Potty Emergency / Anime & Manga

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• Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero:
  • The group gets locked in a storage room and can't break down the door because they would have to pay for the damage. Kuzuha needs to pee and is too embarrassed to just go into the bags of sand. Akatsuki uses Pressure Point techniques to make Miu and Chikage have to pee too, saying it won't be embarrassing if all of them do it. All three of them wet themselves at the same time.
  • In an OVA, Haruka and Minami put on chastity belts to prevent Akatsuki from stealing their panties. When Minami needs to pee, Haruka learns she misplaced the key to the belts. Akatsuki shows up and uses a pressure point on Haruka to make her need to pee too, saying it won't be embarrassing if both of them do it. Both of them wet themselves at the same time.
• A segment of Episode 37 of Atashin'chi is dedicated to how you shouldn't wait to go because you won't be able to hide it anyway.
• Azuki-chan: In one episode, both Azuki and Yoko have these in the middle of heavy traffic. Azuki manages to find a rest stop after getting off the bus; Yoko is forced to wait inside of her car.
• Big Windup!: In episode 11, both Sakaeguchi and the protagonist Mihashi need to go to the bathroom while they are waiting in line for a baseball meeting. Sakaeguchi has nervous diarrhea and Mihashi needs to pee. The latter is then shown peeing at a urinal in the restroom.
• Yami from Black Clover has really bad bowel problems, spending long amounts of time on the toilet. So much so that a Running Gag has him be interrupted while using the bathroom. He often asks Finral to use his Spatial Magic to send him to the toilet.
• Iba from Bleach has this problem in an omake where he's running frantically through a marketplace searching for a restroom, and is directed to one by the canine Captain Komamura. When he goes where Komamura pointed, Iba only finds a dog peeing on a phone pole, much to his horror. We hear a gross noise just as a couple of other shinigami across from him peer out of the men's room and wonder what Iba is doing.
• Removing an angel's halo in Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan triggers an automatic Potty Emergency.
• Bomberman Jetters: In episode 5 - "Underground, Go! Go! Go!", Shirobon desperately needs to use the bathroom, while driving through the underground caverns. He makes it in the end.
• In episode 194 of Boruto, the Spin-Offspring anime of Naruto, Naruto's son Boruto has one of those in the morning. He then runs into Kawaki who's staying over at his house and has to use the bathroom too. After a petty squabble over who gets to go first, Naruto, who's sitting on the toilet, tells them to just pee outside if they can't hold it. They do, side to side, then instantly go back to fighting.
• In The Brave Fighter of Legend Da-Garn, episode 36, Seiji has to pee and calls Da-Garn to find him a deserted island where he proceeds to relieve himself in a bush.
• Subverted in the manga of Captain Tsubasa, where Tsubasa's dad Koudai actually got out of the bathroom when Tsubasa scored a goal and his match was being televised.
• Case Closed:
  • Played with in one early episode. Conan fakes the trope and asks a particular person for directions to a bathroom. The feigned urgency causes this person to mistakenly use a non-working pen he'd been trying to conceal.
  • One case (episodes 156-157) featured Conan, Detective Takagi, and the kids trying to prove the innocence of a man who was handcuffed with Sato in an abandoned building. When the case is solved (with the man released and the true culprit of the case apprehended and both he and Sato is freed, the first thing she does upon free is desperately ask for a toilet. The irony of the situation is Sato and her suspect were cuffed to a (non-functioning) toilet the entire time.
  • Invoked in a later manga chapter. Sera really needs to go to the bathroom, but the girls' restroom is full. She is a Bifauxnen and is wearing boyish clothes at the moment, so she sneaks into the boys' restroom... and then she gets ambushed by Kaitou Kid, knocked out and stripped to her (boyish) underwear so he can use her clothes. She is MOST UPSET when she wakes up, kicking Kaito in the head when she finds him talking to Conan.
• Chibi Maruko-chan:
  • In episode 25, Maruko has a terrible stomachache, which lasts for the whole day.
  • Maruko has one in episode 297 during an awards ceremony at school.
  • In episode 311, Maruko has one while waiting in line to see the pandas.
• This happens to Wu-Hee once in the first volume of the manhwa Chocolat; she even lampshades it by murmuring "That was close".
• Chio's School Road: The episode “Thank You, George” starts with Chio in a desperate scramble to find the bathroom. She makes it in… only to realize that she went into the men’s bathroom and has to formulate an escape plan.
• This is how the titular kitten of Chi's Sweet Home got her name ("chi" is the Japanese equivalent of "wee"), as she had trouble realizing where she had to go (the litter box) to safely pee.
• In the Cinnamoroll short "Can You Use The Toilet?" from the DVD Cinnamoroll's At Home Challenge by Sanrio, Mocha needs to use the bathroom while on a trip through the forest. It also happens to Cinnamoroll during the live action segment that follows the short.
• Sena has a prolonged one in Episode 10 of The Comic Artist and his Assistants while trapped in an elevator. She makes it in the end.
• Crayon Shin-chan:
  • In the first segment of episode 15, Shinnosuke has to use the bathroom while at the train station and keeps bugging his mother to go. He doesn’t quite make it.
  • The plot of the Kamen Rider Den-O crossover episode has it's plot set off by Shin-chan needing to use the bathroom before school and arguing with his mother about it. At the end of the episode, he gets sent back in time to before the bus came, but he doesn't make it in time.
• In season 2 episode 5 of Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! Yumoto has one when the coach of his high school's volleyball club talks to him in the hallway and refuses to let him pass unless he agrees to join his club. He eventually does because he is about to wet himself.
• Da Capo III:
  • Sara has one in episode 5, while locked in the gym equipment room with Kiyotaka. While Himeno opens the door for them, she assumes Sara's cries were as a result of Kiyotaka trying to take advantage of her.
  • Kiyotaka has one in the beginning of episode 9. He opens the door to the bathroom only to find Charles using it. This causes her to freak out. Later, Kiyotaka unsuccessfully tries to apologize for it.
  • In the same episode, Mikoto suffers from a couple after accidentally cursing herself with diarrhea.
• Death Note has a scene involving Misa tied up for investigation, but wants to use the bathroom. She accuses L of being a pervert when he refuses her request. Misa was suspected of being Kira, and had been to the bathroom 5 minutes previously. L comments that she's only claiming to need to use the toilet to get out of her restraints. She replies that he is a pervert for having her restrained and watching her 24/7.
• Digimon Adventure:
  • Happens frequently to Agumon/Koromon, usually when he overeats.
  • Koshiro also had to pee in the movie as a result of drinking too much of Yuuko's oolong tea.
• In Dirty Pair Flash, when Yuri is forced to live in a giant dollhouse in Mission 3 Episode 4 (long story), she is expected to be like a innocent, pure angel... with no food or toilet. When it comes to the latter part, she is very desperate and squirming by the time she asks the owner and finds out the truth. Cue the siren SFX coupled with a panicked face.
• Happens to Nobita in the Doraemon episode "Amaze-ing Maze", while a device is turning his house into a maze. It is implied that he wet himself.
  • Happens to Nobita again in Malicious of the Demon. Unfortunately, due to drinking the titular device, events keep conspiring to keep him from getting to the bathroom. At the end of the episode, Doraemon hits him a bit too hard on the back, and he finally wets himself.
• High's whole part in a certain segment of Dotto! Koni-chan is a 7-minute-long potty emergency, where he runs around in Koni's seriously weird house while desperately searching for the bathroom... and he simply can't get there: there's someone in a room, he opens a door but it's not a toilet, a poster says that the bathroom is supposed to be several mile ahead, etc.. He does find it in the end.
• Dragon Ball:
  • In the first episode, Bulma has to pee and wets herself, this also happens to her in the movie Curse of the Blood Rubies.
  • Goku has a small one in Episode 4: "Oolong the Terrible." while being disguised.
  • When Oolong joins the group, Bulma tricks Oolong into consuming a "swee-trot" that makes him get the trots when she whistles "swee." (or yells “piggy” in the English dub)
  • In a filler episode, Goku volunteers to fight the leader of a rival school since the teacher was nice enough to feed him. His son became angry because he was not chosen to fight in his father's place so he put medicine in Goku's soup that would make him go to the bathroom and force him to withdraw from the match. This backfires, however, because Goku did not become sick until the match started, making Goku ask for the match to be stop so he could go the restroom. His opponent ignores his plea and beat him up, causing a little to come out, which pissed Goku off. Goku quickly beats him and then disappears to run to the nearest restroom.
• Dragon Ball Z:
  • In the Majin Buu arc. Goku and Vegeta are blasting things inside Majin Buu, it causes rather violent reactions in his stomach, and he turns a giant rock into a portapotty and proceeds to explode violently, creating a large green cloud and disgusting everyone in the vicinity (especially Mr. Satan).
  • In episode 230, Goten has to pee so he and Trunks stop by an island. Trunks realizes that he has to go too, and they pee together until they are chased off by a dinosaur.
  • In the movie Broly - Second Coming Trunks fails to get away from Broly long enough to pee and wets himself while he is on Broly's head.
• In Dragon Ball Super, Goku tells Whis, who is taking him to Beerus' planet to go train with Vegeta, that he really needs to use the bathroom. He promptly forgets it when he meets Vegeta and they start bantering, but the moment Whis reminds him, Goku goes into a panic and attempts to pee over an edge.
  Vegeta: What are you doing?! You can't piss there! Use the toilet!
  Goku: Ahhhh! It's coming out! It's coming out! Ahhhhh!
• Elfen Lied: Nyu has one early on, when she first arrives at the Maple House, but thanks to Poor Communication Kills, she ends up peeing on the floor.
• El-Hazard: The Magnificent World: A desperate Makoto engages in a mad search for the palace bathroom, which he eventually finds, but can't make use of, since it's the size of a football field and lined with dozens of female palace servants. (Makoto at this point is impersonating the Princess Fatora, and were he to relieve himself in the traditional male fashion, the jig would soon be up.)
• In episode 67 of Fairy Tail, the heroes get trapped in a forcefield. Ichiya begs their captors to let him relieve himself, but they won't.
  Ichiya: Please! It's gonna leak out!
  Lucy: Don't you dare!
• Folktales from Japan: The third part of episode 11, "The Priest and the Boy", is this trope. The boy needs to pee but the priest keeps coming up with reasons for why he can't pee outside (there are gods everywhere). He eventually tells him to ask some people if he can use their outhouse but when the boy sees a dog peeing on a tree, he climbs up the tree to pee from there, the wind accidentally carrying his pee to hit the priest's bald head.
• In Gintama, Gintoki and Hijikata both have this problem after they ended up being handcuffed together as a result of one of Okita's pranks. They spend a lot of time brainstorming over how they'll take turns using the toilet without having to see each other with their pants down, only to discover that the only available toilet is a Japanese-style one (The sort that's built directly into the floor) rather then the Western-style one they were expecting, rendering all of their previous ideas useless. They ultimately resort to having the one not using the toilet do a handstand on the back of the other until they finish.
  • In the final arc, Nobunobu spends the negotiations with the Altana Liberation Army needing to use the toilet because of Kagura spiking his croquettes with a lot of seasonings as the retaliation for his Kick the Dog moments throughout the series. Hilarity Ensues.
• In Gonna Be the Twin-Tail!! episode 11, Souji has it as his first problem as a girl.
• Great Teacher Onizuka: In one chapter Onizuka keeps ringing the doorbell at the Kanzaki household until Urumi lets him in, at which point he moves to the bathroom faster than the eye can see.
• Green Box: Sena wets himself after hesitating to select a second country to die. He summons a toilet next time he goes for it.
• GTO: The Early Years: Just as Ryuji and Eikichi are about to lose their virginities with a couple of hot college girls, they both get stomach rumbles and have to run to the bathroom, which is occupied. They quickly throw the guy inside out, and then fight over the single toilet. When they emerge, their Death Glares dispel any thoughts the ejectee and his buddies had about beating them up for kicking him out.
• Growing Up With Hello Kitty: Kitty goes through this a few times in "Going to the Bathroom". The first time, her Potty Failure is not onscreen, but you can tell because of in the next scene, her clothes are in the washer.
  Kitty: [squirming around] If I leave now, we'll have to stop playing, and playing House is my most favorite thing in the world! ...[gets up] Ohhh, BUT I REALLY HAVE TO GO!!!!!
  Mimmy and Fifi: [gasp]
  Kitty: [cries] MOMMA!!! [the scene then cuts to a washing machine with Kitty's clothes in it]
• In a chapter of Gunsmith Cats, Rally Vincent finds herself in this situation while stowed away in Bean Bandit's car. She even considers allowing a Potty Failure, despite the fact that it'll give her away. Luckily, Bean stops at a diner, allowing Rally to visit the ladies' room.
• In chapter 44 of ½ Prince, Feng Lan has this as Prince.
• Haikyuu!!: The protagonist Hinata has Performance Anxiety to the point of getting nervous diarrhea whenever there's an important (or what he deems as important) volleyball match coming up, leading to many instances of him having to run to the bathroom. He gets better as he acquires actual skills and gains more confidence.
  • In chapter 3 of Haikyuu-buu, a comedy spinoff manga of Haikyuu!!, Goshiki is scared because of "spirits" in the Shiratorizawa gym and holds off on going to the bathroom until he's about to wet himself. Ushishima takes pity on him and offers to escort him to the bathroom. Hilariously, he comes back with a ghost girl instead of Goshiki because they have the same bowl cut and he can't tell them apart.
    • The plot of chapter 81: "The Clenching Oikawa-san" literally revolves around the titular character needing to go number 2 but always getting prevented in some way.
• In Hayate the Combat Butler the titular character has one of those while Magi (the girl he's working for and protecting as a butler) is holding a long-winded philosophical monologue right when he's about to go to the bathroom. He makes it in time.
• Here Comes the Three Angels: Jun has one while outside in the forest in Episode 5, but makes it thanks to a piggyback ride from Kyou.
• Hybrid × Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia: Aine has one in Episode 12. But thanks to Kizuna, she doesn't make it...
• Interviews with Monster Girls: When she finishes her drink while... conducting her experiment with Takahashi, Machi almost instantly realizes she has to pee badly, and stands up—banging her knee on Hikari's table since her body is at Hikari's house while her head is away. It takes a few moments for Hikari to work out what's going on and escort Machi's body to the bathroom.
• Itsuki has one while trapped outside in episode 2 of I"s.
• In an episode of Jewelpet Twinkle☆, Ruby has to go to the bathroom and Akari tries to help her find one. They stumble upon a waterfall, which she calls a "big toilet". It is not implied if she made it or not after this scene ends.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
  • Diamond is Unbreakable: In Episode 9, "Yukako Yamagishi Falls in Love, Part 2", Koichi struggles to open the locked bathroom door and he ends up wetting himself.
  • Stone Ocean: In the battle with Lang Rangler, Jolyne ends up having a case of this while in zero-gravity. Weather Report offers to give her privacy while he uses his Stand to absorb the urine.
• The entirety of Chapter 73 of Joshi Kausei consists of Momoko having one while on a train. She makes it in the end, though.
• Kamisama Dolls: Utao and Moyako both have one in the middle of Chapter 47, during a traffic jam. They both make it on time.
• In Kämpfer, Natsuru has one of these in episode 1. The problem is that he is actually a boy turned into a girl and has to use the girl's bathroom, even though he has trouble figuring out how to do this.
• Kanamemo: In Episode 7, Haruka has an Imagine Spot that involves young girls having these in a traffic jam on the news. She's drunk, but still...
• Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!: In Episode 3, Mizusaki finds herself needing to take a bathroom break while she and Asakusa are stuck on the club's rooftop after the ladder falls over. By the time Kanamori brings the ladder back upright, it's revealed that they already took care of it since they slid down a pipe to get to the bathroom.
• Kenko Zenrakei Suieibu Umisho: To various characters in Chapter 46, while on the bus ride. Ironically, Orizuka ends up with one herself as they're leaving the rest stop. But don't worry, they had to go back and get an accidentally left-behind Amuro anyway.
• In episode 1 of Kigurumikku V3, Azuki develops a case of this during her fight. She makes it in the end.
• Bachou of Koihime†Musou has been known to have multiple potty emergencies. It's even a large part of episode eleven of Shin Koihime, where her younger sister challenges her to drink an entire pot of water and hold it in until dinner. She ends up going in a river.
• Kazuma and Megumin have one at night in episode 8 of KonoSuba while they are both being chased by a bunch of scary haunted dolls, though Megumin goes back and forth on whether she actually needs to go.
• An entire episode of Lost Universe, had an entire episode revolving around the 2 main characters desperately running around the spaceship looking for the only bathroom. To make things worse an ancient space trap was constantly and completely remapping the spaceship at the time. The absurdity of a ship the size of Swordbreaker having only one bathroom is lampshaded and justified by Canal, the Spaceship Girl of Swordbreaker, brattishly proclaiming she "hates bathrooms" and snippily noting that one bathroom wasn't a problem before when it was just her and Kane Blueriver aboard (as a hologram, she doesn't use it, obviously).
• A chapter of the Love Hina manga (taking place between Spring Special and O.V.A., so it doesn't show up in the anime) shows Naru with diarrhea trying to get away from the rest of the gang and use the toilet without anyone knowing what her plight is. Naturally Keitaro wants to know what's wrong, and Hilarity Ensues.
• Played for laughs in Macross Frontier where Ranka and Alto crash onto a jungle planet. She asks him to wait a second but doesn't say why. When Alto says that he doesn't know what might be living in the jungle so he's going with her, she understandably roars "DAMEEEE ZETTAI!!! BAKA!!!" ("ABSOLUTELY NOT! IDIOT!") then runs off. He then grumbles that if she wanted to go to the toilet, she should've said so. Subverted immediately afterwards as the bad guys take advantage of them being separate to kidnap Ranka.
• In Magic User's Club, Episode 3, Sae comes down with a case of this while trapped in a closet. She's crying Tears of Joy when she's finally freed.
• In Episode 4 of The Magnificent Kotobuki, Emma has one, and does an energetic Potty Dance when she exits the plane to ask the old man at the station where the bathroom is.
• Downplayed example here; a blonde girl from the obscure Mahoutsukai no Tamagotachi, volume 2, wakes up with one in the middle of the night. After having a dream about a bear pouring tea until the teacup nearly overflows.
• MegaMan NT Warrior:
  • In Episode 3, Yaito gets desperate in a car during a traffic jam thanks to not using the bathroom at school. Lan (Netto) manages to get her to a restroom in time.
  • In Episode 20, Yaito has another one, caused by drinking too much Strawberry Milk, while stuck in an elevator. With the help of Chaud (Enzan), she manages to get out in time.
• Miami Guns: Yao has a brief one in Episode 6.
• Invoked in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid when Lucoa uses a spell to instantly fill Saikawa's bladder as part of a plan to have her befriend Ilulu.
• In episode 2-6 of Mitsudomoe, the girls get diarrhea due to bad oranges.
  • Futaba has one in episode 7 of Zouryouchuu!, but can't make her point clear enough due to having lost her voice; in that same season, Mitsuba has a brief one in episode 5, dashing out of class to take care of it.
• In the first chapter of the Manhwa Monk!, the elite high school instructor Sylvia has one while reviewing the student documents at the (dirty and waterless) temple. She makes it, although she ends up kickstarting the protagonist's powers when he spots just how hot she is...
• My Hero Academia: Mineta has one while 1-A is heading to summer training camp.
• Naruto: The protagonist Naruto suffers from those a lot.
  • The non-canon short "Konoha Sports Festival" has Naruto trying to go to the bathroom (number two) between track and field events that motivate him to go much faster to be done quicker. This backfires as he ends up winning everything, and is surrounded by crowds congratulating him. He can no longer hold it at this point, and we see him go to his 'happy place' as the voices of the crowd are heard exclaiming about the smell.
  • In the second episode, Naruto has to break off from fighting Sasuke to go relieve himself. Unfortunately, all his clones feel the need too, and they're too stubborn/dumb to disappear and stop fighting each other to get in the bathroom door. A similar thing also happens in the "Konoha Sports Festival" short (see the example above), where he can't get into any of the bathroom stalls because his clones have locked the doors from the inside.
  • There's a bit of a running gag with Naruto drinking spoilt milk or eating something he shouldn't and getting unexpected diarrhea, often at the worst possible moments. It's always played for laughs.
  • Naruto angers Sakura in one episode by having to pee on a mission with her and Sasuke (and having no qualms about doing it right there in the open). She hits him and orders him to go behind a bush instead.
  • In episode 192 'Ino screams! Chubby Paradise', Naruto has one of those while doing his "Sexy Jutsu" to impersonate Princess Fuku. He stumbles around desperately before deciding to just pee in a bush, standing up of course. Unfortunately for him, the real princess is right there and proceeds to angrily chase him all across the garden and over the roof of the house. Naruto never manages to stop peeing so when he eventually falls from the roof, he ends up giving Ino, who has also been impersonating the princess, an unexpected shower.
  • Episode 79 has Konohamaru getting a case of this while being trapped in a building.
  • In Naruto Shippuden: episode 194, both Naruto and Sasuke have this problem when they get their hands stuck together during a mission. The only solution for them is to pee together, rather reluctantly in Sasuke's case. At the end of the episode, Naruto, to Sasuke's dismay, announces that he now has to go number two.
  • In Naruto Shippuden: episode 241, there's this scene of Naruto having to pee in the middle of the night while he's on a ship with Guy, Yamoto, and Aoba who are trying to keep a secret from him.
• Negima! Magister Negi Magi has a brief version. In chapter 31, the Big Bad of the arc kidnaps Konoka from a bathroom and leaves a talking charm behind to make everyone think she's still in there. It takes Negi and Co. a good chunk of time to figure it out; all the while, poor Yue (who really needs to go to the bathroom) is forced to wait outside. They finally discover what happened when Yue can't hold it any longer and kicks the door in.
  • Offhand comments by other characters imply that Yue has to run to the bathroom like this a lot. Must be all the weird juice she drinks.
• Nekopara: The first episode has Cinnamon being very desperate while waiting for Maple to get out of the bathroom in the morning. She is very relieved when she finally manages to get to run inside.
• Neon Genesis Evangelion:
  • When Misato gets trapped in a lift during a power cut, she starts to need to use the bathroom. She's just short of wetting herself when the power comes back online. As she's standing on Kaji's shoulders at the time, trying to force open the roof exit, he's quite grateful.
  • In the episode first introducing Asuka, there is a brief scene of Shinji and Pen-Pen doing a Potty Dance as Asuka is in the bathroom. Asuka accidentally slams the door into Shinji's face when she opens it and Pen-Pen proceeds to dash in.
• In episode 13 of Nichijou the Professor has a late night Potty Emergency and is too scared to go alone due to stormy weather. She doesn't have very much trouble holding it, but ultimately fails due to a sudden bolt of lightning spooking her.
• Ojamajo Doremi:
  • Pop has one in episode 7 of the first season after eating the triple-scoop ice cream she brought with the money left over from buying mame daifuku for her grandmother. She finds a bathroom at the park, but despite her effort to make it in time, she has an accident steps away from it.
  • This sets off the plot of episode 5 of Naisho. When Pop is tired of her failed attempts to toilet-train Hana-chan, she decides to switch places with Hana so she can always make it to the potty chair when she needs to use it while in her body. Unfortunately, she doesn't realize that this means that Hana-chan is stuck in her own body with no way to tell people that she really has to go to the bathroom. Upon remembering this, Pop rides Hana's biycle while in her body to school and sees Hana in her body standing on a table while really needing to pee as her classmates are panicking, much to her shock. After informing her sister of Hana's plight, Doremi takes her out of the classroom, but it's too late, as Hana wets her pants the moment she is taken out of the classroom.
• The main Ojou, Shizuka, gets a case of this in Chapter 2 of Ojousama wa Nigedashita!, but has to wait for Tooru to get out of the bathroom. She winds up having to barge in anyway.
• Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World: Alice and Rin kidnap Iska and Alice chains their hands together so he can't escape. She then realizes she Didn't Think This Through when she needs to pee and must wait for Rin to come back with the key.
• Pani Poni Dash!:
  • Becky has an extreme emergency in the episode "Even a Thoroughbred has its Habits".
  • Otome repeatedly gets diarrhea because of a pressure point.
• The 15th episode of the PaRappa the Rapper anime has PaRappa needing to pee and having no choice but to leave Boxy Boy out in the open when his sister is too busy using a photo booth with her friends to keep watch over Boxy Boy. This results in Boxy Boy being stolen by Gaster and Groober after PaRappa rushes to the nearest restroom.
• A Penguin's Troubles:
  • An episode has Beckham really needing to go #2 without being noticed by anybody. It turns out to be All Just a Dream, but he has soiled himself in the process.
  • In episode 39, Beckham has to go to the bathroom at school, but unfortunately, there is a long line to use the bathroom.
• Persona 4: The Animation: Yosuke has one of these in episode 1 and 2, for the same reasons listed in the Video Games folder on the main page.
• In Plastic Memories this happens to Isla, at the end of episode 1, after drinking too much green tea.
• In Poison Berry in My Brain, Chapter 8, Ichiko quietly goes through a case of this—and due to being the "present" part of Ichiko, Hatako also feels it, and is very vocal about it.
• Prison School:
  • Hana has one in Chapter 6/Episode 2 after drinking too much dandelion tea. Trouble follows due to an Accidental Pervert situation, leading her to get payback below.
  • Invoked by Hana when she forces Kiyoshi to drink tea that will make him want to use the restroom. That way they can be alone and she can get her payback. Kiyoshi is aware of this and tries to hold it in so he doesn't have to ask for permission to use the restroom. Unfortunately, Gakuto sees him trembling and asks for him.
  • Meiko suffers one in chapter 78 when she can't get the zipper on her Spy Catsuit undone. She ends up having to tear the whole thing off and use the toilet nude.
  • When Shingo, Jo, and Gakuto end up locked in their room, a great deal of trouble is had finding a container when the latter really has to pee.
• Ponko Tsundere na Osananajimi: In Chapter 2, Sanae does the pee-pee dance the whole time as she's introducing Kana to Shouta, both who finally call her out on holding it near the chapter's end.
• In the Ranma ½ episode "Tatewaki Kuno, Substitute Principal", Gosunkugi tries to prevent Ranma from using the bathroom during a potty emergency, but seeing as it is Ranma he's dealing with things don't go so well for him.
• Lambo has one in an episode of Reborn! (2004), as the zip on his suit is stuck, leading him to go to Tsuna’s classroom so he can get him to help. It doesn't end well, as he gets distracted at an important time…
• In Recently, My Sister Is Unusual, this happens to Mitsuki Kanzaki from time to time because she has been forced to wear a magic chastity belt that can only be opened for three minutes at a time before it automatically reappears on her. Once this happens, she has to wait an hour before it can be opened again.
• In Act 31.5 of Sailor Moon Crystal and the corresponding manga chapter, Usagi has one while visiting Hotaru, much to Chibiusa's embarrassment. She makes it, though her absence from the room at this particular moment does have some consequences.
• Seven Heavenly Virtues: Uriel, the Angel of Patience, observes an office worker in his workplace to see if he is a potential Messiah, oblivious to the fact that she is not invisible and everyone is weirded out by her. She eventually needs to pee, but holds it in and suffers, saying she cannot look away from her target for any reason. Eventually, the man directs her to a restroom and tell her to just do it, so she rushes in just in time.
• Happens to Keroro in Sgt. Frog episode 61. He makes it to a bathroom at the end. The whole squad (sans Kururu) have a case of this in Episode 341.
• Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirō has this happen a lot:
  • The potty-training episodes have this happen in them, with the parents telling Shimajiro to use the bathroom.
  • In the first version of "Any toilet can be a piece of cake!", Shimajiro really has to pee at a department store and his pee bucket warns him to go before he has an accident in the form of a song. He makes it to a urinal in time. However, when he's done, he realizes he still has to poop. The second version of the same episode omits the first half of it.
  • In one "Do it by yourself!" segment, Shimajiro is going out and doesn't want to use the bathroom beforehand. This leads to the pee bucket singing a song different from the first instance of this in the series, but he's distracted by his dad calling him to go in the car. He starts squirming in the car and asks them to pull over. He makes it to a public restroom, and this scene is followed by Shimajiro and the pee bucket singing the song together to the viewers at home.
• In Episode 8 of Shimoneta, Anna has one while toilet paper is being confiscated.
• Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle: The Princess suffers one of these when her usual toilet is being renovated, forcing her to search through the rest of the castle for a toilet she can actually use. To her distress, she discovers that since most demons have very non-human biology, she can't make use of their facilities. She ultimately ends up using the Demon King's private bathroom, causing him to suffer this trope.
• Kanata spends most of Sound of the Sky's eighth episode waiting by the phone in case it rings. Even when she has to go to the bathroom. She lasts almost the entire episode. Almost. Had it not been for Noel sleeping in the bathroom...
• In episode 3 of Spy X Family, Anya, who is a mind-reader, eavesdrops on the thoughts of random pedestrians walking down a street below her, one of whom is fretting about being about to wet himself.
• In episode 2 of Strange Dawn, due to being Trapped in Another World that has no human facilities, Eri ends up with a case of this.
• Early on in the very first chapter of Tail Chaser, the main Cat Girl really has to pee (she had drank way too many cold things at noon), and ends up breaking into a bachelor's house to use his toilet in the middle of the night.
• Tenchi in Tokyo: Let's just say you should never be in the way when Mihoshi really, really has to pee. You’ll literally get burned. See episode 20 for proof.
• The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye: In Episode 18. Bogie warns Honoka to pee before the flight, but she insisted that she wouldn't wet her pants. It comes back to bite her later on, but she makes it.
• An episode of Those Who Hunt Elves has a variation on this, as Junpei refuses to go #2 until he finds some toilet paper. The animators threw in a stress meter to show just how bad the situation was getting.
• Played for Laughs in episode four of Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, which is surprising considering how grim the series is. After eating a cake several hours earlier, Mirai suddenly needs to go to the bathroom. Considering the emergency situation everyone is in there aren't normal bathrooms to use. Mari notices Mirai's discomfort easily and gets her a disposable, paper toilet, but Mirai is too embarrassed to use it. She tries to use a portable toilet; however, a man cuts in line which causes the man in back of Mirai to get into a fight with him. Mirai ends up using the paper toilet instead (offscreen).
• Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure episode 33 has a scene in which the Witch of Delays says she has to use the bathroom, but she decides to put it off until tomorrow.
• In an early scene of Who's Left Behind? Kayoko's Diary, young Kayoko Nakane confesses through prayer that she is afraid to go to the bathroom alone in the middle of the night. She proceeds to end up having a nightmare related to said fear and wets herself.
• Why the Hell Are You Here, Teacher!?: Some of the situations involve one of the teachers being stuck in a bad position, and it goes From Bad to Worse when they have to use the restroom and are nowhere near one. Or if they are, it's usually the men's restroom and they risk getting caught. With how often it shows up it seems the mangaka may have a fetish for it.
• The Youkai Fidgephant of Yo-kai Watch has the power to make this happen to people.
  • In "Yo-Kai Babbalong", Nate has one at the beginning of the episode while in class. Unfortunately for him, the titular Yo-Kai inspiriting his teacher causes class to go on a little longer than usual. He does make it in time, however.
  • Nate has a potty emergency in Episode 26 while Espy is reading his mind.
  • In an episode of the 2019 series, Nate is inspirited by a Yo-Kai while having one of these. Unfortunately, the powers cause him to try and unzip his pants... but stops after a group of girls notice what he is doing.
  • Nate also has one in the middle of episode 84 while he's in the pool. Of course, it's Fidgephant's fault again who procedes to call his friends and cause a bit more trouble than usual.
• Yosuga no Sora: Akira has one in Episode 2, but doesn't want to stop helping others. Fortunately, a worried Kazuha watches from the distance and finally drags Akira to the bathroom. She scolds Akira for holding it.
• YuruYuri:
  • Akari has a small one in season 2's episode 4 (where she gets scared by Ayano (who’s wearing a gas mask due to allergies) in the bathroom), season 3's episode 6 (while there’s a blackout going on), and season 3's episode 10 (while visiting Yui’s house).
  • Chizuru has one in the middle of the night in a flashback in season 3's episode 9.
• Yuyushiki: In the fifth episode, Yuzuko experiences this after Yui stops her from going to the bathroom. She does make it, though.
• Zatch and Umagon have one in episode 96 of Zatch Bell!. They make it to a bathroom on time.

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