However, when you see a weird anime girl in the wild, they tend to stand out. You tend not to forget them as a character, and if weird anime girls are your thing, we've rounded up the most unusual ones.

13. Nakamura from Aku no Hana

It's a shame that Flowers of Evil didn't get its full run because you never really unravel or even understand the mysterious raging torrent of teenage rebellion that is Nakamura.

You see her manipulate and blackmail a somewhat normal, if extremely pretentious, teenager after taking him in as a degenerate and eventually molding them until they are like soulmates.

It all culminates in them destroying public property, imploding relationships, and running away from home with all the planning of an eight-year-old.

It's Nakamura and Flowers of Evil's unique and mysterious choice of art style that makes the series an experience. Although, to this day, no one can agree on whether that experience is good or not.

12. Mikoto Urabe from Nazo no Kanojo

Mysterious Girlfriend X is probably the weirdest romance anime you'll ever watch. The female love interest is Urabe.

The main character tastes some of his drool on a whim, and they bond over it.

Of course, her drool-based power isn't the only weird thing about her, as she also keeps a pair of scissors in her underwear that she uses as a weapon.

I wish I could explain all of this logically, but I really don't think anyone can.

11. Tomoko from Watamote

While being a female otaku isn't that weird, Tomoko makes it weird. Or rather, she makes it really weird to watch.

This is Watamote in a shell – a creepy comedy anime that is almost painful to watch at times.

Tomoko is a graduate of a recluse's compulsory education and has the lack of social skills of someone who has never dealt with a real human being.

It's played for comedy, but for all the other introverts and semi-closetite out there, it might hit too close to home to be an enjoyable comedy.

10. Rikka Takanashi from Chunibyou 

Similar to Tomoko above, Rikka is a girl who is sometimes so scary that it can be hard to watch.

However, unlike Watamote, which portrays this in the harsh light of day, Love, Chunibyou, and Other Delusions paints a rather cutesy veneer over it.

Rikka is not an otaku, she's a chunibyou—a Japanese-specific term that quantifies the wild delusions of grandeur that come from adolescence and usually pass with age.

You know, where you imagine that you have some great power or are somehow magically special – that sort of thing.

While the actual main character of Love, Chunibyou, and Other Delusions is growing out of that phase, as kids do, and looking back on it with a shudder, Rikka is still firmly in the thick of it, even as a high schooler.

9. Nino from Arakawa Under the Bridge 

Arakawa Under the Bridge is one of those series built around strange characters. You have a normal guy who finds himself surrounded by strange homeless people living under the city bridge. Nino is the one who brought him there.

Unlike the mayor who dresses like a kappa or the guy with a star on his head, Nino doesn't actually to look weird.

She only claims to be from Venus and sleeps in the drawer of a luxurious bed inside her cardboard house.

The interesting thing is that the series really makes you wonder if what it says is actually true, and maintaining the mystery is quite a feat when it frequently explains away the other weirdness with realistic explanations.

She's actually one of the least strange characters in Arakawa Under the Bridge, but that doesn't exactly make her normal either.

8. Ame Ochibana from Denpa-teki na Kanojo

While Ame in Electromagnetic Girlfriend starts off in a very standard anime vein of Ame approaching the main character and claiming that he was her knight in a previous life, this series is actually much darker than you'd expect.

In fact, Ame's weirdness is actually a kind of thought-provoking meditation on how she's rationalizing some trauma.

Her clinginess, odd behavior, and stalker-like appearance all serve a purpose, making her one of the saddest weird girls in anime.

7. Yuno Gasai from Mirai Nikki

Who doesn't want a girlfriend who will obsessively kill for them? That's the dream, right?

Well, dreams that come true are often disappointing, like when your crazy killer girlfriend tries to kill your friends or leaves you brainless and treats you like a living doll that can't escape.

Yuno is exactly that kind of crazy, though at least the Future Diary gives you a reason for her particular brand of malicious weirdness.

6. Haruko Haruhara from FLCL

Haruko is still one of the best representations of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl in the anime, and probably an introduction to the archetype for more than a few anime fans.

She blows into the city like a typhoon, runs over the main character with a Vespa, hits him with her guitar and robots start coming out of her forehead.

Of course, unlike most manic girls who are a catalyst for a coming-of-age story, which Haruko still is, she also has her own reasons for her manipulation.

5. Yoshiko from Aho Girl

When you call a girl an idiot and have a male main character frequently punch her right in the face, it doesn't exactly look good for you as an anime. However, Aho Girl is one of the rare times where you can say that Yoshiko, that weird idiot, deserves it.

Now, to start off, Aho Girl is a comedy anime and the violence is meant to be laughed at. Yoshiko is, in every sense, a lovable idiot who is very bold with everyone she meets, doesn't understand the meaning of no, and is undeterred by any insult. Her quirkiness isn't something you can really explain, it's better to experience it.

4. Suruga Kanbaru from the Monogatari franchise

Everyone in the Monogatari franchise is weird. It's a weird anime about a weird guy and his even weirder harem and their weird problems. However, if I had to pick the weirdest one of them all, it would be Kanbaru.

Telling you everything that makes her weird would be a spoiler, but she's a lesbian who likes boy love. She's a nudist. She's a lolicon. She has a demonic hand. And the weirdest part? The show makes her a totally lovable character, despite some extremely unlikable aspects.

3. Cowboy Bebop Ed

Perhaps what makes Ed one of the strangest anime girls is that first-time Cowboy Bebop watchers spend a long time not realizing that she is actually, in fact, a girl.

This super hacker extraordinaire acts as eccentric as he is genderless, and the far reaches of space seem like as good a place as any to be whoever you want to be.

2. Ueno by Ueno-san wa Bukiyou

For a while, romance anime teasers where a girl kind of bullies the guy she likes were kind of popular. Since you're a klutz, Ms. Ueno was part of that phase. The almost criminal behavior part.

The entire premise of How Clumsy You Are, Miss Ueno is about the titular Ueno trying to… flirt (?), I guess, with her science club mate. In her never-ending crusade, she tries to get him to do questionable things, like drinking her purified urine and sexually harassing her. She does this to try to make him realize that she likes him or realize that he likes her. Fewer beings would use their words, but whatever.

1. Power of Chainsaw man

I'm convinced that the people who make Power their 'waifu' anime just want a man with boobs as a girlfriend. And that's okay. No judgement.

Anyway, that's basically what Power is. She's a demon who possessed a girl's corpse, and she certainly doesn't act like a girl. She acts like a demon with delusions of grandeur who is a huge slob with a foul mouth. However, because she's so different from every other anime girl ever created, that makes Power so adorable.

I definitely missed a few more weird anime girls, I just picked the weirdest of the weird. Plus, weirdness is pretty subjective. Did we miss any other good weird anime girls? Let fans know in the comments section below.