# 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.

*By YPB Team · Published September 13, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/who-is-the-worst-father-in-anime*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

1. **Shou Tucker** — score 1000/1000
   Fullmetal Alchemist's state alchemist, whose experiment on his daughter is the series' cruellest scene.
2. **Charles zi Britannia** — score 551/1000
   Code Geass's emperor, who shipped his own children abroad as political hostages.
3. **Judge Vinsmoke** — score 551/1000
   One Piece's king of Germa 66, who engineered his sons as weapons and locked one away for failing.
4. **Isshin Kurosaki** — score 466/1000
   Bleach's father, who hid his own powers and his wife's death from his son for a decade.
5. **Endeavor** — score 466/1000
   My Hero Academia's number-one hero, who built a family as a breeding project for a stronger quirk.
6. **Goku** — score 466/1000
   Dragon Ball's hero, repeatedly dead or away and content to let his sons handle the rest.
7. **Shinjuro Rengoku** — score 466/1000
   Demon Slayer's former Flame Hashira, who drank through his son's rise and told him it meant nothing.
8. **Gendo Ikari** — score 363/1000
   Evangelion's commander, who summons his son to pilot a robot and barely speaks to him again.
9. **Vegeta** — score 363/1000
   Dragon Ball Z's prince, who spends years choosing training over both of his children.
10. **Ging Freecss** — score 0/1000
   Hunter x Hunter's absent father, who left his son on an island and made him earn a meeting.
11. **Naruto Uzumaki** — score 0/1000
   Boruto's Hokage, so buried in the job that he attends his daughter's birthday as a shadow clone.
12. **Dio Brando** — score 0/1000
   JoJo's vampire, who fathered children across continents and used them as disposable weapons.
13. **Monkey D. Dragon** — score 0/1000
   One Piece's revolutionary leader, who left his son with a mountain bandit and has spoken to him once.

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