The anime world is a diverse place with unusual types of anime characters, and manipulative anime girls are one of them. Where Otakus loves to watch wholesome waifus and lolis, a handful of the community used to admire smart and tricky girls.
Today we have curated a list of some manipulative anime girls who love to drive from the backseat, using their manipulated puppets as protective shields. Some with their beauty and some with their intellect, these girls steal the spotlight with their demeanor.
So let’s dive into the most updated list of manipulative anime girls.
11: Freya
Anime: Danmachi
Let’s kick off our list of the most manipulative female anime characters with a super hot-looking female antagonist from Danmachi. Freya is one of the renowned and most powerful goddesses shown in the Danmachi anime.
Her manipulative ability doesn’t lie solely in her charming beauty because this op-isekai female antagonist possesses a unique ability called Discerning Eye, which enables her to see the souls of other adventurers.
By recognizing the soul, she can estimate the mental state of another person, which results in easy manipulation. Because of this, Freya has earned the nickname “Witch.”.
10: Malty S Melromarc (Myne)
Anime: The Rising Of The Shield Hero
If disgracefulness has any picture, it should be Malty S Melromarc “Myne” from the “Rising of the Shield Hero” anime. This shameless female anime character has no other role than to manipulate others to humiliate Shield Hero.
She does have beauty but lacks intellect, yet she always comes up with a cunning scheme to torment Naofumi Iwatani.
This girl’s manipulative ability lies in her act. With her acting skills, she can convert any lie into truth, just like she did multiple times in the series. Either through dignity or virginity, she can breach every limit to manipulate others.
9: Yuno Gasai
Anime: Future Diary
Yuno Gasai is a perfect example of how a person in love is more dangerous than even a madman. Calling Yuno Gasai manipulative would be less good than calling her an obsessed psychopath girl who can do anything to assist her partner, “MC.”
Her psychopathic state is the reason for past events, which include some very serious parenting matters. However, in the present, she is a beautiful yandere obsessed with her love interest.
She’s definitely a hardcore girl who possesses nerves of steel; she does everything that needs to be done without giving it a second thought. Just like she convinces the MC to kill his friends. Such a manipulative personality makes her one of the most popular anime girls of all time.
8: Queen Andromeda
Anime: Kingdoms Of Ruin
Queen Andromeda from Kingdoms of Ruin was introduced as the mind-blowing plot twist. How would you rate this epitome of manipulative anime girls who have initiated a war that results in the genocide of witches in Kingdoms of Ruin?
She’s known as the love witch because she has “an ability to control others by placing a curse on them.”
Even though her pursuit remains unclear in the first season, she has done enough damage to be recalled as a manipulative antagonist in this series.
7: Ai Enma
Anime: Hell Girl
Ai Enma is the anti-heroine from the Hell Girl anime. Ai’s past tale is quite tragic: ‘She was burned to death by villagers,’ which triggers immence vengeance in her.
She’s a cold girl whose emotions have been locked by the master of hell. One thing I like about this prodigy is that, despite being bound by some regulations, she doesn’t give a shit when she considers something to be done.
She doesn’t have any personal reasons to manipulate her targets, though she manipulates them to frighten them before taking them to Hell.
6: Lucy
Anime: Elfen Lied
Ever heard of dissociative identity disorder? It’s like two or more people living in one body. The main protagonist of Elfen Lied possesses three personalities: Kaede (the depressed one), Lucy (manipulative and hateful), and Nyu (the childish one).
I bet this description would have piqued your interest, but today we will only be talking about Lucy, who just hates every human being and wants to kill everyone.
The development of Lucy’s personality happened because of her rotten childhood. In Lucy’s personality, she’s shown as the heartless manipulative killer.
5: Junko Enoshima
Anime: Danganronpa
Junko Enoshima is the most abusive and twisted anime girl who switches personalities to overcome her boredom. Where people like us play video games to counter boredom, this devilish girl plays with others’ lives to achieve the same.
Among twisted-headed anime characters, Junko reigns supreme as the most troublesome female antagonist, who causes misery across the world just to satisfy her sadistic soul.
In school, she’s the bubbliest character everyone wants to be around; however, when she switches to her real personality, she becomes one of the most psychopathic manipulative girls who wants others to suffer for her amusement.
4: Makima
Anime: Chainsaw Man
How many of you were expecting Makima to be the love interest of MC? Because I was one until a bomb revelation came across that Makima is an antagonist.
On the surface, she may look like a rewarding waifu who treats our dumb Denji in a special way, like some typical shounen. As she’s the smartest beauty, she uses her soft appearance only to create a goodwill personality so she can manipulate Devil Boy.
Her beautiful eyes, hidden ulterior motives, op power and position, and ability to manipulate others made her a badass female anime character.
3: Kotonoha Katsura
Anime: School Days
Very similar in personality traits to Yuno Gasai of Future Diary, Kotonoha Katsura is a wholesome girl until the thought of losing Makoto to anyone stings her like a beetle.
She is shown as a gentle lady afraid of being touched by any other man until she develops a cunning manipulative ability by engaging in sexual acts with Makoto.
2: Tanya
Anime: Saga of Tanya The Evil
As one of the rarest isekai protagonists, Tanya Degurechaff is not your typical MC who inherits OP powers or unique skills; instead, Tanya is a brimming mastermind girl who outranks others with cunning strategies.
Tanya is a reincarnated version of a salaryman struggling with many complexes, such as superiority and inferiority. At a mere 9 years of age, she has risen rapidly through the ranks of her career with her cold and collected abilities.
Calling her a protagonist would be a shame, as she uses other human beings as mere objects she can use for her own good. Among all manipulative anime girls, Tanya is the most interesting anti-heroine.
1: Crimson
Anime: Ragna
Crimson is the most self-centered anime character who never slips away a chance to find her own good. I bet you won’t find a single moment where Crimson shows any sympathy towards others. She has only one rule: to destroy the dragon race, no matter what the cost.
She has blown away dozens of people just to torment the white-haired Ultimate. It’s not like she tried to hide the fact that she manipulates and uses others; instead, she openly expresses her self-centered nature.
Her wide-open creepy smile showcases how cruel this anime character is. Among the list of manipulative anime girls, Crimson should rank at the top, as she has spent the most screen time practicing her manipulative skills on others.
