Best Anime With Giant Monsters

Highlights

• Get ready for monstrous battles in these anime packed with heart-wrenching scenes and huge monsters.
• From Digimon to One Punch Man, these shows feature chosen heroes battling massive creatures for survival.
• Kaiju Nº8 offers viewers a mix of hardcore battles, quirky characters, and great character development.

Giant Monsters, commonly known as Kaiju, are mysterious creatures that have risen to fame thanks to the classic Japanese monster movies as well as manga and anime culture. Speaking of, there are some cool anime to watch if viewers love giant monsters trashing cities and fighting against the few chosen ones.

Some are targeted at young audiences, are mild in violence, and have colorful designs. However, when the plot starts to turn into a gory, relentless massacre, giant monsters are always a big part of these heartbreaking scenes. The following examples have huge monsters and also great character development in the middle of tragedy.

1 Digimon

The Chosen Children Always End Up Fighting Giant Monsters

Digimon is a shonen anime that became a hit back in the 90s and has been hitting the mark with every season since its first release. A bunch of kids, chosen for unexplained reasons, are isekai’d into a digital world, filled with mysterious (and monstrous) creatures called Digimon.

On more than one occasion, these chosen children, or tamers to be more precise, had to use their own Digimon to fight monstrous beings, such as Apocalymon, Venom Vamdemon, Chimeramon, Ordinemon, Niddhogmon, and others. Some of them are as big as the moon, so, giant monsters: check.

2 Attack On Titan

Where Giant Monsters Are An Everyday Threat

The story of Eren Yaeger and his band of merry Titan hunters wouldn’t be as successful as it is today without the intervention of the stars of the show: the giant monsters called Titans. They’re creatures that were once humans from a distant land and weaponized by their brethren using spinal fluid.

This is a pretty gruesome and unconventional style of warfare that ends up triggering a series of tragic events leading to the unavoidable Rumbling and genocide. A cycle of never-ending death that was finally stopped thanks to the sacrifice of an anti-hero. Or so goes the story. The important thing is there are lots of giant monsters and people fight them for survival.

3 One Punch Man

Saitama Made His Career Fighting These Beasts

Have you seen a bald with a white cape punching a giant monster into oblivion? One Punch Man is all about the misadventures of a human hero fighting against creatures so unbelievably strong that it ends up looking like a joke. The misunderstood (and overpowered) hero ends up getting more than he bargained for when a young cybernetically enhanced hero adopts him as his master.

This one-sided master-disciple bond becomes the startup for one of the best friendships viewers will ever see in a comedy anime. Plus, if monster fans want to see a small and cranky girl with incredible telekinetic powers turning Godzilla into a puddle of blood, then this is definitely for them.

4 Kaiju Nº 8

A Good Monster Protects Mankind From Bad Monsters

For those anime fans who like hardcore bloody battles and giant monsters, Kaiju Nº8 is one of the best dishes on the menu. It includes an assortment of quirky folks in the cast, including a satirical but kickass protagonist, and some great character development.

This series is still young, and the manga has not progressed too much lately, but still, it has the potential to become one of the best Kaiju series in the genre. Besides, it has some of the best battle scenes fans will see in this category of anime.

5 Neon Genesis Evangelion

Get Into That Eva And Fight Monsters!

If there is an iconic giant monster anime, it is Neon Genesis Evangelion: a boy-meets-girl/coming-of-age story with a dark twist. The girl is his dead mom’s clone, and the coming-of-age is more of an existential crisis that ends up with the end of the world. What a blast!

But if fans love to see enormous Kaiju (Angels) being beaten to a pulp by Mechas (EVAs) then they came to the right place. Just remember that this anime has certain sensitive topics, and has a massive amount of adult content. So, discretion is advised for younger audiences.