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(#9) Gambino From 'Berserk'
Gambino of Berserk is the protagonist's, Guts, adoptive father. Because he found Guts after he was born from a corpse (it's a whole thing), he believes he's a bad omen, and blames him for everything that goes wrong in his life, including the death of his lover Shisu.
Considering the fact she died from the plague, this is pure superstition, but it doesn't matter. Guts got blamed anyway. Said blame takes the form of beatings, expecting him to feed himself at age six, forcing him to act as a child soldier, renting him out to a pedophile for profit, and just straight-up attempting to murder him. Guts ends up killing his own foster father in self-defense. It's no wonder the poor guy can't stand being touched as an adult.
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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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(#17) Akemi Hinazuki From 'Erased'
Akemi Hinazuki is Kayo's abusive mother. She made her own daughter suffer and physically abused her to vent out her own frustrations. Poor Kayo was so neglected that she burst into tears when Satoru's mom cooked her breakfast. Akemi would usually just leave a small amount of money for Kayo to buy her own food. So, Kayo finally felt a real mother's love for the first time. It's a relief that Akemi's parental rights were taken away and Kayo went to live with her grandmother.
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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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(#8) Sakuya Watanuki's Parents From 'Servamp'
Like Shou Tucker, the Watanukis of Servamp care a lot more about money and status than they do about their kids. They forced their daughter to commit suicide so they could collect the money from her life insurance policy. Their son, Sakuya, witnessed his sister's death, but was forced to lie to the police about it.
Though the Watanukis promised their daughter her brother would be safe as long as she sacrificed herself, they went back on their promise and murdered Sakuya for financial gain when he was a teenager. Instead of dying, Sakuya ends up becoming a vampire, but his horrible parents presumably got the money anyway.
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(#19) Delia Ketchum From 'Pokémon'
Delia can't exactly be blamed for sending off her 10-year-old on a Pokémon journey. While this is an incredibly bad idea with potentially disastrous consequences, it is relatively normal in her fictive universe. That said, she has almost no input into what Ash is doing during said journey.
Other than occasional phone calls where she reminds him to change his underwear (important, sure, but kind of a low priority compared to finding out if he's okay after being set on fire by a giant dragon), she's content to stay at home doing... whatever it is she's doing during her private time with Professor Oak.
Speaking of which, Professor Oak is pretty awful too. We don't know how he treats his own children, which means he doesn't qualify as a horrible parent, per se, but he's pretty awful at the whole grandparenting thing. He isn't senile, so he ought to be able to remember his own grandson's name. The version of him in Pokémon: The Origin is the worst. Watch that show if you want to see an old man shout across his critically injured grandson's bedside about all the cool stuff his rival is going to do while he recovers.
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Whether in real life or in the comic book world, the role of parents is always shouldering an unimaginable heavy responsibility. In the cartoon setting, some parents are very powerful, and it is not too much to call them the strongest people on the Earth, the existence of planets can be easily squashed, even the universe first to treat them differently; however, some parents have nothing to do, the focus of consumption and drag children, children are a big burden.
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