History SeriousBusiness / AnimeAndManga

** Justified in-universe since, due to [[AppliedPhlebotinum Gourmet Cells]], people can gain super powers by consistently eating their favorite foods, and from eating certain ultra-rare foods, and a centuries long war was once stopped by a legendary chef who created the ultimate food, called [[spoiler: God.]]

* This can be argued for the ''[=~Pokémon~=]'' universe, with its hospitals, schools, and criminal organizations centered around Pokémon.

* ''{{Welcome to the NHK}}'' does this with {{hentai}} games, though that might just be an exaggeration to reflect the Satou and Yamazaki's respective mental derangements.

* Astronomy and stargazing in ''SoraNoManimani''.

** Your car has an engine with '''three''' times the power of [[TankGoodness M1 Abrams]], ''Without'' the booster, [[JustifiedTrope WHAT did you expect from that]]?

* In {{Toriko}}, food is serious business. Seriously. Gigantic supermonsters that could level cities are hunted by warriors, not for the treasure they might guard, but because they're insanely delicious. Gourmet meals can cost billions, if not trillions, of yen, and they have special jails dedicated just for food related crimes. Including dine and dash.

* In the world of ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' and especially the sequel ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}'', the card game of "Duel Monsters" is a global phenomenon. National tournaments, academies, politics, etc. all revolve around a fairly simple collectible card game. And this isn't even including the mystical occult properties, known only to a few: that ''Duel Monsters'' is actually based on magical games powerful ancient Egyptians used to play. Yes, ''ancient Egyptians.''

*** With the exception of the super virus, that still sounds like TruthInTelevision. [=WoW=] is so popular that all other MMOs could be called "other small ones" by comparison.

** Your car has an engine with THREE times the power of [[TankGoodness M1 Abrams]], WITHOUT the booster, [[JustifiedTrope WHAT did you expect from that]]?

* The Delta Force class (''especially'' Touma, Aogami, and Tsuchimikado) in ''ToAruMajutsuNoIndex'' take SeriousBusiness UpToEleven. Seeing Komoe-sensei shed a tear? Go pull off an all-out war in a a school festival! No more food in the cafeteria because the class was dismissed late? Organize a small scale break out so some members can go get some food from a local store. Someone mention Nabe? Let's all go out too eat~!

* A short scene in OnePiece depicts Luffy getting angry over the fact a restaurant doesn't serve meat. When offered shellfish, he replies with "Shellfish isn't meat! Meat is [[InvokedTrope serious business!"]]

* Smiles in ''{{Grenadier}}''. I'm not kidding. If Rushina's got a dirty look on her face, and informs you that you're not getting a smile, '''''[[ThisIsSparta Run. Like. Hell.]]'''''
** Truth be told, you really have to push Rushina extremely far for her to stop smiling.

*** Jeez, that was just a metaphor.
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Probably.

** While not {{Truth in Television}}, it's actually not all that unbelievable for a sports club in Japan. For example, high school 'baseball' is so insanely popular that a team with a good chance of making it to the Koushien (the Christmas Bowl of baseball) will have 150+ members (and like Teikoku, most of those players are 2nd-6th stringers who act as lackeys).
** So while there aren't actual football teams in Japan that are that big, if the sport were to get extremely popular (and presumably that's the sort of universe Eyeshield takes place in), a team like Teikoku would not be unrealistic.

** Yukari-sensei is an even more extreme embodiment of this. She once slapped Chiyo-chan for mentioning she preferred ice cream over Matsusaka Beef using a Christmas catalogue.

** [[RuleOfFunny EVERYTHING is serious business]] in Gintama; eating hotpot, eating contests, gambling, collecting beetles, strawberry milk, pet pageants, being a fanboy, being an otaku, gaining weight, losing weight, [[ScareEmStraight separating your garbage]], being ''[[GratuitousEnglish hado boerudo]]'', playing console games/MMORPGs, acquiring paper to wipe your butt. Even being a ''neet''. And it's hilarious.

* A short scene in OnePiece depicts Luffy getting angry over the fact a restaurant doesn't serve meat. When offered shellfish, he replies with "Shellfish isn't meat! Meat is [[InvokedTrope serious business!"

* [[ShakuganNoShana Ike]] planning a theme park trip. That is serious business. Overlaps with [=~What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?~=].

* In the ''[=~Pokémon~=]'' universe, every hospital is a Pokémon hospital, every school is a school that teaches how to train and take care of Pokémon, and even the criminals are only interested in Pokémon. Not rape, not murder, not money, they just want to steal Pokémon. Goodness help you if you're a HUMAN and you need a hospital.

** The anime has an episode where Ash and Co. take Pikachu to a hospital for humans, so I guess that's not ''entirely'' true.
*** Justified, if you think about it. If something, such as anything having to do with owning Pokémon, is so big, there would have to be a lot of Pokémon related things. Pokémon are the animals of the Pokémon regions. Also, the games just show the important stuff, human hospitals, etc aren't important in a {{Mon}} battling game.
** Remember - beat the bad guy threatening to take over the world in a Pokémon battle, and his plan is FOILED.

** Given Pokémon created the universe, control time, make plants grow, regulate the tide, and [[spoiler: deflect Earth-crushing meteors]], it ''might'' be justifiable.
** Pokémon Ping-Pong, Pokémon School, Pokémon Referee School, Pokémon Ninja School, Pokémon Summer School, Pokéblocks, Poffins, Pokémon Rangers, Pokémon Contests, Apricorns, Pokémon Poetry, Pokétches, and PokéRinger are all [[SeriousBusiness Serious Business]]. Countless {{Fanfic}}s have humans go to the Pokémon Center for healing.
** In RealLife, Pokémon [[TruthInTelevision gave us]] [[http://bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Arrest_made_over_CoroCoro_leak this]] [[SarcasmMode beauty of a]] WallBanger. Really, now... is ''THAT'' something worth '''ARREST?!?'''

**** The serious business involved in this series is selling children expensive meaninglessly hypered versions of spinning tops, what shall be serious business is how such rubbish is made to market garbage to kids when spinning tops are meant to be simple cheap toys not the hyper up rubbish this series sell... so in less words, the serious bussiness behind it all is capitalism and capitalism blows...

* ''{{Bleach}}'' is an unusual example. Shunsui Kyoraku's sword has the ability to make the reality of a life or death duel conform to the rules of children's games, with the player's life still being on the line. Even extremely powerful entities like the # 1 Espada are vulnerable to the lose conditions.