History HarsherInHindsight / AnimeAndManga

** The series is banned in New Zealand on the counts that it promotes child pornography. Then it was shown why Creator/ScottFreeman was unavailable for voicing Issei in ''[=BorN=]'' (which premiered a year after the arrest), as it came out that he got arrested and convicted for multiple counts of possession of child pornography.

** One VillainOfTheWeek in ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'' infects Joseph with a [[BodyHorror rapidly-growing, sentient tumor]]. Ishizuka died of cancer.
** The last arc prior to reaching Egypt in ''Stardust Crustaders'', involves the protagonists, a group of five men led by the wealthy Joseph Joestar, trying to travel to Egypt in a submarine when it springs a leak due to an enemy Stand attack, forcing them to abandon the sub and swim the rest of the way. In 2023, a sub that was touring the wreckage of the Titanic imploded, resulting in the deaths of all five men on board.

* One chapter of ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' has an image of a man taking a bite out of an Anpanman caricature. Creator/TakashiYanase, the creator of ''Literature/{{Anpanman}}'', passed away during the same week that this chapter was published in ''Magazine/ShonenJump''.

* ''Anime/TheAnimatrix'': one memorable scene from ''The Second Renaissance'', the backstory for the machine war of ''Film/TheMatrix'', shows a female android being brutally murdered by an angry mob, her last words being a desperate cry of "''I'M REAL!''" The scene is reminiscent of transgender people being victims of violence, which makes it all the more uncomfortable following the Wachowskis coming out as trans women.

* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' is far from a happy story, but a chapter that was taken out of the volume release for revealing too much about the world too early revealed that the setting's God, called the Idea of Evil and literally representative of suffering humans wanting to look for a God to believe in exists in this world. It's appearance resembles that of a giant human heart. Kentaro Miura, the author of the series, would die at a young age on May 6th, 2021. The cause of death? Aortic Dissertion, which ruptures the heart. Ouch.

** The series is banned in New Zealand on the counts that it promotes child pornography. Then it was shown why Creator/ScottFreeman was unavailable for voicing Issei in ''[=BorN=]'', as it came out that he got arrested and convicted for multiple counts of possession of child pornography. It also makes the scene where Issei uses his Dress Break against Riser Phenex's peerage uncomfortable to watch in the English dub. What's even worse is that he was arrested months before ''[=BorN=]'' aired!

* In ''Literature/{{Shimoneta}}'', Anna obviously became a [[MemeticMutation meme generator]] for her "love nectar". Then her voice actress, Creator/MiyuMatsuki, tragically died shortly after the show finished airing, of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epstein%E2%80%93Barr_virus Epstein-Barr virus]], a form of herpes which can, according to Wikipedia, be spread by saliva and (ahem) ''genital secretions''. [[DudeNotFunny The joke lost its humor after that.]]
* Due to the rather..."special" nature of the mangas she wrote for Shogakukan, it was speculated that Creator/MayuShinjo may have been an abuse victim in her past, [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation as a way to explain]] [[AuthorAppeal her penchant]] for {{melodrama}}, SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes, etc. Guess what; ''[[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-06-10/sensual-phrase-shinjo-explains-why-she-left-magazine She actually was.]]'' And at the hand of ''her Shogakukan editors'', the same ones she wrote these "special" mangas for. [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-06-06/zatch-bell/gash-manga-creator-raiku-sues-shogakukan And worse, she's not the only one.]] Even worse, some sources are claiming that she hates smut (or at least grew to hate it) and never wanted to write it in the first place, leading some to believe she may have been crying for help.
* Yoshinobu Nishizaki, producer of the iconic anime television series ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'' passed away on November 7, 2010 after falling off his steamboat named Yamato.

** Every single [[spoiler: Titan kill, now that we know that all Titans are humans trapped in Titan form.]]

* Everything Kanta did in ''Manga/DesertPunk'' can be considered this after his [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn]].

* Creator/NatsukiTakaya is the queen of this trope with ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' and ''Hoshi wa Utau''. Yuki takes the cake with: "There was something I wanted, something I envisioned, loving parents, a happy home with everyone smiling at me. A home that no one would ever want to leave, a warm place, a warm person. It exists, I know it does." When we first meet him it's beginning to become true, but later in the manga, it becomes clear how he became SO desperate for it.

* ''Anime/{{Astroganger}}'': The scenes of the Blasters destroying buildings and putting Kentaro's friends in danger hit a lot harder when you remember that when the , Lebanon (where the Arabic dub was being filmed) was also undergoing a civil war, and even Ganger's own voice actor [[https://www.arabnews.jp/en/arts-culture/article_34511/ was affected]].

* In the series ''Anime/{{Air}}'':
** Misuzu Kamio's body deteriorates in a way very similar to a cancer patient. Her Japanese voice actress, Creator/TomokoKawakami, died of ovarian cancer a few years later on June 9, 2011.
** It's now even more heartbreaking to hear Yukito and Misuzu in English, considering what happened to the professional relationship between Creator/VicMignogna and Creator/MonicaRial.

* In Aeham Ahmed's {{autobiography}} ''Literature/ThePianistFromSyria'' he repeatedly mentions "[[Main/{{Anime}} a popular manga show]]" named ''Anime/HelloSandybell'' in his country. ''Hello! Sandybell'' is about a little girl SearchingForTheLostRelative after her father dies. Later, the author's brother goes missing during the Syrian Civil War after his own father dies, and he ''breaks''.