Interest Stacks

One of the main ideas of the show is that great power should not be in the hands of one person or a small group of people, because it puts too much responsibility on them and actually makes it impossible to make intelligent choices, since so much now depends on them. Also part of this is a demonstration of how having too much power potentially leads to its abuse and violence against others, often even simply weaker people.

A study of the mutual influence of the power and personality of a person (or not quite a person) on each other. As well as demonstrating how important intelligence, experience and skill are compared to pure talent and pedigree.

The entire show is essentially a satire of overtrained and powerful characters in superhero and battle shonen anime. Quite smart and funny, although the show can often seem built on one joke.

Another story about the arms race and the possession of power comparable to a doomsday weapon. However, this time they are examined from a political-social perspective, demonstrating how a conventionally realistic state would treat such powerful and dangerous people. Also, as part of this, exploring the place of the military in the modern world and what this may lead to in the future.

At the beginning it is not yet as hypertrophied as in Z, but in general the entire franchise is not least devoted to how even the strongest people must constantly develop and grow above themselves in order to be able to respond to new threats and challenges.

Demonstrating that power can be both a source of abuse and a source of opportunity to protect loved ones. Also a deconstruction of the typical "get stronger to defeat a stronger enemy" concept.

A satire on fantasies of an easy life with omnipotent superpowers.

A story about how you can be a marginalized outcast even when you are actually the strongest person around.

A story about an OP character from the perspective of a stereotypical fantasy villain. The anime deconstructs both the idea of ​​"benevolent evil" and the coolness of super power, showing that having super might is a heavy burden for an initially caring and unprepared person.

A comedy about how even if you have cool superpowers, you can still end up an outcast in modern society if you don’t have sufficient social skills and experience.

An incredibly powerful alien forces children to compete to kill him in order to motivate humanity to evolve and achieve what they want.

A show that manages to simultaneously overuse all the "edgy dark OP anime" cliches while at the same time being a well-written and clever parody of that type of anime.

Anime version of the plot "My Girlfriend is a Superhero". In this case, the anime explores the idea of ​​being everydude the love interest of a powerful witch who fights evil.

The infamous tragic show, pioneering the "human doomsday weapons" characters. This show goes so far in deconstructing "children with superpowers saving the country" that back in those days, licensors or fan translators released the show with warnings and advice to seek psychological help. Long before the Western media starting loving this kind of things.

The show explores the role of power and authority in things like protecting marginalized communities or building nations and states. And also promotes the idea that power should be used to protect people and suppress violence, rather than to motivate it. Also, together with Overlord, this anime is a pioneer of the "OP fantasy countries" trend.

A semi-satiristic comedy about how superpowers can prevent a hero from living as an ordinary person and how real talent can be lost among scammers and crooks.

The show is about how even the darkest, cruelest and most terrible powers can be used for good and to protect the weak. Although this is potentially harmful to its user.

One of the show's themes is the value of power and how having it, or even trying to gain it, can affect a person in different ways.