The STRONGEST Old Men in Anime RANKED and EXPLAINED 

Can we also get some love for Yuugi's Grandpa? His deck has NO weak cards and he can summon Exodia, which is impossible according to Kaiba

Yamamoto is probably peerless in the old man trope. Dude burned up all the water in his universe sized dimension just by entering bankai.... dudes unreal

“The majority of Whitebeard’s power came from his devil fruit” Well, yes but actually no

"When Ohnoki combines Earth, Wind, and Fire, he doesn't create catchy music..." I see what you did there, and I appreciate it

Whitebeard had his title while Roger was alive Also Netero was up there Meditating for Several years but less than a full decade.

Actually Whitebeard had the title of worlds strongest man while Roger was alive

First off, you should do a list of Old Women next. Granny Setsuno, Granny Chiyo, and Genkai are some of my favorite characters from their respective series. Second, Toriko should have definitely made an appearance on this list. Toriko has arguably 2-4 of the strongest old men in anime imo. Jiro vs Acacia and the blue Nitro is my favorite fight in anime and it’s basically just a showcase of how badass Jiro is.

I love when Netero launched Netero through the ground into an underground bunker. Also it was tragic when Netero blew up and poisoned Netero and all the chimera ants that came into contact with Netero's charred body

alright… i know he definitely isn’t as powerful as lot of these people… but he’s definitely just as much of a badass and that old man is Uncle Iroh. One of my favourite old guys in a show

Never underestimate an old man in anime. There's a reason they lived so long in a world of badasses.

I'll never get over that Adam vs Zeus fight. Adam should have had that fight! Never have I been more proud to be a human more than I did watching that fight. Sheeva better be glad Zeus decided to fight Adam, because Sheeva wouldn't have stood a chance. "What reason does a man need to protect his children?" 😭

I need you to read Kenichi: History's Mightiest Disciple asap. Not only is it an amazing read about a young man who was tired of being bullied who learns martial arts to protects himself and it becomes so much more. But Hayato Furinji is easily one of the strongest old men in manga. A man who has almost no equal.

Loved the video- but an iconic old guy in anime for me is Makarov Dreyar, the guild leader in Fairy Tail. With his fairy lore ability- he can delete anyone who he deems as an enemy. That’s pretty op.. maybe he doesn’t make a top 10, but an honourable mention.

One correction in terms of Onoki. He actually destroys all 25 of Madara's Susano'o clones in one move because the kage were struggling against them.

Hey Nick. I’m happy that you decided to branch out content wise. I’ve always got something to watch or listen to and it’s great! 🤙🏽

As a person who totally finished this video I love it

I love the very premise of this video, he puts it so well. my other favorite is what I call the ya done goofed moment, where the main character cuts lose and the person who thought they were hot shit is humbled. a perfect example of this in my mind is Ichigo catching ulquiora's cero spear in his bare hand and shattering it after we saw one has essentially the power of a nuclear bomb, and the look of shock, disbelief and panic he has. oh it's so perfect

The old man/elder in Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple should have been an honorable mention. He is league ahead of everyone in that series. And the series is full of people with totally ridiculous martial arts ability. So that alone should tell you.

Love the video and keep up the great work nick

Great video man

I was genuinely surprised when roshi wasn't number 1 considering you could highball him to universal, but then i was reminded about Zeus. Literally could highball him to outerversal

You forgot the fact that during the TOP Roshi had everyone thinking he had ultra instinct. This means Roshi could possibly master it.

Great video idea!!

Im glad to see your channels doing well Chris.

Hayato Fūrinji, Miu's grandpa from Kenichi: the Mightiest Disciple! should have least gotten an honorable mention. Dude was an absolute beast! 💪

Every time i see these lists, and i know its kind of absurd, but the grandmaster of kenichi in kenichi history's mightiest disciple. Dude ran on water, beat up sharks, split a pool with a rising kick, and is wuoted as the strongest in that universe where the masters demonstrate the real mechanics of why the technique works while being so overpowered they break that rule. Hyato i believe his name is is over 60 when met as well which qualifies as old man since near retirement age

Yeah really enjoyed this video man thanks big dog

I’ve been following all your pages for a while now and finally hearing you talk Tokyo Ghoul made me quite happy. Hoping for more eventually!

I think an honorable goes to Yhwach himself. He doesn't look as old as Yama but he is.

It always bothered me that Onoki wasn’t granted the badass old man treatment and was allowed to die in the war doing something epic. Instead he died like 20 years later when no one cared.

you are simply the goat 😤

Love your videos too much. When i first discovered you i watched basicslly everything on your naruto channel. So many videos, and this content i fucking love.

Lordgenome the Spiral King from Tengen Toppa Gurren Laggan I think deserves a villainous shoutout. He’s like 1,000 years old and is a universe shaking threat.

Honestly, i am sad that Makarov from Fairy Tail isn't on the list, not only is he physically really strong the fact that really powerful people like: Erza, Natsu, Grey, Gildarts and many many more look up to him makes him even stronger. And the in my opinion, the Bleach encyclopedia aka MrTommo2304 came up with a much easier name to pronounce Yhwach, he calls him Yuwabach since it is waay easier to say and it sounds waay better too, yeah you will probably get hate for mispronouncing it but its eighter one or the other.

Amazing video.......... Just thought you would add Hakurou from that time i got reincarnayed as a slime, And lmao when you called Meruem - Netero twice ... KEEP IT UP

Love thr content nick

"Always fear an old man in an occupation where men die young"

You should watch Kenichi the mightiest disciple and you should've added elder from that anime. One of the best martial arts anime I've ever seen.

Great video! Don’t ever forget about General Iron. Also 😢 I thought you had a robber in your house at the beginning of the video lol

Got be ones favourite video u done

The reason the "strong/wise old men" troupe is a thing is because in Asia, the saying "with age comes wisdom" is a thing. Hence, with that kind of thinking, troupes like the strong and wise old men characters became a thing.

Oda is sucker for old but strong trope like he introduced 6 more in last 2 chapter

Bro I saw your from tik tok and so I switched over. My guy your content is beautiful and amazing your easily my favorite RU-vidr now your amazing keep doing what your doing bro❤

Nice video

I never knew Nick liked or even read/watched record of ragnarok. If possible I'd love to see videos on it, record of ragnarok is one of my favorite series of all time and i wanna see Nick's perspective on it. (If possible of buddha or Qin Shi Huang my 2 favorite characters.

I will live and die and the badass old man trope hill it's such a satisfying moment

I’m unreasonably early thanks Nick I couldn’t find anything to watch so just in time:)

Good list

Actually Whitebeard was stated as the worlds strongest man during Rogers reign as the Pirate King. He was able to match Roger with haki alone, and he fought against admirals with extremely weak armament haki and almost non-existent observation haki and conquerors haki.

I think Garp could’ve been an honourable mention at least. Dudes a beast icl. Maybe not the top 10 but he was said to rival whitebeard and Roger and he only uses his fists so pretty damn strong I’d say

Big up my man Adam, deserved better

Now I want a video ranking and explaining the top 10 best anime tropes.

There is some misinformation about Yamamoto's power. Unohana stated, that Zanka no Tachi will destroy not only Seireitei, but entire Soul Society, which is minimum planetary, maximum universal level, by just being active for too long. So, Yama-ji should definitely be higher, than Roshi.

Nick my wife calls you my other boyfriend because I watch your videos all the time, I think we need to take a break it's not you it's me 😂

Great video as always my good sir. One big thing you should really discuss about Master Roshi sometime is his ability to fight Jiren in the manga. Now its more of a teaching moment for goku to show him about movement, all Roshi does is dodge a few blows from Jiren and doesn't land a single blow, but that doesn't really take away from roshi at all, considering the gods of destruction were quaking in there godly booties at full power Jiren. Not to mention in the manga all of the gods of destruction fight and beerus uses ultra instinct sign to dominate in the fight until his ultra instinct ran out. Still for a mortal old man to be dodging blows from a being potentially stronger than that of gods of destruction is buts.....although goku claims broly is stronger, I think you should give my green haired saiyan some love sometime.

After binge watching your videos recently I’m convinced that myriad is one of your favorite words

Whitebeard was called the strongest man in the world during Roger’s prime

I think Yoshimura deserved a lot more to be on the list than gakuganji, the first was discovered to be the top of the verse(at the time) while Gakuganji has a really interesting story arc but never was particularly threatening

Although I love silver fang I think the only switch I would do would be white beard over fang and then the rest of the list is sweet. Great video though I love hearing about all the old heads

Point of feed back, could you include anime names in future lists like this? Still fun to listen to!

21:20 WB Never used his DF against Roger they only fought with acoc Haki against each other, if WB would’ve fought with his DF the collateral damage would be to big for both crews and the world itself

Don’t forget with hiruzen, he sealed them with only 1/3rd of his power each

I loved this one cause this had some of my fav characters of all time

0:55 Nice

Head Captain Yamamoto has to be number 1

Yo Please do What If Guts(Currently) from Berserk was Teleported into the Demon Slayer World?

Do you have a video ranking the various Shonen power systems?

Will you be making Record of Ragnarok content? Like your vids btw.

Silvers Rayleigh is easily among the top twenty strongest beings in One Piece. He can duel Admirals to a deadlock with minimal difficulty and to date only Yonko's like Shank's and Black Beard have been stated as being canonically stronger than him. And even then, its explicitly stated that that is ONLY because of how much weaker he has gotten in his old age.

I agree that Yamamoto is just Planet level. Bleach fans like to push it to universal and beyond.

I was wondering if you were gonna add Record of Ragnorok 🙌🏿

Thank you for the bang appreciation.

never underestimate old man strength, even in real life

You can’t tell me Rick Sanchez wouldn’t decimate this entire list 😂. The Coolest, Deadliest Grandpa in the Multiverse 😮‍💨

The Fire Nation approves of this fire content 🔥

Btw, please consider making a video on Strong Old Women in anime and manga.

Damn it took Nick longer to explain Yamamoto than it took Yamamoto use every ability of his bankai for no good reason and than get one-shot because he just assumed he killed quite literally Jesus.

A few folks I’d have maybe considered for the list. Definitely like the list but if you wanted to go with at most one person per series these may have been some good ones to consider. 1) Makarov from Fairy Tale. 2) Gol D Roger from One Piece 3) Father / Van Hoenheim from FMA: Brotherhood 4) Demon King Piccolo from original Dragon Ball 5) Iroh or Bumi from Avatar TLA 6) Old Man Joseph Joestar from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure 7) Lord Genome from Gurren Lagan

I would say wrath from full metal alchemist should of been on the list or honorable mention,good vid man

U should rank em based physical types and power types

I'm not gonna lie, that Bang over White Beard placement caught me off guard NC

I love the earth wind and fire reference 😂😂

Nick where’s the podcast episode for this week?

32:03 it would be a fun challenge for you to pronounce the South move of Yamamoto right here. The name is insane

I need you to do a theory or just talk about mob or is it mod psycho 100

Can you do more videos about tokyo ghoul??

While you talked about Zeus from Record of Ragnarok, I thought you could also talk about Kojiro Sasaki from the same serie, who managed to surpass and even kill Poseidon, "the Zeus of the seas"

Can you pls rank the Imperial Arms thankss

0:52 hey in the back 👋 WE SEE YOU. WE ALL SEE YOU.

Wait you just finished dressrossa but you made a short after this vid talking about thriller barc😂🤔

Now I’m just dying to hear Nick talk more about Record of Ragnarok. There’s a lot you can rank and explain!

"We're talking about strong old men" is a crazy statement 😅

next do completely broken anime characters (gojo, all might, etc.)

Next video suggestion best anime dad's powers or not 👈💥💯🔥🔥

it's pronounced yo-he-ved. love your content!

Can you do the video about Hitman Reborn

Rankings and explaining the best one who can bs in a fight? Or the best capper ( buggy, king, mr. Satan, etc) 82nd time.. can you talk about Katekyo Hitman Reborn (when you watch)

@5:59 Mom walks across the doorway! Lol

I think the direction yamamotos bankai starts off at is based on where his katana is pointing at the moment of release. It was east cause his sword faced east, 1000 years prior he only used west.

How about the Trope of powerful absentee fathers? A lot of my favorite characters on that list.