History DrivenToSuicide / AnimeAndManga

'''As a DeathTrope, expect spoilers, both marked and unmarked.'''

* In ''Manga/DGrayman'', [[spoiler:main protagonist Allen Walker attempts to slit his own throat in order to stop his Innocence from harming someone who was having an AndThenJohnWasAZombie moment]]. While the attempt was quickly interrupted, [[spoiler:it gives a whole new grim meaning to Allen's earlier promise that he would stop [[EnemyWithin The 14th]] if he attacked the Order]].

* ''Anime/DirtyPair'': When Yuri tries to drain Algernon the intelligent mouse's I.Q. with a genetically engineered flea, his mate Chichi takes it instead and becomes an ordinary mouse. Algernon is so distraught that he commits suicide by jumping through a window to his death onto the street below.

* ''Manga/{{Metamorphosis}}'': The story revolves around Saki Yoshida's horrible spiral into drug addiction and prostitution, culminating in her being robbed and viciously assaulted by her former classmates, which causes a miscarraige. She manages to drag herself to a filthy public restroom, looks at herself in a mirror, and [[DespairEventHorizon is so horrified by everything that's happened to her]] and by what she's become that she [[RageAgainstTheReflection smashes the mirror]] and deliberately overdoses on her remaining heroin supply, dying shortly thereafter.

* In ''Manhua/GoddessCreationSystem'', after two bad breakups and a brutal public shaming, Xiaxi cuts her wrists open, bleeds out on a hospital bed and finds herself reincarnating into ancient China with a mission: Seduce a young nobleman and become a goddess or die.

* A very tragic example of an already tragic trope from from ''Manhwa/LetDai'', in a terribly ironic fashion: [[spoiler:Eunhyung. After much sorrow from being gang raped and becoming utterly alienated from the world at large she finally begins to recover, rumors at school and eavesdropping on the boy she likes confessing his love for her sister finally take her to the edge. Ironically, said boy then goes to correct this assertion and expresses his love to Eunhyung who no longer hears this part of the conversation. To make matters even more painful, the boy makes a public confession via a banner that he hangs at her school... only to be informed that she committed suicide the day before]]. A true TearJerker moment.

* In ''Manhua/MyWifeIsADemonQueen'', the official story of [[spoiler:Guro Dita's]] death is that [[spoiler:he was found hung in his own library]]. It's unclear as to whether that's what ''really'' happened, however.

* In the anime adaptation of ''Literature/TheSecretGarden'', [[spoiler:when it seems [[ImpoverishedPatrician he's about to lose the manor to Hawkins and be economically ruined]], Archibald Craven makes arrangements for Mary and Colin's caretaking and gets ready to blow his brains off with a gun while staring at a picture of his dear Lillias. He backs off at the last moment]].

** Tama Nekonari was worn down and burned out by a SoulCrushingDeskJob to the point she did nothing but go to work, go home, go to work, go home, rinse, repeat. She started to think she'd prefer to be a cat in her next life, and one day realized she could make that next life come sooner than later. The only thing that stopped Tama taking her life then and there was the thought that she might just reincarnate as a human instead of a cat and go through the same hell all over again. Rather than risk it, Tama decided "Fine, then. I'll just become a cat ''in this life...'' Tama donned cat ears and a jacket with cat paws, quit her job and lazed about until she ran out of money. Until Rentarou found her and she became one of his girlfriends, she was perfectly prepared to risk starving on the streets as a stray cat than go back to being a human in the workforce.

* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': After being locked up by her mother and forbidden to see Rentarou and the other girls again, Hakari is so upset that she tries to jump out of the window. Luckily, Rentarou is able to save her in time.

* In the opening of the 1988 {{OAV}} of ''Manga/Appleseed'', a woman leaps to her death rather than continue to live in Olympus, which she views as a GildedCage. [[spoiler:Between the trauma of watching her do this and the ''very'' dubious response of the government, her husband becomes a TragicVillain who blames Olympus for killing her and teams up with an [[FantasticRacism anti-bioroid]] terrorist to bring it down.]]

** After being part of a genocidal slaughter, Roy Mustang felt so guilty over the horrors he participated in that he tried to commit suicide by eating his gun right on the spot, but was stopped from pulling the trigger by his best friend Maes Hughes (his mentor, Dr. Marcoh, in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the first anime]]).

* ''LightNovel/IHadThatSameDreamAgain'': {{Subverted|Trope}}; [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Skank-san]] tells [[PluckyGirl Nanoka]] that she had hit the nadir of despair and was planning to kill herself the evening that Nanoka showed up at her door with the black cat, but decided not to after the encounter.

* ''LightNovel/TheMisfitOfDemonKingAcademy'': Upon realizing that Anos has reduced her from a pure blood demon to a half-demon, Emilia Ludowell attempted to kill herself by cutting her throat. This does not take as the wound heals itself and even if she did kill herself, the curse Anos inflicted ensures she always resurrects as a half-demon if she dies.

* ''Anime/WelcomeToTheNHK'' has every major character except Yamazaki attempt suicide at least once, always by jumping off a cliff. Sato has TWO suicide attempts. He doesn't want to commit suicide initially either time, and the second he starts out trying to stop his friend's suicide attempt. [[spoiler:Incidentally, he does get off the cliff the second time. He doesn't die due to a metal grating that was installed to prevent suicides at that particular cliff.]]