Blood, broken bones, and brutal beatdowns await! Join us as we count down the most savage confrontations in anime history where characters push their bodies beyond limits and morality gets left behind. These aren't your typical shonen skirmishes - these are battles where combatants get dismembered, impaled, and worse in their quest for victory.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00Welcome to WatchMojo and today we're counting down our picks for the battles across the
00:18anime scene that literally pulled no punches.
00:34Gon's streak as an adorable gutsy kid who could throw a mean right hook went right out
00:39the window following his final confrontation with this feline royal guard.
00:49After Pitou reveals that they have no intentions of bringing Kite back from the dead and was
00:55going to kill them all regardless, the last tether of Gon's morality snaps.
01:00Unbothered about anything save for destroying Pitou, he sacrifices all his Nen in order to
01:05achieve a temporary transformation, one capable of breaking Pitou into bloody chunks.
01:19Which he does, repeatedly.
01:29Number 9 – The Ultimate Body Blow – Hajime no Ippo
01:36Turns out that back in his heyday, old man Kamogawa was an absolute beast of a boxer.
01:47After his bestie is savaged by an American soldier during a match, Kamogawa decides to avenge him
01:52personally.
01:53By training his fists to the point that he essentially destroys his nerves, Ippo's future
01:58coach is able to devastate Anderson in the ring.
01:59While he's forced to endure more than his fair share of blows, he returns them with enough staggering focus to
02:19shatter Anderson's skeleton.
02:32He literally imprinted his fist onto the man's sternum.
02:36There is no coming back from that.
02:38Number 8 – Guts and Gore
02:40Berserk
02:41Given the immensity of his strength, the size of his sword, and a lifetime on the battlefield,
02:46taking on a whole battalion of soldiers is no problem for a swordsman like Guts.
02:51Every sword belongs in its sheath.
02:54Go back to the sheath your master holds.
02:59Taking on a hundred soldiers all by his lonesome in one night?
03:03That is a different story.
03:17In order to give Casca time to escape, Guts takes on the full force of a legion of enemy
03:23knights, where he proceeds to massacre all of them.
03:26So there are still fifty of you left standing.
03:29At this rate, it'll be dawn before I can crack open all of your skulls.
03:34Not that it's easy.
03:35By the time the dawn breaks, Guts is barely hanging on.
03:38Though that's more than can be said for his foes, who have all been hacked to pieces.
03:43Number 7 – Amen
03:45Hellsing Ultimate
03:59The blood-spattered rivalry between the likes of Alucard and Anderson seemed like it was going
04:04to last for an eternity.
04:06After all, how do you kill the original vampire and a self-regenerating Catholic rage machine?
04:12Alas, all things must come to an end.
04:14After Alucard nearly breaks Anderson's engineered body thanks to his near-endless summons, the
04:21Judas Priest turns the tables by juicing up on the Holy Spirit.
04:25And by that, we mean stabbing himself with the nail that killed Christ and turning into
04:30an unholy thorn monster.
04:32From there, the two monsters go all out, with Alucard emerging the victor courtesy of literally
04:47breaking Anderson's heart.
04:49No.
04:50Number 6 – Tastes like pickles
04:52Barky
04:53You take one look at a man like Jack Hanma, and you'd be forgiven for thinking the man
04:58was unbeatable.
04:59He's a huge slab of beef, who looks like he uses mountains as punching bags.
05:04Unfortunately for him, his opponent just happens to be a caveman who stands at the apex of strength.
05:19Even with the blood of the ogre running through his veins, Jack gets utterly mauled by pickle.
05:25Not only does he get outdone in pure punching power, but the caveman damn well chews off half-jack's
05:32face.
05:33Guess that's how they scrapped back in the Jurassic period.
05:40Number 5 – The Hammer Falls
05:45Attack on Titan
05:50Eren's rampage across Mali was a bloodbath of epic proportions, wherein he not only responded
05:56to their declaration of war, but went about destroying their secret weapon, the Warhammer
06:01Titan, in the most gruesome of manners.
06:04With the Warhammer's human host sealed in crystal, Eren has to get creative, and settles
06:18on using the Jaw Titan as an unwilling nutcracker in order to shatter and ultimately kill the
06:24occupant within, leaving Eren free to gulp down the bloody remains, taking their power for himself
06:30in the process.
06:31Number 4 – Rengoku Pops Off
06:39Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba
06:41The movie Mugen Train
06:43The flame harsher is no slouch of a swordsman, demonstrated when he was able to slice through
06:48a train full of demons single-handedly.
06:51Unfortunately, Akaza is no regular demon.
06:54Up against the third strongest of the upper moons, Rengoku is pushed to his limits, and while their
07:08skills appear evenly matched, Akaza's instant regeneration slowly starts to tin the tide of battle.
07:14And yet, through force of will alone, Rengoku was able to come within inches of taking the demon's head
07:24after being impaled, we might add.
07:26A coward's retreat may have earned Akaza the win on a technicality, but we all know who really came
07:32out on top in the battle of attrition.
07:42Number 3 – We can't believe this made it to air – Dragon Ball Z
07:48It's times like these that you realize that, yeah, Dragon Ball could actually be really, really violent.
08:10Though few one-sided beatdowns were as dark as Videl taking on Spopovich at the World Martial Arts Tournament.
08:24Imbued with Babidi's magic, the Martian musclehead savages Videl within an inch of her life,
08:30whilst also prolonging the fight to maximize her suffering.
08:33It makes for a hard watch, and we're still salty, we didn't get to see Gohan beat his ass afterwards.
08:43Number 2 – Mahito to Mojito – Jujutsu Kaisen
08:57You'd struggle to find a more lamentable villain than the likes of Mahito, a curse who thrives on cruelty,
09:03especially when it comes to Itadori.
09:05No surprise that their final confrontation went off the rails.
09:09Between Itadori beating the tar out of Mahito with countless black flashes,
09:14all the way to striking the fear of God into him, the battle is overflowing with animosity, exhaustion, and primality.
09:21One that finally saw the curse stripped down from his perch and dragged through the mud.
09:29Given all the pain he had caused, it was justly deserved.
09:32Before we continue, be sure to subscribe to our channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos.
09:39You have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them.
09:43If you're on your phone, make sure to go into your settings and switch on notifications.
09:48Number 1 – Hail to the King – Solo Leveling
09:52With their combined firepower, it was no surprise to see the likes of Jha and the other S-rank hunters
09:57able to waltz on through a nest filled with giant magical ants, destroying everything in their path.
10:04They were even able to take the head of its queen with relative ease.
10:08Mission accomplished! Job done!
10:10And that's when the boss music starts playing.
10:13Among the people of the monsters, Jha – Solo Levels
10:18It can't get out of sight, you know him.
10:19As of your chief, he could not tell you himself in the past.
10:20So one of the neighbors can only be at a destination of the one of the two aunts when the princess
10:21goes to the moon after the moon until he comes to the moon.
10:22When the dude was the forest of the moon, the next-party man is in the depths of his head.
10:24Upon the arrival, the ant queen's last child demonstrates his unmatched ferocity by casually bringing
10:30each of the hunters to near-death with absurd ease.
10:33absurd ease.
10:38It even casually learns their language by devouring one of their heads.
10:42Turns out Jinnu isn't the only one who knows how to aura farm.
10:51Which of these battles did you find the hardest to watch?
10:54Let us know in those comments below.