History FromBadToWorse / AnimeAndManga

* ''Anime/{{Bakugan}}'': [[spoiler: Mira, in “Mylene’s Meltdown”, says this of King Zenoheld in how far his evil plans ended up going. He went from wanting to rule the Bakugan, to wanting to destroy them all, to wanting to destroy ''the entire universe.'']]

** ''Manga/ShinMazingerZero'': In this [[http://i14.mangareader.net/shin-mazinger-zero/2/shin-mazinger-zero-931276.jpg picture]], Kouji is dashing headfirst in the DespairEventHorizon after his father has been murdered, his girlfriend has been raped and murdered, and he has been forced to kill his MadScientist of a grandfather, losing an arm in the process. It gets worse? Oh, yeah. Straight after an EldritchAbomination dwelling in the body of a HumongousMecha will possess his body and will use him to fight an army of {{Robeast}}s. During three months he will fight relentlessly Dr. Hell's Mechanical Beasts army, gradually losing his sanity as the whole world becomes ruins. Finally his mind will snap, and the EldritchAbomination -fed and fueled by his negative emotions of rage, despair, madness, grief and pain -- will get loose [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and burnt the world to ashes]]. The funny part? That is the ''first'' story arc.

** 15 years ago a massive explosion in Antarctica caused severe changes in global climate that killed half of the world's population. Now freakishly huge and terrible creatures are repeatedly appearing out of nowhere to attack the almost entirely deserted Tokyo-3. And the only thing that can stop them are scary giant cyborg robots that can only be piloted by a bunch of emotionally scarred 14 year olds. There's no one else who can do it, and if they fail to stop the attackers, it will be the EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. And that's just the first episode. Things go downhill from there very fast.

*** The last few episodes are this as well for Shinji (everyone else is pretty much already going through this), a brief HopeSpot when Kaworu appears and shows Shinji some love, but then [[spoiler: Kaworu reveals himself as the final angel, invades NERV and almost causes the third impact before deciding to ScrewDestiny and make Shinji kill him,]] having to do this leave Shinji completely broken mentally, add to that [[spoiler:Asuka in a coma]], [[spoiler:Toji and Kensuke]] having left Tokyo-3, [[spoiler:Kaji]] dead, [[spoiler:Rei being [[WeHaveReserves the third one so far]]]], [[spoiler:Misato]] falling into despair and it looks like Shinji's in for a rough ride, then all of a sudden: ''End of Evangelion'' happens... [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and EVERYTHING goes to hell. Almost literally.]]

*** And worst of it? All is going according to Aizens plan.

* Can basically be used to sum up most of ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic The Second Raid''. A shadowy organization is working against Mithril, providing their enemies with technology to match theirs. Sousuke is not only pulled off of his assignment to guard Kaname and leave the job in the hands of someone he doesn't trust to protect her adequately, he is further commanded to never have any contact with her again. Instead, he is ordered to devote his energy to working with a HumongousMecha that he hates because its technology is unreliable. Eventually he slips into a HeroicBSOD and simply walks away from a mission, wandering through Hong Kong, acquiring a bottle of scotch, and letting himself get picked up by a prostitute. And then it gets worse: [[spoiler:he finds out that his worst enemy, Gauron, is still alive and claims to have had Kaname murdered in Sousuke's absence]].\\

* ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' takes a turn for the worse near the end of the story: Ryo Asuka reveals to the world that his best friend, Akira Fudo, is Devilman. People become afraid of Akira, his girlfriend Miki's parents are arrested and tortured, and Miki herself is murdered by an angry mob. Eventually, humanity goes extinct in the war with demonkind, and Akira spends the next twenty years fighting Ryo, who is actually the fallen angel Satan. [[spoiler:In the end, Akira dies fighting Satan, leaving his mortal enemy heartbroken in the moments before angels descend upon the earth to cleanse it of demons.]]

* ''Manga/TwentiethCenturyBoys'' ends its first two arcs with things getting incredibly worse. The first arc [[spoiler: has Kenji and Fukubei seemingly die stopping [[BigBad Friend's]] HumongousMecha, Friend take credit for its destruction and become the beloved savior of Japan]] while the second [[spoiler: ends with an even more sadistic man [[LegacyCharacter taking over Friend's identity]], killing a ridiculous amount of the world's population and becoming the president of the world.]] Both instances are also [[HopeSpot Hope Spots]].

* Every installment of the ''Anime/WeissKreuz'' series between the BittersweetEnding of the original anime and the beginning of the ''Weiss Side B'' manga is a long, inexorable progression of FromBadToWorse, as the DirtyBusiness the protagonists are forced to deal in takes its toll on each one's sanity.
* ''Anime/WelcomeToTheNHK'' tends to feel like It Gets Worse, and Worse, and Worse, and Worse, and ...

** Guts and Casca's entire [[StarCrossedLovers romantic relationship]] is this. It just never seems to get any better [[TheWoobie for these two]]. [[spoiler:Even after Casca's mind gets restored, she can't even ''look'' at Guts without triggering some horrific Eclipse PTSD.]]

* Each episode of ''Anime/{{Shiki}}'' is pretty much an exponential slide of "It Just Got Worse".

* Events going south very quickly when they had already been pretty bad is why ''LightNovel/AiNoKusabi'' ends as a {{Tragedy}} with at best a BittersweetEnding.