History EverybodyDiesEnding / AnimeAndManga

* The anime ''Anime/{{Gilgamesh}}'' killed all of the characters but one in an event that also wiped out everyone else on Earth, but gave birth to one new life, which was immediately strangled by the sole survivor.

* By the end of the ''Anime/{{Kite}}'' movie, every important character is dead except for the main heroine, who is so screwed up inside it seems implied she will keep waiting for her dead boyfriend until she dies from starvation or dehydration.

* By the end of ''Manga/AkameGaKill'', everyone is dead except Akame, Najenda, Wave, and Run. Subverted in the original manga where Mine survived her death (she was put in a coma instead and wakes up in the final chapter), Tatsumi who technically died but came back as a dragon and Kurome, who lives to be together with Wave. Run doesn't make it in the original either, however, so it balances out.

*** Amusingly subverted with ''Anime/TurnAGundam'', in which (despite it being a Tomino directed series) most of the cast survives, even those [[KarmaHoudini you wish got blasted to hell]] (looking at you Guin), or [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty at least]] [[FateWorseThanDeath don't need to be]] (looking at you now, Gym). Course, this series was made long after Tomino apparently found a new lease in life, so...

*** Amusingly subverted with ''Anime/TurnAGundam'', in which (despite it being a Tomino directed series) most of the cast survives, even those [[KarmaHoudini you wish got blasted to hell]] (looking at you Guin). Course, this series was made long after Tomino apparently found a new lease in life, so...

*** Likewise, the final two episodes of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Gundam SEED]]'', while leaving nearly all the main heroes safe, killed off the majority of the supporting cast, and the only survivor among the antagonists was via a last-minute defection to the good guys. Unfortunately, '''the''' most blatantly obvious death (and the most moving one at that) got eliminated via {{Retcon}} in the sequel, with [[FirstLawOfResurrection no explanation ever given]] (the Special edition was slightly more ambiguous). Seriously, the guy gets ''disintegrated by {{antimatter}}'', and then comes back to life.

* ''LightNovel/FateZero'' progressively kills off almost every character due to the war-like nature of the tournament. With the exception of Waver, the only survivors are those who factor into ''Fate/Stay Night'': Shirou, Rin, Sakura, Illya, Zouken, Gilgamesh, Saber (sort of), Aoi (possibly), and Kirei (technically dead).

* Creator/YoshiyukiTomino has produced a number of anime, including several ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' shows, where he kills off a large number of characters, often due to bouts of depression in his own life. He's not known as "Kill 'Em All Tomino" for naught. Incidentally many instances of his tendencies coincide with instances of [[ExecutiveMeddling executives trying to screw with him]], see Zeta Gundam, Victory Gundam, Aura Battler Dunbine, Space Runaway Ideon. His reputation is so notorious that his "Kill 'Em All" moniker used to be the [[TropeNamer namesake]] of this trope, prior to it being renamed from KillEmAll (now a wick page) to EverybodyDiesEnding.

* ''Literature/KingsGame'' ends with everyone being [[DeadlyEuphemism "punished"]] at some point during the games except for Nobuaki...[[HereWeGoAgain who chooses to continue playing to avoid death himself]]. Its sequel, ''Shuukyoku'' (as well as the anime), kills off everyone again ''[[TheHeroDies including Nobuaki]]''. This is made all the crueler given that in order to stop the game, everybody needs to die or else it'll just continue on to another class--[[ShootTheShaggyDog which it does anyway]].

* ''Manga/ShamanKing'': Zig-Zagged. Immediately after awakening as the new Shaman King, Hao proceeds to kill every single character. However, when they all show up inside the Great Spirit along side his mother, they convince him not to kill every human and Hao revives almost all of the characters.

* TropeNamer Creator/YoshiyukiTomino has produced a number of anime, including several ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' shows, where he kills off a large number of characters, often due to bouts of depression in his own life. He's not known as "Kill 'Em All Tomino" for naught. Incidentally many instances of his Kill 'Em All tendencies coincide with instances of [[ExecutiveMeddling executives trying to screw with him]], see Zeta Gundam, Victory Gundam, Aura Battler Dunbine, Space Runaway Ideon.

* ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'' already has its opening sequence [[SpoilerOpening foreshadow David's demise]], but by the end of the series, all the main characters besides Lucy (whose survival was likewise foreshadowed in the ending credits) and Falco have been murdered.

* ''Anime/DragonBallZBardockTheFatherOfGoku:'' By virtue of being a prequel. Every main character in the special (Bardock and his squad) along with the entire Saiyan race dies, killed by Frieza. Ony a few Saiyans survived by virtue of not being on the planet, such as Vegeta, Nappa, Raditz and Goku himself.

** Averted hard in the first arc of ''Magia Record'', with the entire cast surviving and defeating Walpurgis. The anime adaptation downplays it- the main five girls survive, but many of the characters die, and it’s implied that, though Walpurgis was defeated again, Homura's friends died, so Homura resets the timeline again.

* ''Anime/DragonBallZBardockTheFatherOfGoku:'' By virtue of being a prequel. Every main character in the special (Bardock and his squad) along with the entire Saiyan race dies, killed by Frieza.

** Played in Straight in Episode 61 where Gintoki and Katsura massacred the Alien Pirates of Harusame.
*** Even better in the movie where Gintoki switch weapons in order to mow down the pirates. Show them who's the boss!!!

* ''Anime/DragonBallZBardockFatherOfGoku: By virtue of being a prequel. Every main character in the special (Bardock and his squad) along with the entire Saiyan race dies, killed by Frieza.

* Every single salmon in the ''Manga/CrimsonsTheScarletNavigatorsOfTheOcean'' manga about a school of migrating salmon dies. Even the ones who aren't eaten by predators and successfully make it back to their birthplace to spawn. Because, according to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, "Salmon not killed by other means show greatly accelerated deterioration (phenoptosis, or "programmed aging") at the end of their lives. Their bodies rapidly deteriorate right after they spawn as a result of the release of massive amounts of corticosteroids."

** If you take the bonus pages of the final chapter that are only available in the tankoubon into account, pretty much everyone ends up dead due to the passage of time. Or, presumably, by war.

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':
** The villain Super Buu has an attack dubbed "Human Extinction," that does [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly as the name implies]]. To add to that, anyone who isn't killed by this attack he kills personally (by turning them into candy, no less). Then he reverts to his ''even crazier'' Kid Buu form and immediately [[EarthShatteringKaboom blows up the Earth]] for the lulz. Then, he turns to the rest of the universe, and eventually makes his way to the afterlife, and starts destroying stuff there. This is one of the rare cases where the heroes have a ResetButton -- which itself becomes a plot point, as the surviving secondary cast rushes to find it before it becomes too late for everyone (as the ResetButton has a time limit, ''and'' it's something that Buu is capable of destroying if he gets to it first).
** What makes this example worse is that the attack was triggered when Piccolo [[NiceJobBreakingItHero pointed out that Buu promised he would fight their promised fighter only after he had killed everyone on Earth, in an attempt to buy some time]]. Knowing the ResetButton existed, Piccolo figured it didn't really matter; bringing back the entire population of Earth would be just as easy as bringing back the millions Buu had already killed. But he thought killing everybody would be at least ''marginally'' time-consuming even for Buu. Whoops.
** And in Future Trunks' timeline, Goku dies from a virus, all of the Z-fighters are killed by the Androids, and eventually Gohan meets his maker as well. There is no ResetButton here, since Piccolo died, disabling the Dragon Balls (and finding the other set, located on planet Namek, wouldn't work because of the above-mentioned time limit, which has already expired), and altering the past only creates an AlternateTimeline (aversion of TemporalParadox).
** In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', Freiza destroys the entire Earth killing everyone except a dozen main characters. Once again, they have a ResetButton as Whis turns back time.
** This is Zamasu's mindset. He firmly believes that the mortals are too evil to live and the gods are too lazy to live. So, his solution is to merge with the Multiverse itself and wipe out all life until only he remains. In the anime this is exactly what happens when his consciousness merges with Universe 7 and begins to spread to other universes - including the possibility of infecting other other timelines. It’s only when Zeno and his future counterpart decide to destroy that timelines multiverse that he is truly killed. Making Future Trunks and Mai the only remnants left of that timeline.