Anime Chracters who had the Worst Childhood

[Geta Boshi]

This is subjective so these are my pick of chracter with worst childhood

* Nami and Chopper from One Peice

* Rukia and Ichigo from Bleach

* Allen Walker from D Gray Man

* Souske from Full Metal Panic

* Most of the Cast of Naruto

* Most of the Cast of from Elfen Lied

* Kagura from Speed Grapher

[taramjwi]

Kurei from Flame of Recca and Asuka Langley Sohryu from Shinseki Evangelion.

[negativzero]

Vincent Law from Ergo Proxy
Randel Oland from Pumpkin Scissors
Eureka from Eureka Seven
Saya from Blood the Last Vampire

could name more, but that would involve me taking out my entire anime collection from under the closet X__X

[Slev]

Chopper (One Piece)
Robin (One Piece)
Guts (Berserk)
Rukia (Bleach) Actually, her entire past is pretty depressing. :\
Clare (Claymore)
Everyone from Elfen Lied

[Lady Orihime]

InuYasha (InuYasha)
Orihime (Bleach)
Diva (Blood+)
Rin (InuYasha)

[Shinrin]

Well there's alot of characters.

I don't know if this guy really counts but Gin from GNG, since he more or less never had a childhood.

Here's a picture of him the day before he was forced to grow up:
(eat raw bear meat or starve to death, getting beat up with a log (thik stink), having to endure the sound of a gun right beside his ear, beeing cast into a pool with raw bear meat at the bootom(can't reach it= you die)
His father killed, not allowed to be with his simbling nor mother not to forget ain't allowed to show emotions unless in extreme cases.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v423/StoneTitan/Anime/GinSilver.jpg

Note, he ain't even 1 month old there

[Shannon]

Gaara from Naruto.
Saya and Diva from Blood+.
Clare from Claymore.

[Gintoki]

Robin and Nami (One Piece)
Naruto, Sasuke and Gaara (Naruto)
Rukia (Bleach)

[MCRdeathGOD]

Rukia (Bleach)
Ichigo (Bleach)
Sasuke, Naruto & Gaara (Naruto)
Ed, Al & Roy (FullMetal Alchemist)

[nightshift]

Luffy (One piece) He watched his hero sacrifice an arm to save him, got beat up by mountain bandits, and was tossed off a cliff by his grandfather.

[Beee]

hmmm... I'll go with what i know i guess...

Kenshin (Rurouni Kenshin)
Soujiro
Enishi
Dilandau (Escaflowne)
Kyoshiro (SDK)
Creed (Black Cat)

[juunana]

Id say Guts from Berserk.Reasons why in a spoiler as people may not of seen/read berserk.
Firstly he was found in his dead mothers stomach(hence the name guts XD). He was raised by mercenaries that made him work and fight as soon as he could walk. The woman that took him in died and he was blamed as a curse. His father figure prostituted him to men. He was pretty much blamed when anything went wrong and was never shown any affection. Eventually his father figure tried to kill him but he managed to kill him first which he really didn't want to do. As his father figure was leader of the mercenaries they all turned on him trying to kill him. He escaped to fend for himself.

[Tomodachi69]

The Dicloni & Kohta (Elfen Lied)
* Seriously, the Dicloni have all be destined to live lives of torture and experimentation. And Kohta's childhood was definitely bad, his new found friend murdered his father and sister, which severely traumatized him. And Lucy's whole story is sad.

Asuka (Evangelion)
* Underneath her bitchy conceitedness, she's really just a scared girl who the attention that her mother never gave her. And seeing her mother hang herself, and the doll that her mother replaced her with, must'nt have been very good for Asuka's mental development, either.

Hameln (Violinist of Hameln)
* He hated being a demon and being picked on, and then to find out that he killed his best friend's parents and destroyed his village. Then trying to deal somehow with his half demon self

Kenpachi & Yachiru (Bleach)
* Being nameless and uncared for and living to fight. It's almost as if Kenpachi fights to prove his existence. I wonder how his and Yachiru's past were, really.

[Riekie]

Vash the Stampede-Trigun
Diclonius & Kouta-Elfen Lied
Vegeta-Dragonball Z
Ichigo-Bleach

[Tessa07]

* Shion from Please save my earth
* Ageha from Basara
* Fai and Yuui from Tsubasa Chronciles
* Kurogane from Tsubasa Chronciles

[spacecat]

Hmm lots of people but I'd go with Guts from Berserk or Legato from Trigun.
Most people probably know about Gut's but Legato's wasn't shown in the the anime. If you wanna know it may spoil Trigun Max manga for you:

He was a sex slave who was paraded around on chains naked, he had no family or friends and was forced to sleep with fat ugly men and take their physical abuse also. When Knives killed everyone around he was the only one who survived and so he saw him as his hero and asked if he may follow him but didn't care if he died. Knives saw his apathy towards death and then asked why he should let him follow him so he manipulated his blades into giving him a haircut lol. Knives was impressed...so I'd say his messed up childhood is what sent him to the looney bin and made him so obsessed with Knives anyways. Blah I can't make it sound as bad as it is in the manga lol

[Unicorn]

From the anime that I watch:

Naruto and Gaara (Naruto)
Soujiro (Rurouni Kenshin)
Inuyasha (Inuyasha)

[Skorpz]

i have to say luffy since his grandpa gave him some life threatening experiences and by getting kidnap by bandits.

[NightMare]

Gut's
Trunk's
Ichigo
sasuke

[Inuhanyou]

Inuyasha (Inuyasha)
Jio & Cross (666 satan)
Wolfwood (trigun)
Allen (D gray man)

[Llama]

...............................ok let us clarify what a messed up childhood would be.

1. It has to be an entire childhood not just one bleep. Ichigo's mother died....sorry but it's one thing move one.

2. CHILDHOOD NOT ADULTHOOD. So Roy Mustang can kiss my ass in that regard.

3. Ummm....Luffy didn't have a messed up childhood. In fact I think he got off easy. His grandfather threated him......training people deal with it. His hero sacrificed an arm boo freakin hoo.

You want a real messed up child look at Asuka, Shinji, and Rei. Those childhoods are the worst you can get. I mean ok Inuyasha's in there with some others but the NGE children and Elfen Lied are the worst.

[Serph]

^Just had to laugh at the Roy Mustang comment.

I'd say:
Rukia Kuchiki-- Bleach.
Allen Walker -- D. Gray-Man.
Ed and Al Elric -- FullMetal Alchemist.
Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Garra -- Naruto.

[Byakuya]

Hmm well Sasuke for one, his parents and clan were brutally butchered by his own brother.

Another one would be Gaara.

[aznxenocide]

Ed/Al or Sasuke.

It's hard to say what's worse...making your mom a f***** up piece of rotting tissue, or seeing your entire family murdered.

[Sola]

The twin brother and sister from Busou Renkin probably.

[Siren]

Gaara's sucked pretty bad...(from Naruto, of course)

[Inuhanyou]

...............................ok let us clarify what a messed up childhood would be.

1. It has to be an entire childhood not just one bleep. Ichigo's mother died....sorry but it's one thing move one.

2. CHILDHOOD NOT ADULTHOOD. So Roy Mustang can kiss my ass in that regard.

3. Ummm....Luffy didn't have a messed up childhood. In fact I think he got off easy. His grandfather threated him......training people deal with it. His hero sacrificed an arm boo freakin hoo.

You want a real messed up child look at Asuka, Shinji, and Rei. Those childhoods are the worst you can get. I mean ok Inuyasha's in there with some others but the NGE children and Elfen Lied are the worst.

Eva's children are messed up yes its true its to be expected since that's what the series is about, but read trigun maximum and legato's past, terrible stuff there, or read about gatsu from berserk, or jio from satan, or even allen from d gray man

[aznxenocide]

Inu?!?

haaay dude. ^.^

...does it still count if the anime goes on whilst the characters are still in their childhoods?

[Inuhanyou]

.-. yep, i included jio from satan, his childhood is pure hell as im reading it lol

[Rain]

It seems like most of the cast of Naruto had really messed up childhoods, more so than anyone else, but other characters seem to deal with it better.

[Marionette]

Id say Guts from Berserk.Reasons why in a spoiler as people may not of seen/read berserk.
Firstly he was found in his dead mothers stomach(hence the name guts XD). He was raised by mercenaries that made him work and fight as soon as he could walk. The woman that took him in died and he was blamed as a curse. His father figure prostituted him to men. He was pretty much blamed when anything went wrong and was never shown any affection. Eventually his father figure tried to kill him but he managed to kill him first which he really didn't want to do. As his father figure was leader of the mercenaries they all turned on him trying to kill him. He escaped to fend for himself.
Yeah that sounds pretty messed up. Which reminds me, Claire form Claymore: family killed by demons, drugged around to be molested by the said demon, saved by Teresa (who split the demon in half in front of her and blood spilled all over her), finally got Teresa to stop kicking her around and Teresa got killed b/c she killed the bandits that destoryed the whole town she was left in, which made her volunteered herself to be made into a claymore (a combination of demon flash and human flash).

The twins from Busou Renkin also had a uniquely creepy childhood.

Asuka from Neon Genesis. Probably not the top of the chart, but still pretty bad.

Rukia had a bad childhood, but there's Kenpachi to top her in the same series (although 78th and 79th is probably all not too different-just the fact that none of Rukia and Renji's friends survived proves that, and Kenpachi might not have been a child when he died.).

[Velius]

How about Kirika from Noir. Having to spend your childhood going on assassinations doesn't sound like a fun time. lol. Unless you have your BFF, who is also a child, Chloe with you also killing. ha.

[Sergelia]

Gaara, Sasuke and Naruto from... well, Naruto (in that order)

Orihime, Uryuu and Rukia from Bleach (again, in that order)


But... Elfen Lied's Disclonius, all of them, are CROWNED as having the worst childhoods (Hell, entire lives) in manga history. Period.

They are pink haired girls that spend all their life naked and bloodied up, mercilessly tortured, barely fed, experimented with, have bombs implanted in their limbs, never loved by anyone... you get my point.

[Geta Boshi]

1. It has to be an entire childhood not just one bleep. Ichigo's mother died....sorry but it's one thing move one.

It’s not about Ichi's Mom dying it’s about the blame game he even mentions it to Isshin in MITR Arc

- Ichi blames himself for his mom's death

- Ichi blames himself for destroying a family

- Ichi also blames himself for denying mother’s love to twins

In addition, as he was a momma’s boy he misses her. Ichi as a kid for several days searched the spot where his mom died that gives you an idea what sort of Impact his mom’s death had

[phantomfork]

I have to agree that Legato has had the worst childhood.

Gaara (Naruto) :he should've been as messed up as legato!:

Vash (Trigun Maximum)

Robin (One Piece)

Seras (Hellsing)

Most of the characters from Fruits Basket

Anthy (Utena)

[Rain]

It hasn't been said in a while- Clare from Claymore. She had a horrible childhood.

[Syn]

Rukia tops them all in Bleach (being abandoned as a baby in one of the worst area of Rukongai, anyone?). And then had to steal for food and see her childhood friends die one by one (and when she was what we can consider as a teen, she killed the man she loved -_-'). Ichigo's been pretty awful since he took all the blame on himself too. Inoue's, on the other hand, does not compare with them for that (she was cherished by her brother until he died and then was cherished by Tatsuki as a friend).

Naruto, Gaara and Sasuke in Naruto had awful childhoods too.

[Marionette]

Robin (One Piece)

Oh yeah, how could I forget most of the cast of OP? I haven't read enough of the manga to get to Robin, but Nami's life was pretty screwed up too. Although for some reason she turned out to be the most normal person in the crew.

[Shadoblak]

Mukuro from Yu Yu Hakusho

She was enslaved as a child by a fat demon rapist..He abused her and kept her in chains...She poured acid, effectively disfiguring and melting most of the right half of her body, just to make herself less appealing to him...She escaped but couldnt kill her enslaver..She threw herself off a cliff to get away but still couldnt break the shackles...While shackled, she became the most brutal and ruthless killer in Demon World because of all the hate she felt...

THATS a bad childhood

[JebbaChan]

There's so many anime characters w/ depressing childhoods...

Rukia from Bleach

Ed & Al from Fullmetal Alchemist

Gaara & Naruto from well, Naruto

Saya & Diva from Blood+

Everyone in Fruits Basket, lol

Vash from Trigun

[shake]

gatts from berserk...

he's born of a dead mother and from there his life only goes downhill

[aznxenocide]

Ed and Al.

Frickin saw their mom die, then revived it, and saw it killed again. How much worse of a childhood can you have?

Maybe Naruto or Gaara in a close tie for second. XD

[rei_ai]

Rukia (bleach) :(
Gaara, Naruto and Sasuke (Naruto)
Kyo, Tohru, Yuki (Fruits Basket)
Morita sibblings and Hagu (Honey and Clover)
Erg, the gundam pilots of Gundam Wing

[Avi]

Robin, Nami, and Chopper (One Piece)
Kagura (Speed Grapher)
Gutts (Berserk)
Gaara and Sasuke (Naruto)
Revy (Black Lagoon)
Pacifica (Scrapped Princess)
Apollo (Sousei No Aquarion)
The Espers (Akira)

[Agmaster]

Knives, and most of the Gung Ho Guns.
Kaoru Koganei from Flame of Recca.
Ryouga from Ranma 1/2. Think about it. Eternally lost as soon as you can walk? So are your parents. The one blip of friendship you have is some arrogant prick? No wonder he's nuts. Rumiko's mean.

[Mystic Serenade]

Seta Soujiro (Rurouni Kenshin)
Born as the result of his father cheating on his wife, he was always seen as something to be sickened and despised by the entire family. His birth mother died long ago, so he had no one to look to for love. He was forced to do all the work around the home and was beat regularly, his only escape was to stupidly smile and hope things would get better. After meeting Shishio and hiding him for a while, his family was going to kill him after they found out in hopes of obtaining a government reward. Running in fear, in a kill or be killed situation, he murders them all, wondering if the tears coming down were his or the rain. He lives out most of his older life as Shishio's emotionless assassin until he fights Kenshin for the final time. Releasing all the emotion he had harbored for so long, he finally realizes that on that day so long ago when he murdered his family in the rain, he really had been crying. He ends up wandering alone, searching for his own truth on life.

Himura Kenshin
Sole survivor in his family of a cholera epidemic, he was sold to a slave train. Fortunately he met three older ladies who were nice, but on route the slave train was attacked by bandits, him being the only one alive when Hiko Seijuro arrived on the scene. He buries all the bodies himself, and becomes Hiko's apprentice. At the age of 14 he leaves his master to take an active role in the Meiji Revolution, becoming the infamous assassin known as the Hitokiri Battousai. As the first year passes, kill after kill, he slowly loses his humanity and continuously stains his hands with blood. He then meets Yukishiro Tomoe, and circumstances lead to them living together as husband and wife. It is then that Kenshin realizes that the only thing a man can do is protect what he sees before him, with his own hands, and that all the murdering he did in the revolution was not the way. However this glimmer of happiness in his life is short-lived, as soon afterwards he ends up accidentally killing his wife Tomoe, and also learns that it was he who killed her first fiancee. From the age of 16 to 18, he then continues to stain his hands as the harbringer of death for the Ishin Shishi, leaving after The Battle of Toba-Fushima as a wanderer, hoping to atone his sins and the many lives he had taken

[ilovemybishies]

Gaara & Naruto from Naruto
Rukia from Bleach
Ed and Al from FMA

[aznxenocide]

Rukia as a child...she was just orphaned, wasn't she? Er...wait. I forgot. What was her childhood like?

[ilovemybishies]

Rukia as a child...she was just orphaned, wasn't she? Er...wait. I forgot. What was her childhood like?

We don't get to see her early early childhood. All we got to see was when she met Renji. They seemed to have a trying life, though...

[aznxenocide]

Mostly, it was her and her sister...and then her sister married Byakuya, while Rukia was left on the streets...right?

[Mystic Serenade]

I don't think they've ever stated just how long Hisana stuck with Rukia. Only that Rukia was way too young to even remember Hisana.

[KurosakiNaruto]

Naruto- No child should grow up alone, feared, and unloved.

Haven't watched that many anime so I wouldn't be able to name anyone else......

[Sola]

After reading/watching HxH I have to say Killua.

[cookies]

hmm i would say...
Souske from Full Metal Panic
and Naruto and Gaara

[kuchiruki]

hm do you know gunslinger girl? i think they had/have the worst childhood.
and of course naruto and gaara. also everyone from elfenlied.

[speedphantom]

This thread is really awesome. The bad childhood is so cliche'd and overkilled. Everyone's been through war, lost their parents and family.

I think the most traumatic would be Edward and Alphonse from Full Metal Alchemist. Their father was never there, their mother died. They failed to transmute her, created a homonculous. Ed lost 2 limbs and Al lost his body.

[cool_inuyasha_g]

I think that Clarie from Claymore and most of the naruto cast had the worst childhood (Seriously why don't anime character ever have good childhoods?)

[tari101190]

i can't think of any1 besides uchiha sasuke who has had the worst childhood...

and yeah, naruto as a whole has the most kids with the worst childhods lol...

[Gurimujo]

Out of what I've seen:
Probably Asuka from Evangelion (But Shinji and Rei are pretty messed up too)
Lucy and Nana from Elfen Lied
And Orihime; could be worse but I feel bad for her. :hm

[snowlesswinter]

Gaara. I cried for him.

[HaNa]

Elie from rave master (groove adventure rave) and the nightmare followed her till the last chapter

Edit: actually I'm not sure about her childhood..but she do had a horrible past

[Alucard]

Lucy from Elfen Lied.

It must have sucked being bullyed for having horns :/

[Spartan27]

Hansel and Gretel from Black Lagoon The Second Barrage

[speedphantom]

I think that Clarie from Claymore and most of the naruto cast had the worst childhood (Seriously why don't anime character ever have good childhoods?)Yeah, Clare's was pretty bad.

I guess normal characters aren't as interesting. But this is becoming way too clichè. Everytime I start a new anime and hear about someone who lost their parents or went through war or whatever I'm just like gah -_- of course!

[Spartan27]

Can anyone think of a fairly main character who is dare I say NORMAL, seriously at the moment I can't think of a main character (at least in Shonen) that hasn't had some tragic event happen to them, I guess it does create backstory, motivation, and well a starting off point. That is a good question, could you have an interesting and engaging character in a shonen who has a fairly typical childhood, two parents, no deaths, and or tramatizing memories.

[rei_ai]

I want to add to my list:

Allen of D.gray-man.juz thinking the experience he went through by the hands of Marshall Cross >.<

[speedphantom]

Haha Allen's was pretty bad but it was portrayed in a somewhat light fashion.

Yoshimori from Kekkaishi had a fairly normal childhood, his traumatic experience was having his friend Tokine get her arm injured when she protected him from an ayakashi. Thats normal compared to most people.

Another traumatic childhood is Taitou from Jyuushin Enbu - Hero Tales, he had heaps of friends killed.

[Shinrin]

hmm... strangely the only main characters i remember atm not having a bad experience in there childhood, would be the ones whom we never saw the childhood off.


Abel from Trinity Blood and his simblings had a very diffrent "bad" childhood.
Actually when you know they likely had everything they needed, had tons of stuff to do, quickly gaine large influeces etc.
The problem however... There lives were planed by others, aka they never could do what they wanted to.(beeing created in a lap ain't helping either)

[GIN_ofTheFunk]

In my opinion there isn't a character with worse childhood than Gaara.
Poor kid- he hadn't have any guilt they sealed the demon in him. And not only he had no friends and everyone hated him, but even his father and his uncle tried to kill him thousands of times. Seriously, if I could I'd go there and beat those ba**ards up, they have no right to treat a little kid, who needs love and friends, as a satanic creature. It was really sad when the little Gaara said ' Even if I am not bleeding, it really hurts there'- and he touched his chest where the heart shoul be :(

[okami]

i think that asuka langely sohryu from neon genesis evangelion had the absolute WORST childhood

Her mom went totally insane making the eva's...when she came back she thought that some doll was her child instead of her real child asuka, then asuka's mom comitted suicide tried to kill asuka and hung the doll whom she thought was asuka

[GIN_ofTheFunk]

Yeah, she does too.
Asuka did have awful childhood. It wuz really depressing when her mother, who suffered schizophrenia, talked to a doll as it was her daughter and said ' I don't need you anymore'. Dude, the one who created this anime is a real psycho...

( But I still claim Gaara wuz more punked-off)

[mebidtt13]

Gaara & Sasuke (Naruto)
Ed & Al (FMA)
Lucy (Elfen Lied)
Rika (Higurashi)

Rika is a child, but she has lived those years again and again, so let's call it her "childhood" xD

[Shdo]

everyone in evengalion, revy from black lagoon and everyone from elfen lied.

also naruto is pretty heavy in the psychotic children. do you know how much blood would have benn saved if they went to a shrink to take care of their problems?

[aquavit]

My list of the anime characters with the saddest childhoods--

(1) Gaara and Naruto (Naruto)
(2) Robin, Nami and Chopper (One Piece)
(3) Lucy (Elfed Lied)
(4) Himura Kenshin (Rurouni Kenshin)

I can't comment on other anime shows since I did not watch them.

Gaara tops my list of anime characters with the saddest childhood.

[Final Boss]

I think Gaara, Naruto, and Sasuke rank pretty high in the 'worst childhood' category for me.

[La`Punyeta]

It's gotta be Ed and Al from FMA..
They already know what suffering is all about at a tender age..

[directX07]

That would be the following:

Gaara of Naruto (being the Jinchuriki of the Ichibi didn't help Little Gaara at all. Ridiculed and feared up to his very death in the hands of the Akatsuki, Gaara has many reasons to be evil, yet he chose not to. His past is so painful.)
Yukishiro Enishi of Rurouni Kenshin (Well, seeing your sister accidentally murdered in front of you isn't a good childhood memory. Also the murdering the family who took you in when you arrived in a strange country.)
Himura Kenshin himself (Murder and gore in front of him again and learning an ancient sword technique and killing people even as a boy)
Enma Ai of Jigoku Shoujo (Imagine your best friend burying you alive and everyone fearing your existence???)
Mudou Setsuna of Angel Sanctuary (Falling in love with your sister and being the reincarnation of the most powerful angel isn't an honor. Count the fact that your parents despised you and see you as vermin)
L Lawliet of DeathNote (Orphaned but brilliant. I don't know L's past but I pity him. He must've been through a lot to act that way)

[eddieson]

The one that comes to my mind would be Hensel and Gretel from Black Lagoon. Since they were forced to commit brutal acts on others to the point that they thought they liked doing it.

[La`Punyeta]

Those experimental children on Gundam SEED destiny..their childhood was all about survival and killing...

[casin]

Jigoku Shoujo - Enma Ai
Elfen Lied - everyone
Monster - most of the main characters
Higurashi - everything

[Nibbles]

5. Ichigo
4. Rukia
3. Girl from Elven Lied
2. Diva from (Blood+)
1. Ed and Al (Full Metal) Once you've lost you mom, 2 limbs, your whole body, and having 2 kill tons of people, watching your mom and friends die doesn't sound so bad.

[stark espada]

Lucy from elfen lied and nana from elfen lied

[Nibbles]

Lucy, thank you Stark.

[Tatsuki]

Shojo Childhood Horrors!
From Fruits Basket:
1. Kyo-Mom commits suicide, Dad (and entire family) blames son for said suicide, fate is to be locked away forever
2. Momiji-Mom chooses to forget him (I hate that evil, Nazi B***):mad: Dad goes along with it, lives alone
3. Yuki-Locked in a room alone by crazy powerful "Head of Family" who's just a confused boy/girl. Oh, and Mom let this happen for money.
4. Tohru-She has a great attitude, but really, living in a tent?

From Nana:
1. Shin-Mom committed suicide, Dad is MIA, prostitute by 15
2. Nana Osaki-Mom abandons her; Grandma verbally abuses her; First love abandons her

Shounen:
Most of the basic ground is covered in this thread , but no one mentioned LeLouche from Code Geass-His family is majorly messed up and inbred, and now he's out to kill his siblings ('cept Nanally) and his dad. He's still a kid.:(

Oh, and all the Wammy's House kids from Death Note. That Orphanage was one F'ed up place--everyone uses codenames, for Pete's sake!