Anime's vibrant landscape and vast cultural footprint would have been impossible to achieve if not for its greatest trailblazing female anime characters. While it's certainly just as easy to name prominent male heroes, female anime characters, and their manga counterparts, have inspired entire genres for the medium. But this extends beyond their contributions to staples like magical girl anime.

Legions of well-written female anime characters are found in battle shōnen anime, just as they are in revered seinen classics and all-timer hit movies. Some carry the plot on their backs as heroes just as others bring their enemies to their knees as antiheroes or even villains. To rank anime's greatest female characters, is to celebrate an entire industry's history.

20 Nico Robin

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