The Alcoholic / Anime & Manga

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• Kikuri Hiroi from Bocchi the Rock! is always drunk off cheap convenience store sake. Not that this stops her from being a popular bassist in her own band, despite playing drunk and breaking stuff during concerts, leading to her having to pay for damages and having to stick to aformentioned cheap sake. She actually started drinking on her first performance to calm her stage fright, and now has keep it up to stay inside her "Happiness Spiral", so she wont be tormented by her many anxieties.
• In Brigadoon: Marin and Melan Tadashi is nearly always seen drunk, drinking, or asking for more sake. It's shown to have seriously damaged his family.
• Sylia Stingray from Bubblegum Crisis 2040 is definitely abusing something. She's seen drinking pretty often, but might have a drug habit on the side.
• Kishibe from Chainsaw Man is almost never seen without drinking from his flask, this doesn't stop him from being the best devil hunter there is. Despite claiming to be emotionless, he notes that he always seems to increase the amount he drinks after seeing a student of his die a horrible death.
• Cross Marian from D.Gray-Man. Who's hinted to be drowning his sorrows, given his room filled with wine bottles, and his character quote.
  Cross Marian: Sake is the best medicine.
• A Dog of Flanders (1975): Ensor is violent because he can't put the bottle down, and frequently takes out his anger on his poor dog, Patrasche. In the book it leads to his death because he got into a drunken brawl with a man much stronger than him.
• Hiroshi's neglective father in Domu: A Child's Dream. He does nothing but lie around his apartment intoxicated and that's why his wife and son left him.
• Mr Fujisawa from El-Hazard: The Magnificent World. He is even sad that he can have his fantastic strength only if he doesn't drink.
• Fairy Tail: Cana drinks thirty percent of the liquor drunk by the Fairy Tail Guild from a giant barrel. Bear in mind the guild has dozens of members and not many seem to be teetotallers.
• Roy from Fullmetal Alchemist has some elements of this. He drowns his sorrows due to being a Shell-Shocked Veteran haunted by the war. He was even worse before his friend Hughes cleaned him up.
• Hetalia: Axis Powers:
  • Russia, "obeying" the Vodka Drunkenski stereotype about Russians as a whole, is all but stated to be this. Subverted in that, while he is shown drinking and straight-up admits the stereotype above, he is never shown straight-up drunk.
  • Russia's neighbor and former subordinate Latvia is said to be this in side materials, which state that despite looking like a teenager he's capable of drinking at least 15 vodka glasses in a single serving.
  • Prussia shows signs of it, always having a beer in hand, though he may be closer to a male Hard-Drinking Party Girl.
  • Denmark is the heaviest drinker of the Nordics, of course. He's seen excitedly drinking beer, and trying to get free drinks out of Iceland during his special announcement.
  • Finland has quite the fondness for alcohol as well. He gets drunk after Sweden calls off a battle with Lithuania and Poland. In one of his character songs, he mentions his love of beer and cider.
• Kumiko from Kotoura-san started to drown her sorrows because she really couldn't handle the fallout from her daughter's Telepathy. When she came over to her daughter's place, she had her buy copious amount of alcohol and drank them.
• Arguably Kitsune in Love Hina — most of the time she's depicted either drinking or obviously drunk.
• Yui from Lucky Star does on occasion come home to Konata's house drunk. In the sixth episode, Nanako is forced to drive after Yui can't due to this.
• Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow: Arthur moves from England to Australia in hopes of becoming rich and wealthy. When he ends up in poverty instead, he turns to alcohol to cope.
• Kobayashi from Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid is often seen drinking beer or sake, or suffering from a hangover. She even met Tohru after a night of hard drinking.
• Sumeragi Lee Noriega from Mobile Suit Gundam 00 is a Hard-Drinking Party Girl most of the time, but is known to get specifically drunk to forget her past failures very often. Then again she's an expy of Misato Katsuragi, so it's not surprising.
• There are two notable examples is Monster, both of whom are drowning their sorrows.
• Akari from My Monster Secret — Although she's (mostly) professional and (always) sober when working, she keeps a large stash of beer and sake at home, mostly to help her cope with living with her Trolling ancestor Akane.
• Major Misato Katsuragi in Neon Genesis Evangelion. In the second episode, Shinji observes her fridge contains nothing but ice, relishes, and beer.
• One Piece:
  • Zoro absolutely loves his sake, and the guy never seems to get drunk so no hangovers for him. In fact, one might deign to say that he loves his alcohol as much as Luffy loves his meat: while training under Mihawk, he is horrified to learn that he would be denied his booze until he learned to infuse his blades with so much Haki that they'd turn completely black.
  • Even more amazing is old lady Kokoro introduced in the Water 7 arc. She is never seen without a bottle of booze in hand, so one can only assume she constantly drinks and therefore is constantly drunk. But despite this she somehow retains the ability to drive a freakin' speeding out-of-control train.
• Ms. Igarashi of Pani Poni Dash!, who often shows up to school drunk, or at least smelling of alcohol.
• While Happosai, one of the most consistently villainous characters in Ranma ½, is better known for his other appetites, he's also quite a boozehound when the opportunity arises. When your students' first plan to finally kill you is to feed you several barrels of sake, then seal you up inside one and throw it and some dynamite into a cave that they then block with a Zigzag Paper Tassel-wrapped boulder... and it works... you've got a drinking problem.
• Silver Plan to Redo From JK: Maki's father has a drinking problem due to his debts, his sick wife (who needs expensive treatment) and his gambling problem.
• Doctor Sakezo Sado in Space Battleship Yamato (Dr. Sane in Star Blazers). He is usually seen drinking sake, and he drinks lots of it. Star Blazers tried to cover this up by calling it spring water.
• Mr Legend from Tiger & Bunny is revealed to have been this in his past, drowning his sorrows away after losing his NEXT powers.
• Mansam from Toriko. All of the ingredients of his Full Course contain alcohol.
• Quent Yaiden from Wolf's Rain. He's probably been mentioned in a similar context before.
• In Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead, Akira loves beer, not realizing how good it tasted until after he's started being able to drink it for relaxation rather than Drowning His Sorrows. His first supply runs are not for essential items like food and medicine but for more beer.
  Akira: [singing] Suds! Brewskis! Any and every kind of BEER! Give me all your BEER! Beer, bee- [runs into Shizuka]
• Voltes V: Nakamura. After the Boazanians abduct his parents, he turns to alcohol to cope. However, while drunk, he tries to steal a plane from Big Falcon and fly it to the Boazanian base, and as a result is fired by Professor Sakonji. This makes his Fantastic Racism towards Kenichi, Daijirou and Hiyoshi worsen.

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