Superpowers are a staple of nerd culture. Everyone has that power fantasy of being so unique or advantageous that they just ooze awesomeness. However, one should be wary as some superpowers are just not worth having. This is something the anime world has realized long ago.
Even competent superpowers in anime have been getting more and more convoluted, with villains practically measuring their strength with how many gasps they get. As ridiculous as some of the actual cool powers can be, they don't compare to the bottom of the barrel of the anime world. This is the truly weird side where the creators are either trying to be funny or have fully accepted that they've run out of ideas for new superpowers.
10 Ueki's Overpowered Recycling (Law Of Ueki)
Law of Ueki is already populated with tons of weird characters and powers. However, leading the helm is none other than Ueki himself who has one of the weirdest powers of all. With a good garbage can at hand, Ueki is able to turn trash into trees within an instant.
Though not practical within the larger canon of battle anime, Ueki makes it work within his world; and in hindsight, it's probably the very power that could save his and the real world. Somebody get this man to a dump!
9 Tooru's Cleaning Saliva (Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid)
In a way that only Kyoto Animation can, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid somehow made dragon girls adorable. In this eclectic world, humanity is only a hop skip away from interacting with the powerful and fire-breathing denizens of the sky. However, as large and powerful as they might be, they're not all that terrifying, and some of their power can even be useful for society if not just downright convenient.
Case in point: Dragon Maid, Tooru, is able to use her saliva as a cleaning fluid. Instead of having spit that can melt armor or deal poison damage, Tooru can wash make even the dirtiest of shirts spotless with just the swish of her mouth.
8 Warcry's Tears (Fairy Tail)
Strength should not be totally neglected, though. In Fairy Tail's harsh plain, giant monsters and evil wizards are lurking in every corner. To be a high-level wizard, one must possess great and unique abilities, such as Natsu's Dragon Slayer magic, Gray's Ice Make magic, or Lucy's Celestial Spirit magic.
However, one character in particular has an ability to rival them all, and it harnesses the most hardboiled resource of all: tears. Coming from the Quatro Cerberus guild, Warcry is a famous wizard renowned for using his own tears to enhance his strength. While the extent of this has yet to be seen (if it ever will), Warcry has at least mastered the ability to cry a lot and to cry at will. If he can't beat his opponents, he can at least make them feel very weird about fighting him, and that's what counts.
7 Buu's Candy Beam (Dragon Ball)
The Buu Saga is a divisive topic among the Dragon Ball community. On one end, this arc brought about some unique situations and fights for the series. At the other, the Buu Saga didn't live up to the glory of Dragon Ball's other arcs. If fans are unified on anything, it's that they're at least glad that his arc gave the childlike wonder and destructive power of Majin Buu.
While most villains may just try to blow up planets or fight people, Buu has the incredible power of the Candy Beam. With it, he's able to transform his enemies into candy. In doing so, he is able to not only absorb their power but also eat them in front of his enemies' families. It's cute and horrifying all in one.
6 Mineta's Pop Off (My Hero Academia)
My Hero Academia was just bound to land on this list. Its entire world features a huge and gilded line of cool superpowers and characters. And while Quirks like One for All or Explosions are fun and interesting within their own right, the Quirk to make it here is none other than Minoru Mineta's Pop Off.
In a world full of chainsaw monsters and bloodsucking serial killers, Mineta survives with the ability to throw sticky balls at people. By ripping off the grapelike appendages on his head, Mineta is able to either slightly inconvenient his enemies or bounce off the balls himself. How exactly did this kid pass the entrance exams?
5 Asuka's Invisibility (Yamada-kun And The Seven Witches)
Yamada-kun and The Seven Witches has a premise full of strange powers. It's not as if the powers themselves are strange, but the way to utilize them is a little racy. By kissing people, seven girls at Suzaku High School are capable of unlocking abilities ranging between switching bodies to predicting the future.
The strangest of them all, however, has to be Mikoto Asuka's Invisibility. When she kisses someone, Asuka is capable of turning invisible to them. While invisibility is cool within its own right, this version is kind of counterintuitive.
4 Knuckle's APR And IRS (Hunter X Hunter)
Hunter x Hunter's Nen system is one of the most well-regarded magic systems in all of anime. Its rules have remained relatively tangible to the fans, and it's given way to a variety of amazing yet grounded powers. However, if there's one whose premise still alludes to the community to this day, it would be Knuckle's APR and IRS. With APR, Knuckle is able to actually share his own Nen with his opponent.
However, every time his opponent hits him, they build up a Nen debt with interest. Once their debt exceeds their own amount of Nen, they'll activate Knuckle's IRS which seals away his opponent's Nen abilities. There's a lot of overthinking here for a character named Knuckle.
3 Wanze's Ramen Making Nose (One Piece)
One would think that in One Piece's strange pirating world that its weirdest ability would come from a Devil Fruit. However, Eiichiro Oda continues to delight, surprise, and gross-out his fans with his eccentric sense of humor. The weirdest superpower in One Piece does not, in fact, come from a Devil Fruit but the strange anatomy of one Marine chef.
During the Water Seven/Enies Lobby Arc, Sanji fought a fellow chef, Wanze, on the Sea Train, whose cooking skills are certainly not up to code. By mixing dough in his mouth and blowing them out of his nose, his strainer-like nose hairs will cut out noodles, both for his cooking needs and a variety of ramen based attacks.
2 Toyohiro's Super Fly (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
One of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's strangest of these has to be Toyohiro Kanedaichi's Super Fly. This Stand bounded itself to an electrical pylon, making it so that it can trap one person within its confines. It does so by encasing the person in steel whenever they try to leave, absorbing their energy, and redirecting it whenever they try and attack the pylon.
However, the huge caveat here is that the user has to be clever enough to trap someone within the pylon with the susceptibility of being the sole person trapped inside.
1 Bobobo-bo Bo-Bobo's Nose Hair (Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo)
Wanze isn't the only anime character to harness the devastating power of nose hairs. When it comes to using the nasal whips, there really is only one, defining master: Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo. This man has practically made the special art his own as he battled a world full of bald villainy with strands that they certainly didn't see coming.
The most common uses of his nose hairs involve whipping his opponents, binding them, or even creating a giant net. However, he has also been known to create armor, charge beam attacks, and even summon a powerful ally known as King Nosehair. For obvious reasons, Bobobo is an anime character that no one wants to mess with.