The Anime With The Largest Casts

Stories typically follow a main character who is the perspective that readers, viewers, or consumers understand the story from. This is a system used in basically every form of media, including anime.

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That said, there are anime stories that span several characters who all have their part to play in the narrative. Anime with large casts are usually a lot of fun, and tend to be great entertainment for viewers. This list will look at some great anime series with huge cass tthat play significant roles in the story.

12 Fairy Tail

Several Guilds, Several Wizards

Fairy Tail primarily follows the adventures of Natsu and his fellow mages from Fairy Tail, a prominent guild in the kingdom of Fiore. Interestingly, the story is begins and, in a sense, really features Lucy as the storyteller.

The Fairy Tail guild has a large number of mages as members, and viewers get to know quite a number of them and their backstories as the series goes alone. Characters like Erza, Happy, Mirajane, Laxus, and so many more have become fan favorites. Even with a large cast, there’s a primary set of characters fans follow, and this helps to center the story.

11 Kekkai Sensen

Libra Is Made Up Of Many Colorful Characters

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Kekkai Sensen is a pretty underrated anime with a cast of fun characters, and some of the best music anyone will find in anime. The main protagonist is named Leonardo Watch, but what makes Kekkai Sensen brilliant is that through Leonardo, who is a weak character, fans can really get to appreciate the other stronger members of Libra.

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The storytelling of Kekkai Sensen is episodic and can get chaotic sometimes, but this hardly matters, as the large cast of lovely characters carry the show with consistent grace.

10 Classroom Of The Elite

A Psychological Rollercoaster

Classroom Of The Elite is one of those shows that got a first season that was well-received but kept fans waiting for years for a continuation. It tells the story of Ayanakoji Kiyotaka, a prodigy who wants nothing more than to stay under the radar, but at a school where scheming and wheedling are a way of life, his hopes of staying anonymous are unlikely to ever bear fruit.

Ayanakoji’s Class D already has a lot of characters that the viewers are introduced to and made to like, but other key players from Class A, B, and C are also important parts of the story that mesh well to create a compelling watch.

9 Attack On Titan

A Modern Classic

When Attack On Titan first burst onto the scene way back in 2013, everyone already knew that it was going to become a classic. 10 years on, with the series now ended, fans can look back on a very impressive cast of characters that everyone cared for.

Eren and the other members of the Survey Corps were closely knit by the constant threat of brutal death hanging over them all, and this was a show where the main character wasn’t the only one that developed along the way. There was great progression for each character, and their stories meant something, making it a show that did a great job of using its large cast to their fullest.

8 Monster

One Of Anime’s Most Terrifying Villains

Monster is mostly remembered for the absolute horror of Johan Liebert, the main antagonist of the series. Due to this, many might forget that it featured a surprisingly large cast with various interests.

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While Monster started with viewers following Dr. Tenma, the story soon shifted to several other parties, chief of which was Anna Liebert, who became Nina Fortner, and there were other prominent personalities who contributed to the story, including other minor antagonists like Eva Heinemann and Roberto.

7 Durarara!!

Everyone Loves Durarara!! Not Many Understand Durarara!!

Durarara!! Is a show that everyone claims to have seen and loved, but not as many people can sensibly articulate what exactly the series is about. This is partly due to the storytelling mechanism, which saw at least 11 different narrators all telling things from their point of view.

Broadly speaking, it does tell of a Dullahan who has had her head stolen and now wants to retrieve it. Durarara!! Comes loaded with a colorful cast that are all fun in their own way.

6 Baccano

Durarara!! But Set In The 1930s

So Baccano and Durarara!! Are quite similar, which is a no-brainer, since they were both written by the same person, Ryōgo Narita. Baccano also features a large cast of characters and the story is told in a non-linear fashion, which can make it difficult to follow.

That said, it also features great music and some very memorable personalities, like Claire Stanfield (Vino), Ladd Russo, and Isaac and Miria. Baccano is a memorable romp which mixes gangster violence with weird supernatural elements.

5 Dragon Ball

The OG Shonen Show

Dragon Ball has had such an influential role in anime that it is difficult to imagine the world of shonen without it. Dragon Ball broadly follows the exploits of Sun Goku as he seeks out seven mystical Dragon Balls.

Beyond all the hyped up fights and crazy shenanigans that go on in the show, Dragon Ball has an insane number of characters, with all their stories and dispositions available for the viewer to invest in both positively and negatively.

4 My Hero Academia

The World Of Quirks Is Amazing

My Hero Academia was touted as being the next huge shonen series, and while it started out with a huge following, that has undulated over the years. Midoriya Izuku is a young boy in love with heroes, but he has no powers, unlike most of the people in the world. He meets the greatest hero, All Might, and is chosen to inherit his powers.

MHA follows an entire hero society and, over many seasons, introduces dozens of characters from all walks of life, both heroes and villains. A large cast, no doubt, but the series is able to keep things manageable by focusing mostly on the students from Class 1-A.

3 Naruto

One Of The Big Three

Naruto is considered as one of the anime ‘Big Three,’ which is to say it was considered one of the most influential shonen shows of the 2000s alongside One Piece and Bleach. The series was all about Naruto Uzumaki, a ninja with a dream of becoming the Hokage.

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Naruto followed several ninja clans and many, many people, many of whom were incorporated into the main stories for one or several episodes. Naruto was an action-packed phenomenon which even spawned a sequel that was a lot less positively received, but expanded the cast even further.