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* In pre-timeskip [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]] humans have been driven from the surface into underground villages. If anyone dares to climb to the world above, they're mercilessly hunted down and killed by the Spiral King Lordgenome's Beastmen. Of course, all it takes is a band of insanely badass fighters led by an exceedingly charismatic and determined idiot, and then his young friend/stepbrother of sorts to turn everything around. [[It Got Worse|Then the aliens show up...]]
** Neither the Pre-timeskip world nor the Post-timeskip world looked too good. First people were forced to live underground, so there would never be 1 million humans on the planet. After timeskip, they are forced out of their underground homes, where they were safer, only to reach 1 million and get attacked by aliens, though those are easily repelled... until they toss the Moon at Earth, just to make sure humanity is exterminated. It gets better, though, when Simon and Co. turns the Moon into the Cathedral Terra, a giant battleship later named Chouginga Dai-Gurren.
* The [[Hentai]] anthology ''[[Cool Devices]]''. It says a lot about the series when one of the most "optimistic" endings is {{spoiler|when a young girl[[Corrupt the Cutie|gives in to the constant hedonistic temptations (read: orgies)]] in her [[Big Fancy House]] and starts up a carnal relationship with the voyeuristic instigator of said temptations - [[Brother
* ''[[Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei]]'' (Goodbye Mr. Despair) takes place in a world where a suicidal, paranoid [[Large Ham]] megalomaniac is actually one of the most sane and collected members of the cast. This is all [[Played for Laughs]], of course.
* The ''[[Code Geass]]'' world isn't too great either. There's [[The Empire|the Holy Britannian Empire]], [[The Beautiful Elite|which looks like it's rich and beautiful at first]], but is actually a racist, totalitarian, [[Social Darwinist]] Empire which is less like the U.K. and more like [[Nazi Germany]] and where people who are enslaved are treated as "[[Airstrip One|Numbers]]". Slaves can sign up to be citizens through military service, but the discrimination is still widespread there. It is ruled with an iron fist by [[The Emperor]] and his constantly-warring children through a [[Feudal Future|Medieval feudal system]]. [[For the Evulz|If he gets bored]], feels slighted in any way or [[Well
* ''[[Barefoot Gen]]''. An autobiographical work set in the author's youth. He grew up in Japan during [[World War Two]]. The climax takes place on August 6, 1945. No fantasy or fiction is needed to create a world of horrors, we ourselves have done a fine job of it.
* Japan in ''[[Speed Grapher]]'' is a crapsack world. Everyone person in power is corrupt, and a [[Mega Corp]] has bribed even the police force. All but a handful of characters are [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]].
* ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' is set in a world with corruption and decadence at every corner, where being a mutant means [[Break the Cutie|a lifetime of being broken]], and some of the worst [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]] you'll find including child rapists, [[Serial Killer|Serial Killers]] (One of whom is ''[[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|the]] [[Villain Protagonist|protagonist]]'') and [[Psycho for Hire|sadists who join PMC's just to get the chance to kill legally]]. [[Kids Are Cruel|Even little children are rotten]] and willing to [[Kick the Dog]] and kill it!
* When describing the world in ''[[Black Lagoon]]'', Revy says it best:
{{quote| ''When I was a brat, crawling around in that [[Wretched Hive|shithole city]], it seemed God and Love were always sold out when I went looking. Before I knew better, I clung to God and prayed to Him every single night — yeah, I believed in God right up until that night [[Police Brutality|the cops beat the hell out of me for no reason at all]]. All they saw when they looked at me was another little ghetto rat. With no power and no God, what's left for a poor little Chinese bitch to rely on? It's money, of course, and guns. Fuckin' A. With these two things, the world's a great place.''}}
* ''[[Blue Drop]]''. If you're a [[Magical Girl]], you're a [[Child Soldier]] bomb disposal unit. If you're a schoolgirl, you're little more than a sex slave. If you're a guy, you're used as a lab-rat for transgender experiments if you're lucky. If you're not so lucky as to be part of an experiment, you're an animal, a third-class citizen treated like freed Africans in Antebellum America -- not a slave, but only just. If you're one of the Arume, [[Discount Lesbians|alien lesbians]] who made Earth like this, then you're living with the knowledge that your species is extinct and living on borrowed time, the only option for survival being a cultural change none of them have the courage to make. Both sides are ravaged by and living in the ruins of a war that was literally entirely pointless because of that lack of courage.
* Amberground in ''[[Letter Bee]]'' is a corrupt world of perpetual night, where a man-made sun shines over the capital city of Akatsuki. Life is rough almost everywhere, and even the people assigned to deliver some happiness throughout the world through letters--the titular Bees--could be killed by or lose their [[Life Force]] (Heart) to mechanical monsters along the way.
* The world of ''[[Saikano]]'', while never directly shown, is undoubtedly this. We know that there's a large-scale war going on from the beginning, but halfway through we find out that the protagonist's hometown is peaceful {{spoiler|because Chie's specifically protecting it, and everywhere else has gone to hell.}} By the end of the series, {{spoiler|all the different countries have either been destroyed, or are committed to plans of mutually assured destruction, and Chie's lost most of her humanity and turned into a [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] out of a desire to [[Mercy Kill|give everyone a nice, painless death]]}}. There's a very good chance this was the best thing left to do at that point.
* The [[Alternate Universe]] medieval Japan of ''[[Kagerou-Nostalgia]]''. The nation has been engulfed in a civil war for decades, with eighty percent of the country under the control of the [[General Ripper|psychotic]] Kiyotaka Kuroda, who organises random massacres of the population by [[Sociopathic Soldier|Sociopathic Soldiers]] just for kicks. The remaining twenty percent of the country go out of their way to avoid opposing Kuroda, even aiding the "People Hunts" in some cases so that he'll leave them alone; generally speaking their governments seem to be either crooked or cowardly. People who do go to war with Kuroda have a tendency to go insane, coming home and spreading even more misery around. And that's without mentioning Gessho Kuki, [[The Man Behind the Man]] to Kuroda, and the armies of demons and monsters he summons to bolster the General's ranks. The world's only hope at this point are six kids, who don't like one another, have yet to defeat a single major enemy, and whose major accomplishment as of the most recent volumes have been getting their leader killed and her kingdom decimated, and suffering a betrayal by one of their own. They've yet to really help anyone, and the entire setting is pretty much overwhelmed with a sense of cynicism and despair.
{{quote| [[The Hero|Kazuma Shudo]]: "In the end we were powerless, again. We fought like mad, but all that's ever left is the devastation."}}
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