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* ''Anime/HeatGuyJ''. Apparently nuclear war trashed civilization to the point that only seven widely-separated city-states remain in the world. To prevent a repeat, a watcher race called the Celestials maintain and judge each city. At least one city was deemed unfit and shut down. Beyond the cities are seemingly just a scatter of primitive tribes (the remnants of said city comprise one).
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* The story of Manga/SnowWhiteAndSevenDwarfs takes place in a post-apocalyptic and isolated Tokyo (though it's implied that the rest of the world is fine), after meteors hit the city two years ago and destroying a fair amount of it.
* Due to a virus wiping out most of humanity and vampires showing up to enslave them, the world of Manga/SeraphOfTheEnd is left in this state.
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** It also happened three centuries prior to the main storyline when King Piccolo nearly destroyed the world leaving only Master Mutaito and his pupils to fend themselves. Piccolo was eventually sealed and Earth began to rebuild.
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* ''Manga/{{Gigantomakhia}}'' is set, at least according to the title page, [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale one hundred million years in the future]]. The world has been turned to [[DesertPunk lifeless desert]] by a cataclysmic event, where "[[CataclysmBackstory the stars fell from the sky, the earth erupted, and the world was covered with ice]]". Humans and animals alike have had to adapt to living in the desert world, creating new species like "[[AlluringAnglerfish sand anglers]]" and [[PettingZooPeople demi-human tribes]], like the beetle folk, the Scarabaei.
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* ''Manga/{{Gigantomakhia}}'' is set, at least according to the title page, [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale one hundred million years in the future]]. The world has been turned to [[DesertPunk lifeless desert]] by a cataclysmic event, where "[[CataclysmBackstory the stars fell from the sky, the earth erupted, and the world was covered with ice]]". Humans and animals alike have had to adapt to living in the desert world, creating new species like "[[AlluringAnglerfish sand anglers]]" and [[PettingZooPeople demi-human tribes]], like the beetle folk, the Scarabaei."the Scarabaei".
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* In ''Anime/KillLaKill'', an as of yet unspecified disaster has caused almost all of civilization to completely collapse. Only a handful of cities remain habitable, one of which is ([[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse of course]]) Tokyo, which has become a facist police state.
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** In a meta-example, Hideaki Anno actually made a parody radio drama together with the main voice cast after ''The End of Evangelion''. It was called "After the End", and in it the characters discussed what they would do for a sequel now that [[spoiler: everything had gone to hell.]] It was kind of Anno's own version of the now-famous SpikeSpencer "Shinji Rant". All of that joking about a sequel [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion isn't so funny now, is it?]]
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** In a meta-example, Hideaki Anno Creator/HideakiAnno actually made a parody radio drama together with the main voice cast after ''The End of Evangelion''. It was called "After the End", and in it the characters discussed what they would do for a sequel now that [[spoiler: everything had gone to hell.]] It was kind of Anno's own version of the now-famous SpikeSpencer Creator/SpikeSpencer "Shinji Rant". All of that joking about a sequel [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion isn't so funny now, is it?]]
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* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' takes place after the eponymous titans appear, literally devouring all of humanity all over the world aside from a small area that has 50 meter high walls. At the start of the manga/anime almost nothing is known (by our heroes at any rate) about the coming the titans and the world outside the walls.
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* ''Future Boy Conan'' by Miyazaki who was well familiar with this trope.
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* ''Future Boy Conan'' ''Anime/FutureBoyConan'' by Miyazaki who was well familiar with this trope.
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* ''{{Ai-Ren}}'' is set in an AfterTheEnd scenario with humanity dwindling in the face of ecological catastrophe combined with AlienInvasion. [[spoiler: Or maybe not. It's kind of a MindScrew.]]
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* ''{{Ai-Ren}}'' ''AiRen'' is set in an AfterTheEnd scenario with humanity dwindling in the face of ecological catastrophe combined with AlienInvasion. [[spoiler: Or maybe not. It's kind of a MindScrew.]]
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* ''{{Anime/The Big O}} is set in a city which was built after an unknown event caused mass total amnesia. Everything else is believed to be barely-inhabited wasteland.
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* ''{{Anime/The Big O}} ''Anime/TheBigO'' is set in a city which was built after an unknown event caused mass total amnesia. Everything else is believed to be barely-inhabited wasteland.
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* In ''Anime/NeppuKairikuBushiroad'', a poison later known as "Shinobi" came to our world from space, afterwhich despair took over, with the people being driven to a place known as "Kairiku". The only things left that can save humanity are a mysterious human weapon by the name of "Yagyu", and the holy weapon "Giga Road".
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* In ''Anime/NeppuKairikuBushiroad'', a poison later known as "Shinobi" came to our world from space, afterwhich after which despair took over, with the people being driven to a place known as "Kairiku". The only things left that can save humanity are a mysterious human weapon by the name of "Yagyu", and the holy weapon "Giga Road".
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** In a meta-example, Hideaki Anno actually made a parody radio drama together with the main voice cast after ''The End of Evangelion''. It was called "After the End", and in it the characters discussed what they would do for a sequel now that [[spoiler: everything had gone to hell.]] It was kind of Anno's own version of the now-famous SpikeSpencer "Shinji Rant". All of that joking about a sequel [[Anime/RebuildofEvangelion isn't so funny now, is it?]]
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** In a meta-example, Hideaki Anno actually made a parody radio drama together with the main voice cast after ''The End of Evangelion''. It was called "After the End", and in it the characters discussed what they would do for a sequel now that [[spoiler: everything had gone to hell.]] It was kind of Anno's own version of the now-famous SpikeSpencer "Shinji Rant". All of that joking about a sequel [[Anime/RebuildofEvangelion [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion isn't so funny now, is it?]]
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* ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' in the second half of the story, due to [[spoiler:the death of the Pillar]]. Everyone in the country has been moved into a tiny castle surrounded by crumbling wasteland being eyed by foreign invaders.
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** [[spoiler:This happens for real in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' 3.0., which takes place 14 years after 2.0., where the Third Impact that occured occurred there wiped out most of humanity and apparently ravished ravaged the planet even worse.]]
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* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''
-->In 199X, the Earth was devastated by nuclear war. Almost all living things went extinct. However, mankind has survived. Also there's a goddamn oil tanker through a skyscraper holy shit what the fuck kinda nuclear war was this.
** A tsunami, that's what!
-->In 199X, the Earth was devastated by nuclear war. Almost all living things went extinct. However, mankind has survived. Also there's a goddamn oil tanker through a skyscraper holy shit what the fuck kinda nuclear war was this.
** A tsunami, that's what!
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-->In''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' is set in 199X, where the Earth was earth has been devastated by nuclear war. Almost war and nearly all living things went have gone extinct. However, mankind has survived. Also there's a goddamn oil tanker through a skyscraper holy shit what Evil warlords and vicious gangs roam the fuck kinda nuclear war was this.
** A tsunami, that's what!land, killing and subjugating the weak. Thankfully, there are heroes ready to defend the people and make these villains pay, several of whom are {{Badass}}es with a mastery of a mysterious but horrifying PressurePoint based martial art.
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** A tsunami, that's what!
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* ''Anime/HyperPolice'' -- the apocalypse brought most fantasy creatures to Earth (gods, oni, beastpeople including werewolves), and left humanity as a protected, endangered species.
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* ''Manga/ViolenceJack'' by GoNagai is perhaps the first post-apocalyptic anime/manga. The series is set in the chaos after a massive earthquake and volcanic eruption leveled Japan and focuses on the survivors of the Kanto region, who are divided between the strong and the weak. It's noted for its over-the-top violence and brutality, and would serve as the inspiration for many violent anime and manga to come.
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* ''Manga/ViolenceJack'' by GoNagai Creator/GoNagai is perhaps the first post-apocalyptic anime/manga. The series is set in the chaos after a massive earthquake and volcanic eruption leveled Japan and focuses on the survivors of the Kanto region, who are divided between the strong and the weak. It's noted for its over-the-top violence and brutality, and would serve as the inspiration for many violent anime and manga to come.
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* The world of the {{Monster Rancher}} anime is explcitly stated to be this. The human civilization which created the monsters was crippled by natural disasters, then the survivors fought an increasingly destructive war until Moo/Muu was created to be the ultimate weapon, except he decided to just destroy everything instead. The last few survivors barely managed to create the Phoenix and defeat Moo/Muu. By the time the series takes place, civilization has returned to a Medival level with occasional {{Schizo Tech}}.
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* In ''Manga/DragonBall Z'', Future Trunks' timeline is this thanks to a pair of rampaging androids and why he comes to the main timeline to prevent it from happening there.
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* In ''Manga/DragonBall Z'', ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Future Trunks' timeline is this thanks to a pair of rampaging androids and why he comes to the main timeline to prevent it from happening there.
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* ''{{Megazone 23}}'': Long ago, the Earth's climate collapsed under the weight of humanity's abuse. Humanity left in generational ships, of which only one survived to return.
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* ''{{Anime/The Big O}} is set in a city which was built after an unknown event caused mass total amnesia. Everything else is believed to be barely-inhabited wasteland.
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* ''Manga/ViolenceJack'' by GoNagai is perhaps the first post-apocalyptic anime/manga. The series is set in the chaos after a massive earthquake and volcanic eruption leveled Japan and focuses on the survivors of the Kanto region, who are divided between the strong and the weak. It's noted for its over-the-top violence and brutality, and would serve as the inspiration for many violent anime and manga to come.
* ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' is set in the aftermath of the destruction of Tokyo. It starts out fairly cyberpunkish, but soon moves full into this territory.
* ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}''
* ''Anime/BlueGender''
* ''Anime/BlueSubmarineNo6''
* ''Manga/KibaNoTabishouninTheArmsPeddler''
* ''Literature/ShinSekaiYori''
* ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere''
* ''Anime/NeoHumanCasshern'' takes place in a time when Androids have taken over and a man who placed his mind in a superior android fight back against the androids with the help of his dog, Friender.
** The series ''Anime/CasshernSins'' that aired well over thirty years after the original is after the end -- ''of the end'', as now the androids society that conquered humanity is crumbling because of a disaster caused by this version of Casshern, who lost his memories and wanders the ruined Earth searching for answers to questions he doesn't know.
** And the 2004 live action movie adaption: Casshern.
* ''Manga/DesertPunk''
* ''Anime/ErgoProxy'' takes place after a "detonation of the methyl hydrate layer", and as a consequence, the remains of humanity live in giant domes protecting them from the outside world. [[spoiler:Said calamity may or may not have been the direct result of nuclear war. Rapture looks suspiciously like those pillars of flame showing during end of the world flashbacks.]]\\\
Luckily [[spoiler: the original human inhabitants]] saw it coming, or at least responded in time [[spoiler:and fled into space, leaving the Proxies behind to rebuild civilization]]. It didn't turn out very well.
* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''
-->In 199X, the Earth was devastated by nuclear war. Almost all living things went extinct. However, mankind has survived. Also there's a goddamn oil tanker through a skyscraper holy shit what the fuck kinda nuclear war was this.
** A tsunami, that's what!
* ''Future Boy Conan'' by Miyazaki who was well familiar with this trope.
* In Franchise/{{Gundam}}, both ''[[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Gundam X]]'' and [[spoiler:''Anime/TurnAGundam'']] are examples.
* ''Anime/GunXSword'' takes place on the [[spoiler: prison]] planet of Endless Illusion [[spoiler: after Earth has been destroyed.]]
* ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind''
* To a lesser degree (in that only about half of humanity is gone), ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. The goal of the protagonists is ostensibly to stop various people and things from finishing the job. Ostensibly.
** In a meta-example, Hideaki Anno actually made a parody radio drama together with the main voice cast after ''The End of Evangelion''. It was called "After the End", and in it the characters discussed what they would do for a sequel now that [[spoiler: everything had gone to hell.]] It was kind of Anno's own version of the now-famous SpikeSpencer "Shinji Rant". All of that joking about a sequel [[Anime/RebuildofEvangelion isn't so funny now, is it?]]
** [[spoiler:This happens for real in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' 3.0., which takes place 14 years after 2.0., where the Third Impact that occured there wiped out most of humanity and apparently ravished the planet even worse.]]
* ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'', ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', and ''Anime/GenesisClimberMospeada'' - In Macross especially, where the remnants of humanity and Zentradi eventually manage to rebuild civilization after the planet suffered nuking. Macross City is the capital, built around the SDF-1, with homes, shops, schools and offices, and situated in a barren Alaska, with other cities miles away (possibly around Canada and some of the USA, although it's not specified where each city is located). The creators of the franchise eventually wanted to show a much cheerier image of the post-apocalypse after the big victory, however, the capture of a Zentradi satellite factory helps humanity to colonize the stars, meaning that there is a happy ending for most.
* ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess''
* ''Manga/YokohamaKaidashiKikou'' - whether or not humanity gets better is up for debate, but it [[{{Iyashikei}} puts a very comfy, delicious blanket]] on what would in lesser hands be a DownerEnding.
* ''Anime/{{Simoun}}'' (AfterTheEnd on a different planet)
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' takes place AfterTheEnd (in fact, [[EpilepticTrees some people]] think it happens centuries after the [[EndOfTheWorldSpecial conclusion]] of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''). Humanity gets better.
* ''Anime/{{ICE}}''
* ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood''
* ''LightNovel/VampireHunterD''. After ''two'' ends, no less. First a nuclear war late in the 20th century or early in the 21st that reduced humanity back to the Medieval era, and the slow hubris of the vampire super civilization that followed five thousand years later, and lasted another five thousand years before the humans were truly back in charge, yet still underdogs in the distant frontiers.
* ''Anime/{{Gilgamesh}}''
* Part of ''Literature/{{Kurozuka}}'' takes place after the world has been devastated by [[spoiler:''unintentional'' nuclear holocaust (the nuclear powers were trying to destroy an asteroid, but accidentally targeted each other instead) and the resulting nuclear winter]].
* ''Anime/HyperPolice'' -- the apocalypse brought most fantasy creatures to Earth (gods, oni, beastpeople including werewolves), and left humanity as a protected, endangered species.
* ''Anime/OvermanKingGainer'' has the cast believing that the Earth has healed from mankind's presence, and trying to reach Yapan, the home of their ancestors, from Siberia where a good portion of humanity went to live in Domes.
* ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', in Acid Tokyo, a Tokyo destroyed by acid rain where the survivors protect the eponymous reservoir, and, consequentially, [[spoiler: Clow]].
** Played with when it's revealed that [[spoiler:Acid Tokyo is the ancient past of Clow Country. Those ruins Syaoran was investigating at the beginning are the remains of the city's buildings.]]
* ''Manga/GetterRobo Armageddon'' as well as the ''Hien'' and ''Ä€ḥ'' installments of the manga.
* The manga ''Manga/SevenSeeds'' takes place after an devastating asteroid impact event destroyed human civilization and dramatically altered the environment. The only remaining humans on Earth are selected teenagers (and adult guides) who were [[HumanPopsicle frozen]] shortly before the apocalypse.
* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'': An interesting variation. Turns out the current state of affairs came to be after humans ruined earth and then escaped into the universe. Then some drama happens among the crew, resulting in millions of people dying and the remainder being haphazardly dumped on the planet where the story is set.
* ''Manga/RaveMaster''. Technically, the world the story is set in is a parallel world created by the last surviving human after famine drought and plague destroyed the original world. The main villain, the only descendant of that sole survivor and, therefore, the only 'real' person, [[WhatAnIdiot wants to go back to that world]].
** And we have an EldritchAbomination [[ClockRoaches Clock Roach]] trying to destroy the parallel world to boot.
* ''{{Utawarerumono}}'' Due to GaiasVengeance (kinda), humans can no longer live on the surface. In fact, at the beginning of the story, ALL humans are dead. (They are seen in flashbacks, just to prove that HumansAreTheRealMonsters)
* Possibly ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''. Between the severe levels of schizo tech, the bizarre structures in Rain country, and the wreckage that the Uchiha weapons stash appears to be located below, it's never been explicitly stated but it would explain a lot. The probable source of said apocalyptic event is most likely the [[spoiler:Juubi]]. The wreckage in particular has an after the end feel to it.
* In ''EL'', the Megaro Earth Project is implied to be the last remaining city populated by humans after nuclear war devastated the Earth. At the end of the second OVA, it is revealed that the situation is far worse [[spoiler: as only El and a single human male have survived, kept in a coma-like state by sentient AI hoping to find a way to breed them.]]
* ''Manga/WolfsRain'', though it is not initially clear, it is shown that the world is in the middle of a nuclear winter, and the few cities and towns huddled in domes that we see are one of the only bastions of humanity left.
* In the backstory of ''Anime/TheMysteriousCitiesOfGold'', Mu and {{Atlantis}} fought a nuclear war that wiped out both empires (as well as most of the rest of humanity) and almost all of their uber technology.
* ''Tide-Line Blue''
* ''Anime/SkyGirls'' Although everything LOOKS nice and neet and clean it takes place after an alien invasion that has killed off nearly every man on Earth leaving girls to defend Earth should there be a second invasion. Possibly only 1 out of every 100 people left is male.
* In ''Manga/DragonBall Z'', Future Trunks' timeline is this thanks to a pair of rampaging androids and why he comes to the main timeline to prevent it from happening there.
* ''Anime/SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie'': the strange fantasy world in this movie appears to be this, but it's never really explained. The creatures of this world appear to have rebuilt society and moved on... or they just don't mind abandoning tall infrastructures and New York City sized settlements.
* ''Manga/{{Psyren}}'' is about a group of people that are [[TimeTravel being sent back and forth]] to what remained of Earth after the cataclysm that wiped out most of the existing lifeforms and transformed the surviving ones into dangerous mutants.
* The world of ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' was ravaged by war in the past. Then the legendary chef Acacia invited the world leaders to a full-course meal consisting of ingredients from the Gourmet World. After eating the main course called "GOD", the world leaders experienced enlightenment and worked together to bring about peace.
* In ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'', the civil war between the [[NobleDemon good demons]] and their former rulers rendered Hell a desolate wasteland, forcing the New Devils to live in floating cities. As a result, [[spoiler:[[TheRemnant Vintage]] plans to [[HellOnEarth resurrect Old Hell in the bountiful human world]]]].
* In ''Manga/KuroganeCommunication'', Haruka is the [[LastOfHisKind last girl on Earth]] ([[ThereIsAnother or is she]]?). Luckily, her robot sidekicks are always there to help her out.
* ''{{Ai-Ren}}'' is set in an AfterTheEnd scenario with humanity dwindling in the face of ecological catastrophe combined with AlienInvasion. [[spoiler: Or maybe not. It's kind of a MindScrew.]]
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* ''Manga/ViolenceJack'' by GoNagai is perhaps the first post-apocalyptic anime/manga. The series is set in the chaos after a massive earthquake and volcanic eruption leveled Japan and focuses on the survivors of the Kanto region, who are divided between the strong and the weak. It's noted for its over-the-top violence and brutality, and would serve as the inspiration for many violent anime and manga to come.
* ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' is set in the aftermath of the destruction of Tokyo. It starts out fairly cyberpunkish, but soon moves full into this territory.
* ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}''
* ''Anime/BlueGender''
* ''Anime/BlueSubmarineNo6''
* ''Manga/KibaNoTabishouninTheArmsPeddler''
* ''Literature/ShinSekaiYori''
* ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere''
* ''Anime/NeoHumanCasshern'' takes place in a time when Androids have taken over and a man who placed his mind in a superior android fight back against the androids with the help of his dog, Friender.
** The series ''Anime/CasshernSins'' that aired well over thirty years after the original is after the end -- ''of the end'', as now the androids society that conquered humanity is crumbling because of a disaster caused by this version of Casshern, who lost his memories and wanders the ruined Earth searching for answers to questions he doesn't know.
** And the 2004 live action movie adaption: Casshern.
* ''Manga/DesertPunk''
* ''Anime/ErgoProxy'' takes place after a "detonation of the methyl hydrate layer", and as a consequence, the remains of humanity live in giant domes protecting them from the outside world. [[spoiler:Said calamity may or may not have been the direct result of nuclear war. Rapture looks suspiciously like those pillars of flame showing during end of the world flashbacks.]]\\\
Luckily [[spoiler: the original human inhabitants]] saw it coming, or at least responded in time [[spoiler:and fled into space, leaving the Proxies behind to rebuild civilization]]. It didn't turn out very well.
* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''
-->In 199X, the Earth was devastated by nuclear war. Almost all living things went extinct. However, mankind has survived. Also there's a goddamn oil tanker through a skyscraper holy shit what the fuck kinda nuclear war was this.
** A tsunami, that's what!
* ''Future Boy Conan'' by Miyazaki who was well familiar with this trope.
* In Franchise/{{Gundam}}, both ''[[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Gundam X]]'' and [[spoiler:''Anime/TurnAGundam'']] are examples.
* ''Anime/GunXSword'' takes place on the [[spoiler: prison]] planet of Endless Illusion [[spoiler: after Earth has been destroyed.]]
* ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind''
* To a lesser degree (in that only about half of humanity is gone), ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. The goal of the protagonists is ostensibly to stop various people and things from finishing the job. Ostensibly.
** In a meta-example, Hideaki Anno actually made a parody radio drama together with the main voice cast after ''The End of Evangelion''. It was called "After the End", and in it the characters discussed what they would do for a sequel now that [[spoiler: everything had gone to hell.]] It was kind of Anno's own version of the now-famous SpikeSpencer "Shinji Rant". All of that joking about a sequel [[Anime/RebuildofEvangelion isn't so funny now, is it?]]
** [[spoiler:This happens for real in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' 3.0., which takes place 14 years after 2.0., where the Third Impact that occured there wiped out most of humanity and apparently ravished the planet even worse.]]
* ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'', ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', and ''Anime/GenesisClimberMospeada'' - In Macross especially, where the remnants of humanity and Zentradi eventually manage to rebuild civilization after the planet suffered nuking. Macross City is the capital, built around the SDF-1, with homes, shops, schools and offices, and situated in a barren Alaska, with other cities miles away (possibly around Canada and some of the USA, although it's not specified where each city is located). The creators of the franchise eventually wanted to show a much cheerier image of the post-apocalypse after the big victory, however, the capture of a Zentradi satellite factory helps humanity to colonize the stars, meaning that there is a happy ending for most.
* ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess''
* ''Manga/YokohamaKaidashiKikou'' - whether or not humanity gets better is up for debate, but it [[{{Iyashikei}} puts a very comfy, delicious blanket]] on what would in lesser hands be a DownerEnding.
* ''Anime/{{Simoun}}'' (AfterTheEnd on a different planet)
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' takes place AfterTheEnd (in fact, [[EpilepticTrees some people]] think it happens centuries after the [[EndOfTheWorldSpecial conclusion]] of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''). Humanity gets better.
* ''Anime/{{ICE}}''
* ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood''
* ''LightNovel/VampireHunterD''. After ''two'' ends, no less. First a nuclear war late in the 20th century or early in the 21st that reduced humanity back to the Medieval era, and the slow hubris of the vampire super civilization that followed five thousand years later, and lasted another five thousand years before the humans were truly back in charge, yet still underdogs in the distant frontiers.
* ''Anime/{{Gilgamesh}}''
* Part of ''Literature/{{Kurozuka}}'' takes place after the world has been devastated by [[spoiler:''unintentional'' nuclear holocaust (the nuclear powers were trying to destroy an asteroid, but accidentally targeted each other instead) and the resulting nuclear winter]].
* ''Anime/HyperPolice'' -- the apocalypse brought most fantasy creatures to Earth (gods, oni, beastpeople including werewolves), and left humanity as a protected, endangered species.
* ''Anime/OvermanKingGainer'' has the cast believing that the Earth has healed from mankind's presence, and trying to reach Yapan, the home of their ancestors, from Siberia where a good portion of humanity went to live in Domes.
* ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', in Acid Tokyo, a Tokyo destroyed by acid rain where the survivors protect the eponymous reservoir, and, consequentially, [[spoiler: Clow]].
** Played with when it's revealed that [[spoiler:Acid Tokyo is the ancient past of Clow Country. Those ruins Syaoran was investigating at the beginning are the remains of the city's buildings.]]
* ''Manga/GetterRobo Armageddon'' as well as the ''Hien'' and ''Ä€ḥ'' installments of the manga.
* The manga ''Manga/SevenSeeds'' takes place after an devastating asteroid impact event destroyed human civilization and dramatically altered the environment. The only remaining humans on Earth are selected teenagers (and adult guides) who were [[HumanPopsicle frozen]] shortly before the apocalypse.
* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'': An interesting variation. Turns out the current state of affairs came to be after humans ruined earth and then escaped into the universe. Then some drama happens among the crew, resulting in millions of people dying and the remainder being haphazardly dumped on the planet where the story is set.
* ''Manga/RaveMaster''. Technically, the world the story is set in is a parallel world created by the last surviving human after famine drought and plague destroyed the original world. The main villain, the only descendant of that sole survivor and, therefore, the only 'real' person, [[WhatAnIdiot wants to go back to that world]].
** And we have an EldritchAbomination [[ClockRoaches Clock Roach]] trying to destroy the parallel world to boot.
* ''{{Utawarerumono}}'' Due to GaiasVengeance (kinda), humans can no longer live on the surface. In fact, at the beginning of the story, ALL humans are dead. (They are seen in flashbacks, just to prove that HumansAreTheRealMonsters)
* Possibly ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''. Between the severe levels of schizo tech, the bizarre structures in Rain country, and the wreckage that the Uchiha weapons stash appears to be located below, it's never been explicitly stated but it would explain a lot. The probable source of said apocalyptic event is most likely the [[spoiler:Juubi]]. The wreckage in particular has an after the end feel to it.
* In ''EL'', the Megaro Earth Project is implied to be the last remaining city populated by humans after nuclear war devastated the Earth. At the end of the second OVA, it is revealed that the situation is far worse [[spoiler: as only El and a single human male have survived, kept in a coma-like state by sentient AI hoping to find a way to breed them.]]
* ''Manga/WolfsRain'', though it is not initially clear, it is shown that the world is in the middle of a nuclear winter, and the few cities and towns huddled in domes that we see are one of the only bastions of humanity left.
* In the backstory of ''Anime/TheMysteriousCitiesOfGold'', Mu and {{Atlantis}} fought a nuclear war that wiped out both empires (as well as most of the rest of humanity) and almost all of their uber technology.
* ''Tide-Line Blue''
* ''Anime/SkyGirls'' Although everything LOOKS nice and neet and clean it takes place after an alien invasion that has killed off nearly every man on Earth leaving girls to defend Earth should there be a second invasion. Possibly only 1 out of every 100 people left is male.
* In ''Manga/DragonBall Z'', Future Trunks' timeline is this thanks to a pair of rampaging androids and why he comes to the main timeline to prevent it from happening there.
* ''Anime/SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie'': the strange fantasy world in this movie appears to be this, but it's never really explained. The creatures of this world appear to have rebuilt society and moved on... or they just don't mind abandoning tall infrastructures and New York City sized settlements.
* ''Manga/{{Psyren}}'' is about a group of people that are [[TimeTravel being sent back and forth]] to what remained of Earth after the cataclysm that wiped out most of the existing lifeforms and transformed the surviving ones into dangerous mutants.
* The world of ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' was ravaged by war in the past. Then the legendary chef Acacia invited the world leaders to a full-course meal consisting of ingredients from the Gourmet World. After eating the main course called "GOD", the world leaders experienced enlightenment and worked together to bring about peace.
* In ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'', the civil war between the [[NobleDemon good demons]] and their former rulers rendered Hell a desolate wasteland, forcing the New Devils to live in floating cities. As a result, [[spoiler:[[TheRemnant Vintage]] plans to [[HellOnEarth resurrect Old Hell in the bountiful human world]]]].
* In ''Manga/KuroganeCommunication'', Haruka is the [[LastOfHisKind last girl on Earth]] ([[ThereIsAnother or is she]]?). Luckily, her robot sidekicks are always there to help her out.
* ''{{Ai-Ren}}'' is set in an AfterTheEnd scenario with humanity dwindling in the face of ecological catastrophe combined with AlienInvasion. [[spoiler: Or maybe not. It's kind of a MindScrew.]]
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