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The first one to come to mind for me is Emiru from Nozoki Ana. I get that the underlying idea is that she's broken, but even with that, I just didn't find her the least bit sympathetic. At all. Ever.
Another that comes to mind would be Hina from Domestic na Kanojo. It's as if the theme for her character is "someone who consistently makes nothing but the wrong choice." At every turn, there's a fairly obvious path she should follow, either for her own good or for the good of others, and it's pretty much guaranteed that that's not what she's going to do. And there's nothing consistent about her character - for instance, it's not that she's capricious and assertive. She just suddenly becomes capricious and assertive when she should be thoughtful and cautious, and then when she actually should be capricious and assertive, she just as suddenly turns thoughtful and cautious.
I'm sure there are more, but that's all that comes to me at the moment...
These are both really good. I haven't watched the anime for either of these (in fact, I just learned from this comment that there was an anime adaptation of Nozoki Ana), but have read the manga for both. Both of these characters are just really difficult to understand, but that is because they don't behave in any way that is consistent. I get that people in real life can be inconsistent like this, but when you introduce randomness like that into fiction, it just makes it a bad story and the reader/viewer is left confused.