The Best Anime Where Ordinary People Gain Godlike Abilities

Power systems in anime can vary quite a bit and become the most attractive aspect of a series, making it stand out among the rest. Many times in anime, special powers are learned, studied, or developed over time, and the users become stronger and stronger as the series progresses. However, this is not always the case; sometimes powers can be granted to everyday individuals and be increased to their maximum immediately.

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Random individuals granted the power of a god occur more often than not in anime. The main characters that receive these abilities must learn as they go and use their powers to the best of their ability as they try to accomplish their task or simply try to survive another day. There are many different anime series that take this route, and mostly, they make for entertaining stories as an unexpected hero turns into a walking atom bomb. Here are some of the best anime where ordinary people get godlike abilities.

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Zenshu

An Animator Gets The Power Of Imagination In Another World

ZENSHU

Release Date

January 5, 2025

Zenshu is a recently released anime this season where a budding young animator named Natsuko Hirose winds up in a world that is not her own with unimaginable power. Natsuko takes on more than she can handle when she is put in charge of a massive animation project in a genre she is unfamiliar with.

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The stress leads to her undoing as she dies and wakes up in the world of her favorite film. While at first thinking herself crazy, as events turn out the way she remembers, she finds out that she can change the story with her art and bring her creations to life.

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My Hero Academia

A Quirkless Boy Becomes The Number One Hero

Izuku Midoriya has always wanted to be a hero ever since he was little. Being inspired by the world’s number one hero, Allmight, Isuku wished as hard as he could to be able to fight alongside his idol. Unfortunately, Izuku was born without a quirk, and his hopes of being a hero were shattered.

That is, until he had a run-in with his hero Allmight, who witnessed the boy’s heroism firsthand, even without a quirk. Allmight decided to bestow Izuku with the power of One for All, a combination of quirks that would allow him to be the hero the world needs. One for All has gathered the quirks’ of all its previous users, making it one of the most potent quirks in all of My Hero Academia.

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Takt Op. Destiny

Tragedy Turns Into Power

Takt Op. Destiny

Release Date

October 6, 2021

Network

TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, TVh, TVQ, TSC, BS TV Tokyo

Directors

Takahiro Kaneko, Yasuhiro Geshi, Katsuya Shigehara, Tomoko Hiramuki, Hiromi Nishiyama, Akihito Sudo

In the series Takt Op. Destiny, the world has been overtaken by extraterrestrial beings called D2s that plague humanity. With the creatures being influenced by auditory stimulation, music and all melodies are banned. Alongside the sinister creatures emerged powerful duos called Musicarts, who began to combat the D2s.

Musicarts must make pacts with musically inclined people known as composers to unlock their full potential. Takt, a former piano prodigy, inadvertently obtains this power when he and his surrogate family are caught in the middle of an attack. This power turns Takt’s younger sister into a powerful weapon and himself into her conductor.

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FLCL

A Little Boy Holds The Strongest Power In The Universe

FLCL is a whimsical series that explores a number of themes and includes a long list that make up a fantastically convoluted story. When Nowta becomes the victim of a hit-and-run, he has no idea that this chance encounter will lead him down a path of cataclysm.

Inadvertently hit by the space pirate Haruko, Nowta makes himself the target of her desire as weird things begin to spring out of his head. As the story progresses, Nowta becomes a vessel for the power of Atomosk, the pirate king. This power is seen as limitless and allows him to take control of the strange occurrences going on inside his head.

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Speed Grapher

A Man’s Addiction Turns Into His Greatest Strength

Speed Grapher is an underrated anime with one of the most interesting power systems in the medium. Tatsumi Saiga was a veteran war journalist who became obsessed with his own work and continuously pushed the limits of taking the most exciting photos possible.

While investigating a local fetish club, Saiga comes in contact with a young girl who can grant people strange powers according to their deepest desires. Saiga obtains the ability to destroy whatever he takes photos of, like a long-range disintegration ray. As long as Saiga can get behind the lens and capture the moment, he can turn anything in the frame into dust.

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Guilty Crown

A Young Boy Draws Out Others Power

In Guilty Crown, Shuu Ouma is an average teenage boy living in a world that has been overtaken by a deadly virus which has forced society under martial law rule by a corporation called GHQ. Shuu finds himself a member of the Funeral Patrol, a rebel group seeking to claim freedom from GHQ’s oppression.

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This leads Shuu down a bizarre road where he encounters the Void Genome, which bestows upon him the power of the kings. This power allows him to bring individuals’ innate powers, called Voids, into the physical world and use them as weapons. Each Void is unique to the person he draws it out of, and the power can range from destructive to cataclysmic.

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Inuyashiki

An Old Man Becomes A Weapon

Inuyashiki: Last Hero

Release Date

October 13, 2017

When an old man named Ichiirou Inuyashiki receives terrible news about his final days, the clock starts to count down. As he tries to reconnect with his family while keeping his illness a secret, he is met with opposition as it seems his best days are behind him.

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Things take a turn when Ichiirou encounters a strange object that morphs his biology into a mechanized replica of itself. Ichiirou is given monstrous abilities like flight, highly advanced weaponry, and near invulnerability. Becoming half-man, half-machine leads Ichiirou to do the right thing with this newfound power and become a protector of the people, just like the heroes in his favorite manga.

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The Elric brothers were ordinary boys until they attempted to bring their mother back to life using alchemy. This taboo act cost them greatly but bestowed upon them the power to do Alchemy instantly without the needed resources, such as a transmutation circle. This in turn grants them unimaginable power, even in a world where alchemy itself is already so powerful.

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