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| 10 | * ''DysfunctionJunction/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'' |
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| 12 | * ''Anime/AngelBeats'': It's strongly implied that a number, if not all, of the SSS members have a DarkAndTroubledPast. In fact, it's implied to be a requirement to enter the afterlife. |
| 13 | ** As a child, Yuri witnessed her three younger siblings' murder at the hands of a gang of robbers. This is the root of her anger towards God. It was also her "fault" that they died because she couldn't find money in the house to give to the robbers. They probably would've killed them all regardless, but that doesn't really help Yuri's feelings of guilt. |
| 14 | ** Iwasawa had to deal with a drunk father who continually fought with her mother. Just when she was about to leave home and start her music career, she died from a cerebral contusion caused by her own father who bashed her in the head with a beer bottle. |
| 15 | ** Hinata botched an easy catch during a critical baseball game, causing his team to be eliminated from the regional championships. Another boy gave him drugs to help him cope, and he is implied do have become addicted and eventually overdosed. |
| 16 | ** Naoi was TheUnfavorite to his harsh father and lived in his identical twin brother's shadow for years. He was forced to take his place as the heir to the family pottery style when his brother died, leading to a serious identity crisis. |
| 17 | ** After regaining his memories, Otonashi's revealed as having one. He had an ill sister who was his only reason for living. Until she died, he carried on in an apathetic manner towards the rest of the world. Then he decided to make a difference in the world, started caring a lot more, and was on his way to medical school when the train he was on got buried in a collapsed tunnel. He died after saving the lives of everybody else by rationing the supplies and getting everybody to sign their organ donor cards, lifting their spirits enough to hold on. This actually makes him one of the only people who did not regret their life, and there is something else keeping him in the afterlife. |
| 18 | ** Angel has a lesser example, but her rank as Student Council President was taken away, the teachers and students have lost all respect for her, and her comfort food was taken away from her all because of the SSS's actions. It's also sad when you realize that Angel probably is a human like the rest of SSS and was just trying to fulfill her duties as Student Council President. Her reputation and life in the after world is ruined because she was trying to play by the rules. [[spoiler:It turns out that she received Otonashi's heart as a transplant when he died, and she stayed in the afterlife hoping to thank the person who saved her life.]] |
| 19 | * ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' takes place in a CrapsackWorld and involves members of a RedshirtArmy that fight [[SuperPersistentPredator Man-eating]] [[HumanoidAbomination giants]] called Titans. Most of the human race has already been devoured to the brink of extinction, and the survivors live within a walled territory where the threat of food shortages and civil unrest threaten to finish them off. The characters that didn't start out damaged quickly develop issues, thanks to the constant threat of being EatenAlive and having to watch their comrades [[CruelAndUnusualDeath die brutally]] on a [[AnyoneCanDie regular]] basis. Anyone that isn't at least hinted to have some sort of emotional problems probably didn't live long enough to be developed or [[BreakTheCutie suitably]] [[ShellShockedVeteran broken]]. [[spoiler: And this doesn't even start on the Titan Shifters, who at least one of which has actually gone crazy, and they all are implied to have something seriously wrong with them that caused them to ''try and exterminate humanity'']]. [[spoiler: Of course, the humans outside the walls might not be as extinct as the ones left within the wall are led to believe]]. |
| 20 | ** Even [[spoiler:the humans who live outside the walls appear to have their fair share of issues, especially if you have any part in the Marley vs. Eldia conflict. No characters we've been introduced to, on Paradis or elsewhere, have been perfectly sane, unless they're children who don't understand what's going on around them. But the moment they ''do'' understand is when it all goes downhill for them and their families...]] |
| 21 | * While not nearly as angsty or drama-milking as other series, there's barely a character in ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' that isn't maladjusted, severely traumatized, or (most commonly) [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} just]] [[TalkativeLoon plain]] [[AxCrazy nuts]]. You know your cast belongs on the wrong side of the crazy train when even the OnlySaneMan is an orphaned, Mafia-raised teenager with the GhostMemory of a centuries-old MadScientist. |
| 22 | * In ''Manga/{{Beastars}}'' most of the characters are mentally off-kilter in one way or another. This makes sense as they are unstable teenagers that also have animalistic urges and capabilities. |
| 23 | * Often it seems like ''everybody'' in the CrapsackWorld of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' has a [[DarkAndTroubledPast tragic backstory]], painful family history, and/or severe mental health issues. Special mention goes to [[StarCrossedLovers Guts and Casca]] since the universe seems to have had it in for them and it ''really'' messed them up bad. Here are their problems: |
| 24 | ** [[AntiHero Guts]] was born from the womb of a hanged woman and adopted by the lover of the mercenary Gambino. When she died Gambino raised him as a ChildSoldier from the age of six, [[RapeAsDrama sold him to a rapist]] for three silver coins when he was nine, and two years after that tried to [[OffingTheOffspring kill Guts]] in a drunken rage because he [[YouShouldHaveDiedInstead blamed Guts for her death]]. Guts killed Gambino in [[KillingInSelfDefense self-defense]] and ran away, living as a lone mercenary and not allowing anyone to get [[HatesBeingTouched close to him]] until Griffith persuaded him to join the Band of the Hawk. In the course of events he grows to trust and admire Griffith, finds love with Casca, and manages to put some of his childhood trauma to rest, but then Griffith betrays them all by sacrificing them to horrible deaths in the Eclipse so that he can ascend to Godhood. The memory of having his eye gouged out while being ForcedToWatch as Casca was assaulted and driven insane by the man he once called a friend torments him without end. Unable to face Casca and his own sadness, he goes on a two year RoaringRampageOfRevenge in which he almost loses his humanity before stopping and returning to protect Casca. Even after getting his priorities straight he has to deal with the EnemyWithin that possesses him to attack her, and he is only now keeping a lid on his inner demon with the help of Schierke. |
| 25 | ** [[ActionGirl Casca]] grew up in a family of oppressed peasants, and her parents sold her as a girl to a noble who [[AttemptedRape attempted to rape her]], only to be stopped by Griffith who gave her the sword to kill her attacker. For years she fought and earned the respect of her men in a profession where women were told to StayInTheKitchen, and tried to faithfully serve the man she idolized. Meeting Guts made her jealous and resentful at first, and while she began to transfer her affections to him the downfall of Griffith while Guts left the Band of the Hawk required her to deal with the entire mess by herself, suffering major HeroicFatigue and DudeWheresMyRespect. Just before it all went to hell she had a total breakdown over Griffith's condition, and would have broken up with Guts if matters had not gone FromBadToWorse. During the Eclipse she made a valiant last stand, but the loss of all her soldiers and friends and suffering the ultimate violation and torture at Griffith's own hands caused her mind to regress to a childlike state. After a few [[NearRapeExperience close calls]] with Guts' evil side, she is also afraid of him too. Guts' current quest is to get her to Elfhelm where Elf King Hanafubuku might be able to restore her sanity, but the Skull Knight warns Guts that when the time comes she might not WANT to come back from her madness. |
| 26 | ** Griffith despite his ruthless nature has a great amount of guilt over the dead bodies he has climbed over to get so close to his dream. After seeing a ten year old boy from the Hawks dead on the battlefield, he sold his own body to Lord Gennon for a night in exchange for funds to support the growing Band. When Casca found him [[ShowerOfAngst bathing]] afterwards and asked why he did it, he said that although he does not feel responsible for those who died under his command, the least he can do for them is to win no matter what and take the dirt and suffering upon himself as well. This, while trembling and digging his fingernails so deeply into his arm that he drew blood. Griffith becomes very attached to Guts, and has a complete mental breakdown when Guts rejects and leaves him. He immediately sleeps with Princess Charlotte for solace despite the repercussions, and afterwards he sits in a TroubledFetalPosition unable to get the image of Guts' turned back out of his head. As punishment the King of Midland has him tortured for a year until he is unable to move his body or speak, and after being rescued he hits his DespairEventHorizon when he realizes that the only woman whom he could ever possibly grow to love is in love with another man and is only staying with him out of pity, while Guts himself is going to leave him in shambles all over again. |
| 27 | ** [[TheAtoner Farnese]] and [[HypercompetentSidekick Serpico]] are compared to two misshapen saplings that grew intertwined with each other as a metaphor for their damaged childhoods. Farnese is the daughter of a noble banking family and was completely neglected by her preoccupied parents, who showered her with toys and material things to show their love. In order to deal with her fears and loneliness she developed a fascination with nature's destructive forces such as storms and fire, and since she was a young girl she would light the bonfires under heretics in the city square. She was a ChronicPetKiller and a [[RoyalBrat cruel tyrant]] towards the servants, who called her the Vandimion's "Devil Child". Into this picture came Serpico, the bastard son of a nobleman who took care of his invalid and insane mother all by himself and was rescued from dying in the street by Farnese, who demanded that he serve her in return. Serpico put up with her unreasonable demands, content to escape from his mother's controlling ways and feeling responsible for protecting Farnese [[spoiler:once he learned he was her half-brother]]. Eventually she [[spoiler:made an unrequited advance on him]] and burned down the mansion in order to escape from an ArrangedMarriage, and Serpico followed her as she became a KnightTemplar burning heretics for the Holy See. During one witch burning, [[spoiler:he recognized his mother tied to a stake]], and Farnese made him throw the torch with her to prove his loyalty. Serpico admits that all his life he has practiced ObfuscatingStupidity and stoicism to deal with these events, but that really he was just numbing himself. Years later, after an initially antagonistic relationship with the Black Swordsman, Farnese decides to atone for her crimes by following Guts. She and Serpico are changing, but their pasts aren't done with them yet. |
| 28 | ** Every Apostle applies to some extent considering [[spoiler:they get their power from sacrificing someone they hold dear the most]] and the fact that they lose most, if not all, their humanity in process. |
| 29 | * Everyone in ''Manga/BetrayalKnowsMyName'' has some sort of DarkAndTroubledPast, or major personal issues stemming from it. |
| 30 | * ''Manga/BlackLagoon''. Seriously, you know you're dealing with one fucked up group of people when the ''least'' emotionally unstable characters are a [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam Veteran]] [[spoiler:(or so we think)]] turned {{pirate}}-mercenary (Dutch), a jaded former police detective turned [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs underworld kingpin]] (Mr. Chang), a Soviet commander sent one too many times into Afghanistan who took her troops and formed [[TheMafiya the syndicate Hotel Moscow]] (Ms. Balalaika), a Japanese salaryman whose life just got turned upside down (Rock), and a man who was forced to flee his home country after pissing off both the FBI and TheMafia (Benny). |
| 31 | * The TV Series of ''Anime/BlackRockShooter''. The only sane person out of the cast is Yuu. [[spoiler: Nope. Actually, Yuu vanished into Otherworld years ago. The person we've been seeing named Yuu is actually her Otherself Strength. She's not crazy, however, she IS the crazy.]] Psychologically stable people don't have Otherselves; they can stabilize, but you had to be psychologically abnormal at some point. |
| 32 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' has large amounts of characters with tragic or complicated pasts. All six of the manga's heroes (Ichigo, Rukia, Orihime, Uryu, Chad and Renji) all have dead relatives or loved ones with different reactions to their losses which affected their lives. Other characters have had sad backstories like Matsumoto, Gin, Tosen, Ulquiorra, Starrk and Lilinette, and everybody affected by Aizen's action 101 years prior to the manga's main storyline. |
| 33 | * In ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'' it's rather difficult to name a major character that ''doesn't'' have issues of some sort. |
| 34 | * The main three characters of ''Manga/BokuraNoHentai'', especially Ryousuke and Tamura. Marika had a mostly FriendlessBackground and was bullied in elementary for being [[UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} feminine]], Ryousuke has his own set of problems thanks to his sisters death and his mothers increasing [[SanitySlippage mental health problems]], and Tamura... He starts out only moderately troubled, due to having an abusive relationship with the [[IncompatibleOrientation boy he likes]], but after [[RepressedMemories remembering]] that [[spoiler: he was molested in the past]] he goes off the deep end and starts behaving in inappropriate manners. |
| 35 | * The only character in ''Manga/BlackButler'' who doesn't have a DarkAndTroubledPast so far is the soul-eating demon. |
| 36 | * The whole of the cast of ''Manga/BungoStrayDogs'' seems to be messed up, as far as we know. Atsushi and Lucy are abuse survivors who grew up in an OrphanageOfFear. The series starts out with Atsushi being thrown out of there and meeting the others, while Lucy never got in contact with good people and ended up in a criminal organization. Akutagawa is also an abuse survivor, since he suffered it from Dazai in his mafia days, and grew to become an AxCrazy villain bent on destruction just to hear that one word from Dazai. Dazai himself is also no angel, since he was an [[EmotionlessGirl Emotionless Guy]] who killed people without any remorse or sympathy for them. Now he's in the ADA, he has grown a bit better, although he still blatantly shows symptoms of being a ManipulativeBastard and is not above screwing the situation so it turns into their (but mostly his) profit. Kyouka's storyline is similar to Dazai except she never loses her calm and stoic demanor while killing, while the rest of her personality returns to being a normal girl. Yosano has a past with Mori, by being forced to heal soldiers in a vague past on a ship. She had to watch them slowly dying inside, due to the many times they were revived and forced to fight. |
| 37 | * The entire main cast of ''VisualNovel/ChaosHead'' is certifiably insane. [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Including the narrator.]] |
| 38 | * ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' isn't ''quite'' as bad as some of the other examples, but that may be in part because the original manga is [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism fairly idealistic]]. Chrono was found by Rosette and Joshua Christopher sleeping in a tomb--which is later revealed to have been the final resting place of [[spoiler: Mary Magdalene]], a woman he was in love with, that he accidentally killed during a fight with Aion. Rosette and Joshua's parents are dead, and when Joshua gets Chrono's horns from Aion and puts them on his head [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity he goes insane]]. Most of the people Azmaria has ever cared about have been killed or have abandoned her because of her powers. Satella's family was killed in front of her by a demon without horns, and she has spent her entire life searching for him so she can enact her revenge. Fiore is an EmotionlessGirl that is later revealed to be [[spoiler: [[LukeIAmYourFather Satella's dead sister]], turned into a "mindless doll" by Aion to further his goals]]. Remington in the anime is [[spoiler:some sort of fallen angel]] and in the manga [[spoiler:was turned into a half-demon half-human thing by the Elder at his own request. Oh, and he may have been in love with Mary Magdalene too]]. In the manga, the ''bad guys'' don't even get away without tragic backstories--the Sinners are a BreakfastClub. |
| 39 | * In ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'', nearly everyone has a problem or several, some pretty bad and some not as bad as others, but nonetheless, played and displayed [[TearJerker depressingly]] at times. |
| 40 | ** Same goes for VisualNovel/{{Kanon}} and VisualNovel/{{Air}}. [[Creator/KeyVisualArts Key]] seems to like this trope... |
| 41 | * In ''Anime/CodeGeass'' most major characters have some serious problems, which places them past the DespairEventHorizon and sometimes leads to their dragging others close to them down in the undertow. Most especially, all characters tied to Geass are seriously messed up. |
| 42 | * ''Manga/CountCain'' has hardly a well-adjusted character in the whole bunch, mostly driven by Cain's BigScrewedUpFamily (Cain himself regularly beaten and told he was inherently evil due to his name, his half-brother [[RaisedAsTheOppositeGender hidden in girls' clothes]] to keep him from a similar fate-- unsuccessfully, as he was later subject to similar abuse, tricked into [[FamilialCannibalismSurprise eating his pet]], and considers other animals infinitely superior to humans-- his father and mother being [[BrotherSisterIncest siblings]]), but also present in the unrelated and side characters. [[TheJeeves Riff]] seems to have some identity problems [[spoiler: which come to a head in the climax where [[TomatoInTheMirror it turns out]] he's an ''entirely invented'' SplitPersonality of a cruel man working for Cain's father]], Oscar developed a bizarre fixation on Cain because he resembles his dead fiancée-- a fixation he then transfers to [[WifeHusbandry Cain's ten-year-old half-sister]], and one-shot characters include a little boy who gets violently protective of the elder sister he claims to hate, a girl who was crippled by her mother [[MyBelovedSmother so she could never leave home]] and who learned to [[LivingDollCollector kill people and preserve them]] so they'd never leave her. And that barely scratches the surface. At least little Merriweather seems to be okay.... |
| 43 | * Good Lord, ''Anime/CowboyBebop''. Not just all of the main characters have issues, but practically everyone they meet in the entire series. It doesn't help that the theme is practically a deconstruction of GrowingUpSucks, as is fully explored in some literary papers. (Yes, you heard me; literary papers have been written about ''Cowboy Bebop''.) |
| 44 | * Everyone shown in ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' (much of the characters have dark pasts, AxCrazy disturbed personas, or are less than nice), but considering DW is a maximum security prison / themepark / [[spoiler:[[SealedEvilInACan secret mutant containment center]]]] it's hardly surprising. |
| 45 | * ''Manga/DearBrother'': Everyone. And if they don't already have a tragic past, all the drama in the main story more than makes up for it. |
| 46 | * Everyone in ''Manga/DeathNote'' has problems. Light is a KnightTemplar with [[AGodAmI a god complex]], Matsuda watches all his ideals and beliefs crumble around him, Soichiro is chasing after a criminal [[DevilInPlainSight who happens to be his son]], Misa is a cutesy Yandere, L is probably autistic and definitely a WellIntentionedExtremist, Mello is a HotBlooded teenage crime boss with a severe inferiority complex, and Near just... doesn't care about anything. Honestly, it's easier to list who isn't messed up. |
| 47 | * The large majority of the characters in ''Literature/DenpaTekiNaKanojo'' have issues. The [[{{Chuunibyou}} Chuuni]] main heroine who won't hesitate to use [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend violence to protect Juu]] and is probably stalking him considering her uncanny ability to appear when he need her is one of the less severe cases. The worst cases are {{Yandere}}s , or just plain murderous AxCrazy. Even If someone seem perfectly well adjusted, chances are that they're just really good at [[BitchInSheepsClothing keeping up appearances]]. And of course, ThereAreNoTherapists. |
| 48 | * Every member of the cast of ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness'' has some sort of horribly traumatic past. It seems to be a job requirement for shinigami. When one of the protagonists, who suffers from a [[spoiler:cripplingly uncontrolled power of empathy, to say nothing of the ancestral curse,]] combined with a childhood spent [[spoiler:locked in a cell in the basement]] and a sibling who [[spoiler:shares his given name and was murdered by their parents,]] and ends up being [[spoiler:raped and murdered via a wasting curse cast by the main villain]] all by the ripe old age of sixteen, and his backstory is comparatively cheerful next to that of his partner... well, it's just a pity that the department is run on too much of a shoestring budget to hire a staff therapist. They could use one. |
| 49 | * ''Manga/DGrayMan'': Oh boy... name one character with a backstory that isn't depressing and you get a cookie. Special mentions go to: |
| 50 | ** Allen Walker: The poor boy was born with a deformed left hand and was abandoned and sold to a circus by his family because of it. There he was used for dirty jobs and regularly abused culminating in being put in a cage with a lion... He finally found a foster father who seemed to love him and traveled with him until his father died a few years later. He then was tricked by The devil in a clown suit into [[ComeBackWrong reviving him wrong]] and forced to kill him. After recovering from the trauma, he was taken by an abusive master to be trained to become an exorcist and fight in a holy war. And this is all before the story begins... |
| 51 | ** Yu Kanda: [[spoiler: Kanda was an exorcist who endured seeing his comrades falling on the battlefield for many years until his day came. But even death wasn't enough to release him from his duty because the Order retrieved his body and put his brain in a new body to have him fight again. He was forced to attempt synchronize daily with the innocence which caused excruciating pain. When he finally made a friend, the memory of his past life kicked in, causing him to become insane. His best friend met the same fate and slaughtered everyone in the lab, forcing Kanda to kill him. Multiple times.]] |
| 52 | * ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'': |
| 53 | ** Being a SpiritualSequel to ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'', -- you know you've got a messed up cast when ''every leg of your LoveTriangle'' is a {{Yandere}} [[StalkerWithACrush stalker]]. [[spoiler:And the fourth leg is ''[[ALoveToDismember a freaking head]]''.]] |
| 54 | ** The [[CuteAndPsycho rest]] of the [[StepfordSmiler cast]] isn't [[LackOfEmpathy really]] that much [[DarkAndTroubledPast better]], [[AGodAmI either]]. And they're [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope only]] getting [[SerialEscalation WORSE]]. Let's just say that the nearest thing ''resembling'' a "healthy relationship" in the entire series is the one between a [[HeadlessHorseman headless woman]] and the MadDoctor who vivisected her ''when he was'' '''''four'''''. |
| 55 | *** [[ItRunsInTheFamily Another apparently healthy relationship]] is between the said MadDoctor's ''[[MadScientist father]]'' and his second wife, a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} MadScientist who may be ''younger'' [[MayDecemberRomance than his son]] |
| 56 | *** And, probably, the two AxCrazy otakus who torture people using methods they read in manga and LightNovels. |
| 57 | ** It shows, when the most "normal" and well adjusted character in the whole cast is the said [[HeadlessHorseman headless woman]], a 600-year-old [[FairFolk Irish spirit guide]], and ''not'' her [[MayflyDecemberRomance 20-something boyfriend]], nor her ''head'', who's actually [[JerkAss a kind of an asshole]]. |
| 58 | * Anyone in ''Manga/ElfenLied'' who wasn't already murderous, emotionally traumatized, or unlucky in love sure became one (or all) of those. The only character to come across as somewhat well-adjusted would have to be Nana, and sometimes, not even her! When the most normal person in your cast is the one with no arms or legs, expect some serious issues. |
| 59 | * ''Manga/FruitsBasket''. In most cases if the parents of a Sohma member are mentioned, at least one rejected their child as a monster. All of the characters have at least one other tragic aspect: Yuki was abused as a child, Kyo was looked down upon as a monster even by the ''other'' Zodiac members and blamed by his father for his mother's suicide, Hatori lost part of his sight and erased the memories of the woman he loved, Shigure was involved in a twisted love triangle, etc, etc... This includes Tohru and her friends. Although at one point it was actually ''subverted''. A flashback to Kimi being teased in middle school has [[http://www.onemanga.com/Fruits_Basket/112/10/ girls asking why she doesn't just hang out with the guys and get by on her looks]]; her response is, "[[InsultBackfire So you think so too?!]]" with giant shiny eyes and a "Big ego boost" UnsoundEffect. |
| 60 | * The ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003 universe]] seems to have psychological trauma as one of the qualifying factors for a commission in the Amestrian military. Notable cases are the Elric brothers, who were [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned by their father]], and sparked the plot by trying to use forbidden alchemy to resurrect their dead mother. Other characters partying in TraumaCongaLine include Roy Mustang, Riza Hawkeye, Winry Rockbell, Van Hoenheim, Izumi Curtis, Tim Marcoh, and Scar. Plus, Alex Armstrong and King Bradley make the list unexpectedly. And then the plot happens. Almost every single major character (and definitely every single major character who already had past issues) gets badly traumatized at least once by the end of the series. Those that survive will surely have issues for years to come. [[spoiler:EarnYourHappyEnding indeed]]. TruthInTelevision for an army that just finished committing genocide. Under the circumstances, anyone without severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is almost certainly a sociopath - like Kimblee. Also not aided by ThereAreNoTherapists, because the series is set in an alternate 1914. |
| 61 | * ''Manga/FutureDiary''. The whole cast is AxCrazy, ''especially'' [[{{Yandere}} Yuno]]. The main cast is comprised of a serial killer, a terrorist bomber, a prophetess of a self-proclaimed ReligionOfEvil who was also used as an unwilling [[RapeAsDrama sex toy]] by them in the past, a blind vigilante ruled by his own brand of justice, a {{Tykebomb}} who suffers from elitism, a CorruptCop, a man who is maniacally in love with his dogs and neglects his family, the local mayor who has Nazi-like views on how to evolve humanity by giving his citizens the power of the Future Diaries, and the lead Yukiteru Amano eventually snaps after certain incidents that force his hand all the while guarded by his AxCrazy StalkerWithACrush Yuno. The only sane characters are Yuki's friends, two diary owners who have a more stable relationship than Yuki and Yuno, and a careworker who has no interest in winning but her orphans want her to become God to make the world better. |
| 62 | * Most of the characters in ''Manga/GetBackers'' have some kind of personal or family tragedy that lets them lapse into angst at some point. {{Wangst}} is generally avoided because they're all huge dorks that can also lapse into shameless perversion, immature name calling, fistfights, etc. at a moment's notice. |
| 63 | * Almost every single main and major supporting character in ''Manga/GoodnightPunpun'' has a very serious and realistic mental hangup. For example, the lead is a suicidal loner and his crush Aiko has an abusive mother. |
| 64 | * This is more-or-less obligatory in ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' as cyborgs are orphaned or "unwanted" children used by the government to become [[ChildSoldiers assassins]]. All the girls have [[DarkAndTroubledPast deeply troubled pasts]] ranging from Henrietta being raped after her family was killed in front of her to Angelica's father trying to run her over to get money from the "accident". The only reason they're not all currently suicidal and depressed (Henrietta was shown to have been both prior to becoming a cyborg) is because their conditioning [[RepressedMemories represses their memories]] and makes them [[{{yandere}} extremely loyal]] to their [[TheHandler handlers]]. Their handlers aren't the most functional men either. For example, Jose uses Henrietta as a ReplacementGoldfish for his sister Enrica while Rico's is abusive towards her. |
| 65 | * Despite mostly being a comedy, ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' had some cases. |
| 66 | ** Gintoki was shown to suffer from PTSD from his time fighting in the war. Katsura and Takasugi likewise suffered from the same state and harbor a desire to destroy the world that took away everything from them - especially Takasugi. |
| 67 | ** [[spoiler:Utsuro]] was an immortal being that went through at least ''500 years'' being starved, tortured and killed in various horrible ways. As a way to cope, it developed many different identities, all of which are murderous and destructive, with [[spoiler:Shouyou]] being the sole exception. |
| 68 | ** Kamui first appears as a [[PsychopathicManchild cheerful sociopath]] who loves fighting and killing. It's later revealed that his current persona is a product of his Yato blood, childhood trauma and piled up stress. Since his father Umibozu never came home, Kamui always had to defend his dying mother and little sister from their violent neighborhood while always [[StepfordSmiler putting up a smile]] because he didn't want to worry them. However as he found out [[spoiler: Umibozu was responsible for mother's current illness]], Kamui snapped and tried to attack his father, which resulted in Umibozu losing an arm and him almost getting killed. |
| 69 | * The new Original Seven of ''Anime/GunXSword''. This is kind of funny, in that Gadved, the OnlySaneMan, boasted to Van about how powerful they are and how well they work together. With the likes of [[TheBerserker Carossa]], [[BrokenBird Fasalina]] and especially [[Theatre/OedipusRex Wo]]... The protagonists are also something like this, especially when you count [[SixthRanger Ray]]. |
| 70 | * ''Literature/{{Haganai}}'', besides being a slice-of-life school comedy, also details the lives of seven socially-inept members of the Neighbors Club, particularly its principal trio (which also serves as a LoveTriangle of the sorts) -- Kodaka is an otherwise [[OnlySaneMan well-adjusted boy]] whose social life suffers due to being frequently mistaken for a {{delinquent}}; Yozora is an [[{{Jerkass}} abrasive loner]] with almost NoSocialSkills; Sena is a notorious RichBitch, her [[MsFanservice shapely figure]] notwithstanding; Yukimura is a girl who pretends to be a boy with [[GullibleLemmings a severe lack of self-confidence]]; Rika is a TeenGenius with an [[LovableSexManiac incredibly perverted streak]]; Kodaka's little sister Kobato is under a [[MrImagination constant self-delusion]] of being a vampiric ElegantGothicLolita; and Maria is their [[SenseiChan ten-year-old advisor]] with severe [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} reality-testing issues]]. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. |
| 71 | * ''Anime/HeatGuyJ''. Let's see, there's a TokenMiniMoe "raised" (and I use that term ''very'' loosely) by an [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] mom and a DisappearedDad. There's an AxCrazy Mafia leader who became AxCrazy [[spoiler: and killed his father]] after years of [[AbusiveParents abuse from his dad]]. TheHero's [[MissingMom mom walked out]], and [[spoiler: his dad was assassinated shortly thereafter by the aforementioned Mafia leader's father]], causing his brother to go into an AngstComa and [[spoiler: eventually try to take over the city]], there's the son of a blues singer who became TheUnfavorite after his dad left the family for the woman he was cheating on his wife with. A [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent a werewolf]] that's constantly searching for a little sister [[spoiler: [[ItMakesSenseInContext that isn't even ''his'' little sister.]]]] And a scientist whose dad was always working (and died of unknown causes when she was young). In fact, the ''only'' character without a dark past or troubled family is [[TheHeart Kyoko.]] |
| 72 | * ''Everyone'' in ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''. Especially [[BreakTheCutie Seras]]. Which is ironic, since Seras [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the dysfunction. It is even more ironic when you take into consideration that Seras is one of the sanest characters in the series, despite having [[DarkAndTroubledPast every reason not to be]]. |
| 73 | --->"Makes you wonder if anybody normal works in this place..." |
| 74 | * ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': |
| 75 | ** The Allies are not well. England had no friends, and was bullied and hated as a child by his own [[TheUnFavorite family]], and ends up being [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution left by the one person who ever showed him any love]]. France's [[UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc implied love]] was murdered by his own charge turned [[UsefulNotes/HundredYearsWar enemy]]. China's former little brother ''stabbed'' him for seemingly no reason and declared war on him. Russia was raised by General Winter and endured through several things that messed him up completely (Bloody Sunday, anyone?) The only one who appears to have gotten it easy is America. And when you take into consideration how UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution must have affected him as well, even that's debatable. |
| 76 | ** The Soviet Union also qualifies. Russia is an insane type 3 StepfordSmiler with an awful past. Belarus is a Yandere who wants to get married to Russia. Ukraine is a sentimental girl who's always trying to defect. Lithuania is TheWoobie, complete with scars presumably inflicted by Russia, and is in unwavering love with Belarus, who always abuses him: the one time he had a "date" with her, she ended up breaking his fingers, ''still doing so as he talked to Poland afterwards''. Latvia is the fragile one who's always trembling. Estonia seems to be the OnlySaneMan, but that could be just because he gets so little screen time; he's still terrified of Russia and identified as part of the "trembling trio" with Lithuania and Latvia. |
| 77 | ** It's fair to say ANY character in Hetalia fits this. Considering the fact that the cast represents countries and their histories, and that history is ''far'' from perfect, the trope is extemely [[JustifiedTrope justified]]. |
| 78 | * ''Manga/InsideMari'' has the main character Isao, who is a scraggly {{hikikomori}} living off his parents' money and [[StalkerWithACrush obsessed with]] a high school girl who he [[FreakyFridayFlip ends up in the body of]]. He befriends a [[FriendlessBackground friendless]], bullied girl named Yori who is in love with Mari. [[spoiler:Mari herself is in on the action. It's first implied she has mental issues when her mother acts dismissive of Isao-in-Mari saying he isn't Mari and gives her some pills. It's later shown her mother was [[AbusiveParents emotionally abusive]] in the past and there are heavy implications that ''was never a bodyswap'' in the first place.]] |
| 79 | * ''Anime/JewelpetTwinkle'': four out of the five main characters have issues with their families. For protagonist Akari, it's being TheUnfavourite; for Miria and Sara, it's parents who spend most of their time working abroad (Sara hasn't seen hers in ''years''); for Nicola, it's a StageMom who doesn't give a crap about him if he doesn't live up to her insane standards. The fifth character, Leon, lost his beloved dog who was trying to protect him. The villain was bullied for her powers, lost her mother and was separated from her brother to go live in a world she had never been to so an evil book of spells could never be unsealed (it's complicated). |
| 80 | * ''Franchise/KagerouProject'' is chock full of this. There's the [[spoiler:bastard child whose father [[PaterFamilicide burned down their house]] and her older sister sacrificed herself to save her. After she survived the fire, she gained an ability to become invisible, got thrown into an orphanage and was called 'Ghost' and 'Monster' behind her back.]] And that's not going into what happens later. [[spoiler:She dies. Multiple times.]] |
| 81 | ** Just one example? For god's sake, this series is a CrapsackWorld. How about [[spoiler:[[UnhappyMedium Seto]] who hated his ability because AMindIsATerribleThingToRead? [[ButtMonkey Kano]], who was actually the only one to know what really happened to his sister and had to keep it a secret to protect his siblings? Heck, Ayano herself, a heroic WellIntentionedExtremist who sacrificed herself to save her siblings and friends, falls into this too.]] And the icing on the cake? [[spoiler:They all die anyway. ''Multiple times''.]] |
| 82 | ** And what about the rest of the cast? [[spoiler:Shintaro, who had always been disillusioned with the world to begin with because of his intelligence, became a shut-in when Ayano died and in one route killed Ene and himself. Takane finally realized her feelings for Haruka and rushed to tell him, but she died before reaching the hospital. When she saw Haruka again, he had become Konoha and didn't remember her. Mary watched her mother die and lived alone for over a hundred years. Shintaro's sister Momo was the only one to shoulder her family at age 16. Hibiya watched Hiyori die multiple times in extremely NightmareFuel-ish manners and still suffered trauma over that memory.]] ThereAreNoTherapists, indeed. |
| 83 | * ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'': YOMI (the disciples of YAMI) are all pretty messed up teenagers. Among them are a guy who was bought from a child slavery ring and put through TrainingFromHell that rivals Kenichi's, a prince who was LonelyAtTheTop his whole life and developed into a royal SmugSnake {{Jerkass}} as a result, a military nut obsessed with following orders to the point of suicide (possibly a ChildSoldier as well), and [[spoiler:Odin, whose sole motivation for becoming a vicious fighter was losing a childhood squabble with Kenichi over a badge]]. This is all ''before'' YAMI molded them into killing machines. Half the reason Kenichi is able to eventually triumph against all of them is because unlike them, [[SanityHasAdvantages Kenichi is not ''batshit insane'']]. Due to their issues, the YOMI members tend to have a VillainousBreakdown ''in the middle of the fight'' when confronted with Kenichi's conviction and/or his unexpected strength, allowing Kenichi to beat the crap out of his otherwise superior opponents. |
| 84 | * ''Anime/KeyTheMetalIdol'', and everything that takes after it: ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'', ''Anime/BoogiepopPhantom'', ''Anime/GhostHound'', ''Anime/{{Texhnolyze}}'', ''Anime/ErgoProxy'', and ''Anime/HaibaneRenmei'' to name a few. |
| 85 | * ''Anime/KnightHunters'': All main characters have serious issues. Either there is a dead lover, a little sister in a coma, a backstabbing friend, or a whole family of psychotic people; rest assured that these {{bishonen}} are scarred for life. |
| 86 | * ''Kodomo no Jikan'': Rin, Kuro, and Mimi all have ''really'' serious issues (especially for 9-year old girls) and could definitely use some [[ThereAreNoTherapists counseling]]. Later in the series it becomes clear that they aren't alone. Rin's caretaker Reiji's a mess for a long time ago (he doesn't seem to understand why Aoki is so [[{{Squick}} squicked]] by his WifeHusbandry plan), Shirai-sensei has mother issues and is emotionally stunted, and Kyoko has issues (there's a reason she always wears the same sweatshirt and sweatpants ensemble to school everyday). Aoki is the only major character without any serious angst in his past. What the main storyline puts him through makes up for it. |
| 87 | * It seems that in ''Manga/TheKurosagiCorpseDeliveryService'''s world, becoming an orphan correlates with gaining weird skills or powers. So far, with the exception of the main character, all of the main cast and a few secondary characters who also have supernatural powers have revealed that something horrible happened to their parent or parents as a child. |
| 88 | * ''Literature/KyouranKazokuNikki'' has every character coming from a [[DarkAndTroubledPast dark past]]. Yuka and Chika suffered abuse at the hands of their family, Teika is a survivor of the near-genocide of his people, Hyouka is a killing machine suffering from [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman humanity issues]], Ouka has no recollection of his past... |
| 89 | * Considering that the series takes place in a CrapsackWorld where nearly everyone has a DarkAndTroubledPast and/or goes through BreakTheCutie moments, the cast of Literature/TheLegendOfTheLegendaryHeroes is inevitably this. |
| 90 | * The characters of ''Manga/Life2002'' easily count. The protagonist is a [[SelfHarm cutter]] who's bullied and [[ButtMonkey can never seem to be happy for long]], her ex-friend's boyfriend is a BitchInSheepsClothing who has AbusiveParents, said ex-friend is a {{Yandere}} AttentionWhore, the protagonists only true friend for most of the story is a [[JapaneseDelinquent delinquent]], the protagonists love interest was severely bullied in middle school... |
| 91 | * Every ''Manga/{{Loveless}}'' character who isn't a psychopath or sociopath has been through emotional hell. Ritsuka (amnesia, ongoing physical abuse from his mother, the death of his beloved older brother, and the discovery that said older brother [[spoiler: is a murdering psychopath who faked his own death]]) and Soubi (orphaned, raised by a teacher who wanted to exert complete control over him and [[spoiler: sexually abused him]], and [[spoiler: physically and emotionally abused by Seimei, who saw him as an object]]), are probably the worst off, but Yuiko is a victim of bullying, Natsuo and Youji felt neglected by their creator, and Kio is estranged from his daughter and has been disowned by his family, just to name a few. The title's rather apt. |
| 92 | * It's downplayed, given the idealistic nature of the setting, but up until ''[[Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid ViVid]]'', the only major character in ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' who hadn't suffered some sort of horrible trauma in their backstory (which normally involved the loss of a family member) was, ironically, Nanoha herself. [[spoiler: And depending on your definition of backstory, she had her injury in-between ''A's'' and ''[=StrikerS=]''.]] Of course, part of the reason why it's downplayed is that there are therapists; [[WarriorTherapist the kind that rain pink lasers of death upon their patients]]. |
| 93 | * ''Manga/MagicalGirlSite'' is upfront about this. Girls are given sticks ''because'' they have "misfortunate" lives. As to be expected, all the girls have horrible pasts, having experienced things such as bullying, abuse, rape, suicide ideation, and witnessing the murders of their families and friends. Not only that, but the majority of the girls are mentally unstable and murderous, taking full advantage of the power their sticks give them to gleefully enact revenge and kill others. Even the non-magical characters are screwed up. |
| 94 | * ''Manga/MariaNoDanzai'' |
| 95 | ** Maria Akeboshi: A broken [[GoodParents good mother]] turned KnightTemplarParent who planned revenge for two years [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine to give the brats a taste of their own medicine]] and [[KarmicDeath kill them for ripping her son away from her life]], [[TheUnfettered having to take unwanted, but needed actions that could help her reach her goal]], even if she feels very guilty. |
| 96 | ** Nozomu Okaya and his GangOfBullies: [[TeensAreMonsters Teenaged students]] who [[BullyBrutality torture their victim in sadistic ways]], led by TheSociopath who ultimately blackmails him to jump off a cliff and gets disappointed when he dies. |
| 97 | ** Taiichiro Nagare: A [[HeartbrokenBadass depressed detective]] who [[SelfPunishmentOverFailure believes that his negative reputation in the police precinct is well-deserved]] and [[ItsAllMyFault blames himself for his son's death]]. |
| 98 | ** Yashima: A [[ShrinkingViolet timid girl]] who unfortunately got in the hands of a [[DirtyCoward cowardly rapist]] via {{Blackmail}} of a recording video of her attempting to shoplift, [[KarmicNod which is why she tolerates the horrible abuse]]. |
| 99 | ** [[spoiler:Akihiro Yuda: A former victim of the GangOfBullies before being saved by his best friend, so traumatized by the horrific abuse that he stopped coming to school. [[ItsAllMyFault Deeply remorseful for not being further help when said friend died]], he [[BungledSuicide once tried to commit suicide]], [[TragicDropout dropped out from school]], and [[{{Hikikomori}} stayed in his house for a long time]] until he saw that [[ButForMeItWasTuesday his tormentors moved on happily as if they didn't take an innocent life]]. [[ThisIsUnforgivable Enraged]], he trained himself to be a [[ColdBloodedTorture torturer]], but couldn't bear to do it on the first target because of his trauma. Then, he witnessed that someone had the same objective as his and [[LikeAGodToMe viewed her as a god]]. When he talks with her for the first time, he asks her to use him as she wishes as his redemption for his late friend.]] |
| 100 | * As a franchise set around WarIsHell and ChildSoldiers, it's no surprise that the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}} series is filled with these: |
| 101 | ** The original ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' started it for the franchise with the White Base crew. The main character Amuro's parents are separated due to his father's decision to emigrate to space. Now he's a ChildSoldier with a rapidly developing case of PTSD on top of his pre-existing issues with social contact and his father is missing while his mother refuses to accept that he's a soldier now. Frau Bow's family was killed in front of her in the first episode. Mirai has an ArrangedMarriage she wants no part of, along with more deceased parents. Sayla Mass' parents are dead and she's actually living under a false name because of her father's politics - and to make things worse for her, her long-lost brother just reappeared... as one of the top pilots on the other side of the war. Hayato has a massive inferiority complex from being constantly overshadowed by Amuro. Captain Bright's a cadet who only winds up in charge because everyone else is dead. |
| 102 | ** In ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'', Kamille is a bundle of anger issues and parental displacement as his parents are thrown into their work with the Titans (and later end up killed) and gets involved in the entire war because a random Titans soldier accidentally insulted him, starting a rivalry that would end with multiple {{Love Interest}}s dead at their hands. Amuro's PTSD has gotten worse due to the death of Lalah Sune last series, to the point where he's initially scared of going back into space fearing she'll be there. Quattro is a man still haunted by not only Lalah's death but his actions as Char Aznable and desperately wants people like Kamille to lead the way to a brighter future. |
| 103 | ** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'' is full of them too. Heero is orphaned very young. He's used as an assassin and trained as a [[ChildSoldiers child soldier]]. Duo [[StreetUrchin live on the streets]] with other kids and steal to stay alive. He ends up in a orphanage and all his friends are adopted except for him. OZ and the Alliance then massacre everyone leaving him the sole survivor. Trowa is trained as a [[ChildSoldiers mercenary]] with no memory of his lost family. Quatre has a low esteem of himself and thinks his father doesn't love him because he was born as a test tube baby (in reality he was conceived naturally and doesn't know it). Wufei lost [[ArrangedMarriage his wife]] during an OZ attack on his colony. Zechs lost his parents during an Alliance invasion and had his pacifist homeland conquered. Even Relena swings between this and WideEyedIdealist. And then one has to wonder how Lady Une ended up with a SplitPersonality. Thankfully, two of the secondary characters (Sally Po and Lucrezia Noin) manage to stay level-headed and tend to steady the others whenever they cross paths. There's also, if you think about it, Treize; his status as a MagnificentBastard actually has a stabilizing influence because he carries an imperturbable air about him that makes men rally around him. |
| 104 | ** Thanks to the events of the previous series, a lot of characters in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'' are really messed up. Shinn is haunted by the deaths of his parents and little sister during the first war and gradually turns into TheBerserker because no one wants to take him to a therapist. Rey [[spoiler:spends the entire series believing himself to be the same person as the OmnicidalManiac from the last series, thus blindly follows Durandal and leads Shinn into his downfall]]. Athrun and Kira are haunted by their actions in the last war, Athrun more than Kira. |
| 105 | ** Not even the otherwise LighterAndSofter Build spinoffs are safe from this, as shown in ''Anime/GundamBuildDiversReRise''. In contrast to the original main casts from ''Anime/GundamBuildDivers'', Hiroto is [[TheStoic a stoic]] BrokenAce who struggles to forgive himself and move on from a traumatic event he had in the past, Parviz suffers from having low self-confidence and crippling fear of heights after he accidentally piloted his glider into a thunderstorm and the ensuing crash left him permanently paraplegic, Kazami grew up as an [[MinorLivingAlone orphan]] after losing his father and suffers from severe InferioritySuperiorityComplex, and May has serious social awkwardness problem [[spoiler:due to being born as an AI lifeform]] and wander around GBN taking requests from various people to [[DesperatelyLookingforaPurposeinLife by find what her "mission" in life should be.]] |
| 106 | * Most of the main characters in ''Anime/NabariNoOu'' have either a horrible traumatic past, or a horrible traumatic present. Or both. |
| 107 | * ''Manga/{{Nana}}'' has most of its main characters dealing with ParentalAbandonment, abuse or even just everyday love life issues. Drug addiction also starts to figure into the story as well. |
| 108 | * Most of the characters in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' that get any screen time usually have suffered through the death of a loved one or some kind of abuse, including Sasuke, Naruto, Sakura, Gaara, Iruka, Kakashi, Sai, Hinata, Neji... you get the point. To elaborate: Sasuke has PTSD, among other issues, Naruto hides severe depression, Sakura and Karin have downright abusive relationships with Sasuke (read: they continue to be smitten with him even when he tries to kill them), Kakashi has a serious case of survivor guilt on account of witnessing two suicides and being unable to save his mentor or his best friend, Hinata has an inferiority complex that causes crippling shyness, Gaara had severe depression from his years of persecution at his own father's hands, culminating in failed suicide attempts and then homicidal mania by age twelve (fortunately, he got better), [[ItMakesSenseInContext Neji tried to kill his cousin Hinata because he didn't want to be her slave]], Sai was trained to be an emotionless killer, including being forced to fight the guy he had come to regard as a brother to the death. Let's not even get started on the [[FreudianExcuse villains]]... |
| 109 | ** Considering the show takes place within a sort of modern feudal Japan and 99 percent of the cast are child soldiers and grown-up child soldiers, it's little wonder most characters fall into this trope. Combine that with the fact that ThereAreNoTherapists, and it's a miracle anybody is sane. Thank God for the PowerOfFriendship. |
| 110 | * ''Manga/{{NEEDLESS}}'' (no relation to Manga/{{Loveless}}) [[PlayedForLaughs plays this for laugh]]. The entire cast are sociopaths in one way or another, and they have DarkAndTroubledPast that led them to becoming who they are now. About the only one who is sane is Cruz, the ButtMonkey. |
| 111 | * The primary members of the cast in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' tend to have the most horrible backstories. Negi's never met his parents, is too self sacrificing and had his village burned down. Asuna [[spoiler:was a weapon and was forced to cause the destruction of Ostia]]. Konoka is fairly normal, but she's been estranged from her best friend/love interest for years. Setsuna was cast out of her tribe for what is strongly implied to be albinism. Evangeline has had people trying to kill her her entire life. Chao, Rakan, Chachamaru, Anya, Kotaro, Shiori... But don't worry, not everyone is like this; [[BrickJoke Makie can't think of any worries]]. |
| 112 | * ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is one of the best examples of this, with nearly every character being screwed up in some way or another: |
| 113 | ** Keeping within the circle of main characters, we have: |
| 114 | *** Shinji, the shy, borderline-depressed protagonist with negligible self-esteem and self-worth and a massive guilt complex; |
| 115 | *** Asuka, a self-hating, abrasive, attention-seeking {{Jerkass}} with self-esteem, abandonment and anger-management issues; |
| 116 | *** Rei, an emotionless ExtremeDoormat who sees no issue with considering herself expendable; |
| 117 | *** Misato, a BrokenBird who craves love and acceptance but fears more than anything the very commitment that comes with the deeper relationships said desire entails. |
| 118 | ** Even [[AntiVillain Kaworu]] has issues, despite his limited screentime. He's been kept under [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness SEELE's]] thumb his whole life, is a DeathSeeker [[spoiler:who ends up dying in a version of SuicideByCop]], and suffers from numerous existential terrors involving [[spoiler:his destiny to wipe out humanity by causing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]]. |
| 119 | ** The rest of the cast is little better, and in some cases are [[OmnicidalManiac much worse.]] If the character has a name and story importance they are broken in some fashion to the point where no two audience members agree on who is the worst of the bunch. |
| 120 | * ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere'' is about ChildSoldiers who aren't afraid to inflict upon "enemy" villages the same horror that kidnapped them from their own (despite their latent PTSD and SurvivorGuilt), rape camps stocked with {{Broken Bird}}s producing future soldiers...and a literally insane warlord ruling over it all. The worst part? ''The director was inspired by the very real'', '''very''' ''brutal civil wars in Africa''. |
| 121 | * Subverted and played straight in ''Manga/OnePiece'': |
| 122 | ** Subverted in that every member of the Straw Hat Pirates has a depressing backstory, but [[AngstWhatAngst very rarely]] does it ever seem to get them down in present time. An exception however is Brook during [[spoiler: his 50 years alone on a corpse-filled ship]], as he almost went insane from the grief and loneliness. However at present day he seems quite well-adjusted. |
| 123 | ** Other characters, on the other hand, play it straight. Montblanc Cricket was bullied and derided for most of his childhood because of something his ''ancestor'' did [[spoiler: which is ironic because his ancestor was telling the truth and no one believed him]]. Boa Hancock and her sisters were sold as slaves to [[AristocratsAreEvil the Celestial Dragons]] when they were young, who did such terrible acts to them that they can't even speak about it without breaking down into tears. |
| 124 | ** This seems to be the case with many villains: Doflamingo became extremely cruel and sadistic after being hunted down and tortured in childhood (though it could be argued he was born with that nature). [[spoiler: Arlong and his followers]] presumably went through some hard times, as [[spoiler: mermen and fishmen were always treated horribly by humans]]. |
| 125 | * ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'': |
| 126 | ** ''Ouran High School Host Club'' might look like a flamboyant, over-the-top explosion of pure fluff, but when you get down to it, the main characters are all very heavily influenced by family problems. Haruhi struggles with confidence and identity issues because of her dead mother and cross-dressing father. Tamaki is hiding a vast amount of hurt and confusion because his grandmother hates him and his high-powered businessman father inhabits a world that runs on a different code of ethics than he grew up with. Kyoya is driven by the need to surpass the achievements of his two older brothers in order to earn the respect of his father. Kaoru and Hikaru are so dependent on each other as twins that they are almost unable to relate to other people alone. Honey is rejected by his family because he prioritizes cake and cute things over his dedication to the family martial arts, and Mori has essentially no identity beyond helping and supporting Honey. The amount of drama all this causes is frankly astounding, and essentially runs the whole plot of a sixteen-volume manga series. Once you get into some of the plot twists, the issues get even darker and deeper. Admittedly, these are mostly pretty light compared to some other examples in this section, but still, one would imagine there would be one relatively normal character with a happy and well-balanced childhood and home life, out of seven. But no. |
| 127 | ** And then there’s the minor characters: Nekozawa, who is obsessed with black magic and death and cannot come out in daylight, and his three-year-old sister who developed an addiction to explicit shoujo manga because she cannot interact with her brother, being terrified of the dark. |
| 128 | * ''Manga/PandoraHearts''. It'll be hard naming a character that lacks any issues. [[spoiler:And the protagonist is far from safe.]] We have a ton of {{Yandere}}s, [[NightmareFetishist Ada]], Alice (an AmnesiacHero with NoSocialSkills who was [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide and DeadToBeginWith)]], [[SplitPersonality part]] of [[TheStoic Zwei]], [[CainAndAbel Zai and Oscar]], [[TomatoInTheMirror Elliot]], [[TeamMom Sharon]] (a 23 year old LoveFreak trapped in a [[OlderThanTheyLook 14 year old's body]]), [[SerialKiller Break]], and [[TheOphelia Lacie]]. |
| 129 | * ''Manga/PeacemakerKurogane'': Everyone. And it only gets worse for them later on too. |
| 130 | * ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}'': To list all of the characters' respective problems would be incredibly spoiler-riffic and take up half this page. Suffice to say that every major character must deal with several serious issues (and most of them [[RapeAsDrama don't deal with those issues]] [[MurderIsTheBestSolution very well]]). Put them all together, and the results are...[[FromBadToWorse interesting]]. |
| 131 | * Some of the main casts from ''Anime/PrettyCure'' have this: |
| 132 | ** ''Anime/HeartCatchPrettyCure''. |
| 133 | *** Tsubomi suffers from both a big inferiority complex and for her parents being absent from her life for a long time. |
| 134 | *** Itsuki suppresses her own desires to follow her family's tradition. |
| 135 | *** Yuri suffers from the death of her fairy partner. |
| 136 | *** Erika is the one with less problems but she ''is'' very jealous of her older sister. |
| 137 | ** ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure''. |
| 138 | *** Hibiki and Kanade thought the other didn't want to be friend with her and have been very antagonistic to each other since then. And in the anime it takes several episodes before they actually see each other as friends again. |
| 139 | *** [[spoiler:Eren]] felt extreme jealousy towards Hummy and later she will feel very guilty for how she treated her. |
| 140 | *** [[spoiler:Ako (who's nine years old)]] has to live with the knowledge that she has fight her own brainwashed father, who barely remembers her. |
| 141 | ** ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure''. |
| 142 | *** Haruka has been bullied for her dream of becoming a princess and it left scars. |
| 143 | *** Minami wishes to have friends but is considered too unreachable by her classmates. |
| 144 | *** Kirara gives up on having friends because she's too busy as an idol. |
| 145 | *** [[spoiler:Towa...]] She's one of the worst cases of BreakTheCutie. |
| 146 | ** ''Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure''. |
| 147 | *** Manatsu is shown to be ''very'' afraid of messing up. |
| 148 | *** Sango is a conformist and is afraid of speaking her own mind. |
| 149 | *** Minori is afraid of being judged negatively. |
| 150 | *** Asuka has heavy trust issues. |
| 151 | *** Laura is apparently the most normal (which is ''very'' ironic)...[[spoiler:until you find out that her memory of meeting Manatsu was erased because that's the law of Grand Ocean]]. |
| 152 | * ''Anime/PsychoPass''. The cast had tons of emotional baggage since majority are latent criminals or suspected to become latent criminals. Akane seems to be the only stable character and despite that her best friend and later, her [[spoiler: grandmother]] are brutally killed by the MonsterOfTheWeek, she still keeps it cool and doesn't let stress hamper her job. |
| 153 | * ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' -- unsurprisingly, since it was created by Creator/GenUrobuchi. |
| 154 | ** Madoka is a shy little girl who has no self-worth and feels useless. The fact that she lost all of her friends one by one through out the series doesn't help much, but it [[spoiler: enables her to delete herself from existence to save the world at the end]]. |
| 155 | ** Sayaka is a stubborn loudmouth with [[KnightTemplar an unwavering devotion to justice]] [[spoiler: that leads to her eventual transformation into a witch, as she refuses to replenish her Soul Gem because she thinks it's unheroic. She ends up broken and alone after watching her best friend fall for her crush and having her life destroyed by her wish.]] |
| 156 | ** Mami [[StepfordSmiler puts on a cheerful, heroic facade]] to hide the crushing loneliness and exhaustion she feels due to [[spoiler:SurvivorGuilt from having her family die in a car crash, and constantly fighting witches on her own. Once she finally opens enough to trust Madoka, [[WhamEpisode she gets eaten]].]]. |
| 157 | ** Kyouko is a harsh, selfish SocialDarwinist who won't kill familiars until they kill several humans and evolve into witches capable of dropping the Grief Seeds she needs, thinks Sayaka should win Kyosuke's love by breaking all his limbs and rendering him helpless without her. Turns out she [[spoiler:used to be an idealist like Sayaka, but watching her father commit a murder-suicide on her entire family after her wish goes horribly wrong snapped the justice out of her.]] |
| 158 | ** Homura is the ''queen'' of dysfunction. She [[spoiler: watched her only friends die ''multiple times'' while desperately trying and failing to save them through her GroundhogDayLoop powers, which eventually became so traumatizing that she abandoned all emotions and went from being a sweet little Moe with glasses and braids to a cold, hard Badass who fights with an armory of guns and bombs she stole from the ''Yakuza''. Every time the time loop resets, she has to watch Madoka, whom she's relived a single hellish month over and over to save, as well as the rest of the cast, shy away from her in fear and treat her like she's an intimidating stranger. Once she proves herself to them once again, they die or transform into witches. Eventually, with her help, the circle is broken and her best friend becomes a goddess that no one but Homura remembers, and leaves her WalkingTheEarth alone with the promise to come for her when she is about to die. [[IronWoobie Even then, she perseveres and soldiers on]] - and then the Incubators try to prevent their reunion and use her as a bait to strip Madoka of her powers. This is when she breaks and takes said powers for herself instead in order to punish the Incubators and grant everyone else a normal happy life - and keeps hating herself throughout for this act of betrayal, deeming herself an irredeemable GodOfEvil.]] |
| 159 | ** Kyubey [[spoiler:can't feel emotions - in fact, his species regards feelings as ''mental disorders''. Considering what happens to every single one of his recruits, it's not like this conclusion is misplaced.]] |
| 160 | * ''Anime/RahXephon'' could be considered a LighterAndSofter version of Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion. All of the characters are dysfunctional at some point or another, but at least, they get better. |
| 161 | * ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''. It's a lighthearted slapstick-action romantic comedy, so very few of the characters are genuinely malicious, but AlternativeCharacterInterpretation tends to [[ComedicSociopathy take it in this direction]]. Even Ukyo Kuonji, sometimes considered the most normal in a cast of loonies, has no mother and abandoned her father to be a transvestite for most of her life because some other little girls taunted that she would never find a husband after [[ArrangedMarriage her so-called fiance]] ran off with her dowry. The fandom makes it CerebusSyndrome or WhatIsEvil. |
| 162 | * If a character in ''Manga/RaveMaster'' didn't lose their parents at a young age then they either lost something worse or don't get to be part of the main cast. Bonus points for Musica, who loses his whole family as a little kid (to an early villain) and, several years later, loses his adoptive father to disease. And no, the bad guys aren't immune, either. In fact, the Raregrooves are bad guys ''because'' the universe [[ThenLetMeBeEvil keeps messing with them]]. |
| 163 | * ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'': Everyone in the series has a closet packed full with skeletons. In one of the earliest examples, [[spoiler: Nanami]] killed the kitten that she had given to her brother as a gift only days before because it was taking his attention away from her. And she was just a little kid at the time. Compared to other characters in the cast, that's quite tame, actually. |
| 164 | * The majority of the main characters from ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' fill this trope: two characters were orphaned at an early age (Makoto even lives alone as a minor), two have dead mothers, one is the child of divorce, and three never have their parents mentioned at all. Only three of the main characters have whole nuclear families (incidentally, these are the happier, more-or-less well-adjusted characters) and both [=ChibiUsa=] and Minako have some intense issues with their parents--[=ChibiUsa=] feels completely inferior to her messianic mother, and Minako is constantly hounded by her shrill one. Usagi's really the only one without any deep-seated problems regarding her folks. With two exceptions, the Senshi all have lonely lives at school before they team up, as well. |
| 165 | * Each of the younger princes in ''Manga/TheRoyalTutor'' have varying issues. |
| 166 | ** Kai was reportedly kicked out of military school due to getting into fights with one instance of him getting caught beating up one student. Though [[spoiler: he only did so because said student was bullying and hurting Bruno]]. He also is very introverted and has difficulty with any social interaction other than his family because his FaceOfAThug frightens everyone else. |
| 167 | ** Bruno recognizes that he is "average" compared to his naturally talented and genius oldest brother. He constantly strives to make himself noteworthy so he could receive praise from others. |
| 168 | ** Leonhard appears very haughty and vain but actually hides a low self-esteem and is socially awkward. He acts like a {{Tsundere}} but craves attention and praise. He hates studying and teachers due to previous bad experiences as a child |
| 169 | ** Licht was sickly as a young child and felt that because his father never visited him, his father never cared for him. He puts on a mask of a flighty and irresponsible person but [[spoiler: he enjoys working incognito as a waiter.]] |
| 170 | ** And in addition, there is [[spoiler: Heine]] who is implied to have a DarkAndTroubledPast that has yet to be fully revealed. Certain unspecified details have been hinted at, such as formerly being a violent criminal. |
| 171 | * Oh, ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}''. Much of it family-related. We have dead parental figures, sibling incest, parental incest, parents attempting to kill children, children killing parents, characters murdering entire villages and clans... |
| 172 | * In ''Manga/SakuraGari'' between Souma's childhood, [[spoiler: being raped and tortured DAILY, silently and lonely while everyone pretends it doesn't happen]], Matasaka's childhood [[spoiler: and rape and torture at the hands of Katsuragi]], the situation with [[spoiler: Youya, and Souma's stepmother]], Katsuragi and [[{{Yandere}} Sakurako]] and you have extremes that just keep on climbing. |
| 173 | * ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'': Oh boy, let's start a list. And remember, this is all PlayedForLaughs: |
| 174 | ** There's the two main characters, Itoshiki Nozomu (a suicidally depressed AttentionWhore) and Kafuka Fuura (a WideEyedIdealist who pretends to be stupid to cover up her brutal childhood); |
| 175 | ** Chiri Kutsu, a psychotic {{Yandere}} afflicted with ObsessivelyOrganized tendencies who will kill people over wearing odd pairs of socks; |
| 176 | ** Komori Kiri, a {{Hikikomori}} who ends up living in her teacher's bathroom sometime during the second season; |
| 177 | ** Matoi Tsunetsuki, [[IJustWantToBeYou who dresses like her teacher Nozomu,]] eats the same food as him, followed him around everywhere - including the bathroom - and checks his mail; |
| 178 | ** Abiru Kobushi, a [[CollectorOfTheStrange tail fetishist]] who shows many symptoms of HollywoodAutism (deadpan, dislikes human company, somewhat shy and reserved); |
| 179 | ** Haruhi Fujiyoshi, a [[{{Hypocrite}} homophobic]] YaoiFangirl; |
| 180 | ** Nami Hitou, the OnlySaneMan... which makes her the class ButtMonkey; |
| 181 | ** And to top it all off, Mayo Mitamo, a girl who appears once a chapter just to [[BlackComedyRape sodomize dogs and occasionally her teacher.]] |
| 182 | * ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays''. The high school in the game and anime appears to be attended by people with a fairly weak grasp of reality, which doesn't particularly help the already fragile mental health of the lead characters. Like ''Eva'' for HumongousMecha, this is used to further its {{Deconstruction}} of MarryThemAll [[HGame H-Games]]. |
| 183 | * All the girls in ''Manga/SchoolLive'' suffer trauma due to the hellish ZombieApocalypse world they were abruptly thrown into: |
| 184 | ** Yuki outright refuses to believe there are zombies and her mind tricks her into believing that everything is fine and normal as a coping mechanism. [[spoiler:She ultimately gets better but keeps up the facade to make the others happy]]. |
| 185 | ** Kurumi was forced to kill the upperclassman she had a crush on after he was transformed into a zombie. [[spoiler:She also has to deal with slowly becoming a sentient zombie after being bit by a zombie and given a experimental vaccine]]. |
| 186 | ** Miki was the SoleSurvivor of a mall after the outbreak and watched as the remaining survivors died in a fire after one member became infected. Her best friend Kei couldn't take living in the shelter and voluntarily left the safe zone. Miki has no idea if Kei is still alive [[spoiler:until she sees her as a zombie]]. |
| 187 | ** Rii initially appeared the most emotionally stable out of the girls but later chapters show that her sanity is hanging by a thin thread. She had a breakdown when [[spoiler:a helicopter crash renders the school inhabitable]] and she holds tremendous guilt over not trying to find her little sister, who she last saw in the kindergarten school. [[spoiler:She later becomes delusional like Yuki, though only to the degree where she imagines a teddy bear as her little sister]]. |
| 188 | ** Megu-nee was always stressed as she was the only adult around these girl. She had the task of trying to keep the girls physically and mentally safe. She harbored major guilt because she found out [[spoiler: the government and by extension, the school, knew about the outbreak and prepared emergency manuals]] and she felt she could have done more if she had [[spoiler: opened the manual earlier.]] |
| 189 | * ''Manga/ShadowStar''. In the entire 2500+ pages, there are ''two'' (one of whom appears for about 15 pages before being killed off) characters who are not broken or insane. |
| 190 | * ''Manga/ASilentVoice'' has a cast of generally dysfunctional teenagers and adults. Shouya was [[KidsAreCruel a horrible]] [[TheBully bully]] to Shouko in elementary and starts the series with wants [[TheAtoner to atone]] before [[DrivenToSuicide killing himself]], Shouko [[spoiler:is a StepfordSmiler who was suicidal in the past and is driven to such intentions again as the manga progresses]], and a good portion of the others are either [[FriendlessBackground traditionally isolated]] or [[BitchInSheepsClothing have horrible personalities]]. |
| 191 | * ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky''. Save for [[spoiler: Kanata]], the rest of the cast has a tragic past related to the war. But they believe you can EarnYourHappyEnding, though. |
| 192 | * ''Literature/StudentCouncilsDiscretion'': Zany antics and laughter aside, everyone in the council aside from Kurimu has some deep seated personal trauma, be it bullying (Chizuru), a broken family (Minatsu and Mafuyu) or a broken heart (Ken). |
| 193 | * ''Manga/TakopisOriginalSin'': The three main characters and their home lives are miserable. |
| 194 | ** Shizuka's dad ran off when she was young, while her mother is heavily implied to be a sex worker to keep food on the table. She gets bullied at school by Marina and her GirlPosse because of this. |
| 195 | ** Marina's father blows his money on gambling and prostitutes and regularly gets into fights with his wife, whom guilt-trips Marina into always being on her side and takes her frustration out on Marina by harming her. |
| 196 | ** Azuma was molded into a perfectionist by his mom, emotionally depriving him of love until he can attain the perfect scores of his popular older brother. She openly wonders [[WhereDidWeGoWrong where she "went wrong" with raising him]] despite him being an otherwise model student. |
| 197 | * ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' is partially inspired by the works of Creator/FranzKafka, as evidenced by its cast of severely damaged characters. The series is essentially the progression of one young man's descent into madness, and the many damaged people he meets along the way. |
| 198 | * ''[[Manga/UwaKoi Uwakoi]]'' (by virtue of being a creation of Masahiro Itosugi) brings a main cast full of troubles. |
| 199 | ** Yukiteru [[spoiler:finds destruction beautiful (as an aftereffect of him burning accidentally his house as a kid), cannot say what he really thinks because he's simply too afraid of Yuno, and is a pathological cheater.]] |
| 200 | ** Yuno [[spoiler:goes {{Yandere}} on Yukiteru and anyone that tries to take him away from her. And [[FridgeHorror it's not the first time it happens]].]] |
| 201 | ** Rena [[spoiler:cannot differentiate between her love for Yukiteru and [[LoveMakesYouCrazy her love for destroying things]]. And her Electra complex for a father that cheated on her mother is one of her motivations to love Yukiteru.]] |
| 202 | ** Kaori [[spoiler:doesn't find joy in anything but casual sex, even to the point of joining a school club that specializes in it. And [[StepfordSmiler smiles to hide it]]. Add ParentalAbandonment while you're at it.]] |
| 203 | ** Eris [[spoiler:gets off on destroying other people's relationships because she lost the man she loved. Being the daughter of a rich, abusive man that only sees her as an animal and a doormat mother obviously doesn't help things.]] |
| 204 | ** Yomi looks like a typical big sister-type NiceGirl but [[spoiler:enjoys having affairs with married men and leaving them before any relationship goes serious. And her depressing, negative worldview (specially when talking about happiness and relationships) is very similar to Yukiteru's.]] |
| 205 | * Also from Masahiro Itosugi is ''Aki Sora'', where the healthiest relationship is between the titular [[BrotherSisterIncest brother and sister who can't stop banging one another]]. |
| 206 | * ''Manga/WanderingSon'' is more mild then most examples here, but still counts for several reasons. It's mainly the main trio though. The protagonists are having troubles related to them being transgender, along with typical adolescent problems. Chiba however is just... rather dysfunctional for most of the manga, lacking proper social skills and being depressed often. |
| 207 | * Everyone in ''Literature/WelcomeToTheNHK'' has either a tragic past or a tragic present. In detail: Satou is psychotic and scared of strangers; Yamazaki found out just before the series started that his parents had planned his entire life out for him; Hitomi is also psychotic with a particular bent toward conspiracy theories and seems to also be depressed; and Misaki, leading the pack, well... [[spoiler:her father is dead, her stepfather was abusive, her mother may or may not have committed suicide, and she herself tries to commit suicide due to delusions of inadequacy caused by said abusive stepfather. On top of that, she also has borderline personality disorder]]. Misaki is even worse in the manga, in which [[spoiler:that entire history is made up to garner sympathy and attention. She even did the cigarette burns herself]]! |
| 208 | * ''VisualNovel/WhiteAlbum''. Touji is a slacker and seemingly can't take any kind of initiative, Yuki is an ExtremeDoormat, Yaoyi is... well, not particularly functional, Haruka seems to be something of a WildChild, Misaki can't function, Mana is neglected by her parents, Eiji is... Well, just crazy. All in all not the most mentally stable of casts. |
| 209 | * All the important characters in ''Manga/WolfGuyWolfenCrest'' have rather significant problems. Those who currently have manageable ones will undoubtedly have more piled on top of those. |
| 210 | * ''Anime/WonderEggPriority'': Each of the heroines have some significant baggage that [[ASharedSuffering helps them bond]] and work through their respective traumas: [[spoiler:Ai was bullied for her heterochromia and befriended a transfer student who also was bullied because she was seen as a TeachersPet. Said transfer student may have been involved in an illicit relationship with said teacher, and some time after Ai discovered this, her friend committed suicide, driving her into [[{{Hikikomori}} self-imposed isolation]]. Neiru woke up in a hospital to learn that she was stabbed in the back by her sister, who jumped off a bridge afterwards. The scar on her back [[AcheyScars aches]] unless she places herself in danger. Rika is a former idol who learned that a big fan of her's had been shoplifting and fencing stolen goods just to meet her at handshaking events. She tried to set her straight by claiming she could never be friends with someone as portly as her fan was, but this backfired horrifically when said fan developed an eating disorder and starved herself to death. On top of her having never known her father, this drives her to SelfHarm. Momoe is a {{Bifauxnen}} with a complex about her androgyny whose best friend had fallen in love with her and tried to seduce her. After rejectig her advances, her friend stepped in front of a train.]] And that's to say nothing of the [[VictimOfTheWeek Victims of the Week]]: [[spoiler:All of them were also DrivenToSuicide]]. |
| 211 | * The Four Dragons in ''Manga/YonaOfTheDawn'' have varying degrees of this. |
| 212 | ** Kija mostly had a happy childhood, being spoiled by his village due to his status as the White Dragon but an extra chapter revealed [[spoiler: his father, the previous White Dragon, attacked him and left a scar on his back. Consequently, Kija was kept away from his father for most of his life.]] |
| 213 | ** Sinha was isolated and hated in his village. His own mother committed suicide once she realized she gave birth to the new Blue Dragon. |
| 214 | ** Jaeha spent most of his childhood [[spoiler: chained and beaten by the previous Green Dragon so he wouldn't run away.]] |
| 215 | ** Zeno [[spoiler: outlived everyone he cared about due to his immortality.]] |
| 216 | * Every character in ''Manga/YuGiOh'' has either a tragic, depressing backstory or present. |
| 217 | * The majority of the villains in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' have a FreudianExcuse, and given the series [[DeconstructorFleet usual penchant]], this is probably intentional. Then there's the Protagonist, Judai, who is far by the most mentally screwed up character in the series, and he only gets worse as time goes on. Examples of villains can be summed up in 4/7 of the 7 Stars. Camilla is a vampiress whose people have been killed by humans and took refuge in a coffin until Kagemaru found her. And Abidos III rebelled against his advisers over dueling. However, the worst cases are for Darkness and Amnael, better known as [[spoiler:Asuka's older brother Fubuki and Daitokuji-sensei.]] [[spoiler:Fubuki]] mysteriously vanishes in the abandoned dorm one night and became Darkness. And as for Amnael's origins... [[spoiler:Daitokuji]] was an alchemist. [[spoiler:Kagemaru]] funded his research, but [[spoiler:Daitokuji]] fell gravely ill and had to make a second body to continue. And it turns out all along that [[spoiler:Daitokuji wanted to stop Kagemaru.]] |
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