![]() ![]() ![]() The biggest city in the whole region, for no reason, is devoid of people. Pokémon Journeys: In "Almost Pikachu Crisis!", Ash and Goh visit Castelia City for free desserts.Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS: The area where Subaru and Teana had their B Rank Mage exam is mentioned in the side-materials to be a city sector in Central Mid-Childa that had been completely abandoned after the Relic-triggered airport fire several years ago.It turns out that the country was destroyed by rabid democracy following the death of a tyrannical king, as only direct vote by the entire people was seen as accepted way to make decisions, and the losing side was always deemed as "dangerous elements" and executed. Kino's Journey: Kino comes across one of these, with only one inhabitant.It's not completely deserted, but the only inhabitants are a handful of child-murdering demons. Kakurenbo: The deadly game of Hide and Seek takes place in one.Eden: It's an Endless World! features quite a few cities populated only by crystalline human statues.After that, Earth became a Ghost Planet when Buu slaughters every living thing except for Goku and Hercule. Notably, there was Ginger Town, which is only seen after Cell absorbs every resident. Dragon Ball Z: These tend to come up a lot.By then the buildings are all covered in vegetation and wildlife has adapted to the city's condition. Over the course of 20 years, artificial humans immune to radiation are created in order to retrieve any survivors who are attempting to live there. Coppelion: A nuclear power plant meltdown renders Tokyo uninhabitable.The epilogue shows Kabutomushi and Oki Megumi traveling through a city that's eerily deserted and in a state of disrepair. ![]() Arachnid: At the end, a virus that turns the infected into sex-crazed zombies takes over all of Japan with the purpose of having everyone screw each other until most people die from starvation.More often than not will invoke Scenery Gorn of bleak, ruined houses and crumbling infrastructure. If such a setting is peaceful and non-threatening, if the inhabitants left without strife, it may be a Beautiful Void. An Underground City may also be this if it was sunken by an earthquake. Often the first indication that this is, in fact, After the End. Usually there is one person, or possibly a few people, left to contrast the vast emptiness. If enough time has passed, the city may be being Reclaimed by Nature, and buildings may be shrouded in overgrowth. Besides newspapers, other classic signs of abandonment may include blinking yellow light on a crossing, empty, unlocked cars littering the middle of roads, or an arc of sparks from a street light (though their electrification raises Fridge Logic). A city typically contains millions of people, and the viewer knows that only the hugest of disasters could completely clear it of its inhabitants.Īlways characterized by newspapers lining the streets, shuffled about by the wind (usually with headlines alluding to the disaster), the urban counterpart to a Ghost Town's tumbleweeds. A Ghost City is the larger version of a Ghost Town, and is used in visual media as shorthand for "something terrible has happened". ![]()
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