Fingore / Anime & Manga

• The severing of a finger is just barely avoided in the anime version of ×××HOLiC when a woman who has trouble keeping promises (and has manufactured several identities for herself in order to date several men at the same time) ends up with the finger under a guillotine—it was supposed to be a trust exercise with one of her boyfriends, but the guillotine malfunctioned and was about to amputate the finger when Watanuki's tube fox intervened at the last possible moment.
• Few times in Attack on Titan, all done to titans:
  • In ep 8, Jean escapes getting captured by a Titan by cutting its finger off and flying away.
  • In ep 17, Reiner escapes getting captured and crushed to death by the Female Titan by cuttings its fingers off. Until it turns out that he was actually writing a message on her hand telling her Eren's location.
  • In ep 25, as the Female Titan attempts to escape from Eren's Unstoppable Rage by climbing the wall of Stohess, Mikasa shows up and slices its fingers off, causing it to fall back down. Bonus points for Mikasa delivering a One-Liner to it as she falls.
  • It happens a few times to humans in the manga, too. Firstly, this is how Pastor Nick was interrogated by the Military Police. Those MP officers (including Djel Sanes) then end up having the same thing done to them when they're tortured by Levi and Hange. Much later on, in a flashback scene, it's shown that Grisha received this as part of his interrogation after he's turned into the Marley military by Zeke, his son. Good thing he ended up inheriting the power of the Attack Titan, which comes with a built-in Healing Factor. In chapter 125 you learn that Levi survived the explosion along with Zeke but not without injury as he lost two fingers and his right eye Though still able to use the 3d maneuver gear this becomes a bit of a Drama-Preserving Handicap for the final battle against Eren
• Baccano! features, among other things: fingers being sliced off by knives, fingers being crushed by the hands of The Big Guy, fingers being ground off on railroad tracks, fingers being ripped off with ropes, and fingers being bitten off. Ryohgo Narita must really hate fingers. Of course, the aforementioned sliced-off and bitten-off fingers belong to the immortals Firo and Czeslaw respectively, so they return to their owners a few seconds after being removed, with the former not even appearing to be fazed by their removal.
• In BECK, Ryuusuke's fingernails are removed partially as punishment for stealing a priceless guitar. Luckily, only on his strumming hand.
• In Berserk, there is a point early on when Guts can't hold his sword, because all of his fingers have been dislocated.
• Black Jack:
  • In the story "Tetsu of the Yamanote Line", the titular Tetsu (a notorious pickpocket) makes the mistake of stealing money from a guy who turns out to be a yakuza member, and the guy's fellow mobsters take the money back and cut Tetsu's fingers off in retaliation.
  • Kuniko's boss in the cozy little café she works in used to be a criminal, but now has retired. One of the proofs is that he has heavy scars in his hands. Who is said boss? Why, Tetsu himself!
  • In another episode, a famous Russian violinist named Morozov gets severe frostbite when he attempts to recover his prized Stradivarius violin, which he regards as his lifetime companion, in the middle of a snowstorm. Black Jack saves Morozov from dying in the snow but can't save his hands, and must amputate his fingers. Morozov takes his disgrace with surprising aplomb, and the end of the episode he's seen teaching a young boy how to play.
• In the Black Lagoon OVA, Roberta ends up with her index and middle fingers nearly severed by a sniper shot. What does she do? Jolt her hand so they rip off completely and don't encumber her. "Ouch" doesn't even begin to describe it. And then she takes the fight to melee because she cannot shoot anymore.
• Bleach:
  • In the manga, Loly planned to tear off Orihime's fingernails as a way to torture her.
  • Ulquiorra crushes Ishida's hand in the anime. In the manga, he actually cut it off.
• Case Closed:
  • Happens in a case, where a Jerkass rich man whose daughter was courted by a young pianist breaks the guy's fingers to reaffirm his Parental Marriage Veto. The pianist dies of suicide afterward, and his father murders the rich old man in revenge. He almost gets to the girl, but he fails. A good thing too, since she had become a Broken Bird who still pined for her lost love.
  • Someone being subjected to this is a huge plot point in the movie Captured in Her Eyes. It's the excuse that the killer, a former surgeon who became a psychiatrist, had to kill another doctor who was The Rival to him — and who, in the past, deliberately cut the nerves of his left wrist in an operation, ruining his surgeon career. Years later, after a drunken confession from said rival, he went and killed him, and later started killing the other people involved in the investigation. And then, Ran accidentally witnessed his last attack.
• A Certain Magical Index:
  • Touma breaks the middle and ring fingers of his right hand from the impact of destroying Othinus' spear Gungnir with a punch. He considers the injury Worth It.
  • In A Certain Scientific Railgun, Accelerator tries to grab Touma, only for Touma to counter with a punch that breaks Accelerator's index finger.
• Chainsaw Man:
  • Akane's contract with the snake devil requires her to part with a fingernail every time she uses his abilities. Notably, Akane visibly winces whenever she makes this trade despite being an experienced devil hunter.
  • A similar sacrifice is played even more dramatically when Yoru directs a panicking and vulnerable Asa Mitaka to create a "nail knife." Asa obliges, and as a result, the nail of her right index finger is ripped out and transformed into a small dagger.
• In City Hunter, the Silver Fox gets his trigger finger severed by Ryo Saeba's bullet, leading him to be finally defeated as he no longer can be a Professional Killer without his gun skills.
• One of the first scenes of Darker than Black is a really unlucky Contractor breaking his own fingers as the remuneration for his powers. Later, Hei breaks several of Havoc's fingers to try to get information out of her.
• In episode 1 DAYS, one of Kazama's toenails came off while he was playing soccer. It isn't shown but his shoe is bloody and Sayuri faints at the sight.
• In Dear Brother, Fukiko intentionally pushes a kenzan^note A device with metal spikes used for ikebana flower arrangement onto her half-sister Rei's hand during a flower arrangement presentation at the Sorority house. Everyone thinks it's an accident save for Nanako, who witnessed it directly; she then goes and bandages Rei's injury in front of everyone.
• This happened in the ex-Elegant Classical Musician Mitsuru Hoshou's backstory, in Detective School Q. More exactly: due to a cruel trap from three fellow (and jealous) violinists, Mitsuru got trapped in a snowstorm and, due to the cold, her fingertips fell off. Mitsuru lost her mind and was Driven to Suicide few later.
• Noise Marie from D.Gray-Man gets two of his fingers hit by a level 4 akumas bullet and has to cut both of them off before the blood virus spreads and kills him.
• Dragon Ball: After Krillin and Goku have to plow fields with their bare hands as part of Roshi's training Krillin mentions that he thinks his fingernails are falling out.
• Dragon Head: Ako fights off an Attempted Rape by biting the guy's fingers.
• Elfen Lied: The bit during Lucy's fight with Nana where Lucy slices off not only Nana's fingers but her arms and legs as well.
• Fist of the North Star:
  • One of Kenshiro's Pressure Point techniques causes his opponent's fingers to explode.
  • An early example: Shin attempts to stab Kenshiro with his hand. Kenshiro simply raises an arm and holds Shin's hand as it goes through his. Then Kenshiro does the same attack on Shin, which is blocked in the same way. Kenshiro's fist was closed.
  • Much later into the story, Rei is dying from a delayed killing blow inflicted by the main antagonist, Raoh, but he wants to bring closure to his life by defeating Juda in one final battle. Toki knows of a pressure point that can extend Rei's lifespan by three days and also boost his strength, but hitting it results in an extremely painful experience for Rei, including having each and every one of his fingernails burst out of his hands one by one.
• One panel of the second installment of the terrifying manga Fuan no Tane, "Fuan No Tane Plus", shows why it's not wise to point at ghosts.
• Full Metal Panic!:
  • The Second Raid tried going Darker and Edgier, at least in comparison to the first two seasons of the anime^note Although this scene was taken directly from the novelisation. by having Mithril interrogation specialists break The Mole's pinky finger to get him to talk. Tessa forces herself to watch. Kalinin, meanwhile, remarks that if it had been him performing the interrogation, he'd have cut the guy's fingers off.
  • In The Second Raid, Sōsuke also threatens to cut off some sap's fingers if he doesn't confess what he was trying to do to Kaname, one finger at a time. Kaname stops him before he starts, of course.
  • In the first episode of the first season, there is a scene where a young, damaged woman is actually biting her own nails to the point of actually doing harm.
    "Let me bite it or please just kill me now."
• In Gamaran, during the battle between Gama and Ryuho Kibe, the latter already has an injured arm but is still strong enough to wield his giant steel kanabo with his remaining arm and pose a serious threat. To end the fight, Gama lures him in performing a mutual attack in which the latter is seemingly advantaged (because his weapon has a longer reach)... only to aim the sword at his hand, severing all his fingers and depriving him of his weapon.
• In the last chapter of The Garden of Sinners, Ryougi Shiki bites off her thumb to squeeze her left (artificial) hand out of her cuffs.
• Played for laughs in Gintama when an annoyed Gintoki points a finger at a similarly annoyed Kagura while he lectures her, only for her casually snap it using two of her own once he finishes.
• In Great Teacher Onizuka, one of the kids whom the new Principal was using as a pawn went a little overboard in his actions; when, to protect herself, she disavowed their relationship, he began biting the nail on his thumb to the point of drawing blood.
• In Gunsmith Cats, lead character Rally Vincent is a sharpshooter whose trademark trick shot is to shoot (usually severing) the thumb of an enemy to disarm them, a shot affectionately referred to as the "thumbsnatcher".
• Hellsing has multiple cases, but the most memorable is in the 7th volume/OVA when Vampire Seras is being punched in the face by Zorin Blitz. She bites into the fist and rips the fingers right off at the knuckles. The stumps get an entire moment of shaking bloody animation while the biter spits out the fingers in high quality.
• Hetalia: Axis Powers: During their date, Belarus breaks Lithuania's fingers in retaliation for him being Russia's "favorite". Completely Played for Laughs.
• Highschool of the Dead: In the first chapter, a teacher's fingers get bitten off by one of "them" and then spit to the ground.
• Hunter × Hunter:
  • In a tactically important, bone-breaking dodge ball match Hisoka manages to stop an extremely fast dodgeball, breaking two fingers in the process. And by the end of the match all his fingers are broken.
  • While developing his signature Nen ability to shoot bullets from his fingertips, Franklin of the Phantom Troupe decided to cut off the first phalanx of every finger because it "felt right", replacing them with prosthetics. Turns out that his hunch was right: Nen abilities get stronger if the user places a limitation on it, and his self-mutilation made the bullets stronger.
• Happens countless times through JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
  • Battle Tendency: At one point, Esidisi extracts his own blood vessels to splash his boiling blood in Joseph's face. He does this by opening up his fingernails.
  • Diamond is Unbreakable: Josuke uses Mikitaka's shapeshifting ability to cheat on a game of dice against Rohan. It soon becomes obvious that the game is rigged, but Rohan can't understand how and cuts his own finger in frustration, threatening to do the same to Josuke when he figures out his trick.
  • Stone Ocean: Upon touching the piece of the Stand Arrow that grants her Stone Free, bits of Jolyne's finger get blown off.
• This scene◊ from Kaiji. Later, he gets a screw inserted under every single one of his fingernails.
• Katanagatari: Nanami forced her brother out of his nail-biting habit by tearing off his fingernails when they were both still children.
• In one episode of Madlax, Ninja Maid Elenore breaks a guy's fingers after he makes a fatal mistake of trying to force himself upon her Ojou Margaret. Vanessa's comment? "How vicious."
• Played for Laughs in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid Yonkoma spin-off where Sein pranks Vivio and her friends by using her Intangible Man powers to make it look like she cut all her fingers off while hosting a cooking class.
• In Medaka Box, Mogana Kikaijima (the Absurdly Powerful Student Council's treasurer) rips out one of her own fingernails to avoid falling victim to an enemy's hypnosis power; when she realizes that his Psychic Powers cause him to feel "feedback" from nearby people, she rips out three more, causing the assailant to pass out from the pain.
• In Mezzo Forte, Kurokawa gets a fingernail or two pried off with a screwdriver when he runs afoul of the bad guys.
• In Monster, Grimmer is tortured by Inspector Zeman, an ex-Czech secret police agent. Zeman takes a pair of nail clippers and one by one mutilates Grimmer's fingernails as he interrogates him. Zeman and his cronies meet a nasty end when Johan appears and Grimmer's alternate personality, the Magnificent Steiner, is awakened.
• MW: When Shunsaku Ban is being tortured for information, they (among other things) STICK NEEDLES UP HIS FINGERS. LONG, LONG, NEEDLES. And that doesn't even compare to what happens after they get what they want from him.
• Naruto:
  • Shikamaru breaks his finger to release himself from a paralyzing illusion, as physical pain is a basic counter to these sort of things. (How, you ask, if he's paralyzed? With his shadow.)
  • Also Naruto himself, in his attempt to beat Neji in the Chuunin Exam by digging a hole, damaged his fingers to the point that they were bleeding from the nail beds. Worth it, though.
• One Piece:
  • It has a truly painful scenes during the Drum Island arc where Luffy has to carry both Nami and Sanji up a ridged but almost perfectly vertical cliff and when he loses his grip he starts sliding down and he has to dig his finger into to get it back which grate across a lot of the rocks and get incredibly bloody.
  • Later on, during Robin's battle against Yama he tries to violently grab her, but she uses her powers to snap his fingers backward in a painful-looking way.
  • A mild example, but Luffy has to bite into his thumb so he can blow air into it to use Gear Third.
  • When Who's Who is giving Jimbei a rapid-fire Finger Poke of Doom, Jimbei's guard is so strong that Who's Who ends up breaking his fingers.
• In Penguindrum's twelfth episode, we get a close up of Keiju Tabuki's hand — which has a rather large scar near to the fingers. In episode 18, we learn the reason why: Tabuki deliberately harmed his fingers as a kid using the lid of his old piano, in a desperate and misguided attempt to fight off his mother's psychological abuse. (The poor kid thought that, if he harmed his hand, she'd stop pressuring him to become a pianist and love him the way he was.) It didn't work.
• Probably the only positive example on this page: In Pet Shop of Horrors, a dog sold to the child of a musically focused family bites the girl's fingers so she can no longer play the piano. However, the girl actually hated the constant stress of having to live up to her family's high standards. With pianos out of the picture, she becomes able to choose her own path.
• In Re:Zero, Betelgeuse's defining trait is to bite on his own fingers whenever he's aggravated, hard enough to even rip the skin off.
• Rurouni Kenshin:
  • When confronted with the supposed treachery of Hoji, blind psychopath Usui rips off one of his fingernails to determine if he's telling the truth. Hoji then bites off six more to "punish himself".
  • In the anime, Usui breaks a finger, then Hoji stabs it. Still pretty unpleasant.
• Sakamoto Days: Gaku tries to kill the old swordsman with his hammer, but the old man blocks with katana’s handle and draws it while slashing, cutting off Gaku’s ear, ring finger, and pinkie. It’s a rather understated injury, considering the same attack destroyed the wall behind them.
• Sakura Gari:
  • Sakurako subjects the painter Terashima to this, via crushing his hand with a stone. And then she pushes him down the stairs.
  • After Dr. Katsuragi rapes and tortures Masataka, he sticks Masataka's hand into a pot of boiling tea, yelling at him to "get away from Souma!" This gives Masataka an opening and he throws the pot into Katsuragi's eyes; as the other covers his burned face, Masataka manages to escape to the Saiki household.
• Samurai Champloo has Mugen performing an interrogation. Eventually, Mugen starts to get bored of breaking individual fingers and decides to "break 'em all!"
• In Shakugan no Shana, Friagne gloats over having downed Shana and Yuji and slowly aims a gun at Shana's head. Before he can pull the trigger, Shana throws a shard of glass that severs his fingers and makes him drop the gun.
• In Shy, the hero Stardust mentions that he cut of the finger of his friend when the latter was under the influence of a ring that turned him into a monster and couldn't be removed by normal means.
• In Soul Eater, when Mifune and Black Star get into a Blade Lock, Mifune grabs Black Star's first two fingers and breaks them.
• At the end of the first volume of the Super Mario Land arc in Super Mario, Mario's fingers start bleeding from clicking the Game Boy buttons too fast.
• In Sword of the Stranger, when Kotarou is captured by the Ming, he bites the finger of the one who grabbed him. The guy punches him to make him let go, which causes him to sever his finger.
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: In the prison, the bird-based Beastman pierces through Viral's hand entirely with his talons while trying to get his attention. Viral's immortality led to the resulting injuries healing right away, but still. Ouch.
• In Tokyo Ghoul, this is a major aspect of the torture Kaneki is subjected to by Yamori while held prisoner for 10 days in his Torture Cellar. The sadistic Ghoul uses a pair of pliers and resolves to see how long it will take to fill a bucket with Kaneki's severed fingers and toes.
  Kaneki: [narrating] My fingers and toes regrew as if they were nails and hair over and over and over and over and over. They regrew every time. And I felt like I was truly a monster.
• Trigun has Wolfwood shoot Livio in the hand, leaving him with horrible, jagged bones sticking out. Livio stabs himself in the opposite arm with them later.
• In Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-, Sakura gets her nails ripped off in the Acid Tokyo arc while she's trying to stop herself from sliding down a sheer cliff and get one of the lost feathers.
• In the yaoi manga Under Grand Hotel when Sen gets his lunch he finds someone's cut off finger among the french fries.
• During the Protoporos Island arc of Usogui, main character Baku chops off one of his own fingers in order to win an Absurdly High-Stakes Game of Chopsticks. He then specifically refuses to get it re-attached so that his opponents will always be aware of the insane lengths he'll go to win.
• In an early chapter in Uzumaki, a protagonist's mother uses scissors to cut her fingerprints off due to her not-so-irrational fear of spirals.
• In Vinland Saga, the two most notable instances of fingore are Thorfinn cutting off two of Thorkell's fingers with a dagger and Askeladd clipping off the fingers of an English captain with scissors, but there's also a lot of it in the background.
• The Movie of The Vision of Escaflowne has Folken telekinetically breaking Dilandau's fingers.
• This happens to The Voynich Hotel's Kuzuki towards the end of the series, when yakuza from his Dark and Troubled Past torture him. They also put out his eye, his ear and some of his teeth, for good measure. And then, Kuzuki's Violently Protective Girlfriend Elena finds out...
• When They Cry:
  • Higurashi: When They Cry:
    • Shion had to tear off three of her own fingernails to earn forgiveness from her Yakuza grandmother Oryuu, and later her twin Mion willingly tore three of hers off due to her guilt. One of the best scenes of that arc, and part of the reason that no one will forgive Granny Oryuu. One of the TIPS reveals that Mion & Shion's mother Akane had this done to her after the disagreement/sword fight she had with Evil Granny over Akane's choice of marriage. It also reveals that Oryuu herself had this done to her at some point when she was young, for some unrevealed transgression. Looks like this is a standard form of Corporal Punishment in the Sonozaki family.
    • There's also a scene involving fingers and the other kind of nails: one character prepares to drive long metal nails through every finger joint in another character's hands, for a total of 15 nails per hand.
    • In the opening from episode 9, we see a corpse that had metal nails driven through every one of the finger joints on the right hand.
    • The door-slamming scene in Onikakushi where Rena tries to get Keiichi to unlock his door and he slams her hand in the door. The next day her fingers are bandaged. This one's made even worse when you find out who the real crazy one is and exactly why Keiichi sees Rena repeating "I'm sorry" over and over shortly afterward.
    • One of both Shion and Keiichi's hallucinations in the Watangashi and Meakashi manga were related to the finger scenes.
  • Umineko: When They Cry has Rosa's hands shatter (like pottery) from the wrist downward as her Creepy Child daughter Maria finally snaps and epically calls her out on all of her abuse.
• Wolf Guy - Wolfen Crest:
  • Haguro punishes a mook who seriously failed him by taking away his finger, as the Yakuza rules demand. But rather than using something sharp he uses a metal ring he is wearing, grinding the mook's finger against the floor until it comes off.
  • Post Aoshika's release from her chains and during Inugami vs. Haguro's battle, Haguro gets to slice two of Inugami's fingers, and he eats them in an insane attempt to confirm Haguro is a superior beast to Inugami.
  • It gets even worse when Haguro slices off four more of Inugami's fingers - and an entire arm!
• It never gets carried out, but Yu-Gi-Oh! has Mokuba's first appearance seeing him threatening to cut off Yugi's finger with a knife if he loses their game of Capsule Monster Chess.
• In YuYu Hakusho, Kuromomotaro has the ability to slowly cancel out Hiei's attacks one by one and to make sure his sword is useless intentionally wounds himself with it. In the original manga, he sliced off three of his own fingers to do so. That was apparently a bit too graphic for the anime, so they changed it to him simply cutting his arm with it instead.
• In Zombie Powder, a villain cuts off all the fingers of someone he's interrogating even after he gets the information.

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