Would Hurt A Child / Anime & Manga

Would Hurt a Child in Anime & Manga.

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Anime and Manga with their own pages

• Doraemon

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• In Ao no Fuuin, Akira tortures an Oni child (about 4-years-old in appearance, though it is implied to have been born only a few months ago) by draining its energy off and on while trying to gain information out of it. He says he'll even kill her if she won't answer soon enough.
• Takaoka from Assassination Classroom is a brutal military instructor who consistently puts those in his care through extreme physical pain, breaking them inside and out. This is firmly cemented when he knees Maehara in the gut hard enough to leave him gasping for breath and smacks Kanzaki with enough force that she flies about five feet away, both for simply objecting to his brutal training schedule.
  • And that's not even mentioning the fact that he was willing to poison the children and destroy the antidote right in front of those remaining just to get back at Nagisa for beating him in a fight. The only reason everyone got out alive was because his hired assassins had too strong of morals to infect innocent Junior High kids with a deadly virus and gave them mild cases of food poisoning instead. It's terrifying to think what might've happened if they hadn't been as lenient...
• Ladd Russo in Baccano! shoots a kid in the face with a shotgun for the hell of it. Vino also tortures said child, though since he had just watched Ladd shoot him in the face, he knew it wouldn't stick. And Czes had tried to get Ladd to kill everyone, so in Vino's mind he deserved it.
• Berserk:
  • To all Apostles, humans are food, toys or a combination of both. Children? They eat babies so...
  • Downplayed for Guts. He is not proud of the fact that he's sometimes harmed or endangered children in pursuit of his goals. In fact, he tends to be much more sympathetic toward children than he is toward adults because of his own abused childhood, and Jill is drawn to him despite his facade in Lost Children because he's the only grown up who's ever protected her at all. Just how much of a Kick the Dog it comes across as and how Justified it seems depend on the situation:
    • The first time in his life that he caused the death of a child was his accidental killing of Adonis during the assassination of Count Julius, and his reaction to this was a horrified My God, What Have I Done? that sent him into a Heroic BSoD. On the other hand he didn't raise any objections to participating in Griffith's plan to neutralize the queen, which involved blackmailing Minister Foss by taking his young daughter Elise hostage, but Griffith kept his end of the bargain and returned her to her father unharmed afterwards.
    • After the Eclipse, Guts Took a Level in Jerkass and spent two years hunting Apostles in a very ruthless manner. In The Guardians Of Desire when he's losing a Curb-Stomp Battle against the Count, he only manages to win through the dirty trick of taking the Count's daughter Theresia as a human shield. When everything's over and her father's dead, he gives Theresia a knife and encourages her to kill herself, which seems like a Moral Event Horizon for him, but then it turns out that he's actually pulling a Zero-Approval Gambit to make her hate him enough to want to keep living.
    • In Lost Children, when Rosine and her pseudo elves show up and begin massacring Jill's town, Guts takes a little boy named Thomas who is running from the elves and uses him as live bait to lure them into a barn which he burns down with them inside. The poor boy is utterly traumatized, but Guts makes sure he's ok afterwards, and when the villagers come out of their houses and call what he did heinous, Guts shames them by reminding them that he actually saved Thomas' life while they were cowering behind locked doors. Things go From Bad to Worse when the burning corpses of the elves turn back into children, making Guts look like a child-killing monster, so Guts puts a knife to Jill's throat and gets the villagers to let them through. From then on he turns up his facade to make Jill stop following him for her own good, and alternates between saving her life and acting like he's prepared to kill her if she tries to get between him and Rosine.
    • Lastly, Guts is justified in taking the gloves off when fighting monsters that used to be children, but which are now trying to kill him and other humans. Rosine in Lost Children, Nico in Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage, and Charles in Berserk: Millennium Falcon Hen Seima Senki no Shō are all Apostles who became Enfants Terribles after they were Driven to Villainy by the mistreatment they suffered from adults. Guts hates them as he would any other Apostle, and makes it his mission to kill them. It's not as if he doesn't feel any guilt, however, even if he tries to suppress those emotions behind a facade: When he sees that Collette's corpse is possessed by an evil spirit in Episode 2, "the Brand", he goes into a Heroic BSoD and doesn't strike her down until she's already stabbed him in the side. In Lost Children, when the elf children he burned in a barn came back as crying ghosts at night, he lets himself go Laughing Mad in order to get through the fight.
  • Big Bad Griffith trumps everyone in that he not only raped his pregnant former commander Casca while in his demonic form, inadvertently poisoning the kid with his demonic seed but he also uses the child, who was since miscarried as a misshapen fetus but has thrived, during the mock eclipse as a vessel to reincarnate himself into the real world.
• Black Bullet features this as a recurring theme. It's hinted at by the very term for Enju and many of the other main characters, Cursed Children, who were born with the Gastrea virus. Although this gives them superhuman abilities, it also indeed curses them in many ways, and they're at the center of the ongoing battle against the Gastrea epidemic.
• Black Butler: The villains of the Circus of Fear arc. This is especially yurk because the actual folks are pretty nice, but they know what their 'father' is doing with the kids they kidnap for him.
• Black Lagoon
  • Balalaika will come down like the wrath of God on anyone who dares to torture and kill her men. Even if they happen to be children. Doesn't mean she has to like it, though. In the anime, a flashback to the Afghan war shows her shifting her sniper fire away from a child running towards its mother. So this trope is in effect, but not to a ridiculous degree — presumably she'd have no qualms about killing a Child Soldier, but it wouldn't be the same with a civilian child.
  • Revy herself is not above hurting kids either, though she usually has to be provoked into it. As Dutch says when he orders Rock to take over watching Garcia from a pissed-off Revy, "not a lot of maternal instinct there."
• Bleach:
  • Wonderweiss caused a few problems among the shinigami because of his young age. Kyouraku attacked him after he stabbed Ukitake, Kensei stated he was the kind of guy would take out a child if he had to protect someone and, while Yamamoto was relieved when Wonderweiss entered Super Mode because he no longer resembled a child, he hadn't hesitated to try and kill him while he still resembled one.
  • Yhwach carried out The Purge against all Gemischt. He killed countless men, women and children. The only survivor in history was Uryuu, who was eight years old when he mysteriously survived Yhwach's attempt to kill him.
  • BG9 will target anyone if he decides it'll benefit his ability to achieve his goals. He impales Omaeda's little sister in an attempt to force Omaeda to reveal the location of his captain.
  • Yuzu fell victim to an enemy who was willing to kill her to achieve his goal of opposing Ichigo. Kokuto, in fact.
  • Grand Fisher often targets children. He almost succeeded in luring in and killing a young Ichigo when his mother protected him at the cost of her own life, and years later, tried to kill Karin and Yuzu.
• The Homunculi of Buso Renkin liked to eat children, as their meat was more tender than adults. Tokiko was the only survivor of a homunculus attack on her grade school when she was 10.
• Call of the Night:
  • Azami isn't above dropping Yamori off the top of a fifty story building to test if he is a vampire. He draws the line at hurting, however: once it becomes clear to Azami that Yamori isn't a vampire, he desperately hauls ass to save him from leaving a stain on the street, dropping a Cluster F-Bomb along the way.
  • Kiku, on the other hand, has vastly lower compulsions against killing children, being willing to drown Yamori if that's what it takes to keep him from seeing Mahiru.
• Catnapped!: Princess Buburina attempts to turn both Meeko and her brother Toriyasu into balloons and pop them only to find that it doesn't work since they're both human. With the former, she tries to do it in retaliation for calling her a witch, but when she finds that she can't pop her, she instead decides to turn her into a monster the next day, and with the latter, she tries to do so in order to stop him and Chu Chu from retrieving Papadoll... Guess what happens next?
  • It's worth noting that Doh Doh points out that Buburina is merciful to little kids, which might make sense considering she didn't try to kill Meeko until the latter insulted her not to mention that she and Toriyasu were both interfering with her plans for world domination. So it's likely that she wouldn't do this to a child unless they did something to make her angry, although it could've just been something Doh Doh said to urge Meeko to apologize.
• In Bungou Stray Dogs, one of the Guild's plans centers on this. Steinbeck tortures Q, who's thirteen but looks and acts a bit younger, in order to make use of his ability to wreak havoc on Yokohama. On that note, Q's ability relies on his enemies not being above hurting him.
• Case Closed: Many cases involve children getting hurt or killed by Asshole Victims. We have two schoolteachers strangling a girl no older than 12 to death because She Knows Too Much and then making it look like suicide; another case has Conan and his friends being chased around by a Serial Killer in a library during the night.
  • Conan himself gets beaten up badly by one or another member of the Black Organization at least twice, specially by Irish from the Non Serial Movies. Said attacker also has no qualms with hitting a teenaged girl like Ran.
• The Gun Devil in Chainsaw Man has the ability to send a bullet through the heart of every human within range with perfect accuracy. This not only includes children, but the range is actually twice as far if it's a child.
• Although they are not allowed to harm humans, Teresa demonstrated that she was not above kicking a traumatized little kid around in Claymore. Said kid is actually soon-to-be main protagonist Clare and how she humanized Teresa through their meeting and interaction.
• Code Geass has both sides slaughtering kids either off-screen or onscreen. On one hand, the Britannian Army kills Japanese/Eleven of all ages during the first episode's raid and the Euphinator Incident. On the other, Episode 14 of R2 has Lelouch and his group doing likewise in the Geass Cult Massacre, since many of the Cult members are very young Tyke Bombs.
• In the Cowboy Bebop episode "Sympathy for the Devil", Spike shoots a small child named Wen in the head — the evil little prick was rendered immortal during an accident involving a warp gate struck by a meteor, and it was the only thing that could hurt him. He had been crippling or taking crippled older men who all looked similar and forcibly inserting himself as their son to keep his cover, passing his 'fathers' off as the terrorist Zebra. Spike knows full well by the time he guns him down what he really was.
• During the Ghost of Mater arc of D.Gray-Man, the Ghost had killed five humans that had attacked it when asked if they wanted to hear a song. It was ready to kill the sixth human child if it did the same as the others and didn't accept it.
• A rare occasion that isn't a Kick the Dog moment: Maki's death in Darker than Black. He may be a kid, but he doesn't act it and is also a jealous yandere and a Contractor with no qualms about blowing up relative innocents (let alone the guy his boss/crush needs to keep alive to prevent a genocide), so it's actually rather satisfying to see the arrogant brat underestimate November 11, whose partner he'd hospitalized and wind up Impaled with Extreme Prejudice for his trouble.
• Daltanious: Kento is often the Team Dad to his fellow orphans, but smacks nine-year-old Jiro hard because he teased him for being fed by a Princess. He has a soft spot for Ochame, though, and frequently indulges her every whim.
• From the Date A Live spinoff Date AST Like (also known as Date A Strike) comes the Serial Killer and Serial Rapist Minerva Liddell.
• In Devilman, Amon doesn't care who is in his path. Child, baby... It's all good as long as it bleeds! So do his enemies, to be honest. Poor little Sachiko and Miki's younger brother.
• Mild case of this in Digimon Tamers. Yamaki, in his desperation to stop the Digimon who keep coming into the real world, physically attacks main character Jen/Henry who is 10 in the Japanese version and 12 in the dub. Unlike most examples on this page, Yamaki eventually becomes The Atoner.
• When it comes to the villains of Dragon Ball and all its incarnations, there is ZERO age discrimination. However, the kids in question can dish it back out as well.
  • Tambourine, one of King Piccolo's henchmen, is ordered to kill any martial artist who could possibly challenge him, and that includes Krillin and Goku. He kills Krillin in battle and thinks he did the same to Goku after viciously assaulting him; however, he only won because Goku was already fatigued and malnurished from fighting in the World Martial Arts Tournament earlier. When Tambourine fights him again, he's not so lucky.
  • Raditz threatens to have Gohan killed unless Goku joins him. After Gohan injures him with a sneak attack headbutt, he's enraged to the point that the first thing he does is knock the kid into unconsciousness and then immediately try to murder him.
  • Vegeta beats up and nearly kills Gohan in the Saiyan Saga. In the Namekian Saga, he kills civilian children in his hunt for the Dragon Balls. And unlike most other civilians in the story who were brought back to life by the Dragon Balls, these particular Namekians were never revived.
  • Recoome of the Ginyu Force brutally beats down Vegeta and Krillin when they refuse to give up the Dragon Balls. Then Gohan steps up...and Recoome shows virtually zero difference in restraint as he starts kicking his ass.
  • Frieza kills Dende's brother Cargo in cold blood^note In the anime, it's one of his Co-Dragons, Dodoria, who does this, kills Dende himself after learning about his Healing Hands, and threatens to kill Gohan after Piccolo and Krillin, just to torment Goku even further. This comes back to bite him hard, as threatening his son just after murdering Krillin was the final straw that resulted in Goku becoming a Super Saiyan.
  • Cell has absorbed children during his worldwide rampages, and takes sadistic enjoyment in fighting Gohan. However, he doesn't like it when Gohan becomes powerful enough to completely overwhelm him.
  • Super Buu simply doesn't care who he kills, as long as he kills something. Just ask Goten, Trunks, Marron and the victims of his Human Extinction Attack.
  • Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan takes this to a truly horrifying extreme with King Vegeta ordering his Saiyan Mooks to stab infant Broly in his crib, the audience only sees a Shadow Discretion Shot of the Saiyans picking little Broly up by the leg and stabbing him with a knife. The only reason Broly's survives is because Saiyan babies are much tougher than human ones.
  • And Broly himself had no issue attacking the preteen-aged Gohan, and even does the same to Goten and Trunks 7 years later.
  • Zamasu used the Super Dragon Balls to switch bodies with Goku and kills not only him and his wife Chi-Chi, but young Goten, too. All because he was extremely bitter over Goku beating him in a sparring match, of all things.
  • Bulma, the resident Gadgeteer Genius of the series, is surprisingly an example. She first meets Goku by almost running him over with her car, then shooting him on the head when he reacted.
  • Piccolo is another rare heroic example as when it comes his brand of Training from Hell he does not go easy on his pupils even if they are only 4 years old as poor Gohan learned the hard way (getting physically brutalised and blasted with ki). Even after Piccolo Took a Level in Kindness he hasn’t averted this, as seen by his training with Pan (an adorable three year Token Mini-Moe) in Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero where Piccolo brutally smashes her into some rocks as he would any other attacker. Of course Pan is a Pint-Size Powerhouse with comical Saiyan toughness so it’s funny rather than horrific as it would be in literally any other setting.
• In Elfen Lied, Bandou has no qualms about hitting and maiming little girls. Lucy herself is a threat to any child who crosses her path. Kurama would qualify too, for he is tasked with euthanizing diclonius newborns. And then we have the utterly depraved and horrendous stuff The Unknown Man does...
  • Lucy has no qualms of doing his, all because young boys abused her all her life and beated her puppy to death. She went BATSHIT INSANE and murdered them all.
• Agon of Eyeshield 21 threw a football at the knees of a kid in a wheelchair, thus cementing his status as the series' "villain" (or closest they have).
• Many villains in Fairy Tail.
  • The Tower of Heaven guards don't hesitate to inflict harsh punishments on their child and adult slaves, including having a young Jellal sent to a room to be tortured And gouging Erza's eye out. They all got what they deserved when Erza killed them all after Rob dies protecting her.
  • During Lucy's match with Flare, Flare sends a tendril of her hair into the audience and threatens to harm Alzack and Bisca's young daughter Asuka if Lucy fights back.
  • Racer, Faust, Zirconis, Ezel, Dimaria, Acnologia...a rather generous amount of baddies have taken fairly sadistic pleasure in fighting against the 12-year-old Wendy.
  • In Zero, the Blue Skull guild shows no mercy to any of the members of its rival, Red Lizard. Zera, the guildmaster's young daughter, is badly wounded in the attack and said wounds result in her death.
• Many of Fist of the North Star's bad guys are not above visiting cruelty or worse upon children, and some of the worst, such as Jackal and Souther, have actually killed kids in the manga. Because Kenshiro is a Friend to All Children, his wrath is especially violent when these kinds of villains go too far.
• No one in Fullmetal Alchemist seems to have a problem hitting Pride (AKA Selim Bradley). Then again, given what the little bastard is...Pride is still able to use this to his advantage, as evidenced by townspeople running to his rescue when he's attacked by Heinkel.
  • Shou Tucker fuses his own young daughter, Nina, and her pet dog into a chimaera in order to show off another talking chimaera (the first one was made from his wife) and keep his license as a State Alchemist, which horrified and pissed off both Ed and Al when they found out about this. Then Scar mercy kills her.
  • Scar was also seeking to kill Edward Elric, despite him being 15 and having nothing to do with the Ishvalan Extermination. At the time, Scar believed all State Alchemists needed to be killed, no exceptions.
  • Envy disguised as an Amestrian officer deliberately killed an Ishbalan child, starting the Ishbalan Massacre.
  • In Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), Bradley/Pride kills his own son by breaking his neck. In this continuity, Selim is actually a normal kid and his real son.
    • In the same anime no one seems to mind beating Wrath around. He resembles a 8 to 10-year-old child, tops.
• In Fushigi Yuugi, Miboshi can possess someone's body. He states that he prefers to possess children, because their innocent souls and small bodies make it easier to overtake them. His known victims include an unnamed young Buddhist monk (or monk-in-training), and Chiriko.
• Perhaps not too surprisingly, Yuno in Future Diary is more than willing to kill Fifth diary owner Reisuke, and even chases him around Yuki's house with a hammer. She does eventually kill him.
  • Uryuu Minene plants bombs all over a school full of kids, and winds up killing quite a few of them.
  • Once he loses it, Yuki uses Kamado's orphans to lure John Balks and joins Yuno in killing them. Yes, you read that right. Though Yuki did believe he could bring them all back to life once he won the game and became God, and was planning to. Unfortunately, it turned out God cannot bring back the dead.
• In Ginga Densetsu Weed, Thunder and Lector, the Doberman Pinscher assassins for Hougen, threaten to kill Teru if his father didn't kill Kyoshiro. It was also kinda personal, since Kyoshiro was the one who tore off Teru's father's ear.
• Goblin Slayer has no mercy whatsoever toward even the youngest of the goblins he kills, primarily because he knows that if left alive, they will grow up to be just as horrendous and vile as the full-grown goblins that fathered them. The Priestess that he saves from goblins is horrified at this aspect of what he does.
• In Guardian Fairy Michel, Salome and her gang are constantly at war with Kim and Michel. Aside from trying to harm or kill them, they've also kidnapped and attacked other children—or used the threat of doing so to make the heroes back off.
• Hellsing:
  • When she was a child, Seras Victoria stabbed one of the burglars who killed her parents right in the eye with a fork. The other burglar shoots her in the stomach without hesitation. It's a miracle she survived, given how profusely she was bleeding.
  • The Nazi vampire massacre on London shows some of them eating babies.
  • Alucard was constantly abused and raped by Sultan soldiers during his time as a child slave.
• In the Hetalia: Axis Powers movie, Paint it white, one of the victims of the Pict aliens is Sealand, a micro-nation who for all effects has the looks and the mindset of a 12-year-old boy. Subverted in the Hetalia Bloodbath 2010, where it looks like he'll be kidnapped... but he shows his Badass Adorable ID and applies Defeat Means Friendship to his attacker.
• Higurashi: When They Cry does this even more often than its successor Umineko. Although some instances are "simply" teen-on-teen, almost every world ends with little Rika being disemboweled by Takano, who is an adult woman, and in one of the most gruesome arcs of the series, Shion first does a full-blown crucifixion of Satoko, then stabs her repeatedly to death.
  • Another straighter example, especially notable for featuring an adult woman, is when Rina attempts to strangle the barely teenaged Rena after beating her up.
  • Shion also brutally beats up Satoko for being too clingy to Satoshi, until Rika and Rena pull a Go Through Me to defend Satoko, and then she gets Punched Across the Room by a very pissed off Satoshi. While Satoko was extremely dependent on Satoshi, it's still no excuse for Shion almost killing a much younger and weaker girl in the middle of a Yandere tantrum — and a girl who was the only good relative Satoshi still had left!
• Inuyasha has a few of these:
  • Naraku has no concerns about attacking anyone and anything in his quest (which has nothing to do with material power or world domination, he's simply miserable and wants everyone else share in that misery). He attacks and tries to kill 8-year-old Rin; he kills, resurrects, enslaves and manipulates 11-year-old Kohaku; some of his detachments have the look of children (such as Hakudoushi, Kanna and the baby) and he has no hesitation in using and discarding them. This is before we get to the collateral damage his activities have on random villages and low-level youkai populations.
  • Kouga, although we only see one direct example of this. He's introduced to the story having destroyed several human villages and in the process of destroying another village — Rin's home, which is also her introduction to the storyline. On his orders, the wolves wipe out the entire village, including Rin. After that, he's more interested in fighting Naraku and winning Kagome's heart to target humans again. When his people are revisited later on in the manga, the subject of them being a human-killing race is briefly mentioned although not specifically in relation to Kouga's past.
  • Kagura tries to be this, but fails. She kidnaps Rin on Naraku's order but never lifts a finger against her otherwise, and when Rin's in her presence again without Sesshoumaru around, she has no interest in hurting her. She's ordered to protect Naraku's baby and, despite loathing it, she does reluctantly look after it. Hakudoushi is far crueller towards her than she ever is to him, and the detachment she appears to be closest to is Kanna. In the end, she meets her death when ordered to kill Kohaku - she sacrifices herself to save his life.
  • In the anime, Dark Miko Tsubaki is the one to blame for a then 10-year-old Kaede losing her eye. Word of God stated that Kaede actually lost her eye when Inuyasha attacked Kikyou's village in an attempt to steal the Jewel of Four Souls.
• From Itsuwaribito, there is Iriya and his group of bandits, who slaughter a group of orphan children during a raid because they dislike leaving malice behind. Iriya even gloats about how they begged for their lives.
• JK To Sutego No Akachan: Baby Haru's father. The whole reason for the manga is because he insisted the baby's mother, Wakana, kill the child. When she leaves Haru under a bridge, he's found by Momoko who takes him in. Both Momoko and Wakana are high school girls, and Haru's father is not. He further compounds the issue by regularly referencing the fact he made his teen lover kill her baby.
• Female example: In Jackals, Roxy bisects 7-year-old Giulio Montero in one blow. Notable in that she did it directly and with her own hands. Subverted in that the child is actually an Enfant Terrible.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
  • Phantom Blood: DIO makes a woman eat her own infant child alive after zombifying her, right after he had just promised that he wouldn't hurt it.
  • Battle Tendency: Kars is willing to kill children because they'll grow up to be powerful Hamon warriors seeking revenge.
  • Stardust Crusaders: Alessi, who straight-up refuses to fight adults because they can put up too much of a fight, and whose Stand power de-ages anybody it touches (once they're de-aged, he then goes after them with guns or axes); and there's also Steely Dan, who straight-up hit a young boy and later threatened to use his Stand on a little girl to force Jotaro to back down (his Stand, The Lovers, transmits any damage Dan would have received to the affected target instead, meaning Jotaro trying to pummel him would have killed the girl and did seriously injure Joseph the first time it was displayed). There's also Petshop, who would have killed a young boy if it wasn't for Iggy intervening.
  • Yoshikage Kira, the Big Bad of Diamond is Unbreakable, is a Serial Killer who has no qualms about murdering anyone who could potentially expose him, children included. He murders Shigechi after he discovers his identity, kills Hayato for blackmailing him before undoing it with his Bites The Dust ability, and would've killed Rohan when he was four if Reimi hadn't snuck him out the window the night he killed her.
  • Golden Wind:
    • The Boss of Passione (AKA Diavolo) has no qualms about tying up a young boy and cutting open his wrists to drink his blood to regain the iron and other nutrients he lost to Risotto Nero.
    • In an effort to snuff out Bucciaratti's gang, Prosciutto rapidly ages everyone onboard the train they're on with his Stand, The Grateful Dead, including a toddler.
    • During Cioccolata's mold infestation rampage in Rome, one of the many on-screen victims is a little girl, which demonstrates perfectly that he simply doesn't care who dies as long as he gets to see it.
  • Stone Ocean: Multiple villains, such as Enrico Pucci, Miumiu, and Rikiel attempt to kill Emporio when fighting Jolyne.
  • Steel Ball Run: Blackmore attempts to assassinate Lucy Steel after she intercepted information meant for Funny Valentine.
  • JoJolion: Wu Tomoki doesn't bat an eyelash when the Locacaca takes Mitsuba's unborn child through the Equivalent Exchange.
• In Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger, Tagalong Kid Urii the Piglet is nearly killed onscreen twice. The first time, the disguised jyarei cornered him and tried to turn him into a roast; he only escaped because his Power Incontinence shot a Wave-Motion Gun into the sky, which acted as a distress flare. The second time, Big Bad Nyanma enjoyed trapping Urii and some of the other Eto Rangers inside a house, intending to detonate the entire building with them in it. Urii was the only hostage who survived, thanks to Pakaracchi offering himself as a Human Shield.
• Kindergarten Wars: Almost all of the villains are people hired to assassinate or at least kidnap the children of Kindergarten Noir.
• In the manga version of The King of Fighters spin-off KOF: Kyo, Goenitz kills Maki Kagura in front of her twin sister Chizuru when both of the twins were 10 years old. The whole thing was never shown, save for a Dead-Hand Shot of her bloodied hand.
• The Kirby: Right Back at Ya! version of King Dedede was certainly a step up from his game counterpart in terms of cruel dictatorship. In his attempts to "clobbah dat dere Kurbeh", he put other innocent lives in danger as well. Never mind that Kirby himself is a baby. Dedede's biggest Moral Event Horizon in some fans' eyes, though, was when he tried to crush Fumu/Tiff with the Dedede Stone.
  • In "The School Scam", after giving a tearful speech on how teachers really should solve problems following her humiliation of Dirk, Kirk, and Smirk in front of the whole classroom in the Dedede Academy, Tiff is about to retire from her teaching duties only to be stopped by King Dedede and Escargoon, who wanted her to return to them. Suddenly, she unexpectedly finds herself on the receiving end of a surprise attack courtesy of the three delinquents, who have merged together to form MT2. MT2 grabs her by the foot using Kirk's purple mohawk and swings her up and down with it, makes clear their intent to get revenge on her for their humiliation, and slams her down HARD onto the floor, leaving her lying injured and flat on her stomach. He also has no problem trying to hurt her students when they retaliate against him for what he just did to her.
• All of the villains and some of the heroes in Made in Abyss. The milder examples include punishments at Belchero Orphanage that would be considered torture in the real world. Given the series' setting they're probably just as awful, but they're socially accepted. Ozen's behavior toward the protagonists including mocking Riko with the knowledge that she was an Undead Child, physically throwing both her and Reg through the air, and then putting both of them through training from Hell is notable because it makes her a very rare heroic example. And then, of course, there's Bondrewd...
• The Anti Villains of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's, who ripped a (non-vital) organ out of a nine-year old girl's chest while she was still conscious, and later had no qualms about fighting her and her just as young friends at full power. They had a good reason to do that (at least, they couldn't see a better way to save a girl who is around the same age of the kind they attacked) and the children in question could dish it out just as well as DB heroes. That said, the Wolkenritter did make a point of not killing any people in their quest to save their mistress.
  • And then we have StrikerS aka the third season, where the villains strap the six-year-old Vivio to an Artifact of Doom and torture her to power it up. Some didn't seem pleased, but they didn't do a lot to stop it either.
    • In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid, Nove gets into a fight with Einhart, a girl who has been going around picking fights with martial artists. While Nove loses the fight, she places a tracer on Einhart, allowing Subaru to track down Einhart after she collapses not long after the fight.
      Subaru: But this is bad, Nove! Even if both of you agreed on the fight, you shouldn't have been so harsh on a little girl.
      Nove: Give me a break... I was beaten up quite badly too! It still hurts all over!
• Zig-Zagged in Maria no Danzai: while Maria is a Friend to All Children, Okaya and his Gang of Bullies, who are in high school, become marked for death after killing her son, with Maria going out of her way to make them suffer as much as possible before she kills them. It's also deconstructed in that killing them takes its toll on her, but she pushes forward because revenge is all she has left.
• Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: The Titans fire their colony laser, destroying a colony in the process. Women and children are shown dying. Though not direct killing, it is a brutal sight. When we're shown the gassed colonies, we see corpses of children among the ruins.
• Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ:
  • Glemmy Toto doesn't care how many ten-year-old girls die fighting for him. He keeps an army of Puru clones, sending them out to do his fighting as his killing. When the clones become attached to other people, he has their successors kill them, all without the slightest hint of remorse.
  • Also, at some point Haman shoots Leina. Which MASSIVELY pisses her brother Judau off.
• At first, Johan Liebert from Monster appears to be an aversion of this. But then you find out that he just manipulates them into killing themselves. And then he threatens to shoot an 8–10-year-old boy in the head if Dr. Tenma doesn't shoot him first. And he would definitely do it. There's the child he nearly manipulated into committing suicide by telling him his mother was in the Red Light District and sending him there with the thought that if no one claims him, he's unwanted and has no reason to live. The child is going to jump off of a bridge when Tenma and Grimmer find him and convince him that he actually is wanted in the world. Easily one of Johan's most despicable acts in the entire series, which is really saying something.
• Turkes from Mother Keeper is introduced by having him blow up a child and then beheading their horrified sibling.
• The Mystical Laws: When two Godom investigators find a copy of The Teachings of Buddha while searching a Japanese family's bookshelf, the father attempts to justify they forgot about it. However, the detective reminds the poor sod that all religions are prohibited in the Empire and therefore the offenders and their families should die. He begs the investigators to at least spare his daughter (who may not be older than twelve), but it's implied they will kill her as well.
• My Daemon: The various Daemon Experts that want to catch Anna have no qualms about hurting or even trying to kill Kento, an elementary school aged boy, if he gets in their way.
• Many villains in My Hero Academia do this.
  • Muscular would have killed Kouta, a young boy, if Midoriya hadn't intervened.
  • Overhaul not only has been repeatedly taking Eri's blood in a very painful process but also callously tells Mirio that he has subjected her to mortal injury and used his Quirk to reassemble her at least once.
• Fuuma Kotarou from Nabari no Ou blows 4-year-old Miharu's face off for no apparent reason. While smiling.
• This is a default in Naruto considering their world is full of Child Soldiers, the main characters included.
  • Nagato kills every person associated with Hanzo, including Hanzo's children and the children of Hanzo's loyalists, after Nagato wrestles control of Amegakure from Hanzo. Nagato, however, seemed indifferent to their deaths, as they were his precaution to quell any possible rebellion over his leadership in the future.
  • Tobi took a baby Naruto hostage, nearly spearing him with a kunai and blowing him up in the process.
  • Orochimaru once performed an experiment trying to infuse the DNA of the First Hokage into 60 children. One, Yamato, survived and gained his power. The rest (and to Orochimaru's knowledge until much later, all of them) died.
• In Nijigahara Holograph:
  • The man who is first introduced as Maki's boss tried to rape Arié when she was a child, is heavily implied to have murdered his family, including his younger sister, before torching their house, and may have thought about killing his sister's classmate Amahiko when they meet afterward.
  • One of Arié and Amahiko's classmates goes insane as an adult and stabs a child at their school.
• One Piece:
  • Captain Morgan orders a little girl be executed for bringing food to their prisoner Zoro. When the soldier in question refuses to carry out the order Morgan kills him on the spot for defiance before deciding to carry out the job himself.
  • Captain Kuro and his Number Two Jango were perfectly willingly to murder Ninji, Piiman, and Tamanegi (small boys) when they get in the way of Kuro's Evil Plan. Jango was even about to slit Tamanegi's throat before Kaya pleaded with him to stop and gave into Jango's demand that she give her inheritance to Kuro.
  • Arlong and his treatment towards Nami, which started when she was as young as 8, included slamming her head onto the desk for not drawing a map properly. In a flashback, he also hit the slave girl Koala for smiling too much.
  • Near the start of the Arlong arc, Nami, who's just been revealed to be a member of Arlong's crew, encounters a child who wants to kill Arlong in order to avenge his father's death, and smacks him on the head with her staff, knocking him to the ground. She remarks that Arlong doesn't have time for a kid like him and leaves him with a stack of bills. This is another sympathetic example, as Nami was trying to prevent the boy from getting himself killed on a futile quest for revenge.
  • Pirate captain Zeff is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold variation. He steals and pillages and isn't above to kick little boys hard enough to send them flying, but he can also save a kid (Sanji)'s life if he decides so.
  • Similarly, Luffy has no qualms slugging Momonosuke who's 8-years-old, though it's Played for Laughs and Luffy likely wasn't intending to cause actual harm. Zoro in Whiskey Peak knocked out a little Bounty Hunter kid pretending to be innocent (as well as a fake nun) though he used the bare minimum force and to be fair they were trying to kill him. Sanji in the Ocean's Dream arc had no problem attacking Creepy Child Dream, although he actually targeted the seahouse Dream was holding making him fall over but didn't actually kick the kid.
  • Mr. 1 and Miss Double Finger also attack a young boy when he discovers that the king was framed by Baroque Works.
  • There's also the Marines, who following the death of Gold Roger, searched islands he may have frequented and killed any babies born within nine months of his execution. His pregnant lover Portgas D. Rouge knew they would do this, and held Roger's child in her womb for 20 months through sheer willpower. It ultimately cost Rouge her life, but it allowed said kid (Portgas D. Ace) to be born and raised in a more or less safe environment.
  • The Gorgon Sisters were sold into slavery and then tortured into insanity by the World Nobles when the eldest, Boa Hancock, was 12-years-old.
  • Caesar Clown has no problem experimenting on little kids or getting them addicted to drugs — which would be fatal in five years — so they won't run away. His henchwoman Monet is no better in this regard, giving them the terrible drug with a sweet smile, fully knowing its true purpose. Even Trafalgar Law, whose infamous cruelty is legendary and has a nasty reputation among pirates, was disgusted.
  • Corazon of the Donquixote Family at first appears to be this, but it turns out he is ultimately well-intentioned. The hope is that if he is cruel to children who try and seek refuge with the Family, then hopefully they will run away and escape from his older brother's influence. If this means he has to throw a terminally ill ten-year-old through a two-story window, then so be it.
  • Kaido, King of the Beasts shows how little he cares for innocent life when he brutally attacks little Tama, an innocent and defenseless 8-year-old girl, almost killing her. His crewmen aren't any better: Holdem tried to force Tama to use her Devil Fruit power by pulling at her cheek with plyers. Both of these instances were enough to trigger Luffy's Papa Wolf instincts. Not only would he hurt a child, he has no issues hurting ''his own'' child as he used to beat Yamato when she was a kid, simply out of spite for idolizing Oden.
  • Shortly after his introduction, Shogun Orochi attempts to kill Toko, a little girl, for laughing at him (it's revealed later she can't stop smiling or laughing and it's Orochi's fault). Later, after killing her father, Orochi tries killing Toko again with a sniper rifle while she's crying by her father's lifeless body, but thankfully Zoro and Sanji step in to save her.
  • Kanjuro, who's a relative of Orochi has the mother of Kick the Dog moments when he subjects little Momonosuke (whom he had served faithfully up until then) to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in response to Momo giving him a small cut while trying to escape. Kanjuro even gloats about it to Momonosuke's other guardians, resulting in him getting swiftly cut down by Kiku.
  • Fisher Tiger, however, is a rare sympathetic example. He brands the mark of the Sun Pirates on then-eleven-year old Koala's back not out of malice, but to overwrite the Mark of Shame she had there and help her overcome her trauma as a former slave.
  • 4Kids's initial dub had the problem of having to avoid what happened to Kuina. What did they come up with? Having her be beaten to the point that she's left disabled by a group of sexist sore losers.
• Subverted in One-Punch Man when Garou is threatening to kill a child, but it's later revealed that he was just bluffing and wasn't actually going to go through with it. Played straight with several other villains though.
• Accidentally occurs AND played straight in Outlaw Star due to both of the children being space pirates. The first is when Hilda, who is falling out of control towards the sun in episode 4, latches onto the Creepy Child magician girl as she is levitating towards the OLS and pulls the pin on a grenade, taking them both out. The second occurrence is when Gene and company destroy a pirate ship outside a space station that was hunting them, which was piloted by the little girl and her two cats Jim had recently befriended. He returns to the fountain to wait for them but doesn't realize why they never showed up, presuming her parents had taken her with them early.
• Poor Lily Baskerville from PandoraHearts is constantly bullied by either Vincent or Break, and even Reim shoots her in the head after she killed his colleagues. Being a Baskerville, she survives. And just like his colleague Reim, Gilbert is ruthless enough to hurt a child controlling a monster, even if he doesn't like it:
  Elliot: Are you trying to kill those children?!
  Gilbert: They are not children, they are illegal contractors!
• Pokémon:
  • In Pokémon Adventures, this is sort of a given seeing how the heroes are usually kids and the villains are adults, but it is worth mentioning that it's a rather common tactic in this 'verse to aim for the trainer when possible.
    • One flashback in Black 2 and White 2 in particular shows this: When Hugh, who couldn't be older than eight at the time, tries to stop two Plasma grunts from running off with his sister's Purrloin, he gets a solid blow to his gut for his troubles.
  • In Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure! the teenaged Mitsumi is blackmailed into doing this to Hareta - forcing her powerful Pokémon to give both the kid and his Pokémon a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. Other members of Team Galactic also don't mind beating on him.
  • Pokémon: The Series:
    • In the Japanese version of the episode "Here Comes the Squirtle Squad!", the Squirtle Squad threatens to kill Misty if Ash ran away. In the English dub, they threaten to dye her hair purple. In the same episode, Ash is mistaken for being affiliated with Team Rocket by store employees, which causes them to point guns at him. They thankfully don't go further than that, thanks to Officer Jenny's intervention.
    • There are a few instances in Kanto where Ash has a gun pointed to his face, most infamously the banned-outside-of-Japan episode where he catches his thirty Tauros.
    • Grings Kodai has absolutely no qualms about harming Zoroark's infant son, even coming right out and saying he'd kill Zorua and nearly does.
    • Pokémon: The Series proper has Pokémon Hunter J, who doesn't care if she kills Ash to get her target Pokémon. In fact, she seemed to go out of her way to try to do so.
    • The episode "Current Events" actually has Team Rocket try to kill Ash with their Pokémon, but they pay the price when Chikorita evolves into Bayleef.
    • They do it again in "Cutting the Ties that Bind!", when they have their Pokémon attack a completely defenseless Ash when he's hanging off their hot-air balloon, several meters up in the air. Ash actually fell off, and he would've died if not for Sceptile getting out of a recent Heroic BSoD.
    • In the Japanese CD dramas for Pokémon: The First Movie, after Mewtwo takes down another trainer's Magmar, Giovanni steals the Magmar, then orders Mewtwo to attack the trainer.
    • Several villain factions from the games are more than willing to harm Ash and his friends to accomplish their goals, including Team Galactic, Team Plasma and Team Flare.
    • Sun and Moon Episode 70: Local Jerkass Villain of the Week Bourgain planned to turn Kiawe's farm into a resort hotel, and when Kiwae's little sister Mimo protests, he has his Electivire FIRE A THUNDER ATTACK AT HER, which would have dealt very serious damage to Mimo (if it didn't outright KILL her) if Turtonator hadn't rushed in and taken the attack for her.
    • A more minor example is in the short "Pikachu's Vacation", when Raichu sends threatening sparks around the heroes...including baby Togepi. Pikachu stepping in to console it does not stop both of them from being zapped, and this snaps its last nerve after trying to play peacekeeper.
• In The Promised Neverland:
  • Isabella is rarely ever stern with the children thus creating obedience through her kind treatment of them. That said, as a servant under the demons watching over "dietary goods", she is physically adept and will use force if necessary. To discourage the children's escape attempts, Isabella very easily breaks Emma's leg.
  • Much later on in the series, Peter breaks Nat's fingers, one at a time, by stomping on them as his way of torturing out information on the whereabouts of Emma, Ray, and Norman.
• Kyubey in Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Although the Incubators generally target teenagers to become "Magical Girls" (and therefore eventually Witches), they're not above targeting younger children when it fits their needs (though it is worth noting that the youngest Magical Girls we see are eleven). Witches will also attack children, but they seem to have very little control over their own actions, and so the harm that they inflict can also he attributed to Kyubey to a large extent, especially since Kyubey is responsible for every Witch's existence.
• One of the primary antagonists in Reiko the Zombie Shop is Saki Yurikawa, a teenage serial killer responsible for the mutilation of nearly 29 little girls. There is also Reiko the protagonist's twin sister, Riruka, who actively attempts to kill a young girl summoner.
• Remy: Nobody's Girl:
  • When Jérôme Barberin found baby Remy abandoned, he didn't want to keep her. He expected his wife to send her to the workhouse, before moving to Paris for work. When he's discharged due to a work injury and comes back, he's enraged to see that his wife chose to raise the child and begins abusing her, before taking her to be sold off.
  • Gaspard makes the orphans under him steal and beg for money. Anyone who fails to fulfill his quota (20 sous a day) is severely beaten, and poor Remy is in the receiving end of one such beating.
• The Rose of Versailles:
  • A nobleman shoots a Street Urchin to death, just because he could, despite the pleas of a teenage girl. Oscar then shoots him in the hand so he'll never be able to use weapons.
  • And in-story, the Raid of La Bastille started when a peasant boy got shot to death in front of his parents. For worse, it was by mistake since a dumbass soldier wanted to shoot the kid's father and got the shot wrong.
• In Sailor Moon S, 6-year-old Chibiusa has her heart crystal ripped out by Mistress 9. This is also played with later when Uranus and Neptune try to kill Mistress 9 as she inhabits the body of 12-year-old Hotaru, only for Usagi to defend her. This sort of works.
  • Also, many of the victims of the villains are children. In a memorable episode of the R season, babies were either drained of their life energy (with Manami being the only one unharmed due to Mom's intervention) or used as hostages by the monster of the week. Too bad it didn't count on Mercury getting a Mid-Season Upgrade out of pure anger.
  • In the manga, Rei has a psychic dream where she sees Koan burn a little girl to death. This scene was outright removed from the first anime, and then altered so that the victim was an adult salaryman in the second.
  • With the exception of the Outers (Pluto since the beginning, Stars!Haruka and Stars!Michiru), the Senshi are all teenage girls who fall in the 14 to 16-year-old range.
• Saint Seiya:
  • In the first chapters of both manga/anime versions, you can see the "special" training they give to all cloth´s candidates. In the Greek Sanctuary, they push the kids/teenagers into pits with spikes and you have to climb back by yourself while avoid falling, the mess of the other bodies, and other challengers competing with you. The Kido´s foundation kids doesn´t have precisely a better treatment: they are forced to train night and day, are beaten nearly to death if they openly defy the rules (see Ikki when he confronted Tatsumi), and after some time, they are send to different places around the world for receiving heavy brutal training (things like surviving in a hot volcanic island while your sensei beat the shit out of you everyday, battling and killing grizzly bears with your bare hands, training in extreme cold conditions with not the appropriate clothing, etc), all of this only having around 10-11 years old. In fact, from the 100 kids Mitsumasa Kido sent around the globe, there's only twelve known survivors: the ten Bronze Saints, Mei in the novel Gigantomachia (who got possessed by Typhon because he decided to do the final test while his teacher was away), and Toki from Saint Seiya: Saintia Sho (and he may have actually died during training before being resurrected by Eris).
  • The Twelve Zodiac Temples Arc. Pegasus Seiya and Dragon Shiryu arrive to Cancer's Temple, and confront Cancer Gold Saint Deathkmask. The walls of said temple are covered by grim human faces, which are promptly explained to be the faces of the people Deathmask has killed in his battles. Seiya and Shiryu are both horrified and enraged when they realize that among those faces there are several children's faces. When they demand an explanation from Deathmask as to why he'd kill children, he simply states that he doesn't know how that happened, that they must have been killed along with his enemies without him realizing. Then, he calls those murders "collateral victims" and as being a nice set of ornaments for the walls of his house (remember, Cancer is the fourth temple, four is a synonym for "death" for most oriental cultures), so he basically didn't give a damn about having killed countless children, which is what immediately infuriated both Seiya and Shiryu.
    • Deathmask is also the teacher of the above-mentioned Mei. The training was close to Mount Etna, a volcano, and the final test included recovering the Cloth from inside the volcano. That is almost always erupting. If nothing else, Deathmask was an amazing teacher, and his abilities were tailored against the real danger of the training.
  • In Poseidon Arc, Isaac Kraken kicks many times the poor little Kiki when he brings to Hyoga the Libra Cloth. That pisses Hyoga off enough to return to the fight.
• In Shi ni Aruki, Tokiko Kurosu takes the grade school age Ai Shiroki hostage and threatens to fatally stab her with a pencil unless her adoptive brother Sou Aoya does as he's told. Shortly afterward, Tokiko tries to drop an iron on her captive's head, only being thwarted when Aoya intervenes, which gives Tokiko a chance to fatally stab him.
• 12-year-old Chris Thorndyke from Sonic X is beaten up by Shadow and later kidnapped and brutally tortured, alongside the also very young Cosmo, by Black Narcissus. The second incident is so bad that not even Dr. Eggman approves!
• Lalaco Godspeed of Space Patrol Luluco is perfectly willing to fight middle schoolers if they get in their way, even if one of them is her daughter.
• Trigun:
  • Wolfwood kills Zazie, who looks like a very young child (and is a child in the anime — in the manga, it's both complicated and frigging weird).
  • There's also the Gung-Ho Gun Monev the Gale, where after the shootout some of the corpses laid about were children.
• Tweeny Witches:
  • When chasing a griffon, Biris destroys Sheila's broomstick, letting the preteen apprentice witch fall until Arusu comes to rescue her.
  • One of the warlock cavalrymen doesn't hesitate to take the preteen Eva hostage twice.
  • Implied. When the warlock police send Eva, a preteen girl, to Grande's room, they warn her that she should not expect him to let her go home alive. He spares her only because she has the potential to cast dark magic.
  • Just after Arusu and her friends flee Wizard Kingdom, one of the warlock police kicks the preteen Sigma down from a height into prison.
  • The Adventures: The Ice Witch, from "The Ice Witch and the Dragon of Fire and Ice", possessed Hanamomo, who seemed to be in her preteens, after shooting her with an icicle that would kill the one stabbed if it was removed. After eating Gana by coercion, though, she left Hanamomo perfectly alive with the icicle gone.
• Umineko: When They Cry:
  • 9-year-old Maria Ushiromiya is regularly killed off alongside the rest of the cast. While the first four times are relatively nice (explosion, explosion, strangulation, poison), the fifth time is a gaping neck wound, and the sixth is brutal decapitation. She keeps coming back to life due to a "Groundhog Day" Loop.
  • Maria's mother, Rosa, also physically beats her. One of their first scenes has her slapping Maria to the ground.
• In Violence Jack numerous children are killed. One scene of the manga even has a girl beheaded, along with the man who used her as a human shield.
• Maria from Witchblade has no problem with killing her teammates or the science institute trainees, due mostly to her own messed up childhood and not being much older herself. (They begin training at 12) She even attempts to kill Rihoko out of jealousy for receiving more of her (biological) mother's love even though they'd never met. (Her mother treated Maria completely as an experiment her whole life instead)
• Yo-kai Watch:
  • Shogunyan from Yo-kai Watch attempted to kill eleven-year-old Nate because he wasn't respecting him.
  • In Yo-kai Watch: Shadowside - The Return of the Oni King, middle schooler Touma is an Anti-Villain who is trying to take over the world with the help of evil yokai. Jibanyan's plan on how to stop him is just to kill him. Both Natsume and Touma are in danger at several points, with both getting Disney Death (Natsume seemingly drowns only to be saved while Touma outright gets stabbed by the villain and dies, only to be revived afterwards) scenes as well.
• Quite a common thing in Yu-Gi-Oh!, the most frequent victim being Mokuba.
  • Once he learns to trust them, Mokuba details, to Yugi and the others, how their adoptive father abused Seto.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds has a few moments as well:
    • Godwin does this twice. In the past Godwin sees the kids that train in his facility as nothing more than guinea pigs and isn't concerned if they get hurt or killed while developing his sense generation device. In the present, Godwin talks the twins into dueling Yusei convincing Rua that its the only way to return Ruka back to her normal self when in actuality he's just using them to test the power of Yusei's Duel Dragon not caring if they get hurt in the process.
    • During the Crash Town arc, Yusei is tricked by Barbara into defeating his former friend, Kiryu so that the Ramon Family would lose their best duelist and that she and Lawton would gain control of Crash Town. During a duel to take back the town, Barbara holds two children hostage and threatens them in order to force the pair to forfeit the match. Fortunately, Jack arrives and punches/pushes her, stating that she doesn't deserve chivalry for this.
      Jack: The only time I'll ever put my hands on a woman is if she ever puts her hands on a child.
  • This is even more true in Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, not only because the protagonist is only thirteen years old, but because every major villain in the first season seemed willing to abuse and take advantage of poor Haruto, even Dr. Faker, his own father. Although it is later revealed that Faker actually had Haruto's best interests in mind.
  • 10 years before the events of Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS Dr. Kogami created 6 fully sapient AI. He did this by kidnapping six very young children (one of them was explicitly stated to be just 6 years old) and brutally torturing them in multiple ways, including prolonged isolation, starvation, and agonizing electric shocks. His son Ryoken, who was 8 at the time, gets it almost as bad. He was forced to observe the experiment, called the police after 6 months because he couldn't stand the screaming anymore which would ultimately get his father placed into a permanent coma, and it's implied that he was tricked into luring in the children who would be experimented on. The guilt of getting his father put into a coma and luring in his fellow children to be brutally tortured would haunt Ryoken for the rest of his life.
• YuYu Hakusho would get boring quick if the antagonists weren't willing to beat 14-year-old Yusuke Urameshi into raw hamburger meat.
  • Gouki is a demon who uses the Orb of Baast to specifically suck the souls out of children. After Yusuke defeats him and retrieves the orb, all the children's souls are returned to their respective bodies.
  • In a flashback, the demon Kairen is seen slaughtering all the young students of Younger Toguro's dojo, some of them clearly being of prepubescent age.
  • Kurama as well, in a rare heroic example. He is visibly unhappy about killing Game Master but rationalizes that there really isn't any other option given what is at stake and doesn't hesitate for even a moment. Hiei also points out that it isn't the first time he's killed a child, not surprising given his more villainous background and reputation.
  • Yomi beats the absolute watery shit out of his son Shura during the Makai Tournament, and later gives an ultimatum- give up or die. His opponent wisely chooses to forfeit the match.

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