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Sep 2, 2018 2:31 PM
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Naruto and Evangelion have some fucked up backstories, but I’m sure there’s an anime out there with even worse.
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>Evangelion
>Shonen

Great bait OP.


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Sep 2, 2018 2:37 PM
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Deadman Wonderland always has characters with messed up backstories.
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one piece maybe? but it's a shit show so idk
Sep 2, 2018 2:39 PM
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Litcotaku said:
Wait, is EVA even shounen? You must be kidding...


Lol that's what I was about to say. I think there's some confusion here.
Sep 2, 2018 2:40 PM
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Evangelion manga was released in Shounen Ace so OP is right in some small ways. What else would it be?
Sep 2, 2018 2:41 PM
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>teenagers piloting giant robots

Sounds like shonen to me
Sep 2, 2018 2:42 PM
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Eva may be an original anime, but the manga was published in Shounen Ace.


One Piece is pretty messed up in that regard.

One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron


Sep 2, 2018 2:44 PM
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Krystopher said:
Naruto and Evangelion...

Evangelion is not shounen.

It would have to be based off a shounen manga (not the other way around) to be considered shounen. It's an anime original.

Krystopher said:
I’m sure there’s an anime out there with even worse.

Claymore has some pretty messed up backstories. It gets a little brutal.

Krystopher said:
>teenagers piloting giant robots

Sounds like shonen to me

That's not how it works.
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FMmatron said:
Eva may be an original anime, but the manga was published in Shounen Ace.


One Piece is pretty messed up in that regard.


More than Naruto? Gaara was suicide bombed by his parent figure. Obito brutally slaughtered like 60 men and hung their mangled corpses in trees. Orochimaru experimented on like 3 year olds and all sorts of sick shit. You know the Sasuke/Itachi story.

I’ve seen some one piece and while the backstories are sad they aren’t as fucked up and twisted as other animes.
Sep 2, 2018 2:49 PM

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konata from lucky star (yes thats a shounen).... before the anime, she was eating a chocolate cornet the wrong way
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KushHaze said:
Evangelion manga was released in Shounen Ace so OP is right in some small ways. What else would it be?


It was actually moved to Young Ace, but that still doesn't make the anime seinen.
Sep 2, 2018 2:51 PM

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It's gotta be Hunter x Hunter ........
Sep 2, 2018 2:52 PM

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Avatar the last airbender has some pretty sad backstories
Sep 2, 2018 2:56 PM

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I guess Rurouni Kenshin and Hokuto no Ken are good entries.

Especially the Kenshin's backstory.
Sep 2, 2018 2:59 PM

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Nobody seriously mentioned Fullmetal Alchemist? For real?
Sep 2, 2018 3:14 PM
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That would be D.Gray-man for me, I think.
Sep 2, 2018 3:17 PM

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Gohan from DBZ. Can't believe he had to grow up with Chi Chi being a bitch and Goku being an idiot.
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Sep 2, 2018 3:18 PM

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No one mentioned Gintama yet? Weird
Sep 2, 2018 3:22 PM

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evangelion is my favorite shounen anime
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Krystopher said:
FMmatron said:
Eva may be an original anime, but the manga was published in Shounen Ace.


One Piece is pretty messed up in that regard.


More than Naruto? Gaara was suicide bombed by his parent figure. Obito brutally slaughtered like 60 men and hung their mangled corpses in trees. Orochimaru experimented on like 3 year olds and all sorts of sick shit. You know the Sasuke/Itachi story.

I’ve seen some one piece and while the backstories are sad they aren’t as fucked up and twisted as other animes.






These are not all.

One Piece isn't that graphic, but the stories are going under your skin due to being messed up on a psychological level, it's also the amount of them.

One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron


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KushHaze said:
Evangelion manga was released in Shounen Ace so OP is right in some small ways. What else would it be?

Well the ANIME is still an Original though

PS. Nice Forum Avatar and Banner, where did you get them from?
Sep 2, 2018 3:49 PM
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for my money i would say that chi's sweet home is the shounen with the most fucked up backstories

Sep 2, 2018 3:51 PM

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Attack on Titan had some sick Backstories though.........
Sep 2, 2018 3:52 PM

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donzacuceron said:
>Evangelion
>Shonen

Great bait OP.
Litcotaku said:
Wait, is EVA even shounen? You must be kidding...
NGE is cryptic anyway that feels like transitioning to different demographics, but in the end, even Shounen itself isn't clarified enough in this thread. By no means EVA is a battle manga, and I think this is what the thread aiming for. Shounen is too broad as a demographic, we have slice of life in the demographic, and look at Seinen, you would think it's about mature themed all the time yeah? At least it imposes to be, but guess what? Series like Place to Place is seinen, hoorah!



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Sep 2, 2018 4:17 PM
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Bourmegar said:
KushHaze said:
Evangelion manga was released in Shounen Ace so OP is right in some small ways. What else would it be?

Well the ANIME is still an Original though

PS. Nice Forum Avatar and Banner, where did you get them from?

If it's for the yuri I have to dissapoint you. xP
It's from Dokidoki! Precure a mahou shoujo series for all ages.
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Lisbon said:
for my money i would say that chi's sweet home is the shounen with the most fucked up backstories


it's fullly seinen...

fire punch

>5y.0
>suddenly ice age
>humanity doomed
>have cute little imouto
>must protect
>10y.0
>developed immortality power
>can eat my own flesh to survive
>well, fuck it
>made whole village depended on my flesh
>visitor disgusted by cannibalism
>visitor has power to burn anything
>burn everyone
>oh shit, my immortality
>my immortality keep me burned, never estinguish,
>watch everyone get burned
>had to facing my imouto get burned to death in front of me
>keep getting burned for years
>mfw


ps: it's never getting better...
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Sep 2, 2018 5:38 PM
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Kuma said:
Lisbon said:
for my money i would say that chi's sweet home is the shounen with the most fucked up backstories


it's fullly seinen...

why did i know that this would be the main issue that somebody had with my statement

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Lisbon said:
Kuma said:


it's fullly seinen...

why did i know that this would be the main issue that somebody had with my statement


never insult chii... you had to trigger me... chi is no way is shounen... tough of cats is too deep for kids to understand...
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Sep 2, 2018 5:42 PM

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Idk because I dropped eva. But I am sure Sayuri from Utsu Musume Sayuri has the most fucked up backstories.
Sep 2, 2018 5:42 PM

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not a shonen but the most fucked up backstory I know is gut's. not to mention it does get worse.
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one piece maybe? but it's a shit show so idk
that makes it even MORE tragic
Bourmegar said:
Attack on Titan had some sick Backstories though.........
like?
Kuma said:
Lisbon said:
for my money i would say that chi's sweet home is the shounen with the most fucked up backstories


it's fullly seinen...

fire punch

>5y.0
>suddenly ice age
>humanity doomed
>have cute little imouto
>must protect
>10y.0
>developed immortality power
>can eat my own flesh to survive
>well, fuck it
>made whole village depended on my flesh
>visitor disgusted by cannibalism
>visitor has power to burn anything
>burn everyone
>oh shit, my immortality
>my immortality keep me burned, never estinguish,
>watch everyone get burned
>had to facing my imouto get burned to death in front of me
>keep getting burned for years
>mfw


ps: it's never getting better...
woah I wanna read this manga of all of sudden looks pretty dope
Sep 2, 2018 5:43 PM

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One Piece wins by far, no anime comes even close.
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Idk because I dropped eva. But I am sure Sayuri from Utsu Musume Sayuri has the most fucked up backstories.


she raised by romantic parents... and she has lovable husband...
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Kuroshitsuji:Ciel backstory is fuck up spoilers of course

Owari no seraph:Half main cast is

Fate series: Kititsugu full stop.

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Gohan from DBZ. Can't believe he had to grow up with Chi Chi being a bitch and Goku being an idiot.


Hey! Chi Chi was not a bitch! she was just a very strict and apprehensive mother worried for the future of his son.
Sep 2, 2018 6:11 PM
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Emergence has the most fucked up character backstories
Sep 2, 2018 6:14 PM

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the backstory in fma is pretty messed up
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Vegeta, particularly how they covered his story in z. He was old enough to know frieza destroyed his planet and he is raised in service of the guy who had basically made him extinct, without any real power to avenge his race.
The current season of AoT has given the last piece of eren's backstory making it pretty messed up.


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Claymore has some pretty messed up backstories. It gets a little brutal.

Most of the backstories of the characters are kind of carbon copy - Most common theme among them is yoma eating their families, but the details of Clare's backstory are a little different and closer to the end of the manga, if Clare's backstory shows human ignorance than Priscilla's shows human brutality and selfishness.

To bring it to seinen, this year's devilman crybaby makes ryuo' s backstory pretty graphic, I've been reading the classic collection, ryuo' s dad kills himself the same way in both, but Nagia never really shows much of what happens to his dad, crybaby shows it in visceral detail.
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Sep 2, 2018 7:11 PM
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sasha’s backstory for Seikon no qwaster is pretty fucked up
Sep 2, 2018 9:36 PM

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lets go with erza scarlet for this one.

her moms basically a female version of Acnologia.

Her mom hates her from conception.

Dragons dont gestate for many years, hunmans do for 9.

when she was pregnant with poor lil erza fetus, she turned into a dragon and didnt give birth out of hate.

erza gestated inside her dragon bodied mother for 400 years.

Now thats fucked up.

of course I read this on the net, not in d mange so dunno if its konan.

BTW FT is full of plot holes, and if this is actually correct, ERZA should have natural dragon powers. Generation ZERO.

According to some actual myths, ppl with certain powers actually level up during gestation. It would also make her the most OP char save for END and Zeref,

I mean, She is literally the FIRST and LAAT [and ONLY] true

DRAGONBORN!!!!!
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Id go for guts or emergence since both gave me depresion
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KushHaze said:
Bourmegar said:

Well the ANIME is still an Original though

PS. Nice Forum Avatar and Banner, where did you get them from?

If it's for the yuri I have to dissapoint you. xP
It's from Dokidoki! Precure a mahou shoujo series for all ages.

Welp looks like what kind of Yuri I can searcb for now.
Thank you.
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Does Fate count? Because Kiritsugu and Shirou's backstory's are pretty god damn fucked up


Why don’t we become monsters and really mess up this awful world? Just destroy until there’s no more evil, no more sadness, no more anything…
Wouldn’t that be great?

Sep 2, 2018 10:34 PM

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magi is actually sad
alibaba has a pretty fked up life when he was in the slums with his prostitute mom and brother
Sep 2, 2018 10:48 PM
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Obito Uchiha's back story is one of my favorite "fucked up" back stories.

Itachi and Sasuke's back story is also fucked.
Sep 2, 2018 10:52 PM
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One Piece back stories are pretty tragic and more relevant to the story and characters development
Sep 2, 2018 11:23 PM

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Nami from one piece has a nice backstory
Neiji from naruto does too
Sep 2, 2018 11:38 PM

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Almost everyone from "Elfen Lied" has a pretty messed up background. That's with the exception of Yuka.

Also, Kurosaki Hisoka from "Descendants of Darkness" had something awful happen to him before he was murdered.
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I will say

Attack on Titan

Pandora Hearts

D Gray Man

Full Metal Alchemist


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Almost everyone from "Elfen Lied" has a pretty messed up background. That's with the exception of Yuka.

Also, Kurosaki Hisoka from "Descendants of Darkness" had something awful happen to him before he was murdered.
264354287 said:
Almost everyone from "Elfen Lied" has a pretty messed up background. That's with the exception of Yuka.

Also, Kurosaki Hisoka from "Descendants of Darkness" had something awful happen to him before he was murdered.


Elfen lied is seinen.






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