History KidsAreCruel / AnimeAndManga

* ''LightNovel/KazeNoStigma'': Kazuma was born into [[PlayingWithFire a prestigious family of fire users]] yet had no talent in the arts at all, not even the standard immunity to fire that even the weakest branch members had. Consequently, as a child, he was regularly beaten and tortured with fire by the other children, ranging from 5 year olds to teenagers. At least one time, they were ''seriously going to kill him''.

* ''Anime/MidnightHorrorSchool'': [[TerribleTrio Tubee, Usop and Yumyum]] come off as this, but some of the time the other students at the school are (sometimes) no better. I.E. Half of the students cornering them complete with Docky using his whirlwind on them in 'Noisy Noisy' and Liddy lashing out at Yumyum for faking his wonder in 'Yumyum's Wonder' causing the latter to run up to the roof ''crying'' and [[SmartGuy Genie]] and Vincent also tried curving the behavior of [[BabyOfTheBunch Kabo]] in one episode, which got them scolded at by ''the Bullies''.

* Sakura's classmates in ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan'' are an extreme example of this.

* ''Anime/MidnightHorrorSchool'': [[TerribleTrio Tubee, Usop and Yumyum]] come off as this, but some of the time the other students at the school are (sometimes) no better. I.E. Half of the students cornering them complete with Docky using his whirlwind on them in 'Noisy Noisy' and Liddy lashing out at Yumyum for faking his wonder in 'Yumyum's Wonder' causing the latter to run up to the roof ''crying''. [[SmartGuy Genie]] and [[Bookworm Vincent]] also tried curving the behavior of [[BabyOfTheBunch Kabo]] in one episode, which got them scolded at by ''the Bullies''.

* ''Anime/MidnightHorrorSchool'': [[TheTerribleTrio Tubee, Usop and Yumyum]] come off as this, but some of the time the other students at the school are (sometimes) no better. I.E. Half of the students cornering them complete with Docky using his whirlwind on them in 'Noisy Noisy' and Liddy lashing out at Yumyum for faking his wonder in 'Yumyum's Wonder' causing the latter to run up to the roof ''crying''. [[SmartGuy Genie]] and [[Bookworm Vincent]] also tried curving the behavior of [[BabyOfTheBunch Kabo]] in one episode, which got them scolded at by ''the Bullies''.

* [[MeaningfulName Wrath]] from the first ''Anime/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]].

* ''Manga/ASilentVoice'' 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 as a teenager and somehow makeup for his actions.

[[KidsAreCruel The cruelty of children]] being depicted in {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}.

Times where KidsAreCruel in {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}.

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** Akito was pretty cruel to [[IllBoy Yuki]] as a child, and actually invoked this in some of his [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Lectures]]. [[DomesticAbuse Not that he grew out of it too soon]].

* In ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' it's surprisingly recurring. Most of the times, it's Toyokazu, Yutaka and Yuji who irritates their classmates with their out-of-line insults. They are the cause of their classmates's anger or sadness in certain episodes, but other kids can be under this trope too. Luckily, they're calming down in the later seasons.
** Doremi, Hazuki, Aiko and Onpu are shown to have no problem mocking others and laugh at them or willingly cause problems to ohers. Once they (barring Hazuki who wasn't with them) even pulled pranks on a traditional dance teacher to tire her and they were even having fun before [[JerkassRealization feeling bad for her]].
** A girl named Kayoko has PTSD because of this. Do I need to say more?

* ''LightNovel/KazeNoStigma'': Kazuma was born into [[WitchSpecies a prestigious family of fire users]] yet had no talent in the arts at all, not even the standard immunity to fire that even the weakest branch members had. Consequently, as a child, he was regularly beaten and tortured with fire by the other children, ranging from 5 year olds to teenagers. At least one time, they were ''seriously going to kill him''.

* While usually not apparent in ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' it appears a few times. Such as [[spoiler:in the "perfect world"]] where ''Satoko'' is a bully. [[spoiler:Rika beats her up with a chair for it. Note, Rika is usually [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship extremely close best friends]] with Satoko so that just shows how angry she was.]]

* In the third volume of ''Manga/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 volume when the leader of the gang that bullied him in first grade, Amanuma Shinichi, transfers to Taishou's and Buchi's school in Taishou's class.]]

* In ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' it's surprisingly recurring. Most of the times, it's Toyokazu, Yutaka and Yuji who irritates their classmates with their out-of-line insults. They are the cause of their classmates's anger or sadness in certain episodes.

* 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 that very name he coined. He and Dawn ended up friends eventually though.

** Doremi, Hazuki, Aiko and Onpu are shown to have no problem mocking others and laugh at them. Once they (barring Hazuki who wasn't with them) even pulled pranks on a traditional dance teacher to tire her and they were even having fun before [[JerkassRealization feeling bad for her]].

* Marie's classmates in ''Manga/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."]]

* The oneshot manga ''Cotton Candy Love'' features a young [[{{transgender}} transgender]] girl being bullied by classmates for living as a girl and wearing a skirt.

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

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

* ''Manga/{{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.

* In ''Manga/SangatsuNoLion'', Rei heavily implies that he was bullied in his younger years both in a passing statement about his school life in comparison to his home life and in his insistence to Hayashida-sensei to not spread the fact that he's a professional shogi player to his new classmates.

* ''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]]. They get a ''lot'' more than they bargained for -- Lucy [[spoiler:[[BewareTheNiceOnes snaps and]] [[YourHeadAsplode splatters everyone all over the room with her powers]]]].