Downwards Funnel/Anime

In the wake of the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic, many, *many* anime were delayed or cancelled:

* *A3! Spring and Summer*: After episode 3, the entire anime was pushed back to April. This had the knock-on effect of *A3! Fall and Winter* being delayed to October.
* *Appare-Ranman!* was delayed after episode 3.
* *Asteroid in Love*: Funimation's English dub (yes, it's one of the few *Manga Time Kirara*-based anime to get a dub at all) didn't begin release until March.
* *A Certain Scientific Railgun T* was put on hiatus after episode 12.
* *Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater* was delayed after episode 3.
* *Food Wars! The Fifth Plate* (the final season of *Shokugeki no Soma*) was delayed after episode 2.
* *IDOLiSH7 Second Beat!* was delayed after episode 4.
* Season 3 of *Kingdom* was delayed after episode 4.
* Only the first episode of *Listeners* was ever dubbed before the dub was delayed.
* *Major 2nd* season 2 was delayed after episode 4.
* Just two episodes after it was revived, the *Mashin Hero Wataru* franchise was put on hiatus.
* *Mewkledreamy* was delayed due to the pandemic, the first *ever* Sanrio anime (unless you count the *Jewelpet* short film) to be delayed.
* *The Millionaire Detective - Balance: UNLIMITED* was delayed after episode 2.
* *Tsuritama* got a *rebroadcast* due to what happened above.

## Other examples

* Discotek Media will often rescue old anime if they can. But sometimes, Discotek would fail in getting the original Japanese track (such as with *Fighting Foodons* or *Sonic X*).
* I Have Failed to Keep a Secret will result in this:
	+ *Jewelpet*: An emotional rollercoaster. Or in the case of *Happiness*, a big mess to clean.
	+ *Wan Wan Celeb Soreyuke! Tetsunoshin*: If the titular protagonist ever spilled the beans about Dog Paradise, well...
	+ *Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama*: Reveal the secret, and your Cocotamas turn back into objects, plain and simple.
	+ *Doraemon*: Lend the gadget-of-the-day to some friends (or worse, get bullied by having it stolen)? Stinks to be Nobita/Noby.
	+ *Mewkledreamy*: If anyone finds out Mew's talking, she'll revert back into a regular plush (basically *Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama* except she's *already* the object).
	+ *Bakuman*: Failing to keep the rankings a secret will result in your manga team bailing, Nakai getting fired, and the manga eventually getting cancelled. The manga was gonna be cancelled either way, but still...
	+ *Patema Inverted*: Failing to keep secret about the "inverted" ones (not that's it's easy to do anyway considering Aiga is full of security cameras) will result in said "inverted" one being arrested and the secret-keeper being scolded. Luckily, irony and a dose of karma came to the rescue by the end of the film.
	+ Not the secret-keeper's fault in *I My Me! Strawberry Eggs*, but Hibiki being revealed to be a crossdresser is what ended up being his breaking point: he quit (though as far as the others were concerned, he was fired), the school he formerly taught at almost became an all-girls' school, and Hibiki left the town until what was left of the controversy more or less died down. At the very least, he explained he'd return someday to his former students.
* *Dragon Ball Z*: Goku failing to stop Vegeta's Great Ape transformation meant he suddenly had to deal with a big problem. He was bailed out at the bleakest hour, though.
	+ One on Frieza's end: killed all of Goku's friends and tried to kill his entire family? Congrats, you made him a Super Saiyan and created an unavoidable fight.
	+ And as for Cell? Killing Goku won't save him; he just pushed Gohan into an unstoppable rage.
* *Lucky Star*: If Konata *ever* misses a late-night anime, she won't be able to watch it *ever*. Considering the manga/anime is set in Japan, this is reasonable since media is expensive over there.
* *The Laughing Salesman* often combines this with From Rags to Bankruptcy or To Riches and Back: Meet up with Moguro and tell him your wish? Count on him ruining your life.
* *Pokémon*: Ash wakes up late. As a result, he ends up with a Pikachu. (This example was necessary since Pikachu is the series' mascot.)
* *Sailor Moon*: Usagi/Serena is told to stand in the hall, gets a low, low test score, and is sent out of the house (sent back to the library in DiC's English dub). As if her day wasn't already worse, before she even arrived at school, she is mauled by a cat (really Luna in disguise).
* *Aggretsuko*: Never push Retsuko beyond her breaking point. If you *do*, she'll sing death metal. There are a few times this is averted, but in the shorts this is few and far between.
* *Puella Magi Madoka Magica*. It's best if you read the below example *after* you finish the anime, to avoid spoilers.
	+ While the following is like a The Next Day is Always the Same situation, it's not: Girl wishes for something, becomes a magical girl, fights witches, becomes filled with grief, and becomes one herself. Lather, rinse, repeat until Madoka wishes for the erasure of all Witches from existence.
* *Cardcaptor Sakura*: Sakura opens up a book containing Clow Cards, somehow scatters them all over the Earth, and is told to become a Cardcaptor.
* *Urusei Yatsura*: Ataru is a really unlucky guy. Anytime he even thinks about other girls, rest assured Lum will be there to electrocute him. And if that isn't bad enough, in the crossover OVA, Inuyasha and Girl!Ranma also attack him.
* *Astro Boy*: After it's revealed he can't grow since he's a robot, Astro is sold to a circus troupe. Only with the passage of a robots' version of the Bill of Rights is he finally free to do whatever he thinks is in the interest of other robots and good people again.
* *Guilty Crown* is episode after episode after episode of this trope.
* How Sanrio even made Hello Kitty in the first place, believe it or not. According to Charles Schulz' autobiography, Sanrio once had the license to the Peanuts franchise in Japan, but after a lot of squabbling over creative differences, Schulz pulled the Peanuts license, leading the team at Sanrio to create Hello Kitty. You heard that right- creative differences between Sanrio and the author of *Peanuts* directly led to the creation of Sanrio's most-popular character.
* This is how Germany ended up having to pay back France in *Hetalia*. (In reality, it was a little more complex than this trope...)
	+ From the same episode, this is how Italy (well, *North* Italy) joined the Axis Powers. (Again, much more complex in real life...)