History AbusiveParents / AnimeAndManga

* ''[[DotHack .hack//SIGN]]'' had Tsukasa's real life father, [[spoiler:who 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.]]

* A one-shot manga by RumikoTakahashi that opens with a son trying to escape from his parents, since they keep trying to use his bone marrow to create gold and thus solve their financial woes.
** In the latest manga of Rumiko Takahashi, ''{{RIN-NE}}'', 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.

** Vincent and Gilbert Nightray were [[Woobies]] throughout the series due to people mistreating them because of Vincent's eye color, which led people to think he was a curse. Their own parents abandoned them and when they finally met a decent person [[spoiler: ManipulativeBastard Jack Vessalius, he brainwashed Gilbert into becoming an unstable person]]

* In ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', Fate's mother [[spoiler:(technically creator as she was the mother of Alicia)]] Precia Testarossa [[spoiler:regularly flogs Fate for any and all mistakes, and ''despises'' Fate because Fate didn't turn out to be as perfect a ReplacementGoldfish as she had hoped.]]

* In ''MiraiNikki'' Yuno had ControlFreak parents who [[spoiler: measured everything she did from how many hours she got to sleep to how many calories she had a day]]. They also [[spoiler: kept her in a cage and starved her in an effort to raise her to be a model person and ignored her whenever she begged them to let her out.]] She eventually [[spoiler: trapped them in the cage and starved them to the point that they died]].

** And not to be outdone by the main character, a {{flashback}} reveals a very young Casca was sold to a noble who needed a new serving girl. Unfortunately, the noble wanted a different kind of service from her than cooking or cleaning. Saved by Griffith, Casca joined him as a mercenary in his band [[spoiler:until the Day of the Eclipse when in a supreme act of tragic irony, Griffith, in his very first act upon becoming Femto, ''raped'' her in front of Guts.]] Princess Charlotte also suffered an attempt by her father after [[spoiler: a confrontation with the still human Griffith forced The King to confront how he really felt toward her in addition to the cold emotional kind from her mother]] and [[spoiler: Farnese]] had to suffer quite a bit of the emotional kind from her dad. Let's face it, it sucks to be a kid in the ''Berserk'' universe, except for the following example.

* The BigBad Gyokumen Kousho in ''{{Saiyuki}}'', who uses her daughter Liriin and her stepson Kougaiji for her own devices, including experimenting on them. She also has an [[ParentalIncest attraction/crush]] on Kougaiji, even brainwashing him at one point to become her mindless, obedient slave.

** In the prequel ''Saiyuki Ibun'', the young youkai apprentice monk Genkai's parents used his powers of foresight for financial gain, leading them to become greedy for more money and it eventually led to their deaths. Genkai realized after their deaths that not even once in his life did his parents ever touched him.

* The DarkMagicalGirl in ''PrincessTutu'' suffers from this -- her father constantly tells her that she is "hideous" and that "no one could ever love you enough to die for you". He even tries to [[spoiler:[[HeartTrauma take her heart]] to feed his powers at one point. However, near the end, it's revealed that he isn't her true father at all, and kidnapped her as a baby -- which frees her up to help the main characters kill him.]]

** [[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 Yuri is so utterly ''screwed up''.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''

* Jeremy from ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns'' was constantly abused by his stepfather Greg, including [[spoiler:being raped and sexually abused]]. So much so that [[spoiler:it drove him to kill Greg via VehicularSabotage.]] Throughout the series, Jeremy is haunted by images of Greg talking to him.

** Ironically enough, he may be the less abusive parent compared to his wife, Nodoka. While Genma manipulates Ranma for his own personal gain, he still attempts to protect Ranma throughout his life. Nodoka, on the other hand, is completely determined to carry out the {{Seppuku}} contract she and Genma had Ranma sign when he was just a baby. Even though she wants to see her son, she will kill him if she doesn't find him manly. [[spoiler: After she discovers Ranma's a {{GenderBender}} and determines that his actions are still manly enough for the contract, she is still perfectly willing to carry out the Seppeku ritual if she feels that his conduct isn't satisfactory]]... Yeah, Ranma's family is [[DysfunctionalFamily pretty screwed up.]]

* Almost everything wrong in [[RanmaOneHalf Ranma's]] life can be traced back to the actions of his father, Genma. Juusenkyo? Genma's idea. A crippling fear of cats? Genma didn't bother reading the page mentioning how utterly stupid a particular training regime was. Getting Ukyou and Shampoo dead set on killing them? Both due to Genma's short-sighted greed and gluttony, though Ranma was somewhat to blame in the latter case. Plus pairing him up with a girl who will assault him or lash out at him for the pettiest misunderstandings, in an ArrangedMarriage. Even separating Ranma from his mother at toddler age, thus ensuring the boy would get very limited social and emotional development, was Genma's idea, because she would have made him "weak"... and let's not even go into the bit about the seppuku vow Ranma was made to take without knowing. He claims he did it all to make Ranma a peerless fighter and man among men, though.
** Ironically enough, he may be the less abusive parent compared to his wife, Nodoka. While Genma manipulates Ranma for his own personal gain, he still attempts to protect Ranma throughout his life. Nodoka, on the other hand, is completely determined to carry out the {{Seppuku}} contract she and Genma had Ranma sign when he was just a baby. Even though she wants to see her son, she will kill him if she doesn't find him manly. [[spoiler: After she discovers Ranma's a {{GenderBender}} and determines that his actions are still manly enough for the contract, she is still perfectly willing to carry out the Seppeku ritual if she feels that his conduct isn't satisfactory]]... Yeah, Ranma's family is pretty screwed up.

* Almost everything wrong in [[RanmaOneHalf Ranma's]] life can be traced back to the actions of his father, Genma. Juusenkyo? Genma's idea. A crippling fear of cats? Genma didn't bother reading the page mentioning how utterly stupid a particular training regime was. Getting Ukyou and Shampoo dead set on killing them? Both due to Genma's short-sighted greed and gluttony, though Ranma was somewhat to blame in the latter case. Plus pairing him up with a girl who will assault him or lash out at him for the pettiest misunderstandings, in an ArrangedMarriage. Even separating Ranma from his mother at toddler age, thus ensuring the boy would get very limited social and emotional development, was Genma's idea, because she would have made him "weak"... and let's not even go into the bit about the seppuku vow Ranma was made to take without knowing. Although he may claim he did it all to make Ranma a peerless fighter and man among men, his actual motivation is mostly to provide him, Genma, with a carefree future where he doesn't have to work and can just while his days away with his best friend, Soun.
** That's not his motivation. If all he wanted to do was lounge around, he could just as easily have let Ranma live a more normal life, brought him to Soun to make arrangements for uniting the two families (Contrary to popular belief, the engagement has nothing to do with uniting the two schools. If Genma and Soun wanted to unite the schools, they could simply train each other's families in their respective arts.), and then freeload off the Tendos, like he does now. It's not like Ranma pampers him or Genma gets financial gain from training his son to be a martial artist.

* Almost everything wrong in [[RanmaOneHalf Ranma's]] life can be traced back to the actions of his father, Genma. Juusenkyo? Genma's idea. A crippling fear of cats? Genma didn't bother reading the page mentioning how utterly stupid a particular training regime was. Getting Ukyou and Shampoo dead set on killing them? Both due to Genma's short-sighted greed and gluttony, though Ranma was somewhat to blame in the latter case. Plus pairing him up with a girl who will assault him or lash out at him for the pettiest misunderstandings, in an arranged marriage. Even separating Ranma from his mother at toddler age, thus ensuring the boy would get very limited social and emotional development, was Genma's idea, because she would have made him "weak"... and let's not even go into the bit about the seppuku vow Ranma was made to take without knowing. Although he may claim he did it all to make Ranma a peerless fighter and man among men, his actual motivation is mostly to provide him, Genma, with a carefree future where he doesn't have to work and can just while his days away with his best friend, Soun.

* In ''MiraiNikki'' Yuno had control-freak parents who [[spoiler: measured everything she did from how many hours she got to sleep to how many calories she had a day]]. They also [[spoiler: kept her in a cage and starved her in an effort to raise her to be a model person and ignored her whenever she begged them to let her out.]] She eventually [[spoiler: trapped them in the cage and starved them to the point that they died]].

* Jeremy from ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns'' was constantly abused by his stepfather Greg, including [[spoiler:being raped and sexually abused]]. So much so that [[spoiler:it drove Jeremy to kill Greg via VehicularSabotage, which he also ended killing his mother Sandra as well.]]

* Jeremy from ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns'' was constantly abused his stepfather Greg, including [[spoiler:being raped and sexually abused]]. So much so that [[spoiler:it drove Jeremy to kill Greg via VehicularSabotage, which he also ended killing his mother Sandra as well.]]

* Jeremy from ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns'' was constantly abused his stepfather Greg, including [[spoiler:being raped and sexually abused]]. So much so that [[spoiler:that it drove Jeremy to kill Greg via VehicularSabotage, which he also ended killing his mother Sandra as well.]]

* MutekiKanbanMusume: Being an hiliarious deconstruction of the FightingSeries, offers a subversion of this trope because Miki Onimaru is not a child, but a WomanChild, and when her mother punishes her is by a very violent CurbStompBattle. Also Miki is TheSlacker and TheBully, so [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop her mother is always justified]].

** Then we learn that [[spoiler: the deal with Yashamaru and Karura was a ''lie''. Karura actually died blessing baby!Gaara and promising to love and protect him even from beyond the grave, and Yashamaru's own actions and words were a JerkAssFacade coming from the orders of the Kazekage.]] When did Gaara find out? As he [[spoiler: called out the Edo-Tensei-revived!Kazekage out for all the shit that he pulled against him.]] Woooooow.

** Emotional and implied physical abuse of Seto Kaiba by his adoptive father, Gozaburo. Also emotional neglect of his other sons, Noah and Mokuba. [[SelfMadeOrphan Backfired]].

* Al Da Flaga from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Gundam SEED]]'' was a narcissistic bastard who viewed his son, Mu La Flaga, as nothing more than a vehicle for his own ego. When Mu refused to nothing more than an extension of his father, Al cut him out of his life, locked he and his mother up in a BigFancyHouse, and had himself cloned. He then proceeded to treat said clone as though he were a replacement for Al himself rather than a real person (his first words on seeing the clone were "This is me, right?"). Said clone eventually rebelled, burned down Al's house, and became [[spoiler:[[OmnicidalManiac Rau Le Creuset]]]].

* [[ShrinkingViolet Hinata Hyuuga]] from ''{{Naruto}}'' has shades of this (it's any wonder it hasn't affected her more- her father was sparring against her ''when she was only three years old''), what with being so constantly berated for her mild nature and natural compassion that she developed a severe inferiority complex and was veritably [[ParentalAbandonment disowned]] by her father and clan. The anime hints that things ''may'' have turned a little better, though.

* [[ShrinkingViolet Hinata Hyuuga]] from ''{{Naruto}}'' has shades of this (it's any wonder it hasn't affected her more- her father was sparring against her "when she was only three years old"), what with being so constantly berated for her mild nature and natural compassion that she developed a severe inferiority complex and was veritably [[ParentalAbandonment disowned]] by her father and clan. The anime hints that things ''may'' have turned a little better, though.

* [[ShrinkingViolet Hinata Hyuuga]] from ''{{Naruto}}'' has shades of this, what with being so constantly berated for her mild nature and natural compassion that she developed a severe inferiority complex and was veritably [[ParentalAbandonment disowned]] by her father and clan. The anime hints that things ''may'' have turned a little better, though.

* 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 a 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 instilled and nurtured those traits in Astroboy, or maybe he could have become a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds.

** The spinoff ''OrikoMagica'': Yuma Chitose's dad was almost never around. Her mom blamed Yuma, constantly telling her she was useless and burning her forehead with cigarettes. Watching her parents get eaten alive and being subsequently reduced to living on the streets was ''a step up'' for Yuma.

* ''FruitsBasket'' is the absolute epitome of this trope! Part of the 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...