History AndIMustScream / AnimeAndManga

** In Part 3 ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'', the [[LivingWeapon sword Stand]] Anubis gets half of his blade destroyed, and the other half falls into the Nile River. Since it can only [[DemonicPossession possess]] people that actually touch it, Anubis is trapped at the bottom of the river until it rusts away into nothing, a process that could take decades, if not centuries. The last thing we hear from him is saying that he's lonely.

*** Giorno Giovanna uses the newly-enhanced powers of his Stand Gold Experience [[spoiler:Requiem]] on TheDon Diavolo, which returns anything to a state of zero. In the case of killing his enemy, the ability traps Diavolo in a GroundhogDayLoop of his imminent death, resetting every time he would be about to actually die, and forcing him to live through it, again. Each time the cause of death is different but equally as painful and traumatic; fatally stabbed by a drug-addled homeless man, being awake during his own autopsy, tripping into oncoming traffic, and so on, until we last see him cowering in fear of an ostensibly harmless little girl in an open field, screaming in terror out of knowing that somehow he will die, again, in another horrible way.

* ''Anime/DigimonFusion'': When Digimon are Digi-Fused together, the component Digimon of a fusion are conscious and aware while fused as a new whole. Season 2 explores the UnfortunateImplications of that on two occasions:

* ''Anime/UnicoInTheIslandOfMagic'': Any of the folks changed into puppets and used to build skyscrapers.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Utawarerumono}}'': Near the end, the main characters enter a partially-technological dungeon and find it infested with standard-issue [[BlobMonster Slimes]], which they soon get bogged down fighting -- swords and arrows don't seem to do much to impede them, but on the other hand, they don't seem able to do much to harm the heroes, either. In the next episode, however, it turns out that those blobs of reddish goo are actually [[spoiler: the previous occupants of that 'dungeon' -- actually an underground laboratory from [[AfterTheEnd Before the End]]]], and that they were transformed by the titular demon-god as punishment for [[spoiler: ''dissecting'' his lover in an effort to find a way to strengthen their bodies so that they can return to the by-then poisonous surface]]. So, in the true spirit of an [[JackassGenie Utterly Pissed-Off Genie]], he decides to fulfill their wish for a 'body that will never die'. And they've been there ever since. For what must be several thousand years by the time the story takes place. They deserved it, but still...
* In ''Manga/VampireKnight'', [[spoiler:Kaname kills the vampire senate by manipulating them into ripping off their own heads.]]
** Aido is unable to resist [[spoiler:Rido calling him with mind control with the intent to eat him. Yuuki saves him at the last minute however.]]
** The pureblood Hanadagi pulls the same on [[spoiler:Aido's father, who is then saved by Kaname.]]
* ''Manga/VampirePrincessMiyu'': In "At The Next Station", this is the fate of the women who fall prey to the temptation of the Shinma Rho-Ah and take him up on his offer of enhanced beauty... only to end up frozen in time, like beautiful mannequins dressed in expensive clothes, never to age or decay... at the end, even the one who got decapitated during the battle between Rho-Ah and Miyu is still alive, just like the rest of them -- whimpering and sobbing quietly through paralyzed lips.
** In the second {{OAV}}, it's downright stated that [[UncannyValleyGirl Ranka's]] victims end up in a similar state, transformed into bare and listless mannequins that she keeps into her school's warehouse. She even uses one of them as a shield during her fight with Miyu, and Miyu is horrified when Larva accidentally hits the doll with his RazorFloss and not only it emits a whimper of pain, but it bleeds. This is lampshaded earlier, in this conversation that takes place during Ranka and Miyu's first encounter:

** Part 1, ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Phantom Blood]]'', ends with Dio Brando, an immortal vampire, stuck as a severed head in a casket at the bottom of the sea [[spoiler:enduring the painful process of trying to merge his head with Jonathan's body]]. He stays there for about a hundred years before being unknowingly fished back up by some unwary sailors at the start of Part 3.

** In Part 7 ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]'', Magent Magent's Stand 20th Century Boy makes him impervious and functionally immortal so long as he crouches down so his hands touch the ground. The heroes wrap him in wires, tie him to a wheel and throw him into the Delaware River, and he can move just enough to activate 20th Century Boy to keep himself from drowning. He waits for his ally Diego Brando to rescue him, but in a CallBack to the ultimate fate of Kars:

* In ''Manga/ChainsawMan'', part of the CosmicHorrorReveal is that [[spoiler:there were originally ways life could end aside from death, and they were so horrific that they were [[RetGone erased from existence]] by the Chainsaw Devil and reduced to a CrypticBackgroundReference]].

** The [[ForcedTransformation Hollows]] -- humans afflicted by the {{curse}} to the point of losing their humanity. In a human experiment, Nanachi's friend Mitty became a Hollow who was unable to die. Even after the most brutal violence, Mitty's body would regenerate. This is a ''child'' who was [[UnwittingTestSubject manipulated]] into being a test subject in an experiment which [[PainfulTransformation painfully]] [[TransformationHorror transformed]] her into a deformed lump of flesh unable to communicate, able to feel pain and unable to die. Nanachi watched all of this, knowing that it could have been them if their randomly assigned roles in the experiment were switched. Nanachi became Mitty's caretaker afterwards, seeking [[spoiler:a way to [[MercyKill kill Mitty and relieve her suffering]]. Reg's Incinerator]] was successful.

* The Mazoku from ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' have Raugnut Rushauvna [[SpellMyNameWithAnS (or however you spell that)]], a very, very nasty curse that makes its victim completely immortal... while also turning their body inside out and causing it to continually devour itself and regenerate, over and over and over again, for all eternity.

* ''Manga/{{Bakugan}}'':

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has multiple examples. Creator/HirohikoAraki has a real thing for this trope.