Top 5 Badass Women of Anime – Sango

I’ve begun another top five! Woot! This one is a bit more difficult than the last. There aren’t a lot of girls that know how to hold their own in anime, But I love the ones that do!

So ranking at #5 on the countdown is Sango, from Inuyasha.

I had about a five minute debate on whether to pick Sango or Kagome. Sango won in the end. Don’t get me wrong, I’m an avid Kagome fangirl, but Sango does close combat fighting. Almost all the other girls in Inuyasha fight from afar, with arrows, mirrors, or riding on top of feathers.

So Sango won.

I love that Sango’s fighting style is purely original. Her weapon isn’t commonly used and she wields it well. And honestly, who wouldn’t be scared of a huge boomerang made out of demon hide? Ok? I know I would. If Sango came at me pissed I would run the hell away. ^.^

Sango has a very good personality. Sweet, caring, independent, vicious when need be. She also shows the affections of a sister to Kagome, and a love to Miroku.

Sango is one of the few women in Inuyasha that can hold her own while fighting. She doesn’t expect anyone to come to her rescue nor fall into helpless situations. Someone attacks her, she attacks back, end of story. And she’s pretty too. xD

Another great thing about Sango’s fighting scenes is her outfit change. She has enough common sense to change into armor before facing down vicious demons. She doesn’t stay in her usual outfit and ruin it, like you see in animes such as Ikki Tousen. But Inuyasha doesn’t contain as much fanservice as those animes, it’s more plot driven.

Sango can fight with a her boomerang, her katana and a mass amount of other demon exterminator items. She has a blade hidden in the sleeve of her outfit, and uses it at times when can not access her other weapons.

Unlike a lot of men in anime, Sango knows when to admit defeat, when it’s necessary to retreat and when to fight back. This could be due to training, or just common sense but she doesn’t let her pride get in her way duruing battle, as a lot of other anime characters do. *Cough* Inuyasha * Cough*

Another great thing about Sango is that she doesn’t use generic fighting lines like, “I’m going to destroy you”, “This will be the final blow,” and “You’re finished!”. But I’ve never come across a fighting anime girl that said such things, It’s the men that say it, the men I tell you!

Sango doesn’t waste much time with conversation in battle unless there is something important she needs to know. Meaning, that she doesn’t stand there wasting five minutes of a perfectly good episode talking about how much she’s gonna kick the other guy’s ass. This is why I prefer women battles in anime to those of men. Unless of course, you get one of those girls who is almost defeated and starts whimpering…cause that is just annoying.

Another great thing about Sango and anime women in general is that they aren’t afraid to admit to their weaknesses. They have a soft side that vanity and pride do not get in the way of.

And Sango’s biggest soft spot is her little brother, Kohaku.

In the anime he is used as Naraku’s pawn and has no free will nor memories of his own. Naraku and Kagura often use Kohaku against Sango in battle rendering her unable to fight at times, and making her fight with full force at others.

At one point Sango resolves to take Kohaku’s life, as well as her own, to free him from his entrapment. Something a true warrior would do, ending the suffering of one they love and then following them to the afterlife.

All in all, Sango ranks at five because she is a well-trained fighter with a great personality. She can keep control of her emotions at the important times and let the go freely when she feels the need too.

She is one of my favorite badass anime women, from a classic anime viewed in my noob days in the anime world. She ranks at five because I appreciate her, but others more so. But I knew she would have to be somewhere on the list. xD