Armor enables anime characters to accomplish incredible feats with style and ease. The fictional reality of anime produces armor with more details, functionalities, and protections than what the real world offers. However, anime's creativity with character design inevitably results in armor with designs that prove more impractical than helpful.

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Male anime armor's typical bulkiness and its focus on intimidation and glamour present numerous problems when worn by characters. Even legendary armors include unforeseen design flaws that inhibit the movement or capabilities of the warriors who fight with them. Finding the right balance between style and protection remains a topic that anime occasionally forgoes altogether in favor of flair.

10 Sirzechs Lucifer Has Restrictive Shoulder Armor (High School DXD)

Sirzechs Lucifer's golden-edged armor and decorative shoulder plates give a regal appearance, yet the overly layered shoulder armor obstructs the wearer's arm movement. The shoulder armor piece's extension down the arms limits side-to-side motion and the wearer's ability to raise a sword upwards. While Sirzech's armor design wouldn't inhibit magic use, the pointed edges inhibit a swordsman's range of motion.

The multiple layered plates provide protection yet place considerable weight on the shoulders that would create strain and fatigue. Sirzech's armor serves a more decorative than functional purpose on an actual battlefield.

9 Ryo Sanada's Armor Of Inferno Grants Power At A Cost (Ronin Warriors)Armor of Inferno

Ryo Sanada's Armor of Inferno can destroy entire planets yet has a helmet with enough size to create problems for its wearer. The helm's numerous protrusions and height make it top-heavy and certain to quickly cause its wearer painful headaches. The main armor's assorted spikes and thick layers better suit a mecha than physical armor for humans to use.

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Ryo's full armor comes with significant drawbacks, such as the armor's gradual draining of its wearer's energy and its incompatibility with most weapons. The Armor of Inferno only offers its abilities at the cost of comfort and meeting requirements.

8 Golgius's Armor Provides Limited Visibility (The Seven Deadly Sins)

Golgius in his armor in Seven Deadly Sins

Golgius's full body armor in The Seven Deadly Sins provides complete protection yet provides only tiny slits for its wearer's vision. The small area for wearers to look through blocks peripheral vision and creates additional blind spots for enemies to exploit. While Golgius's helmet adequately shields the head, the enclosed mouth area keeps wearers from comfortably breathing in a fight.

The complete armor set's large horns provide style yet add weight to the head that risks causing headaches or fatigue from prolonged use. Limited vision inhibits the wearer's sense of the environment and the enemy's positioning from certain angles.

7 Avaritia's Black Knight Armor Is Too Massive To Be Practical (11 Eyes)

Avaritia 11 eyes

Avaritia's towering Black Knight armor protects its wearer and leaves the lower body open for agility yet creates a disadvantage with its shoulder armor. Aside from the armor's massive size being disproportionately large and heavy for humans, the added bulk on the shoulders risks straining the arms. The tinted red of the visor forces wearers to view their surroundings in a false-color scheme.

Avaritia possesses armor that specifically suits his magically distorted form and lacks a usable structure for any other potential wearer. The domed design carries the strong possibility of slowing down wearers who lack supernatural augmentation.

6 The Armored Shinma Locks The Wearer In Uncomfortable Positions (Vampire Princess Miyu)

Armored Shinma

The armored god-demon Shinma in Vampire Princess Miyu wears bulky metal layers that force the arms to the sides and provide a short range of movement. The armor's forced shoulder position brings the guarantee of causing arm injuries and fatigue to anyone who wears it for longer than a brief battle. Each layered row of armor provides little comfort to maintain a wearer's endurance.

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The Shinma armor's unusually curved shape results in stiff movements that only prove effective for wearers with supernatural powers. Despite the armor's coverage, it fails to shield the Shinma from Princess Miyu's magic.

5 Marmas' Cylindrical Armor Sacrifices Agility (Seven Deadly Sins)

Marmas from Seven Deadly Sins

The Holy Knight Marmas dons a tube of cylindrical armor that fully shields the body yet limits the body's movements with its bulkiness. Marmas' armor's distance from the body makes navigating narrow spaces impossible and evasive movements like rolls difficult to execute gracefully. The main armor's lack of joints makes standing back up after a fall a frustrating move to accomplish.

The unusual shape of Marmas' armor only adds extra weight for wearers to manage when dealing with balance. Any defense the armor provides comes at the cost of looking ridiculous.

4 Saturn's Armor Has More Details Than Necessary (Saint Seiya)

Saturn's armor Saint Seiya

The God of Time Saturn's armor appears visually stunning yet suffers the problem of having too many details. The metallic armor's multiple long spikes run the significant risk of limiting the wearer's movements by hitting against other spikes and nearby pieces. The combined weight of Saturn's full armor set would make maneuvering within it next to impossible for a non-deity.

The time demands of putting on and carrying armor of similar complexity would prove inconvenient in an emergency. Saturn's armor provides all-around protection with the disadvantage of being cumbersome in every other aspect.

3 Karna's Golden Armor Leaves Multiple Weak Points (Fate)

Karna armor

Karna's golden armor of light significantly lessens the damage the wearer takes yet uses pieces that cover only a small portion of the body. The golden armor leaves the chest, torso, and shoulders largely defenseless, which leaves plenty of areas for enemies to land attacks and deal gradual damage. While Karna's bond as a magical familiar heals his wounds, any wearer who lacks that bond leaves themselves vulnerable.

Karna's armor focuses on fashion and depends on magic rather than the armor itself to provide physical protection. The armor's inability to protect against internal organ injuries serves as an exploitable weak point.

2 Ichigo's Skull Clad Armor Provides Only Partial Protection (Bleach)

Ichigo Skull Clad Armor

Ichigo Kurosaki's Skull Clad armor grants wearers the power of Hell itself but provides only partial protection. The Skull Clad form's bone plating leaves one side of the body exposed for attackers to target. Though Ichigo's skull helmet appears intimidating, its placement unnecessarily covers an eye and impairs the wearer's vision.

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Skull Clad's armor favors manipulating Hell's realm over covering critical areas of the body, such as the legs, neck, or head. The uneven weight distribution of having heavy bone armor on one half of the body inhibits balance and fluid movement.

1 Watchdog Man Constantly Wears A Dog Costume (One-Punch Man)

Fans take pictures of Watchdog Man.

The S-class hero Watchdog Man from One-Punch Man wears a full-body dog suit for protection during his constant watch over Q-city. While Watchdog man's astonishing strength prevents villains from injuring him, the suit lacks defensive plating and offers no protection from weapons or monsters. The fur-covered dog suit carries the additional risk of causing the wearer heatstroke if worn for a long time.

Watchdog man's dog suit allows for agility yet completely encloses the fingers of the wearer's hands. The wearer loses the ability to hold weapons correctly or climb obstacles if needed in a fight.