Hunting the Most Dangerous Game in Anime and Manga.
- Chelsea's past from Akame ga Kill! shows that she was the employee of a minister who funnily chased and killed people. He was also the first person she killed to make the world better.
- Attack on Titan: How did King Fritz I decide to punish Ymir for supposedly freeing a pig? He set her "free" and then loosed his hunters and hounds on her for fun.
- In Lupin III: Dead or Alive, Zufu prison holds an annual event, selecting a few prisoners to attempt to escape. So far, the guards boast that no one has succeeded, and call it "target practice".
- Moriarty the Patriot: one of the arcs revolves around Moriarty orchestrating the downfall of a nobleman who does this as a hobby.
- One Piece:
- In Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island (the series' sixth movie), the third game for the Straw Hats to play involved the Baron's crew hunting down the remaining Straw Hats through the island.
- The Egghead Arc reveals that the World Nobles have a "Native Hunting Competition", held every three years, where they would descend on a country that is not affiliated with the World Government to contend on who among them can kill the most natives (plus any unruly slaves they brought along, whom they release onto the island as well). By the end of the hunts, only then is the plundered country forced into joining with the World Government. The one seen in the manga took place in the mysterious God Valley, where things got out of hand on account of pirate involvement (culminating in the defeat of Rocks D. Xebec and the disbandment of his crew); the contest has not been heard of since and seems to have now been abolished.
- In Phoenix: Life, a TV producer plans to create a gameshow based on this concept using human clones created with technology from a mysterious Mayincatec civilization given to them by the titular bird-god's daughter. Of course, things quickly go pear-shaped for him when he himself is used as the template for the clones and then gets mistaken for one.
- Godly Pond in The Promised Neverland is a hunting ground for the demon elite. These rich demons have grown tired of eating farm meat and long for the days where demons hunted humans freely. So they kidnapped children from the farms and placed them in Goldy Pond: a place where every few days the demons come and hunt down this free-range meat. However, Archduke Leuvis insists that even this is not exciting enough for him, like "hunting rabbits." Then Emma comes along and suddenly he has the Worthy Opponent capable of not just running from him, but fighting him on an intellectual level and even trying to rally the other children into killing him back, and now the game is interesting again...
- In Psycho-Pass, a cyborg who has taken the final step of having his entire brain copied into a digital form in order to achieve immortality takes part in underground human hunts. He claims it makes him feel alive again, and he takes grisly trophies from his kills, such as a smoking pipe carved out of human bones.
- Pumpkin Scissors has a Monster of the Week (well, a human, actually, but considering what he does...) in the form of Viscount Wolkins, an egomanic evil noble who promises a vast reward to anyone winning his game...that consists of shackling the challengers together and letting them loose on his grounds, after which he hunts them with a freaking tank, cannon and all. When Section III turns up to investigate and, upon finding out the nature of his game, arrest him, he then subjects The Hero and Those Two Guys to the same treatment. Unfortunately for him, The Hero happens to be a chemically enhanced giant armed with a 13mm, armor piercing handgun who was trained and conditioned specifically to fight tanks on foot.
- In Tenkuu Shinpan (High-rise Invasion), a girl wakes up in a world of skyscrapers where she witnesses the violent murder of a man by another man in a mask. She soon realizes that she is unable to make it to the ground floor of the buildings and must make her way from building to building via suspension bridges precariously built seemingly at random between the buildings. She finds the masked people are there to cause distress on the inhabitants and either push them to commit suicide by jumping or by murdering them if they fail to do so.
- An episode of Weiß Kreuz had Hirofumi Takatori drug people in a nightclub, ship their unconscious bodies to a forest, then release them for his friends to kill for fun.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V has the Academia students engage in what they call "Hunting Games" when conducting their onslaught on the Xyz Dimension: It's a Body-Count Competition in which any Xyz Dimension denizen qualifies as "prey" to be sadistically hunted and carded. Everyone - even non-dueling adults (this world's equivalent of defenseless civilians) and infants - is fair game.
