:10 When everyone's favorite orc, Geld,
03:12 proves too much for him, Shogo even kills
03:15 and takes the power of his comrade, Kirara.
03:18 His newly acquired skill gives him incredible regeneration.
03:26 Geld decides to put it to the test
03:28 and proceeds to beat Shogo into the ground
03:30 while using his corrosive skill to eat away at Shogo's body
03:34 as fast as he can regenerate,
03:36 keeping him constantly in pain.
03:38 Far from making him invincible,
03:45 Shogo's new power only lets him survive
03:48 to take more punishment from Geld.
03:50 Beware the gentle giants.
03:52 Number seven, Mikey Destroys Kazutora, Tokyo Revengers.
04:03 The confrontation between the Tokyo Manji
04:06 and Valhalla gangs leads to plenty of fights,
04:10 but few are as one-sided or brutal as this one.
04:14 (gunshot)
04:17 Kazutora insists that either he or Mikey has to die,
04:22 and Mikey insists it to be Kazutora with his fists.
04:26 Feelings have run high between both of them,
04:28 with the death of Keisuke and Mikey's brother, Shinichiro,
04:31 hanging over the fight.
04:33 We say "fights," but it's really just Mikey
04:36 doing his best to beat Kazutora to death.
04:39 (gunshots)
04:42 Honestly, we have to give Kazutora props
04:46 for surviving long enough for Takamichi to break it up.
04:50 Few can take Mikey's punches and get up afterwards.
04:53 Number six, Orange Piccolo Vs. Gamma 2,
05:00 Dragon Ball Super Super Hero.
05:02 Poor Piccolo.
05:04 The Namekians' power-ups just don't get
05:06 the same recognition as the Saiyans do.
05:09 It's probably the lack of hair.
05:11 But during his battle with the misguided
05:13 android superhero, Gamma 2,
05:16 Big Green finally gets his due by going Big Orange.
05:21 (roaring)
05:23 Piccolo's sweet new transformation turns plenty of heads,
05:31 and when Gamma 2 tries to initiate a beatdown of his own
05:35 on the newly awakened Piccolo,
05:37 the Namekians simply decks Number 2
05:39 into the ground with one punch.
05:42 (roaring)
05:44 In fairness to Gamma 2, though, he's new.
05:49 He doesn't know it's a bad idea
05:51 to attack a Dragon Ball character
05:53 right after a new transformation.
05:56 Number five, Mash vs. Carpaccio,
05:59 Mash'el, Magic and Muscles.
06:02 In Mash Burn Dead's many battles against magicians,
06:05 the blank-faced protagonist delivers plenty of beatdowns.
06:09 But one of the strangest happens when he steps in
06:12 to save his buddy, Finn, from Carpaccio.
06:15 (roaring)
06:17 The unfeeling mage can redirect pain from himself
06:21 onto his opponents, thanks to a goddess statue
06:23 that appears behind him.
06:25 While his self-inflicted stab wounds
06:27 put Mash on the back foot at first,
06:30 Mash eventually decides to just punch Carpaccio a bunch,
06:33 enduring the blows thanks to his ridiculously muscular body.
06:37 (roaring)
06:40 As if that wasn't absurd enough,
06:48 Mash then bends his wand into a tennis racket
06:51 and serves projectiles at the statue until it shatters.
06:55 Tennis is called the sport of kings,
07:03 and this is a royal beatdown.
07:06 Number four, 100 Punches, Vinland Saga.
07:10 Usually, when someone is beaten bloody, they're the loser,
07:14 but not Torfinn.
07:15 To protect the farm where he's made friends,
07:17 Torfinn wishes to meet with Knut.
07:20 To bargain for a chance to meet the king,
07:22 Torfinn bets that he can withstand 100 punches from Drott.
07:27 (roaring)
07:30 The once violent and now pacifistic young man
07:33 is used to getting hit, and so, despite being pummeled
07:37 and his face swelling up like a balloon,
07:40 he's able to withstand the blows.
07:42 By the end of it, it's Drott who's out of breath.
07:45 Torfinn has no enemies, because literally everyone
07:52 is impressed by what a boss he is.
07:59 Number three, Kenji Cuts Loose, Bungo Stray Dogs.
08:03 He may look like an innocent farm boy,
08:05 but Kenji is phenomenally strong.
08:08 That said, Tetsuo, the hunting dog,
08:10 initially appears to be more than a match for Kenji.
08:14 However, when Kenji learns that Tetsuo's comrade, Teruko,
08:18 intends to capture and torture his friend,
08:21 well, let's just say you wouldn't like Kenji
08:23 when he's angry.
08:25 (yelling)
08:27 With no restraint on his strength,
08:31 and bearing a berserk, terrifying face,
08:34 Kenji sends Tetsuo flying.
08:37 Tetsuo's punches do basically nothing now,
08:46 and he ends up stuck in concrete
08:48 with Kenji poised to kill him.
08:53 Kenji may come to his senses,
08:55 but it's a brutal beating while it lasts.
08:58 Number two, Daddy Nanami, Jujutsu Kaisen.
09:02 Haruto Shigemou is one of the most despicable
09:05 minor antagonists in this show.
09:07 A sadistic killer, he preys on the weak and vulnerable.
09:11 And just when it seems like Nobara and Akari
09:14 are about to become his victims, Daddy Nanami arrives.
09:19 (dramatic music)
09:21 Already furious at seeing what Shigemou did to Ichichi,
09:27 Nanami wastes no time in punching them
09:30 and demanding information.
09:31 Shigemou takes multiple fatal blows,
09:34 and only survives thanks to his technique,
09:36 which evades those.
09:38 While it's not the biggest or bloodiest beating
09:46 in Jujutsu Kaisen, it's one of the most satisfying,
09:49 in more ways than one for some people.
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10:13 Number one, Baki embarrasses Mohamed Alai Jr.
10:17 Baki.
10:18 Ever since his debut, Mohamed Alai Jr.
10:21 seems destined to clash with Baki.
10:24 He makes moves on Baki's girlfriend
10:26 and picks fights with half of Baki's friends.
10:29 Granted, he gets wrecked by all of them.
10:32 But after building himself back up
10:39 and reaching peak form again,
10:41 Jr. faces Baki in the underground arena.
10:44 It doesn't go well.
10:46 Baki knocks him down in one hit to the jaw.
10:54 Then after Jr. gets up,
10:56 he receives a kick between the legs and gets choked out.
11:00 If the greatest himself hadn't stepped in,
11:07 his bloodline would have ended right there.
11:09 Baki leaves Alai Jr. a weeping, broken mess after the fight.
11:14 Yujiro must be so proud of his boy.
11:17 Is there a punishing pummeling that we forgot about?
11:25 Serve up your favorites in those comments below.
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