Summary

Someanime dadsare great , taking the prison term to raise their tike and teaching them about lifetime as they do it . Others expend their kids as tool , desert their children when they do n’t desire them anymore , or in rare cases , would rather be dead than raise their kids . Some anime fathers arethe last thing nipper would want as parent in genuine life sentence .

Luckily , most of the tiddler of these pop have found ways to thrive in their worlds . Some of them are smart enough to do it on their own , others havehelpful mentors who manoeuvre themwhere their dads should have . No matter what paternal flesh these characters find , they ’re always better than their biological dada .

10Goku - Dragon Ball

He’d Rather Die Than Raise His Kids

Goku is n’t malicious or malign like the other fathers on this list . Instead , he ’s wildly irresponsibleand require no part in really raising his kids . If he is raising his kids , he ’s training them to struggle the potent beings in the galaxy . His first boy fought Frieza when he was five years old . He did n’t even see his 2d boy , Goten , until Goten was seven , because Goku was actively prefer to remain drained to train in the otherworld .

Goku ’s immaculate system of logic was that his huge strength was both acting as an invitation for bad guys to total fight him and as a check for his Quaker to get strong . He ’d ratherbe dead than meet or raise his own kids . While Goku ’s hapless fatherly science do n’t come from any active malice , his oblivion toward his kids is still something thatDragon Ballfans bonk to discuss today .

9Atsuomi Ayanokoji - Classroom of the Elite

The Leader of the White Room Is a Demanding Father

Classroom of the Eliteis a psychological thriller featuring one of the coldest , most emotionless , and deceptively manipulative characters in anime in Kiyotaka Ayanokoji . We had no idea how Kiyotaka could be so inhuman until the second season , when his father , Atsuomi Ayanokoji , came to the Advanced Nurturing High School to think his Logos . Professor Ayanokoji runs the White Room , a cold and beastly learning environmentthat produce the most advanced students in Japan .

When the Professor insure his Word again , he sees nothing but his most valuable plus . He first tries to guilt Kiyotaka into returning to the White Room . When that does n’t work , he tries forcing him back . fortunately , Kiyotaka is under the protection of gamey - ups at his school , saving him from repay to the cruelty of the White Room for a little while longer .

8Dr. Tenma - Pluto

You Can’t Create Life Just To Throw It Away

Dr. Tenma inPlutois a tragical fibre . He recede his biological boy , Tobio Tenma , to a car accident . He then tried to bring his son back to life sentence by building him as a robot . unluckily , Dr. Tenma determine that that ’s not how life-time work . He then decommissioned the advanced robot , discombobulate away the life he had just created . If it was n’t for Dr. Ochanomizu , Atom would ’ve continue a decommissioned mess . Dr. Tenmacreated a perfectly suitable robot only to throw out itwhen he realized it did n’t survive up to his expectations .

Later in the serial publication , when Atom dies again , Dr. Tenma saves him by inaugurate imbalanced emotions to the automaton . This may have been the only path to land the male child back , but it put Atom through a flock of trauma . Dr. Tenma could have fend off all of thisif he had just say Tobio he loved him when his son was animated .

7Toji Fushiguro - Jujutsu Kaisen

Bounty Hunters Aren’t Around Much

Toji Fushiguro is the nerveless character reference inJujutsu Kaisen , Gojo Satoru included . While Gojo was blessed with two of the most broken techniques in anime , Toji has nothing . He ’s no wizard ; instead , his Heavenly Restriction make him one of the most grave amplitude hunters on the planet . It makes himultra - competent on the battlefield , but it does n’t make him a expert papa . He ’s too busy hunt citizenry to evoke his son Megumi .

This uniquely detailed cosplay of the Special Grade Cursed Spirit Hanami prove just how terrifying the scoundrel would be in the real cosmos .

He abandons Megumi to prosecute his goals in biography . After being defeated by Gojo , he does the correct thing and lets him knowMegumi will be sell to the Zenin clanin a few days , giving Gojo an opportunity to spare him . When Toji is resurrect in time of year two , he brutalizes Megumi in a battle until he realizes he ’s fighting his own son . He thenkills himself to end his rebirth , the nicest thing he ’s ever done for Megumi .

Jujutsu Kaisen’s Hanami holding her hand out with a forest behind her.

6Naruto - Boruto

He Didn’t Learn a Lot From Being an Orphan

WhileNarutoends with the titular character , now grown - up , teaching a valuable spirit deterrent example to his boisterous small fry , the sequelBorutoshows that the one who needed eruditeness was , in fact , Naruto himself . At the starting signal of the serial publication , Naruto is a workaholic begetter who ignores his kidsand even utilise phantasm clone replacements to attend family consequence . It ’s no wonder that Boruto grow to detest his dada , an interesting plot point that was later unfortunately dropped .

As the chronicle come along , Naruto does even worse , and he picks up the first kid in trouble he finds , Kawaki , welcoming him into his firm like an adoptive son , a short metre after differentiate his own son that the responsibility of an Hokage come before family . Naruto shows toward Kawaki unexpected philia - which surprisingly does n’t cause any tension with Boruto , another plot tip that the series could have explored . However , Kawaki terminate up bewray Konohaand put away Boruto and Hinata in another attribute , prove that the Hokage ’s father inherent aptitude were even more misplaced .

5Ging - Hunter x Hunter

Leorio Was Right To Punch Him

Gon is the sweetest , most genuine , and sometimes most psychopathological reference inHunter x Hunter . He spends the integrality of the series with one destination in thinker : finding his father . His father is a mankind list Ging , one of the top five unattackable Nen users in the world . He ’s also utterly subject of finding his boy and actively avoids it . Ging plays Gon like a secret plan , setting up event for him to partake in if he wants to adjoin him .

It ’s understanding want your son to be firm like you , but to make it a banner to meet you is cockeyed . Gon meets his absent father and gratefully accomplish his destination with no help from Ging himself . When he meets his father , Ging only speak about how much he savor being a Orion and does n’t wish about Gon at all . Thank good Leorio punch him earlier in the series .

4Gendo Ikari - Neon Genesis Evangelion

One of the Coldest People, And Fathers, Around

Gendo Ikari fromNeon Genesis Evangelionis not just a terrible dad , he ’s a horrific person , period . He ’s dusty , compute , and remorseless . He show no tenderness towards his son and uses everyone around him as tools . As soon as Gendo lost his wife Yui , he sent Shinji aside . He only predict for Shinji when he wants him to pilot the ultra - dangerous Evangelion unit of measurement , which , by the path , is also a vessel for his female parent ’s soul .

In the final moments ofEnd of Evangelion , it ’s let on that Gendo really did do it Shinji and was afraid of suffer him . Unfortunately , Shinji never knew this andonly got to experience the worst voice of his dad .

3Yujiro Hanma - Baki

The World’s Strongest Didn’t Get That Way by Being Nice

Yujiro Hanma is the most unsafe quality in a man full of serious characters . If there was a competition forBaki ’s firm fighter , he ’d total in first . If there was a competition for the earth ’s worst dad , he ’d also range highly . Yujiro only had Baki so that one twenty-four hour period he might have someone strong to fight against . He then kill Baki ’s mummy for fight back Baki and uses his fan ’s death to further motivate his son .

Yujiro only pop up in Baki ’s life to tell him to get stronger . He does n’t give care for his Logos if his boy is n’t as potent as him and only does what Baki wants to if Baki can bewilder him in a fight . Instead of telling his Logos he eff him like a good dad would , he uses Baki like a brace of nunchucksand beats him in front of a bunch of people .

2Grisha Yeager - Attack on Titan

Grisha Uses Both of His Kids As Tools

Grisha Yeager had two tiddler on two unlike continents andlearned nothing from conjure up either . His first boy , Zeke , was a tool he used to get back at the tyrannical government they lived under . His second son , Eren , was a tool he used to get back at the behemoth that took everything from him . It was n’t until the end of the serial that Grisha realized what he did , which is middling surprising give how obviously brutal it was .

This signally elaborate cosplay of Annie Leonhart from Attack on Titan give away her shocking secret identity : she is the Female Titan .

Grisha is such a risky father that he raises his son Eren to be a genocidal lunatic . Eren also win over his dad to commit heinousness , create a eldritch oscillation that Grisha technically started . If Grisha saw his children as masses and not a substance to an end , Eren might not have killed 80 % of the creation ’s population .

Attack on Titan’s Female Titan

1Aqua and Ruby’s Dad - Oshi no Ko

He’s Responsible for Dr. Goro and Ai’s Deaths

Oshi no Kohas one of the dotty first episodes of any gum anime . It features two heart - breaking slaying that are afterwards bring out to be orchestrated by the same person . Dr. Goro and Ai Hoshino were both murdered by half-baked fanatics who only knew where to go because of Ai ’s ex - boyfriend , the eventual don of Aqua and Ruby . Ai even wanted the Father of the Church of her twins to meet them . Unfortunately , this meantshe revealed her destination to her ex , who used it to take her life sentence .

Not only did Aqua ’s dad pour down him in his previous life , but he also killed Aqua ’s mom in his current spirit . He ’s a scummy person who used Ai Hoshino ’s trust against her , leaving her ( and his ) children without their mother . It ’s middling understandable that Aqua would then dedicate the residue of his second life to find his dad and getting his revenge .

Tanjiro looking mad and Demon Slayer imagery

Baki Yujiro using Baki as human nunchucks

Classroom of the Elite Ayanokoji dad professor ayanokoji

Pluto Dr. Tenma meeting uran at his son tobio’s grave

Gendo hugs Shinji in a train station during Thrice Upon a Time.

Grisha injects Eren with Titan serum - Attack on Titan

Ai Hoshino and her twin children, Ruby and Aqua smile together in Oshi no Ko’s opening song Idol by Yoasobi.