History ParentalAbandonment / AnimeAndManga

* ''FullMetalAlchemist''. Ed and Al lose their mother, and try to bring her back with human transmutation. The rest is, as they say, history. [[spoiler:Ed and Al don't even see their estranged father until the end of the anime series!]] There's also Winry, whose parents get killed during the war in Ishbal, however, their murder changes between the anime ([[spoiler:Mustang]]) and manga ([[spoiler:Scar]]).
** Also, it is revealed in the manga that [[spoiler:Hawkeye's mother died when she was young, later followed by her jerkass father, and Roy was raised by a foster mother.]]
** [[spoiler:Ed and Al actually see Hohenheim earlier on in the manga series, with Ed meeting him first and Al meeting him later, and the three fight against Pride and Gluttony together]].

** As for everybody else, Bulma is the only character from the original Dragonball with both parents, and they're kind of 'out there,' although [[MadScientist her father]] sneaked into the CompetenceZone once. For those introduced in DBZ: Vegeta is an orphan, his mother never mentioned and his father killed when Planet Vegeta was destroyed; the artificial humans killed their creator as they woke up; and there's some distance between Videl and Mr. Satan, but they obviously love each other and Mr. Satan dotes on Pan. Trunks originally seemed like he would end up following the trope (raised by his mother after Vegeta's death at the hand of the androids, and is somewhat emotionally distanced from Vegeta himself once they met), but thanks to some time-traveling, he's nearly thirty and still living at home.

** Ao in the SequelSeries, ''EurekaSevenAO''. His mother vanished in an accident 10 years ago when Ao is 2 years old, and no one knows who his father is. Until he joins Generation Bleu he lives with his adoptive grandfather, who took his mother in when she came to Okinawa. Ao's goal in the entire series is to find his mom and save her, and by the final episode, [[spoiler: he succeeded]].

** Ao in the SequelSeries, ''EurekaSevenAO''. His mother vanished in an accident 10 years ago when Ao is 2 years old, and no one knows who his father is. Until he joins Generation Bleu he lives with his adoptive grandfather, who took his mother in when she came to Okinawa. Ao's goal in the entire series is to find his mom and save her.

** Ao in the SequelSeries, ''EurekaSevenAO''. His mother vanished in the 'Scub Burst' years ago, and no one knows who his father is. Until he joins Generation Bleu he lives with his adoptive grandfather, who took his mother in when she came to Okinawa. [[spoiler: [[GenerationXerox Is it any surprise Renton is his father?]]]]

* Sorata of ''LightNovel/SakurasouNoPetNaKanojo'' originally lives in the neighbourhood, but now lives in the local BoardingSchool as his father was reassigned elsewhere.

* In ''FairyTail'', everyone has their own story. Natsu was [[RaisedByWolves raised by a dragon]] after being abandoned/separated from his parents in a forest, while his rival Grey had his entire village destroyed by a demon. Then Gray's mentor (who was practically a substitute mother to him) [[spoiler: sacrifised her life to seal that same demon]] when he was still a child. Lucy ran away from home because of her uncaring father [[spoiler: and her mother has passed on sometime before the series, although this is not established until later]]. Erza [[spoiler: was apparently raised as a slave to build a device to use Black Magic, and the only thing close to a parent is an old man who acts as a grandfather figure to all the children there]].

In anime and manga, parents are as real as fairies.

Parents are no longer part of the ecosystem of anime and manga.

* No one has any parents in ''StarDriver''.

* In the anime ''IchigoMashimaro'', the girls' parents appear rarely, if at all. Indeed, it is several episodes in before Nobue and Chika's are even mentioned, the first proof they even exist. Only Ana's are mentioned regularly, and her mother is the only parent whose face is ever seen.

** However, the series seems to avert the trope overall. None of the instances cause damage or discomfort to characters or viewers, beyond engendering mild empathy for Konata. Her single-parent relationship with her father is very loving and supportive in both directions (the loli/otaku stuff is played for comedy). The Hiiragi twins, Miyuki and Minami all have delineated, idyllic family lives. Screen time is just too expensive to spend on multiple parental units, because the show isn't about them. Yet ''Anime/LuckyStar'' focuses far more often on family life than comparable shows like ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'', ''HighSchoolGirls'', ''Hyakko'' and (despite the age differences), ''IchigoMashimaro'', and presents it quite positively.

** Czeslaw was orphaned sometime before 1711, and his legal guardian thereafter was... well, [[CompleteMonster not one of the best]]. Czeslaw finally snaps and kills him after two hundred years of daily torture.

** Guts' birth mother died before he was born - via execution by hanging. His birth father [[DisappearedDad is never mentioned.]] His adoptive mother, [[MissingMom Sys]], [[DisposableWoman died of the plague when he was very young]], and [[AbusiveParent Gambino]] - well, [[{{Jerkass}} we know enough]] [[CompleteMonster about his deeds to the boy.]] Guts [[CallingTheOldManOut eventually calls his adoptive dad out]], [[SelfMadeOrphan though by accident.]]

* In ''Manga/GakuenBabysitters'', the parents of the Kashima siblings are dead prior to the start of the story.

* In ''Manga/GakuenBabysitters'', both of the Kamitani siblings are estranged from their father ever since their parents divorced. [[spoiler:Though emotionally distant, they are still physically close, since their father is one of the teachers in the school.]]

Parents are no longer part of the ecosystem of anime and manga.

*** Also, Seto Kaiba and his brother Mokuba were orphans "because I had fired our parents."

* ''SailorMoon'' * loves* this trope. Of all the school-aged characters, only Usagi, Chibiusa (who's [[HappilyEverAfter obliged to have one]] as the KidFromTheFuture) and Minako seem to have intact families.

** Even Minako's case differs depending on the adaptation: in ''PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'' she appears to be an orphan, with only an agent acting ''in loco parentis'' for her.

* Watanuki from ''Manga/{{xxxHOLiC}}'': Orphaned at a young but unspecified age and has been living alone ever since.
** [[spoiler:Well, maybe not. It was recently revealed that [[Manga/CardCaptorSakura his parents]] are still alive somewhere. Just not in his universe. He doesn't remember them due to a DealWithTheDevil or three, and so just assumes them to be dead. His "[[TsubasaReservoirChronicle brother]]" does remember them, but ran away from home at the age of seven, and we'll stop there because that’s where the parental ''abandonment'' ends, and something [[OedipusRex else]] begins.]]
* In ''TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', ''Manga/{{xxxHolic}}'''s sister series, nobody has a present set of parents. ''Nobody''. Perhaps the most egregious case would be Sakura, [[spoiler:who had both a mother and father way before the beginning of the series, but had them erased from existence when Syaoran's desperate wish to save her life screwed over the space-time continuum]].

* ''{{Naruto}}'' sure loves this trope. In fact, the only character whose parents are both alive ''and'' [[InvisibleParents shown]] is Shikamaru.

*** Hinata's own mother has also never been seen, apart from a flashback in episode 166 of Shippuden, and fans often speculate that both her and Neji's mom are dead.

* Almost every major character in ''{{Inuyasha}}'' is either orphaned or seems to only have one parent (specifically, Kagome, who appears to be fatherless, though she has a very good, open and trusting relationship with the rest of her family, who actually aid her in her dangerous quest as much as they can, since they see it as [[YouCantFightFate a part of her destiny]]). [[spoiler: It's mentioned in the novel ''Shousetsu Inuyasha'' that Kagome's father died in an accident several years prior to the story, this being the cause why Mama Higurashi, Kagome and Sota moved into the shrine with the grandpa. And this happened few after Kagome's grandma died, too.]]

* Ichigo, the main character in ''{{Bleach}}'', lost his mother very tragically at a young age. He even has the BumblingDad -- who fails to notice a Shinigami living in the closet and doesn't seem all that concerned when his son leaves the mortal realm for a journey. (This is later [[{{Revision}} explained]] when you discover [[spoiler: Ichigo's dad is actually a captain level Shinigami in exile, who is fully aware of his son's abilities and plays the bumbling dad role so he can go about his duties]].)

* Exception: In ''{{The Twelve Kingdoms}}'', the parents of Youko Nakajima, who is {{Trapped In Another World}}, are repeatedly shown in the real world worrying about her, before eventually accepting that she is gone for good.
** Played straight with: Seishuu (his parents were good to him, but his mother died in an earthquake and his father was killed by monster), Shoukei (her parents were overthrown and slaughtered for being injust sovereigns) and IIRC with Rangyaku and Keikei (parents died when they were kids, so they live with Rangyaku's boss Enho)

* In ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'', Ash's father ''seems'' to be alive but not around, for some vague, non-traumatic reason. As well, it seems that not only is it socially acceptable, but a ''cultural expectation'' that if a child wishes to be a Pokemon trainer, he/she has to leave their house at least at the age of ''ten'' and travel the world looking for Pokemon completely alone (unless they find unrelated traveling partners). This is mitigated somewhat by the general helpfulness of the ''Pokemon'' world's residents, and the fact that a Pokemon trainer is TheKidWithTheRemoteControl of what is potentially an incredibly powerful weapon.

*** Also in the same manga, Koga and Hayate are [[DisappearedDad disappeared dads]] for Janine and Falkner, and there's no mention of their mothers.

** Meowth of Team Rocket was abandoned as a kitten and had to join a gang for food.
* Exception: Lan from the ''VideoGame/{{Mega Man Battle Network}}'' games and anime interacts with both of his parents. His father is a scientist who becomes vital to the series' plotlines, and his mother is a type of moral support when Lan finds that he and Mega Man need to save the world.

** Zoro: No mention of parents at all. Closest father figure he had is his dojo master, with Kuina acting like a {{Cool Big Sis}} (before her fatal accident anyway).

** However, the trope is also played straight with Flay (mother died before the series begins, father horribly killed in an enemy fleet action [[spoiler: which caused Flay to go insane and manipulate Kira, as revenge for not saving her dad when he needed it]]), Athrun (mother died in the Bloody Valentine Incident, father killed in the last episode of the series and emotionally disconnected long before then), and Cagalli (never knew her [[spoiler: and Kira's]] real parents, her adoptive mother has died before the series began, and her father's killed in a HeroicSacrifice midway through the series to get his daughter into space where she'll be safe).

* Most of the characters from the anime ''ElfenLied'' have suffered extreme parental abandonment (or at least the psychological effects of it) similar to those of ''NeonGenesisEvangelion''. The results, needless to say, aren't pretty.
** Yuka never seems to have a father, nor is he even mentioned. Her mother shows up near series end in the manga, and really only seems there to question the wisdom of keeping Nana. Kouta's mother is also never brought up, and the loss of his other family members drives the series. Nana never knows her true parents, and is heartsick when she learns [[spoiler: Kurarama is not her real father. He is Mariko's]]. Mayu loses her father early on, and it is indicated they may have been close. Her mother was always distant, and turned outright hostile when she learned that her new husband was sexually abusing Mayu. In an act of coldness that has to place her in the bottom 30 animanga abusive parents, she is jealous of her daughter--who is being raped--for the attention she is getting, and later she signs away custody to Kouta and Yuka without blinking. Lucy, it turns out [[spoiler: * end-series warning* was * not* abandoned by her mother. Lucy/Nyu/Kaede's mom was also a diclonius - and then she was used and murdered in the racial eugenics schemes of Kakuzawa. He left Lucy homeless so that she would grow away from Humans.]] Sadly, it worked.

* ''DragonBall'' begins shortly after Goku accidentally kills his adoptive grandfather, the only family he's ever known. Much later, he finds out just how orphaned he is: not only are his parents dead [[spoiler: (mother was never mentioned, father attempted a HeroicSacrifice to save his planet and was killed)]], he's an alien from a planet which has been destroyed. Only a few of his race are left, and they're all utter bastards -- he has to kill most of them himself.

* ''[[YesPrecure5 Yes! Precure 5]]'' has a couple of these. Urara's mother died when she was very young. This is fairly significant in one episode, which had Urara acting mysterious while carrying around and reading a book that belonged to her mother. Karen has two living parents, but they're a pair of musical performers, consistently making it home for Christmas but otherwise perpetually on tour. (She does have a butler who takes care of her, which is good because this has been the situation since she was little.) [[LonelyRichKid This led to some emotional problems down the road.]] We've never seen Rin's father or either of Komachi's parents. Rin's father, at least, is mentioned in dialog as being around, just never seen. Komachi's parents are busy running the stores that her family owns.

* ''FushigiYuugi'' is very, VERY infatuated with this trope.
** Miaka Yuuki's parents had a REALLY nasty divorce when she was little and she lives with her [[EducationMama over-exigent mother]] and her college-aged brother Keisuke. [[spoiler:In the manga, her mother re-marries later.]]

*** Tamahome's mother is dead and his loving father is crippled by an illness, [[spoiler:killed halfway through the series by Suboshi]].

*** Soi's parents sold her to a brothel since they couldn't keep her.

** In {{Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden}} Takiko's IllGirl mother dies of Tuberculosis in the FIRST Chapter, and her father is never around because [[spoiler:he was researching the Shi Jin Ten Chi Sho to find a way to save his wife]], and he never wanted a daughter to begin with.

* About ''RurouniKenshin''...

* About ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann''...

** [[DarkMagicalGirl Rue]]'s mother is never mentioned and her father [[spoiler:the Raven]] is emotionally abusive. [[spoiler:Although it turns out the Raven simply kidnapped her as a child, and her parents had been distraught when she was taken away from the crows.]]

** Azmaria's parents are implied to have died because of her powers. She was adopted into a troupe of traveling musicians, but a villain seeking to use her powers adopted her from them... and later killed them to cover his tracks. Then the villain was killed by the demon he had a contract with.

** Well, this makes sense once you realize that Yuki and Ryoko are [[spoiler: alien robots made to observe Haruhi]].
* Ayase from ''OkaneGaNai'' is an orphan whose parents have died when he was still a child and he is living alone when the action begins. This does not last long, though, as he quickly spirited away by Kanou with whom he is forced to live and have sex in order to pay an exorbitant debt. In the manga version, Ayase is shown to treasure every memento that reminds him of his parents, even going to the extent of disobeying [[{{Seme}} über manipulative and forceful Kanou]] to rescue pictures of them from his former apartment that is about to be sold.

** Also, ''everyone'' in ''{{Saint Seiya The Lost Canvas}}''. Justified since it's set in the 18th century Europe.

* In ''{{Violinist of Hameln}}'', the theme of parental abandonment runs RAMPANT.

* The protagonist of ''CodeGeass'' has this as part of his StartOfDarkness.

* Shun Ukiya of ''GateKeepers'' harbors more than a little resentment with his father for dying some years before the start of the series, and in turn [[spoiler:his daughter Ayane similarly resents Shun for his heroic sacrifice several years before the opening of the sequel series ''Anime/{{Gate Keepers 21}}'']].

* A lot of boxers in ''HajimeNoIppo'' have missing parents. Ippo's fisherman [[DisappearedDad dad]] drowned at sea while rescuing others, so he only lives with his [[OpenMindedParent loving mother]] Hiroko. Miyata's [[MissingMom mom]] abandoned him when he was a child. Sendo's parents are both dead (mom died apparently in chilbirth, dad was a firefighter and perished in a huge fire), so he lives with his paternal grandmother. Takamura is from a wealthy family, but his parents disowned him when he was in high school, due to his violent nature. Mashiba was orphaned when he was in highschool and had to raise himself ''and'' his little sister Kumi. We never get to know what happened to Volg's father and his mother is an IllGirl who raised him alone [[spoiler: and dies some time in the series, after Volg has to return to Russia]]; for all matters, Ramuda is the closest to a father figure he has.

* ''CowboyBebop'': Ed appears to have raised herself [[spoiler:until it's revealed that her nutty-to-the-point-of-horribly-neglectful father just dumped her at an orphanage one day and completely forgot about her. When they ''do'' reunite, it takes Ed's father a moment to remember who she even is, and he forgets all about her again seconds later]].

** Athena, whose parents are dead, mentioning this is Athena's {{berserk button}}.

* In ''{{Manga/ARIA}}'' there is no mention of Alice's parents, even though she is only 14 years old at the start of the series. Likewise, Akari never mentions her parents, despite being only 16 years old when she moves to Aqua. The only one from Manhome who she has any contact with is Ai--at least in the Anime.

* In ''{{Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei}}'', Itoshiki Majiru, the nephew of the titular Zetsubou-sensei, was abandoned by his parents. The fact that his father [[spoiler: who may have been disinherited]] looked exactly like his three younger brothers causes some confusion for him and for the class of Itoshiki Nozomu when he sees Nozomu walking on the street and mistakes him for his father. Hi-jinks ensue, resulting in Majiru living with his Uncle indefinitely [[spoiler: apparently along with at least one female member of Zetsubou-sensei's class at any given time.]]

* In ''{{Eyeshield 21}}'', the parents of the members of the protagonist’s high school football team take little to no interest whatsoever in the activities of their children (with the exception of Komisubi's folks.) But this trope really comes into play during the Death March storyline, when the team is given to the option to spend their entire summer vacation in America, enduring a hellish and potentially life-threatening {{training from hell}}. All of them accept the offer without consulting, informing or even thinking about their parents, and none of them are ever shown contacting their folks to let them know that they'll be on another continent for the next several weeks.

* In ''TonaGura'', the usually fractious Kagura siblings are united in their dislike of their father's near-eternal absence and the moves he makes that permit them to never keep friends. It is implied in the manga that part of Marie's hostility towards her brother's 'perverted' nature stems not merely from her father's orders, but a desire to see Yuuji revert to his pre-puberty self, when he paid attention to her, the way their father does not. Yuuji's desperate, clumsy efforts to win girls, especially Kazuki, can be seen in the light of his father's absence on many levels. Worse, both have to assume responsibilities their father can't be bothered with--Marie in keeping Yuuji under control, and Yuuji in working with Kagura Senior's bipolar junior business partner, Tojo Haya. Their mother is never mentioned.

* {{Soul Eater}}: Crona was abandoned by Medusa after her original plan of turning them into a Kishin failed. [[AmbiguousGender 'They']] did however get picked back up again later on - after Crona was starting [[TearJerker to get used to life in Shibusen]] - and knowing Medusa it might have been her intention all along had she not been [[GrandTheftMe temporarily incapacitated]] by getting cut in two.

** Chapter 78 confirms that [[spoiler:Liz and Patti]] are an example of both this and [[spoiler:{{Son Of A Whore}}.]]

* So, if Yamabuki is Nazuna's local school, why is she living in [[HidamariSketch the Hidamari Apartments]] now? [[spoiler:Her father was sent to work elsewhere just before school started. Unexectedly, Nozuna's mom followed him because "he's useless living alone."]] [[FragileFlower Poor girl]].

** Aldra was orphaned at a young age, as was Irma, who was orphaned by forces acting on Aldra's authority.

* In ''{{Rose Of Versailles}}'' there are several cases. Andre's parents have passed away by the time he is 8, so he goes to live with his grandmother. Rosalie's adoptive mother passes away in an accident when Rosalie is a teenager- and Rosalie later finds out who her biological mother is, to her horror. Bernard's mother dies when he is 5. Robespierre's mother dies when he is young as well. Marie Antoinette's mother is still alive, but sends her away to France to get married when Antoinette is only 14 years old. Not much is known about Fersen's parents- though he is very close to his siblings.

** Shun's mother died, his grandfather disappeared in the second season and his father has never been mentioned.

* Exception: Lan from the ''{{Mega Man Battle Network}}'' games and anime interacts with both of his parents. His father is a scientist who becomes vital to the series' plotlines, and his mother is a type of moral support when Lan finds that he and Mega Man need to save the world.

* In ''{{Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun}}'', three six-year-olds were living alone under the same roof, with occasional older sibling support. One can only hope that they had financial support, at the very least. Also interesting is the fact that the protagonist's parents were alive and well, just very distant.

* ''{{Naruto}}'' sure loves this trope. It has plenty characters with parental abandonment. In fact, the only character in which both parents are alive ''and'' [[InvisibleParents shown]] is Shikamaru.
** Naruto never knew who his parents were as his father [[spoiler:and mother sacrificed themselves sealing the nine-tailed fox]] and his mother has been absent from Naruto's whole life for some as of yet unexplained reason. [[spoiler: it has been recently revealed that she's dead]] However since he the main character, he has been much luckier by having three father figures in his life: 3rd Hokage, Iruka, and Kakashi.
*** It didn't happen to him just once, but TWICE! Because whoever apparently raised him during his infancy just vanished. And apparently he never knew them, because, besides the Sandaime Hokage, the first person to actually come out and show open affection for him in the village was Iruka, which happened when he was '''12'''.
**** Be fair. It might have been 11 when Iruka started taking him out to ramen, but probably no earlier.
**** Readers tend to speculate quite a bit about what exactly went on in Naruto's childhood, given the lack of detail about what happened between the Nine-Tailed fox attacked and the start of the series. However, given that [[spoiler:his mother says that she's going to rejoin his father soon while speaking with Naruto in a manner similar to that in which he met his father]], it's likely that both his parents are dead.
**** [[spoiler: They are. Kyuubi killed them both.]]
*** Naruto was also abandoned by his godfather Jiraiya for the first 13 years of his life, only meeting the man a few months after becoming a Genin. And he only did so by accident, meaning that had he missed Jiraiya at the hot springs, then the likelihood of ever meeting the man was slim.
** Sasuke's parents were killed by his brother when he was young.
*** Seeing as all his blood relatives and his entire clan was killed at the same time, it is unclear how Sasuke, who seven at the time, managed to survive. As with Naruto, there is no mention of his having a caretaker.
** Gaara's (and his siblings') mother died in childbirth, and then his father tried to kill him [[spoiler:... and was killed by the BigBad.]]
** Neji's father was killed to appease the Cloud village after Hiashi killed their leader when he tried to kidnap Hinata. Mother is never shown.
** Iruka parents died fighting the Kyuubi.
** Shikamaru lives with both parents, and his luck seems to have probably spread to his teammates. Both Chouji's and Ino's fathers are alive and shown. No sign of mothers, though.
*** In the anime, Choji's mother is briefly shown in Episode 82 of Shippuden. Ino is shown talking to her off-screen mother in Episode 53 of Part 1.
** Let's not even talk about [[spoiler:Asuma's unborn child.]]
*** It looks like [[spoiler:Shikamaru is going to be the child's father-figure, though]].

** Hinata's mother is never seen, and fans often speculate that she is dead.
*** [[spoiler: She was seen once in a flashback in episode 166 of Shippuden]].
** Even the bad guys are not spared. Sasori's first two puppets were made in the image of his parents, who died when he was very young. This extends to the series's original BigBad, Orochimaru, whose parents died when he was fairly young, [[spoiler:[[TheDragon Pain]]]], whose parents were killed in front of him by Konoha ninja, and Kimimaro, who's father kept him in a cage for most of his life before letting him out for his clan's attack on the Mist Village which killed all of the rest of him.
** Kakashi's father committed suicide after ruining his reputation by failing a mission because he prioritized saving his friends. His mother was mentioned to have died before this.
** Haku's father killed his mother, and then went after Haku who killed him in self-defense.

* A huge portion of the cast of ''Manga/{{Narutaru}}'' are missing one or more parents. This being ''{{Narutaru}}'', Shiina's mother is the only cast member who truly abandoned her child. [[KidsAreCruel The other cases of missing parents are much more... disturbing.]]

* Subverted in ''GundamSEED''. In the first episode, we see nothing of the main younger cast's parents, and when they're taken aboard the ''Archangel'', they seem to slip into the usual unusually independent kids role. However, upon arriving at Orb, Captain Ramius informs them that their parents, who were apparently evacuated from Heliopolis separately, are waiting for them, allowing them to visit for a short time. Similarly, the equally young ZAFT pilots all seem to have visible parents when they return to PLANT on leave.

** The sequel series, GundamSEEDDestiny plays this straight. Shinn's parents are messily killed at the beginning of the series, Lunamaria and Meyrin's parents aren't accounted for, Meer is slightly implied to be a war orphan, and Rey [[spoiler: is a clone, and therefore does not have natural parents and Dullindal acts as his ParentalSubstitute.]]

* ''GundamWing'': Out of the dozen-odd main characters, only Relena has both parents alive and well, though a few episodes into the series her father is killed, at which point she learns that she's adopted and her real parents are dead too. Her adoptive mother Mrs. Darlian, on the other hand, never appears after the scene in which they comfort one another over Mr. Darlian's death.

* ''Mobile Suit {{Gundam}}'' has a great example of non-dead parental abandonment. Amuro Rei's father Tem Rei is very much alive during the majority of the series (and might technically still be alive afterward), but he is a [[MadScientist man obsessed with his work]], and cares little about either his wife or son. By the time Amuro sees him again later in the series, he has gone quite mad after an accident. As for Amuro's mom, Kamaria, she lives on Earth, and is also likely still alive after series end for at least a while, but the two of them are especially estranged due to her extremely strict pacifistic principles (she called her own son a monster for killing a Zeon soldier in ''self-defense''). The ''{{Gundam}}'' novelization also implies that the real reason she didn't leave Earth with her husband was because she was having an affair.

* There's a few examples of this trope in ''{{Gundam 00}}.''

** Majorly averted by Oscar, the protagonist, having both her biological parents outlive her! Also subverted by Alain having his mother be alive until he is in his mid 20's.

Seriously, what's up with the [[{{Anime}} Japanese]] and their fetish for ParentalAbandonment?

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' is rife with parental abandonment. Ranma himself does not even ''realize'' he has a mother until the last two episodes of the series, having been separated from her when he was a toddler. Shampoo's father is only seen twice in the manga, her mother is never even mentioned, and in any event she cannot return to her village until she either kills or marries Ranma. Ukyou was actually abandoned twice: Once when her father sent her with the Saotomes, and again when Genma left her on the side of the road. (The notion that Ukyo's father forced her to take vengeance on the Saotomes is pure Fanon, both the manga and the anime imply that it's her own idea). Ryoga's parents [[NoSenseOfDirection are always lost]]. The Kuno siblings were abandoned by their father three years ago and their mother is never mentioned. The Tendo sisters' mother died when they were very young and Soun, their well-intentioned but ditzy father, is... [[BumblingDad well, himself]]. Every other major teenaged character is known or appears to be missing at least one parent, mostly their mothers.