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Over Powered Main Character (OPMC for short): Is a genre of anime where the main character is more powerful then anyone else and thus never needs to train or anything else in order to win. This genre is not well known right now, but has always been extremely popular in manga and anime (Trigun for example was an OPMC anime), and is slowly gaining recognition.
Problem Children Are Coming From Another World Aren't They?
Theres more than one main character in this anime, but that doesn't stop Izayoi from standing out, a lot. Hes powerful, defeats people with ease, and loves fights. Whats more, him being awesome and OP does not distract from the great interesting story being told. As always the manga of this anime came first and its story continues past where the anime stopped, but that doesn't stop the anime from feeling fine where it stopped. Sure you want to know more about Izayoi, and uncover the secret of his immense power, but as I said, hes not a distracting character, there are two other main characters that you will love as well.
Irregular Magic High School
Onetruetatsuya a reddit group that more then proves just how awesome and OP Tatsuya is in this anime. This anime is all about Tatsuya and his life as an emotionless, super powered magician (due to his mother removing his emotions at birth). Some make the mistake of thinking hes weak in magic, but brilliant and thus makes the most out of what he has, that is wrong, his magic is super over powering to the point of his sister having a magic seal on him to hold his interference level down. The point is, Tatsuya is a genius, with a huge amount of power and every intention of using it with no emotional attachments (aside from his sister, his only emotion left was sibling love). This anime did not spawn from a manga surprisingly, and very few people have read the original material, the light novel (translation here). I have read the light novel, in fact I read the light novel before the anime came out, and the anime disappointed me. The anime cuts out more than half the information (internal dialogue of Tatsuya) which gives you insight into his character.
Kaze No Stigma
Kazuma is a decendent of a fire spirit wielding family, but is basically thrown away as his lack of ability to control the spirits is evident. This anime starts out when Kazuma is returning to Japan in his adulthood, not just as a spirit user, but as a wind spirit contractor the first contractor to be seen for thousands of years. Needless to say, hes powerful, and his character has a great back story (time between leaving family and coming back to japan), its sad, tragic, and yet full of happy memories. The other characters fill out the anime nicely, the crazy bitch girl who falls for him, the adorable little brother whos since of justice is even greater then his older brothers, and the old man trying to fix his daughter up with Kazuma. I like this anime a lot, but for some reason I feel like its out of place here, not sure why, but I had to include it.
Hagure Yuusha no Estetica
Akatsuki, stolen from his world by a well known phenomenon that wisps children away to other worlds, has become the great hero who defeated the demon lord of this other world, and returns back to his world as a super powered (though people underestimate him) adult. Oh, he also spirited away the demon lords daughter to his world with him without letting anyone know. Hes not the only one that returns, many have, theres even an organization that takes these people, and trains them (as if to be weapons in their world). Any way, Akatsuki pawns off the demon lords daughter as his sister, this whole "not really his sister" thing makes the ecchi moments easy to accept. Speaking of ecchi, theres a lot, its a really fun and enjoyable mix. The characters consist of pretty much all girls, with two exceptions but they rarely get screen time. The story is great, and makes you want to know all about these other worlds, and everything. Unlucky for us you will have to go to the Light novel to see what happens after the anime, its found here.
Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari
Familiar with the Tenchi Muyo series? Yep, this is another spin off of Tenchi Muyo, its subtle in its connections, but its there just enough to let you know. Kenshin is amazing, seriously, hes like the perfect guy in this series, what ever he does, he does perfectly (lol, even giving massages). Not only that, hes an expert swordsman, a pilot of a giant robot (males are rare to be able to), and hes from another world! The story is great, the world is interesting and unique, with a post apocalyptic history and ruins that contain great secrets to the downfall of that civilization. Theres some school life story here to, which is really fun as Kenshin is at first not a student, and the short time he is a student just further enhances are view of the world without distracting from everything else. I have not read any manga, or light novel for this anime, and saw no reason to look for any, as I love this anime.
Why Not This, or That?
SAO? Because its not something I felt like watching again and again, and though Kirito was powerful, he was annoying in other ways and the series didn't show enough of him being bad-ass.
Trigun? Because its well known and you have seen it (or better see it), its definally one of my top picks but is well known enough you are not looking for it.
Naruto/Bleach/One Piece/etc.? These are NOT O.P.M.C. anime, their main characters are NOT over powered, as they constantly get power ups and go through training, and even loss fights.
That all being said, yes there are other great O.P.M.C. anime out there not on this list, this list is only of five that I really love and watch again and again. There is no order to this list either.
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