A sizeable number of anime have content that is often viewed as shocking by its fans. This is why "controversy" has become a sort of second name for the medium. Every year, there’s at least one anime that catches the fancy of its viewers, but in a negative way.

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The controversy that anime creates can be due to multiple reasons, but the 3 biggest reasons why an uproar is caused in fandoms include the death of a fan-favorite anime character, intense waifu wars where the best girl usually loses to the main female character, and content that is considered too explicit or offensive to be aired on television.

10 Mami Tomoe’s Gruesome Death In Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica

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When fans started watching the anime, they all were lulled into believing that it was yet another cutesy magical girl anime, where cute girls would do cute things, especially the bright and bubbly Magical Girl Mami Tomoe, who served as Madoka’s sensei for the first few episodes.

However, expectations took a complete 180 and every fan was shaken to their core when the anime showed Mami Tomoe’s gruesome death at the hands of a witch during battle.

9 When Yuno Gasai Was Revealed To Be From An Alternate Timeline in Future Diary

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The anime was evenly split between fans of the very “edgy” content it was accused of displaying. Even so, hardcore fans kept defending this death game, until the very last quarter of the show, when the anime pulled a Reverse UNO card and revealed a plot twist with no foreshadowing.

It was revealed that Yuno Gasai had won the deathmatch in the first world, and she killed the Yuno of the second world in order to be with Yuki again. Needless to say, many fans weren’t happy with this development, especially since it maintained zero continuity with the anime’s first 3 arcs.

8 Nina Tucker’s Transformation In Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Alexander and Nina Tucker as a chimera in Fullmetal Alchemist.

Shou Tucker’s transformation of his daughter Nina into a speaking Chimera, just so that he could continue maintaining the perks of his position as a State Alchemist, blindsided all fans of the show.

The uproar among fans was instantaneous, especially when one considered the fact that this four-year-old girl did not wish any harm upon her father, despite him being the one responsible for turning her into a Chimera.

7 Interspecies Reviewers Was Dropped By Funimation Due To Its Pornographic Nature

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The entire premise of the anime revolves around an elf and a human male, who visit several brothels and share/review their sexual experiences, with each other. Funimation had dubbed a few episodes, but they soon noticed that the show’s content became more and more distasteful in nature with every passing episode.

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They eventually dropped the series, causing a ruckus among dub fans, many of whom believed it was merely an overreaction on Funimation’s behalf.

6 Ichigo & Episode 14 Of Darling In The Franxx

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Fans began empathizing with Zero Two after her tragic past was revealed, which is why Ichigo could not have chosen a worse time to isolate Zero Two from Hiro. She believed she was doing it for his good, but fans didn’t see it that way.

Then, everybody lost their marbles when Ichigo forcefully kissed Hiro, a boy who was at his emotional weakest, with many viewing this as stone-cold emotional manipulation by Ichigo.

5 Nisemonogatari’s Controversial Toothbrush Scene That Had The Fandom Split Into Two Halves

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This scene was the most controversial scene of its time, seeing how it instantly made fans uncomfortable with objectionable content that incorporated sexual tension not only between two siblings but between two individuals whom one of them, the little girl Karen, was a minor.

The act of brushing her teeth was equated to a sexual act, and if that weren’t enough, the male protagonist’s dialogue was filled with double entendres that made the scene’s intentions very clear.

4 “I Love Emilia” - Rem’s Brutal Rejection By Subaru (Re:Zero)

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This was the most defining anime moment of 2016, where the sweet Rem’s feelings for Subaru were crushed because he had a one-sided love affair with Emilia.

The fandom exploded with outrage, as most fans believed that Rem deserved to be with Subaru, seeing she’d fallen in love with him many times in different timelines. In fact, this triggered one of the most infamous waifu wars ever, with Rem being crowned as the undisputed waifu from Re:Zero.

3 Sasha’s Unexpected Death At The Hands Of Gabi Braun (Attack On Titan)

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Sasha, aka Potato Girl, was one of the most popular Attack On Titan characters outside of Japan. So when she made it safely to her airship after a stealth attack on Marley, absolutely nobody expected her to die.

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However, that is exactly what happened, when Gabi shot Sasha in anger for killing her own sisters and brothers. Not only were fans shocked beyond belief, but this one scene made Gabi the most hated character from the entire series.

2 The MC Is Caught Watching Objectionable Content Involving Children in Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation

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Initially, the isekai-ed character was written off as one of the many creeps that exist in the world of isekai, who have little to no understanding of the concept of consent.

However, when flashbacks of his adult life were shown, it was revealed that instead of attending his father’s funeral, he was sitting in his room, watching illegal content that involved children. That was the one scene that generated the most controversy for this anime.

1 Redo Of A Healer Made Fans Wonder Why It Wasn’t Released As A Hentai Instead

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Advertised as a dark revenge-based anime, the show actually turned out to be nothing but scene after scene of sadistic people sexually abusing each other. Perhaps the most shocking aspect was how the MC himself indulged in distasteful actions involving women, with many fans lauding his actions as justifiable.

Most fans agreed that seeing how the plot was only incidental to the rampant sexual assault, abuse, and brutality in the anime, it would have made more sense for the show to be released as hentai, instead of an ecchi series.

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