Over 60 Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The 15 Best Anime Nuns, Ranked
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In real life, nuns are devout followers of the Christian faith who help to keep religious institutions going. While that's not totally untrue in anime, nuns tend to have a little more going on. Perhaps they have magical powers, as with Hibana and Iris from Fire Force.
Maybe they're secretly drug dealers or CIA agents, like Yolanda and Eda from Black Lagoon. Maybe they exorcise demons like Rosette Christopher from Chrono Crusade. While many of them do wear traditional nun garb, their clothing is often far more stylized or revealing.
Though not especially realistic, these nuns sure are intriguing. Which one is your favorite?
Sister Yolanda is the leader of the Rip-off Church, a church that's used as a front for weapon sales, drug sales, and other illicit doings. Yolanda is a stern leader who leaves most of the fighting to her two subordinates, Eda and Rico. That said, she is fully capable of tearing up a room with her customized Golden Desert Eagle pistol.
She does have one trait that isn't terrifying, and that's a love for tea.
Eda is Sister Yolanda's subordinate in the Rip-Off Church. While she participates in the Church's illicit activities and spends time drinking with Revy and other Lagoon members, her true allegiance lies elsewhere.
She actually works for the CIA and is trying to gather enough information to take the Rip-Off Church and other similar organizations down. Sister Yolanda is fully aware of this, but she doesn't care as long as she's compensated for whatever information Eda picks up.
Hibana was raised at the Holy Sol Temple, a sun-worshipping religious group. Because she was the only person there with pyrokinetic abilities, the rest of her community treated her like she was special. Her feelings about her powers were positive, but they changed dramatically after Spontaneous Human Combustion hit the temple. Aside from Hibana and Iris, there were no survivors. This made her hate her powers, but also made her want to enhance them so that she could figure out what was going on and get revenge.
Currently, she serves as the captain of the Special Fire Force Company 5.
Index is a teenage girl who not only has a flawless memory, she is also capable of reading and memorizing grimoires without suffering any negative physical effects. At the start of the series, she has memorized 103,000 magical grimoires. While this is an amazing ability, it's one that gets her taken advantage of by the Anglican Church. She spends much of her life being forcibly taken to a variety of grimoires in order to memorize them - sometimes literally in chains.
Though she lacks the ability to use the spells she memorizes, she does have an impressive defensive item called the Walking Church, which takes the form of a typical nun's habit.
After escaping from the fire that destroyed nearly everyone at the Holy Sol Temple, Iris eventually followed Hibana into the Special Fire Force Company, serving under Company 8.
As a trained nun, one of her biggest roles involves praying for the souls of the Infernals that they have to destroy so that they can pass on in peace. What she doesn't know is that she's also the Eighth Pillar and the Doppelgänger of Amaterasu.
Sister Lily Aquaria was born into a noble family, but she wasn't happy with her life there. Why? Because of the rampant discrimination that existed amongst the various classes. Hoping to create a more just society, she leaves her noble family and becomes a nun.
It turns out that the church is also pretty corrupt, so she ends up taking a less prestigious but more fulfilling post at the orphanage where Asta grew up. Considering how principled and nice she is, it's kind of no wonder that Asta wants to marry her.
