10 Strongest Shonen Jump Characters Ever

Summary

• Shonen Jump
  stories tend to center around characters with over-the-top powers.
• The characters in
  Shonen Jump
  stories tend to be among the strongest in all anime and manga.
• Characters like Sukuna, All Might, and Gold Roger all showcase unbelievable power levels.

Shonen Jump has published various stories across multiple decades, but the biggest hallmark of their brand is undoubtedly their action stories. Some of the most popular action stories in anime and manga have come out of Shonen Jump, and going right along with that, they’ve become popular thanks in large part to how bombastic and over-the-top they make their action, either gradually or from the very start.

An action story that comes out of Shonen Jump will likely be as over-the-top as possible, and the characters involved in those stories tend to go along with that.

Whether it’s from the very start of their stories or near the end of them, many Shonen Jump stories tend to have characters who have grown to have utterly ridiculous levels of power compared to the rest of the cast, and that’s true of both the heroes and the villains. Some Shonen Jump characters have particularly stood out in that regard, and each one is especially worth highlighting.

The entries on this list will focus on stories published specifically in
Weekly Shonen Jump
and not any of its spinoff magazines.

10 Sukuna More Than Earned His Place as Jujutsu Kaisen’s Strongest Sorcerer

Jujutsu Kaisen

Sukuna is an ancient sorcerer from Heian-era Japan and one of the main antagonists of Gege Akutami’s Jujutsu Kaisen. Both in his old life and after reemerging in modern day, Sukuna has been defined by his bloodlust, sadism, and constant need for a good fight, all of which tend to be hard to satisfy with how much stronger than other sorcerers he tends to be.

Sukuna fights with both powerful slashing techniques and a fire-based ability comparable to a thermobaric weapon, and after taking over Megumi’s body, he even adds the versatility of the Ten Shadows to his arsenal, including the nigh-indestructible Mahoraga. The biggest showing of Sukuna’s power came about from how Sukuna defeated Gojo, the other character built up as one of the strongest characters in Jujutsu Kaisen, and after incarnating into his original body, he’s never stopped showing off just how much stronger he is than everyone.

9 All Might Has Always Been My Hero Academia’s Strongest Hero

My Hero Academia

Among the heroes in Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia, the most notable is All Might, the idol to Izuku Midoriya and many other characters old and young. All Might dedicated his life to stamping out villainy in and out of Japan, and by the time of the story, he’d long since become regarded as the symbol of peace and the number one hero in Japan and the world, at large.

One For All might not be as flashy as other Quirks, but the raw power of One For All puts All Might’s power on a level that not even All For One could surpass, and in his prime, his mere presence was enough to derail any villainous plot. All Might was forced to retire due to injuries, but his power is still used as a measuring stick, and it’s one that very few characters have ever been close to matching.

8 Gold Roger Was One Piece’s Pirate King For a Reason

One Piece

Gol D. Roger, better known as “Gold Roger”, was the Pirate King in Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece. Roger’s quest to accomplish that made him infamous among pirates and Marines, and upon his death, he set the entire story in motion by inspiring pirates to take to the seas and go after his legendary treasure, the titular One Piece, and become the new Pirate King.

Little is known about Roger’s life, but what is known paints a picture of an incredibly powerful fighter. Not only did Roger boast incredible physical abilities and mastery of advanced Conqueror’s Haki, but he was someone who explicitly outclassed Whitebeard, Kaido, and Garp in power, three characters who are often stated to be some of the strongest characters in the story. Roger’s power is something no one has ever surpassed in One Piece, and even with the series in its final saga, that’s unlikely to change.

7 Medaka Kurokami Is Invincible By Virtue Of Being Medaka Box’s Protagonist

Medaka Box

Medaka Kurokami is the titular hero of Nisio Isin and Akira Akatsuki’s Medaka Box. Medaka is introduced as the beautiful and charismatic student council president of Hakoniwa Academy, and while her conflicts start off relatively lowkey, they quickly escalate into physical battles of massive scales that often put the entire world at risk.

In addition to her superhuman physical and mental abilities, including an attack that allows her to move faster than the speed of sound, Medaka possesses two nigh-invincible abilities: God Mode, which lets her further augment her strength with various transformations, and The End, which lets her copy other superpowers and make them even stronger than they were in their original form. Najimi Ajimu, someone with over 12 quadrillion powers, once remarked that Medaka will always win a fight by virtue of being the protagonist, and overall, there’s plenty of truth to that idea.

6 Kaguya Ohtsutsuki Quickly Became Naruto’s Strongest Villain

Naruto

Kaguya Ohtsutsuki was the overarching villain of Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto and the one who helped form the foundations of the ninja world. Kaguya was sealed away for countless centuries by her children, but during that time, Black Zetsu, an extension of her will, manipulated people and events in the world, including Madara Uchiha, so she could return to the world and hijack the plot to trap the world in the Infinite Tsukuyomi.

Kaguya possesses incredible physical strength and has access to a wide variety of powerful ninjutsu, most notably her Kekkei Mora techniques that let her manifest fists of pure chakra and disintegrate people with weaponized bones. Kaguya was so powerful that Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi could only seal her away as opposed to kill her, and while Boruto: Naruto Next Generations has introduced characters stronger than her, Kaguya still stands as the strongest character in the original Naruto.

5 Kinnikuman Never Fails To Come Out With A Big Win

Kinnikuman

Kinnikuman is the titular hero of Yudetamago’s Kinnikuman and the bumbling hero of Japan. Kinnikuman never fully grows out of his man-child behavior, but throughout the story, he gradually matures into a more competent person and is always the wrestler people turn to when the world and the galaxy, as a whole, end up in danger.

Not only does Kinnikuman possess a wide variety of wrestling techniques derived from both the Kinniku royal family and Prince Kamehame’s tutelage, but one early story established that Kinnikuman is strong enough to throw someone as far as Pluto, a ridiculous feat of strength that similarly puts all Chojin in Kinnikuman on an incredibly high level of power. Every Chojin is capable of massive feats of strength, and as the hero of the story, Kinnikuman easily stands out as the strongest of them all.

4 Yhwach’s Power Nearly Breaks The Entire Setting Of Bleach

Bleach

Yhwach is the leader of the Wandenreich, an ancient and villainous organization of Quincies, and the final villain of Tite Kubo’s Bleach. After a fierce battle with Captain-Commander Yamamoto left Yhwach incapacitated for 1000 years, he returned to wage war on Soul Society once more and continue his mission of killing the Soul King and returning the three realms to the primordial state of old where there was no boundary between life and death.

As the king of Quincies, Yhwach’s Quincy abilities are far above other Quincies to the point that he can hold his own against someone like Yamamoto, and with his Schrift, “The Almighty,” Yhwach has the power to see the future and change it however he sees fit. Even when Yhwach was defeated, it was just barely so, and it’s hard to see him as anything other than the strongest character in all of Bleach.

3 Son Goku Was Quick To Grow Into Being Dragon Ball’s Strongest Fighter

Dragon Ball

Son Goku is the hero of Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball, introduced as a young boy with unnatural strength, a love of fighting, and the tail of a monkey. After growing into an adult, Goku was revealed to be a Saiyan, a nearly extinct race of powerful and bloodthirsty aliens, and learning that brought Goku and his friends into conflict with increasingly dangerous alien and generally sci-fi-based threats.

Goku was a powerful fighter from the moment he was introduced, and that only became more pronounced over the years as he continued to gain power under numerous teachers and unlocked his powerful Super Saiyan transformations. Goku has always shown off the best skill and overall power of any of the heroes, and while Dragon Ball Super and other stories have introduced characters stronger than Goku, the original Dragon Ball still ended with Goku becoming the strongest character in the universe.

2 Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo Is Nigh-Invincible Thanks To His Story’s Parody Stylings

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo

In the world of Yoshio Sawai’s Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, the world is under siege by the Chrome Dome Empire, a tyrannical empire seeking to leave everyone in the world bald. Leading the fight against them is Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, the bizarre master of the Super Fist of the Nose Hair, and in his fight against the Chrome Dome Empire, he slowly assembles a team of allies to help him who are just as weird as him, if not weirder.

Owing to the manga prioritizing comedy over logic, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo’s titular hero has some of the greatest feats of strength of any Shonen Jump character, with things like destroying stars, moving planets, and manipulating reality all being things that take zero effort on Bobobo’s part. Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo prides itself on never taking itself seriously, and thanks to that, its hero has a level of power few others can hope to match.

1 Akira Toriyama Created One Of His Strongest Characters In Dr. Slump’s Arale

Dr Slump

Dr. Slump was the debut work of Akira Toriyama and stars Arale Norimaki, a robot created to be the perfect little girl. Arale’s naivety, superhuman strength, and bizarre personality make her anything other than that, though, and most stories involve the many misadventures she and her friends go on, many of which involve one of her father’s inventions going awry.

Much like Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Dr. Slump being a gag story means that Arale casually has incredible feats of strength such as throwing the sun around and breaking the fourth wall to alter reality, and whenever she cameos in Dragon Ball, Arale has been shown to hold her own against some of Dragon Ball’s strongest fighters without so much as breaking a sweat. There are few characters in fiction capable of what Arale does, seriously or otherwise, and that easily makes her the strongest Shonen Jump character of all time.