Boyfriend-Blocking Dad in Anime & Manga.
- The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You:
- Hiro's standards for who can date his daughter Chiyo are so high that the only person he approves of dating her is Rentarou — who happens to be her cousin.
- Kusuri's dad is a variant. He's open to the idea of Rentarou dating his daughter. He is NOT open to the idea of Rentarou dating his daughter and several other women at the same time.
- In Ai Kora, Sakurako's dad is pretty overprotective (he even gets into an "overprotectiveness battle" with Maeda in chapter 35), but this is a bit more understandable, given that he knows his daughter has been burned by bad relationships before.
- In Angel Densetsu, Heizo refuses to bless his daughter Ryoko's relationship with Kitano. He goes so far as to knock out his own daughter and try to beat Kitano to a pulp under the pretense of martial arts training.
- Miho Azuki's father in Bakuman。 never actually appears, but has shades of this. He moves his family to Hachioji so that Azuki, who goes to high school and auditions there, will not have to leave too early or face potential sexual harassment on the train and the action strikes Takagi as fairly drastic ("How over-protective is he?"). It remains to be seen whether he knows or approves of her relationship with Mashiro.
- Bleach: Ichigo's father Isshin is always having fits about protecting his two young daughters (Karin and Yuzu) from any and all dangers. Later subverted in that he's always known about supernatural dangers much of the world is unaware about. That and he's a Soul Reaper. Also subverted in that while he's obsessed with ensuring the safety of his daughters, he is and has always planned on using his son as a living weapon, even admitting that a father who claims he's willing to let his own son die is a better father to his son than him. He himself isn't very happy about it.
- In Bloom Into You, Yuu's father averts this. After Touko learns that Yuu's older sister Rei has a boyfriend, she asks if her father disapproves of the boyfriend, but Yuu laughs and says no. As she puts it, Rei having a boyfriend means that her father is no longer the only man in the family. Later on, Rei, thinking about how her family might react to Yuu going out with Touko, another girl, concludes that her and Yuu's father "acts gruff, but he's really a big softie," so Rei's less worried about him than about her mother.
- Akane Hino's father in Cannon God E Xa X Xion turns into this temporarily (after spending all his other appearances as a mostly useless wimp) after he finds out that male lead Hoichi Kano had sex with his daughter. Kano got punched a lot. Which is kinda fair considering that Hoichi is currently fighting the alien occupation on earth, meaning that his daughter would be in danger by being in a relationship with him. Heck, she was interrogated and used as a secret weapon against him, her sister was nearly killed by Hoichi's giant mecha, and now her entire family must remain in hiding to be safe, all because of her just being friends with him. Probably the most rightfully protective dad on this page.
- Case Closed:
- Kogoro Mouri lives and breathes this trope. Please, don't you ever dare to look at his beautiful daughter Ran in any way he doesn't like, even when she can protect herself decently. At best, hilarity will ensue. At worse, you'll be on the receiving end of a powerful judo throw.
- One case involving one of Kogoro's Old Friends is one of the very rare moments, where Kogoro is right about something where Conan gets it wrong. The criminal is secretly his friend's Disappeared Dad, not her lover as Conan mistakenly thought. The reason how Kogoro figured it out is because the man treated Kogoro like how Kogoro's father-in-law treated him before he got married to Eri.
- City Hunter has a couple examples:
- The first is a rich man who kept his daughter away from people for her entire childhood, and when she got a job in a fast-food place, he went and hired City Hunter, knowing fully well he was not just a bodyguard but a killer too, to protect her from perverts. He had a point: first, he hired the killer only after seeing an obvious pervert flirting with his immensely naive daughter (you can imagine his horror when he finally met City Hunter and saw that he was the pervert); second, that fast food was in the middle of a territory subjected to a turf war between two rival yakuza groups, turf war that had already claimed four directors of that fast food and would claim a fifth after the end of the arc. Admittedly, he didn't know of the turf war when he hired City Hunter, but he was right.
- The other is a politician whose reaction to his daughter running away from home is to hire Umibozu (a known killer) to take her back home and murder her boyfriend. Given his daughter's reaction to Umibozu attacking with a bazooka, it wasn't the first time he did something like that. Again, he had a point by accident: she had run from home not only to go away with her boyfriend but also because she was being pursued by a terrorist organization for accidentally witnessing where they had placed a nuke. Also, he gave his blessing when he saw that the boyfriend reacted to the terrorists attacking her by shielding her with his body.
- Akio Furukawa in CLANNAD. Most extreme example in After Story, where he became rather enraged at the prospect of Tomoya having sex with Nagisa despite them being married alreadynote .Akio: Congratulations . . . YOU BASTARD!
- Rather, he tends to act like one in order to tease Tomoya, but it's apparent that he really likes Tomoya and approves of his relationship with Nagisa. How many overprotective dads let their daughter's boyfriend live at their house?
- Rahzel's adoptive father in Dazzle (a.k.a. Dazzle). Even though he sent Rahzel off to travel on her own, he planned to put a tracking device in her bag. (He forgot to put that one in, but there must have been another one because he was able to find her later.) While teaching her to fend for herself, he was secretly following her to make sure nothing happened. He was very upset to learn that Rahzel would sleep in the same hotel room (though in different beds) as Baroqueheat and Alzeid to save money. And don't even get us started on his reaction when Rahzel told him all the stuff Baroqueheat got up to.
- Soichiro Yagami from Death Note goes this way in regards to his kids, especially young Sayu when She Is All Grown Up. He was very much not impressed when his subordinate Matsuda seemed to have a crush on Sayu. It doesn't help that Matsuda is pretty much The Friend Nobody Likes on the Kira investigation squad and is also The Load and a Butt-Monkey; Soichiro probably wants a better son-in-law than that.
- Dragon Ball:
- Mr. Satan from Dragon Ball Z makes it adamantly clear that his daughter Videl isn't allowed to date anyone that can't beat him in a fight. Naturally, Videl just happens to fall for the one half-alien teenager that can. By the time they get married Satan has mellowed out completely and gets along extremely well with Gohan.
- Vegeta seems to be this to his daughter Bra in Dragon Ball GT, going so far as to attack teenage punks that are hitting on his daughter. And because they made fun of him and his mustache (though they might have a point with the mustache). Gods help the poor boy Bra will actually bring home to meet her parents. Justified, since Bra is only 9 years old despite what her design shows.
- Pictured above: In Fullmetal Alchemist, Maes Hughes holds three-year-old boys at gunpoint as they attempt to play with his daughter Elysia on her birthday. Complete with Scary Shiny Glasses. Anyone who actually knows how he fights, however, knows this is a joke—he's much more skilled with knives than with guns.
- In Gakuen Babysitters, Kirin's father is distrustful toward the motives of the male workers and accuses the boys she plays with of staring at her with "those kinds of eyes" after they admit to liking her (platonically). If you're unfamiliar with the work and haven't gleamed it from the title, we're talking about a bunch of toddlers.
- Similarly, Yutaka is subtly shown to be disapproving, if not threatening, when he noticed a stranger (Kirin's father) holding his daughter Midori for a long period of time.
- Similar to Sun's father, Matsudaira from Gintama repeatedly tries to assassinate his daughter's boyfriend or whoever approaches her.
- Sherry's dad, Bear Walken, from the Gungrave anime. During the family party, Bear is not fond of seeing Harry go to the dessert table with Sherry. When the two have gone fairly far, Bear speaks up.Bear: Brandon, tell Harry that if he fools around with my daughter, I will kill him.
- Izumi Segawa's dad in Hayate the Combat Butler freaks at the idea of his little girl getting involved with anyone, pounding anyone he thinks is a would-be suitor senseless. Oh, and we should also mention being perfectly willing to challenge said would-be suitors to a fight above a pit of lava.
- Subverted in His and Her Circumstances when Yukino brings Soichiro home for the first time. Upon hearing whispers of a boy in the house, her father goes full-on into this mode, rampaging through the house to confront the unlucky suitor at the front door, only to immediately drop into a kowtow and welcome him into their home at first sight. Apparently, Soichiro just has the look of a perfect husband. That said, he does later express that he's not worried about anything happening because he's convinced Yukino is barely at the stage where she and Soichiro are holding hands, while she's actually already pregnant, and he briefly blows up when this comes out and Soichiro asks for his daughter's hand in marriage as a result.
- Subverted in Horimiya. Hori's father initially states that he won't let Miyamura date her before admitting that he was joking and it was just something he always wanted to say. In reality, he's very supportive of their relationship, to the point that he tried coming up with baby names as early as his second appearance.
- Kaoru's father in I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying was shown to be this in a flashback. While offering her a taser for protection when she goes on a date was within the realm of being reasonable, the automatic rifle was not.
- Kanojo Wa Rokurokubi: Gender-inverted with Itsuki's mother, who in the last couple of chapters demands he stop seeing his titular Rokurokubi girlfriend, Natsuki, because she doesn't approve of their Interspecies Romance or like youkai in general.
- Erioh Kure of Kengan Ashura is the patriarch of the Kure clan of assassins and an overprotective grandfather to his granddaughter Karla. When she announces that she's fallen in love with Ohma, Erioh immediately assumes that he's some lecher who seduced her and plans to have him killed if he catches him with her. After Ohma defeats Raian Kure in the Kengan Annihilation Tournament, one of the clan mentions that he's earned the right to marry Karla but Erioh would probably never give his blessing.
- Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple:
- The Elder is selectively protective of Miu. Keeping her by his side as he traveled the world battling evil, fine. Sending her out to protect Kenichi, encouraged. But any prospective suitors (i.e. Kenichi) must defeat the Elder first.
- There's also Kenichi's dad, also a rare example of a dad being protective of his son, probably because Kenichi's kind of a wimp at the beginning. The man's first and foremost reaction to his son in danger is to whip out a shotgun. The shotgun's name is Sebastian and it can take care of two-bit punks bullying his son just as easily as it takes care of the squirrels that infested the backyard.
- In Komi Can't Communicate, Komi Masayoshi is quick to notice how well Tadano understands his daughter Shouko, and he's not quite happy with it. However, his communication disorder prevents him from acting the part. When the two eventually end up performing their long-awaited Relationship Upgrade, he goes as far as hijacking their first official date to check whether he's worthy of his daughter. Ultimately Subverted when he ends up warming up to Tadano after realizing how much of a genuine Nice Guy he is, something the narration describes as him literally being "infatuated" by the boy, after which he starts seeing him as a friend and allows him to date his daughter.
- During the parent/teacher meetings, Isagi's father asks Tadano (who is serving as student representive) if he thinks Isagi is cute. When Tadano admits that Isagi is rather cute, Isagi's father warns Tadano that he'll never forgive him if he lays a hand on Isagi, making a threatening face as he does.
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid: Fate, the "father" among Vivio's two mothers, is also significantly more protective of Vivio than Nanoha is, largely the result of her worrywart personality.
- My Bride is a Mermaid:
- Sun's father (a Yakuza boss) is overprotective to the point of homicidal mania when his daughter gets married. He repeatedly attempts to kill his son-in-law, and eventually takes over Nagasumi's school, replacing the staff with his enforcers so he can better keep an eye on his daughter.
- Sun's father has nothing on Lunar's father, who stalks Nagasumi like the Terminator for being around Lunar and later opens fire on him for "touching" Lunar's butt.
- In My Monster Secret, the main heroine Youko made a deal with her father to stay in school as long as nobody finds out she's a vampire. When she and main character Asahi came to her house for vacation, her father starts eyeing him out of suspicion. Not because he suspects Asahi found out her secret, but because he suspects they're dating.
- Akane is a Rare Female Example regarding Akari. She may constantly troll her great-great-granddaughter about being a "spinster", but when she thinks Akari might soon get a boyfriend, she does not approve. If Karen is to be believed, Akane was also like this with Akari's mother.
- One Piece:
- Genzo threatens to kill Luffy if he ever makes Nami cry and complaining that her bounty poster was going to attract more suitors than bounty hunters. While he has a wall-sized enlargement of said bounty poster in his house.
- King Neptune locked his only daughter, Princess Shirahoshi, in her room for ten years. However, he was Properly Paranoid as the poor girl was being stalked by a dangerous Stalker with a Crush who continually sent her "love letters" that consisted of swords and axes bigger than him! And was also after poor Shirahoshi's powers.
- For a surrogate father example, the Living Toy Thunder Soldier was extremely protective of his surrogate daughter Rebecca when she was a child, protecting her both from serious threats like kidnappers and from minor things like boys asking her out. Though he lost those overprotective traits as she grew up. Later, it's revealed that he really IS her father, Kyros, who was transformed into a toy by one of Doflamingo's minions. Unfortunately, the curse also causes everyone else to forget he ever existed, so she doesn't realize it until after the curse is broken.
- Ouran High School Host Club: Ryouji "Ranka" Fujioka has been raising Haruhi alone ever since the death of his wife, Kotoko, so he can be possessive at times. The trope also applies to Tamaki himself in his guise as Haruhi's "father". Cue comical conflict between the two while Haruhi snarks from a distance.
- Ranma ½: Sōun Tendō. Any indication that Ranma isn't being entirely faithful to his little girl Akane is usually met with him going into Demon Head mode to rip the boy/girl a new one. The unusual (and hilarious) twist to this trope is that Sōun wants Ranma to marry Akane because without that, his dreams of early retirement will be lost. It's also worth noting that Sōun seems protective of Kasumi and Nabiki as well, particularly interesting in Nabiki's case, considering all the crap she pulls, yet Sōun never seems to hold a grudge. Also, what makes this particular example hilarious/unique is that unlike most of the other examples on this list, Sōun wants nothing more than for Ranma and Akane to screw each other. He's heavily encouraged it multiple times throughout the series.
- In The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World, Poseidon has raised Idola like his own granddaughter ever since her father died. So when Red announces that he'll be living at her mansion until he can make some money, Poseidon's paternal instincts go into overdrive. He then threatens to castrate Red to protect her purity, and it takes Red crying for help from Idola to get Poseidon to stop.
- Sailor Moon: Kenji in the 90s anime flips out whenever he thinks Usagi could be seeing someone and that's before she even gets together with Mamoru. It's so bad that when the idea of his daughter having a boyfriend comes up while they're in the car, Kenji's so distracted he almost drives off a cliff, nearly killing his entire family in the process.
- And when she actually does get together with Mamoru, he freaks out, cries and accuses poor Usagi of being a delinquent, possibly due to the age difference.
- Sgt. Frog: Nevulon is a fairly good example in episode 291 when he and Alisa Southerncross are separated at the hot springs and he goes insane with worry.
- Aki's father in Silver Spoon is less than happy when Yugo gets a bit too close to his daughter. Or so much as looks in her direction.
- Maka's father Spirit in Soul Eater, albeit somewhat subverted; in the first episode, there is a short scene where he warns Soul not to make any moves on Maka and quickly goes on to tell him that he should give Maka a grope. He does seem to be a decent guy overall, since he was not amused with Medusa's treatment of her child, Crona. When he learns about it from Medusa herself, it's the first time we actually see him angry and goes on to prove just how dangerous he really is when his daughter or her friends are threatened.
- In the Sword Art Online chibi special episodes, Kirito gives off shades of this in regards to his and Asuna's AI daughter Yui. The main victim of his protective tendencies is Klein, who he threatens constantly about teaching Yui inappropriate things.
- The Tale of the Princess Kaguya: Averted with Kaguya's father, who does indeed want the best for Kaguya, including the highest-ranking husband possible.
- Momomiya Shintaro of Tokyo Mew Mew and his wife Sakura have the exact same dynamic as (anime) Kenji and Ikuko. One advantage that Ichigo has is that, when her mother isn't holding back her raging husband, they're usually too wrapped up in each other to care who she's seeing. Her father eventually decides to put a stop to her relationship with Aoyama and challenges him to a kendo match for him to have the right to continue seeing her. Ichigo then intervenes and promises to fight her father in Aoyama's place, much like her mother did.
- Tomo-chan Is a Girl!: Tomo's father Gorou plays with this trope a bit. He challenges Jun to defeat him in order to allow the boy to date Tomo, but during their eventual fight, it's implied that Gorou only posted the challenge because Jun had asked him for permission in the first place, and saw this effort as a chance for the boy to prove himself "worthy" to him (as he was concerned if Jun had the resolve to protect Tomo if she got into a life-threatening situation). Though when Tomo found out, she was pretty pissed at her dad for doing this to Jun, after all the trouble they went through to finally confess their feelings for each other.
- Tower of God: King Jahad and his princesses. He enforces a strict no-dating, no-marriage, no-sex rule on his adopted daughters as they receive his blood and gain power, making them his special figurehead task force. The thought behind it is that his power shall not be spread to far. Breaking this rule, as in the case of Anaak Jahad, warrants capital punishment on both parties.
- UFO Robo Grendizer: Danbei Makiba. Unlike other fathers in the Mazinger trilogy—Gennosuke Yumi and Kenzo Kabuto come to mind—who are at best neglectful, Danbei is overprotective to the point that his daughter finds it annoying. He threatens or outright attempts to kill whoever hangs around with Hikaru. And if someone offers to drive her to some place, he loads his shotgun in front of that person while he states: "You better bring her back without even one scratch."
- Inami's dad in Wagnaria!!. He didn't want his daughter to marry, so he brainwashed her that all men are dangerous and out to get her and put metal sheets in her bag to train her muscle for punching out guys. Of course, the first guy she punched was her father. And when he saw Takanashi and suspected that he was a guy, he pulls out a shotgun.
- Sunako Nakahara's father from The Wallflower left his work in Africa, flew all the way into Japan, and snuck into the Nakahara estate just because her aunt informed him that she was staying with four Bishōnen. He then proceeds to put one of said bishonen through training from hell simply because he heard a rumor that he and Sunako MIGHT be dating.
- Maho's dad from Wandering Son is a more levelheaded version of this. When Riku, Maho's boyfriend, comes over for Christmas, he gets nervous. When Maho was a little younger and in middle school, he made her little sister tag along on their date.
- Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs: Despite claiming that he doesn't care about the failed clones of his daughter Mahoro, Byakuei looks displeased when he sees Kogarashi having one of his Accidental Pervert moments with Yuuna. Kogarashi uses this as evidence that Byakuei doesn't think of Yuuna as just a failed experiment, after all.
- Yuusha Gojo Kumiai Kouryuugata Keijiban: Shopkeeper comes from a lineage of heroes. When his daughter winds up succeeding him and embarking on a quest to save the kingdom just like he did, he tries to secretly follow and protect her, only to be called out for this by Pilot, who points out that it's unfair that he doesn't trust his daughter to succeed like he did.
