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* 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]].
* ''[[Shuna's Journey]]'' has a world where every human character you meet is either impoverished or a slave. The gods who live where the Moon sets cultivate vast fields of grain, but demand human sacrifices for them. Slave trade is common. Vast, empty deserts of nothingness are scattered throughout the world.
 
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