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* ''[[Mirai Nikki]]''. For perspective, the [[Moral Event Horizon|former]] most sympathetic character, the [[Woobie]] lead, was last seen {{spoiler|massacring orphans in a desperate attempt to bring his dead parents back to life. His father killed his mother, and then his father was killed by the mob.}} The second most sympathetic character is a full-blown terrorist [[Mad Bomber]].

** The [[Toku]] style Hero of Justice is a vigilante psychopath.

* Between the warmongering kingdoms and their [[Aristocrats Are Evil|corrupt nobility]], the [[Corrupt Church|heresy-crushing Holy See]], and [[Demon Lords and Archdevils|the evil Godhand]] [[The Legions of Hell|and their ravenous demonic Apostles]], life in the world of ''[[Berserk]]'' really, really, really, really, really, [[Overly Long Gag|really]] sucks hardcore. [[Cosmic Horror Story|The world seems to exist only to make people as miserable as possible and to give the demons somewhere to play]]; humanity exists so that the demons have something to play with. The biggest idealist in the entire setting (who is ''anything'' but altruistic and is quite willing to use ruthless methods to accomplish his dream) snapped under the pressure and is now the [[Big Bad]].

** The demons get screwed, too. The price that people pay to become demons, in addition to sacrificing the people closest to them, is a guaranteed trip to Hell after they die. Hell is a nightmarish vortex of damned souls that drags your spirit into it, where you suffer indescribable pain and torment until all traces of your being has been utterly consumed in a sea of eternal suffering. And thanks to {{spoiler|Griffith/Femto taking advantage of the Skull Knight's dimension warping attack, [[It Got Worse|that Hell has literally broken loose]]}}.

* The [[Nasuverse]] is pretty crappy. Between the vampires, which- apart from only one or two exceptions- are most definitely ''not'' [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire|friendly]], and other supernatural creatures, ordinary humans are constantly being killed and having their life sucked out of them. The only people who oppose the vampires are an order of [[Church Militant]] [[Knight Templar|Knights Templar]] who kill anything [[Fantastic Racism|nonhuman regardless of threat]] and aren't too concerned about killing innocent bystanders, and a cabal of power hungry mages, most of whom are only interested in their own research, and the only reason they fight the vampires at all is to [[The Masquerade|preserve the secrecy of magic]]. In fact, some mages kill people in the course of their experiments, and for the most part, as long as they kill any witnesses to prevent discovery, they won't suffer any penalties. But even the mages have it bad; the Mage's Association has an established aristocracy, and those who aren't part of it are basically second class citizens. And anyone who makes a ground-breaking discovery will receive a sealing designation, which is a polite way of saying that they'll be locked up for the rest of their lives and experimented on. Oh, and if all that wasn't bad enough, the entire human race is ultimately doomed, and there's nothing anyone can do stop it.

* [[Loveless]] takes place in a rather shitty world. To put things into perspective- almost all of our main characters are or were abused children and are severely emotionally fucked up; even people on the 'good guy' side do very bad things (Ritsu-sensei, anyone?); the few decent people who try to help are useless; kids as young as twelve get dragged into presumably-very-dangerous spell battles Seven Moons Academy gets attacked and the ones dealing with the resulting mess are the ''students''; and, at least for now, [[The Bad Guy Wins]].

 

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