Top Anime Earth Users
When the earth beneath our feet is mentioned, mostly we think of hard ground and stable footing to walk on. What if I told you that in the ground beneath one's feet there lies fragile plates just waiting to cause an earthquake? Well, the plates move every day and some movements actually do cause earthquakes as well as mountains and trenches.
So it is with Anime. There are cases in anime where characters can move earth so forcefully that it seems to be one with the caster. Ivan Goncharov is part of Rats in the House of the Dead and is always smiling due to his “unhappiness removed” through facial surgery. This Precipice allows Ivan to manipulate the earth around him into golem-like arms or floating rocks that can be used for both offense and defense. Along with fighting, he also has sensory abilities to detect enemies if they are on the ground; as is with the show Bungou Stray Dogs.
Candice from Marchen Awakens Romance is the 11th strongest Knight and 13th strongest army among the Chess Pieces. She has four boulder technique attacks which are: Boulder Axe (a large stone ax weapon), Boulder Claw (like boxing gloves but with rocks on the hands), Boulder Fang (launches sharp rock shards under the opponent), and Grand Boulder (creates giant boulders). The signature attack from Candice is Boulder Crush coming from Boulder Fang while her specialty is Gordon which acts similar to the eyes of Medusa of stone petrification to enemies.
The Earthy is an all-powerful card as one of the four elemental cards in Cardcaptor Sakura and has a fortune-telling potential as a Clow card. It has some very destructive magic for it can cause earthquakes and other geological disturbances. If the Earthy so chooses to, it can disturb major faultlines in the earth, it can make avalanches, and it can create fissures.
Spirit of Earth is one of the Five Grand Elemental Spirits resulting from the Great Spirit's creation in Shaman King. Normally, the spirit would use its move attraction where gravity is taken from the Earth and avoid damage by changing an attack's trajectory or direction. When this spirit is over-souled by Asakura Yoh, the gravity manipulation is so strong that it countered the gravity in a sucking blackhole in Shaman King.
Diane is the Serpent's Sin of Envy and towers the other Seven Deadly Sins in comparison; by being a member of the Giant Clan. Due to Diane's connection to the Giant Clan, she has the Creation ability exclusive to giants and allows her to bend earth freely. Creation is greatly supported by her Sacred Treasure: War Hammer Gideon and by the Drole's Dance to boost one's connection to the earth and individual power levels.
Lastly, lightning does not stand a chance against the ground for the ground nullifies electricity. There is a reason why the lightning rod was created based on this concept. Since electricity has little to no effect on the ground, a lightning user would have to resort to strength and intellect to outwit their opposing earth element user.