Random Most Horrible Anime Parents (21 items)

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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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  (#12) Dario Brando From 'JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'

  Dario Brando is one of the first characters to appear in the sprawling tale that is Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and he's also one of the worst. Dario is the father of Dio, the villain of the series, and while Dio's motivations can't be entirely distilled to a simple "his dad sucks," that's about 90% of it. Dario not only verbally and physically abused Dio, he also forced his wife to work so hard that she died. For Dario, her death was a lucky break, because it meant he could force his son to sell her clothing for beer money.

  Dio found his father's behavior to be totally unforgivable, and he's glad when his father dies. But hey, at least he cares enough about his son to send him to the Joestar family, where he proceeds to terrorize their child and kill their dog? Hey, no one said Dio was a good kid, just his father was terrible.
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  (#5) Ragyo Kiryuin From 'Kill La Kill'

  Ragyo Kiryuin is the antagonist of Kill la Kill. She's also an objectively terrible mother. Ragyo is a seemingly immortal monster, whose body is a combination of human flesh and Life Fibers, which are basically clothing from space. Her goal is to destroy all of humanity and let Life Fibers take over the earth, a goal her older daughter Satsuki pretends to support until she manages to gather adequate forces to take her down. While she's biding her time, she has to endure her mother violating her.

  You would think that supervillainy would be enough for Ragyo, but no, she's also aggressively cavalier about the lives of her children. When she mistakenly believes her second daughter, Ryuko, died as an infant as a result of Life Fiber experimentation, she disposes of the body, feeling no grief for anything other than the failed experiment.

  Later, she's perfectly content to try and murder both Satsuki and Ryuko for trying to stop her from destroying humanity. Oh, and she orders her third daughter, Nui, to sacrifice her life. Because, evidently, that's just what you do when you're a parent.
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  (#15) Masachika Kouda From 'March Comes In Like A Lion'

  While Mr. Kouda might not get physical with his son, he still not what you'd call parent of the year. He adopts Rei, the protagonist of March Comes in Like a Lion, after his entire family dies in an accident. He chooses Rei not so much out of compassion for the orphaned child, as for his fascination with Rei's skill at shogi (Japanese chess.) Rei has little interest in shogi, but ends up playing it professionally in order to please his adoptive father, and ensure he has somewhere to live. 

  This sounds like a tense, but not terrible, relationship until you factor in Mr. Kouda's other kids, Ayumu and Kyouko. Mr. Kouda previously taught his biological children to play shogi, and expected them to compete professionally. When Rei arrives on the scene, he starts ignoring his less-talented children, and blatantly favors Rei. This makes Ayumu depressed and withdrawn, Kyouko angry and rebellious, and Rei so guilty and tense he leaves the house at age 17. Mr. Kouda does not acknowledge his role in any of his children's emotional problems. 
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  (#14) Aizawa From 'Sukisyo'

  If you haven't seen Sukisyo, you don't know how truly bizarre anime can get. This show features one of the most insane antagonists ever, in the form of Aizawa. Aizawa is the father of three test-tube babies, Kai, Shiina, and Kano. He gets the DNA for the kids by raping a man named Nanami, seducing Nanami's husband, and stealing hair off of a small child's head. He doesn't like one of the kids, Shiina, so he ends up putting him up for adoption.

  Only Kai appears in the anime proper, but the way Aizawa treats Kai is pretty abysmal. First of all, he forces the teenage boy to kidnap people, assist in human experimentation, and otherwise act like a reprehensible human being. Kai just wants to go to school and live a normal life, but Aizawa is only interested in using him. At the end of the series, Aizawa sets a building on fire, and locks Kai inside. While we do see Kai reappear in an omake, by the end of the actual series, it looks as if Aizawa burned his own son alive. 

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