History AfterTheEnd / AnimeAndManga

* ''Anime/{{ICE}}'' takes place in a world where all the men have died and HomosexualReproduction not yet invented, so the series focuses on the remaining women trying to survive the end of the world.

* ''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.

* ''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 [[HalfHumanHybrid demi-human tribes]], like the beetle folk, "the Scarabaei".

* ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'' opens to a future where it's 900 years after an unnamed disaster nearly kills off almost all of mankind.

* ''LightNovel/WorldEndWhatDoYouDoAtTheEndOfTheWorldAreYouBusyWillYouSaveUs'' is set in a world where all the humans barring the main character are now extinct following the war between them and the god-like Visitors and the mysterious rise of the [[EldritchAbomination 17 Beasts]] who now plague the land and turned the surface world into a desert wasteland. The surviving races in the present day have now fled to and dwell on the floating islands where they're remotely safe from the Beasts, though there would be the occasional invasions certain Beast species wouldn't mind doing to some of the islands that are inhabited...

* ''Anime/PanzerWorldGalient'': Several millennia before the beginning of the show, the world of Arst was devastated by a terrible war. Most of the survivors left the planet as the rest started to rebuild it. Tens of centuries later Arst is inhabitable again, but their inhabitants technology has regressed to medieval levels.
* ''Anime/{{Planzet}}'' is set in 2053 after a war with aliens has destroyed most major cities. Yet the army and Komoyo's school (in Tokyo anyway) are still running (though Taishi mentions that walking outside is risky because of bandits.)

* ''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, wants to go back to that world.
** And we have an EldritchAbomination [[ClockRoaches Clock Roach]] trying to destroy the parallel world to boot.
* The story of ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'' takes place after a post-apocalyptic event that left a futuristic version of society largely in ruins. While the rich live it up in the lavish walled cities, the poor scavenge the remaining ruins for high-tech devices and relics that they can sell for a profit.

** For the Invid themselves, the end came when the Robotech Masters, looking to corner the supply of Protoculture ([[AppliedPhlebotinum the incredibly powerful fuel that makes the advanced Robotechnology possible]]), defoliated their homeworld of Optera and destroyed all Flower of Life (the plant Protoculture is made from) there. Since then, the Invid were reduced to nomads crossing the stars trying to take their revenge on the Masters and secure supply of both Protoculture and Flower of Life (that they feed on), at least until they found out that the Flower now grew naturally on Earth - and that Earth's defenders and the Robotech Masters had destroyed each other.
** For the Robotech Masters and their Tirolian Empire, the end was caused by their own supply of Flower of Life somehow drying up, leading to the Zentraedi being dispatched to find Zor's ship that carried fertile seeds and thus reaching Earth, and the destruction of the Zentraedi taking out the near totality of their military forces, allowing the Invid to come and take their revenge. When the Masters come to Earth with what little Protoculture they still have is in the attempt to refuel and rebuild their civilization, while the people back on Tirol and their cluster are defenseless against the Regent's faction of the Invid - at least until Earth's Robotech Expeditionary Force (sent to either negotiate peace with the Masters or fight the new war away from the still recovering Earth) shows up.
** In ''WesternAnimation/RobotechTheShadowChronicles'' it turns out the Invid and their Flower of Life aren't originally from Optera, but from a long lost world the mysterious Children of Shadows destroyed to try and annihilate Protoculture and anyone using it, an attempt that resulted in their own annihilation at the hands of their would-be victims... Or so it seemed, as during the REF's final attempt at retaking Earth from them [[OhCrap the Invid recognize their technology being used by the human forces, including the same bombs that destroyed their original homeworld]].
%%* ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess''

* ''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}}''

* ''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]].

* ''Manga/HeavenlyDelusion'' features this setting in one of its major [[PlotThread plots]], with post-apocalyptic Japan having suffered extensive damage to its cities and being occupied with giant “Man-Eaters,” giant monsters who hunt down humans using supernatural abilities. While there are some pockets of civilization left and yen still being used to conduct business (albeit at a mere twentieth of its normal value before the calamity occurred), most people still survive by looting abandoned cities as well as bartering goods with each other - at least the ones who haven’t [[HumansAreBastards resorted to theft and murder to survive]].

** After [[spoiler: Eren sics the Wall Titans on Humanity, it's gradually becoming this trope ''for real''.]]

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' is set in an unspecified future where humanity has been reduced to a handful of walled villages that are constantly under threat from roving giants that seek to eat them alive. The story follows the main defense force of the last city on earth as they seek to take the fight back to the monstrous Titans. [[spoiler:This is later revealed to be a lie; while the island the main cast lives on ''is'' overrun with Titans, the rest of the world is made up of thriving human civilizations and no apocalypse has ever occurred. The Titans are transformed humans sent by hostile nations to herass the peoples inside the walls, and the Titan Shifters are their agents. Once this is discovered [[GenreShift the post-apocalyptic tones are dropped and it becomes a war story]]]].

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' is set in an unspecified future where humanity has been reduced to a handful of walled villages that are constantly under threat from roving giants that seek to eat them alive. The story follows the main defense force of the last city on earth as they seek to take the fight back to the monstrous Titans. [[spoiler:This is later revealed to be a lie; while the island the main cast lives on ''is'' overrun with Titans, the rest of the world is made up of thriving human civilizations and no apocalypse has ever occurred. The Titans are transformed humans sent by hostile nations to herass the peoples inside the walls, and the Titan Shifters are theie agents. Once this is discovered [[GenreShift the post-apocalyptic tones are dropped and it becomes a war story]]]].

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' is set in an unspecified future where humanity has been reduced to a handful of walled villages that are constantly under threat from roving giants that seek to eat them alive. The story follows the main defense force of the last city on earth as they seek to take the fight back to the monstrous Titans. [[spoiler:This is later revealed to be a lie; while the island the main cast lives on ''is'' overrun with Titans, the rest of the world is made up of thriving human civilizations.]]

* The world of the Anime/MonsterRancher anime is explicitly 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 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. By the time the series takes place, civilization has returned to a Medieval level with occasional SchizoTech.

* ''LightNovel/SukaSuka'' is set in a world where all the humans barring the main character are now extinct following the war between them and the god-like Visitors and the mysterious rise of the [[EldritchAbomination 17 Beasts]] who now plague the land and turned the surface world into a desert wasteland. The surviving races in the present day have now fled to and dwell on the floating islands where they're remotely safe from the Beasts, though there would be the occasional invasions certain Beast species wouldn't mind doing to some of the islands that are inhabited...

* ''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.

* ''Manga/DrStone'' takes place 3700 years after a mysterious phenomenon [[TakenForGranite turns every human on earth to stone]]. The story follows the protagonist's attempts to recreate modern technology and rebuild civilization after finally breaking out of the petrification.

* ''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".

%%* ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}''

%%* ''Anime/BlueGender''
%%* ''Anime/BlueSubmarineNo6''

%%* ''Literature/FromTheNewWorld''

%%* ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind''

%%* ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere''

%%* ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood''

* ''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.]]