
The nature of anime allows for a wide variety of items to be considered weapons. We dug through some of our all-time favorite series and came up with the weapons we considered to be the deadliest, either by simply counting their body count or by comparing their stats and features to others in order to determine how dangerous they could be. We could easily have made a list of the most powerful robots in anime or the deadliest swords (we may get to those eventually), but wanted to instead focus on a wider range of weaponry, tactical gear and killer robots in a single list. If you look across all of anime dating back to 1963's Astro Boy, which many consider to be the first popular anime, there are thousands of weapons to consider. Ranking weapons in anime is a difficult task, but it's one we gladly decided to try.
