History KidsAreCruel / AnimeAndManga

* ''DeadmanWonderland'': It must be something that in a world of super-powered sadists some the cruelest characters are ''{{muggle}} bullies'' whose victims later became the twisted un-powered (or at least not till recently) playthings/enforcers of the prison. Examples include kitten killing, possible rape, and playing Othello on a kid's back ''with thumbtacks''. And this is ''before'' the devastating earthquake that plunged the land into chaos.

* The children of Ohara were like this to Nico Robin in her tragic backstory in OnePiece.

* Candy's step-siblings Eliza and Neil Reagan in ''CandyCandy''. They are so utterly cruel, that it's unthinkable to even feel a twinge of admiration or sympathy towards them. Worst is the RichBitch Eliza, whose motivation for making Candy's life hell is: ''[[ForTheEvulz because she can]]''. If that doesn't convince you enough, wait until you see the episode about Eliza getting temporarily grounded, whereas she will make up a monologue that explains that ''she really loves violence'', especially towards people that can be picked on, like Candy. So she not only did it because she can, she also LOVES and takes joy in doing it.

* Sakura's classmates in ''[[LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan]]'' are an extreme example of this.

* Toyed with in ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]''; when [[TheRival Ryoga Hibiki]] and [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Ranma Saotome]] were kids, they went to the same all-boys Junior High, which had a policy of simply flinging out the stuff from the lunch shop and letting the students fight over it. Ranma would consistently beat Ryoga when they went after the same piece of food, but otherwise got on with him okay enough that he would regularly [[NoSenseOfDirection lead Ryoga to and from his home]], to the point Ranma still remembers where Ryoga lives better then Ryoga does. Eventually, Ryoga got sick of Ranma beating him in combat and challenged him to a duel; when he took four days to get there and found Ranma had left, he set off after him to try and get that match. Initially, however, he didn't seem to really be mad at Ranma, more wanting to settle the score. When he wandered into Jusenkyo, however, he fell into the Spring of Drowned Piglet in an incident involving a girl and a panda, and he promptly blamed Ranma for it, becoming much more furious and even declaring he wanted to kill Ranma. Things kind of peaked when he found out Ranma was actually at fault, but it quickly petered out; much as they squabble and bicker, the two watch each other's backs and save each other's lives on a regular basis.

* In In the third issue of MekkoRarekko, [[spoiler: it is revealed that Taishou was bullied and tortured a lot by a group of kids. More of this was touched upon in the sixth issue when the leader of the gang that bullied him in kindergarten Amanuma Shinichi transfers to Taishou's and Buchi's school in Taishou's class.]]

* ''{{Narutaru}}'' contains [[AlphaBitch Aki Honda]] and her GirlPosse, who manage the rather impressive feat of turning schoolyard bullying into a monstrous act when they [[spoiler:''rape'' one of the side characters, Hiroko, ''[[{{Squick}} with a test tube]]'']]; and as if that's not nasty enough, [[spoiler:the original plan was to ''kick Hiroko in the stomach'' while the test tube was inside her!]]. Once [[spoiler:Hiroko]] obtains her [[{{Mon}} dragonet]], she gets her revenge... in ''very'' bloody fashion.

* ''TheDriftingClassroom'' is a prime example of this. When the school is transported into a CrapsackWorld and the kids get more and more desperate they start doing horrific stuff such as killing each other with spears and knives for food, burning a fellow student on a cross, and even ([[spoiler:EATING A DEAD STUDENT'S REMAINS.]])

* LitchiHikariClub combines this with AmbiguousInnocence to produce nine [[{{Bishounen}} rather androgynous]] eighth grade boys who commit ColdBloodedTorture on a regular basis.

* Marie's classmates in HiganbanaNoSakuYoruNi call her a ''youkai'' to her face, boys flip her skirt up, and she's usually forced to do all the cleaning herself. One scene has a girl stab Marie's hand with a pencil for mumbling "Oh, really?" during a group discussion, [[SlasherSmile saying "Youkai shouldn't talk."]]

* ''PeachGirl'': Momo is bullied by Sae throughout the course of the story, because Sae is jealous of her for getting more attention and hates her, though Sae often lies to people about this, trying to convince people that [[WoundedGazelleGambit it is *Momo* who is bullying her.]] And she succeeds for a while before she finally gets what's coming to her. Also Momo is put down by her classmates and other people for having tan skin and bleached blonde hair, because they believe that she is a major ''party girl'' who spends all her time tanning at the beach; they also sometimes insulted her by calling her a slut because Sae tricked them into thinking that Momo stole Toji from her when [[spoiler: it was really Sae who was trying to steal Toji from Momo]], which, in reality, is entirely wrong, as Momo is actually a really nice girl, it's Sae who's the ManipulativeBitch.

* ''RosarioPlusVampire'': Moka Akashiya was teased and bullied because of her vampire origins when she was a kid.

* While usually not apparent in ''VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' it appears a few times. Such as [[spoiler:in the "perfect world".]]

* ''{{Bokurano}}'' has several examples of this trope as well -- the major victim would be Mako Nakarai, who is bullied mercilessly because her mother is a prostitute.

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', [[TheRival Kenny]] looks this way when we find out the backstory of "Dee Dee", the EmbarrassingNickname he hung on Dawn. Especially since he got the entire class hooked to that nickname where the entire class calls her by the EmbarrasingNickname.

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', [[TheRival Kenny]] looks this way when we find out the backstory of "Dee Dee", the EmbarrassingNickname he hung on Dawn.

* Episode 11 of ''Anime/YuriKumaArashi'' shows that the humans tendency to exclude anyone they see as different from the group extends to the children as well, with the children [[spoiler:forming a lynch mob to savage Kureha as a child when they learn that she treats a bear as her friend]].
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* Another disability-related example, Manga/WithTheLight gives a [[SarcasmMode lovely]] example of kids mocking Kanon because she has an "stupid" autistic brother, not stopping even when lectured until [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Kanon fought back]].

* ''KoeNoKatachi'' is all about the cruelty of children and the main focus is on a character who has been driven to suicidal edges by a mix of the treatment he receives from his fellow students and the memories of the way he constantly attacked and abused a deaf girl in his class when he was younger. The story focuses on his attempts to redeem himself with the girl and somehow makeup for his actions.

* Koe no Katachi is all about the cruelty of children and the main focus is on a character who has been driven to suicidal edges by a mix of the treatment he receives from his fellow students and the memories of the way he constantly attacked and abused a deaf girl in his class when he was younger. The story focuses on his attempts to redeem himself with the girl and somehow makeup for his actions.

** And then there's Hana. She was an {{Empath}} with PowerIncontinence, and so she'd [[EmotionlessGirl hide her emotions]] just to get through the day. For some reason, other kids took this to mean that she was a witch (not that it was too far from the truth), [[BullyingTheDragon so they forced her to eat a live newt]]. Suffice it to say that she discovered her PsychicPowers that day.

* Majin Buu of ''Manga/DragonBall Z'' had the mentality of a child without a conception of right or wrong, so he quite cheerfully obliterated anything that wasn't entertaining. After Mr. Satan befriended him, Buu slowly began to evolve a sense of morality.

* ''PeachGirl'': Momo is bullied by Sae throughout the course of the story, because Sae is jealous of her for getting more attention and hates her, though Sae often lies to people about this, trying to convince people that [[WoundedGazelleGambit it is * Momo* who is bullying her.]] And she succeeds for a while before she finally gets what's coming to her. Also Momo is put down by her classmates and other people for having tan skin and bleached blonde hair, because they believe that she is a major ''party girl'' who spends all her time tanning at the beach; they also sometimes insulted her by calling her a slut because Sae tricked them into thinking that Momo stole Toji from her when [[spoiler: it was really Sae who was trying to steal Toji from Momo]], which, in reality, is entirely wrong, as Momo is actually a really nice girl, it's Sae who's the ManipulativeBitch.

* [[MeaningfulName Wrath]] from the first ''FullmetalAlchemist'' anime is an extreme embodiment of this; his childish, emotionally underdeveloped nature makes him a vicious tool of destruction, as seen when he sadistically kills [[spoiler: Lust]].

* The kids of {{Soil}} [[UncannyVillage New Town]] aren't as [[StepfordSmiler perfect]] as they appear. "She was our friend" is actually "we talked occasionally but she was a weird outsider and then [[spoiler: she fell into a narcoleptic sleep so we left her in the middle of the road to be almost raped]]" while another group of boys ID their mysterious leader from [[spoiler: the burn where they set his hair on fire]]. Then again the boys have an excuse, considering they're all [[spoiler: ''current'' victims of their pedophile rapist dentist (their real leader, a high schooler, is also a victim, as are the slightly older rapists who raped his friend), although they don't know the connection, they just want [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds to destroy this lame world]] ]].
* [[Manga/BlackLagoon Hansel]] [[CreepyTwins and]] Gretel. They kill everyone in a bar (even though they were just targeting two people), tortured a man to death, and being insane sociopaths in general. [[HarmfulToMinors They probably weren't always like this though]].

* ''Manga/ElfenLied''. Lucy gets a {{backstory}} like this, where she gets tormented by cruel kids because of her "cute little horns" and her [[EmotionlessGirl emotionlessness]]. Their [[MoralEventHorizon most despicable act]] was to [[spoiler: force her to watch as they beat the little puppy that she had started caring for to death, just to get any kind of reaction from her at all]]. Lucy [[spoiler:[[BewareTheNiceOnes snaps and]] [[YourHeadAsplode splatters everyone all over the room with her powers]]]].

* ''{{Narutaru}}'' contains [[AlphaBitch Aki Honda]] and her GirlPosse, who manage the rather impressive feat of turning schoolyard bullying into a monstrous act when they [[spoiler:''rape'' one of the side characters, Hiroko, ''[[{{Squick}} with a test tube]]'']]; and as if that's not nasty enough, [[spoiler:the original plan was to ''kick Hiroko in the stomach'' while the test tube was inside her!]]. Once [[spoiler:Hiroko]] obtains her [[{{Mon}} dragonet]], she gets her revenge... in ''[[ItGotWorse very]]'' [[ItGotWorse bloody fashion]].

* in {{Redrum 327}} Hyeri. [[spoiler:At mere eight years old, Hyeri locked Gahui up in an abandoned safe in the middle of a forest, where Gahui ended up being trapped for four days while it rained, nearly drowning as a result.]]