Random Most Horrible Anime Parents (21 items)

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  (#4) Kazekage Rasa From 'Naruto'

  Rasa is the Kazekage (basically the president) of the Land of Wind in the world of Naruto. He's also pretty freakin' awful at the whole dad thing, like most actual presidents. In order to deal with economic problems, Rasa decided he needed his ninja army to be more powerful. To make this happen, he seals the Shukaku, a powerful tailed beast, inside his unborn child. As a result, his son Gaara is born prematurely, and his wife Karura dies in childbirth.

  Gaara has to grow up with a rampaging beast living in his body, which forces him to go on killing sprees that isolate him from his whole community. Rasa repeatedly tries to eliminate his son for the safety of the village, but he fails every time. Remember, he was the one who made his son a monster in the first place. Meanwhile, nobody is really taking care of his other two kids, Temari and Kankuro. They just kind of have to raise themselves, while their father is busy trying to murder their brother. 
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  (#7) Saki Arima From 'Your Lie In April'

  Saki Arima of Your Lie in April is a well-known professional pianist, and the mother of the show's protagonist, Kousei Arima. When Ms. Arima develops an unspecified terminal illness that makes it impossible for her to continue her musical career, she begins to live vicariously through Kousei. This means long, grueling practice sessions, and regular beatings whenever he makes a mistake.

  After his mother dies, Kousei stops being able to hear music, and it takes him nearly the entire series for his talent to be a source of pleasure instead of trauma.
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  (#16) Medusa Gorgon From 'Soul Eater'

  While Medusa Gorgon makes for an amazing anime villain, she's a terrible mother. She sees Crona as nothing more than a research experiment. Her cruel and detached attitude towards Crona resulted in them becoming highly unstable. Medusa would even force them to brutally kill animals in different ways. Even to the very end, Medusa had no problem killing her own child.
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  (#18) Endeavor From 'My Hero Academia'

  While Season 4 of My Hero Academia is slowly redeeming Endeavor, it doesn't take away from the fact that he was an awful and abusive father. He only sees his children as stepping stones to live out his ambitions. Since Todoroki was the only one who possessed both his mom and dad's Quirks, Endeavor neglected his other children. He ruthlessly trained a young Todoroki to the point that he would vomit during their sessions. Needless to say, Endeavor has a lot to make up for his past wrongdoings as a father and husband. 
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  (#10) Momiji's Parents From 'Fruits Basket'

  Fruits Basket is one of those series with so many bad parents it's hard to choose just one. If you're talking about the manga, the answer is obvious: Ren Sohma is the absolute worst mother ever. But then again, Kazuma Sohma hooked up with his adopted son's high school friend, and that's pretty bad. But wait, there's also Yuki's mother, who basically sold her son to a sadistic cousin who whips him for fun. Those things are manga only, so what about the anime? It's still hard to choose, but the award for the worst parent in Fruits Basket has to go to Momiji's parents. 

  Momiji's mother was so disgusted by her son (a boy afflicted by the zodiac curse so he turns into a rabbit when held by a member of the opposite sex), she had her memories erased so she wouldn't remember Momiji existed. His father sucks pretty hard too. While he does provide for Momiji's physical needs, his allegiance is clearly with his wife, and he goes out of his way to make sure the two of them never meet. He also hides the existence of their second child, Momo, destroying any chance the siblings could have at a normal relationship. 
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  (#2) Hiromi Shiota From 'Assassination Classroom'

  In general, it's not a great parenting move to try and force your kid to conform to a gender identity they don't agree with. Hiromi Shiota wanted a daughter so she could vicariously relive her own girlhood (which was admittedly terrible). When she gave birth to a son instead, she decided it didn't matter and raised Nagisa as a girl. Much to Nagisa's chagrin, Hiromi forced him to grow his hair out and wear feminine clothing.

  This alone is pretty awful, but it gets worse. Nagisa is in class 3-E at Kunugigaoka Middle School, which is where kids with bad grades end up. Hiromi doesn't want Nagisa in that class, but he's happy doing important work with his classmates, so he's against switching out. To force her son to comply, Hiromi drugs Nagisa, brings him to school, and insists he torch the building. In other words: excellent parenting. She only gives up when he saves her from an assassin, because apparently now that he can kick ass, he's worth consideration as a human being. 

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