People attempting to deal with depression by getting drunk in Anime and Manga.
- During the Christmas special of Aggretsuko, when Haida thinks Retsuko found a date for Christmas Eve, he grabs a bottle of liquor that was set for him at the bar and chugs it.
- Sayoko from Ah! My Goddess does this every time she loses to Belldandy at something. So she must be tanked 24/7.
- Lampe and Kim san Kaku go out and get plastered at the end of the intro comic of Astro Boy Volume 5 after they learn they were both designed after Osamu Tezuka's dorky elementary school classmates.
- Bleach:
- Izuru Kira and Rangiku Matsumoto are seen drinking after Kira's captain and Rangiku's old friend, Gin Ichimaru, leaves Soul Society with the Big Bad, Aizen. Kira later does the same with Shuuhei Hisagi, whose captain Kaname Tousen also left (only in the anime, since in the manga, he decides to have tea when Rangiku offers it to him). He's seen doing it again in the last episode of the anime, but it's now Played for Laughs since this happens because he doesn't approve of Rose as his captain; Iba and Yumichika watch over him and are rather comically peeved.
- The final chapter of the manga has a very tragic example with Kyouraku and Ukitake, the latter of whom was killed by Heroic Sacrifice in a last ditch effort to protect the Soul King. Ukitake's death hits Kyouraku hard and it's shown after the 10-year time-skip that he visits his grave every day, usually drinking and talking to the stone as if his best friend is still there with him.
- David from Blood+ after the Red Shield's headquarters was sunk in order to kill Diva and the associated trip beyond the Moral Event Horizon.
- Case Closed:
- Kogoro Mouri is an Alcoholic Parent, but he's rarely seen straight-up invoking the trope. It does happen once in a while, however, especially when he's got cases that personally trouble him; he does so in a filler case where it looks like the sweet girl he once was a tutor for has become a murderer and that sends him into a depressive fit. For worse, he's right and the poor girl's reasons are very dramatic.
- Played for Laughs in a White Day-related case, where Inspector Megure's wife Midori gets toasted when it looks like her husband has forgotten to get her a gift. He did, he just forgot to tell her.
- Although it isn't with alcohol, Jeremy from A Cruel God Reigns falls into this. He buys drugs (they appear to be LSD) from his classmate to help alleviate the pain from being beaten by his stepfather. Later on in the series, Jeremy becomes a Hooker with a Heart of Gold and a Functional Addict, and is driven to heroin use to help him cope with the flashbacks he experiences and with the guilt from accidentally killing his mother along with his stepfather.
- Darker than Black:
- Between the two seasons, Hei starts doing this, complete with Perma-Stubble Beard of Sorrow and a serious attitude problem.
- There's also Huang, who would love to do this if he could ever get drunk.
- In Dear Brother, Prof. Misonoo does this in his Backstory when his first wife left him and she took their child, Takehiko, along with her. This thing happens in real life too, as recently divorced spouses often respond by drinking in order to forget about the whole thing, and in his case it's worse because according to Japanese family laws, there's a good chance that he'd never see his son again, or at least for many years.
- Tsuzuki in Descendants of Darkness during an especially angsty moment in the Kyoto arc when he starts questioning his own humanity.
- Cross Marian in D.Gray-Man. Hoshino says he's "closest to the truth", and that he lives hiding bitter things. His old room at HQ is filled with wine bottles, plus a face drawn on his wall. Then it's outright a given when we get his character quote in the fanbook from Hoshino."Sake is the best medicine."
- Lunch reacts like this in the Dragon Ball Z anime after the death of Tenshinhan and subsequently catches Chuck Cunningham Syndrome. (Note that this, of course, was filler. In the manga, she disappeared earlier than that.)
- In Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), Roy Mustang frequently goes to get himself drunk at local bars with best friend Maes Hughes. It's seen that he has a tremendous amount of angst over the things he did in Ishval (in this version he's the one who killed Winry's parents under higher-orders, which back then almost drove him to eat his gun on the spot), and one would assume that he usually gets drunk for that reason.
- In Future GPX Cyber Formula ZERO, Kyoko Aoi is seen drinking some few cocktails at a bar after she sees Shinjyo and Kaga fight. In the bar, she talks to Kaga about how she first met Shinjyo and how much he's changed since then.
- In Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics, after the doctor’s attempt on setting himself free from Death after saving the king in "The Godfather Of Death", he is seen depressed and anxious as he drinks a whole bottle of wine.
- Although we only see Yukiji's Hard-Drinking Party Girl tendencies in Hayate the Combat Butler, it's made very clear that she was doing this in regards to the debt her parents left with her and her sister, and her subsequent dealing with the issue, that led her down the path to the humorous path we see in the story.
- Hetalia: Axis Powers:
- England and China do this, mourning and sobbing spectacularly about their younger brothers America and Japan, both who had rebelled and separated from them. In the second case, China's mourning is derailed when he finds out that the panda he was drunkenly ranting to was... Russia in a disguise.
- Finland does this after Sweden calls off a battle with Lithuania and Poland.
- Higehiro: In the very first episode, after Gotou rejects him, Yoshida gets very drunk.
- Kaoru from I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying used to spend most of her free time drinking and smoking to deal with her loneliness and a job that she hated. The key words here are "used to".
- A G-rated version appeared in episode 8 of Is the Order a Rabbit?. Chiya brought Sharo to three coffee houses in a row to drown away the latter's sorrow of being found to be a very poor Scholarship Student and that she was lying about being rich. Sharo has very low tolerance on caffeine and has been seen to be drunk on coffee.
- In Lucky Star, Yui apparently did this before visiting her uncle and cousin when she thought her husband, with whom she has a commuter marriage, wasn't going to be home for their anniversary, which was going to be their special night.
- On Maison Ikkoku, Godai and Mitaka have decided to duke it out once and for all for the hand of the fair Kyoko. Too bad this is Tokyo, where it seems like every street corner has a cop waiting to book you for causing a public disturbance. The guys end up at a beer vending machine drowning their sorrows.
- In March Comes in Like a Lion, Yasui, one of Rei's opponents, is known to become a violent drunk whenever he loses a shogi match.
- Lisa Kujoh aka Sumeragi Lee Noriega in Mobile Suit Gundam 00 personally implies that her constant drinking is for this single purpose.
- A realistic occurrence takes place in Monster, after Tenma is demoted and then dumped by his cold bitch of a fiancee. And said fiancee, Eva, does it as well... for years.
- Naruto:
- Before she became the Fifth Hokage, Tsunade is seen several times gambling/getting drunk from sake to get her mind off of having lost her brother Nawaki and boyfriend Dan, who both died horribly and apparently very painfully.
- In Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow, Yukie is seen drinking in the beginning of the film, lamenting how difficult the life of an actress is. This ties into her grief over losing her father and country to her uncle's betrayal, which has left her traumatized and bitter for years.
- Naruto does it in Shippuden episode 183 when Sakura berates him for sneezing at her, only he does it by overeating ramen.
- Kuroda in Naruto (1997) is an alcoholic who constantly drinks. He's lost in fate in friendship after his jealous best friend literally stabbed him in the back and then killed himself.
- In Negima! Magister Negi Magi one of Negi's fellow teachers accidentally gave him some sake while eating in Satsuki's restaurant. The scene quickly degenerated into this trope as a drunken Negi cried out his troubles.
- Inverted with Misato Katsuragi from Neon Genesis Evangelion. For most of the series, she is bordering on being The Alcoholic, but after the murder of Kaji, her boyfriend, she quits drinking alcohol and instead switches to copious amounts of canned coffee.
- One Piece:
- Kokoro took to the bottle after her friend and employer Tom (the mentor to Franky and Iceburg) was arrested by the government and taken away to Impel Down for building Gold Roger's ship, the Oro Jackson, with the implication that Tom eventually died in prison. When the Straw Hats first meet her, her Lady Drunk status appears to be just a character quirk, until the arc's back-story is eventually revealed.
- Even as an adult, Doquixote Doflamingo still suffers from nightmares of his hellish childhood, so to cope with it, he drinks generous amounts of alcohol.
- Kaido is seen hitting the bottle after Caesar Clown and Doflamingo, two of his main sources of revenue and artificial Devil Fruits, are taken out by Luffy. He's shown to be a terrifying Mood-Swinger when he's off his ass, bawling like an infant one minute and literally sending one of his men FLYING with a humongous club the very next.
- In Overlord, Shalltear falls into a guilt-ridden state after she became mind-controlled and learned she actually tried to kill Ainz. She spends her time in Nazarick's bar continuously drinking, though because of her resistance to poison, the alcohol barely makes her drunk and gives her Exhausted Eye Bags.
- Pokémon: The Series:
- Mallow drowns her sorrows with Pinap Berry juice in an episode of Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon. The Oranguru tending the G-rated bar is willing to hear out her frustrations about her father overworking her in the restaurant.
- Later in the same saga, in "Acting True To Form", Meowth goes to the same bar to drown himself in Pinap juice after being borderline replaced by an Alolan Meowth.
- In Princess Jellyfish, Tsukimi tries to fall asleep to forget her broken heart, but can't. She asks one of the girls at the boarding house she lives in for advice and is given a one-word response: booze. She ends up falling unconscious after one cup of sweet sake.
- Episode two of Punchline has Rabura drinking heavily because a customer had called her exorcism skills into question.
- Rebuild World: A hunter who followed Akira to a ruin he discovered to beat him to the Lost Technology relics inside, after accidentally triggering the automated tram inside and flooding the ruin with monsters left him Sole Survivor, he resorted to selling the location of the ruin to pay for drowning his sorrows over getting his friends killed.
- Jeanne takes to drinking vodka by the bottle in The Rose of Versailles after the Affair of the Necklace. Oscar is also occasionally seen surrounded by empty wine bottles.
- Rurouni Kenshin: Tomoe Yokishiro became a Lady Drunk after the death of her fiancé and First Love Akira. She once walked away drunkenly from a pub and ended up stepping into one of Battousai!Kenshin's fights, leading to their first meeting.
- Sailor Moon features two examples:
- The first one is played straight, and it comes from in the R season,: Usagi notices that Mamoru has a "new" girlfriend (he doesn't, but since he believes he cannot be with her, he behaves like a jerkass and doesn't correct her mistaken impression) and she tries to drown her sorrows in dumplings; when a worried Luna tries to reprimand her, she cries and says she's too depressed to care about getting fat.
- The second is far more Played for Laughs and happens in the SuperS season, when Naru is manipulated into dating Tiger's Eye for three months after he claimed he was going to die, her boyfriend Umino goes on a drinking binge with fifteen milkshakes; Chibiusa is grossed out and comments on this, even pointing out that saké is the traditional beverage for such behavior.
- Kazehana, resident Hard-Drinking Party Girl of Sekirei does this during a Season 2 episode after the death of Uzume. Much to her annoyance, she can't get drunk.
- Reiko Ookochi, Sakuya's mother from Sensual Phrase, who does this after her husband abandons her. So much so that she drank herself to death.
- In Skip Beat!, Tsuruga Ren does this when he is unable to fully understand his character, Katsuki.
- Super Dimension Fortress Macross:
- Misa Hayase goes to a bar and gets blind drunk in despair after she misinterprets Hikaru giving Minmay a place to stay for the night as him rekindling his romance with her. She's found by Claudia, who talks to her about her own relationship with Roy Fokker over a couple of glasses of wine.
- Roy was this before he met Claudia, which is explained in prequel Macross Zero with the death of his lover Iris in the events of Zero causing a long segment of depression.
- The ending of the Yuri Genre one-shot Tender Tear ends with the protagonist going out drinking with an old classmate as they both bond over the fact the women they fell for had boyfriends. Riku is under the drinking age so she couldn't actually drink herself but the effect is the same.
- Umi Monogatari has this as a crucial plot point, though no alcohol is involved. Instead, there's a soothing song the island priestess sings; it even calms Marin out of her Heroic BSoD. And the ocean. The islanders' tears and a ritual involving tossing stones that represented their sorrow into the sea formed Sedna out of their collective grief.
- In the Urusei Yatsura movie "Always My Darling" after being depressed that Ataru has fallen under the influence of a love potion and tells her he only loves Princess Lupica, Lum goes to a space bar with her friends Oyuki and Benten downing drinks with pickled plums inside which makes her species drunk.
- Yandere Kanojo: Being underage, Reina drowns her sorrows by eating pickled vegetables instead of drinking alcohol.
- Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead:
- Akira used to only drink to dull the pain and exhaustion he felt from his Soul-Crushing Desk Job. He only realizes just how tasty beer is to him once he's freed of said job and can drink it for relaxation.
- One of the first things Reika says on panel is how she needs a drink to cope with the Zombie Apocalypse. Even after she's turned into a zombie, she still has a bottle of whiskey in her mouth until she lunges at Maki to turn her.
