Anime excels thanks to series that tell unique and exaggerated styles of stories. Anime is limitless in terms of subject matter and there are a number of franchises that prioritize good cuisine over everything else.
There are many anime characters who have become defined by their strength or transformations, but sometimes appetite can be even more impressive and ferocious. Dragon Ball’s Goku can consume a wild amount of food, but there are some other anime characters who love to snack even more than Goku.
10 Kagura Has An Insatiable Alien Appetite And Is Always Snacking
Gintama is a wild mix of genres and it’s both a brilliant gag anime. as well as an emotional serialized drama that deals largely in tropes only to later subvert them. Kagura is a character who can be distilled to her love for food. She’s always talking about what she’s going to eat and her largest aspirations are food-related. She’s practically always chewing on pickled seaweed for some source of sustenance.
9 Attack on Titan's Sasha Blouse Underscores Her Love Of Food
Attack on Titan is a very bleak and depressing action series that doesn’t hold back from the horrors or manipulations of war. Most characters lose their innocence and become very dour, which makes Sasha Blouse’s continual adoration for food a constant highlight. Sasha is practically ravenous when she eats and it’s like she transcends existence. It’s satisfying that she gets to taste lobster and new cuisine before the end of the series.
8 Luffy’s Elasticity Makes His Hunger Practically Unquenchable In One Piece
One Piece’s Luffy makes a strong impression and has skillful versatility because of how he's been able to incorporate his elasticity into his fighting style. Luffy treats food like therapy and it's how he soothes his soul. His elasticity also allows him to eat to his heart's content since his stomach will just expand and allow for more.
It's also worth remembering that the whole reason Luffy's crazy adventure got started is because of his appetite and compulsion to eat the Gum-Gum Devil Fruit. It's an atypical way to gain powers in most anime.
7 Toriko Is A Gourmet Hunter Who Cherishes Food Above All Else
Toriko is a shonen anime set in a world that's been changed and divided between regular society and the Gourmet World. Powerful warriors have become committed to using their strength to acquire the best and rarest ingredients. Ingredients and recipes have become the new currency and form of power.
The anime’s titular character, Toriko, is a legendary Gourmet Hunter who relishes food like no other. Toriko puts his life in danger to consume the very best food, all in service of putting together the perfect meal. Toriko's entire life is dedicated to eating.
6 Fullmetal Alchemist’s Gluttony Is The Personification Of Hunger Come To Life
It’s usually entertaining to see very normal characters in anime with gigantic appetites, but it should come as no surprise that Fullmetal Alchemist’s Gluttony is someone who enjoys food because that’s his entire purpose. Gluttony is the desire of gluttony brought to life and all that it knows how to do is eat and consume, whether it’s food, people, or anything. It’s all the same for Gluttony. This is one of the few examples here where a character’s desire for food is actually dangerous to the safety of others.
5 Hei’s Love For Food Is A Reminder That He’s Still Human In Darker Than Black
Darker Than Black revolves around two major cataclysms that strike the world and forever change things, the creation of a Heaven and a Hell's Gate. A powerful group known as Contractors also play a key role in this. Hei benefits from these unique powers, but remains a human and isn’t a Contractor.
These abilities put a great strain on him, which is part of the reason why he eats so much. His body requires the energy to sustain the feats that he puts it through, but he also genuinely enjoys to eat and the joys that it brings.
4 Samurai Champloo’s Fuu Shows That Big Appetites Can Come In Small Sizes
Samurai Champloo is a lovely and eclectic mix of sensibilities that very much marches to the beat of its own drum. Mugen, Jin, and Fuu can tow the line between reserved and extreme, but their starving artist mentality leads to them entering a rice eating content in one episode that leads to a major revelation with Fuu. Fuu is able to exponentially eat more than everyone else and it comes as a major surprise that Fuu's passion for food runs that deep. It even makes its way into the music that she sings.
3 Naruto’s Choji Requires Lots Of Food To Achieve His Powers
Naruto's Choji is a highly powerful Akimichi ninja, all of which are known for the unusual ways in which they inflate and use their bodies in battle. It makes the Akimichi incredibly resourceful, but it's a maneuver that requires a ton of fuel, which means that Choji is constantly eating as a way to keep his strength up at the proper level and to make sure that he's not unprepared. It's a strategy and passion that he even passes onto his family and continues to get explored in Boruto.
2 C.C. Has An Undeniable Penchant For Pizza In Code Geass
Code Geass explores some interesting ideas on power, corruption, and mechas, not to mention that Lelouch's descent into dark territory is a very powerful story development in itself. Code Geass makes it clear that nobody is perfect and that everyone has their vices, which in the case of C.C. happens to be a deep love for pizza. C.C.'s pizza gorging is more a cute character affectation, but it's a big thing for her and she doesn't know the meaning of restraint when it comes to the food at times.
1 Beerus’ Addiction To Earth Food Has Kept The Planet Afloat In Dragon Ball Super
If there’s any other character from the Dragon Ball universe that can make Goku’s mammoth appetite seem meager then it would be God of Destruction Beerus. Beerus is incredibly powerful, but he adopts a sloth-like attitude that consists of sleep and gorging on feasts.
Beerus learns to love Earth’s many foods and he requires food as a form of payment when characters come to him for help. It’s no exaggeration to say that Earth’s unique cuisine has saved the planet from Beerus’ destruction on several occasions. It’s food alone that’s kept Earth safe from this God of Destruction.