History AbusiveParents / AnimeAndManga

* ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' presents a very tragic example with Kanao Tsuyuri's parents. Her family lived in extreme poverty and her parents constantly beat their children for any and all reasons, to the point that some of Kanao’s siblings were actually killed through such abuse. Little Kanao completely [[EmotionlessGirl shut off her emotions]] as a coping mechanism to endure her terrible life, and eventually her parents sold her into slavery for money. Even after Kanao was rescued and adopted by the Kocho sisters, Kanao still kept her emotions buried deep within her; only until later in the series does she start to open up thanks to Tanjiro's kindness.

* In the manga manga/Innocent, have several exemples. Anne-Marthe is physically abusive to her grand-children, punishing them with a spiky wheel, and psychologically manipulates both her sons into being her willing puppets (through praises and cuddles), even as adults. Jean-Baptiste actually tortures Charles with the brodequin. The conte de Chartois sexually abuses his son and pimps him out to other aristocrats.

* In ''Manhwa/TheDuchessWithAnEmptySoul'', just about every on-screen parental figure shown via flashbacks is abusive, dead, or driven out of the home for fear of their lives, or some combination of the set. Which is especially true for the two main characters, Inova and Claude. Ivona's father is a hedonistic gambling addict who not only beat her mother to the point the poor woman had to flee in the middle of the night in fear for her life, unable to take Inova with her, but beats up the girl too, since she was a child and sold her to an equally abusive fiance Baron Gaspal to cover his debts. Claude's mother was a TroubledAbuser who was tortured into thinking her only reason for living was to sire a MasterSwordsman, and she was forced into an AwfulWeddedLife with a nasty violent abuser too. Even after her death, Claude remains traumatized and suspicious of women, Inova the one exception.

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** Gaara's parents: First, he was only conceived to imprison the [[SealedEvilInACan daemonic incarnation of sand]] in order to serve the expressed purpose of being a mindless tool. Hated and feared by all of the villagers, he grew up lonely, confused, and suicidal -- his only loved one and confidant being his maternal uncle, Yashamaru. Then, when he was 6-years-old, [[spoiler:Yashamaru attempts to kill him on orders from the Kazekage, Gaara's father.]] This is not, however, a matter of duty, as Yashamaru tells Gaara he could have refused the Kazekage. THEN, to pour salt in the poor kid's wounds, [[spoiler:Yashamaru tells Gaara that he has always hated him, and is unable to think of him as his nephew, that Gaara killed his mother/Yashamaru's older sister Karura due to DeathByChildbirth and that he is nothing more than a monster that should carry out the ambitions of Karura's hatred for her village. Oh, and that Karura never loved him.]] And evidently since then, the Kazekage has been sending assassins for his own son's head for seven years, from the time Gaara was six. And we all know how Gaara [[AxeCrazy turns out]]. [[spoiler:The parts about Karura and Yashamaru turn out to be a lie though, with Yashamaru ordered by the Kazekage to say all those things to his nephew, whom he really did love.]]

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* ''Anime/DotHackSign'': Tsukasa's real-life father [[spoiler:apparently despised the fact that [[WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent she was a girl]], slapped her at a police station when she was caught trying to steal a bra, and killed a kitten that she was trying to raise in a box in an alley. WordOfGod says that he's also the man who tried to turn off her life support system in the real world.]]

** Then there is Fermet. While not [[TheWoobie Czeslaw Meyer's]] blood relative, he was the guardian for the 10 year old when they all became immortal. This spawns [[spoiler:200 years of so of OffingTheOffspring ForScience.]] Most of this abuse is [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill physical]] but then you have to consider he made Czes believe for some time that this was NECESSARY and leading the kid to have some serious [[ValuesDissonance fucking]] [[CrazySurvivalist mental]] [[JerkassWoobie issues]]. This has led Fermet to being considered by many in the fandom of being the most evil character in a show full of TheMafia, TortureTechnician and PsychoForHire types.

** Akira's father physically abuses her, and is the reason she lost her hand - when she was younger, he poured boiling water over it, making it necessary to have it amputated, all because [[DisproportionateRetribution she ate some meat he was saving]].

** Vegeta spends most of the Android / Cell arc being a condescending ass to Future Trunks - it's not too hard to find clips of him hitting his own son. He seems to wise up a bit with present!Trunks, in that he's actually willing to spend time with him and take him to the park (in exchange for Trunks landing a hit in a sparring match). He's heavily mellowed out by the time ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' hits.

* Ragyo Kiryuin in ''Anime/KillLaKill'' is quite possibly one of the worst parents in anime and manga. She's quite emotionally abusive, but that's not the most horrible part about her--she has NoSenseOfPersonalSpace when it comes to her daughter, Satsuki. As in, she ''[[ParentalIncest molests her repeatedly]]'', probably since she was 5 years old, [[spoiler:up to and including groping her and "purifying" her while she was naked and in a bath, and removing her ThongOfShielding (ItMakesSenseInContext) by touching her crotch. She also has no qualms about using physical abuse as well, delivering a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to Satsuki that was probably the first bit of FamilyUnfriendlyViolence in the series. She saw her newborn daughter, Ryuko Matoi, as little more than a guinea pig, and simply dropped her down the garbage chute when the experiments seemingly failed. The girl actually survived, only to [[BeatStillMyHeart literally]] have her heart ripped out when they met for the first time. After that, she throws the battered Satsuki into a cage in a torture chamber and repeatedly spanks her in the worst way possible so that Satsuki can be a better LivingBattery for her planned superweapon. After that, she ''brainwashes'' her other daughter with false memories, ''sews'' the superpowered uniform Satsuki wore onto her (ItMakesSenseInContext) and has a ''threesome'' with her to round it off, before sending her to fight and kill Satsuki and her companions. When Ragyo realizes she's subconsciously hesitating to kill Ryuko due to still having some infinitesimal bit of humanity left within her, she immediately resolves to rid herself of it and goes for the kill.]]

* Kenzo Kabuto from ''Anime/MazingerZ'' and ''Anime/GreatMazinger''. He almost died cause a laboratory experiment gone wrong, but his father saved his life. However both of them thought it would be better not telling Kouji and Shiro -Kenzo's sons- he had survived. For YEARS Kouji and Shiro grew up mostly alone, thinking their father died alongside their mother [[spoiler:while he was building a HumongousMecha to defend humankind]]. When Kenzo revealed the truth to them, Kouji was too glad to hold a grudge, but Shiro took a long while until he could forgive him. Also, Kenzo had no troubles slapping his adoptive son when he thought Tetsuya was crossing the line. All of it finally bit everyone's butts at the end of the series.

*** [[spoiler:Endeavor's past comes to haunt him once again in the form of the villain Dabi- who reveals himself to be his long lost son Toya Todoroki. Toya gleefully circulates a video across Japan, exposing Endeavor's past abuse and smearing his image.]]

** Hiashi Hyuga was abusive to his eldest daughter, [[ShrinkingViolet Hinata]], for most of her childhood. It's a wonder that it hasn't affected her more, considering he has been sparring against her ''since she was only three years old''. The abuse that she suffered--being so constantly berated for [[NiceGirl her kind and gentle nature]] and [[LightIsGood natural compassion]]--led her to develop a severe inferiority complex, and she was [[ParentalAbandonment veritably disowned]] by her father and their entire clan, forcing her to live with [[ParentalSubstitute Kurenai]] for a while. However, thanks to Naruto beating Neji for Hinata at the Chunin Exams finals in Part I, Hiashi mellows out, becomes supportive of her, and ends her renouncement, to which she finally returns to the Hyuga clan and household. By Part II, [[TookALevelInKindness Hiashi]] openly applauds Hinata for trying to fight Pain, acknowledges her growing strength, gives her a personal bodyguard, and allows her to participate in the Fourth Shinobi World War. By the time Hinata becomes an adult, Hiashi happily supports her marrying someone outside of the Hyuga clan, and by the time of ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'', he's become a DotingGrandparent to her two children.
** Gaara's parents: First, he was only conceived to imprison the [[SealedEvilInACan daemonic incarnation of sand]] in order to serve the expressed purpose of being a mindless tool. Hated and feared by all of the villagers, he grew up lonely, confused, and suicidal - his only loved one and confidant being his maternal uncle, Yashamaru. Then, when he was six years old, [[spoiler:Yashamaru attempts to kill him on orders from the Kazekage, Gaara's father.]] This is not, however, a matter of duty, as Yashamaru tells Gaara he could have refused the Kazekage. THEN, to pour salt in the poor kid's wounds, [[spoiler:Yashamaru tells Gaara that he has always hated him, and is unable to think of him as his nephew, that Gaara killed his mother/Yashamaru's older sister Karura due to DeathByChildbirth and that he is nothing more than a monster that should carry out the ambitions of Karura's hatred for her village. Oh, and that Karura never loved him.]] And evidently since then, the Kazekage has been sending assassins for his own son's head for seven years, from the time Gaara was six. And we all know how Gaara [[AxeCrazy turns out]]. [[spoiler:The parts about Karura and Yashamaru turn out to be a lie though, with Yashamaru ordered by the Kazekage to say all those things to his nephew, whom he really did love.]]

** Vinsmoke Judge, on the other hand, is NOT in the least played for laughs in regards of his horrible treatment of his third son, [[spoiler:Sanji]]. [[spoiler: Having [[EmotionSuppression genetically modified his children]] and removed their humantity, Judge couldn't stand his third son - the "failure" who somehow retained empathy and normal human physique. Judge shows no love for his son, bans him from cooking and visiting his mother, forces him into a harsh training regime that was meant for soldiers. When he fails to keep up, Judge encourages his other superhuman children to beat him down. Eventually Judge announces him dead and locks him up, forcing him to wear an iron mask so that no one could see his face. Years after his son's escape, Judge kidnaps him from his new life to use him as nothing more than a bargaining chip for his schemes of power with Big Mom]]. [[spoiler: Sanji emphatically tells Judge he utterly hates him and does not consider him to be his father, the feeling of which is mutual]].

* In the anime adaption of ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', Kyouya's father Yoshio is introduced - via a flashback - as someone who has very high expectations of him. What stands the most is Yoshio [[spoiler:slapping Kyouya in front of the host club, their customers, and the customers' parents. This causes quite a stir, especially as it was hard enough to knock Kyouya to his knees, after his glasses. It's also heavily implied that it isn't the first time Yoshio has hit Kyouya - Yoshio's brief interaction with Tamaki's father Yuzuru, as well as how Kyouya brushed away the concerns of the host club, is pretty strong evidence of that fact.]]

** [[spoiler:Yuri Tokikago's father]], as revealed in episode 15. A famous sculptor, [[spoiler:He told Yuri that she's ugly and he ''carves her body with his chisels'' to make her look "more beautiful" and be worthy of his love.]] It is also heavily implied [[spoiler:that he sexually abused Yuri as well.]] So it's no wonder [[spoiler:Yuri]] is so utterly ''screwed up''.

* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' - Part this, part [[WickedStepMother Evil Step Parents]]--[[TheDragon Soujirou]] was horribly battered and mistreated as a slave by his much older half-brother and his family [[HeroicBastard for having been born to a mistress]], and became a StepfordSmiler to deal with the abuse. He eventually snapped and [[SelfMadeOrphan killed them in self-defense]] when [[spoiler:he learnt that they planned to kill him and blame his death on Makoto Shishio, then a runaway from justice. However, Shishio [[EvilMentor had taken Soujiro under his wing already]] and convinced the kid to kill them and then leave with him...]]

** Gojyo's stepmother was both physically and emotionally abusive to him, beating him and berating him for the color of his hair, which was a constant reminder that he was a half-breed and therefore that her husband had had an affair with a human woman. She was also [[ParentalIncest sexually abusive]] to her own blood-related son Jien - when she was so upset she might actually do serious harm to Gojyo, he would intervene [[{{Squick}} and allow her to sleep with him]], since he reminded her of her husband. It's clearly implied that this was her idea and not his, although [[TearJerker he goes along with it]] [[BigBrotherInstinct for his little brother's sake]].

* There is something unsettling about Kyouko's mother in ''Manga/SkipBeat''. The few scenes we see of her is when she is openly berating her then six-year-old daughter for not being academically perfect, and then ignoring her. Next we know, Kyouko is living most of her "family" life with Shou's family, the Fuwas, who are quite cold to her [[spoiler:while planning to make her either marry Shou or shape her into the heiress to their ''ryokan'']] but she still sees them as warmer than her mom. By the time Kyouko has snapped out her pathological search of affection and is trying to live in another city, it has become more than obvious that Mrs. Mogami ''just plainly doesn't care for her'', not even to seek fame because of Kyouko's increasingly notoriety.

* 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 just in case). Despite his daughter's extreme distaste and discomfort, he set up for her an ArrangedMarriage with a male-to-female WholesomeCrossdresser, Nagisa.

* In ''Manga/{{Usogui}}'', Kaji's mother (alongside her boyfriend of the week) would injure him to the point of hospitalization so that she could cash in on the insurance money. One example given is when her lover tried to cut up a young Kaji with a utility knife- to avoid that, Kaji volunteered to ''get hit by a car'' instead. Kaji's sense of self-worth was absolutely wrecked by her abuse, and he constantly involves himself in {{Absurdly High Stakes Game}}s alongside the protagonist because he believes he's only useful if he's hurting himself for the benefit of others. Overcoming this mindset and coming to see himself as the protagonist's equal is the culmination of his CharacterDevelopment.

* Kousei's now [[PosthumousCharacter deceased]] IllGirl of a mother from ''Manga/YourLieInApril'' was emotionally and physically abusive towards him. She was a StageMom who overworked him from a young age and forced him to miss school to practice the piano. He often couldn't play with friends due to having to practice. She even beat him up in public. She has a FreudianExcuse, [[spoiler:She was [[AngerBornOfWorry scared]] of how he would be once she finally died. She wanted him to be skilled enough to become a professional pianist and support himself after her death.]] It doesn't excuse her actions in the end though. After beating him after a performance one day, the then twelve year old Kousei snaps and tells her [[IWishedYouWereDead she should die]]. She does just that not too long later and Kousei heavily regrets those were his final words to her.

* ''LightNovel/SaiunkokuMonogatari'': Emperor Senka attentively watches over his sons and has the policy of saving each of his sons' life once; however, he does not care about their personal well-being and does nothing to prevent the power struggle that leads to the death of four of them. Similarly, Ryuuki's mother resented the fact that Senka didn't favor her, and took it out on Ryuuki himself.

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

* The fact that ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'''s [[spoiler:Yuri 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.

* The fact that ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'''s [[spoiler:Yuri 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.

** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Vento Aureo]]'':

* ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'': Baron Shelley treats his illegitimate daughter Anne horribly, telling her that she's of no use to him after she gets scarred in a fire, resulting in her going to the Claes family to work as a maid. Years later, after Anne has become happy with working as Catarina's maid, Baron Shelley returns to force her into another arranged marriage.

** Kokomi's mother constantly insulted her daughter over her plain face, and even forced her to jump in front of a car so that Kokomi could get plastic surgery to fix her face (it didn't work).

* ''Manga/{{Debusen}}'': Akira's father physically abuses her, and is the reason she lost her hand - when she was younger, he poured boiling water over it, making it necessary to have it amputated, all because [[DisproportionateRetribution she ate some meat he was saving]].

* ''Manga/{{Debusen}}'': Akira's father physically abuses her, and is the reason she lost her hand - when she was younger, he poured boiling water over it, making it neccessary to have it amputated.

* ''Manga/MissionYozakuraFamily'': Ai was constantly beaten by her biological mother until said mother was murdered by Mizuki.

* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': From what little we see of Shizuka's mother, she definately qualifies as this trope, as her only appearance so far shows her yelling at Shizuka for being a CuteMute and Shizuka cowering before her in tears.
** Mei's parents weren't much better, having abandoned her after destroying her self-esteem to the point where she no longer felt her life was worth anything. It's because of them that Mei now obeys ''any'' order given to her, no matter how stupid or life-threatening it may be.

** Charlotte Linlin aka Big Mom has ''many'' children, but not only she encourages their worst traits, recruits them in their crew and/or forces them in {{arranged marriage}}s (even if some of them [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage have worked well]]), if they ever try defying her she will treat them as absolute crap. i.e. she ripped 50 years out of her son Moscato’s life when he tried to stop one of her hunger-induced {{Unstoppable Rage}}s, [[spoiler:beat the hell outta her daughter Chiffon for looking too much like her sister Lola aka the only of her kids who openly defied her]], and [[spoiler:psychologically abused her [[ParentalFavoritism "favorite child"]] Pudding ever since she was a little girl, only valuing her for the power inside her ThirdEye and helping shape her into the AxCrazy BitchInSheepsClothing [[UsedtoBeASweetKid she'd become]].]]