Many recognize anime as an escape from reality. These characters, however, while being someone for viewers to simply follow without care can have issues that mirror those of the real world. One of those issues that is seen in the medium many times is bullying and with the bullying, of course, comes bullies.

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Being a medium that is full of tons of stories based around schools there is no surprise that there are tons of school bullies in the anime realm. But, who are the worst out of this legion of bullies? This list will be taking a look and answering just that.

10 SCHOOL COUNCIL

The School Council from Kill La Kill is the group that acts as the admins and governers of Honnoji Academy. This group of elite students is led by Satsuki Kiryuin and her subordinates who are in possession of their two and three-star Goku uniforms which present them with more power than the average Honnoji student.

These hyper-powerful students make their power over others known as they constantly drop the pain down on others and always seem to be making the other students go through a hard time with their nonsensical rules.

9 AKI HONDA

Aki Honda is one of the worst bullies in all of anime. This middle-school student is literally on a level far above any other entries on this list. She is one of the main villains of the anime and manga series Narutaru/Shadow Star. Aki Honda leads a middle-school bully gang that loves bullying the main character of the series Hiroko Kaizuka.

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They literally tormented this poor girl due to her high grades and their jealousy of her. They forced her to eat worms and more that are best left unsaid. Just know that this bully gets what's coming to her and more for her horrible deeds.

8 ONIMARU

Onimaru is one of the smaller villains of the series Mazinger Z. While he isn't on the level of the previous bully of the list he's still a pretty big nuisance of the series. He is a bully at Shiro Kabuto's school and his main victim is Mitsuo. He's the typical bully that constantly picks on those smaller than them due to his insecurity and cowardice.

Onimaru finally changes his ways after Mitsuo tricks him into getting into the Stronger T4 and taking him on the thrill ride of his life. After this ride, Onimaru stops the bullying and realized Mitsuo is stronger than he'll ever be.

7 SHOUYA ISHIDA

Shouya Ishida is one of the main characters of the Koe no Katachi/A Silent Voice anime series. He is the main male protagonist of the series and early on is a bully to the female protagonist Shouko Nishimiya. During their elementary days, Ishida was a lone wolf and was the source of some relentless bullying of the new student, Shouko Nishimiya.

While this bullying lasted for a good while Shouya tries to move past his mistakes and offers Shouko his hand in friendship. It is revealed that his bullying was simply done to cover up his true feelings for her.

6 KYOUKO KOUDA

Kyouko Kouda is a character in the series Sangatsu no Lion/March Comes in like a Lion. She is a prideful beauty with some very bad anger issues and constantly verbalizes this to Rei. This results in a destructive relationship blossoming between her and Rei that is overcome by the two actually caring for each other.

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Her relationship with Rei is one of the things that classifies her as a bully. The two have one of the most toxic relationships in anime on the surface and while there is some subtext in there it doesn't change how destructive it is.

5 TOMOO

Elfen-Lied has the pleasure of being the home to one of the most absolutely annoying bullies in all of anime. Tomoo is a young boy that leads a group of bullies in the orphanage found in the series that is also home to Kaede of course. In fact, Tomoo and his constant bullying is one of the things that leads Kaede to finally go off the deep end.

When your bullying literally leads someone to hate the human race then something is obviously being pushed too far. His group did some truly horrible things to Kaede including beating a puppy friend of hers to death. She tears them apart with her power after this drives her over the edge.

4 BULLIES FROM DEVILMAN

While they weren't so bad in Devilman Crybaby, the bullies from the original Devilman series were some horrible guys. They not only tried to kill an innocent rabbit but they constantly annoyed Miki and beat on the innocent Akira Fudou a few times using actual weapons.

While these bullies were some of the most fowl kids earlier in the series they at least make up for it by coming to Miki's aid at the end of the series when the entire world falls into chaos due to the announcing of demons being among mankind.

3 MIYABI AIZAWA

Miyabi Aizawa is a student in Onizuka's homeroom class in the series GTO/Great Teacher Onizuka. She is one of the main antagonists for most of the story and is a part of a bullying group on a mission to get their new teacher kicked out of the school. She was a model student and the usual stereotypical vain popular girl.

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Her hatred and bullying stem from her falling into a depression during the series. However, towards the end with influence from Onizuka, she becomes a great person and student again.

2 BULLIES FROM BECK

The three bullies from Beck are some of the greatest A-holes in anime period. They literally pick on one of the main characters and trash on his dreams because he isn't able to play the guitar, leading the whole school to not talk to him out of fear.

It is shown that the main bully had an inferiority complex and thankfully he gets what's coming to him.

1 BAKUGOU

My Hero Academia Katsuki Bakugo hero costume

Everyone knows what My Hero Academia is at this point. This series has one of the worst bullies in anime in it and that bully is main character Katsuki Bakugou.

Bakugou is a bully that constantly berates the protagonist Deku. He threatens him and even tells him to kill himself in the series. Guess what. He's yet another bully that ends up getting what's coming to him.

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