Seriously, what's up with the Japanese and their fetish for Parental Abandonment? * A huge portion of the cast of Narutaru are missing one or more parents. Of course, this being Narutaru, Shiina's mother is the only cast member who truly abandoned her child. The other cases of missing parents are much more... disturbing. * In Yu-Gi-Oh, we have the Kaiba brothers (biological parents died when they were little, adopted father raised Kaiba under a borderline abusive schooling regimen, then committed suicide after Seto took over his company), Jounouchi/Joey (estranged from his mother since his parents' divorce, and his drunken father is only mentioned once in the first anime series), Anzu/Tea, Honda/Tristan, and Ryuji/Duke with no visible or suggested parents, and Yugi himself, whose mot