5 Anime Characters You Would Trust With Money (& 5 You Would Want to Avoid) (2025)

There are all kinds of ways to explain how responsible or not an anime character is, such as how good they are with money. Whether or not anime characters think a lot about finances and good spending habits, it's usually easy to tell who would be smart with their hard-earned money and who would blow it all in an afternoon. Being financially responsible is often connected to whether a character has good impulse control and a long-term view of their lives.

An anime character can probably be trusted with money for a few reasons, such as if they're smart and practical in general, or if poverty has forced them to appreciate the true value of money. Such characters would definitely earn an allowance and make the most of it, while other anime characters would go wild with any cash given to them and fail to save up money for an emergency. It's a fun way to sort the responsible anime characters from those who treat everything like a game.

2 Anime Characters Who Can Be Trusted With Money

Tohru Honda Has Been Saving Up to Afford Her Own Place

At times, Fruits Basket can be surprisingly dark as a shojo anime, but there's nothing dark about Tohru's can-do spirit. Even at her lowest point, after losing her home and ending up as an orphan in a tent, Tohru was determined to patiently build a better life for herself. She accomplished step 1, getting a job, and step 2 is to save up enough to get her own place.

Such a responsible work ethic makes it wonderfully clear how smart Tohru is with money, and she knows better than to spend a single yen she doesn't have to. No matter Tohru's goofy and airheaded ways at school, she's a grounded, practical teenage girl who knows how to look after herself. Losing her parents forced her to grow up quickly, and Tohru took it all in stride, from cooking and studying to saving money.

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Fruits Basket

TV-14

Anime

Comedy

Drama

After Tohru is taken in by the Soma family, she learns that twelve family members transform involuntarily into animals of the Chinese zodiac and helps them deal with the emotional pain caused by the transformations.

Release Date

April 5, 2019

Cast

Manaka Iwami, Laura Bailey, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Jerry Jewell

Main Genre

Anime

Seasons

3

Studio

Production Company

TMS Entertainment

Number of Episodes

63

Streaming Service(s)

Crunchyroll, Hulu

Loid Forger Only Spends Money to Support His Missions

For the sake of Operation Strix, the spy Twilight/Loid Forger has become the highly responsible head of his household in Spy x Family. His original personality isn't always so clear, but as an agent of WISE on the job, Loid is a practical, cautious person who takes nothing for granted. That includes his ability to support his found family with his earnings, combined with Yor's own.

Loid's financial literacy is mostly implied in the anime, from his lack of overdue bills to his constant advice to Anya to be more responsible in her daily life. It also helps that Loid has so few temptations to blow his money on nonsense anyway, since he doesn't have much of a personal life anyhow. He did spend a lot of cash on goofy souvenirs aboard a cruise ship, but that was an exception for comedy's sake.

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Spy x Family

TV-14

Animation

Action

Adventure

Comedy

A spy on an undercover mission gets married and adopts a child as part of his cover. His wife and daughter have secrets of their own, and all three must strive to keep together.

Release Date

April 9, 2022

Creator(s)

Tatsuya Endo

Cast

Takuya Eguchi, Atsumi Tanezaki, Saori Hayami, Alex Organ, Megan Shipman, Natalie Van Sistine

Seasons

1

Studio

Creator

Writers

Kazuhiro Furuhashi, Ichirō Ōkouchi

Streaming Service(s)

Crunchyroll

Franchise(s)

Spy X Family

Directors

Kazuhiro Furuhashi, Takahiro Harada

Naofumi Iwatani Knows How to Make Do With Less

Sometimes, even isekai protagonists have to take money into account when navigating a fantasy world. Such is the case for Naofumi Iwatani in The Rising of the Shield Hero, because even the Cardinal Heroes are expected to buy goods and services with coins. That's why the king granted the Heroes so much money as compensation for their work in saving the kingdom from the Waves.

Once Naofumi was ostracized as the "Shield Devil," he had limited funds, forcing him to be smart about his finances. He only took on jobs that paid well and always demanded full payment, even from villagers who had little to spare. Naofumi didn't have much wiggle room with his savings and there was a lot at stake, so he soon became smart and wise with his money.

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The Rising of The Shield Hero

TV-14

Action

Adventure

A gamer is magically summoned into a parallel universe, where he is chosen as one of four heroes destined to save the world from its prophesied doom.

Release Date

January 9, 2019

Cast

Kaito Ishikawa, Asami Seto, Rina Hidaka

Main Genre

Animation

Seasons

3 Seasons

Creator

Aneko Yusagi

Production Company

DR Movie, Kinema Citrus

Number of Episodes

50 Episodes

Ichika Nakano Supported Her Sisters When They Moved Out of Their Father's Apartment

While the five Nakano sisters aren't so good at studying, the eldest sister Ichika is smart about money and real-life responsibilities, which reinforces her image as the responsible big sister among the quintuplets. That fact was made clear in Season 2 of The Quintessential Quintuplets, when the sisters moved out of their father's apartment and lived on their own.

It fell to Ichika to support the sisters with her work as an actress, which she took quite seriously. Money was always tight, but Ichika kept the lights on and kept everyone fed, all while studying hard to boost her poor grades at school. All that both impressed and worried Futaro, who knew a thing or two about people pushing themslves too hard. Eventually, Ichika lightened her financial burden by asking her sisters to find jobs and contribute to the rent, too.

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The Quintessential Quintuplets

TV-PG

Animation

Comedy

Drama

A poor, straight A student is hired to tutor some rich quintuplets. The story is told as a flashback from a future that shows that he ends up getting married to one of them.

Release Date

January 11, 2019

Creator(s)

Negi Haruba

Cast

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Kana Hanazawa, Ayana Taketatsu, Miku Itou, Ayane Sakura, Inori Minase, Jessie James Grelle, Lindsay Seidel

Main Genre

Animation

Seasons

2

Studio

Tezuka Productions, Bibury Animation Studios, Shaft

Creator

Negi Haruba

Production Company

Writers

Mayumi Morita

Number of Episodes

26

Network

TBS

Streaming Service(s)

Crunchyroll

Directors

Fumio Maezono, Ippei Ichii, Youichirou Aoki, Fumihiro Yoshimura, Yasuo Iwamoto, Takuo Suzuki, Kazuomi Koga, Ryo Miyata, Akiko Seki, Yoshihisa Matsumoto, Yuki Morita

Japanese Title

5-toubun no Hanayome

Based On

Manga

MyAnimeList Score

7.64 (Season 1)

Producers

Junichiro Tanaka, Makoto Furukawa, Takahiro Sasaki, Gota Aijima, Shinichi Nakamura, Mitsutoshi Ogura, Tomoyuki Ohwada, Yuichi Izumi, Yoshio Kaneko, Kento Yoshida, Takaaki Nakanome, Hideyuki Igarashi, Tomoki Ueda, Shin Kato

Character(s)

Futaro Uesugi, Ichika Nakano, Nino Nakano, Miku Nakano, Yotsuba Nakano, Itsuki Nakano, Futaro Uesugi (English), Ichika Nakano (English)

YouTube Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maS5nHFa1o8

Ochaco Uraraka Knows the Value of Money From Poverty

While it doesn't always happen, living in poverty or getting by paycheck to paycheck may often lead a real or fictional person to be smart about money, since they can't take it for granted. Ochaco Uraraka in My Hero Academia is like that, being painfully aware of how hard her parents pushed themselves to keep a roof over her head.

Now, as the aspiring pro hero Uravity, Ochaco is determined to earn money as a crime fighter and repay her parents for all they did for her. In the meantime, Ochaco saves money as much as she can, to the point she's content having a flip phone while all her classmates have smartphones. Other than that, Ochaco's finances aren't often discussed, but it's still clear that she has a good perspective on money and supporting oneself.

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My Hero Academia

Action

Superhero

Animation

Izuku has dreamt of being a hero all his life—a lofty goal for anyone, but especially challenging for a kid with no superpowers. That’s right, in a world where eighty percent of the population has some kind of super-powered “quirk,” Izuku was unlucky enough to be born completely normal. But that’s not enough to stop him from enrolling in one of the world’s most prestigious hero academies.

Release Date

April 3, 2016

Cast

Aoi Yuki, Ayane Sakura, Christopher R. Sabat, Yûki Kaji, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Luci Christian, David Matranga, Justin Briner, Kenta Miyake, Clifford Chapin, Daiki Yamashita

Rating

Seasons

7

Website

https://www.funimation.com/shows/my-hero-academia/

Franchise

My Hero Academia

Characters By

Kohei Horikoshi

Distributor

FUNimation Entertainment

Main Characters

Tsuyu Asui, Katsuki Bakugo, Ochaco Uraraka, Izuku Midoriya, Shoto Todoroki, All Might

Production Company

Bones

Story By

Kōhei Horikoshi, Yōsuke Kuroda

Number of Episodes

113

Streaming Service(s)

Hulu, Crunchyroll

1 Anime Characters Who Can't Be Trusted With Money

Inosuke Hashibira is Reckless and Goes by Instinct

Inosuke Hashibra from Demon Slayer is one of many anime characters who would be irresponsible with money simply because he doesn't know how it works. He grew up in the wilds with animals like boars for friends, living off the land and listening to his instincts. That made Inosuke a great fighter with his Beast Breathing style, but it doesn't make him good with money, bills, or rent.

Inosuke is unfamiliar with modern civilization, even in simpler times like the 1910s, so he couldn't be trusted to handle a household's finances. He probably can't perform basic math, and even if he could, Inosuke would likely go wild with money and buy food, weapons, and entertainment without a second thought to the increasingly overdue bills piling up on his kitchen table.

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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

TV-MA

Animation

Action

Adventure

Release Date

April 6, 2019

Cast

Natsuki Hanae, Zach Aguilar, Abby Trott, Akari Kitō, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

Main Genre

Animation

Seasons

5

Aqua Spends Way Too Much on Booze Every Night

Konosuba is a subversive comedy anime where financial woes are a constant bummer for the main characters, mostly Kazuma Sato and his three friends. For humor's sake, and to make them more relatable, those characters struggle to keep their bank account afloat, and it doesn't help that Aqua keeps drinking her money away and barfing it back up in the alley every night.

Since Aqua is a naturally selfish and impulsive deity, and because she's not used to mortal civilization, Aqua isn't used to managing a budget. On her own, she would soon end up desperately broke and scramble for drinking money with various jobs, and even with Kazuma around, things aren't much better. It's a good thing the heroes often catch as break, such as when they were given a mansion to live in.

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KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!

TV-14

Animation

Adventure

Comedy

It was a happy day for Kazuma - right up to the moment he died. A goddess intervenes and offers him a second chance in a magical land.

Release Date

January 13, 2016

Creator(s)

Natsume Akatsuki

Cast

Jun Fukushima, Sora Amamiya, Noucky Andriansyah

Main Genre

Adventure

Seasons

2

Writers

Natsume Akatsuki, Aoi Akashiro, Touko Machida, Kojiro Nakamura, Makoto Uezu, Alexander Von David

Directors

Takaomi Kanasaki

Nokotan Would Blow Her Allowance on Deer Crackers

The topic of money doesn't often come up in My Deer Friend Nokotan, but all the same, it's easy to see which members of the Deer Club can be trusted with money and which should stay far away from the club's treasury. Torako Koshi is an ex-delinquent who has a good head on her shoulders, while her deer friend Nokotan is a whirlwind of whimsy and nonsense.

Nokotan is highly impuslive and rarely puts much thought into anything, instead thinking about how to amuse herself or get deer crackers for every meal. There is no doubt that she would go wild with any allowance given to her and blow it all on deer crackers, and she's too airheaded to focus on rent and bills if she were ever burdened with such responsibilities.

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My Deer Friend Nokotan

Animation

Comedy

Fantasy

Koshi Torako has everyone fooled. Her classmates see her as the perfect honor student, unaware of her secret delinquent past. But her new picturesque school life is thrown into chaos when she bumps into Shikanoko Noko, a girl with antlers! Mayhem seems to follow this strange doe-eyed girl.

Release Date

July 7, 2024

Creator(s)

Oshioshio

Cast

Megumi Han, Saki Fujita, Rui Tanabe, Fuka Izumi, Yurika Kubo, Rio Tsuchiya, Chinatsu Akasaki, Kôsuke Toriumi

Main Genre

Animation

Seasons

1

Son Goku Wasn't Taught Financial Literacy

Not unlike Inosuke Hashibra, Son Goku from Dragon Ball Z is a wild hero who's usually on the outside of civilization looking in. Goku does know how to live in a house and has become roughly familiar with technology like cars, but advanced concepts like savings, taxes, and voting are beyond him. Such things are too far removed from his true love of training and fighting worthy enemies.

So, it evidently falls to Goku's wife Chi-Chi to run their wacky household, making sure Gohan goes to school and keeping the checkbook balanced. She even makes multiple references in Dragon Ball Super and Sparking Zero about how he needs to get a job. It's another example of how, for all his power, Goku still needs people to look after him and keep his life running smoothly while he fixates on combat above all else.

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Dragon Ball Z

An anime that spans across many generations, this is the sequel to Dragon Ball from 1986. Dragon Ball Z is an anime that everyone must know of, whether it's the name itself, Goku, or the Saiyans - Dragon Ball Z is one of the greatest anime to have ever been produced. Produced by Toei Animation and written by Akira Toriyama, Dragon Ball Z continues the adventures of Goku, who, along with his companions made in the prequel series, defend the Earth against villains ranging from aliens like Frieza, androids like Cell, and magical creatures like Majin Buu. While the original anime followed Goku from childhood to early adulthood and had its fun moments, Dragon Ball Z is a continuation of his adult life in this hard-action anime, but at the same time parallels the life of his son, Gohan, as well as the development of his rival Vegeta. While there have been sequel series produced afterwards like Dragon Ball GT and Dragon Ball Super, Z is the core of the entire Dragon Ball universe that has a recognition like no other anime on this list. With over 150 episodes, the series has some of the most unique scenes in anime ever made, such as Goku’s transformation to becoming a Super Saiyan and the Cell Games. If you’re into anime and haven’t watched Dragon Ball Z, we won’t judge. However, if you’re just starting, this is an anime that must be seen if you enjoy some fast-paced action, even if some fight scenes last about three to four episodes at a time. It’s gripping, entertaining, and heartbreaking all at the same time, and you wish you could be a Saiyan like Goku and his friends too.

Genre

Adventure, Fantasy, Martial Arts

Language

English, Japanese

Number of Seasons

9

Debut Date

April 26, 1989

Studio

Toei Animation

Power Hardly Even Knows What Money Is

There are hints that Denji in Chainsaw Man has some basic financial literacy, such as keeping a log of his father's massive debt, but his fiend companion, Power, is a different matter. She is a devil living in a human girl's body, a wild creature who cares nothing for finances, bills, or education. She seems to have only a vague notion of what money even is or why it's important.

If someone like Aki or Himeno taught Power how money works and gave her an allowance, Power would almost definitely run off to recklessly spend that money on fun things. She would do anything from gamble for fun to buy hunks of meat from the butcher shop to devour or the like. Power also seems unable to think long-term, so saving money is beyond the grasp of this impatient fiend.

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Chainsaw Man

Animation

Action

Horror

Following a betrayal, a young man left for dead is reborn as a powerful devil-human hybrid after merging with his pet devil and is soon enlisted into an organization dedicated to hunting devils. When his father died, Denji was stuck with a huge debt and no way to pay it back.

Release Date

October 11, 2022

Cast

Ryan Colt Levy, Fairouz Ai, Sarah Wiedenheft, Suzie Yeung, Reagan Murdock

Rating

Seasons

1

Studio

MAPPA

Streaming Service(s)

Hulu, Crunchyroll