Teen Pregnancy / Anime & Manga

• The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: Hahari was only 13 when she gave birth to Hakari. Unlike other examples of the tropes, sex wasn't involved - Hahari had herself artificially inseminated. Of course, it's pointed out that this is only slightly better, because you have to be pretty crazy to have yourself artificially inseminated by your dying boyfriend at 13. While Hahari loves her daughter dearly, she is also well aware that what she did was incredibly stupid, and her introductory arc is all about how she refuses to let Hakari make the same sorts of mistakes.
• The manga Akkan Baby is about this. It's the farthest thing from an angst-fest though.
• In Angel Crush, it is hard to believe that Vera Willow is already a mother of three. Serena Oak is revealed to be Lulu Mennella's older sister in her crossover appearance in Bag Together from Love Is in the Bag. Exactly how much older is not revealed, but when Serena is standing side-by-side with her teen daughter Sandy, they look quite similar.
• Implied to be the case in Apollo's Song, particularly when Shogo visits his mother at the bar she runs and one of her employees makes a confused comment about how she could have a son as old as he is.
• Attack on Titan has Historia Reiss be pregnant as part of a plot point involving passing on the Beast Titan to someone with royal blood. She's either 18 or 19. The father is a farmer who Historia knew when she was younger. The pregnancy was Historia's own idea, and she did it in order to prolong her life so that she wouldn't be fed to Zeke. At the end of the manga, both Historia and her child (and her husband) are alive and well.
  • In a more depressing example, there's Ymir Fritz, a slave and ancestor of most Eldians, as well as the first person to hold the power of the Titans, who was forced to give birth to three daughters via the man who owned her... as a reward for helping him expand the Eldian Empire with her Titan powers. While her age isn't stated, she's very obviously a teenager, maybe 15-16, when her first daughter was born, and there isn't much of an age gap between her children, either, and she's dead by the time she's 25. One of the final pages of the manga has Mikasa talking to Ymir Fritz's projected spirit/soul and acknowledging that what she went through was horrible, but Mikasa is thankful to her for giving birth, as it meant that Mikasa herself was eventually able to be born.
• In Bitter Virgin, Hinako was raped by her stepfather and got pregnant twice before her mother was willing to believe her and kicked him out. She had a miscarriage the first time, and since it was too dangerous the second time she gave birth to her second child and put him into adoption so he could have a better life. The plot starts when the protagonist Daisuke accidentally overhears Hinako confess what happened to her in a church, and feels an urge to protect her.
• Bokurano: Honda Chizuru's backstory begins when she falls in love with her teacher Mr. Hatagai as a freshman in middle school. While boys her own age seem boorish to her, he seems kind, mature, and like he really listens to her. After he's seduced her, he leads her into a trap to be gang raped by his friends, who blackmail her using the video they took and which results in her getting pregnant. In fact, she's about to get revenge on Mr. Hatagai through Murder-Suicide when she gets morning sickness and realizes she can't go through with it. This had to be Bowdlerized in the anime, where Mr. Hatagai doesn't sell her out to be raped but is depicted as a sleazy pervert who gets her pregnant only to break her heart and ruin her reputation.) Shortly after those events she and her friends are tricked into piloting the Humongous Mecha Zearth against giant monsters, only to be told later that each of them will die after piloting it once. When Chizuru takes control she goes on a rampage, killing those who raped her (again, not in the anime), and almost kills her teacher when she is stopped by her sister—whom he was dating—and attempts to stop Chizuru by "Go Through Me"; Chizuru calms down enough to destroy the enemy, and then she and her unborn baby die. It is later revealed that her baby counted to the number of pilots piloting the mech, meaning the group was one short — and if the baby had been called to pilot, they all would have been doomed.
• Boys Empire has this with almost everyone eventually, but it is H-manga with incest...In order of oldest to youngest: Mina Tamura, daughter Sakura, 17. Umeko Tamura (nee Sakagami), daughter Mina, 15^note  and the father was 10; son Makoto, 20. Hitomi Mizumura, son Makoto Jr, 12.
• Strongly implied in the case of Eleanor Baker in Candy♡Candy. She seems to be in her mid-30s, while her child Terry Granchester is in his mid-teens. Additionally, Terry is an Heroic Bastard born from Eleanor's affair with a much older English nobleman. No wonder the kid has... issues.

• Cardcaptor Sakura: Sakura's mother, Nadeshiko, married at sixteen, and gave birth to her eldest son Touya a year later.

• Invoked by Kokoro in DARLING in the FRANXX, she reads a book on childbirth and desires to have a kid to "leave something behind" in the world before she inevitably dies. While it's unclear exactly how old any of the Parasites are, they are certainly young teenagers. She unknowingly gets pregnant after her first time with Mitsuru, and gives birth to a daughter, Ai, in the final episode of the series. The Distant Finale goes on to say that she and Mitsuru had at least three more kids after that.

• Banji's mother in Go Nagai's Delinquent In Drag (Oira Sukeban) gave birth to Banji in her early teens, explicitly stated in dialogue.

• Dragon Ball: Goku and Chi Chi were 19 years old when Gohan was born.

• Devil Hunter Yohko: Sayoko Mano was sexually active as a teenager and became pregnant with her daughter, Yohko, when she was only 15 - something that disqualified her as a Devil Hunter, as that requires remaining celibate until age 16. Adulthood hasn't changed Sayoko. She continues to engage in casual sex with different men and encourages her now 16 year old daughter to do the same.

• In Digimon Tamers, some maths will reveal that Ruki's mother Rumiko had her when she was eighteen. The dub changed Ruki's age without touching Rumiko's, so if we go by All There in the Manual, the latter gave birth at sixteen instead. However, in the actual series, Rumiko did say Rika was the product of her being married before she was ready, so eighteen is still the youngest she could have been. Her grandmother Seiko is also very youthful-looking and could be an example in the dub if, as theorized above, Rumiko's age actually is higher in the dub (in the original, Seiko had Rumiko at age 21 and thus became a grandmother at age 39).

• Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest: Levy confirms that she is pregnant. She's at least 19 years old.

• From the New World: We last see Maria and Mamoru when they are 14 and 12 years later, it's revealed they have a child who was born shortly before they were killed. The child appears to be a preteen.

• In Fruits Basket, Kyoko is something like 16 when she gets pregnant with Tohru. She's already married, but she's still scared and unsure about raising a child, until her husband Katsuya reminds her that she's not going to have to do it alone. She still ends up as a young single parent without a high school education after he dies a couple years later.

• This happens to Ed's friend and Implied Love Interest Rose in Fullmetal Alchemist (2003). She's heavily implied to have been raped, and her kid was born from that. She's seen with her son the second time we see her and by her cameo Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa he's a toddler.

• Utilized in the 3rd Fushigi Yuugi OVA. Miaka (age 18) married Hot Teacher Taka Tsukunami Tamahome reincarnated after graduation, and she is 3 months pregnant with her first child. The baby is transferred out of her body and into that of a 16-year-old named Mayo Sakaki, Taka's pupil, who wants Taka all for herself, while poor Miaka falls into a coma. It is the Shinzaho needed to summon Suzaku and save the Universe of the Four Gods. Furthermore, it was subconsciously given to Mayo by Miaka, not stolen by Mayo, even though it seems that way at first. The baby is then returned to the mother, and later Miaka gives birth to a healthy baby girl named Hikari.

• Gonna Be the Twin-Tail!!: Miharu, Souji's mom. However in her case, it's absolutely merited; the light novel mentions that she got pregnant with Souji during her third year (it's not specified, but the assumption is high school due to the fact that said conception happened in the middle of a chuunibyou roleplay, though middle school is not out of the question), putting her around 14-18 when she had him.

• Great Teacher Onizuka: Kunio Murai's mother Julia was 13 when she gave birth to him. (It was a Surprise Pregnancy.) The Live-Action Adaptation ups the age.

• In Haré+Guu, Hale is 10 while his mother Weda is 24. It's the reason she lives in the jungle: Her city family kicked her out.

• In Haru and Midori, Midori's close friend Tsugumi dies at 31, and at her funeral, Midori meets Tsugumi's 14 year old daughter. Midori does the math to find that Tsugumi had Haru at 17, and there's 14 years of her life that Midori knows nothing about.

• In Hayate the Combat Butler Mikoto is stated to have had Wataru when she was young (and there's implication that Nagi's mother also gave birth while she was young) and actually left Wataru in the care of his maid Saki because of it. Mikoto still looks young despite having a 13-year-old son.

• The main character Yukino Miyazawa in His and Her Circumstances. She and Arima started to be sexually active when in high school, and Yukino got pregnant in their last HS year. They got married after graduation and, due to economic problems, Yukino herself remained a House Wife for a while; when her older daughter Sakura and the Half-Identical Twins that followed were more or less grown, she went to college and became a doctor.

• In Horimiya, Hori's parents were around 18-19 when she was born.

• Played for drama in Ichigo no Gakkou after the high school girl Kurumi and her teacher Ichigo develop a Teacher/Student Romance until she gets pregnant and becomes a Tragic Dropout. Though tempted to deny it for the sake of his career, he admits that he is the father and is thoroughly disgraced. Unable to teach anymore, he gets a job as a salaryman and insists on marrying her for honor's sake...and then they have to struggle to form a working relationship. Although Kurumi loves her child, she still feels wistful when she sees other girls her age still enjoying the carefree adolescence she was forced to give up.

• In the Distant Finale of Inuyasha, Sango already has three children and she's only about 19-20, which is not that surprising since she married Mr. "bear my child" Miroku and the story takes place in Feudal Japan. That, and two of the kids are twin girls no older than three; the third child is actually born in that same Distant Finale.

• In the prequel novels for K, Saruhiko Fushimi's parents were very young when he was born - 17 or 18 - and they got married just because of the pregnancy.

• Dr Tanuma from Kaguya-sama: Love Is War mentions in chapter 147 that both he and his son had their first kid at seventeen, and expresses worry since his grandson is currently seventeen. Considering the fact that said grandson is Tsubasa, whose relationship with his girlfriend Kashiwagi had long since been established as being sexual in nature by that point, he has every right to be worried. And sure enough, the final volume reveals that Kashiwagi got pregnant shortly before Tsubasa's 18th birthday, much to Maki's horror.

• Karin: When Kenta was born, his mother was 16 and his father was 19.

• An extreme example provides the main plot of Kodomo no Kodomo, where both parents are in fifth grade.

• Kodocha: Sana's birth mother Keiko was fourteen when she gave birth. And it's implied in the manga that Sana was the product of sexual abuse, as apparently her dad was Keiko's uncle.

• The Legend of Mother Sarah has an interesting take on the subject, The 'Verse being a dystopian Scavenger World placed After the End and where getting pregnant is actually dangerous in itself due to the constant threat of bombings and skirmishes between two opposing factions. That and the fact that the scarcity of resources incurs women and children get no special treatment and are killed just as indiscriminately as men. Sarah's daughter, Satoko, gets pregnant in her late teens (she's implied to be merely 18/19) from her long-time lover, a young soldier named Yukito a few years older than her who wishes to father the child and start a family with Satoko. And while she's lucky enough to carry out her pregnancy to term, Yukito is shot dead before seeing his son born, making Satoko a widow of sorts, just like her mother. Sarah doesn't judge her daughter for getting pregnant per se, she just comments on how dangerous and unreasonable getting pregnant is in the setting and how vulnerable and co-dependant it might leave her and her child, especially when Satoko is already handling a war orphanage. But Sarah is still happy to be a grandmother.
• Lotte no Omocha!: Naoya was 12 (13 in the anime) when he sired Ashua. Mercelida (Ashua's mother) wasn't any better at 15.
• In Love Is in the Bag, Lulu Mennella is shown to be quite youthful, and her age is toyed with but never revealed.
• In the Lyrical Nanoha franchise:
  • Lindy Harlaown was 17 years old when Chrono was born, and is 31 during the first series. Though she still looks like she's in her early twenties at most, and doesn't visibly age for the next decade either.
  • Since the series is a spin-off to Triangle Heart 3, it's not clear whether Momoko is really Kyouya and Miyuki's mother in this universe or not.^note In Triangle Heart 3, Kyouya is her step-son and Miyuki is her niece. If she is, then she must be 14 and 16 when she gave birth to them, respectively. Her husband Shirou was definitely 18 when his son was born. Like Lindy, Momoko looks like in her early twenties, despite being 33 at the start of the series and remains her youthful appearance for the next 14 years.
  • Subverted with Nanoha herself, who has a six-year-old daughter at age nineteen in StrikerS, but her daughter is adoptive, not biological.
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans has a rare example of teenagers trying to have a baby; Atra, due to some advice from Haba, comes to believe in that if Mikazuki had a child, he'd stop his self-destructive habits since he'd have something to live for. She first tries to get Kudelia to do it, who refuses and suggests Atra should be the one to have the child, since it was her idea. Though Mikazuki, who had recently developed an interest in babies, agrees, she comes to realize that even with a child, Mikazuki will never change. In the end, however, they still conceive a child just for themselves, a son named Akatsuki, who Atra raises with Kudelia's help after Mikazuki's death .
• In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Yzak Joule's age is given as sixteen. His mother, Ezalia's age is given as thirty-three. This means Ezalia was seventeen when she had Yzak. Given her country's aggressive pro-birth policies, this actually makes a lot of sense.
• The Mother of the Great Demon King's 10 Children in Another World: Akari becomes pregnant by drinking a Stork potion that contains the Demon Lord Gran's magic. She gives birth to her first child at the age of 16.
• My Monster Secret: At the end of the series, it's revealed that Youko, the (vampire) female protagonist is pregnant. In an added wrinkle, she and her boyfriend never actually had sex. She's a vampire, and they didn't realize that it's possible for a vampire to conceive via drinking blood.
• One Piece:
  • Scarlett was only 19 when she had Rebecca.
  • Charlotte Linlin, better known as Big Mom, was 18 years old when she gave birth to her first child Perospero, and she continued to give birth every year for the next 41, resulting in a total of 85 children.
• Pokémon: The Series: While not as clear as the game example, see the video game section, the Oak family may also apply: Professor Oak is 50 years old as of circa Johto (and given the way the anime timeline works, he probably still is that age, if not younger). His grandson Gary is 10, meaning that there is a 40 year gap for both Professor Oak to have a kid(s), and for that kid(s) to have Gary. At best both were 20 when this happened, but it is just as likely one of them were teenagers.
• Rosario + Vampire gives us Kurumu's mother Ageha and Mizore's mother Tsurara, both of whom appear to be in their early thirties; the anime reveals them to have been classmates. Justified in Tsurara's case, since Yuki-Onna go sterile at a very young age, and as a succubus, Ageha probably didn't want to take things slowly either.
• Marine Gabrielle de Polignac in The Rose of Versailles, who had her eldest daughter Rosalie at age 14. She gave her away to her former maid Nicole, who took the baby away and raised her as a peasant.
• In Sakende Yaruze! Shino and Misao think they want to have kids at 17. When Misao does get pregnant, she leaves Shino so as not to wreck his future, not telling him about it and giving birth to Nakaya alone. 17 years later, Nakaya and his girlfriend have a pregnancy scare, but luckily for Nakaya she was just a little late.
• In the School Days anime, Sekai believes with good reason that she's pregnant with Makoto's baby. The Downer Ending takes place and both she and Makoto die, though, so it's never fully cleared if she was knocked-up or not.

• Shino from School-Live! ends up pregnant by her boyfriend. This is inconvenient, as they're in the middle of a Zombie Apocalypse. Even worse, her boyfriend turns into a zombie due to the virus being airborne. It's unknown how the baby will turn out.

• Shaman King: Hana Asakura was born when his parents, Yoh Asakura and Anna Kyouyama, were 16. There's a scene that all but stated Yoh and Anna had Their First Time fairly early in the manga (since they feared he'd die in the tournament), and it's heavily implied he was conceived that night. This was fan speculation in the original series, but Shaman King: Flowers confirmed it.

• In Super Dimension Century Orguss, all female Emaan who are mothers go through at least one of these, because their Bizarre Alien Biology makes them sterile at eighteen.

• Played for Laughs in Tomo-chan Is a Girl!. Carol Olston is 15. Her mother Ferris is only 28 years old. Her friends are shocked by this, with Tomo doing the mental math just to double-check while Misuzu quickly advises her to not push the subject. A later bonus chapter shows how it happened; 13-year-old Ferris looked like she was 16-18 years old and completely forgot to mention her age to her 16-year-old boyfriend, who immediately thinks My God, What Have I Done? once the information registers. He decides to commit and continues his marriage proposal to her regardless, only for the feeling of dread to multiply when she reveals that she's also pregnant.

• In Toradora!, male lead Ryuuji Takasu was born when his mother, Yasuko, was about 16-17.

• Atsuko Urameshi from YuYu Hakusho gave birth to Yusuke when she was just 15.