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* Maia in ''[[Daphne in the Brilliant Blue]]'' is an orphan -- and the circumstances surrounding how she became orphaned are key to the series' plot.
** Subverted with Gloria. After the group finds a [[Door Step Baby]], she talks them out of turning it in to the police by talking about how horrible orphanages are. Then {{spoiler|it turns out it's her sister's baby, and Gloria left him there to get out of babysitting.}}
* So is Sagara Sousuke from ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]''. Similarly, Kaname apparently has her own apartment and little connection to her family in the anime, though they were referenced more directly in the novels.
* Watanuki from ''[[XxxHolicxxxHolic]]'': Orphaned at a young but unspecified age and has been living alone ever since.
** {{spoiler|Well, maybe not. It was recently revealed that [[Cardcaptor Sakura|his parents]] are still alive somewhere. Just not in his universe. He doesn't remember them due to a [[Deal with the Devil]] or three, and so just assumes them to be dead. His "[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle|brother]]" does remember them, but ran away from home at the age of seven, and we'll stop there because that’s where the parental ''abandonment'' ends, and something [[Oedipus Rex|else]] begins.}}
* In ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'', ''[[XxxHolicxxxHolic]]'''s sister series, nobody has a present set of parents. ''Nobody''. Perhaps the most egregious case would be Sakura, {{spoiler|who had both a mother and father way before the beginning of the series, but had them erased from existence when Syaoran's desperate wish to save her life screwed over the space-time continuum}}.
* In ''[[Goshuushou Sama Ninomiya Kun]]'', three six-year-olds were living alone under the same roof, with occasional older sibling support. One can only hope that they had financial support, at the very least. Also interesting is the fact that the protagonist's parents were alive and well, just very distant.
* In ''[[Noir (anime)|Noir]],'' Mireille's parents were murdered when she was a small child. And when Kirika awoke in Tokyo for the first time, she was alone in her apartment, with neither parents nor Soldats agents pretending to be parents.
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** However, the series seems to avert the trope overall. None of the instances cause damage or discomfort to characters or viewers, beyond engendering mild empathy for Konata. Her single-parent relationship with her father is very loving and supportive in both directions (the loli/otaku stuff is played for comedy). The Hiiragi twins, Miyuki and Minami all have delineated, idyllic family lives. Screen time is just too expensive to spend on multiple parental units, because the show isn't about them. Yet ''[[Lucky Star]]'' focuses far more often on family life than comparable shows like ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'', ''[[High School Girls]]'', ''Hyakko'' and (despite the age differences), ''[[Ichigo Mashimaro]]'', and presents it quite positively.
* ''[[Deadman Wonderland]]'' features Ganta (orphaned in an [[The Tokyo Fireball|earthquake]]); Yo and Minatsuki Takami ({{spoiler|mom abandoned Minatsuki during the earthquake; Minatsuki killed her and much later set her dad up to be killed by her brother, probably out of sadistic boredom}}); and Shiro (no family to speak of other then being childhood friends with Ganta and his mom, and possibly The Director who {{spoiler|implants Deadman organs in her and wants her to kill him. She obliges}}).
* ''[[Jo JoJoJo's Bizarre Adventure|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'' has this running the entire length of the series. In Part One, Jonathan Joestar lost his mother when he was an infant in a carriage accident; Dio Brando, meanwhile, also lost his mother as a child, but personally killed his father for being an abusive alcoholic. Part Two has Joseph Joestar, who was raised by his grandmother ({{spoiler|his father having been killed by a vampire and his mother, Lisa Lisa, giving him up to keep him from what now looked like the family destiny, requesting Erina tell Joseph both his parents were dead}}). Jotaro in Part Three actually has both parents, but his father is a famous musician perpetually on tour. In Part Four, Josuke grew without the presence of his father (Joseph), he meets him at the start. Part Five has Giorno Giovanna, his father is Dio <ref>whose head took over Jonathan's body</ref> and is estranged from his stepfather and mother. In Part Six, Jolyne had to live with his father's (Jotaro) frequent absency. Most of the series has her trying to save him. As for part Seven, Johnny's father [[The Unfavourite|shunned him]] as he [[Parental Favoritism|prefered his older brother]]. Johnny got booted out after a fight with him.
* In ''[[Berserk]]'', Casca was thrown out of her house at a very young age because her parents couldn't support her, and was taken in by a noble who wanted another servant girl -- only it turned out that the scumbag didn't want her for cooking or cleaning, and she was saved by Griffith. Guts, meanwhile, was born from a pregnant woman's hanged corpse and taken in by Shisu, a prostitute who had just had a stillbirth and thus saw baby Guts as a [[Replacement Goldfish]]; she later died of the plague. His adoptive father, a mercenary leader... deserved ''everything'' Guts eventually did to him.
* In ''[[Penguin Revolution]]'', Yukari's mother left her and her father when Yukari was young. Early in the first chapter of the series, Yukari's father sends her an email to tell her that his latest business venture has gone bust, he has to "lay low for a while," the lease on their apartment is up ''that day,'' and he's canceling both of their cell phone contracts so she won't be able to reach him even if she tries. Yukari is thus left to fend for herself at the age of sixteen.
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