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* ''Anime/SpyXFamilyCodeWhite'': The Forgers defeat Snidel and his army, and Sylvia obtains the microfilm that came from Anya's teeth. But an oven suffers a malfunction on the day of the competition and as a result, the contest is delayed and the judge is changed from the principal to the vice principal. However, the Forgers have another chance to win as they know the vice principal's favorite dessert while planning another vacation that Bond predicts to be more peaceful.
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*''Anime/AstroGanger'': After years of oppression, Kantaro is able to put the Blaster's reign of terror to an end...but it comes at the cost of Ganger sacrificing his life and using the last of his power to create an escape shuttle for him and Rie. The two watch from the sidelines as they absorb the fact that Ganger just died in front of them. And then we cut to the credits without giving the audience to digest what happened, because this is the same company that made Anime/ChargemanKen and the CreatorsApathy was beginning to show.
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* ''Anime/AuraBattlerDubine'': The villains are defeated and peace is restored to Upper Earth and Byston Wells, but at the cost of every member of the Zelana Crew (except for Cham) and their allies dying.

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* ''Anime/AuraBattlerDubine'': ''Anime/AuraBattlerDunbine'': The villains are defeated and peace is restored to Upper Earth and Byston Wells, but at the cost of every member of the Zelana Crew (except for Cham) and their allies dying.

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* ''Anime/OddTaxi'': Odokawa manages to foil Dobu and Yano, and recover from his synesthesia, allowing him to face humans once more. Everyone else also gets somewhat happy endings... and the ending then reveals that Sakura was Yuki's killer, with Rui taking the fall, while she hops in Odokawa's taxi... either to take her away from Tokyo so she can start up again, this time solo, kill him to clean up the last loose end or get taken down, since Odokawa remembers who he drove on the night of Yuki Mitsuya's murder and she has Nagashima's wiretapped pen with her.

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* ''Anime/OddTaxi'': Odokawa manages to foil Dobu and Yano, and recover from his synesthesia, visual agnosia, allowing him to face humans once more. Everyone else also gets somewhat happy endings... and the ending then reveals that Sakura was Yuki's killer, with Rui taking the fall, while she hops in Odokawa's taxi... either [[KarmaHoudini to take her away from Tokyo so she can start up again, this time solo, solo]], [[DownerEnding kill him to clean up the last loose end end]] or [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty get taken down, since Odokawa remembers who he drove on the night of Yuki Mitsuya's murder and she has Nagashima's wiretapped pen with her.]]
** The movie's extended ending resolves Odokawa's ambiguous fate from the anime, revealing that he managed to overpower Sakura after she tried to kill him, taking her to the police to be arrested. However, while he and his friends are able to live their lives happily afterwards, and Sakura's arrest opens up the possibility for Rui to be cleared of her charges, that doesn't change the fact that Sakura still murdered Yuki, leaving Yuki's father to grieve and Mystery Kiss in pieces.
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* ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato2199'': The Yamato completed it's epic journey to Iscandar and back, brought back the Cosmo Reverse System to restore the planet, and even forged a tentative peace with the Gamilon Empire. But many are dead on all sides, and Captain Okita died without ever setting foot on the Earth again, though his soul was the catalyst for the Cosmo Reverse System to revitalize the Earth.

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* The "Tower of Paradise" arc in ''Manga/FairyTail'' ends on a bittersweet note that's more "bitter" than "sweet". Sure, the Tower was destroyed and Erza's former Nakama were freed (and reconciled with Erza). However, Simon died in a HeroicSacrifice. TheReveal at the end of the arc makes it dangerously close to a full DownerEnding: the ''real'' villain of the arc, Ultear, got what she wanted out of the whole mess (discrediting the current magic council, so they had to disband), while Jellal (the apparent BigBad who they actually beat) turned out to be nothing more than her brainwashed pawn! Oh, and it turns out the Tower never could have revived Zeref, or rather did not '''need''' to, because Zeref ''isn't actually dead''. Jellal's rampage gave Ultear's ''real'' allies, the Dark Guild Grimoire Heart, the chance to acquire one of the keys to Zeref's [[SealedEvilInACan seal]].

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** Phantom Lord Arc: Phantom Lord is defeated, with two
of Paradise" arc in ''Manga/FairyTail'' ends on a bittersweet note that's more "bitter" than "sweet". Sure, the Tower was guild's members defecting to Fairy Tail, Jose Porla's plan to hold Lucy for ransom is thwarted and Elfman regains control over his Take Over Magic. However, Fairy Tail now must deal with the Magic Council's wrath over their guild war, while Lucy cuts all ties with her AbusiveDad for hiring Phantom Lord to retrieve her in the first place.
** Oración Seis Arc: Oración Seis is defeated, Nirvana is
destroyed and Erza's former Nakama were freed (and reconciled with Erza). a resurrected Jellal regains his memories. However, Simon died in a HeroicSacrifice. TheReveal at Roubaul reveals that he's long dead and Cait Shelter is illusion he created so Wendy would have friends. Now that his task of destroying Nirvana is completed and Wendy has made real friends, he departs for the end of afterlife, leaving Wendy and Carla to join Fairy Tail. As for Jellal, he willingly surrenders to pay for the arc makes it dangerously close to a full DownerEnding: the ''real'' villain of the arc, Ultear, got what she wanted out of the whole mess (discrediting the current magic council, so they had to disband), while Jellal (the apparent BigBad who they crimes he didn't actually beat) turned out commit.
** Edolas Arc: King Faust is defeated, Mystogan becomes the new king of Edolas, Lisanna is reunited with Fairy Tail and the Exceeds, now in a Earth-land where their race isn't mistreated, begin searching for their missing children. However, Edolas is forced
to be nothing survive without magic, the Exceeds are forced to relocate to Earth-land after Excelia's destruction and the Magic Council plans to disband the Fairy Tail if one more than her brainwashed pawn! Oh, and it turns out the Tower never could have revived Zeref, or rather did not '''need''' to, because Zeref ''isn't actually dead''. Jellal's rampage gave Ultear's ''real'' allies, the Dark Guild incident involving them happens.
** Sirius Island Arc:
Grimoire Heart, Heart is defeated and Cana finally reveals to Gildarts she's his daughter, while Ultear and Meredy reconcile and defect from their guild. However, Zeref ends his self-excile after being convinced that HumansAreBastards, while Acnologia's appearance forces Mavis' spirit to put Fairy Tail members into 7-year stasis with the chance Fairy Sphere. By the time they unfreeze, their guild has turned from the strongest in the kingdom to acquire one the weakest, while Lucy discovers her father has died during those seven years.
** Grand Magic Games: Fairy Tail regains its position as the strongest guild in Fiore, Saber Tooth is reformed, Raven Tail is no more and Future Rouge's plan to summon an army of dragons is thwarted with Eclipse Gate's destruction. However, Future Lucy is killed TakingTheBullet for her present self and none
of the keys Dragon Slayers was able to Zeref's [[SealedEvilInACan seal]].kill a single dragon, while Future Rouge gives Natsu a cryptic warning that Gray will kill Frosch in one year, which will be his present self's StartOFDarkness, and Acnologia will TakeOverTheWorld in seven more years. And worst of all, Zeref announces to Mavis his intention to RestartTheWorld.
** The ending of Tartaros arc is more bitter than sweet though. Sure, Tartaros and the Face are gone, while Minerva is redeemed. The cost? The Magic Council is in ruins, Fairy Tail is no more (the later arc would reveal that Makarov did this to protect its members from the Alvarez Empire in case he fails to negotiate peace, since the only things that could intimidate Alvarez into not invading Ishgar are gone), Igneel is KilledOffForReal by Acnologia, the other four Dragons AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence and Zeref reclaims the book of E.N.D., aka [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Etherious Natsu Dragneel]].
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* ''Anime/CometLucifer'': Peace falls on Gift, and the other planet, which turned out to be Earth, recovering. Roman and Kaon also appear to be HappilyMarried, with BabiesEverAfter as well. Unfortunately Felia returned to her spirit/angel role, supporting both planets, meaning she's no longer physically with Sogo either.
* ''Anime/CopCraft'': Kei and Tilarna kill Zelada for good this time and take out a corrupt FBIAgent in the bargain, and Coal Mozeleemay's wife Marla, who got away with murder in a previous case, is sent to jail. However, a lot of damage was done to the city by race riots, and both of the moderate mayoral candidates have been assassinated (and Marla Mozeleemay, who stepped in after her husband was killed, is going to prison), leaving a far-right candidate the last man standing in the election.

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** In the manga, the empire in overthrown, the new government works towards fixing the problems associated with the empire, and the surviving cast gets their happy ending. However, many characters have died to reach this goal, and the ones that survived are left heavily scarred, both physically and mentally. Also, Night Raid is erased from the history books, and Akame has to leave to find a cure for [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Murasame's curse]].

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** In the manga, the empire in is overthrown, the new government works towards fixing the problems associated with caused by the empire, old regime, and the surviving cast gets their happy ending. However, many characters have died to reach this goal, and the ones that survived are left heavily scarred, both physically and mentally. Also, Night Raid is erased from the history books, and Akame has to leave to find a cure for [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Murasame's curse]].


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* ''Anime/AuraBattlerDubine'': The villains are defeated and peace is restored to Upper Earth and Byston Wells, but at the cost of every member of the Zelana Crew (except for Cham) and their allies dying.
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* ''Manga/SakuraHimeTheLegendOfPrincessSakura'': Sakura ends up losing a good portion of her allies (with only Kohaku, Hayate, Fujimurasaki, Yuri and Maimai surviving) and has to seal off the moon spring water, cutting off the moon people's source of power, causing her and Byakuya to die as well. However, Aoba is quickly revived with his curse broken, Shuri and Maimai revert back to humans and later Sakura comes back as a full human as well with help from her deceased, reuniting with Aoba.
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* ''Anime/ALittleSnowFairySugar'': Sugar passes her test, but vanishes as a result, as Saga can't see fairies anymore after that (although she can apparently still see their starry flight trails). It's also hinted that Sugar still hangs around Saga, despite being unable to communicate with her directly.
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* ''Manga/StriderHiryu'': Enterprise, along with its ZAIN mind control project, has been destroyed, plus Enterprise President Faysus/Faceas Clay and the corrupt Strider Vice-Director Matic are both dead, but these events did not happen without the deaths of Hiryu's sister Mariya & and his friend Sheena (along with Hiryu's other friend [[DeathByAdaptation Cain]] in the UsefulNotes/{{NES}} Game), this leads to Hiryu himself quitting again, this time leaving his Cypher behind.

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* ''Manga/StriderHiryu'': Enterprise, along with its ZAIN mind control project, has been destroyed, plus Enterprise President Faysus/Faceas Clay and the corrupt Strider Vice-Director Matic are both dead, but these events did not happen without the deaths of Hiryu's sister Mariya & and his friend Sheena (along with Hiryu's other friend [[DeathByAdaptation Cain]] in the UsefulNotes/{{NES}} Platform/{{NES}} Game), this leads to Hiryu himself quitting again, this time leaving his Cypher behind.
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* ''Anime/TheBraveFighterOfLegendDaGarn'': Earth is saved from Ohboss, but all of the robots, Da Garn included, sacrificed themselves to make it happen.
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*** The timeline that Cell came from originally ended up having one of these onto itself. While Trunks is dead, Bulma is alone, and the Saiyan race is extinct, Cell is gone and the androids are destroyed. While there are no more strong people to defend Earth, this means Babidi has no way of reviving Majin Buu. Zamasu never met Goku so he'll never enact his "Zero Mortals" plan, and the planet won't be ravaged beyond repair, and Zenos won't erase it.
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* ''Anime/WeddingPeach'' ''DX'':
** "Salvia's Love...We'll Fight, Even On a Luxury Liner": Clark Oasis and his WorldDomination plot is stopped but Salvia was forced to kill him, leaving her heartbroken.
** '"The False Love Angels-We'll Fight, Even On Valentine's Day'": Momoko, Yuri and Hinagiku get their bodies back, the stolen chocolate is returned and the Love Angels give their chocolate gifts to their boyfriends. The only downside is that Dr. Belphegor got away.
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* ''Anime/NeoHumanCasshern'': Casshern defeats the Breaking Boss, his parents and the human race is safe and the robots are re-programmed to rebuild. But Testuya will not be human again; he will remain an android forever.
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* ''Anime/VoltesV'': The Gō brothers reunite with their father Gohl/Kentarou and the Boazanian civil war ends in victory for the rebels who, aided by the Voltes Team, overthrow the imperial government, indirectly stopping its own invasion of Earth which was largely driven by the search to kill Gohl, the rightful heir to the Boazanian throne usurped by his jealous cousin Zambajil, who ironically dies not at the hands of either the Voltes Team or the rebels, but by his own enforcer Heinel, furious at having been tricked into attempting to kill his own father and younger half-brothers (respectively, Gohl and the Gō brothers) before being thrown under the bus in a vain attempt at bargaining for his life. Unfortunately, a lot of the Voltes Team's allies had to die beforehand (including the Gō brothers' mother Mitsuyo, Professor Hamaguchi, and Megumi's father General Oka), Heinel sacrifices himself to save Kenichi from the rubble, and Gohl chooses to stay behind in Boazan instead of joining his remaining sons to Earth so he can help rebuild Boazanian society, though it's implied that with the space-warp technology they used to travel to Boazan in the last arc, travel between Earth and Boazan wouldn't take long and the Voltes team can visit their father in the now peaceful Boazan anytime.
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*''Manga/HikariNoDensetsu'': Downplayed in the manga and more on the "sweet" side: Hikari may have not won the gold medal, but she's finally with the man she loves and the whole world cheers for their union after he sang an Italian love song for her.
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* ''Anime/UnicoBlackCloudAndWhiteFeather'': After Unico makes the town healthier, the West Wind comes to take him away from [[DelicateAndSickly Chico]] due to the gods being after him. However, Unico begs the West Wind to let him stay a little longer so she won't die. She allows Unico to return to her home to give Chico magical flowers that will make her completely healthy again. Sadly, Unico has to leave before Chico wakes up and she and Garappachi are later shown searching for him. The short ends with Unico on another location searching for anyone else since he's alone once again as he sheds a SingleTear.

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* ''Anime/UnicoBlackCloudAndWhiteFeather'': After Unico makes the town healthier, the West Wind comes to take him away from [[DelicateAndSickly Chico]] due to [[JerkassGods the gods gods]] (specifically [[GreaterScopeVillain Venus]]) being after him. However, Unico begs the West Wind to let him stay a little longer so she won't die. She allows Unico to return to her home to give Chico magical flowers that will make her completely healthy again. Sadly, Unico has to leave before Chico wakes up and she and Garappachi are later shown searching for him. The short ends with Unico on another location at the Hill of Oblivion searching for anyone else since he's alone once again as he sheds a SingleTear.
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* ''Anime/UnicoBlackCloudAndWhiteFeather'': After Unico makes the town healthier, the West Wind comes to take him away from Tico due to the gods being after him. However, Unico begs the West Wind to let him stay a little longer so Tico won't die. She allows Unico to return to her home to give Tico magical flowers that will make her completely healthy again. Sadly, Unico has to leave before Tico wakes up and she and the rat are later shown searching for him. The short ends with Unico on another location searching for anyone else since he's alone once again as he sheds a SingleTear.

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* ''Anime/UnicoBlackCloudAndWhiteFeather'': After Unico makes the town healthier, the West Wind comes to take him away from Tico [[DelicateAndSickly Chico]] due to the gods being after him. However, Unico begs the West Wind to let him stay a little longer so Tico she won't die. She allows Unico to return to her home to give Tico Chico magical flowers that will make her completely healthy again. Sadly, Unico has to leave before Tico Chico wakes up and she and the rat Garappachi are later shown searching for him. The short ends with Unico on another location searching for anyone else since he's alone once again as he sheds a SingleTear.
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* ''Anime/DinosaurKing'': The Dark Pterosaur is destroyed, Spectre and his pirates are defeated, and despite multiple HeroicSacrifices EverybodyLives but the dinosaurs are permanently stuck in combat form, they and everyone from the future return to their time, including Rex, and the time machine only has enough power left for one last trip, meaning Max and Zoe will never see Rex or their dinosaur friends ever again.

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* ''Anime/DinosaurKing'': The Dark Pterosaur is destroyed, Spectre and his pirates are defeated, and despite multiple HeroicSacrifices {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s EverybodyLives but the dinosaurs are permanently stuck in combat form, they and everyone from the future return to their time, including Rex, and the time machine only has enough power left for one last trip, meaning Max and Zoe will never see Rex or their dinosaur friends ever again.
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* ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky'': At the end of the series finale, it is made clear that a vast majority of Earth's surface is undergoing irreversible desertification. While small regions are recovering, the biosphere itself was damaged beyond repair. Despite this, the heroines managed to defeat [[BigBad Colonel Hopkins]] and stop him from restarting a war that would have destroyed what little remained; instead, peace between Helvetia and Rome has been finalised, and Rio [[SequelHook plans to go find the legendary land that escaped the desolation]].

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