Who is the worst father in anime?
Absentees, tyrants, and one man whose great sin was choosing training. They are bad in very different ways, which is what makes this hard.
1Shou TuckerFullmetal Alchemist's state alchemist, whose experiment on his daughter is the series' cruellest scene.1000pts
2Charles zi BritanniaCode Geass's emperor, who shipped his own children abroad as political hostages.551pts
3Judge VinsmokeOne Piece's king of Germa 66, who engineered his sons as weapons and locked one away for failing.551pts
4Isshin KurosakiBleach's father, who hid his own powers and his wife's death from his son for a decade.466pts
5EndeavorMy Hero Academia's number-one hero, who built a family as a breeding project for a stronger quirk.466pts
6GokuDragon Ball's hero, repeatedly dead or away and content to let his sons handle the rest.466pts
7Shinjuro RengokuDemon Slayer's former Flame Hashira, who drank through his son's rise and told him it meant nothing.466pts
8Gendo IkariEvangelion's commander, who summons his son to pilot a robot and barely speaks to him again.363pts
9VegetaDragon Ball Z's prince, who spends years choosing training over both of his children.363pts
10Ging FreecssHunter x Hunter's absent father, who left his son on an island and made him earn a meeting.0pts
11Naruto UzumakiBoruto's Hokage, so buried in the job that he attends his daughter's birthday as a shadow clone.0pts
12Dio BrandoJoJo's vampire, who fathered children across continents and used them as disposable weapons.0pts
13Monkey D. DragonOne Piece's revolutionary leader, who left his son with a mountain bandit and has spoken to him once.0pts
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Comments
Gendo Ikari abandons his son, summons him back years later to pilot a machine, then speaks to him as rarely as the plot allows. Against anime's other absentees: https://youpick.best/articles/evangelion-ranked-many-ways
