Top 20 Most Controversial Anime Moments of All Time

These scenes were not without their naysayers. Join Ashley as we look over the anime moments that had some fans crying foul, as seen in series such as "Attack on Titan", "Pokemon", "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure", and more! Which of these moments had you frothing at the mouth in rage? Let us know in the comments!

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[WatchMojo]

Which of these moments had you frothing at the mouth in rage? Let us know in the comments!

[nintendolife]

Man, poor Porygon really took one for the team. Pikachu’s the one who caused the epileptic seizures and yet PORYGON and its evolutionary lines are the ones who got banned from the anime.

[emiebex]

Who could forget The Porygon Seizure incident? It's the reason we never got to see The Dub of that episode.

[maesdejardin]

School Days is a Slice of Life anime that ends with a Slice of Life

[sweetandsourdish]

Myne’s false allegations against Naofumi angered me so much, it left me feeling nothing but hate for her. One of these days she’ll get rock bottom and everyone will be over the moon.

[sober_katz]

that tokyo ghoul one is nuts. sending death threats over a straight relationship? if that isn't proof that heterophobia is also a thing idk what is. more importantly though it's the creators decision and there's nothing you can do about it.

[xdevantx]

"It's a wonder Gurren Lagann is still so beloved"
"Fanservice out of place in Code Geas"
Tell me you didn't watch the show without telling me you didn't watch the show.
"Congratulations" was a perfect ending to a show about depression. That's what getting over depression feels like.

[emiebex]

Neon Genesis Evangelion - Gainex left the ending so Confusing & Ambiguous that fans literally sent them Death Threats demanding a Less Confusing Ending.

[KhalDor]

With school days it got even more visceral, Kotonoha killed Sekai who was pregnant and cut open her uterus then said "theres no baby". To me that was a lot more shocking.

[NWRefund]

Nice Boat wasn’t in the subtitles for the stock footage. It came from a post on 2-Chan. Someone posted a screenshot of the stock footage, and some English speaker, who was just browsing through and had no idea what the screenshot said or was even for, posted the Nice Boat reply.

There’s your mini history lesson from the sweaty armpit of the internet.

[LordIronfist]

That oshi no ko one is just ridiculous. I do feel for the woman who actually died and for her family who lost her, and its understandable that people who are in the depths of grief can have very skewed views, but, to assume that things which take months or years to produce in advance of release-and doubly so when that was based on source material already in existence for YEARS is somehow specifically targeting and exploiting your personal and SUDDEN tragedy is just the HEIGHT of narcissism. The fact that people jumped in support of such clearly misplaced and incorrect assumptions woukd be perplexing, except that its probably due to people not actually caring about things like facts or truth when rhey get rhe chance to feel like they can be "in the right" and feel high and mighty about something they dont actually know anything about or care to do even the most basic of reading about, not when they can join in a mob!

The only thing on this list that I find even more egregious and outrageous is the Tokyo ghoul one, since that lacked even a coincidental occurrence overlapping as a cause.

[TheSlasha]

kinda surprised that interspecies reviewers wasnt on this list

[CrocoDylianVT]

the exagerated censorship makes that episode even funnier knowing it's Gintama

[rongabrielperalta]

the Tokyo ghoul one was just straight up pathetic

[KalikoAF]

You can honestly make this list entirely out of moments from "Ghost Stories" and it'll still be acceptable

[JurassicGodzillaFan]

I was in awe at the Oshi No Ko episode. Porygon never back 30 years later.

[nazarethjoseph]

If you try to look at Eren's trope, He was called a Cosmic Plaything due to the fact that he pulled his own strings from the beginning, So he had no choice but to accept it and cry cause from the beginning, Eren scrwed up his life from the start.

[Zephyrtmpst]

Maybe shock value was an added bonus, but from how Goblin Slayer's story develops it feels more like they wanted you to have a legitimate reason to fear goblins.

That first episode has spends so much of itself highlighting the way goblins are looked at in most fantasy settings. That being so weak villagers with a pitchfork can deal with them.

As the inverse to that Goblin Slayer gives a deeper background as to how they get that reputation, while showing a more realistic version of them.

Goblin Slayer's goblins aren't run of the mill. They are a plague that should be exterminated and it is them being ignored that turns them into a threat.

Episode 1 does a phenomenal job of instilling that.


Sure they could have just alluded to the things they caught flak for, but that wasn't going to make your skin crawl the way being slapped with some reality did.

[VladdViever]

Putting the endless 8 on the 8th spot was pretty funny. Nicely done

[LordIronfist]

The endless eight is probably the most deserving of being on the list, but i do still give the production team props for having the balls to do that!