Top 10 Best Anime Characters With Beards

Beards have long been regarded as status insignia that enhance a man’s badassery. So, it’s unsurprising that the anime world is no exception. In this article, we have compiled for you a list of the 10 best anime characters with beards.

Top 10 Best Anime Characters With Beards

1. Iskandar (Fate/Zero)

Iskandar is a massive man that is more than 2 meters tall. He possesses huge muscles and has sternly carved features, a fiery red beard, and red hair while his eyes show a blinding glow.

Iskandar is honorable and physically domineering. He isn’t a pragmatic anime character, but rather a bearded one who acts on his instincts. While he’s wild and quite uncaring towards other people, his greed motivated his subjects and ultimately led to their happiness.

He’s constantly cheerful, highly values friendship, and sees his connection with his followers as the greatest possession. The followers give him their complete loyalty and adoration after being motivated by an awesome ruler.

2. Jet Black (Cowboy Bebop)

Jet Black is among the main characters of the Cowboy Bebop anime series. He appears to be tall, broad, and strong. He has bald hair and sideburns continuing along his cheeks to make up a beard. This makes him slightly resemble Daisuke Jigen.

Jet’s mom instilled in love for blues and he frequently sought counsel from his grandmom and life wisdom from his dad. Jet, who grew up with high values, joined the ISSP and swiftly moved up the ranks to become an investigator.

Because of his tenacity when pursuing criminals, he got monikered “Black Dog”, which refers to the dog biting its prey and never letting go.

3. Van Hohenheim (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Hohenheim’s a tall, bearded character that appears to be in his middle years. He has a full blonde beard outlining his square jaw. His long, blond hair is put into a loose ponytail with 2 or 3 loose strands hanging over his brow.

Despite the abandonment of his young family to devote to Alchemy and its mysterious circumstances, he was considered to be cold. However, he’s actually a softhearted, compassionate man quickly giving but slowly accepting compliments.

He seems to care little for himself, let alone his dignity. So, Hohenheim is frequently placed in situations that make him appear to be goofy or quirky. He doesn’t get angry easily and appears to be a pacifist who talks his way out of disagreement than confrontation.

He is a hopeless romantic, which is his most prominent personality attribute, as evidenced by his proclivity for spouting mushy phrases about his affection for Trisha Elric.

4. Brownbeard (One Piece)

Brownbeard, whose real name is Chadros Higelyges, used to be a New World pirate. Following Whitebeard’s demise, he fled to take over Foodvalten, which is among New World islands that had previously been under Whitebeard’s protection.

Brownbeard’s a very huge, fat man whose height and width are 3 and 4 times an average human. His brown beard is long, divided into 3 different braids, and a mustache.

5. Juuzou Okita (Space Battleship Yamato)

Being an anime protagonist with beards, Juuzou Okita is Yamato’s tough commander, characterized by his full beards and tern face.

He is totally committed to saving the Earth from the danger caused by Gamilus, even at the risk of his life. He’s actually dying and becoming increasingly unwell, yet he remains certain that he’ll survive to reunite with his homeworld once more. Even when Juuzou is bedridden, he continues to counsel the crew, particularly to Kodai.

6. Marshall D. Teach (One Piece)

Marshall D. Teach, or Blackbeard, is one of the rare black anime characters with beards. His height is precisely twice that of Luffy (pre-timeskip).

The character has a big build due to his spherical body and rather skinny limbs. Blackbeard has a wide mouth with multiple damaged or missing teeth, a noticeably crooked nose, and a massive hairy chest & torso.

His personality appears to be a bizarre blend of bravery and fear, as well as intelligence and idiocy. While Blackbeard appears strong and terrifying at moments, he also seems weak and foolish at other times.

7. Gendo Ikari (Evangelion)

Gendo Ikari’s appearance is typical of a middle-aged male, sporting a neat beard and glasses.

Gendo plays the role of NERV’s Commander and father to Shinji Ikari. He was instrumental in developing and researching the Evangelions as well as Human Instrumentality Project.

Gendo deserted his son when Shinji was just a toddler. He was also indifferent, distant, and rude to Shinji throughout the Evangelion series.

However, as Gendo was dying, he explains that he avoided his son since he was frightened of hurting him, which is similar to Shinji’s thoughts, and that it was preferable to do nothing.

8. Precht Gaebolg/Hades (Fairy Tail)

Hades, or Precht Gaebolg, was a founding member of Fairy Tail & the guild’s 2nd Master. He later passed the role to Makarov Dreyar.

Hades had founded and commanded Grimoire Heart, a Dark Guild after quitting Fairy Tail until he was killed by Zeref.

The character has long beards and long hair reaching the lower part of his chest. Hades’s Demon Eye is hidden under a black eyepatch.

Precht Gaebolg appears to be calm and confident, displaying no dear in the face of his foes, particularly Makarov. When reappearing as Hades, he shows a significantly darker version of himself. He is exceedingly confident in his powers and has a strong desire to eliminate those who stand in his way, as evidenced by his crushing of Makarov with little guilt.

9. Yugo Tennouji (Steins;Gate)

Yuugo is an anime character with bald hair and a short-boxed beard. Yuugo’s dressed in a yellow shirt and a blue apron with “I Love CRT” written on it. He’s a CRT television aficionado refusing to upgrade to other types.

Yugo has a poor temper and is easily irritated by Okabe’s demeanor and his experiments. Additionally, he’d often try to defend his daughter from Rintaro, who is a pervert in his eyes, albeit he was most likely joking.

10. Zouroku Kashimura (Alice & Zouroku)

Zouroku Kashimura is a grouchy old man with white beards that possesses a mysterious past.

He is Sanae’s grandad and a florist. Eventually, Zouroku also adopts Sana, who is an orphan child, as his granddaughter and the two grow closer during their shared time, whether it’s in perilous scenarios attempting to flee the research center or in daily struggles of Sana learning more about the outside world.

Final Words

Anime characters with beards included in our list range from villains such as Gendo Ikari to protagonists such as Jet Black. These characters are typically older, with their facial hair signifying their tough attitude and sage wisdom. So which one is your personal favorite? Comment to let us know.