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== Anime & Manga ==

== Anime and Manga ==

* The wall around the town in ''[[Haibane Renmei]]''. (We never do find out what lies beyond, though considering that the walls are {{spoiler|death}}...)

* The wall around the town in ''[[Haibane Renmei]]''. (We never do find out what lies beyond, though, considering that the walls are {{spoiler|death}}...)

* In the first and second seasons of ''[[Slayers]]'', the world Lina could explore (and put craters into) was restricted by a magical barrier that went down after the [[Big Bad]] powering it was killed.

* The wall in ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' is both literal and metaphorical, keeping reality from intervening in the [[Theory of Narrative Causality|narrative-controlled]] Gold Crown Town. Most people don't even realize it exists, since the story prevents them from wanting to leave. (This doesn't stop people from suddenly appearing inside the town gates, but it's ambiguous whether they're capable of leaving.)

* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' has the human villages deep underground. The planet's surface is overrun with monsters, and humanity has hidden away for so long that most of the people in Kamina's village question whether the surface actually exists.

* In the ~~oneshot~~ manga ''Island'', by Komi Naoshi, the town the main characters live in is surrounded by a huge wall, much like a well. When the islanders turn 14, they are shown the truth- outside their island is nothing but a vast sea. {{spoiler|The islanders believe that all the land in the world sunk and thus all other countries were drowned, making it useless to go outside the island. It turns out that only the island sank, probably because of land subsidence and earthquakes.}}

* In the one-shot manga ''Island'', by Komi Naoshi, the town the main characters live in is surrounded by a huge wall, much like a well. When the islanders turn 14, they are shown the truth: outside their island is nothing but a vast sea. {{spoiler|The islanders believe that all the land in the world sunk and thus all other countries were drowned, making it useless to go outside the island. It turns out that only the island sank, probably because of land subsidence and earthquakes.}}

* Tokyo Jupiter in ''[[RahXephon]]'', encasing Tokyo ([[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|and looking like Jupiter]]).

* A variety occurs in ''[[Angel Beats!]]''. There's no literal wall, but the world around the high school complex just disappears into a thick fog once you travel beyond the hills.

== Comic Books ==