History CrapsackWorld / AnimeAndManga

** The setting of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans Iron Blooded Orphans]]'' is where both Earth and Mars have been recovering from [[TheGreatOffScreenWar The Calamity War]]. Mars is basically an equivalent to an exploited Third World country, which poverty has become worse to the point where less-fortunate children tend to become either prostitute or ChildSoldiers and most likely [[NeverLearnedToRead illiterate]]. Also there are also human abductions and made into [[MadeASlave Human]] [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil Debris]] who partake dangerous works, mainly soldiering. Earth Sphere is not that better since, while they are significantly well-off than Mars, Dort Colonies' working class faced [[NoOSHACompliance poor working conditions]] and [[UrbanSegregation bad housings]] with [[spoiler: recent protest ended with a massacre]]. Earth is no better since it too has poverty with an example being [[spoiler: the background of [[VisionaryVillain McGillis]] [[CharClone Fareed]] as a StreetUrchin]]. That miserable conditions being ignored due to the [[AristocratsAreEvil callous]] [[BlueBlood Seven Stars]] of Gjallarhorn, who have become a FallenHero after stopping the war centuries ago.

* ''Anime/PrimitiveBoyRyu'' obviously has this because it's set in the prehistoric era. Dinosaurs run wild and humans have to sell their own children to survive. Not helping matters is the fact that all tribes are a bunch of racist cultists with messed up beliefs and are quick to use violence on each other. This trope also counts for the sequel manga (that takes place in the far-future) where it's revealed that [[spoiler: humanity had an encounter with aliens that left most of them annihilated. The titular Ryu is an alien and hunts for survivors. The fact that he ends up married to Maria Henderson implies that they'll repopulate the Earth, somewhat downplaying this.]].

** The Future that Trunks came from in a ravaged post-apocalyptic wreck where two powerful Androids go around killing anyone who opposes them, and have already killed the most powerful heroes of Earth. What makes it worse is that the [[ResetButton Dragon Balls]] are gone because Kami, who shares a soul with Piccolo, one of the aforementioned heroes, is dead. In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' Future Trunks' timeline actually gets ''worse''. After surviving nearly two decades of terror and death under the androids, humanity is brought to the brink of extinction [[HistoryRepeats once again]]. Unlike the androids, who kept humanity alive for their own entertainment, [[spoiler: Black Goku]] doesn't play around. In a year's time, he trashes the world worse than the androids to the point that Trunks is forced to eat pet food to survive. And things actually gets even ''worse'' when it's revealed that [[spoiler: Goku Black and Future Zamasu murdered all the gods in the 12 universes, leaving them as the only higher power. So the humans don't even have a god to pray to]].

* ''Literature/WorteniaSenki'' features a place so decrepit, the fact that there's no such thing as human rights is the ''most benign'' feature.

* The world of ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' is one where monsters capable of destroying cities are not particularly uncommon, unhealthy obsessions can turn people into AlwaysChaoticEvil monsters, and the only association of heroes capable of dealing with the monsters is highly corrupt and severely understaffed. The only positive is that the existence of [[InvincibleHero Saitama]] puts a cap on how much damage a monster can do before it gets destroyed.

** The children who are supposed to pilot the Evangelions [[DysfunctionJunction are traumatized, broken, neurotic and mentally unstable]] to begin with, and the rest of the cast is growing to be increasingly generally bitter, psychologically incompetent, and pessimistic. Also, the entirety of existence basically revolves around the Hedgehog's Dilemma, which is the philosophical notion that if you go near other people, you become Hell to them and they become Hell to you, but when you go far from them, you cannot survive. As time passes, the dysfunction and insanity [[FromBadToWorse only gets much more worse]] in scenes that [[MindRape are more and more]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation horrifying and madness-inducing]], while everyone is forced to watch them in all their gory details, the most memorable of them being played with [[SoundtrackDissonance unfitting music]], finally culminating in what the [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness masterminds]] who masqueraded themselves to be humanity's protectors had in mind in the first place: [[spoiler:[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt ending the world in a manner that suits them]] through a controlled mass MindRape and [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum suicide of all humanity]] caused by the fusion of two dead-yet-almighty {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. The only positive thing is that humans can be reborn, but the world would have been left as a totally alien and deserted Hell by then]].
** While the Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion film series had up to the third movie been LighterAndSofter, Evangelion 3.33 plays this up to eleven. [[spoiler:The world is a totally desolate hellscape, and just a few hundred people appear to be left alive on Earth after an aborted Third Impact. Civilization appears to be all but dead, as all the resources humanity has left have been diverted to the war between NERV and its splinter organization, WILLIE. While the post-Second Impact world showed signs of hope, the post-Third Impact world is speeding down an irreparable death spiral.]]

** There's also the existential ramifications of the Chainsaw Man himself. [[spoiler: He's so feared by other devils because he can [[RetGone erase them from existence]], along with ''the very fears they represent.'' Makima lists a few examples, like the Mt. Hio eruption, Arnolone Syndrome, humanity's sixth sense, as well as nuclear weapons, Nazism, the AIDS virus and ''all of World War II''. Reality in this universe can be altered by the whims of one being and nobody will ever know it even happened.]]

** There's also the existential ramifications of the Chainsaw Man himself. [[spoiler: He's so feared by other devils because he can [[RetGone erase them from existence]], along with ''the very fears they represent.'' There's no telling just how much this power has changed history, but some examples are given: ficional ones like the Mt. Hio eruption, Arnolone Syndrome, humanity's sixth sense, but also nuclear weapons, Nazism, the AIDS virus and ''all of World War II''. Reality in this universe can be altered by the whims of one being and nobody will ever know it even happened.]]

* Basically it's a whole Crapsack Universe in ''Manga/GalaxyExpress999'', with only a few bright spots here and there. But the majority of planets Tetsuro and Maetel visit are either:
** run by corrupt governments,
** on the brink of destruction,
** inhabited by oblivious, arrogant people,
** stricken by severe poverty or
** all of the above.

* The world during ''Manga/ApocalypseNoToride''. If not already apparent by the {{Plague Zombie}}s reaching the secluded prison, when the main characters bust out and drive to Tokyo, the city is completely overrun and in shambles.

* Most of the stories in Creator/OsamuTezuka's ''Manga/{{Phoenix}}'' series. The historical chapters feature a decidedly unromantic depiction of feudal Japan full of war, famine, disease, filth, corruption, death & copious amounts of mutilation with sharp objects. But at least the characters in those stories had [[SceneryPorn the breathtaking beauty of nature]] to raise their spirits. Those who have the misfortune of being born in this world's bleak, {{Zeerust}}ed future get no such luck. In addition to having all the above mentioned problems, the world is ecologically screwed, full of [[FantasticRacism bigots]] who mistreat [[CloningBlues clones]] and robots, and occasionally ruled by an [[CorruptChurch oppressive theocracy]]. After people start piling into rocket ships to escape this awful mess, the Earth eventually faces an immigration crisis when the space colonists & their children start coming back in droves because most of the other planets in the universe are even ''worse'' than the world that they left! When humanity finally goes extinct in the [[AnachronicOrder (chronologically)]] final chapter, it comes as something of a relief.

** War isn't the only horrible thing on Earth. It's mentionned in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn'' that the air is polluted ''40 times the norm''.

* ''Manga/Versus2022'' has a multiversal variety wherein every humanity is on its last leg before seeking aid from other realities leading to the [[{{PatchworkWorld}} Patchwork World]] below.