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* Seto Kaiba's [[Backstory]] in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. In order to make him a suitable heir to Kaibacorp, his adoptive father Gozaburo put him through a brutally intense period of schooling from age 10 onward. Judging from what is shown in the manga, it involved leashing him to a desk and the occasional beating with a switch.

** [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|No wonder he fired his parents.]]

* Jan Akiyama of ''[[Iron Wok Jan]]'' was brutally trained since childhood by his grandfather to become a Chinese-cuisine chef. For example, basic training included flipping a wok full of stones, one handed, thousands of times in a row—and if he slowed down at all, he'd be beaten until his back was bloody. Later on in the series, the audience discovers that one of Jan's opponents in a cooking competition had undergone the same training—in the rain, while balancing barefoot on the blade of a giant sword.

* The eponymous ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' subjects herself to this even while sleeping or doing her homework. She herself ''gives'' this out to the new recruits as an adult in the third season. Her students learn almost immediately that Nanoha deserves her "White Devil" [[Fan Nickname|nickname.]] There is an ironic paradox here, Nanoha does this to ''prevent'' them from "overextending themselves" (theoretically under the idea that a gradually growing Training From Hell would allow them to [[Time to Unlock More True Potential|reach more and more power]] without [[Heroic RROD|turning themselves into cripples by overdoing it suddenly]], like she almost did)