Top 10 "Lonely Rich Kid" Characters in Anime

The lonely rich kid is a common trope used in pop culture.

If a character is under the age of about 18-21 and their parents have a lot of money, it's very likely the character has these problems:

A noticeable shortage of close friends, for various reasons. They could be a Rich Bitch or Jerk Jock, or at least mistaken for one.

The character may be wary of friendship overtures because these have turned out to be attempts to take advantage of their wealth.

Then there are the rich parents of the rich kid to consider. It could be that parental pressure pushes the character toward becoming remote and icy because that's what worked for the parents, tied up in all that caste and class nonsense.

Politicians' and tycoons' kids often have anti-kidnapping barriers around them that friends have just as hard a time getting through as enemies do.

Some form of parental abandonment is also common. Mom and Dad will be either a) dead, b) never around, c) inattentive and uncaring, d) inhumanly demanding to the exclusion of actual parenting, or e) overwhelmed with all the other responsibilities they need to handle, or f) some combination of the above. There are seldom siblings around to fill in the gaps.

This one-two punch produces a lonely kid with resources. Unhappy kid + money = trouble, more often than not.

Contrast Spoiled Sweet (whose parents are not distant, or maybe they are but the kid tries not to let it get to them), Spoiled Brat, and Heartwarming Orphan.

Source:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LonelyRichKid

The Top Ten

  1. Shinoa Hīragi (Seraph of the End)

  2. Lucy Heartfilia (Fairy Tail)

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  3. Ami Mizuno / Sailor Mercury (Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon)

  4. Rei Hino / Sailor Mars (Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon)

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  5. Hotaru Tomoe / Sailor Saturn (Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon)

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  6. Yukio Hans Vorarlberna (Bleach)

  7. Izumo Kamiki (Blue Exorcist)

  8. Haruka Kotoura (Kotoura-san)

  9. James (Pokémon)

  10. Farnese de Vandimion (Berserk)

    11. The Contenders

  11. Weiss Schnee (RWBY)

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