History AbusiveParents / AnimeAndManga

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

*** Nagisa Momoe's mother. It's implied that she frequently beat up Nagisa and starve her at times. Even when hospitalised, she still verbally abuses Nagisa everytime her daughter comes to visit, blaming Nagisa for the reason her husband left and her life went downhill.

* ''Lightnovel/BeingAbleToEditSkillsInAnotherWorldIGainedOpWaifus'': Nagi's parents gave birth to him, but that's the ''only'' good thing they ever did for him. They constantly criticised and insulted him before abandoning him to his own devices.

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* In ''Manga/MahounoIroha'', Future Naoki either ignores and neglects his children, or he acts like the world's biggest JerkAss towards them. [[spoiler: Subverted when it turns out hat most of it is an extreme façade.]]

* In ''Manga/MahounoIroha'', Future Naoki either ignores and neglects his children, or he acts like the world's biggestJerkAss towards them. [[spoiler: Subverted when it turns out hat most of it is an extreme facade.]]

* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', Fate's mother Precia Testarossa [[spoiler:regularly flogs Fate with the whip form of her Intelligent Device for any and all mistakes, and ''despises'' Fate because Fate, who she created as a clone and ReplacementGoldfish for her first daughter Alicia, had her own personality and wasn't a perfect duplicate of Alicia]]. Her TV incarnation in particular is by far the cruelest villain of the entire Nanoha series.

* In the latest manga of Rumiko Takahashi, ''Manga/{{Rinne}}'', Rinne's dad Sabato seems to have studied at the Genma Saotome Anything Goes School of Parenting... and then invented some more techniques of his own to enhance his massive jerkass status. Let's see...Daddy's been stealing Rinne's money for years, forced him to take on his debts, and is trying to get him married to take over his failing company... probably to force even more debt on him while he gets to go off skipping.

** In the Namek Saga of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', it is implied (specifically Goku and Frieza's fight) that Frieza's father, King Cold, and possibly his own mother, resorts to physical abuse on Frieza, as he mentions when fighting Goku that, besides Goku, the only people who ever managed to hurt him were "his loving parents". In the Trunks Saga, after Frieza is killed, King Cold shows virtually no reaction and instead offers to make Trunks his new son. On top of it all, in the NonSerialMovie's, Cooler, Frieza's [[StrongerSibling older brother]], reflects that Frieza was a "little brat" who Cold [[SpoiledBrat spoiled rotten]], implying that Frieza still got the better end of the deal compared to him.

* The titular character of ''Manga/That'sMyAtypicalGirl'' was put in a dog cage whenever she caused her father trouble.

* The titular character of ''Manga/Thats My Atypical Girl'' was put in a dog cage whenever she caused her father trouble.

* The titular character of ''Manga/That's My Atypical Girl'' was put in a dog cage whenever she caused her father trouble.

* The titular character of 'Manga/That's My Atypical Girl' was put in a dog cage whenever she caused her father trouble.

* The fact that ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'''s [[spoiler:Yuri Pretov]]/Lunatic had an abusive father as part of his FreudianExcuse is [[KnightTemplar probably not too surprising]]. The fact that said abusive father was [[spoiler:[[BrokenAce an emotionally destroyed, alcoholic]] Mr. Legend?]] Much more surprising.

** Ranma's family life is ''less'' messed-up compared to [[GenderBlenderName Konatsu]]'s, though. While his parents were loving towards him, they both died when Konatsu was young, [[CinderellaCircumstances leaving him in the care of his abusive stepmother and stepsisters, who treated him less like a family member and more like a slave]]. Small wonders, then, that he considers being in the care of Ukyo, who's not exactly generous towards him (her daily allowance to him was a paltry 5 yen, and that's before she found out Konatsu was a guy harboring a crush on her, which she then took advantage of by making him work double-time without pay), a ''heavenly'' upgrade.

** Kaido isn’t any better when it comes to his son[[spoiler:/daughter Yamato whom idolises Kozuki Oden and received violent abuse from him for it and considering Kaido is one of the [[WordsStrongestMan strongest]] characters in One Piece, Yamato has had it very rough. Although Kaido surprisingly has no issue with his [[{{Transgender}} daughter identifying as a man]] and even refers to Yamato as his “son” which is uncharacteristically accepting and progressive for a brutal EvilOverlord]]. Kaido also states [[spoiler: after killing Shogun Orochi]] that he wants Yamato to be Shogun of Wano, not that makes up for his terrible treatment of his only child.

* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' is the absolute epitome of this trope! Non-abusive parents are the exception rather than the rule. Part of the Sohma curse is that often parents will either become [[MyBelovedSmother extremely overprotective]] of their possessed child or they will [[WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent reject them completely]]. Let us count the ways...
** Yuki is [[spoiler:used by his parents as a tool for furthering their financial gain. His mother abandons him to live with the already screwed-up Akito, who starts out kind to Yuki but eventually becomes emotionally abusive toward him [and some say physically]. They show no affection toward him but have great interest in the value that his curse can bring to their household. They control every facet of his life and keep him locked away unless they stand to gain from it, pretending not to hear him when he protests. This leads Yuki to seek the mother he never had in Tohru rather than a romantic partner, in a non-{{squick}}y way.]] In a subversion, though, the manga hints that Yuki's mom ''may'' have had a HeelRealization, or had started working on it.
** Kyo is [[spoiler:feared by his own parents because of the volatile nature of his curse, as he turns into a hideous beast if his [[PowerLimiter bracelet]] is taken off. His mother (implied to already be very unstable) became [[MyBelovedSmother obsessively overprotective of him]], and while she often told Kyo she loved him, Kyo suspects that this was overcompensating to hide how she was terrified of his monstrous form. The pressure of being the Cat's mother and implied abuse from Kyo's father drove her over the edge to suicide. At this point, Kyo's father went completely loopy, abandoned him and demanded he be kept in solitary confinement, as is tradition for the rejected person who is possessed by the Cat. This is delayed by his later adoption by Kazuma, and definitely abolished when Akito has a HeelFaceTurn.]]
** Momiji is [[spoiler:rejected straight from birth by his mentally unstable mother. She was prone to screaming and throwing things in despair, eventually driving herself to madness and appealing to have her memories erased. She told the doctor, Hatori, that she rejected ever giving birth to such a creature... in front of Momiji. He then lived with Hatori and was visited by his father occasionally, but forbade to see his beloved younger sister Momo. It's hinted in the manga, though, that his dad is starting to ease up and may let him meet up with Momo some time later, when they're older.]]
** Isuzu aka Rin is [[spoiler:raised lovingly by her parents until she expresses doubt that they could be happy all the time when the other families are experiencing such pain. It's then that they snap, and the happy days are revealed to be nothing but a facade they kept up to keep things stable in the house. After their true feelings come out, they ignore Rin entirely, occasionally yelling at or physically abusing her, leaving her with huge scars on her back. After she runs away from home and falls ill, her parents arrive at the hospital to officially disown her. She lives with Kagura from then on, and later with Kazuma.]]
** Akito is [[spoiler:raised as a man by her jealous mother, Ren, in order to separate the god-child from her husband Akira (Ren even demanded this as a condition to ''not have her abort the unborn Akito'', under the excuse that a female leader would "make the Sohma clan look bad".) After Akira's death, Akito is continually manipulated and demeaned by Ren, who tries to take the Zodiac members from her. In terms of emotionally abusive parents in ''Fruits Basket'', Ren's is the worst case, making Akito into the delusional and violent monster s/he becomes as she grows older.]]
** Most of the other Zodiac members [[ParentsAsPeople express a rift between them and their parents to a less dramatic extent]] (like WholesomeCrossdresser Ritsu and his mother Meshou, who genuinely loves him but is [[MyBelovedSmother asphyxiating overprotective]] and just as much of a ShrinkingViolet as she is, and Kisa's mother who is overprotective and extremely insecure but basically well-intentioned), but only two children, Hiro and Kagura, can claim healthy, normal relationships with their parents.
** Not only members of the Zodiac are hurt by parental abuse in this story, though: Arisa Uotani is [[spoiler:raised by a neglectful, alcoholic father who pays her so little mind that she joins a gang and rarely comes home, after her mom leaves them for someone else.]] Machi Kuragi is [[spoiler:driven to compulsive acts of violence after being raised by a mother who forced her to be perfect. Nothing she did was ever good enough, and the incredible pressure drove Machi to [[ShrinkingViolet insecurity and depression]]. After her baby brother was born, the mother's hopes were invested in him and she falsely accused Machi of being murderously jealous, separating the siblings and making poor Machi even more dysfunctional.]] Tohru's mother Kyoko was [[spoiler:rejected by her parents after she joined a gang as well. Beforehand, her father only expressed contempt for her, and her mother sheepishly ignored the abuse and only worried about what others said about Kyouko's bad behavior. Even after her husband died, they only called to tell her not to come home with her child.]] Even ''normal'' people have terrible parents in this story!

* ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'':

** Implied. Riza Hawkeye tells Roy Mustang in a flashback that her father, who doubled as Roy's alchemy teacher, was "a terrifying man." The exact nature of his abuses are not made clear, but one thing is known for sure: [[spoiler:he used her as the HumanNotepad for his research on flame alchemy]] when she was younger than eighteen. The father's only "redeeming trait" was asking Roy to take Riza in and protect her in his FamousLastWords, and he probably did it more [[spoiler:to ensure his research wouldn't be lost]] than for Riza's sake.

** Although it's not highlit, Principle Kuno was himself an appalling father figure to his son, with flashbacks showing him verbally abusing Tatewaki, forcibly shaving him bald over and over, and hanging him from a tree by a rope. The abuse was so sincere that Tatewaki suppressed all memory of his father when the latter went on sabbatical to Hawaii, and even after he returns, absolutely refuses to acknowledge the man as his father, even kicking him out of the Kuno estate.

** Emperor Charles zi Britannia is an extreme SocialDarwinist who pushes his children to take dangerous jobs... and subtly encourages them to war with and kill one another to secure their position in the line of succession. Lelouch gets the worst of it, getting disowned, publicly humiliated, and used as a political hostage when he gets angry at Charles for not giving a damn about the assassination of Lelouch's mother or the crippling of his little sister in the same incident. [[spoiler:Late in the series, we learn that Charles actually ''did'' love Lelouch's mother Marianne and considered her children to be his favorites; his abusive attitude, which Marianne supported and went along with, was intended to make Lelouch and Nunnally stronger people. The pair even wanted to get the two kids in on their AssimilationPlot, but Lelouch, having recently crossed over the DespairEventHorizon and having before spent ''the entire series'' fighting against Britannia rejecting such beliefs, was in no mood to hear that all the crap he'd been put through in the last decade was "because Mommy and Daddy love you very much".]] [[spoiler:Nunnally's blindness was not the result of traumatic stress, but because Charles inflicted it upon her with his Geass, ostensibly to protect her by making people think she wasn't a threat (her paraplegia, however, was authentic if deliberately caused as a cover up by their EvilUncle). You better believe Lelouch wasn't happy about that.]]

** ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'' has Kamille's parents who are both incredibly neglectful. His mother is a workaholic who seems to care nothing about Kamille until he causes trouble. Then his father turns out to be not just neglectful but also physical abusive. When Kamille criticizes his father for cheating on his mother he is brutally backhanded for his troubles. Its notable that after [[spoiler: both parents [[KilledOffForReal die]]]] that Kamille gradually matures into a much better and more well adjusted person.

** Gendo Ikari is cold, dismissive, and occasionally insulting toward his son, Shinji, who, for the most part, desperately craves his father's approval. This also overlaps with neglect over his treatment of [[spoiler:his daughter]] Rei. Ironically it's revealed Gendo avoids his son ''because'' he thinks he'd be a horrible parent.

* Yato's "father" in ''Manga/{{Noragami}}''. He refuses to see Yato as anything else but a God of Calamity,using him as a pawn to his many plots. He puts Yato down anytime Yato tries to do good and in general, Yato is terrified of him.

* Mr. Fujinami, of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', fulfills at least several of the types of abuse in regards to his daughter [[WholesomeCrossdresser Ryuunosuke]]. Apparently solely because of his insane levels of chauvinism, he is convinced that a "mere" girl is unable to run his precious (run down) tea shop, and so he has forcibly raised her as a boy, despite her protests, since her mother Masako [[strike:died]] left him. He refuses to allow her to buy any feminine clothes, both by refusing to give her money to do so and stealing/destroying any she does manage to get, demands she speak in masculine fashion, refers to her only as a male, frightens off any boys she acts interested in, encourages girls who are attracted to her, insults and mocks her femininity, and otherwise goes out of his way to thwart any attempt by her to discover her feminine side. He routinely enforces his desires with violence, and though she [[CallingTheOldManOut is quick to degrade him and beat the tar out of him in return]], he always manages to beat her. For some insane reason he has dozens of pictures of himself, baby Ryuunosuke and women hired for that purpose posing, so many so that even he can't remember which one of them is the real Masako Fujinami, and so Ryuunosuke will never know what her mother looked like (although he has claimed at least that Ryuunosuke looks right like her mother -and Lum checked it with a lie detector only in case-). Despite his daughter's extreme distaste and discomfort, he set up for her an ArrangedMarriage with a male-to-female WholesomeCrossdresser, Nagisa.

** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'':

* Dr. Tenma from ''Manga/AstroBoy'' is an early {{manga}} example. After he lost his son in a traffic accident, he built Astroboy like a ReplacementGoldfish. Shortly after he realized a ReplacementGoldfish is not a substitute for the original thing, and he began to berate and scorn Astroboy constantly, yelling him for such nefarious crimes like being unable to grow up. Finally he got fed up with Astroboy and sold him in slavery. Thank God Astroboy was programmed to be a "good boy" and he was taken in by Dr. Ochanomizu, who was an altruistic, kind man who instilled and nurtured those traits in Astroboy, or maybe he could have become a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds. Later adaptations tend to mellow Tenma out a bit.

** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' has Amuro's father and mother. His father Tem Ray actively neglects Amuro growing up due to his work as a military engineer and scientist, to the point that Amuro's next door neighbor friend whom is the same age as him is more like his actual parent. Meanwhile, years ago his mother refused to move to space with her husband and son. When Amuro meets her again she ends up chewing him out and disowning him when he kills an enemy soldier in order to defend himself. She wants him to still be the peaceful boy she remembered when he was much younger, but she played no part in raising him so she has little right to complain.

** Neither were [[spoiler:Nabby's parents, who locked her in the family storehouse for failing to learn the koto as a proper YamatoNadeshiko, and later on kicked her out of the house and [[IHaveNoSon forbade her from ever coming back]] because they were ashamed that she'd started adopting a more American-style look, dying her hair blonde and wearing an "I Love America" T-shirt]].

* In the action/horror manga ''Can You Just Die My Darling?'' , there is Sonoha's unnamed father. He beats her viciously over her grades and expects her to take her mother's place. Yes, ''that'' way. In fact it's on one of the nights he intends to rape her that her ID plague symptoms kick in and kill him, and she's more shocked by the emergence of her PoisonousPerson state than his death. Even if she ''hadn't'' contracted ID and its subsequent psychosis, she would have been a mess.

* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' is the absolute epitome of this trope! Non-abusive parents are the exception rather than the rule. Part of the Sohma curse is that often parents will either become [[MyBelovedSmother extremely overprotective]] of their possessed child or they will [[WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent reject it completely]]. Let us count the ways...

* [[ArchnemesisDad Genzo]] [[EvilutionaryBiologist Kuruma]] from ''Majuu Sensen'' is basically what happens when you take [[Manga/ElfenLied Director Kakuzawa]] and [[Manga/FullMetalAlchemist Shou Tucker]] and then fuse the two into one psychotic madman. In addition to being a mad scientist who wants to create a new super-race of half-human, half-animal hybrids, he is a horrible father to his own son, [[TheHero Shinichi]], seeing him as nothing [[GuineaPigFamily but a guinea pig to be experimented on]] and fuses him with several other animals turning him into a mutant as part of his project. He does the same thing to his own wife, then has her killed when she tries to attack him, causing Shinichi to seek revenge on him and his fellow group of scientists.