Anime where the main character has a troubled life?

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I want an anime where the main character has a troubled life. and i don't mean a troubled love life. i mean like they have gone through a difficult life, possible suicide / cutting on self. going through anorexia or things like that. like how the girl in: say "I love you" lost weight and then she has permanent scars on her body. things like that

El Yau Wan · Accepted Answer

Any of the protagonists in the anime I mention have either: been tortured, abused, mindraped, raped, had a terrible accident, someone close died.

Clannad and Clannad Afterstory 
Elfen Lied 
Saikano 
Hanbun no Tsuki 
Sola 
Berserk 
Ef: A Tale of Memories/Melodies 
Black Butler  
Higurashi 
Hell Girl 
Evangelion

Angel Beats

Volbia · Answer

Neon Genesis Evangelion - Abandoned by his father when he was 5 only months after witnessing his mother's death Shinji struggles with self worth as he steps into the Entry Plug of Unit 01, the same machine that took his mother's life. Believing himself incapable of being loved he continues to fight in a mecha where the pilot must feel the pain of any injury taken. Broken arms, Impalement, boiled alive, losing limbs. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvC9SRIEg4I (Footage from Neon Genesis Evangelion, 
End of Evangelion, and Rebuild of Evangelion 1.0 and 2.0)

.hack//Sign - Tsukasa awakes in The World, one of the only MMORPGs after Pluto's Kiss which affected nearly every computer in the world. Unable to log out and able to feel pain he plays a dangerous game as he is hunted by the Crimson Knights, searching for answers he happens upon a sleeping girl, Aura. Who is she? Why won't she wake? And what happens if he were to die in the game?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Z8LzqPK9Q

The story of .hack// and The World is an epic one as it spans 8 games, 3 anime, 2 movies, and at least a dozen manga series.

Serial Experiments Lain - Lain, an ordinary middle schooler uninterested in technology in a ever increasing technological age hears a rumor. A girl in the class commited suicide and members of the class are receiving Emails from her stating that she is still alive. Booting up her old computer she receives a similar Email opening the door to The Wired. Growing interest in The Wired and technology along with reports of people looking suspiciously similar to her with wildly different personalities brings questions, with her genius in The Wired questions pop up, who is she? What is she? Why is she so recognized in The Wired?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z6rsoNcWWU

footage from the anime series and Japanese only game LainStation

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