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(#11) Kugaha - 'Noragami'
Kugaha's serves as one of the main antagonists in the world of Noragami, but he actually has a pretty good reason for his behavior. He serves under a god called Bishamonten as a shinki - that is, a spirit who has been chosen by a god to fight in their service and transform into a weapon for their use.
Bishamonten has more shinki than she can handle. Not only does she need to provide for all of their physical needs, but she's also dramatically impacted by their emotions. When her shinki feel neglected, depressed, or anything else that's negative, she feels it physically in the form of an illness called blight. It gets so bad that Bishamonten is nearly nonfunctional.
Kugaha decides to rectify this state of affairs by taking Bishamonten's life so that she can be reincarnated into someone who won't take in every stray she can find and destroy herself in the process. Because he thinks of himself as one of the few shinki worth Bishamonten's time, he's fairly accused of arrogance - but he was also trying to save his goddess from herself.
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(#7) Shougo Makishima
- Psycho-Pass
In the world of Psycho-Pass, people are judged as 'latent criminals' before they've ever committed a single crime. As a result, people are arrested and deprived of all personal freedom even when they're completely innocent. Even worse, emotional disturbances caused by being the victim of a crime can cause a person to be so labeled, and so can participation in the arts. Personal freedom is nonexistent.
Shougo Makishima can't be read by the scanners that determine everyone else's criminal status. He decides to use this fact to his advantage in order to crash the system and set society free. This would be an extraodorinarily noble goal if his methods weren't so savage. Makishima doesn't care who he has to destroy in order to achieve his goals. In fact, he does everything from slit a young woman's throat to attempt to starve an entire nation by destroying its grain supply.
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(#13) Kagemitsu Daigo - 'Dororo'
Kagemitsu Daigo's behavior is appalling, but he didn't do it for no reason. He traded his first-born child's organs and limbs to a band of demons in exchange for bringing prosperity and peace to the formerly barren and wartorn land that he controlled - thus ensuring the survival of everyone there.
While it's possible to argue that Daigo did what he did solely for the sake of personal power, it's also impossible to ignore the thousands of people who avoided starvation because of him. Is it fair to ask Hyakkimaru to make a sacrifice he wouldn't make on his own? Absolutely not - but that's exactly what makes him an anti-villain.
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(#9) Treize Khushrenada
- Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
Treize Kushrenada wants to end all war, but his ideas about how to do so are some of the most violent ones imaginable. He decides to start a war so heinous that no one will ever dream of starting another war again - and he's willing to do anything it takes to make that happen.
Despite his willingness to commit atrocities in the name of peace, he feels deeply guilty about every person whose life is lost in the process. In fact, he even sets up a memorial to commemorate them.
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(#4) Archer - 'Fate: Unlimited Blade Works'
Archer began as a heroic person who desperately wanted to save as many people from danger as humanly possible. However, because of the role he was forced to occupy, he's assigned the task of taking lives in order to protect humanity as a whole. This is utterly miserable for him, since he's a man of principle.
In the midst of this difficult situation, he decides to take out Shirou Emiya, a version of himself from an alternate universe. He believes that this will ultimately prevent further catastrophe, but it casts him in the role of villain during one of the versions of Fate's extensive timeline.
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(#6) Suzaku Kururugi
- Code Geass
More than anything in the world, Suzaku Kururugi wants a life free from warfare. To ensure peace, he's willing to make some major sacrifices. Those sacrifices include taking his own father's life to prevent him from leading an uprising and willingly being subjugated by the Brittainians, who consider him to be less than human because he's Japanese.
His own safety, comfort, and morality are less important to him than his desire to maintain stability at all costs - which is why he opposes Lelouch, who wants to bring about a violent end to the oppression that Suzaku faces. As the series continues, Suzaku's opinions evolve, but this is the place where he starts.
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