History TraumaCongaLine / AnimeAndManga

** In fact, it's harder to name the characters who ''don't'' get put through the meatgrinder as the series progressed. Asuka's story, in particular, is that of a naive young girl shattering on the hard rocks of reality.

* Both Sorata and Nanami of ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'' suffer through this in episode 21. While they had some other outstanding issues, it finally reached a boiling point for both of them after all the bad things that kept happening to them, such as their failures to achieve something in the goals they were reaching for.

* Pretty much every character in ''Manga/ThePromisedNeverland'' is continually subject to horrible torture from the very start of the series.

** Shinji Ikari was a lonely, cripplingly introverted kid to begin with, thanks to seeing his mother die at a tender age and being subsequently [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned]] by his [[DisappearedDad father]]. Then, he gets shanghaied into piloting a mecha that's actually a Lovecraftian monstrosity, which exposes his already fragile mind to more than most adults can take. He gets beaten up at school for his efforts and his first proper battle experience all but ''ruins'' him, as in, he shut himself in his room for weeks, ran away, and contemplated jumping off a cliff. In spite of all this, Shinji manages to find himself some friends and a sort of replacement family and even bond with the cute girls surrounding him, pulling through all the challenges that life threw at him...until all of his achievements were ripped away from him in the cruelest possible fashion. First he put on a mental trial by the first Angel with psychic abilities, leading him to question and doubting himself, after which a critical mutual failure to understand each other leads to his relationship with a love interest souring, then, he has to watch his best friend get maimed at his own father's hands, all but destroying their relationship that was finally showing subtle signs of improvement, next, his mentor/father figure is assassinated and his mother figure falls into deep depression as a result, one of his love interests gets subjected to brutal MindRape and the other dies to save his life, just to be replaced by a clone who barely reacts to him, after which he's treated to watching several of these clones dissolving into bloods and gore, the revelation that his dead mother's soul is in his mecha all of which while he couldn't do a thing about her...and then, just when he's at the lowest of the low, some white haired {{Bishonen}} turns up and wants to be his friend...except he turns out to be an enemy whom Shinji has to kill...and ends up sacrificing himself for Shinji's sake. Guilt-ridden, the poor boy loses his will to live, but is unwilling to kill himself as well. After trying unsuccessfully to [[ADateWithRosiePalms find refuge]] in his [[DudeShesLikeInAComa comatose love interest]], he just curls up and waits for someone to shoot him. Cue ''[[FromBadToWorse End of Evangelion]]''. Uniquely, Shinji is all over the scale of results for this trope. At the start of the series he is already a Result E from his back-story alone. Throughout the series he keeps going back and forth between Result F, D and C. He usually tries to be a Result F, until something pushes him far enough and he plunges into D, which he usually precedes to fail at landing him on C until he manages to crawl back to F. In End of Evangelion he [[spoiler:finally breaks the cycle by just giving up entirely and temporary becoming a Result B [[EarnYourHappyEnding before finally managing to find a way]] to Result A]].

** Casca was sold to a noble who wanted her for a SexSlave. She was rescued by Griffith and became one of his best warriors, and life is good for her, and she eventually finds love in Guts. Then the Eclipse went down, resulting in [[spoiler:Griffith going bad as mentioned above, Casca losing everyone under her command (particularly Pippin and Judeau, who sacrificed themselves to make sure she would live), getting captured and stripped naked by demons and ultimately being raped by Griffith himself in his new form of Femto, with Guts trying everything in his power but still failing to save her]]. Casca spends two years as a [[TheOphelia shell]] of her former self, before Guts takes her to Elfhelm along with some TrueCompanions where a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind shows Casca's mind is a complete [[EldritchLocation nightmare-scape]] with only a few a fragments memories that have to be placed together to restore Casca. [[spoiler: Casca is brought to normal thanks to the efforts of Farnese and Schierke, Casca is overjoyed at the prospect of reuniting Guts and [[MeadowRun runs towards him]] only when she sees him the bad memories come [[RememberedTooLate rushing]] back causing Casca to scream in terror]].

** Shirley almost becomes type C, before Mao makes her go into Type D, then she almost lapses into type C again before some LaserGuidedAmnesia allows her to shift into type A. Suzaku ''aims'' quite valiantly for type A, but with everything that happens, he shifts into either B or D (depending on your perspective) at the end of episode 19 of R2, before joining Lelouch in type A.

** Lelouch actually has a lot more in common with Type E, largely because he still has a firm grasp of his own sense of right and wrong, as well as wanting to see his ultimately noble goals come to fruition, even if he comes across as quite dark. It's hard to be a Type B when your enemy is a racist [[TheEmpire Empire]] that has one leader [[spoiler:willing to destroy individuality due to his own crappy childhood, and a Prime Minister who's willing to nuke the whole world from orbit to enforce peace]]. Shirley almost becomes type C, before Mao makes her go into Type D, then she almost lapses into type C again before some LaserGuidedAmnesia allows her to shift into type A. Suzaku ''aims'' quite valiantly for type A, but with everything that happens, he shifts into either B or D (depending on your perspective) at the end of episode 19 of R2, before joining Lelouch in type A.

* Ryota Mitarai from ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool'' was bullied in childhood so much that he became a recluse to make the perfect anime, which he wanted to use to bring hope to the world. This goal drove him so relentlessly he overworked himself to the point his health declined, which results in him meeting AxCrazy psycho [[spoiler:Junko Enoshima]] on his way to the hospital. She manipulates and deceives him into turning his anime of hope into a weapon of despair, with the first test victim being one of his two friends. It works and said friend almost rapes him. Then he witnesses a classmate get shot in front of him, receives a brutal BreakingSpeech from [[spoiler:Junko]], watches as his anime is used to help destroy the world, and lastly, gets trapped in the Final Killing Game, all with crushing guilt and despair for his unwitting role in it all. This guy can't catch a break. Eventually, he [[spoiler:snaps and [[FaceHeelTurn becomes]] the BigBad of ''[[GrandFinale Side:Hope]]'', deciding to invoke BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood on ''the entire world'']].

** Edward from [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime adaption]]. Both at the beginning of the series and at the end.

** Then you have the entire candidacy for Team Summer A. These are kids who are raised in an institution, knowing of the meteorites to come and are being raised for survival in a post-apocalyptic world and are in constant rivalry to be chosen for Team Summer A. Things get worse when [[spoiler:Ango (and Ryo) find out that "dropping out" means getting killed, that their Final Test to determine who will be chosen involves ''killing'' [[KillEmAll everyone]] except the last remaining seven ''and then'' there is the Final Test itself. Students get killed by guns exploding due to backfiring from poor maintenance, being buried alive under rock, getting maimed by animals, being half-crushed under rocks and slowly dying...]] It's not a surprise that the members of Team Summer A are a bit...[[AxCrazy unhinged]] at times.

** Kagura. She [[spoiler:[[ShootTheDog kills a teacher from her school]] [[BodyHorror who was possessed by a demon]], gets disowned by her friends, [[KillEmAll watches as people around her get massacred,]] [[MentorArchetype sees her best friend]] [[LesYay and surrogate sister Yomi]] [[FaceHeelTurn get turned evil,]] watches Yomi kill her father, [[IDidWhatIHadToDo then finally kills Yomi with a knife to the chest,]] at which point Yomi tells her she loves her.]] Amazingly, the result is eventually type A, even though it's obvious that nothing can fill that spot for Yomi in Kagura's heart (a later arc of [[Manga/GaRei the manga]] deals with this, as [[spoiler:someone who looks exactly like Yomi appears]]). Mind you, in the manga Kagura had ''even worse'' things happening to her. The turn of events destroyed what little resolve she still possess in order to live, and thus her [[{{Mons}} spiritual beast]] went absolutely out of control. Life is a lot unfair for Kagura.

* Both main characters from ''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'' are unfortunate victims of tragic circumstances.

** Mai Tokiha was a kind and emotionally strong girl who looked after her [[IllGirl constantly ill little brother with a weak heart]] by giving up her own childhood to work for his medical bills after losing both her parents. Having both that little brother ''and'' the boy she came to love die in rapid succession, as well as seeing that the one to blame is, supposedly, her best friend and sworn sister, can even break a saint like her into a nihilistic Result C.

** The present of 5D's isn't even the worst of it. There's the BadFuture [[UpToEleven to deal with]]. A global version of Zero Reverse takes place as Synchro Monsters overlord the momentum system and as a result, the Machine Emperors are unleashed. What happens is [[ApocalypseHow the eradication of almost all human life on the planet]]. Of the four humans that are shown among those remaining, [[spoiler: Aporia loses his parents as a child, his lover as an adult and finds no further sign of life by the time he's an elderly man, pushing him far over the DespairEventHorizon. Antinomy is so grief-stricken by what's happened that he's prepared to die when a Machine Emperor is about to fire on him, only to be saved by Zone and breaks down. Zone himself could be the worst. Unable to see his world crumble, he researched Yusei, who is effectively the embodiment of hope and works tirelessly to literally become him, even including headgear that holds Yusei's personality, just to become a symbol of hope and spur mankind into fighting back. His efforts fail horribly when the situation eventually worsens and he's unable to save anyone, almost killed himself. By then, he, too, is pushed harshly over the DespairEventHorizon, and, as a result, is so damaged, that his plan to save the future becomes a journey back 200 years to take out the Synchro Monsters that caused the destruction of his world - even if it means taking out Yusei and [[RetGone himself]].]]

* ''Anime/RingingBell'': Poor Chirin is only a [[SweetSheep baby lamb]], but has suffered so much for only being a few months ago. First Chirin has an [[BreakTheCutie emotional breakdown]] after realizing his mother's dead, then gets knocked out after being thrown off a cliff by the [[SavageWolf Woe the wolf]], fails to protect baby birds (which results with Chirin going through another emotional breakdown), gets sprayed by a skunk, laughed and kicked by a group of buffaloes when attempting to be threatening, rolled into a ball by weasels, almost drowns by falling into a water hole in a lake, and goes [[TrainingFromHell through an intense training session.]] That's one heck of a life for a child that's barely a year old!

* Mai Tokiha of ''Anime/MyHime'' was a kind and emotionally strong girl who looked after her [[IllGirl constantly ill little brother with a weak heart]] by giving up her own childhood to work for his medical bills after losing both her parents. Having both that little brother ''and'' the boy she came to love die in rapid succession, as well as seeing that the one to blame is, supposedly, her best friend and sworn sister, can even break a saint like her into a nihilistic Result C.

* ''Manga/DragonBall'': Poor, poor, Future Trunks. His father died when he was a baby, had to spend his whole childhood living in solitude and when he wasn't living in solitude he had to deal every day with reports of thousand people dying in cities all over the world. Future Trunks trains for several years and tries to save the world taking on the Androids only to lose on every occasion. Then his mentor/father-figure [[spoiler: Gohan]] is murdered in cold blood. After that he trains for several years to avenge said fallen mentor and when he takes on the Androids ends up nearly dying. He then travels back in time to try and make thing better and only makes thing worse by unwittingly creating alternate timelines, goes back to his timeline only to find out nothing has change and so goes back to the main timeline ''again'' and ultimately ends up being killed by Cell. Then the FridgeHorror kicks in when you realize that the Cell that killed Future Trunks is not only from a timeline that Future Trunks created due to his constantly time travelling, but in the timeline which that Cell came from, he also killed Future Trunks ''and'' stole his time machine to travel back in time.

** The XY chapter starts with Shauna as a Type G. Time will tell where she goes from there, seeing how she seems to take the brunt of most personally traumatic experiences in the FiveManBand.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'': Tomoya Okazaki. [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Oooohhhhhh, boy...]]

** Brook. [[spoiler: His ship got shattered, he saw all his friends died one by one, then he died, but [[TheUndead came back]], just to be stuck all alone for 50 years on a ghost ship without food or sunlight. He also got his shadow stolen which would instantly destroy him, if he is in sunlight. He outright states that if it weren't for his Devil Fruit, he [[DrivenToSuicide would have killed himself long ago.]]]]

** The protagonist Eren Yeager has had a life of nothing but hell. He [[spoiler:saved Mikasa from kidnappers at the age of 9 by ''killing them'', watched as his mother was eaten by a Titan, saw countless numbers of friends and comrades murdered, was unwillingly turned into a Titan shifter by his father and entrusted with the fate of humanity (something he doesn't find out about until much later), almost gets eaten by a Titan ''himself'', has to fight people he once considered his friends, he's been kidnapped at least twice, been put through extreme training to master his Titan abilities, almost lost his best friend Armin, has had to relive his father's memories of torture and betrayal, has been accused of being an enemy to humanity more than once by different factions, and lately has discovered that Titan shifters like himself only have a 13-year lifespan once they inherit their powers... and that's just the tip of the iceberg]].
** Mikasa Ackerman [[spoiler:witnessed her parents being killed when she was a child and was kidnapped by slave traders. Thankfully Eren rescued her, but she ended up having to kill one of them herself. After being adopted by the Yeager family, she also saw Eren's mother be eaten by a Titan, and thought that Eren was dead during the battle of Trost. She's also had to kill other humans in self defence. Also, her two best friends are Titan shifters, which means they'll die long before her]].
** Armin Arlert [[spoiler:was bullied just for wanting to go beyond the walls. He watched as four members of his squad (including Eren) were eaten by Titans during the battle of Trost and felt extreme SurvivorsGuilt. He's also responsible for figuring out Annie's true identity as the Female Titan. He's had to kill members of the Military Police, was molested while DisguisedInDrag, and, most horrifically, sacrificed himself in the Shiganshina battle against the Colossal Titan, only to be revived after Eren and Mikasa convinced Levi to use a special serum to transform Armin into a Titan before eating Bertolt and gaining the Colossal Titan's powers. This, however, means that, like Eren, he only has 13 years to live. He was also saved in place of Erwin, the commander of the Survey Corps, which he struggles to come to terms with]].
** Levi [[spoiler:is the SonOfAWhore and grew up in extreme poverty. He was raised by serial killer Kenny Ackerman after his mother Kuchel died when he was little. Due to Kuchel’s advanced state of decay by the time Kenny showed up, it seems that young Levi had been living in the same room with his dead mother for ''days''. He turned to a life of crime to survive, and after being convinced by Erwin to join the Survey Corps, his only two friends were killed by Titans during their first mission outside the walls. While fighting the Female Titan, his entire squad is brutally killed by her, all because he told Eren to trust him. And even though he's tortured and killed people for information, he's rather disturbed to find out that the Titans he's devoted his life to killing were [[WasOnceAMan human all along]]. When Kenny comes back into his life, they're on opposite sides, and Kenny has fun tormenting Levi and shooting some of his subordinates right in front of him. However, when Kenny dies, Levi seems upset by it, as Kenny was his only relative. Later on, he ''also'' loses Erwin, whom he was rather close to and respected, after Levi makes the decision to save Armin instead (partially due to Eren and Mikasa's insistence)]].

** Connie Springer. Just... the things done to that poor boy over the course of a month. He starts out as PluckyComicRelief, but once things go downhill for him they go downhill ''quickly''. [[NewMeat Fresh]] from graduation, he's thrust into battle against the Titans and nearly killed several times. Many of his classmates die horrible deaths, leaving him deeply shaken. Even so, he [[CowardlyLion does not lose]] the will to fight. Then it went FromBadToWorse, as strange events within Wall Rose result in him finding [[spoiler: his village devoid of life, save a single crippled Titan that he's absolutely sure ''greeted him'' and looks like his mother]]. Then, he finds out that [[spoiler: not only are three of his good friends secretly Titan Shifters, his surrogate Big Brother is in fact TheMole]] and nearly kills them all. Last but definitely not least, he takes part in an investigation of [[spoiler: his DoomedHometown, confirming that Titans were once human. The Titans that attacked within Wall Rose were his friends and family, who are all dead now. And the mysterious Titan that spoke to him ''is'' his mother, trapped as a near-mindless monster and probably doomed to spend the rest of her life as a test subject for the military]]. Ouch.
** Grisha Yeager may have the longest, most traumatic conga line of all characters, as it seems his entire life's one of these. [[spoiler:As a child, he and his sister Faye illegally snuck outside of their ghetto to watch a blimp land. They were caught by Marley military officials, after which Grisha was beaten and Faye taken away. Faye was found dead the next day, and the military denied any involvement. Many years later, he's informed of what ''really'' happened: Faye was fed to the dogs of one of the officers that was with them. This leads him to join [[LaResistance the Eldian Restoration Movement]], of which he eventually becomes leader. Through the Movement, he meets his first wife, Dina Fritz, who was sent to them by an informant known only as "Owl". They have a son named Zeke together, and force him to become the last beacon of hope for the Eldian empire's restoration. This involves signing Zeke up for the military's TykeBomb training program, with the expectation that Zeke will inherit one of the powers of the Nine Titans and be able to infiltrate the military and learn closely guarded secrets. However, Zeke betrays his parents and turns them and the rest of the movement into the military. Grisha, Dina and their comrades are then tortured for information before being sent to Paradis Island as punishment. Grisha is forced to watch as his friends and wife are turned into mindless Titans. He's then saved by officer Kruger, who was one of the men present on the day Grisha and Faye went to watch the blimp. Kruger turns out to be a Titan shifter and kills all of the other military presonnel on the island with him. He reveals himself as "Owl", and convinces Grisha to take the powers of the Attack Titan so that Grisha can retrieve the Founding Titan from within Paradis's walls. Many years later, after the walls are breached by the Armored, Colossal and Female Titans (during which his second wife Carla is eaten), Grisha approaches the Reiss family and explains that he knows what's going on and begs them to hand over the Founding Titan. They refuse, so Grisha transforms and fights Frieda, the current holder of the Founding Titan. He manages to secure the Founding Titan, which he then bequeaths, along with the Attack Titan, to his son Eren, who he injects with a Titan transformation serum and is then eaten by]]. Whew.

* Gintoki from ''Manga/Gintama'' qualifies. His earliest memories were as an orphan wandering on a battlefield scavenging for food from death bodies and being ostracized as the corpse-eating demon. He was taken in by Shouyou, his teacher and father figure, and lived with him until Shouyou was arrested for his teachings against the current rotten government. Gintoki joined the war against the government to save his teacher and lost many friends in battle, many of which are still giving him nightmares even at present day. At the end he was captured and forced to execute his teacher, which turned his former best friend and comrade against him. After the war, Gintoki gave himself up and go to jail where he was repeatedly starved and tortured while awaiting the execution day, until a guard felt pity and let him escape. A starving Gintoki then wandered into a graveyard, where he met an old woman who gave him food and a place to live.

** In ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'', he's a strange variation of a Result D. [[spoiler:He, not Unit 01, goes berserk at the end of 2.0 to save Rei, but doesn't give a damn if he kills everything else in the process. It's even displayed earlier in the movie, when he tries to destroy NERV and off Gendo with his EVA for using the dummy system on Unit 03 while Asuka was inside it.]] [[FromBadToWorse Then he goes through a particularly nasty one]] in Rebuild ''3.0.'' that sends him straight into Result C. Pray that the last movie doesn't finish like ''[[KillEmAll End]]''.

** Brook. [[spoiler: His ship got shattered, he saw all his friends died one by one, then he died, but [[TheUndead came back]], just to be stuck all alone for 50 years on a ghost ship without food or sunlight. He also got his shadow stolen which would instantly destroy him, if he is in sunlight. He outright states that if it weren't for his Devil Fruit, he [[DrivenToSuicide would have killed himself long ago.]]

* ''Manga/NotSimple'' is essentially the trauma conga line of it's main character, Ian's life. To explain, [[spoiler: he is the product of incest between his father and sister, Kylie, but due to her young age, [[FamilyRelationshipSwitcharoo he was raised to believe his grandmother was his mother]]. Because of how he was born, both his father and grandmother hate him. After his sister ends up in jail, his "parents" divorce and he ends up with his grandmother, a drunk who abuses him and even pimps him out to pay for her alcohol, which leds to him getting H.I.V. After Kylie gets out of jail, she sends him to live with their father, with the promise that he can see her again when he beats his current running speed and this becomes his sole purpose in life. Unfortunately, before this could happen, Kylie died of H.I.V, which was given to her by the same pimp who infected Ian, who she nearly killed when she found out what he's done, which landed her in prison again. His grandmother blames him for all her and Kylie's misfortunes and disownes him, with his father doing the same shortly after. Eventually, he meets a rich woman who promises to run away with him in a year, only for him to discover later that she apparently died. He's then killed by assassins who mistake him for somebody else.]]

* ''Manga/NotSimple'' is essentially the trauma conga line of it's main character, Ian's life. To explain, [[spoiler: he is the product of incest between his father and sister, Kylie, but due to her young age, [[FamilyRelationshipSwitcharoo he was raised to believe his grandmother was his mother]]. Because of how he was born, both his father and grandmother hate him. After his sister ends up in jail, his "parents" divorce and he ends up with his grandmother, a drunk who abuses him and even pimps him out to pay for her alcohol, which leds to him getting H.I.V. After Kylie gets out of jail, she sends him to live with their father, with the promise that he can see her again when he beats his current running speed and this becomes his sole purpose in life. Unfortunately, before this could happen, Kylie died of H.I.V, which was given to her by the same pimp who infected Ian, who she nearly killed when she found out what he's done, which landed her in prison again. His grandmother vlames him for all her and Kylie's misfortunes and disownes him, with his father doing the same shortly after. Eventually, he meets a rich woman who promises to run away with him in a year, only for him to discover later that she apparently died. He's then killed by assassins who mistake him for somebody else.]]

* ''VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}}'': Tomoya Okazaki. [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Oooohhhhhh, boy...]]

* Ryota Mitarai from ''Anime/DanganRonpa3'' was bullied in childhood so much that he became a recluse to make the perfect anime, which he wanted to use to bring hope to the world. This goal drove him so relentlessly he overworked himself to the point his health declined, which results in him meeting AxCrazy psycho [[spoiler:Junko Enoshima]] on his way to the hospital. She manipulates and deceives him into turning his anime of hope into a weapon of despair, with the first test victim being one of his two friends. It works and said friend almost rapes him. Then he witnesses a classmate get shot in front of him, receives a brutal BreakingSpeech from [[spoiler:Junko]], watches as his anime is used to help destroy the world, and lastly, gets trapped in the Final Killing Game, all with crushing guilt and despair for his unwitting role in it all. This guy can't catch a break. Eventually, he [[spoiler:snaps and [[FaceHeelTurn becomes]] the BigBad of ''[[GrandFinale Side:Hope]]'', deciding to invoke BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood on ''the entire world'']].

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' has Negi. Lets see, he's [[ParentalAbandonment never known his parents]], [[DoomedHometown saw his entire hometown get destroyed]] at about [[HarmfulToMinors age 6 or so]], gets attacked by a vampire with a grudge against his father, inadvertently causes several of his students to get sold into slavery in the Magic World, gets framed for a terrorist attack (along with his other students), starts to lose control of his BlackMagic, and when he finally discovered who his mother is, it turns out that most of the Magic World hates her because they think she's a genocidal maniac. And yet, he still manages to hold a positive outlook on life, making him a case of type A. He does occasionally show a few Type D traits, though. He's been shown to have some really severe hatred for those who destroyed his hometown, and it is suggested that, unconsciously, his real reason for learning how to fight so well was to exact revenge on those responsible. The fact that he specifically learned a spell designed to outright ''kill'' demons is telling...

* Alice from ''{{Nemurihime}}''. In the space of eight chapters she has [[spoiler: lost her father, was stricken with a disease that will kill her in a year, was frozen for fifty years, learned that her doctor was in love with her but married another woman to have a family. His wife became so desparate for his affection that she figured they could only be TogetherInDeath, which caused the doctor's son to hate Alice so much he unfroze her just to torture her for the rest of her life -- which will be one year because there's still no cure for her disease]]. According to those who read the whole thing ''it gets worse''. [[BreakTheCutie Poor Alice.]]

* ''Manga/ShadowStar''

** Nico Robin's life. Nami's backstory. Ace. Hell, let's be real, almost every major character will dance this conga until their feet bleed. They promised us cute pirate shenanigans, and we got it, but with a huge helping of horrible heartbreak.
** Brook. [[spoiler: His ship got shattered, his crew (and thus family and best friends) died, then he died, but [[TheUndead came back]], just to be stuck all alone for who knows how long on a ghost ship since he can't swim. He also got his shadow stolen which would instantly destroy him, if he is in sunlight. He outright states that if it weren't for his Devil Fruit, he [[DrivenToSuicide would have killed himself long ago]].]]

* TheRival to ''Anime/CaroleAndTuesday'''s eponymous duo, Angela, has a rough time near the end of the series. While Carole and Tuesday are slowly finding more and more success in the music business, Angela starts her fall from grace. A StealkerWithACrush spends several episodes spying on her, sending her threats and had one of her colleagues run over by a car. Once that's dealt with, she realizes that her music producer/crush made an AI replica of her, then states that he no longer needs to study her. Angela is offended when Tao tries to force her to use the AI as a guide, but [[StageMom her mother]] fights her; she doesn't want Angela to mess up and ruin [[VicariouslyAmbitious all the hard work she put into making Angela famous.]] Dhalia says that she adopted Angela and isn't her real parent, in an attempt to hurt her. The fight ends with Dhalia having a heart attack and dying not long after, leaving Angela alone. Angela turns to drugs to cope, but sends out one final plea for help to her crush to save her. He ignores her. This all culminates in Angela achieving her mother's dream of singing at the Mars Grammys, but collapses on-stage and is rushed to the hospital.