History FantasticRacism / AnimeAndManga

* Sora from ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'' is very smug about Fusion users being better than Xyz users. What makes this cross from UnEqualRites to racism, however, is that his hatred comes from disliking the ''people'' from the Xyz Dimension, effectively another world where Xyz is ''the'' summoning method. The Fusion people came in and attacked the Xyz people. Sora is smug about Fusion being better than Xyz, but he genuinely hates people from the Xyz Dimension and admits to hunting them down for fun. A little FridgeHorror comes in when you realize that he and many other children from Academia were likely brainwashed or indoctrinated into this way of thought.

* ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'': Tohru's less than stellar view of humans (Kobayashi being the exception, of course) comes up multiple times, but it slowly dies down as she adjusts to living on Earth. Other dragons also show signs of this to varying degrees (or not at all in Lucoa's case), but it only really gets focus in [[spoiler: [[TragicBigot Iruru's]] character arc]].

** The attitude of the protagonist against the youkai is sometimes a little "evil". So the protagonists appreciate someone's life a always be higher than the life of a youkai, even if the person is very vicious. You see it especially in the Gatenmaru-Arc, as Inuyasha control of his "dark side" loses, and many bandits kills, which were the worst murderers, rapists and robbers, and have killed just for fun half a village. Although Inuyasha has already killed many youkai from lower grounds, shocked him this act.
** Kagome says even once that Inuyasha has the heart of a human, even though he is a half-youkai. That sounds "strange" when you know that the most innocent character among the protagonists, Shippo, an entire youkai is.

** The giants also get treated on the same level as a tank. They don't really like that. That's only really by the marines though, some are highly respected people and are treated as honorable guests.
** There's also the Long-arm tribe looking for "rare people with only one joint in their arms" to put on display, or the occasional flickers of fantastic racism towards Brook (for looking like a monster) and more subtly Franky (looks like a monster without his fake skin). Basically you can be any skin color you want and no one will mind, but if you don't look human enough for the OP world's tastes things are gonna be rough.

*** Oddly, Oda's good intentions seem to have span rare out-of-universe exemples. If you lookin the forums you may find etrange hate speed directed to non-human races. The reasons are being physically repulsive (fishmen) being overly overly naive and annoying (dwarves) or being just plain stupid and barbaric (giants). This has gotten so bad that some have been innediqtemy starting to hate a character (Dellinger or Jack ) thqt they were liking until then just upon the reveql that he hqd sone non-human genes!!

** [[spoiler:The society outside the Walls, Marley, brutally persecutes the Eldian people (the ethnic relatives of those within the Walls), rounding them all up into ghettos, violently and harshly beating anyone found outside the ghettos, turning a blind eye to the murder of Eldians, and sending titanized Eldians against the people of the Walls. One group of soldiers even feeds a young Eldian girl to their dogs alive for fun. Their reasoning is apparently that the Eldian people had, in the past, enslaved and brutalized the people of Marley in turn.]]

** [[spoiler:The society outside the Walls, Mare, brutally persecutes the Elodian people (the ancestors of those within the Walls), rounding them all up into ghettos, violently and harshly beating anyone found outside the ghettos, and turning a blind eye to the murder of Elodians. One group of soldiers even feeds a young Elodian girl to their dogs alive for fun. Their reasoning is apparently that the Elodian people had, in the past, enslaved and brutalized the people of Mare in turn.]]

* ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'': Tohru's less than stellar view of humans (Kobayashi being the exception, of course) comes up multiple times, but it slowly dies down as she adjusts to living on Earth. Other dragons also show signs of this to varying degrees, but it only really gets focus in [[spoiler: [[TragicBigot Iruru's]] character arc]].

* Done in both [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist the manga]] and [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the anime]] versions of ''Fullmetal Alchemist'', with the persecution and attempted genocide of the Ishvalan people. They are visually identifiable by their red eyes and dark skin, and various characters use hats and sunglasses to disguise these traits. Several aspects of the Ishvalans' portrayal hint more specifically at a metaphorically Islamic culture: their vaguely Middle Eastern dress, Ishval's desert landscape, and their monotheistic religion and the tensions arising from its prohibition of alchemy and the Amestrians' contrasting dependence upon it.
** There's also the Ishvalan prejudice or prosecution of alchemists. This is somewhat more understandable, since the alchemists were responsible for the aforementioned genocide in the first place.
** Ishvalans were prejudiced against alchemists even before the genocide started since according to their religion, only their god Ishval has the power to create and destroy things, and attempting to imitate this is both blasphemous and against the natural order. In fact, Scar's brother was deemed a heretic when he studied alchemy, as opposed to Scar himself, who was loved by his people due to being a devout follower of their religion.

* ''Manga/KobayashiSanChiNoMaidDragon'': Tooru's less than stellar view of humans (Kobayashi being the exception, of course) comes up multiple times, but it slowly dies down as she adjusts to living on Earth. Other dragons also show signs of this to varying degrees, but it only really gets focus in [[spoiler: [[TragicBigot Iruru's]] character arc]].

* Present on both sides of the divide in ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', often with bloodshed and tragedy the result. Because Ghouls have to feed on human flesh to satisfy their HorrorHunger, the species are described as natural enemies and humanity has passed the Ghoul Countermeasure Laws to address the problem. This law makes simply being born a Ghoul into a Capital Offense, punishable with immediate execution and most humans consider this a good thing. When Kaneki and Touka visit the headquarters of [[TheHunter CCG]], an office lady cheerfully reassures them that it is fine for a 14-year old girl to be killed because she's [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman just a Ghoul]]. Humans that fail to immediately report someone they suspect to be a Ghoul are subject to imprisonment, and viewed as worst than someone that aided a human murderer. On the flip side, there are some Ghouls that consider humans to be an inferior species and treat them little better than animals.

* In ''{{Sekirei}}'', some of the titular HumanAliens have very negative views on humans, referring to them as "monkeys". This varies from simple disdain to genocidal intentions. Tsukiumi starts out this way, but [[CharacterDevelopment changes]] her view on humans once she meets Minato. [[BigBad Karasuba]], on the other hand, considers humans an inferior species and wants to kill them all for being weak.

* In the anime ''Claymore'' there are female warriors who are hybrids of humans and youma. Only they are able to detect a youma who camouflaged as a human (youma eat human entrails), and to kill him. Nevertheless, almost all humans are afraid of them, or hate them even, and call them derogatory "silver-eyed witches". This looks especially in the Arc in the "holy city" Rabona. The warrior Clare is from a youma seriously injured because she saved two humans in front of him. And one of the rescued humans she referred disparagingly as a monster.

* [[RealityWarper Rustyrose]] from ''Manga/FairyTail'' declares that all non-wizards are trash and deserve to die. When Elfman expresses disgust at this and says that wizards and regular people have to work together for the common good, Rustyrose calls him a fool and says that Elfman and his friends are trash as well.

* The Saiyans of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' were undoubtedly subjected to racism by Freeza and his men, leading up to Freeza single-handedly carrying out a genocide against them by destroying their planet. As we see in some episodes, the remaining Saiyans had to deal with discrimination, and being called [[FantasticSlurs 'filthy monkeys']].
** Freeza's racism is played up even more in ''WebVideo/DragonBallAbridged''. He despises most races he encounters, but [[InsaneTrollLogic claims he's not actually a racist since he just wipes them out rather than hating them]]. After all, he can't quite be a racist against a race that doesn't exist.
---> '''Abridged!Freeza:''' ''Ok, first off. 'Super Saiyan'. What is that, what even ''is'' that? I'll tell you what it is; it's some dumb legend that your filthy monkey ancestors passed around a campfire like it was their own dung.''

* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', it is revealed that the royal family brutally persecuted [[spoiler:members of the Ackerman clan and people of Asian descent because they were immune to the brainwashing effects of the Coordinate power]].

* Subverted in ''Manga/KobayashiSanChiNoMaidDragon. For all the times that characters like Tooru and Iruru keep on saying they hate humans, it's made clear that they're only repeating the same anti-human rhetoric they've had drilled into them since childhood. The fact that humans on Earth, especially Kobayashi, don't show them the same kind of hatred eventually makes them give up their prejudice. That said, their are plenty of dragons who believe that humans are mere animals.

* Subverted in . For all the times that characters like Tooru and Iruru keep on saying they hate humans, it's made clear that they're only repeating the same anti-human rhetoric they've had drilled into them since childhood. The fact that humans on Earth, especially Kobayashi, don't show them the same kind of hatred eventually makes them give up their prejudice.

* Dragons in ''Manga/KobayashiSanChiNoMaidDragon'' constantly belittle humans, although they still find them amazing.

** Subverted somewhat in that Freeza's real motivation was fear, the racism was mostly a cover. He destroyed their planet because he feared a Saiyan uprising, not because he particularly hated them. However, he still considered them an inferior species since he saw being beaten by one as the same as being defeated by an actual monkey and fear of a race is a form of racism.

* In ''Anime/TimeOfEve'', robots are portrayed as harmless and, in some cases, [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots genuinely good-willed]], not to mention ThreeLawsCompliant, but the [[WellIntentionedExtremist Ethics Committee]] is flat-out against robots integrating into human life, especially if -- [[SarcasmMode God forbid]] -- they begin developing personalities.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'' has a complicated example with the Fishmen and the Merfolk, humanoid beings that also show characteristics of an aquatic animal. Since the "aquatic animal" part is almost random and they have a lot of possible combinations, neither the Fishmen nor the Mermen discriminate against each other by distinctive traits such as their fish parts. Because of this, is perfectly normal for them that an octopus Mermaid reproduce with a shark Merman and a eel Merman be born as the result, that's also why they can't understand why the Humans classify each other in groups. But even if those species don't discriminate amongst themselves, they do discriminate against other races. Specifically, the Fishmen believe that they're superior to all other races, especially Humans, but that's also complicated because of the discrimination that the Humans have in the One Piece world against them and the Mermen as they were once considered to be on the same level as fish despite being equally as intelligent as humans.
** To be fair, not all Fishmen and Merfolk believe that they're ''superior'' to humans or other races, only certain extremists, though the overwhelming majority does hate and distrust the human race.

*** Taken to the extreme by Hody Jones, who is is so racist [[spoiler: that he's willing to have hundreds, if not thousands, of Fishmen and Merfolk murdered for wishing to be on civil terms with humans. This includes the much-beloved Queen Otohime, for being the figurehead of the movement.]] The real kicker: he flat out admits that [[spoiler:humans have never done anything bad to him personally. He's simply internalized the Fishmen's prejudices against humans.]]

** For those who don't know, "Pokopen" was a derogatory term for China and the Chinese before and during WorldWarII. It's considered extremely offensive today and usage of the word on Japanese TV is banned.