Fantastic Racism in Anime & Manga.
- 3×3 Eyes: during her Motive Rant, Xun Gui claims that the race of demons she belongs to, the Yao Gui, is the most mistreated and persecuted of all the monster races, even by the other demons. Because of this, she grew up believing that overwhelming power is all that matters.
- In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (JP), Speciesism crops up now and then, in particular with the cold blooded and other not so warm and fuzzy type creatures (crows, sometimes rodents and insects).
- Android Kikaider: The Animation had a discussed double example of this, combined with a fantastic version of Half-Breed Discrimination. A villain, who is an android in the shape of a vampire or a golden, mechanical, humanoid vampire bat, says that being an android is similar to being a bat in this respect, claiming that androids were not quite machine or human, but disliked by both and that a bat was not quite rodent or bird, but also disliked by both (the jury is still a bit out on that last one).
- In the Angel Sanctuary manga, angels are created in vitro. Naturally-bred angels are looked down upon, and outright hunted whenever they can find an excuse (the rebellion helps on that). They are often born with pale skin and red eyes, which gives them the slur name of "rabbits". This often borders on Bullying a Dragon, since rabbits are often born with extreme and uncontrolled powers.
- In Armitage III, the title character is a Ridiculously Human Robot (in fact, she's so ridiculously human she can even reproduce, which is a plot point) working to investigate murders (of victims who turn out to be similar Ridiculously Human Robots) with a partner who's prejudiced against robots and cyborgs due to one causing the death of his previous partner. He is injured, and repaired with robotic prosthetics. Of course, he gets An Aesop about tolerance, and eventually marries his mechanical partner and has even a baby with her.
- There's also the fact that this trope is behind The War of Earthly Aggression that underlies the whole plot of the series. Earth is threatening to invade Mars unless it shuts down the production of the titular Thirds and destroys all existing specimens, and has sent assassins to Mars to murder Thirds and force Martian compliance. Except the big motivation for doing so is because Thirds are so human-like they can actually procreate with humans and Earth, now a Lady Land, fears the loss of power that would come if human women were no longer necessary for the survival of humanity.
- Probably the first and still one of the best examples in anime is Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy. Some choice examples — the robot revolutionary Blue Knight explicitly compares the robot nation he is trying to build to Israel; "The Tragedy of Bailey" storyline, where a Japanese-American cyborg brings Astro to America to try to protect the first robot to gain US citizenship from being lynched; the "Capetown Lulaby" story, which was inspired by issues of the time such as Apartheid and segregation and the latter half of which even takes place in South Africa. What's really strange is that the bad guys from that last story disguise themselves by putting on blackface.
- In Attack on Titan:
- It is revealed that the royal family brutally persecuted members of the Ackerman clan and people of Asian descent because they were immune to the brainwashing effects of the Coordinate power.
- One of the nations outside the Walls, Marley, brutally persecutes the Eldian people (the ethnic relatives of those within the Walls and the only race of people who can turn into titans), 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.
- The rest of the world hate the Eldians too. And the Eldians on the mainland who live in Marley hate the Eldians who "ran away" to the island of Paradis (where the main characters are). The only way for the Marley Eldians to escape this persecution is to go to Paradis and retrieve the Founding Titan's Coordinate ability (which Eren possesses).
- Eren (who successfully transformed into the Founding Titan) would retaliate by causing the Rumbling, killing 80% of all non-Paradisians, even if they are innocent, Eldians not from Paradis, or people who supported Eldian rights.
- Providing the image for this very page, Beastars has fantastic racism as its core theme. Specifically, in regards to exploring the morality of pursuing love between two people who society says should avoid it because of immutable characteristics. Perhaps justifiably so, as many interspecies relationships we're shown throughout the series end in the tragic death of one of the participants. Often, whatever children they may have will suffer from debilitating health problems as a result of their DNA being at war with itself. Fortunately, the series manages to avoid the extremely common pitfall of
Unfortunate Implications when using anthropomorphic animals to explore the topic of racism by not having any group be analogous to any real world race, though Legosi's love for Haru is directly compared to pedophilia at least once. - Black Butler, intensified sixfold in the manga. Demons and Shinigami hate each other. In the Noah's Arc Circus part, William and Sebastian spend a few days and nights trash-talking each other not as individuals but as representatives of their respective races... except for Grell, who will flirt with anything so long as it's male and sadistic.
- Both species also despise Angels in the anime, though their position is seemingly justified. It's never made clear whether all angels are Lawful Evil or not, since only one angel appears; it's entirely possible this was just a bad one.
- Both species also despise Angels in the anime, though their position is seemingly justified. It's never made clear whether all angels are
- In a world where (almost) everyone is able to use magic, human society in Black Clover has an obvious gap within its citizens via its class system. The Clover Kingdom is divided between the Noble region (its most prosperous region where the nobleman live), the Common region (where the everyday citizens live) and the Forsaken region (the poorest region where the "inferior stock" reside). People in poorer sections of the country face heavy discrimination from the middle and upper classes, with the nobles convinced of their own superiority. Due to society's access to magic, one's own magical skills is also a factor, those in higher society bragging about the state of their grimoires and magical talent and dictating a Might Makes Right mindset. While the Magical Knight's system was designed to allow anyone of any social standing to join them, there is still much infighting and stigma that carries over into its ranks.
- In ancient times, the humans and elves of what would later become the Clover Kingdom held a very rocky relationship, mankind becoming jealous of the elves' magical power before eventually leading to the humans wiping them out. This has led Licht/Patri to hold a grudge against the Clover Kingdom and humans in general.
- In the Blood+ episode "Turn the Palm of Your Hand Toward the Sun", James Ironside delivers a crazed rant about the Schiffs' inferiority to Chevaliers such as himself — while trying to torture a captured Schiff to death. The scene is even more chilling because James, who is black, seems to have no idea of the terrible irony of his words and actions.
- And also because his arms and the lower part of his body, which were destroyed and replaced with body parts from the Schiff, are now white. Being rejected by his capricious "mother" because of the replaced body parts is precisely what drove James (who is a fairly straightforward Renfield) insane, to boot. Even if this wasn't intended to be part of the irony, it was certainly unsettling.
- Momose, a pure blooded cat demon from Bloody Cross refers to half breeds as "vulgar, barbaric and the lowest of the low".
- Humans and Gradosians in Blue Comet SPT Layzner, both ways. It's a major theme throughout the entire series.
- In BNA: Brand New Animal, reactions from humans to beastpeople range from neutral/unintentionally insensitive public comments to intentionally insensitive comments made when they think beastpeople aren't in earshot, to attempted murder. In the first episode alone, the protagonist is almost killed three times.
- In Bubblegum Crisis, there's prejudice against Boomers. Whether or not this influences them to go rogue varies.
- Cat Soup: The Cats are racist toward the Pigs. In the movie, the Cat Children mistreat the Pig who saves them and beat him to death.
- In 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. At one point, the warrior Clare is seriously injured by a youma because she saved two humans in front of him, but one of the rescued humans disparagingly refers to her as a monster.
- In Cross Ange, most of the world lives in a utopian society provided by the Light of Mana, a seeming magic field available to all. However, there exist Normas, rare girls who are born without the ability to use the Light of Mana, and in fact will instantly destroy it upon touching it. Normas are looked down on as subhuman abominations, and are quarantined on a prison island far away from any of the nations, forced to do battle against Dragon-like creatures from another world. Naturally, the Normas don't think too highly of the Mana-using peoples who quarantined them either.
- In Darker than Black, a man in charge of a secret operation tells the Contractor working under him, "Your whole kind is nothing more than filth, unfit to live without a patron's approval." That the man in charge is white and the Contractor black is incidental, though an American audience might be reminded of something from their nation's history when seeing that.
- A widespread hatred of inhumans by humans is the driving force behind the conflict of The Dark Queen and I Strike Back. There was a war ten years before the present that resulted in the inhumans losing and being driven back, with many being taken as slaves. Now, the humans are looking to finish the job. Diedhauser, one of the human leaders, even refers to inhumans as an invasive species. However, humans and inhumans actually coexisted peacefully before the war.
- General Sakamori Miwa of Daimos is horribly racist to the Balmlings and wishes nothing more than to see them all killed. This culminates when he takes over Daimos and tries to kill them that way, but fails. Ultimately, Kazuya's had enough and beats him within an inch of his life before he's arrested for his crimes. When he appears in Super Robot Wars, Laser-Guided Karma hits him even more and he'll even be killed for his actions. On the other side, Balmlings are required by the despot Olban to get indoctrinated by a machine showing humans being bastards and therefore being really racist against them too. The show also averts this with a nation of Utopia, where humans and Balmlings work together for peace and harmony, as a middle finger to their other more racist brethren.
- Happens in Delicious in Dungeon:
- Half-foots tend to suffer from the greatest amount of discrimination from other races due to their child-like appearances, leading to them being belittled and infantilized, or considered untrustworthy due to a tendency for some half-foots to play into this stereotype towards others in order to let their guard down and scam them. In one instance, Namari tells Laios to never buy weapons from a store run by half-foots. In an omake, it's mentioned one way to avoid mermaids is to bring a half-foot on the ship. The half-foot, who has sharper senses, will hear the mermaids' song first (and possibly die) while the other crew members steer to safety. In one chapter when Marcille asks Chilchuck why he doesn't learn magic, Chilchuck says that half-foot who come into possession of magical artifacts often end up being kidnapped by elves, never to be seen again. According to Izutsumi, half-foot are known as such due to a large number of them having a single foot cut off over thefts.
- The long-lived races, specifically dwarves, gnomes, and especially elves, tend to look down on the short-lived races, due to categorizing them like children (an elf only reaches adulthood at eighty in comparison); knowledge of Black Magic and Lost Technology of the precursors is snatched from short-lived races without bothering to explain why for this reason. Most of the most productive and fertile land in the world is colonized by long-lived races, leaving short-lived races to fight over what's left. Mithrun says that elves used to outright call short-lived races "inferior species", although that's considered an extremely offensive term now.
- Elves tend to be an extremely segregated society, although it's not a major focus of the main story. It's mentioned that half-elves tend to be thought of as air-headed and the Queen would never allow any half-blooded elf in the royal court. Obsidian-coloured skin is also the most highly revered; the royal family is in the midst of a Succession Crisis because the Queen has no direct heir and all of her close relatives only have "mediocre" skin tones. Flamela and her sister were distant relatives of the royal family who were being groomed to be the heirs solely because they were only ones born with obsidian-coloured skin.
- Kabru's original hometown was in a region in close proximity to a community of kobolds. Due to frequently fighting one another for resources in the region, he sees kobolds as something "unknowable" and describes them as "cruel and warmongering". This doesn't stop him from being amiable towards the kobold in his party though, whom he says to Laios and Falin is one of the rare friendly ones. It's heavily implied he's biased however, especially because right after this Laios and Falin say the same thing about a mountain tribe (of humans) near their home village, which disturbs Kabru, and said kobold in his party is confused hearing his race described as "cruel and warmongering".
- Orcs tend to have a very negative view of elves and tallmen (the "standard" human race), primarily due to a very long history of warfare, exterminations, and raids (of which orcs weren't exactly innocent of either), although they also consider elves to be hideously ugly due to their differing beauty standards.
- In Digimon Frontier, before the start of the series there was a war between human and beast Digimon which Lucemon stops. In the movie there is an island where a civil war between the human and beast Digimon there, which was perpetrated by a Digimon who can slide digivolve from human and beast forms to awaken Ornismon.
- Digimon Data Squad: Kurata, full stop. He hates Digimon to the point where he warps Digimon data so that it can be used as a weapon to introduce genocide in a word that does not know death. Of course, this takes place before the series starts; in series, his racism just causes more genocide, medically alters people, and sets off a chain of events that nearly causes the end of both worlds.
- Dragon Ball Z:
- The Saiyans 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 'filthy monkeys'.
- It is subtle, but the Saiyans themselves didn't like anything outside themselves. This is best shown with Nappa and Bardock who do show care, compassion, and anger when one of their own is hurt or killed, but take delight in killing other species. Nappa was also surprised when Vegeta turned on him and killed him, showing that this wasn't typical Saiyan behavior.
- The androids, at least in Trunks' timeline. They despise humans and see them as little more than playthings for their amusement.
- From the original series, King Piccolo and his children towards humanity. There's no real reason given, just that they saw humans as being lower than dirt and fun to torment.
- From Dragon Ball Super, Zamasu is a Supreme Kai who despises mortal peoples as a whole, seeing them as a "mistake" the gods made when creating the universe. He is disgusted by their imperfections (especially moral imperfections), and believes in annihilating all mortal life for the sake of justice.
- Angels and demons in Dropkick on My Devil are often seen at odds with each other. Jashin dislikes angels because of how they view demons as an inferior species... even though she makes a habit of bullying demons she considered below her. Pekola claims that she came to Earth to exterminate demons and witches in addition, but it appears that she is growing more tolerable of them. She does tend to accept food that Yurine gives her (she probably considers Yurine one of the good ones), and acts civilly when she was invited to eat hot pot with Yurine and the devil girls. Her apprentice, Poporon, however, is more frank with her hatred for demons, telling Jashin that she'd kill her next after getting rid of Pekola.
- In Endride, Zoozians are more powerful but less populous than the humanoid Endras, so the Endras used their superior numbers to force them into doing the worst labor, and put the ones too weak to work into the Fantastic Ghetto. Endras tend to instinctively fear Zoozians for their supposed savagery, while Zoozians (justifiably) feel distrust towards the Endras.
- Kind of the point in Elfen Lied. Although Diclonii are an actual threat to humanity as a species, from what we're shown it's humans who cause a lot of the threat, combined with the simple fact that children should not have weapons.
- EDENS ZERO: Many humans believe that robots, androids, and other artificial beings like digital lifeforms are just mindless automatons designed to imitate emotion without actually feeling them. This leads to some truly horrific acts no different from racism and genocide against ordinary humans.
- Fairy Tail:
- Rustyrose 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.
- Several of the demons from the Book of Zeref have a hatred of humans and want to destroy them. Mard Geer takes it up to eleven. When he finds out that his comrade Kyouka sadistically stripped and tortured Erza Scarlet, he brutally punished her because to him, humans are worthless and should be killed on sight, not made into playthings, and Kyouka's treatment of Erza implied that she liked her in a way and wanted to keep her.
- In Edolas, Exceeds are raised on the belief that they're essentially angels, and that humans are incredibly far beneath them. In an interesting flip though, this was cultivated in an effort to escape persecution by the humans.
- Acnologia has an intense hatred of dragons due to his past with them, which involves watching his family, friends, home, and countless humans slain and devoured by them. He became a Dragon Slayer specifically to kill them, and when he started to transform into one from magic overuse, he went completely insane and decided to act out as he viewed them.
- Done in both 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. Meanwhile the 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. The State Alchemists' participation in the genocide has definitely not helped matters on that front.
- Future Robot Daltanious:
- Dr. Earl is a Racist Grandpa variant. He is a father figure to Prince Harlin/Hayato Tate and a grandfather figure to Kento and the kids. Out of all of them, he treats Kento with importance since he's an Alien Prince, while looking down on the rest of the kids and deeming them "burdens". Many episode show that he has warmed up to them, he just won't admit it.
- Princess Catine of Proxia also hates humans, except Kento, because he's descended from Emperor Palmillion and she wants to marry him for the throne. When she finds evidence that contradicts his Heliosian heritage, she becomes angry and spurns him.
- The Heliosian Generals led by Gascon hate clones, and when they're told Kento is one, not only do they defect to the villain's side, but one spits on Kento. In fact, clones are so hated, that even if all the alien planets are at war, they all agree that clones are to be looked down upon.
- This is actually the main motive of the Greater-Scope Villain of the series, who was on the recieving end of it: Emperor Dolmen was born a clone of Emperor Palmillion. Being groomed from a young age to take his place should he ever die, Dolmen was forbidden from leaving his jail cell, tortured whenever Palmion was injured and treated like a lowly slave by the retainers of the Helios Empire. One day he snapped, had the Helios Empire massacred, and aimed to rule the galaxy. Even as he dies, he gives Kento one final Dying Declaration of Hate and tells him that the generational trauma and wrath of the clones will always live on. Prince Harlin, however, establishes a Republic where all beings are equal, and makes laws where clones are given equal rights, defying Dolmen's words.
- Togusa of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex has some technophobia as part of his old fashioned/Fan of the Past personality. He is initially somewhat hostile to the Tatchikomas because he bristles at the idea of their being a fully sapient Artificial Intelligence. In the second season, he gets set up and put through a show trial after he shoots a cyborg criminal while off duty. The main thrust of the prosecution's argument is that Togusa is prejudiced against cyborgs due to subconscious feelings of inferiority.
- In I Got My Wish and Reincarnated as the Villainess (Last Boss)!, Zelvians consider people with black hair and black eyes as a bad omen owing to being similar to the demon lord in the legends. Luna mentions that in many routes of The Saint and the Four Knights Elizabeth falls into darkness because of this and even worries the current Elizabeth can't handle the discrimination. Fortunately, Elizabeth reassures Luna that she gets used to it thanks to her big brother, not to mention that, even with that considered, she still thinks her current life is an improvement over her past life (when she was born so sickly that she was bedridden for her entire life).
- Unexpectedly from Inazuma Eleven GO: Chrono Stone, you have the Second Stage Children, who were faced with so much prejudice from adults that they started to rebel in the form of terrorism and soccer.
- Inuyasha has half-demons, which are hated by both humans and demons, with humans and demons also hating each other.
- Though the humans hating demons aspect is generally deserved, since upwards of 90% of all pure-blooded demons are either out to kill humans on principle, or target humans for pranks or worse without consideration for the victim. Which is not to say that humans NEVER act in such a manner, just that there are some positive examples also.
- The attitude of the protagonist towards the youkai is sometimes a little "evil". A human's life is always above a youkai's, even if the person is very vicious. You see it especially in the Gatenmaru-Arc, as Inuyasha's loses control of his "dark side," and kills many bandits, which were murderers, rapists and robbers, that killed half a village just for fun. Although Inuyasha has already killed many youkai, he was shocked he took human life.
- Kagome once says 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, is a youkai.
- Yukiji from Kamisama Kiss hates youkai with a passion, going as far as to throw parties when she hears that one of them is being hunted down. This becomes awkward when Tomoe, a Little Bit Beastly Kitsune starts to fall in love with her.
- An episode of Kimba the White Lion has Kimba go to a lion convention only to be called a "pussy cat" for being white by the meeting's leader Specklerex and other lions. It turns out that Specklerex was jealous towards Kimba's father Ceaser for being a more successful leader than him and by the end of the episode, Specklerex developed some respect towards Kimba.
- In Kemono Jihen, humans who are aware of the existence of Kemono (like the main character's aunt), show clear disdain for them. On the flip side, ill-natured Kemono frequently look down on humans and see them only as a food source and things to play with rather than sentient beings.
- In Kotoura-san, the Crapsaccharine World around the cast, Espers are either fakes, monsters, or both even though they blatantly prove their powers to be real. Any Yes-Man would do this to maintain the Tatemae
ideal since espers are a threat towards his/her chances of being accepted into society, even if said esper doesn't know better (such as Haruka). So, they intentionally outcast espers to keep other people from knowing the cold hard truth about themselves and risk being rejected. - Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka:
- Nozomi Makino is kidnapped by the magical girl Abigail and subjected to horrific Cold-Blooded Torture using magic. After she is rescued, her trauma leads her to react with fear to the magical girls who rescued her and declare that magical girls are all evil. They are forced to erase her memories of her kidnapping and torture to make her go back to normal.
- Abigail hates all humans because a bomb launched by some killed her parents.
- Magi: Labyrinth of Magic:
- The Fanalis clan such as Morgiana and Muu are often discriminated and treated wrongly. More so, often at the offender's own risk.
- This was revealed to be the main problem in Magnoostadt where they treated the Goi horribly. While some of this behavior was justified, most of it was treated as a Kick the Dog.
- Maken-ki!: Much like the anti-mutant hysteria in the X-Men comics, the human populace in Maken-ki fear ability users and are so distrustful of them that there's a branch of Japan's military trained specifically as a counter task force to oppose them. Unfortunately for them, a squadron of their fighter pilots were sent to try to deal with Yamato Takeru (chapter 122), resulting in the deaths of the entire squadron — in seconds.
- Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers breaches the topic of mutant hatred that's common with its source material. However, the kids just genuinely don't get why people like Thor (a god), The Wasp (a normal human with science-fueled abilities), Iron Man (a guy in a suit) and Spider-Man (combination of accidental powers and science-y stuff) are touted as heroes and yet mutants are regarded so negatively.
- Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: 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 Ilulu's character arc.
- Mobile Suit Gundam had conflicts between "Earthnoids" (humans who lived on Earth) and "Spacenoids" (humans who lived in space). Closely related was the conflict between Newtypes (those with Psychic Powers, almost always Spacenoids) and Oldtypes (non-psychics, but also used as a slur for those stuck in old ways of thinking).
- Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam is a good example as the evil military group, the Titans, are exclusively Earthnoids (with an exception here and there) while the AEUG are mostly a mixture of both Earth- and Spacenoids.
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED had Naturals (normal humans) versus Coordinators (genetically engineered humans). However, the reasoning for this is muddled due to LOGOS who run a War for Fun and Profit mentality and turned the simple environmental lobbyist group Blue Cosmos into the frothing anti-Coordinator group just to rack up more money. However, it doesn't help that some Coordinators are real dicks and tend to flaunt their superiority.
- While not explicitly labelled as such, Milliardo Peacecraft's rhetoric in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing final plot arc runs along the same logic as this trope, stating that wars are the result of people living on Earth as opposed to the people living in the colonies. This trope is ultimately subverted however, with the antagonists claiming they don't intend to pursue violence against anyone fleeing the Earth, just the Earth itself.
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans has Earthlings who are racist against those born on Mars, and everyone, including the Martians, racist against the "Space Rats" and "Human Debris" that are space-born orphans, often sold into slavery.
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury flips the usual formula with the wealthy Spacians looking down at the impoverished Earthians which only breeds resentment and hatred.
- In Moeyo Ken, two minor characters, a Cat Girl and a regular human man, are seen from time to time in a love/hate relationship, and then they finally decide to marry, but the man's mother adamantly refuses to allow the Cat Girl to marry him. This serves as a plot point later when Okita asks Ryunosuke's mother, Oryo, if she was okay with a half-monster daughter marrying her son. Oryo's reaction is one of shock shortly after Okita asks it, and she walks away dejectedly. Unfortunately for her, Oryo wasn't shocked at her question, but rather some cockroaches which were on the wall behind Okita, and apparently didn't hear her question. Later on we find out Oryo's perfectly okay with Okita marrying Ryunosuke if she wanted to marry him.
- A recurring issue in Monster Musume. Humans are perfectly fine with monsters who are barely monstrous like cat girls and bunny girls. The protagonists are anything but. Continued in the author's other work, Deadline Summoner. Summons are not looked highly upon by humans, and it's implied that they're little more than slaves to other summoners.
- In My Hero Academia, people were afraid of Quirks at first, leading to conflict when the Quirkless began attacking those with Quirks as the definition of human began to shift. In the present, Quirks are so common that this form of discrimination has mostly diminished. Instead, the roles have been reversed with Quirkless people like Midoriya now being the victims of bullying and discrimination for not having powers and thus being seen as worthless and weak. And even amongst those that do have Quirks, if they possess "monstrous", "undesirable", or "villainous" powers (such as Shinso, who fell into the latter definition despite his desire to use his Quirk for good), they often find themselves shunned by society.
- Those with mutation Quirks tend to face various levels of racism in more rural areas than cities if they appear less human. Spinner joined the League of Villains under Hero Killer Stain's ideology of purifying Hero Society in order to deal with this issue, being harassed all of his life for his lizard appearance to the point of isolation. Shoji of U.A's Hero Course revealed he was badly scarred by his old human villagers because of his Dupli-arms Quirk, with even some classmates casually comparing him to an octopus.
- Naruto: In an early arc, Haku explained that in the Land of Water the powerful and deadly abilities of clans with so-called bloodline limits (special abilities that can't be learned, but must inherited genetically, such as combining Water Release and Wind Release to create Ice Release, or having special Magical Eyes), had garnered fear and hatred from those without such abilities, due to people with kekkei genkai usually being used as soldiers in wars, leading to wide-spread death and destruction. The hatred was so severe that Haku's father was willing to murder his wife and son upon finding out that they had such a bloodline. The Land of Water's main ninja village, the Hidden Mist, is eventually able to move past this hatred, with its current leader having two bloodline limits. The downfall of the Uchiha clan is contributed to this discrimination.
- The Uchiha clan were systemically oppressed for having emotionally driven powers, that disagreed with the concept shinobi should have no emotions that caused higher ups in Konohagakure, such as Senju Tobirama and Shimura Danzo, to suppress them in fear of their eye power and feelings of love that are seen as uncontrollable in the face of shinobi, who should suppress emotions.
- The Uchiha police force's authority was undermined by the Anbu, the Black Ops of the village, in a power struggle where the Anbu had the same duties as the police force, causing conflicts. Both institutions were created by Second Hokage for this purpose.
- Orochimaru points out that the police force made the Uchiha disliked by the general public and made the Uchiha conceited by being given the right to enforce the law on other clans. Orochimaru additionally points out the police force is a pretense of why the Uchiha were forced to live on the outskirts of the village as it was excused that the Uchiha should live next to their police headquarters by the prison. This happened around the beginning of Konohagakure when the police force was created.
- The Second Hokage doesn't deny the accusations and agrees with his actions being the best course, when other characters like his own older brother disapproves of his actions.
- Token Minority: Uchiha Kagami is a a token Uchiha comrade of the Second Hokage, who says Kagami has the same mindset as Uchiha Itachi, an antagonist of the Naruto series and member of Akatsuki, as proof the Second Hokage doesn't hate the Uchiha. Kagami is never mentioned to be in a position of power, much less beloved in the village, and he dies offscreen at a young age without any further mentions.
- And there's also the jinchuriki, who are feared, hated, and ostracized by their home villages, or exploited and used as weapons by other people. This is a recurring theme in Shippuden, where Naruto repeatedly calls out people that insult jinchuriki.
- And that can include even saying the word "jinchuriki". Unless you know him or have a tailed beast yourself, do not call Naruto a jinchuriki. The word was created to dehumanize the people containing the beasts in the minds of their creators.
- The village, where the Uzumaki Clan lived, was attacked and finally destroyed, because their sealing techniques were widely feared.
- The Uchiha clan were systemically oppressed for having emotionally driven powers, that disagreed with the concept shinobi should have no emotions that caused higher ups in Konohagakure, such as Senju Tobirama and Shimura Danzo, to suppress them in fear of their eye power and feelings of love that are seen as uncontrollable in the face of shinobi, who should suppress emotions.
- Fate has shown some evidence of this in Negima! Magister Negi Magi. Some of his internal monologues seem to indicate he doesn't consider the people of the Magic World to be real. Except for the human population of Megalosembria, they are artificial beings who will fade from existence when (when, not if) the Mundus Magicus collapses. And far from persecuting them for it, he actually claims he's trying to save them, in his own twisted way.
- There's the double whammy in Niea_7, where the aliens not only face discrimination by earthlings, but also maintain a kind of caste system for each other, in which lower-ranked aliens like Niea are regarded as worthless scum.
- Ojamajo Doremi: A bunch of grey elephants don't want to play with a white elephant because he's white. This might remind you of something.
- Some Witches express disdain for humans as well.
- One Piece:
- The series 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, it 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.
- 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 Longarm 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.
- Taken to the extreme by Hody Jones, who is is so racist 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 humans have never done anything bad to him personally. He's simply internalized the Fishmen's prejudices against humans.
- The Mink tribe from Zou are said to hate humans, and will kill any that step on their turf. Though this is eventually subverted, as it's merely a false rumor. In truth, the Minks only hate people from their actions as opposed to their race, and are quite friendly with humans when they get to know them.
- Oddly, Oda's good intentions seem to have span rare out-of-universe examples. If you are looking at the forums, you may find strange hate speed directed to non-human races. The reasons are being physically repulsive (fishmen), being overly overly naïve and annoying (dwarves), or being just plain stupid and barbaric (giants). This has gotten so bad that some have been immediately starting to hate a character (Dellinger or Jack) that they were liking until then just upon the reveal that he had some non-human genes!
- Done in Peto Peto San, where Japanese mythological creatures are either humanoid or have mated with humans enough to do so. The problem is averted by the series taking a lighter tone, and the solution involves something everyone can get behind, dedicating the town to "Little Sister" Moe.
- Pokémon: The Series has done episodes that evoke this. One example from the Kanto episodes is "Bulbasaur and the Mysterious Garden", where Ash's Bulbasaur's refusal to evolve causes the newly evolved Ivysaur and their chief, a Venusaur, to turn on him. Another episode during Johto featured a group of Remoraid (a fish-like Pokémon) that shunned one of their clan after it evolved into an Octillery (an octopus Pokémon). Mewtwo and his army of clone Pokémon (both versions) and Mew and his army of natural born Pokemon (Japanese version only, at least in regards to Mew itself) is also an example of this.
- Meowth hates all Persian, his specie's evolution. This stems from his first love choosing a Persian over him, and being jealous of Giovanni's Persian. He hates them enough he decided never to evolve, although, he may not even be capable of that anyway because learning to speak somehow kept him from getting stronger or learning any new moves, (even his specie's signature move). Ash's Pikachu similarly has issues with its species's evolution.
- Trip in Best Wishes often insults Ash for being from Kanto. He apparently stereotypes Ash as being a hillbilly from a hick town, condescendingly referring to the region as "the boonies."
- The battle of ESPers vs. "Normal People" in Psychic Squad is one of the underlying themes of the series. Almost all of the ESPers in the series are under the watch of the government, and it's shown that when someone is discovered to have powers, they're treated harshly for it. Good thing Minamoto serves as Morality Chain to The Children.
- Queen Millennia: La-Metalians in general don't consider humans to be different from monkeys and mistake Hajime for a pet.
- In Reborn to Master the Blade, much of the stories conflict is rooted in the discrimination between Highlanders against the Midlanders. Highlanders are a highly-advanced, magically-attuned civilization who live in Floating Continents, and provide magical Artifacts that the Midlanders need to protect themselves against the threat of the monstrous Prism Beasts. However, the Highlanders oftentimes extort massive sums of raw materials from the Midlanders, stoke class divides among them with how powerful and wealthy Midlanders can bribe to join their ranks, and treat every other Midlander as slaves to be acquired or toys to destroy and use on a whim. The generations of abuses and destroyed communities and families have culminated in the Ironblood Chain Brigade, vehemently anti-Highlander extremists who will stoop to anything to destroy the Highlanders no matter how monstrous.
- Rooster Fighter: The turtle hates all birds because seagulls ate his baby brothers.
- Witches in Rosario + Vampire are hated both by humans and youkai, since they're considered half-breeds, and neither side trusts them. Cute Witch Yukari gets this treatment during her first appearance (manga ch. 5), although part of it comes from her tendency to play magical pranks on others.
- A lot of monsters also seem to believe that Humans Are the Real Monsters, and humans are historically not that fond of them either.
- In RWBY: Ice Queendom, Weiss' original mistrust of the Faunus is transformed into a full-blown hatred of them that is the main driver of the plot to save her from a Nightmare Grimm that accentuates the worst parts of her personality.
- Ryu's Path: Apart from hiding scientific knowledge from the world, the cult that rules the city also oppresses mutants, forcing the remaining ones to go into hiding, and frequently experiments on/abuses them.
- In Saint Beast, Kira and Maya face discrimination for being half-human, half-angels.
- In Sekirei, some of the titular Human Aliens 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 changes her view on humans once she meets Minato. Karasuba, on the other hand, considers humans an inferior species and wants to kill them all for being weak.
- Sgt. Frog: There's a reason they couldn't get away with calling Earth Pokopen in the anime. Though honestly, Pekopon sounds about as evocative of the original as saying the "n" word with the "er" replaced with "a".
- For those who don't know, "Pokopen" was a derogatory term for China and the Chinese before and during World War II. It's considered extremely offensive today and usage of the word on Japanese TV is banned.
- In-universe example: Natsumi hijacks the Keronian's pool, declaring it humans only... with Mois swimming right next to her. This is just the top of the list.
- Soul Eater has a bit of this, although it is mentioned only in passing. However, it is directly stated in Soul Eater Not! that ordinary humans fear Demon Weapons greatly, hence the law that anyone displaying those abilities must attend the DWMA until they are certified safe for society. Soul, the second protagonist, comes from an all-human family of musicians, and they were apparently "surprised" when the youngest family member turned out to be a living razor. Based on Soul's self-esteem issues related to his weapon blood, their disappointment is inferred.
- Space Battleship Yamato 2199 explores this, both from the perspective of the Gamillas and humanity.
- The Gamillas believe themselves to be the Master Race and, as such, extend an offer to other races they encounter: become part of the Gamillas Empire, or face annihilation. Even should the offer of joining Gamillas be accepted, they face continued discrimination. The Zaltzi, a conquered people who are visually indistinguishable from Earthlings, are by and large considered second-class citizens (although those who distinguish themselves may be elevated to honorary citizens with the same rights and privileges as native Gamillas). Zaltzi who enlist in the military also endure overt racist attitudes from their Gamillas superiors: major general Gremdt Goer is unabashed in his views that Zaltzi are a weak and inferior species, often berating his underling Colonel Walke Shultz for any perceived failures (and rushing to claim credit for any of Shultz's accomplishments).
- Human attitudes toward Gamillas tend to be less than favorable. This can be justified by the fact that Gamillas has been waging war with them, and after a successful counteroffensive by the Earthlings, resorted to bombarding the Earth with pollution-spewing bombs. Much of this resentment by Earthlings towards Gamillas is stoked by propaganda portraying their enemies as heartless monsters, while conveniently leaving out the fact that, during the first contact between Earth and Gamillas, it was the Earthlings who attacked first. Daisuke Shima, whose father was a casualty of the fleet that made first contact, remains in complete denial over the fact that Earth shot first when a survivor from the fleet reveals the truth to him, and Shinya Itou is unabashed in his prejudices towards not only Gamillas, but all aliens, such that he believes Yuki Mori is an alien mole due to her resemblance to Iskandarians that came to Earth before and an alien device she kept in her room.
- Superior has humans and monsters gleefully killing one another.
- In a major case of All There in the Manual, it's revealed that the Tenchi Muyo!-based alien race, Juraians, have a major thing against humans, most likely due to their "backwater" nature (seeing as humans still don't have Faster-Than-Light Travel). This is one of the major reasons Yosho (who was half-human) took off after Ryoko — he didn't want to deal with all of that and intended to send someone else in his place. Of course, his bride-to-be Ayeka, who believed Yosho was dead, was not happy to learn of this revelation. It's implied, however, that it may be a thing of the past for most Juraians now, as now there are many humans who have journeyed into space and therefore lifted their planet's reputation.
- In Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, the beastmen were ordered by the Spiral King, Lordgenome to eliminate any human who goes on the surface. As a result, they do not like them at all. Viral calls them "naked apes" on more than one occasion. Justified since Lordgenome is doing this to keep the Spiral Power of the humans low so the Anti-Spiral don't come and destroy the planet.
- The Anti-Spiral hate and deplore other Spiral Races, partly because of the Spiral Nemesis, but this doesn't prevent them from going on tangents that, quite frankly, wouldn't be very justified, even with the Spiral Nemesis as their excuse.
- Deconstructed in "Distant Utopia", a story from Ryouko Kui's Terrarium in a Drawer. A high school class is asked to do a story about bullying and discrimination involving "bunny people" and "rat people". As they write the story, they end up spinning a complex tale involving war, colonialism, slavery, scapegoating, and other factors that contribute to real-world racism and discrimination, one that's rejected by their teacher for being too complex and depressing.
- In Tiger & Bunny, it's noted that there used to be a tremendous amount of anti-NEXT sentiment, though it has lessened considerably in the past twenty years (due to the emergence of Maverick's superheroes). History of NEXT-prejudice nonetheless has an impact on the characters (both Kotetsu and Kriem grew up during this time period, and thus had to endure a lot of stigma) and on the plot (HeroTV was floundering because of it, so Maverick set up a Monster Protection Racket to keep it alive).
- In Time of Eve, robots are portrayed as harmless and, in some cases, genuinely good-willed, not to mention Three Laws-Compliant, but the Ethics Committee is flat-out against robots integrating into human life, especially if — God forbid — they begin developing personalities.
- This trope is the core of the conflict between those with Psychic Powers known as the Mu and normal humans in Toward the Terra. Mu who are hunted down like animals. Children go through Mu tests before their final maturity exams and are immediately exterminated, if the results are positive. These ones who managed to survive have to hide in a stolen starship in higher layers of atmosphere. The whole mess ends with the Mu forced to leave their home planet and flee across the galaxy. Later the ones, who become racists are some Mu themselves — against humans and against some of their own kind.
- Present on both sides of the divide in Tokyo Ghoul, often with bloodshed and tragedy the result. Because Ghouls have to feed on human flesh to satisfy their Horror Hunger, 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 CCG, an office lady cheerfully reassures them that it is fine for a 14-year-old girl to be killed because she's 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.
- The Plants in Trigun are conscious beings that humans exploit for power, resources, etc. Though to be fair, most humans don't know that the Plants are even alive, let alone sentient.
- In Umi Monogatari, Urin's not exactly pleased with the people on land, and often wishes to return to the sea.
- Most of Unlimited Psychic Squad revolves around normal humans' hatred of "espers" and vice versa. Many on both sides would like nothing more than to completely wipe out the other group.
- The Vision of Escaflowne's Dragon Clan are hated by almost every other race on Gaea, it is so frowned upon that the main character's mother makes him promise to never show his wings again, just seeing the wings of one is said to be a bad omen.
- However the last part is subverted when Van's unfurled wings manages to bring the rest of the world, drunk on the power of wishing, back to its senses.
- Demons in Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun view humans as being nothing more than food going by Babyl's anthem.
- Wolf's Rain: Quent Yaiden's character arc revolves around his hated of wolves, which in this setting are sapient and cast human illusions. He eventually overcomes this after finding out his beloved "dog" is part wolf. When another wolf dies to save him, it puts the final nail in the coffin of his racism.
- Sora from Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V is very smug about Fusion users being better than Xyz users. What makes this cross from Unequal Rites 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 Fridge Horror comes in when you realize that he and many other children from Academia were likely brainwashed or indoctrinated into this way of thinking.
- Kurosaki and Yuto from the Xyz Dimension are likewise prejudiced against Fusion users, because of the attacks they endured. Yuto at least manages to overcome this when Yuzu learns to Fusion summon, but Kurosaki is universally against Fusion for them kidnapping his sister. He seems to grudgingly get better once Serena saves his life, hating Academia directly instead of all fusionists.
- Yuri Kuma Arashi has one between humans and bears. Bears simultaneously see humans as bears and enemies and bears who admit to being a friend to humans will be isolated from the group. Humans, however, see bears as things that must be hunted down and protected from at all costs and anyone they suspect of fraternizing with bears will be systematically hunted down, have their pillars of support removed, lynched, used as bait, and eventually killed. Its all a metaphor for Lesbians.
