Anti-Heroes:

Fate/Zero (Kiritsugu)

Madoka Magica (Homura)

Terror in Resonance (Nine & Twelve)

Garden of Sinners (Shiki & Touko)

Psycho-Pass (pretty much every enforcer)

Give these a go openings/trailers are linked to give you a feel.

• Saga of Tanya the Evil (2017) A cruel Japanese businessman is reincarnated into the body of a young girl in a fantasy world similar to early 20th century Imperial Germany after defying God. With her many attempts to avoid frontline duty are foiled due to her success she is determined to ensure that his Empire avoids the mistakes of the past. (CR/Funimation)

Saga of Tanya the Evil OP

• Moriarty the Patriot (2020) After Albert Moriarty convinces his father to adopt two orphans William and Louis he learns of their hatred for the corrupt British nobility and agrees to join them in their goal of creating a better Britain by any means necessary. Not a bad take on the Sherlock Holmes lore. (Funimation)

Moriarty the Patriot OP

• Legend of the Galactic Heroes (OVA 1988-1997) A great epic space opera with a conflict focused on a corrupt democracy fighting an enlightened despot. Discussions on both the benefits and issues of both systems along with the huge epic space battles. Recent remake not a bad adaptation but it is a bit rushed and only covers the first two books of 10 original has covered all. (Watch the first two prequel films My Conquest is A Sea of Stars and Overture to a New War and skip the first two episodes of the main series after seeing the films. Overture covers the first two episodes better. Extra content you can watch after the fact is the prequel Gaiden and the remake). (Hidive/VRV) there are two MCs in LOTGH Reinhard is the more the character you are describing of the two

Legend of the Galactic Heroes Sentai Trailer

So I'm a spider, so what? Maybe. It's not clear yet but is definitely flirting with that direction.

Overlord

Kiritsugu Emiya

Nine and Twelve from Terror in Resonance

Accelerator from To aru series is great.

Hei from Darker than Black

Kyoko Sakura from Madoka series is also a good anti-hero.

Not quite the main character, but {Gankutsuou}

One Outs - maybe what you'd like? He is usually always distrusted and kind of hated due to a blunt attitude. The setting is baseball, and MC is very OP as a pitcher, but also as a schemer.

There was a seasonal airing around the time of Rent-a-Girlfriend and Uzaki chan about that - something about a demon lord school or something. Man really killed someone with the beating of his heart

Well, based on OverlySarcastic definition of anti-hero, I’d say:

• Shield Hero (slight unheroic motive and method) Pros - Deliver the promise of the premise by making the anti hero protag live like an outcast, fun plot that harvest the anti-hero premise decently, easy to digest exposition and world building, high quality Art/Soundtrack and Directing. Cons - Fit the plot but one dimensional antagonists since their existence is merely to serve their purpose of pissing off the protag and audience. Loveable but surface level supporting cast, all characters have potential but the story doesn’t dive into it. Edit: Wait a min, I just read your post again, didn’t know u watched it already
• Code Geass (Semi-Unheroic Motive and Unheroic Method): Pros: Insane Plot, Complex and morally grey characters. Cons: Tone shift regularly and randomly, still work for some people. Plot sometime progress based on silly tropes, but still lead to insane plot.
• Atttack on Titan (Unheroic Motive)
• Hunter x Hunter Kurapica (Unheroic Motive)

Overlord

Super crooks

Moriarty the Patriot

Deathnote

S1 of Vinland Saga is definitely this.

Talentless nana.

Redo of Healer is one of the most brutal anti-hero examples. It is heavy ecchi with rape and such, so be warned.

Hellsing is a good anti-hero as well.

Overlord features an MC that has no mercy, though he is technically a villain.

The Eminence in Shadow (isekai with villain as mc)

Overlord (isekai with villain as mc aswell)

Redo of Healer (pretty dark, pretty edgy at some points, but good)

Code Geass (hes is getting a villain over time with deep charackter development)

Classroom of the Elite (mc could be seen as villain, well test it yourself)

Death Note (he doesnt consider himself a villain and thinks hes right, but well)

Love of Kill (not really an anti hero but a assassin in modern age)

Reign of the Seven Spellblades (boys mother gets killed and he wants revenge/anti hero)

I think you are just tired of shounen. Jump into Seinen. Unless you want seinen hero in a shounen. That's a little bit different.

Moriarty the Patriot

Arifureta.

MC has no issue killing bad guys. He'll kill anyone and anything that gets in his way. He is ruthless toward his enemies. S1's adaptation kinda sucks and there are some bad CGI parts but if you can look past it, it's actually a good story overall. Especially the LNs. S2 did a lot better with pacing and animation. S3 is on the way too.

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Vegeta (Dragon Ball Z)

Back in early series MHA, Bakugo was a menace, and I'm not talking about his infamous suicide dare to Midoriya

Alucard (Hellsing Ultimate/HUA)

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Gamma Jack was actually under watch from the NSA because they were afraid with his belief of supers as the supreme race and megalomania, he would become a supervillain. (The Incredibles)

Minotaur Space Marine chapter from 40k. Even among the morally dubious at best space marines the Minotaurs stand out as being particularly egregious, with abnormally high rates of: involvement in civil wars within the Imperium (including against other space marines), lying about their troop numbers and locations, serving the high lords of terras every whim and essentially being they private space marines, staggeringly high rates of civilian casualties and collateral damage (a marine was noted to have said that 60% civilan casualty rate is very low for missions involving them), they will steal relics and supplies from other imperium forces and horde them for themselves, and last but not least, one of their commanders has a specially made gun that replaces the normal high explosive charges in bolter rounds with solid slugs to more easily shoot through hostages to reach the hostage taker.

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Here's a few I haven't seen mentioned yet;

{Dororo} dark supernatural adventure

{Dorohedoro} crazy dystopian adventure

{Satsuriku no Tenshi} psychological thriller *my son says the dub is actually ok on this show, idk as I only watched sub.

{Heion Sedai no Idaten tachi} very full of anti heros. But there is gratuitous violence/ gore and lots of blood.

{Hoozuki no Reitetsu} if you want your dark to be funny. It's absolutely hilarious if you like satirical comedy and MC is most def an anti hero!

{Scums Wish} if you want to try a very dark romance. There's no anti hero, but def hard to tell if there's any good guys in it. But they're young so they may grow into good people.

{Cowboy Bebop} adventure

{Samurai Champloo} adventure

{Gintama} a total package series. Feels, fights and the absolute best comedy of any shonen series.

{Akira} movie. Very very very cool dystopian future scape and pretty much the gateway drug for us western consumers of anime.

{Sword of the Stranger} movie. Nameless samurai having cool fights.

Wishing many happy hours of watching awesome shows to all!!✌️

That's not an anti hero, that's just villain. Still good tho

Amazed no one has mentioned {Parasyte}, one of my all time favorites and just crazy twist after crazy twist.

Can't believe nobody said Overlord yet! Check it out!

Will also recommend Darker Than Black. In my top 5 of all time.

Gankutsuou, its based on The Count of Monte Cristo

darker than black

Black Lagoon

Jourmongand

Black Butler

Hellsing

Drifters

Onihei

Blade Of The Immortal 2019

Kino's Journy 2017

Darker Than Black

Bem 2019

7 Seeds

Ajin

Bungo Stray Dogs

Gangsta

Gokusen

Gankitsuo

Gantz

Killing Bites

Michiko & Hatchin

Need more ??

I wish there were more protagonists like Kiritsugu from Fate/Zero. He fights for "good", but to get there he does whatever he thinks is necessary without batting an eye.

And I think they got him right. But a lot of anime portraying these anti-hero characters fall into the trap of making them too edgy for my taste.

So yeah, same here, but depending on how they go about it.

I think they like it as much as Americans do - most popular American movies now are about superheroes with the moral complexity of a shoe.

There are tons of antiheroes in LNs and manga at least.

I just wish they quit ruining their anti-heroes. Way too often they start off with an MC that is morally ambiguous, only to soften him up, often with the help of moe.

Personally, not really. Antiheroes are often just used to shovel edgy crap into a series whenever we do see them. They can and have been done well, but this feels like the exception not the rule.

Rather than seeing more I'd just like to see them be less crap on average when they're used.

Inuyashiki, well there's a grandfather as protagonist. But the antagonist would fit to what you're looking for.

I dont know if she counts as one but Kakegurui has yumeko jabami which is more the mc then the "mc"

You're really going to need to list off the ones you've watched, dude... you know, before someone suggests Death Note for the millionth time.

Which ones do you consider to be popular that you've watched, and which ones do you consider to be popular but trash?

Gundam: The Origin, which mostly follows Char Aznable's origin story.

psychopass

black lagoon

black butler

world conquest zvezda plot

I have a really good one but its a manga and novel not a anime is that ok?

I mean, They did shield bro dirty but he still managed keep humanity intact.If you ask me, he is more kind hearted than the other MCs. He just turned into a god damn Tsundere, that's all. If it was me, things would've turn out pretty bad.... For the others of course.

Overlord

Talentless Nana

Desert Punk