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* Horrendously averted in ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'': Two of the worst deaths are destined for [[spoiler: Sachiko, Akira's little neighbor, and Miki's younger brother]]. In fact, in regards to {{Devilman}} and DevilmanLady, GoNagai has absolutely NO compunction about killing children and babies in the most horrific way possible and showing it very clearly, preferably in front of their parents.

* Fourteen year old Kaori dies in the final episode of ''Anime/YourLieInApril''. She had been suffering from a disease her entire life but it was getting worse by the start of the series. Knowing she had little time left she set out to befriend the boy who inspired her to begin playing the violin almost ten years ago.

* ''Manga/ALollipopOrABullet'' averts this in a horrid way. [[spoiler:Umino's abusive father ends up beating her so badly one day she dies. He tries [[DeadMansChest hiding the body]] in the mountains but the protagonist and her older brother end up finding her dismembered corpse]].

* Averted to some degree in ''KarakuriCircus''. Children (particularly Masaru) are shown to be terribly injured on occasion...and then the French village gets attacked by the evil circus.

* ''BattleAngelAlita'': In addition to the CrapsackWorld of The Scrapyard where villains have no qualms about killing children, there's also the [[IAmAHumanitarian infant-meat]]-fancying Venusians and the [[{{Immortality}} "Methuzalized"]] space colonists who regard "the next generation as a threat, not a promise" and regularly send death squads after children. There's also the ChildSoldiers of Jeru/Ketheres, who Alita and her new friends from Mars try to save a day too late, and the orphans on the Space Karate guy's planet.

* In a ''VenusVersusVirus' arc one of a set of twins gets turned into a [[TheVirus Vir]][[TheHeartless us]]. She asks Lucia to MercyKill her so she doesn't harm her brother.
* In ''MaiOtome'', [[spoiler:Mimi, a young girl who is part of the refugees of Windbloom, dies from her wounds after being attacked by a desert monster]].
* ''MuhyoAndRoji'''s ghosts are often children, who die of causes such as falling onto a subway train tracks, fires, car accident, or even suicide, or parents who lost their children. The moment of their deaths is often shown in flashbacks.
* So many times in ''BarefootGen''.

* The ''{{Tsukihime}}'' manga featured a chapter when one of the antagonists invades a hotel, using his powers to kill anybody. He passes by a pair of children and it looks like he'll let them live...till his monsters chomp on them too.
* ''HunterXHunter'': This is how the Chimera arc starts, with a pair of sibling coming across the queen who eats both of them.

* The fourteen year old protagonist of ''DeadmanWonderland'' is constantly in danger but never really gets hurt. His classmates on the other hand are all brutally murdered within the first ten pages of the series. Hibana Daida, a seven year old, once tortured and killed a boy in kindergarten because ''he flipped her skirt''. [[spoiler:Hibana herself is killed by Toto.]]
* Toboe was actually the first of the ''WolfsRain'' wolves to die. He's the youngest, being roughly thirteen to fourteen in human form.

* ''ALollipopOrABullet'' averts this in a horrid way. [[spoiler:Umino's abusive father ends up beating her so badly one day she dies. He tries [[DeadMansChest hiding the body]] in the mountains but the protagonist and her older brother end up finding her dismembered corpse]].

* Horrifically averted in ''NowAndThenHereAndThere''. The fact that the plot revolves around ChildSoldiers in a CrapsackWorld should give you an indication of what happens.

** ''ZetaGundam'' specifically showed an infant body in the gassed colony 30 Bunch, and a mother and infant child are briefly shown dying when the Titans use the Colony Laser to destroy several colonies as a "demonstration".
** Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED doesn't shy itself from averting the trope either [[spoiler: both with the girl that gave the origami flower to Kira being killed in the explosion that Yzak caused when he shot the refugee shuttle in which she was]]. There's also the shot [[spoiler:of a dead mother and her child in the ruins of Junius 7, which either shocked or caused a complete breakdown to the characters who entered the room where these bodies were.]]

* In ''VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'', [[CreepyChild Rika]] dies multiple times, in horrific ways. {{Tsundere}} Satoko also dies a few times, as well.

** The ''{{Grendizer}}'' manga (also a Go Nagai production) has a villain who averts this twice- in a flashback he kidnaps all the kids from planet Fleed and says he'll give them back in exchange for the planet's weapons. When they give up the weapons, he gives back the kids- ''by dropping them from 30,000 feet in the air''. And in the present, he steals Anime/GreatMazinger and ties up a bunch of kids as well as people Duke cares about all over the robot so Grendizer can't fight back.

* ''{{Zambot3}}'': This series is notorious -among other reasons- because it averted the trope. AnyoneCanDie. It does not matter if you are a kid; it does not matter if you are a kid and a secondary character; it does not matter if you are a kid [[spoiler:and a MAIN character.]] Given this is a show produced by YoshiyukiTomino (as well known as KillEmAll), it should not be shocking.

** There's also an episode of MazingerZ where [[spoiler: Shirou's crush, Lorelei, was a RobotGirl with the body of a 10-year-old cutie... and [[KidWithTheLeash in control of a huge mecha beast]]. [[TearJerker She doesn't make it]].]] In another, Sayaka's cousin Yuri (who is actually ''crippled'') is kidnapped and placed inside a capsule in a mecha beast's head; she's luckier than the others, though, and survives.

* We know from when it's first found that the abandoned baby in ''TokyoGodfathers'' will survive anything.
** It's implied in the movie that the baby is getting protected by ''God Himself'', with a nice analogy to the infant Jesus. [[spoiler:This is probably most apparent during the climax, when the baby and Hanna fall off of a building and are saved by a ''huge gust of wind''.]]

* Averted in the seventeenth volume of ''TheKindaichiCaseFiles'', "The Undying Butterflies" in which a twelve-year-old girl is the first victim of the story's murders.

* Horrendously averted in ''{{Devilman}}'': Two of the worst deaths are destined for [[spoiler: Sachiko, Akira's little neighbor, and Miki's younger brother]]. In fact, in regards to {{Devilman}} and DevilmanLady, GoNagai has absolutely NO compunction about killing children and babies in the most horrific way possible and showing it very clearly, preferably in front of their parents.

** Also averted in ''ViolenceJack''. The first arc ''alone'' is filled with graphic deaths of young kids.

* ''ViolenceJack'' averts this to harsh effects. No one is safe from being graphically killed.

* Averted in ''StreetFighterAlphaTheAnimation'', where [[spoiler:Ryu]]'s kid brother dies.

* ''Nasty'' aversion in {{Ideon}}. [[spoiler: The deaths of the kids in the KillEmAll movie are among the most ''gruesome'' in the Ideon media... like, um, the little girl [[OffwithHisHead who gets beheaded BY A FREAKING GUNSHOT]]?]]

* In the ''SpaceRunawayIdeon'' movie, even the kids perish. Special mention goes to the scene when [[spoiler: a little girl is ''beheaded'' by a gunshot onscreen. Poor, ''poor'' Ashura]].

* The Mazinger trilogy (''MazingerZ'', ''GreatMazinger'', ''UFORoboGrendizer'') both plays straight and averts the trope. Some children manage keep alive despite being TooDumbToLive, but the series did not shy either from showing dead children. In particular, two instances in the ''UFORoboGrendizer'' GoNagai manga were sheer horror.

** The ''{{Grendizer}}'' manga (also a Go Nagai production) has a villain who averts this twice- in a flashback he kidnaps all the kids from planet Fleed and says he'll give them back in exchange for the planet's weapons. When they give up the weapons, he gives back the kids- ''by dropping them from 30,000 feet in the air''. And in the present, he steals GreatMazinger and ties up a bunch of kids as well as people Duke cares about all over the robot so Grendizer can't fight back.

* ''ALollipopOrABullet'' heavily averts this in a horrid way. [[spoiler:Umino's abusive father ends up beating her so badly one day she dies. He tries [[DeadMansChest hiding the body]] in the mountains but the protagonist and her older brother end up finding her dismembered corpse]].

* In {{Gaiking}}, the trope is zigzagged. The TagalongKid of the crew is put in serious danger ''several times'' and yet he lives through, and the little brother of a crewmember ([[spoiler: Peter's brother Tom]]) is taken hostage and also survives... but the younger brother of ''another'' Space Dragon crew-member ([[spoiler: Fan Lee]]) dies in the arms of his sibling after being shot InTheBack, and in one of the earliest episodes a little girl named Lisa is shot to death because her father didn't want to join the BigBad's forces.

* Horribly averted in ''GraveOfTheFireflies''. [[ForegoneConclusion They warned you]].
* In the ''{{Hellsing}}'' manga, one of the first images readers are shown during Millennium's invasion of London is a limp, bloody and unmistakably dead infant in the jaws of a [[NinjaPirateRobotZombie Vampire-Nazi.]]

* Averted in ''EurekaSeven'', where, on one occasion, a little boy's death at the hands of the Scab Corals received an ironically graphic GoryDiscretionShot.

* Averting this is ''{{Genocyber}}'''s claim to fame, to the point that the most brutal and obvious example has ended up on at least one shock site.

* ''{{Daimos}}'': Daimos averts the trope as soon as the SECOND episode. A kid spends a short while egging [[TheHero Kazuya]] and [[TheWoobie Erika]] on to kiss. Later, when the enemy attacks, an explosion destroys the greenhouse had gone into. Kazuya and Erika bolt to the place and find him lying between the rubble. The kid opens his eyes and asks Kazuya if he "got lucky" before dying as Kazuya is holding him in arms.

* ''BlueGender''. Things don't go well for poor [[spoiler:Yung]], and during the massacre of [[spoiler:Yung]]'s group by the Blue, we see one of the BigCreepyCrawlies slash at a mother holding an infant (Mom dies; kid goes flying). Needless to say, if the blow didn't kill the baby, hitting the ground will.

* Kentaro Miura shows repeatedly in the ''{{Berserk}}'' manga that children do not get special immunity from the horrors of the story's universe.

* In ''MiraiNikki'', AnyoneCanDie, even children. The [[spoiler: 4 year old Reisuke]] is killed by Yuno, and later on [[spoiler: Yukki's 14 year old friends are all gunned down as well.]]

* ''Manga/ALollipopOrABullet'' heavily averts this in a horrid way. [[spoiler:Umino's abusive father ends up beating her so badly one day she dies. He tries [[DeadMansChest hiding the body]] in the mountains but the protagonist and her older brother end up finding her dismembered corpse]].

* ''Anime/{{Tokyo Magnitude 8}}'' takes place during and after a large earthquake and thus many people, children and adults, are implied or shown to die. [[spoiler:Yuuki, the protagonists little brother, ends up dying near the end due to cranial bleeding]].