If these anime don’t make you shed a tear, nothing will.
There’s nothing quite like a redemption arc to make a once-hated character loveable.
These characters tend to be powerful to begin with, so they’re valuable to the hero’s party.
Here are some of our favourites.
While Scar decides to make amends, there is no heroic sacrifice.
All he can do is live, rebuild, and strive to be a better person than before.
After learning that Beastmen are artificially manufactured cannon fodder, Viral’s dream is crushed and he faces defeat.
Years later, he reappears protecting humans, having grown to respect them.
Viral joins Simon in the final battle, claiming the seat of his martyred rival Kamina.
Endeavor is the exact opposite of that.
Even when he gets his wish, he doesn’t show his children any warmth.
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He finally proves himself to be an aspirational hero during the series' second-best battle.
As for repairing relations with his family, that’ll take time, but at least he’s trying.
Crushed by his hero turning out to be a fraud, Tsukishima refuses to take volleyball seriously.
Maybe if he’d watched Haikyuu like we did, he’d have learned to love the sport sooner.
Margery is cold, standoff-ish and known for her ruthlessness even by Flame Haze standards.
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Her constant drinking habit also lessens once she falls in love with a human.
When Shana and the other Flame Hazes depart from Earth, she chooses to stay behind.
Piccolo is eventually defeated and humbled by Goku in a losing effort at the World Martial Arts Tournament.
Something changed in those five years.
During the fight with Raditz, his cooperation is begrudging at best.
But after Goku’s death, he becomes a surrogate father to his rival’s son Gohan.
In high school, he decides to make amends with Nishimiya, the deaf girl he bullied.
A Silent Voice is heartrending and beautifully crafted.
Who would have thought a bully would grow to that point?
The only question was how he’d get there.
Robbed of his revenge, Thorfinn is left empty and becomes a farmhand.
This sets him off on the path to pacifism, refusing to be a killer once more.
This doesn’t mean Thorfinn is no longer a warrior; his is a different kind of war.
New anime is great, but sometimes the classics are even better.
