25 Best Anime School Girls Ranked You Need To Check Out in 2023
Throughout the history of anime, various characters have appeared on the screens, some of which represent certain social and cultural movements. And while school girls aren’t really a subculture in its own right, the symbolism is very important for a lot of anime series. School girls are often featured in various anime series, and in this article, we are going to bring you a ranked list of the 25 best school girl anime characters.
25. Michiru Kaiō / Sailor Neptune
Franchise: Sailor Moon
Like other Sailor warriors in the Outer Solar System, Sailor Neptune did not spend her previous life with Princess Serenity at the Silver Millennium, but at Triton Castle, her castle that floats in orbit around the planet Neptune. Sailor Neptune is the warrior of the abyss and draws her powers from the ocean. From her position, she ensures the protection of the solar system against its external enemies.
Alone, on her planet where a sea of sand stretches as far as the eye can see, she contemplates the Silver Millennium and the Serenity family. During Queen Beryl and Metallia’s attack on the Silver Millennium, Sailor Neptune, like the other Sailor warriors of the Outer Solar System, Sailor Pluto and Sailor Uranus, is ordered not to intervene. From afar, all three hear the agonizing cries of the Selenites.
At this point, Sailor Neptune’s talisman, her Deep Aqua Mirror, resonates with the weapons of Sailor Pluto and Sailor Uranus.
24. Himiko Toga
Appears in: My Hero Academia
A mentally unstable and sadistic young girl inspired by Stain, who develops a romantic obsession with Midoriya, often seeing him battered.
She was once a girl belonging to a wealthy family, but because of her power she became irremediably attracted to blood, going so far as to kill a companion she liked and then drink his blood, taking pleasure in it: this event led her to flee. home and to be discriminated against until she joined the Union.
23. Noel Niihashi
Franchise: BURN ☩HE WITCH
Noel is a fairly stoic young woman who responds to most situations with a mixture of seriousness and dry observations. She likes wearing uniforms, as they show others who she is without her having to do it herself, and she prefers others to call her by her first name. However, she also has a slightly goofier and less aloof side.
She likes Balgo Park’s dog Osushi and has treats with her to feed him. She likes Japanese culture a lot, to the point of adopting Noel as her first name because it’s a girl’s first name in Japan, and using the theme song from the Dragon Ball anime as her cell phone ringtone.
22. Minako Aino / Sailor Venus
Franchise: Sailor Moon
Minako Aino, aka Sailor Venus or Sailor V, is one of the characters in the anime and manga series Sailor Moon as well as its prequel, Codename: Sailor V. She is a high school student who has the power to transform into a Sailor Senshi called “Sailor Venus”, one of the Sailor Senshi of the Solar System, who have protected the protagonist Sailor Moon since the time of the Moon Kingdom.
When Minako Aino meets Usagi Tsukino, who is dedicated to fighting evil as the eponymous heroine of Sailor Moon, Minako herself has already been serving as another mysterious vigilante as well, under the alias “Sailor V”. V joins Sailor Moon’s team, however, she adopts the battle name “Sailor Venus”.
As the series progresses, it is discovered that the reason Minako can transform in this way is because she is actually the reincarnation of Sailor Venus, a Sailor Senshi-type warrior who hailed from the planet Venus and protected the princess of an ancient kingdom called the Silver Millennium in her past life.
On the other hand, while in the manga and anime she is only portrayed as a teenager who dreams of becoming a famous singer, in the live-action series version, in contrast, her character was redesigned to already be (from the beginning) a young celebrity. Minako’s character is first introduced in the prequel manga Codename: Sailor V, where she acts as the protagonist.
In this story, Minako’s origins as “Sailor V” and her first adventures with her inseparable companion, the cat Artemis, are told. Sailor V’s plot is generally consistent with the more recent Sailor Moon series but generally, the two stories are considered separately. Minako later co-starred with Rei Hino (Sailor Mars) in a short story included in the Sailor Moon manga titled “Rei and Minako’s School Battle”.
21. Nejire Hado
Franchise: My Hero Academia
Third-year student and one of the three strongest students in the school (the Big 3); she took Ochaco and Tsuyu under her protection during the internships, taking them with her to Pro Hero Ryukyu, of which Nejire is her assistant. As a hero alias she simply goes by the name of Nejire-chan.
A great friend of Mirio and Amajiki, she has a cheerful and talkative personality. Her Quirk is called Wave and allows her to transform her vital energy into shock waves (made yellow-gold in the cardboard), which for some reason move in a spiral motion and are powerful, but relatively slow.
She also knows how to use them to levitate and, if she uses her power for a long time, she can be severely fatigued by having converted too much physical stamina.
20. Makoto Kino / Sailor Jupiter
Franchise: Sailor Moon
Sailor Jupiter is with Sailor Uranus one of the warriors with the greatest physical strength. Her costume is green with pink bows. In most adaptations, it has a belt at the waist, where a plastic ball containing a potpourri is attached. Sailor Jupiter masters electricity and is the warrior of lightning and courage. She also masters the forces of nature.
During the ancient Silver Millennium, Sailor Jupiter was part of Princess Serenity’s personal guard. She was also the princess of the planet Jupiter and her palace, Io Castle, floats around her planet. Sailor Jupiter ends up perishing in the struggle between the Selenites of the Silver Millennium and the Terrans, manipulated by Queen Beryl and Metallia.
After the war, Queen Serenity sends her soul to Earth to be reincarnated in the future.
19. Kyōka Jirō
Franchise: My Hero Academia
A hermit girl who is a fan of rock and heavy metal. From her earlobes dangle jack plug connectors which she is able to extend and move at will, they are able to connect to seemingly anything. Through them she can transmit her heartbeat which allows her to stun a rival if she connects them to her head or generate large sound waves if she connects them to some kind of amplifier.
The downside to her Quirk is that her enhanced hearing makes her vulnerable to sonic attacks. Her hearing is very sensitive and this is shown when they were in a fight to win their provisional license, and other students from other schools participate against them and connect a speaker that at maximum volume damaged and knocked Jirō unconscious. Her best friend is Momo.
18. Ninny Spangcole
Franchise: BURN ☩HE WITCH
Ninny Spangcole is a witch who works for the Inverted World’s Wing Bind. She is Noel Niihashi’s partner. Nini is a young girl with green eyes and blond hair. Her hair is tied with 2 pink ribbons that form two quilts. She is dressed in a green uniform with a pink bow tie. Nini is a very impulsive girl, she often gets angry at trivial things or situations.
For example, she yells at two repairmen who install a large TV, instead of repairing the door of the western branch. This proves that she is a capricious girl who thinks only of herself. She insists that Noel shouldn’t call her Nini-san, as her eldest son, she criticizes her younger daughter every chance she gets because she’s Japanese.
17. Haruka Ten’ō / Sailor Uranus
Franchise: Sailor Moon
Haruka Ten’ō, aka Sailor Uranus, is a fictional character from the anime and manga series Sailor Moon. This character is first introduced in the third story arc of the original manga (known by the name of Infinity), as well as in the Sailor Moon S season of the 1990s animated version. Within the group of Sailor Senshi of the Solar System, Sailor Uranus belongs to the team of the Sailor Senshi of the External Solar System, who are in charge of protecting the Kingdom of the Moon and Silver Millennium since ancient times.
Haruka Ten’ō is the reincarnation of Sailor Uranus, a Sailor Senshi-type warrior who hailed from the planet Uranus and protected a kingdom called the Silver Millennium in her past life. When Haruka regains the memory of that previous life, she regains the supernatural powers that she had as Sailor Uranus. From then on she adopts the identity and appearance of Sailor Uranus every time she must fight evil together with Sailor Neptune, and later, also with Sailor Moon and her friends. She is known for her relationship with Sailor Neptune.
16. Anri Sonohara
Franchise: Durarara!!
Mikado’s classmate. Anri is 15 years old and appears to be a shy and quite quiet young girl but she spends a lot of time with Mikado and Kida. She is really cute and does not leave the boys indifferent. She gives the impression of being quite out of touch with reality, and is looking for a former missing college friend, Mika Harima.
She also knows Seiji Yagiri. We learn that she is the real Ripper, the owner of the Cursed Sword Saika and after defeating the False Ripper, she takes control of the latter’s “Cursed Sword Army”.
15. Lisa Yadōmaru
Appears in: Bleach
Always provided with an adult book, this girl does not lack resources and will manage to hold out for a few minutes against Ichigo in Hollow mode. Dressed like a schoolgirl, she is an impulsive young girl.
She was the vice-captain of the 8th Division, under the command of Kyōraku Shunsui. We notice his striking resemblance to Nanao, whom she knew to read to him. Her Zanpakutō release (shikai) looks like a giant spear.
14. Hino Rei / Sailor Mars
Franchise: Sailor Moon
Sailor Mars is one of the most reckless warriors. She masters fire and is the warrior of flame and passion. In the days of the ancient Silver Millennium, Sailor Mars had been a part of Princess Serenity’s personal custody from childhood. She was also the princess of the planet Mars and her palace, Phobos-Deimos Castle, floats around the red planet.
Sailor Mars ends up perishing in the struggle between the Selenites of the Silver Millennium and the Terrans, manipulated by Queen Beryl and Metallia. After the war, Queen Serenity sends her soul to Earth to be reincarnated in the future.
13. Ochaco Uraraka
Franchise: My Hero Academia
A rather frank and lively girl, a 1-A student like Midoriya and Bakugo. Despite her usually sunny appearance and character, she is very determined to become a great heroine. She has a Quirk called Zero Gravity, which allows her to cancel the effect of gravitational force on whatever object she touches with the pads she has on the last joint of her fingers and can cancel the effect of her power at any time. She can also make herself free from gravity by placing her hands in a particular position.
12. Ami Mizuno / Sailor Mercury
Franchise: Sailor Moon
Sailor Mercury is the smartest warrior in the bunch, with a gifted IQ of 200 IQ points. Her costume is a shade of blue, and in most adaptations, her top is, unlike other warriors, sleeveless. With her handheld computer and special glasses, she analyzes the situation and determines the attack strategy of the Sailor Warriors.
Sailor Mercury masters water in all its forms and is the warrior of water and wisdom. In the days of the ancient Silver Millennium, Sailor Mercury was part of Princess Serenity’s personal guard.
11. Mei Misaki
Franchise: Another
Mei Misaki is one of the protagonists of the series and a class 3-3 student in 1998. She was referred to by her fellow students to be the “ignored” of the class. Beautiful, calm, and mysterious, Misaki has a doll’s eye that can see death after losing hers to illness. She had a twin sister whom she adored and saw her in secret, but the latter died.
10. Chibiusa
Franchise: Sailor Moon
Chibiusa, or Sailor Chibi Moon, is a character that appears in Naoko Takeuchi’s Sailor Moon manga, and in the other television and theater versions of the same work. This character is first introduced in the second story arc of the original manga (known by the name “Black Moon arc”), as well as in the second season of the 90s anime series Sailor Moon R. and in season 2 of Sailor Moon Crystal.
She is the future daughter of Usagi Tsukino and Mamoru Chiba, who fight evil under the identity of two vigilante superheroes, “Sailor Moon” and “Tuxedo Mask”. Her daughter, Chibiusa, comes from the 30th century in which Usagi and Mamoru are already adults2 and have become “Neo Queen Serenity” and “King Endymion”, sovereigns who protect the planet Earth.
Chibiusa travels to the 20th century initially to seek help when the future world she lives in is attacked by a group of enemies called the Black Moon. Once Black Moon’s are defeated, she returns to the past once more. But this second time she is to train as a Sailor Senshi, a type of heroine who fights for justice, and adopting the name “Sailor Chibi Moon”.
It is then that he helps his future parents and his friends to defeat other groups of enemies, among them the Death Busters in the third season (called “Infinity” in the manga, Sailor Moon S in the first anime, and “Season III” in Sailor Moon Crystal), and the Dead Moon Circus from the Dream story arc in season four (which was adapted first as the Sailor Moon SuperS saga in the 1990s anime, and later as the Sailor Moon Crystal film sequel, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal).
9. Maki Zen’in
Franchise: Jujutsu Kaisen
A young exorcist in the first class at the Tokyo Curse School. Along with Toge and Panda, she recruits Megumi and Nobara (and later Yuji) to participate in the tournament against the Kyoto Twin School. She comes from a prestigious exorcist clan and is heir to it as the eldest child, but due to her low occult strength, she and her twin sister Mai have been demoted to the rank of clan servant.
8. Kotonoha Katsura and Sekai Saionji
Franchise: School Days
Sekai is a first-year student. She is a very cheerful and friendly girl. Sitting next to him in class, she sees the photo Makoto secretly took of Kotonoha on her cell phone. She helps him get close to Kotonoha, though she will gradually fall in love with him as well. Despite her cheerful demeanor, Sekai can sometimes be selfish, hysterical, and manipulative.
She is the daughter of Youko Inou (who changed her last name to Saionji), one of the protagonists of the game Summer Radish Vacation!! and she works at Radish, a restaurant that belongs to her family. In the anime, she tries to help Makoto date Kotonoha, but ends up falling in love with him. Makoto, bored with how prudish Kotonoha is, decides to go after Sekai and they start seeing each other on the sly.
Sekai becomes pregnant and Makoto decides to go back to Kotonoha, who was devastated by Makoto’s betrayal. Desperate, Sekai kills Makoto with a knife and is later killed by Kotonoha, who accuses her of faking her pregnancy to take Makoto away from her.
Shy and reserved, Kotonoha is a first-year student. She is reputed to be very beautiful and with a voluptuous figure, which makes her popular with boys and hated by girls (especially Otome and her friends). At first, Makoto is in love with her and always watches her from the train. Thanks to Sekai they both end up being a couple and Kotonoha is happy to finally have a boyfriend and a friend.
Despite her calm demeanor, Kotonoha is very weak mentally, which means that she can blame herself for everything, imagine things or even be manipulative just to have Makoto by her side. Her family is rich and she lives with her parents and her younger sister Kokoro. In the anime, Kotonoha slowly begins to freak out knowing that Makoto is cheating on her with her supposed friend Sekai and her desperation to keep him by her side.
Makoto feels guilty for cheating on her and decides to leave Sekai, but this causes him to be killed by her. Kotonoha later sees what happened and cuts Makoto’s head off, which he shows to Sekai before killing her in revenge for her boyfriend’s death.
7. Nobara Kugisaki
Franchise: Jujutsu Kaisen
A first-year witch studying at the Tokyo Institute of Occult Arts under the tutelage of Gojo. She moved to university to be able to live in Tokyo free of charge. She meets Itadori and Megumi during her first official mission as a sorcerer. Nobara is a lively woman with great confidence in herself and in her ability to overcome any situation. Although she is not nearly on the same level as Yuji, Nobara proves she can be ignorant or misinformed on several occasions. She uses a hammer and nails infused with her magical power as a weapon to exorcise curses.
6. Yuno Gasai
Franchise: Future Diary
Yuno Gasai, known as “the Second” is Yukiteru’s classmate; an excellent pupil, and supposedly fiancée of Yukiteru, she does everything to protect him, even at the cost of her life, following him throughout the game. She wishes Yukiteru to win, but does not know how to control his reactions and hides heavy secrets.
Her Mirai Nikki, the “Diary of Love” is a cell phone that provides her with information about Yukiteru’s future ten minutes in advance.
5. Rias Gremory
Franchise: High School DxD
She is the high school Madonna, Issei’s mistress and lover, and a woman people admire without restraint. Her true identity is that of Princess Crimson-Haired Ruin, heiress of one of the most powerful dynasties of demons, the Gremory.
Officially, she is admitted to high school as part of a Japan-Scandinavia student exchange, but she is actually the president of the occult research club, serving as a den for demons under her orders. Her rank as a chess piece is “King”, she is the one who directs the pieces under her orders, of which Issei is a part.
She is an almost invincible heroine, who quickly understands the incredible power slumbering in Issei and consequently takes a great interest in him. His brother is actually one of the Demon Kings, Lord Sirzerch.
Both possess the power of destruction, a fantastic ability to pulverize any target. She resurrects Issei as her servant after finding him dead, slain by a fallen angel, and possessing a rare Sacred Relic.
4. Saeko Busujima
Franchise: Highschool of the Dead
Saeko is a senior high school student in grade 3-A, and president of the kendo club very skilled with a bokken as well as hand-to-hand combat. Younger, she seriously injured a man, after voluntarily putting herself in an assault situation to test her skills using her bokken. Calm and confident in her skills, not much is known about her family except that her father went abroad to participate in a martial arts championship, and that he was the master of Saya’s father.
Following the “path of the sword” Saeko possesses a great sense of honor and considers that a promise should be kept even at the expense of his own life. Takashi helped her to accept herself as she is, with her dark side, and as a result their relationship grew closer, revealing to Rei’s dismay a certain “interest” in the young man.
3. Ran Mōri
Franchise: Detective Conan
Ran Mōri is a fictional character and the female protagonist of the manga and anime series Detective Conan, created by Gōshō Aoyama. She is temperamentally sweet, mature, intelligent, thoughtful, selfless, and understanding, as can be seen from her approach to Conan and the “Detectives Boys”. At the same time, she is able to quickly intimidate most of the characters when she is angry, becoming very violent.
The young Ran is also a karateka, winner of various prizes and awards; thanks to her skill, she manages to free herself from the thugs and incapacitate them. Ran is Shinichi Kudo’s childhood friend, whom she is in love with, and he is in love with her as well; however, the two cannot become a couple, as Shinichi becomes a child again due to the APTX4869.
Ran’s best friend is Sonoko Suzuki, whom she also met at an early age. Over the course of the series, Ran also becomes very attached to Kazuha Toyama.
Ran Mōri was born in Tokyo and is the only daughter of Kogoro Mōri, a private detective, and Eri Kisaki, a very successful lawyer. From the beginning of the series, the girl would like the reconciliation of her parents, who separated for stupid reasons, as explained in the second film. Being the woman of the house, she often makes her father go straight, who apparently would like to devote himself only to drinking and slacking off.
Since the beginning of the series, she has been in love with her childhood friend Shinichi Kudo. Her love is unknowingly reciprocated, but due to the boy’s shrinking size, the two cannot declare to each other their feelings. Their relationship is very complicated and profound, torn by distance and nostalgia.
She often mentions Shinichi in Conan’s presence, showing him all her affection and all her patience in waiting for him. With Conan’s arrival, she will almost lean on the incredible similarity the two have, sometimes coming to suspect her double identity. Conan will always manage to get away with it, promising her that Shinichi will come back to her someday.
Although she is the female co-star, she has never had a direct confrontation with the Black Organization, the main antagonist of the series, also due to the fact that Conan hides the truth and the existence of the organization from her so as not to involve her and expose her to danger. During the case of the Halloween party, she saves Ai Haibara from Vermouth, acting as a shield for her, but not seeing the woman in her face and therefore not associating her with Sharon Vineyard. She does not shoot her, feeling indebted to the one who, a year before, had saved her life in New York.
2. Usagi Tsukino / Sailor Moon
Franchise: Sailor Moon
Ten thousand years ago, Sailor Moon was still just Princess Serenity, heir to the Silver Millennium, the kingdom on the moon. She is surrounded by Queen Serenity, her mother, and her four bodyguards, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, guided by Sailor Venus. The Princess Serenity admires the Earth from afar, which she finds absolutely wonderful.
At a ball, she meets Prince Endymion, the Prince of Earth. They fall in love with each other and live their love underground. But one day, Metallia and Queen Beryl manipulate the Terrans, who end up invading the Moon. Prince Endymion comes to Princess Serenity’s rescue, but the two lovers end up perishing along with all the other inhabitants of the Moon.
Queen Serenity uses her last strength to seize the Silver Crystal and sends her daughter’s soul to Earth to be reincarnated in the future. Sensing the awakening of Beryl’s Metallia at the end of the twentieth century in Tokyo, Luna, a pet of Queen Serenity (Queen Serenity) also comes out of her torpor and goes in search of the Sailor warriors.
1. Orihime Inoue
Franchise: Bleach
Orihime Inoue is a young orphan high school student. Her older brother brought her with him when he ran away from home. Their mother was a prostitute and their father was often absent. They were 18 and 3 years old. So it was he who raised her. However, he died three years before the start of the series. Inoue is nice by nature and has a fairly passive character, she lets herself go too often.