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10Times where somebody is DrivenToSuicide in {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}.
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13* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'':
14** 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.
15** 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.
16* ''Manga/PlusAnima'': In the final arc, [[spoiler:Cooro has a falling out with his friends over whether they should give up their Anima or not, with Husky and Nana feeling angry that he couldn't see why they'd want to give up their powers (since unlike them, Cooro has had his Anima since birth and doesn't have traumatic memories associated with it). Before they can reconcile, [[BitchinSheepsClothing Fly]] steps in, deliberately driving a wedge between them and isolating Cooro, then emotionally manipulating him to make it easier to convince him to give up his Anima. When Cooro tries to resist, Fly lies to him about being an experiment that Fly himself created, and finally surgically removes his Anima. The combination of losing his best friends, his Anima and the lie of thinking that he's not even a real person drives Cooro to a suicidal depression, and only his friends last-minute arrival, [[TalkingDownTheSuicidal where they apologize about their fight and urge him to think about himself for once]], stops him from killing himself]].
17* ''Manga/AfterGod'': The Danger Zones have become known as popular suicide spots, due to causing a "peaceful death". Shion has entered it willingly to avoid AbusiveParents, but Waka blames the Gods anyway. [[spoiler:It's also progressively hinted that Alula accidentally made going there appealing.]] There are also [[NeverSuicide inconsistencies]] in the recording of her death, as [[spoiler:someone even recording it at all, Shion not being killed by poisoned gas faster, and levitation is an ability Yako is known for]].
18* In ''Manga/{{Akumetsu}}'' chapter 32, one of the bankers spared by Akumetsu decides to commit suicide rather than face up to Akumetsu's demands.
19* [[spoiler:Rayet]] from ''Anime/AldnoahZero'' tries to shoot herself after [[spoiler:revealing she's half-Martian and almost killing Princess Asselyum]]. She's stopped though.
20* Subverted in ''Anime/AngelBeats''. Despite being a BrokenBird who has deep trauma over [[spoiler:the fact her younger siblings were killed by robbers when she couldn't find what they were asking for]], Yuri insists that her death wasn't due to suicide. It's never shown how she ultimately died though.
21* Subverted in ''Manga/AngelDensetsu''. Kitano ''thinks'' that Takehisa is suicidally depressed and that the threatening actions he makes or injuries he's sustained are the result of his attempts to hurt himself. In reality, Takehisa is just a delinquent who goes around getting into fights.
22* 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.]]
23* Toward the end of the ''Manga/Area88'' manga, [[spoiler:Saki admits that the Asranian people will not accept him after his role in the civil war. After carrying Abdael's dead body into Soria's tomb, Saki shoots himself]].
24* In the first few chapters of ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'', Mashiro Moritaka thinks his uncle Mashiro "Kawaguchi Taro" Nobuhiro, who was said to have died from overworking himself, committed suicide because he was unable to follow up on his successful manga series with another one, and was deep in debt. After going to his uncle's studio and seeing the effort he put into making submissions (as the editor in chief of Shonen Jump points out, he submitted one five days before his death), he realizes that his uncle had never given up, making this a subversion.
25* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'':
26** Twofer--[[EmotionlessGirl Mikasa]] [[DeathSeeker becomes dangerously reckless]] after she believes that [[MacGuffinSuperPerson Eren]] is dead; she eventually breaks down and almost allows a Titan to eat her, only to find, to her own surprise, a reflex to fight back at the last second. When [[TheSmartGuy Armin]] finds her, he has every intention of giving her his own gas and staying behind to kill himself before the Titans get him, but Mikasa won't allow it.
27** An unnamed soldier puts a shotgun in his mouth when the facility they're in is surrounded by Titans.
28** Much later, this happens with [[spoiler:Reiner Braun]], due to SurvivorGuilt and a hefty helping of PTSD, along with many other factors. [[spoiler:Moments before [[AteHisGun eating his gun]], [[InterruptedSuicide he's interrupted]].]]
29* In ''Manga/BarefootGen'', Koji's friend Hanada hangs himself after being beaten too many times by the DrillSergeantNasty.
30* ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}'':
31** Kouga Gennosuke ''weaponizes'' suicide with his unique ability to reverse the killing intent of any assailant with whom he makes eye contact and forcing them to kill themselves. His relative, Muroga Hyoura, possesses the same ability, with one difference: [[PowerIncontinence he cannot deactivate it]], so he must keep his eyes closed and effectively blind himself outside of battle.
32** [[spoiler:Oboro kills herself at the end of the series, unwilling to kill her beloved Gennosuke.]]
33* ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'':
34** Guts goads Theresia into killing herself after the death of her father the Slug Baron. Luckily, Puck intereferes before she cut her veins.
35** Casca, feeling that she has failed Griffith and the Hawks, tries to throw herself off a cliff, only for Guts to pull her back at the last minute.
36** A rather crueller version happens to Griffith, when he tries to impale himself on a rock following a years worth of ColdBloodedTorture, only to fail.
37** Emperor Ganiska murdered his younger brother after their mother tried to poison Ganiska. This resulted in the mother killing herself afterward.
38* In ''Manga/BlackButler'':
39** Grell constantly tries to commit suicide anytime he fails his task, only for Ciel's staff to stop him. However, he gets so annoying they give up trying to stop him.
40** [[spoiler:The reapers were all humans who committed suicide.]]
41* [[spoiler:Yukio Washimine]] in ''Manga/BlackLagoon'', who [[spoiler:[[{{Seppuku}} commits jigai]] with the also deceased Ginji's trusty katana]] at the end of the Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise arc.
42* ''Manga/BlackParadox'' is a manga about 4 people gathering together to commit a group suicide. Creepy things happen instead.
43* Johann of ''Anime/{{Blassreiter}}'' suffers from such guilt after having betrayed his one friend Malek's trust so that the three bullies who regularly beat him up would stop, that he eventually hangs himself.
44* ''Anime/BlueReflectionRay'':
45** One of Ruka's classmates in her old school killed herself. Ruka had realized something was wrong, but never did anything, leaving Ruka filled with guilt over the incident.
46** When Miyako realizes how little her mother cares for her after one of her picture frames is thrown out, her Fragment destabilizes, and she nearly walks in front of a moving train. Niina and Uta intercept her before she can go through with it, and she doesn't try again after realizing Hiori and Ruka will be there for her.
47** While trying to convince another girl to let her feelings be taken, Kana realizes that she has no sense of self without them and is essentially already dead. She then nearly gets herself run over by a truck. Hiori and Ruka manage to save her in the nick of time.
48** [[spoiler:In the previous timeline, Shino was heavily traumatized after her sister was murdered, and even though Mio tried to help her, Shino felt nothing changed since only her feelings were saved. Believing she was weak and part of the world's evils, she jumped off a building to her death.]]
49* In ''Anime/BrigadoonMarinAndMelan'', two different characters are tempted to drown themselves, for different reasons, in the second half of the anime. They [[UnexplainedRecovery got better]].
50* {{Asshole Victim}}s in ''Manga/CaseClosed'' seem to have this as their side job.
51** Some {{Sympathetic Murderer}}s try/do that too, like [[spoiler:the {{Anti Villain}}ous [[HarmlessLadyDisguise cross dresser]] [[AlternateCharacterReading Seiji/Narumi]]]].
52** Shinichi/Conan himself tried his best to avoid driving criminals to suicide after PullingTheThread on the criminal; [[MyGreatestFailure the only failure]] being [[spoiler:Seiji/Narumi of the ''Moonlight Sonata'' case, above]]. One time when Shinichi/Conan and Heiji Hattori stop a murderer from killing themselves, Shinichi/Conan lectures Heiji to not give them their death wish, since it would make them "murderers" as well. In Hattori's next appearance, he would eventually stop the case's murderer from shooting his own head and then saves him from a fire which was caused by accident.
53* ''VisualNovel/ChaosHead''. [[spoiler:Takumi in the penultimate chapter of the game; first by wandering into Yamanote Doori traffic, then by hanging himself in his apartment. Considering that he'd just found out he doesn't exist, all his memories after the age of 12 are fake, he is in fact a delusionary existence created by himself (the real, wheelchair-bound, terminally ill one), and that Rimi, the only human being he cares about, knew all of this all along (and has abandoned him after telling him all this), it's hard to blame him. Later, he gets better... just in time for everything to really go to hell.]]
54* ''Manga/{{Chobits}}'': [[spoiler:Freya]] becomes weak and catatonic, eventually killing herself, when she realizes [[spoiler:[[LoveHurts her love for her father can't be requited]]]].
55* In ''Manga/{{Claudine}}'', [[spoiler:the titular character Claudine]] does this by shooting himself in the middle of a [[SnowMeansDeath snowy night]] after he finds out [[spoiler:his last lover Sirene chooses to be with his brother Andre]].
56* This is the plot of the first story in ''Manga/ConfidentialConfessions''. Two high school girls befriend each other due to their shared desire to die. One is bullied by girls, another has an abusive father. [[spoiler:[[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname "Asparagus"]] does end up committing suicide in the end.]]
57* Both Oonagi's wife Coco and [[spoiler:Mina]] attempt suicide in ''Manga/CopernicusBreathing'' But they both end up being {{Bungled Suicide}}s.
58* ''Manga/CountCain'': In volume 2, Emile allows himself to fall off the roof of his mansion to his death because he feels guilty for having a "filthy" soul and doesn't want to tarnish his stepsister Rukia, who he loves more than anyone. Cain tried to save him, and probably would have succeeded, had it not been for the intervention of [[BigBad Alexis]].
59* ''Anime/CrossAnge'': [[spoiler:During a massive HeroicBSOD after her LoveInterest and head maid are seemingly killed saving her from the main villain, [[FallenPrincess Ange]] puts a pistol underneath her chin and attempts to end it all. But she doesn't even have it in her to pull the trigger as [[DespairEventHorizon she's that full of despair]], and breaks down in tears. It's implied that she might have eventually done so... had not [[BadassNormal Tusk]], said L.I., returned at a critical moment.]]
60* ''Manga/ACruelGodReigns'':
61** [[spoiler:Jeremy]] throws himself into the lake in Lynn Forest after finding out [[spoiler:that his mother knew that he was being raped by his stepfather, but did nothing]]. He also attempts to [[spoiler:asphyxiate himself with a gas oven after returning to UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} to live with his Aunt Karen]]. Jeremy contemplates jumping in front of an oncoming train and tries twice to commit {{Murder Suicide}} by steering the wheel of his stepfather's car into traffic, but is unsuccessful both times.
62** Greg's first wife, Lilya, committed suicide to escape Greg's emotional abuse.
63** Sandra tried to commit suicide after Greg ended their engagement and once when Jeremy was a child.
64* At the end of "What Will the Video Camera Reveal?" from ''Anime/TheCurseOfKazuoUmezu'', after seeing Masami have a demon come out of her neck upon seeing a scary video recorded from his video camera, a male student gets scared so much that he falls out of the window with it.
65* In ''Manga/DearBrother'', [[spoiler:Rei]], [[spoiler:Fukiko]], [[spoiler:Mariko]] and [[spoiler:Aya]] all either contemplate or attempt to do this to varying degrees, but ultimately fail. [[spoiler:In the manga, Rei actually ''does'' commit suicide, by overdosing herself with pills. In the anime, however, she dies in an accident.]] And in Rei's backstory, [[spoiler:her mother commits suicide by drowning herself in the ocean]].
66* ''Manga/DeathNote'':
67** In the manga, [[spoiler:Misa Amane]] dies one year after [[spoiler:Light's]] death by jumping off a rooftop. In the anime, [[spoiler:it is implied she did the same... when he was dying]].
68** In the manga, it's mentioned in the epilogue that [[spoiler:Teru Mikami]] dies in prison shortly after his capture. Nobody knows why, but suicide is highly implied. The anime clears this up, as [[spoiler:Mikami]] ends up stabbing himself with a pen [[spoiler:after Light is shot multiple times by Matsuda]].
69** Subverted with [[spoiler:Naomi Misora and Kiyomi Takada]], who commit suicide, but not by choice: they are [[PsychicAssistedSuicide forced into suicide by Light's use of the Death Note]].
70** [[spoiler:Soichiro Yagami]] does this in a more traditional manner, considering suicide and eventually committing [[spoiler:suicide by Mello]].
71* ''Anime/DeathParade'':
72** Chiyuki, [[spoiler:aka the nameless protagonist of the series]], killed herself due to self-loathing and depression after she becomes unable to ice-skate anymore after a knee injury.
73** Yousuke in episode 4 commited suicide due to family issues. It was a random decision and he regretted it in Quindecim.
74** One of Harada's girlfriends killed herself after he broke up with her. Her sister killed him in revenge.
75** Mayu tries sacrificing herself for Harada however everyone is DeadAllAlong and the trap was fake.
76* ''Manga/{{Debusen}}'':
77** The plot is kicked off when Mitsuru decides to commit suicide in Sea of Trees after getting into debt. While there, he finds the corpse of a woman greatly resembling him and decides to take over her life, becoming a high school teacher who has to reform a class filled with failure students.
78** The bullying Rikio receives eventually gets to the point where he throws himself off of the roof of the school. Mitsuru accidentally saves him by being under him at just the right moment.
79** Prior to the story, Kokomi became so miserable at the abuse she suffered from her mother that she almost jumped off of the school roof. She was prevented from doing so by Ryuuichi, who inducted her into his gang.
80* ''Manga/DenjinN'': Tadahiro was violently bullied by peers, [[AbusiveParents abused by his mother]] and treated like crap by his employer. It's ambiguous if he intended to die or just went insane, but plugging exposed wires from the VR headset directly into his ears killed him.
81* In ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness'', [[spoiler:Tsuzuki ''succeeded'' with this when he was a human, and a while later he became a Shinigami. (Which explains why he angsts/{{wangst}}s so much about his work)]]. Later, [[spoiler:he tries to comit suicide ''again'' thanks to Muraki, and Hisoka has to hug him and beg him to not do so]].
82* ''Manga/DetectiveSchoolQ'':
83** [[ChickMagnet Ryu]] [[TheQuietOne Amakusa]] seriously ponders suicide after being told by [[TheDragon Anubis]], the sub-leader of the criminal organization (Pluto/Meiousei) he reluctantly belongs to, that there's no way he can escape from them. [[spoiler:It doesn't help that he was almost killed by another Meiousei member when he [[TakingTheBullet attempted to save]] his partner and best friend, [[TheFool Kyuu Renjou]] from them]]. He's standing next to a bridge and is going to jump off, but Kyuu appears and talks to him, which makes Ryu swear off suicide.
84** In another episode, [[spoiler:a secretary who had recurred to Pluto/Meiousei to get revenge on the death of her lover at the hands of her evil bosses whips out a knife after being unmasked as the assassin, saying she had planned to kill herself from the beginning so she could be reunited with her lover. Anubis attempts to [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwash the woman into killing the DDS team instead]], but she's stopped just in time]].
85* 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]].
86* ''Literature/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.
87* ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' has the [[ADayInTheLimelight Day in the Limelight]] episode for Rio Kamichika, a depressed highschooler who feels severe anguish after discovering that her father's cheating on her mother and her mother presumably not caring even after finding out. [[spoiler:After making a suicide pact with an online friend called Nakura, Rio meets him in person on a rooftop. Unfortunately, "Nakura" is actually Izaya Orihara, the BigBad and a truly ManipulativeBastard. He has some very choice words for Rio and after leaving, accusing her of being a boring person with no actual desire to jump as he leaves, ''watches with a smirk as she jumps off the building.'' Fortunately, she is rescued by Celty Sturlson who explains her reasons by telling Rio "the world isn't as bad as you think." Rio begins thinking of the deceitful way life is in a different light after this. Right before being DemotedToExtra.]]
88* ''Manga/EdensZero'': [[spoiler:As a child, [[SpacePirate Elsie]] [[LovableRogue Crimson]] was forced to make the SadisticChoice to expose her kingdom's DarkSecret, which saved her entire cosmos from falling into ruin, but triggered a civil war that destroyed her planet, killed her friends and family, and earned her the lifelong enmity of her fiancé James/Justice. As an adult, she's forced to fight and try and kill her beloved mentor Ziggy, who saved her after she became an ImpoverishedPatrician, after he became the story's BigBad and vows to KillAllHumans. In the fight on her home planet Lendard, she sees her [[TrueCompanions crewmembers Hyoga and Gowen]] killed by Jesse in front of her, and then [[SelfMadeOrphan kills Acnoella, her own mother,]] to take control of the Möbius system in order to stop the production of Acnoella's dragon soldiers. Already broken and tired from all the fighting and a lifetime of loss and heartbreak, Elsie chooses to let [[SpacetimeEater the Chronophage]] make her disappear when it eats Lendard's time]].
89* In the ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' movie, Eureka shared her story to Renton of her 8 years under the military imprisonment. Apparently the torture is so great that the thought of suicide crossed Eureka's mind several times but her desire and love for Renton motivated her to survive.
90* In a rare good character example, a minor ally in ''Anime/FangOfTheSunDougram'' commits suicide on screen by shooting his brains out.
91* Yuria, Kenshiro's fiancee of ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'', throws herself off a building after witnessing the atrocities committed in her name by Shin (who had taken her away from Kenshiro), aided and abetted by Shin declaring that with the current Southern Cross burning down, he'll build a new one bigger and better than the last, which Yuria sees as an excuse for more death and destruction and in HER name to boot. Later on, Shin himself throws himself off of the very same building as a point of pride after Kenshiro mortally wounds him, intending to die from the impact, before the Kenshiro-inflicted mortal wound. In [[spoiler:Yuria's]] case, however, [[spoiler:she]] survived. [[spoiler:Only for us to learn she's dying of radiation poisoning anyway. Well, at least [[BittersweetEnding she gets to spend her last days with Kenshiro]]...]]
92* ''Manga/HonooNoAlpenRose'': Countess Françoise lives for her husband George, but he frequently abuses her and looks at other women. Despite this, all Françoise wants is to hear him say he loves her. When George and Françoise are trapped in a burning building, and George can't move. He tells her to save herself, but she says she is happy with him, and recalls how selfish he was in their childhood. She is happy that he affirmed he loved her, saying now her life is complete. She then shoots herself in the head.
93* Because KidsAreCruel, ''Manga/FlameOfRecca'''s Kaoru Koganei attempts to slit his wrists. He was stopped by Kurei (whom Kaoru would eventually come to see as an older brother), but still cut deep enough to leave a scar on one wrist.
94* Chapter 38 of ''Manga/FrankenFran'' begins with a student, despondent from a lifetime of bullying, jumping off of a building. The plot of the chapter begins when he lands... on Fran.
95* In ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', [[spoiler:Kyo's mom]] committed suicide - most people assumed that it was because of [[spoiler:Kyo himself]], but it's later revealed that it had more to do with [[spoiler:her abusive husband]].
96* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
97** 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/FullmetalAlchemist2003 the first anime]]).
98** In the manga, Riza threatens to kill Roy when it looks like he's going off the deep end. He asks what she will do when he's dead, and she admits she plans to kill herself, since there will be nothing left for her to live for. [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl That's enough to convince Roy to stand down]].
99** Moments after the above, [[spoiler:Envy]] ends [[spoiler:his own life by destroying his own Philosopher's Stone]] to avoid what he perceives as the ultimate humiliation: [[spoiler:being beaten and actually ''pitied'' by lowly humans]].
100* ''Manga/FullMoon'':
101** In the manga, those who kill themselves become {{Shinigami}}. There is some debate as to whether this is a a punishment or [[OurAngelsAreDifferent not]].
102** In the anime [[spoiler:Mitsuki]] attempts suicide twice. Once [[spoiler:she tries sleeping out in the snow on Eichi's grave]] so she could join him in death. And a second time [[spoiler:she tries jumping off the hospital roof]]. Only to be rescued by Takuto.
103* ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'':
104** One particularly cruel version of this trope: [[spoiler:Chiriko, the TeenGenius of the Suzaku Seishi, is possessed by the evil priest Miboshi from the Seiryuu Seishi, and the only way to exorcise him was committing suicide [[TakingYouWithMe and killing both of them in the process]]. Chiriko did this by stabbing himself to death, despite his friends' pleas to stop.]]
105** On their way to Taiitsu-kun's place, Miaka is trapped in a mirror and the "Mirror World Miaka" takes her place. The other Miaka admits all of her inner-kept feelings and thoughts, taunts Miaka and ends up torturing Tamahome and Hotohori. Miaka quickly figures out that the only way to get rid of the other Miaka is to commit suicide, and she stabs herself in the chest with a plate shard. She got better.
106** There's some attempted suicides from other characters before that, too. Most notably, [[spoiler:Yui tries to slit her wrists because she believes that she was gang raped and that Miaka had abandoned her to that fate... even though both of those reasons are lies fed to her by [[ManipulativeBastard Nakago]] in order to turn her against her friend]].
107** Additionally, in the second OVA, [[spoiler:one of the villains uses [[MoreThanMindControl mind control]] to manipulate Tasuki's hidden feelings for Miaka into a NearRapeExperience. When his friends finally break through to him and he realizes what's going on, the combination of [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone horror at what he's done]] and [[FightingFromTheInside desperation to stop himself]] lead Tasuki to blow himself up with his own fire attack.]]
108** And finally, [[spoiler:in the series Miaka tries to drown herself when Tamahome was BrainwashedAndCrazy. Hotohori had to dive in and save her.]]
109*** Also in the 3rd OVA, [[spoiler:Mayo attempts to drown herself in that pond when she realizes what a psycho bitch she had been and that she's nearly destroyed the world just to get Tamahome. Tamahome goes in after her and brings her back, allowing her to [[MustMakeAmends make amends]] and save the Universe of the Four Gods]].
110* Chika Ogiue in ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}'' tried to throw herself off the roof of her old school [[spoiler:after her "friends" severely traumatized a boy she liked by showing him extremely graphic drawings she'd made of him]]. She survived. She ends up with the Genshiken after hurling herself out a window following a fight with the Manga Club, as well (ending up with a broken arm), and at one point has to be stopped from doing it ''again'' by Saki. It's a RunningGag that she will jump out of the nearest window when she seems to be losing an argument.
111* ''Manga/GhostTalkersDaydream'' features 11 suicide cases between chapters 3 and 17, most of which were orchestrated by [[spoiler: [[DarkMessiah Yuo]]]], through the ''"Rock & Roll BBS Suicide"'' website. The crux of the series, however, reveloves around Misaki and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police trying to find the site of "The Flame of Lament"[[note]]a planned reinactmenet (by Yuo's followers) of a protest by a group of Buddhists priests against the Japanese government, by mass immolation[[/note]] to prevent it from taking place.
112* ''Anime/{{Gintama}}'':
113** PlayedForLaughs with Hasegawa, whose entire gag is based on how miserable he is. Hasegawa tries to commit suicide at virtually everytime he shows up on screen, to the point that his ''official'' genderbend version looks like [[http://i.imgur.com/DNYqgP2.jpg this.]]
114** In Red Spider arc, Jiraia's sister committed suicide by jumping off a cliff after seeing what her brother had became.
115** This is the final goal of [[spoiler:Utsuro]], to end his life as well as [[spoiler:pull the whole world down with him]].
116* ''Manga/GirlsGoAround'' reveals that the events are a time loop created by Chihiro because Kyousuke committed suicide on graduation day in their third year. She creates the time loop in hopes of getting him to open up, make friends, memories and enjoy high school life... Turns out, one of the girls will die on graduation day and, after going through several time loops himself to save them, Kyousuke figured that if he can't save them all, but won't abandon them, he choose to kill himself so they can live. [[StableTimeLoop Needless to say, that's not okay with Chihiro, but...]]
117* ''Goblin no Suana'': In episode 3 of this hentai, a girl who had been kidnapped and raped by goblins eventually uses her shackles to hang herself.
118* Being such a cynical series, ''Manga/GoodnightPunpun'' is filled to the brim with this:
119** [[spoiler:Aiko]] hangs herself in the final chapters.
120** [[spoiler:Punpun's mom]] tried to kill herself and [[spoiler:Punpun]]. Her husband caught her but [[spoiler:Punpun saw it and thought he was abusing her]]. This caused [[spoiler:his dad to become arrested]] at the start of the manga.
121** Punpun himself is very depressed and suicidal for much of the manga. He expresses wants and plans to kill himself several times. [[spoiler:He stabs himself in the eye at the end of the manga but survives, losing his eye.]]
122* In the last episode of ''{{Manga/Gravitation}}'', Eiri Yuki, after remembering his [[DarkAndTroubledPast troubled past]], is about to pull the trigger on his life when Shuichi arrives in the nick of time.
123* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'':
124** Noboru Yoshikawa attempts suicide by jumping off the school building ''twice'' because of his unceasing torment bordering on sexual abuse at the hands of Anko Uehara. As is usually the case, Onizuka helped him through it both times.
125** Onizuka also saves a lot of other students from suicide ([[ThereAreNoTherapists his class is full of problem kids]]).
126* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
127** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ''. [[spoiler:Haman Karn's entire Neo Zeon regime collapses when an uprising from within her own ranks results in the mutual annihilation of both factions, effectively crushing her ambitions for dominion over Side 3 and the political influence it enabled her to exert on the Earth Sphere. In addition, the only people she's ever shown interest in reject her. Haman essentially loses ''everything'' she's ever valued or hoped for, and being left with no better option available to her, she chooses to just put an end to her misery.]]
128** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory''. [[spoiler:Kou gets court-martialed for stealing the GP-03 after the GP-01 gets destroyed, but is released after Captain Synapse commits suicide to take responsibility for it.]]
129** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0080WarInThePocket'': [[BigBad Colonel Killing]] survives the series but the ''M.S. Era 0099'' artbook reveals that he ended up shooting himself in the head during the final days of the war when it was clear that Zeon would lose.
130** Heero Yuy harbored a good deal of self-loathing in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'' because of [[spoiler:the remorse he felt for his victims, especially after killing a little girl he had befriended, as seen in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWingEndlessWaltz'']]. He only performed what could be as suicidal actions twice, the rest being a fandom-imposed {{Flanderization}}. At least he doesn't get all angsty about it. The only time he actively tried to kill himself was when he [[spoiler:used his Gundam's self destruct, but that was only because it seemed at the time that he had failed his mission]]. The other times, he was "just" a DeathSeeker.
131* In chapter two of ''Manga/{{Gunjo}}'' the women run into a lady who wants to kill herself out of guilt for the death of her son.
132* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'':
133** Henrietta clearly exhibited suicidal tendencies before her conversion, [[spoiler:after having her parents killed in front of her and being repeatedly raped near their corpses]].
134** Elsa killed her handler then herself prior to the manga beginning.
135** This is Petra's backstory. She was a talented ballerina who developed cancer in her leg. In order to save her, her leg was amputated. Being unable to live without dancing she attempts to kill herself, but survives. [[spoiler:At the end of the manga it's shown her cancer came back as leukemia and she dies... Though so do all the other cyborgs, and in comparison to most her death was rather peaceful.]]
136* ''Anime/HaibaneRenmei'':
137** It's implied that takes place in a MundaneAfterlife type of purgatory. The ending to the anime implies that [[spoiler:Reki]] killed herself in her past life. She still carries guilt over it, even though she doesn't remember it, which is why she's [[spoiler:sin-bound]]. [[spoiler:Rakka]] might have also killed herself, however it's harder to tell.
138** Though not a suicide, what happens to [[spoiler:Reki]] in the final episode is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything treated like]] a suicide attempt, complete with her packing up all her belongs, detaching herself from her friends, saying goodbye to everyone, and [[spoiler:imagery of her standing on a train track]]. After hitting the DespairEventHorizon, she [[spoiler:breaks out of her Circle of Sin and is allowed to finally have her [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Day of Flight]].]]
139* [[spoiler:Eugene]] in ''Manga/HanasakeruSeishounen'', bonus points for [[spoiler:the fact that he wanted to die the same age as his mother committed suicide due to a complicated revenge plot on the part of Volkan. Eugene's suicide is averted, though, by Kajika. At the beginning, they find out that he has driven at least three women to suicide]].
140* Kurumi in ''Manga/HaouAiren'' downs a bunch of sleeping pills when she gets distraught over not being able to be with Hakuron. Huo Long saves her with a punch to the stomach.
141* In the last chapter of ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty'', [[spoiler:Minos stabs himself with his sword as he couldn't bear the humiliation of being spared by Tomoki. He's revived along with everyone in the ResetButtonEnding, though]].
142* In ''Manga/{{Holyland}}'', [[spoiler:Yuu wanted to commit suicide in the backstory but could not bring himself to take the step when he was actually at the rooftop. Masaki has scars on his wrist from an attempt; we later learn that he would have successfully bled out if Mai had not walked in on him]].
143* According to WordOfGod in ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'', [[spoiler:it is implied that this is what happened to Hana in the BadFuture timeline as she never transferred schools and attempted to better herself, which meant that her self-esteem took such a major hit that the bullying, combined with the stresses of being a Pretty Cure, lead her to do this]].
144* ''Manga/IganoKabamaru'': Hoshiko Wakabayashi always dreamed of being a painter, but when she found out that, due to a series of differing circumstances, that she could never become one, she attempted suicide, only for Igano to rescue her. [[spoiler: Eleven years later, we see Hoshiko after the TimeSkip - she's fulfilled her dream.]]
145* ''Literature/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.
146* ''Anime/HelloSandybell'': [[DiscussedTrope Discussed in-universe]]. Some characters, notably the [[RichBastard Shearers]], speculate that the tragic deaths of [[spoiler:the Count and Countess Wellington]] were not an unfortunate accident, but rather a delibarate suicide motivated by the shame brought upon their bloodline after losing all their wealth and power.
147* ''Literature/ImInLoveWithTheVillainess'': In her past life, one of Rei's friends committed suicide after [[spoiler:facing constant rejection for being [=FtM=] trans]].
148* In ''Anime/InfiniteRyvius'' Airs Blue [[spoiler:threatens to kill himself as a last resort, and goes so far as to hold the gun to his head]]. It doesn't happen.
149* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
150** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'': Cioccolata is a depraved MadDoctor who would psychologically abuse elderly nursing home residents and drive them to suicide ''[[ForTheEvulz for fun]].'' As if that wasn't depraved and disgusting enough, the bastard would also ''record videos of those suicides'' just so he could watch them again later. [[spoiler:He absolutely '''deserved''' the [[CruelAndUnusualDeath 7-page-Muda death]] Giornio dished out to him.]]
151** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'': There's Thunder Mcqueen, a suicidal maniac whose Stand ability is to drag people down with his suicide attempts.
152* The works of Creator/JunjiIto can feature suicide as a source of horror, with two series, ''Manga/BlackParadox'' and ''Manga/{{Lovesickness}}'' both using it as a central force driving the plot.
153* [[spoiler:[[DelicateAndSickly Shiori]]]] and [[spoiler:[[StepfordSmiler Sayuri]]]] in ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}''. The former [[spoiler:believes she has a month left to live, and her sister, perhaps the only person she has been living for, rejects her]]. The latter [[spoiler:was destroyed by guilt when she believed that the way she treated her baby brother led to him dying of a terminal illness]]. Neither manages to go through with it.
154* In ''Manga/{{Kasane}}'', [[spoiler:Tanzawa Nina]] jumps off a roof when she starts to feel like her existence is worthless now that Kasane is playing her "role". [[spoiler:Instead of dying, she ends up catatonic - but retains her consciousness -, [[AndIMustScream which only makes matters worse]].]]
155* [[spoiler:Kasumi]] in ''Manga/KingOfThorn'', although it's a bit complicated. [[spoiler:She originally tries to [[BathSuicide kill herself in the bath]], unable to cope with the fact that she'll live and Shizuku will die, but is [[InterruptedSuicide stopped in time by Shizuku]]. Then, when she and Shizuku are standing on a cliff, she suggests a dual-suicide, and ends up falling off it and dying anyway. ''Then'', after finding out [[BodyHorror what Shizuku has become]], Medusa!Kasumi tries to throw herself off a high place thinking that it'll help her twin, and [[TogetherInDeath in order to be with Marco]], but is stopped by Zeus.]]
156* When Youtarou from ''Anime/KurageNoShokudo'' opens up about his brother's death, it turns out that [[spoiler:Youtarou's brother killed himself. Weeks after his death, Youtarou overhears his parents talking about how much they miss him and that looking after Youtarou was too painful. Driven by grief himself, Youtarou ran away from home and attempted to drown himself]].
157* ''Manga/Life2002'':
158** Manami tried to jump in front of a train after her boyfriend dumped her but Ayumu saved her. [[spoiler:It's [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation left vague]] if she was serious or not. She's a ManipulativeBastard who later bullied Ayumu into attempting suicide, so that could have either been a 'game' or her StartOfDarkness.]]
159** Ayumu tries to jump in front of a car due to depression and being severely bullied. Luckily Hatori [[InterruptedSuicide stops her]] and that is where their friendship starts.
160** To [[spoiler:avoid Manami's bullying]] a girl jumped from a school balcony. She survived but ended up in the hospital.
161* ''Manga/TheLoveAndCreedOfSaeMaki'':
162** Supposedly, Ena Takanashi killed herself jumping off her apartment roof but without any known motivation for why she would do it. She mailed her secret journals of everything that Sae Maki, her PsychoLesbian {{Yandere}} abuser, did to her ChildhoodFriend Kokai. Her first journal ends with a note that she's going to break off the relationship and talk to the teachers if Sae refuses to leave her alone, her second journal notes that the PoliceAreUseless and refused to believe her. Either Sae threw her off the roof and her wealthy connections covered it as a suicide, or death was Ena's only escape from Sae.
163** The ultimate fate of [[spoiler:Jin, the Maki family BattleButler, after Sae's death. He still has the gun he shot the Mysterious Baron with and shoots himself]].
164* From ''Anime/LupinIII'', we have the HonorBeforeReason Goemon, who would sometimes attempt suicide because his sword was stolen and he felt he was nothing without it.
165* ''Manga/MagicalGirlSite'': Aya starts the series depressed and suicidal. She's bullied at school and physically abused by her older brother. The series starts with her almost jumping in front of a train. Her depression leads to her becoming a MagicalGirl.
166* [[spoiler:Tohma]] of ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'', upon realizing that the events of the series had turned him into someone who could only live if he constantly kills other people, jumped off the spaceship he was in, hoping that he could end his life before his out-of-control powers could kill the people he cares about. Unfortunately, his SuperpoweredEvilSide had other ideas.
167* ''Anime/MazingerZ'': TheDragon Baron Ashura, ''[[RuleOfThree thrice]]''. The two first attempts were averted by Dr. Hell, who was not a fan of the YouHaveFailedMe trope.
168** The first happened in an early episode, when Ashura, disheartened after still another defeat, thought the only way to redeem himself/herself to Hell's eyes was by comitting suicide. Hell rebuked that was dumb, and the way to atone for his/her failures was going on fighting until destroying their enemy.
169** The second time happened in episode 39, when he was so badly frightened on the possibility of Count Brocken replacing him that he staked his life on his next operation. When he failed, Brocken was all but ordering him killing himself, and he was about to do so when Hell stopped him, stating that even if he had failed in destroying Mazinger-Z, his war tactics had delivered a huge blow to Japan, and he forgave him.
170** The third -and final- time happened in episode 78. Ashura was ''so'' sick of being defeated, mocked and scorned by enemies and allies alike he hijacked the [[CoolAirship flying fortress Ghoul]] to crash it against the [[HomeBase Institute]] in a TakingYouWithMe tactic. He failed, but he died believing he had finally won.
171* Ayano from ''Anime/MekakucityActors''[=/=]''Franchise/KagerouProject'' jumped off her school's roof as a first year in high school. This incident caused her best friend Shintaro to become a {{hikikomori}}.
172* ''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.
173* ''Literature/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.
174* Several in ''Manga/{{Monster}}'':
175** After [[TraumaCongaLine Nina finally regains most of her memories,]] Tenma had to talk her out of suicide.
176** Johan's life's work and goal can be chalked down to the perfect suicide. Unfortunately, he feels it necessary to take the world with him...
177** And Johan is also an expert at driving perfectly sane and normal people to suicide through total MindRape. And he does it a lot.
178* ''Anime/MyHime'' has two: [[spoiler:Yukariko Sanada prefers to kill herself and her love interest Ishigami, rather than killing the main character]] and [[spoiler:Natsuki kills herself and Shizuru, since they're each other's Most Valuable Persons and the death of one of them would trigger the other's as well]].
179* In ''Manga/MyLovelyGhostKana'', the titular Kana is dead via suicide on the very first page. Daikichi is on the verge until he meets Kana's [[CuteGhostGirl ghost]], as is Utako. Fortunately, [[ThePowerOfLove they all got better]].
180* ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'':
181** Kakashi Hatake's father, Sakumo Hatake, deserves a mention. He and his team were sent on an important mission for Konoha. When his comrades were in danger, Sakumo chose to abandon the mission and save them. The mission's failure was a big blow to the village, and consequently everyone came to hate Sakumo, even the ninjas he saved. Sakumo fell into a deep depression, soon dropping training and his skills altogether before he committed suicide.
182** Kakashi was suicidal himself, both as a child and as a young adult, due to losing every single member of his original team (the closest he had to family after his father's death) within a single year. This is shown more explicitly in a filler arc that focuses on his time in ANBU: after [[spoiler:killing Rin]], a thirteen year old Kakashi was seen walking around with a book titled ''How a Shinobi Should Die'', and after joining the ANBU his friends had to pull him out because he fought like he 'was eager to die'. Given his family history, this is some scary stuff. Fortunately, getting Team 7 did him a whole world of good. He nearly dipped back into it after [[spoiler:learning his teammate and childhood best friend Obito was the BigBad Tobi]], but thankfully Naruto was there to snap him out of it and help him move past it. By the time of the epilogue, he's dropped his suicidal tendencies altogether and is quite happily living his life [[spoiler:after retiring from his position as Hokage]].
183** [[spoiler:Rin, Kakashi's comrade]] committed suicide by throwing herself in front of [[spoiler: Kakashi's Chidori, so that way she wouldn't be forced to release the Three-Tails in the middle of Konoha and potentially destroy the village]].
184** [[spoiler:Madara]] was aware this was a possible outcome of his DespairGambit on [[spoiler:Obito]]. As he needed the latter alive, he averted this trope by placing a seal on [[spoiler:Obito]] to prevent suicide.
185** In the ''Manga/Naruto1997'' pilot, Saburo couldn't handle his friend Kuroda becoming the new chairman of the Cultural Advancement Committee. He [[spoiler:stabbed Kuroda]], painted his final painting, then killed himself.
186* In the classic manga ''Manga/NatsuENoTobira'', a schoolboy named Claude commits suicide after being rejected by a boy he liked. Said boy is the protagonist, Marion, who ''heavily'' blames himself when he finds out.
187* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Yue seems to be like this after finding herself in a love triangle with her best friend and Negi; she feels like she's betrayed her friend and jumps off a waterfall. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] as it turns out she had a grappling hook. [[spoiler:[[DoubleSubversion Double subverted]] when the grappling hook breaks. Triple subverted when it turns out that when the grappling hook breaks, she was close enough to the bottom to land without injury.]]
188* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
189** It's implied that [[spoiler:Shinji and Asuka]] attempt suicide, though the suicide is implied rather than explicitly shown. [[spoiler:Asuka]] is found naked and barely conscious in a bathtub with what may be slit wrists, and [[spoiler:Shinji]] is shown at the beginning of ''End of Evangelion'' clearly dampened from an attempted drowning.
190** [[spoiler:Naoko Akagi]] dies of a fall from the top of the MAGI superstructure. It's strongly implied that [[spoiler:she threw herself off the bridge after learning that Gendo didn't love her and murdering Rei.]]
191* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
192** PlayedForLaughs during the Enies Lobby arc. One member of [=CP9=], Kumadori, will attempt to commit seppuku when someone else on the team screws up. The problem is, he instinctively calls up his rokuskiki power of "Tekkai", which hardens his body so he can't stab himself. He then blubbers dramatically about how he can't die.
193** Definitely '''NOT''' PlayedForLaughs in regards to at least one of the [[AristocratsAreEvil Celestial Dragons']] victims. One woman who was part of an [[TorchesAndPitchforks angry mob]] [[spoiler: that tied up and tortured Doflamingo's family in his backstory]] states that, after being rescued from slavery, her daughter went mute from trauma, and killed herself three days after she came home.
194** Kaido has been shown to attempt suicide multiple times through extreme means, one of which includes throwing himself down from the clouds. Him being [[SuperToughness ridiculously tough,]] it never works.
195** Wano citizens in general have it bad, but people of Ebisu town take this to another level. Living in extreme poverty and starvation while being unable to even express grief, it seems that [[https://media.comicbook.com/2019/10/one-piece-manga-1193417.jpeg?auto=webp&width=690&height=380&crop=690:380,smart family suicide is a common occurrence here]].
196** Chief warden Magellan. After the mass breakout in his prison, getting beaten up to the point of near-death and finally being demoted, the utter shame he felt was such he had to be kept sedated for quite some time so he wouldn't try to kill himself.
197* ''Manga/{{Orange}}'': It turns out that [[spoiler: Kakeru killed himself in the original timeline, because of his depression and guilt over his mother’s death (who killed herself after he refused to take her to the hospital for her mental illness to stay with his new friends)]]. This is why Naho and her friends from the original timeline sent a letter for each of their past self to instruct them how to prevent the tragedy from happening again. [[spoiler: They succeed, but not without some hiccups along the way]].
198* In one episode of ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'', Jyushimatsu falls for a [[NoNameGiven nameless woman]]. He met the woman while he was practicing his batting skills on the beach. The woman stood on a nearby cliff waiting for him to leave so she could jump, but [[RescueRomance she ended up rescuing him]] from accidentally drowning. It's never clarified why she was suicidal; however, it's implied that she had bad experiences working in the [=AV=] industry.
199* In ''Manga/PandoraHearts'', [[spoiler:Alice's]] death is initially set up to make [[spoiler:Vincent]] look like the murderer. Turns out, [[spoiler:in a combination of this trope and HeroicSacrifice, Alice killed herself with the shears after wounding Jack with them in order to keep him from continuing to use and torture Oz by having him kill people. Killing herself kept Jack from being able to contact her twin sister in the Abyss, who was lonely and ''wanted'' Jack to bring the world into the Abyss so that she could be with him]].
200* An episode of ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent'' deals with a group of friends online making a suicide pact... only for the two men in the group to respond in horror when they find out the third member of their group is really a ''young elementary school girl''. They spend the rest of the episode trying to shake the girl and foil her suicide attempts, while ''succeeding'' in their attempts, only to fail in increasingly bizarre ways. [[spoiler:In the end of the episode, it turns out they all died during the men's first attempt, and their attempts afterwards have been failing because they're ghosts and already dead.]] It probably says a lot about the series that this is actually one of the most lighthearted episodes in the entire series.
201* [[spoiler:Kotaroh]] of ''Manga/PitaTen'' does so rather than lose [[spoiler:Misha when she is forced to return to heaven]].
202* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', of all things, has this:
203** A Pokemon does it in the manga ''Manga/TheElectricTaleOfPikachu.'' It was [[spoiler:the "Black Fog", a giant evil Haunter]]. It was so proud it preferred death to being captured.
204** [[spoiler:Mitsumi]] from ''Manga/PokemonDiamondAndPearlAdventure''. [[spoiler:She decides to stay inside the Team Galactic HQ even though it's collapsing, saying that she won't be haunted by her past]]. Luckily [[spoiler:Jun]] comes in and saves her.
205* ''Manga/PrecariousWomanExecutiveMissBlackGeneral'': PlayedForLaughs. Upon learning that she isn't Braverman's type, the General requests that someone buy her a rope and stool, and find her a nice tree.
206* ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' has at least two main characters consider suicide during the show. Also, an early episode about a Wili Maiden states that she is the ghost of a woman who committed suicide when she was betrayed by her love.
207* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'':
208** Kyoko's [[spoiler:father commits suicide after learning that his daughter has essentially brainwashed people to listen to his teachings. He takes the entire family with him, leaving Kyoko the sole survivor]].
209** In one of the past timelines, [[spoiler:Mami tries a MurderSuicide after learning the AwfulTruth. Believing they all must die to avoid [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie becoming]] [[EldritchAbomination Witches]], she kills Kyoko and tries to kill Homura, but is killed by Madoka first]].
210** ''Manga/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheDifferentStory'': Mami, [[spoiler:after finding out that her student has become a Witch, and her best friend died after fighting it]].
211** ''Manga/PuellaMagiOrikoMagica'': Oriko's father.
212* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', Akane is staring wistfully at the pool, depressed that [[SuperDrowningSkills she can't swim worth a damn]], while standing at the water's edge. [[CloudCuckoolander Principal Kuno]] thinks she's about to commit suicide, and rushes in to stop her... [[LogicalFallacies by pushing her into the pool]].
213* ''Anime/TheRebirthOfBuddha'': Tokuzo Kanemoto, a reporter and a friend of the Amanokawa family, jumps into an oncoming train to take his own life after his latest report has been proven false and it ruined his reputation. When Sayako witnesses his spirit's trial, the three judges lambast him for doing that and lament his denial of the Spirit World and God throughout his entire life before sending him to Hell.
214* In ''Manga/RebornToMasterTheBlade'', Lady Cyrene is a Highlander, a magical humanoid who is from a society who literally looks down on the Midlanders as nothing more than sources of slaves and raw resources to be extorted, using the Highlander's incredible magical technology as leverage. Despite this, she benevolently rules over the Midlander town of Nova, is beloved by its residents, adopts and cares for orphans, and even pardons the soldiers that defected from the townguard and tried to kill her. [[spoiler:When the Ironblood Chain Brigade poisons her with Prism Powder and transforms her into a Prism Beast monster, she almost ends up killing some of the orphans she cares for, and tries to end her own life before it happens again. Thankfully, the protagonist Inglis manages to non-lethally subdue her, if not completely cure her of her monstrous transformation.]]
215* In ''Manga/{{ReLIFE}}'' this is revealed to be why [[spoiler:Kaizaki left his job. His senpai killed herself after being treated horribly by the rest of the company]].
216* Played with in ''Literature/ReZero''. In one [[GroundhogDayLoop time loop]], Subaru successfully manages to survive his fourth night as Roswaal's mansion, but Rem dies instead. After Ram initiates a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against him, believing he's responsible (or at least, that he knows more than he's letting on), Subaru flees from the ground and contemplates throwing himself off a high cliff. Eventually he does so, but only so he can reset the timeline and [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong fix things]], not because he's given up.
217* In ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' episode 37, [[spoiler:Anthy]] tries to commit suicide by throwing herself off of a building. Fortunately, [[spoiler:Utena]] saves her.
218* In the Romantic Trilogy SuperRobot series (''Anime/CombattlerV'', ''Anime/VoltesV'' and ''{{Anime/Daimos}}''), all the [[TheDragon dragons]] in their respective series chose to end their lives; [[Anime/CombattlerV one]] of them for not having any more reason to live and the only option left is to die in an obviously unwinnable battle as the ProudWarriorRaceGuy that he is; and the [[Anime/VoltesV other]] [[{{Anime/Daimos}} two]] for deciding that they have given the people around them too much grief and suffering to even have a right to continue living.
219* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'':
220** In the first OVA, Kenshin ends up living with [[EmotionlessGirl Tomoe]], who is actually [[spoiler:[[TheMole trying to get revenge on him for assassinating her fiancé]]]]. However, [[spoiler:she falls in love with him, forgives him and [[HeelFaceTurn decides to give up on the plot to kill him]]]]. When she finds out [[spoiler:the conspirators won't have none of it, as they don't give a crap about her personal vendetta and only want to off Battousai for their own reasons, having used her as bait]], she tries to kill herself with the knife she's been carrying around since the beginning. They stop her, and she [[TongueSuicide tries biting off her tongue instead]]. [[spoiler:She doesn't succeed, but she soon [[DeathIsDramatic dies anyway]] in a HeroicSacrifice complete with SlipknotPonytail and [[SnowMeansDeath blood-soaked snow]]]].
221** Megumi Takani was DrivenToSuicide by Aoshi, but the heroes [[InterruptedSuicide got there in time]].
222** Houji kills himself in prison when the Meiji government refuses him a trial.
223* In ''Manga/{{Saikano}}'', the scientist who [[spoiler:made Chise what she is]] eventually comes face to face with the consequences of his work. He shoots himself to death.
224* ''Manga/SailorMoon'':
225** In the manga, Princess Serenity killed herself in her past life after the BigBad offed her fiance. She also succeeded at a MurderSuicide on a BrainwashedAndCrazy Tuxedo Mask, but was brought back to life by the other sailor soldiers who sacrificed their own lives to do it.
226** In the anime, Berthier tries to use all of her power to freeze herself and Sailor Mercury after two of her sisters taunt her and claim they'll take the credit regardless of if she lives or not. Subverted in that her other sister Koan (who's now a normal human) convinces her she's still loved and allows Sailor Moon to purify her and let her become human as well.
227** Sailor Uranus in ''S'' practically kills herself after experiencing a massive HeroicBSOD due to witnessing her lover, Neptune, dying for trying to protect her despite Usagi's protest to not to do so. Both get better though.
228* In ''Manga/SakuraGari'' both [[spoiler: Masataka (neck piercing with a knife)]] and [[spoiler:Souma (slitting his wrists and then placing his arms in a bath tub)]] either consider or attempt to kill themselves but fail. [[spoiler:Souma's sister Sakurako successfully manages to commit suicide in chapter 9, slitting her wrists open (apparenrly with the family's katana) and then drowning herself in a nearby pond.]]
229* Played completely for laughs in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' where the main character, a teacher tries to commit suicide because of every minor thing that happens to him, usually more than OnceAnEpisode. He even has a book with names of people who might join him and tries to get his pupils to sign up. Said teacher will always [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption fail]] by being COMPLETELY invulnerable in the long run. He's even survived having his name written in the Manga/DeathNote.
230* ''Manga/SchoolLive'':
231** Kurumi finds a boy who hanged himself due to the ZombieApocalypse. She calls him "cowardly" because he preferred to die than try and survive.
232** Kurumi wanting to keep a gun around, supposedly for killing zombies, is implied to be more for incase she decides to kill herself. The gun is thrown away by Miki because it's decided that a gun would be more danger to ''them'' than zombies (as no one is trained in gun safety).
233** The characters try to meet a survivor who is using a radio to tell people where she is. They're too late and when they arrive they find her locked in a closet, already a zombie. She wrote a letter saying she would try to kill herself but if she failed not to open the closet.
234** When the girls visit a building, they come across a pair of shoes with clothes next to it. This implies that someone killed themselves there.
235* ''Anime/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]].
236* ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'':
237** Arguably, Yomodo Chisa. Although it's ''heavily'' implied that [[spoiler:she did it to escape the EpiphanicPrison of ''reality'']], in theory the corrupting contact with [[spoiler:'God']] made her do it.
238** Halfway through the series, many people around the world commit suicide [[spoiler:after being exposed as members of Knights]]. They were [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled going to be killed]] anyway.
239* ''Manga/ShadowStar'' has Akira Sakura, a cripplingly [[ShrinkingViolet shy and depressed girl]] who is seen tentatively taking a razor blade to her wrist in the first episode/chapter she appears in, and later grabs a soldier's gun and points it to her own head. [[spoiler:Eventually, in the manga, it appears that she ''does'' kill herself by throwing herself out of a hospital window onto the street below. Given what happens to all the other major characters, she probably got the closest thing to a 'happy' ending out of anyone.]]
240* ''Manga/ShiNiAruki'':
241** Chapter 13. [[spoiler:Tokiko comes home to find that her last remaining family member, her older sister Miyuki, had hung herself out of grief over losing so much family in such a short period of time. Her suicide note assures Tokiko that she doesn't blame her for any of this, though Tokiko doesn't believe a word of it, convinced her inability to mourn Rika's murder certainly didn't help.]]
242** In Chapter 14, Tokiko reveals that Aiko, a classmate from middle school, did this a year prior out of guilt for [[spoiler:when she and Tokiko allowed their teacher to be killed in order to save themselves]].
243** Chapter 32. [[spoiler:Tokiko gleefully jumps in front of a train following the death of Natsuki, reasoning that death is the only thing that can make her happy now that the only person who ever truly accepted her outside of her father is now gone.]]
244* X eggs in ''Manga/ShugoChara'' happens when they have too much stress to unable to handle it, they break themselves which sends waves of sadness the X eggs have stored in them.
245* In ''Manga/{{Shy}}'', the {{Big Bad}} gives out rings which force the darkest feelings of a person to surface. When he puts one on [[MuggleBestFriend Iko]], she tries to kill herself because of her survivor's guilt. Fortunately, Shy is able to stop her.
246* ''Manga/ASilentVoice'':
247** The protagonist Shoya Ishida was going to kill himself after making amends with the girl he bullied in elementary. He eventually decides not to, and his mother gives him a [[WhatTheHellHero good calling out]] when she realizes his plans.
248** [[spoiler:Shoko Nishimiya]] is revealed to have been suicidal [[spoiler:due to Shoya's previous bullying]]. Years later she attempts suicide after a festival [[spoiler:however Shoya saves her. He ends up falling into a body of water and ends up in a coma]].
249* ''Manga/{{Skyhigh}}'' has Kino-shita, assisted suicide. Normally suicide gets you sent to hell immediately - Izuko says it's murdering yourself - so she researched this technicality and convinced her friend to do it.
250* This is [[spoiler:Moeka's]] backstory in ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate''; due to [[spoiler:her social phobia, she believed herself worthless and was about to jump from a building when she]] got a message from someone named "FB" recruiting Rounders (i.e., hired guns) [[spoiler:for SERN]].
251* ''Manga/SuicideIsland'': People who attempted suicide in this series can be dropped off on the titular island, declared to be {{Un Person}}s. Naturally, the series examines why various characters reached this point.
252** For some, it was a due to the CrapsackWorld they're living in.
253** One character, Kai, who seemed so rational and went into therapy along with Sei, says that he failed, which was why this happened to him.
254** Sei himself is pretty complicated. He started out as a LonersAreFreaks type, but he formed a bond with a young woman and member of the archery club, Eiko-senpai. However, ''her'' suicide apparently drove him to {{Hikikomori}} levels and then to this trope.
255** Eiko-senpai's suicide was apparently over the fact that she had sex with her sensei, the head of the archery club, and got pregnant from this. The guy was leaving the club and getting married, and when she tried to turn to sensei for help, he refused ({{Jerkass}}), which apparently put her in a bad spot. Ouch!
256* Several show up in ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'':
257** Soon after the players are told [[MostDangerousVideogame if they die in the game they die in real life]], one of the players jumps off a balcony, assuming he'll wake up when he "dies." Nope.
258** One member of a small guild takes the guild's savings to buy a house. While they're waiting, the rest of the guild decides to go on a quick dungeon delve to pass the time. They walk into a trap and are all killed--except for Kirito, who was hiding the fact that he was twice the level of everyone else. When he tells the survivor what happened, said survivor immediately jumps off the nearest balcony.
259** When the front-line group is preparing to take on the floor 75 boss (a boss who already killed ten scouts), Kirito tries to get Asuna to stay behind so she'll be safe. She flat-out tells him that if he dies, she'll kill herself, so it will give them both a better chance to survive if they go together. It helps that she's only about a half-step weaker than him.
260** When Kirito has to fight a one-on-one duel with [[spoiler:Akihiko Kayaba]], Kirito requests that if he loses, that his opponent keep Asuna from killing herself. [[spoiler:Asuna ends up TakingTheBullet for Kirito, but apparently Kayaba interpreted "keep her from killing herself" as "if she dies, stick her in a waiting room rather than [[MostDangerousVideoGame microwaving her brain immediately]]," so when Kirito wins the game moments later, they are both saved.]]
261* [[spoiler:Rossiu attempts to shoot himself in]] ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' after realizing just how much of an [[spoiler:EvilChancellor he had become. Simon stops him with a [[DynamicEntry Dynamic]] GetAHoldOfYourselfMan punch delivered ''through hyperspace''.]] This ''is'' [[RuleOfCool TTGL]] we're talking about here.
262* [[spoiler:Doc]] in ''Anime/{{Texhnolyze}}''.
263* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'':
264** Ken Kaneki admits to himself that his duel with Arima at the finale of the original series was a failed suicide attempt. He wasn't able to "die properly", and after regaining his memories in the sequel... he decides to "die in style". Over the next several months, he isolates himself from those that care about him and places himself into a position of authority within the [[HunterOfMonsters CCG]]. This is all leading up to betraying his superiors during a critical mission, arranging a prison break with a two-part SelfSacrificeScheme at it's core. After rescuing Hinami, he intends to goad Arima into killing him once and for all. It doesn't end as he planned, with Arima repeatedly wounding him while goading him to fight harder. A hallucination of his childhood friend, Hide, makes him realize his own conflicted feelings over dying and resolve to go on living in spite the pain.
265** In the same vein, Kisho Arima turns out to be a DeathSeeker secretly plotting to groom a successor to kill him and lead a revolution against the GovernmentConspiracy. When Kaneki refuses to finish him off, Arima takes matters into his own hands and slits his own throat. Before dying, he confesses that he was SecretlyDying and preferred to simply "speed things up". He requests that Kaneki take the blame for his death, becoming the legendary "One-Eyed King" and a HopeBringer for ghouls by defeating the "Grim Reaper".
266* The manga version of the ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' flashback arc, which reveals to us the background of both [[TheHero Vash]] and BigBad [[EvilTwin Knives]], with FreudianExcuse and a side of showing what the crap is up with the setting, features this. From Vash 'I disapprove of suicide more than anything' the Stampede himself, no less, and twice. Contains a heavy helping of BetterToDieThanBeKilled, and a lot of disillusionment. First, the twins lock themselves in the lab where they found out [[TheyWouldCutYouUp about Tesla]] for a week without food or water, with apparent intent to die, and then after Rem has broken in while they were unconscious and nursed them back to health, Vash wakes up and goes for the knife she's using to peel fruit. He [[UnexplainedRecovery got better]].
267* [[spoiler:Prince Fay of Valeria]] does this in ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle''. After [[spoiler:years spent in a tower for the sin of being born, he finally breaks and declares that he wants to die]]. [[spoiler:Fei Wang Reed]] then [[ManipulativeBastard conveniently]] shows up and [[spoiler:offers to free Yuui in exchange for Fay's life]]. [[spoiler:Fay]] takes him up on this offer.
268** [[spoiler:Prince Yuui - the twin that survived, the Fai we know]] - as well. After he [[spoiler:stabbed Sakura because his curse activated]] he was only a sword swipe away from killing himself [[spoiler:''after'' killing the other two]] as well but [[spoiler:[[LoveInterest Kurogane]]]] stopped him. If not he would have committed suicide. [[spoiler:Sakura]] knew this and tried to change it which resulted in this.
269* Subverted in ''Literature/UnlimitedFafnir''. Iris seriously contemplates jumping off the school roof to avoid turning into a dragon against her will during episode 2. Fortunately she's too scared to actually follow through, and Yuu helps reassure her that he'll protect her.
270* ''Literature/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.]]
271* ''{{Anime/Windaria}}'' has a cute scene where the StarCrossedLovers, Princess Ahnas and Prince Jihl meet in the forest for a romantic rendezvous. The Princess playfully steals the Prince's handgun in their game of tag, ending with the two in a sweet embrace when he retrieves it. Fast forward then, as Jihl's father plunges the the two countries into a brutal and very bloody war, in which honor and duty forces the lovers to face each other commanding opposite sides... [[spoiler:where Princess Ahnas, seeing no other way out, in a desperate attempt to end the conflict, offers to meet her beloved off the battlefield. Ahnas and Jihl meet... they embrace... [[DeadlyHug the Prince shudders, his eyes go dull and he falls]]. For, once again, Ahnas had stolen his handgun. She places the barrel to her temple, closes her eyes, and then pulls the trigger]].
272* Suicide (specifically that of teenage girls) is a major theme of ''Anime/WonderEggPriority'':
273** Each Wonder Egg contains the soul of a girl in one of countless {{Alternate Universe}}s, who committed suicide for one reason or another. By hatching the Egg, defending the girl, and then slaying the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Wonder Killer]] that embodies her trauma, the protagonists are able to lay the girl's soul to rest.
274** Each of the protagonists has a close friend or relative that committed suicide; if they hatch enough Wonder Eggs and slay enough Wonder Killers, they can bring them back to life. Each girl's [[DreamLand Egg World]] resembles the place at which their loved one died, complete with a statue of them about to commit the deed.
275*** Ai has Koito, a transfer student and her only friend, who jumped off the roof of her school. Koito was being bullied by her jealous classmates, due to her apparent closeness to their teacher, Mr. Sawaki, and Ai did nothing to stop the bullying; however, she isn't sure whether Koito's suicide was due to the bullying, Sawaki, or something else, and part of the reason she wants to revive Koito is to learn the truth about why she chose to kill herself.
276*** Neiru has her sister, who apparently attempted to kill Neiru and then jumped off a bridge.
277*** Rika has Chiemi, an obsessed fan of hers from when she was a junior idol, who starved herself to death after an attempt by Rika to be CruelToBeKind went horribly wrong.
278*** Momoe has her best friend, who confessed her love to Momoe and tried to seduce her. Momoe rejected her, and she threw herself in front of a train.
279** In Episode 7, a combination of personal troubles and a Wonder Killer's manipulation cause [[spoiler:Rika]] to briefly cross the DespairEventHorizon and decide to commit suicide-by-Wonder Killer. [[InterruptedSuicide Her familiar blocks the killing blow]], which is enough to snap her out of it and convince her to keep fighting.
280* Played with in ''Manga/YourLieInApril''. A terminally ill and bed-bound [[spoiler:Kaori]] asks the protagonist if he would like to commit double suicide with her, however she was just quoting a book. It's left vague if she was serious or not though.
281* ''Franchise/YuGiOh'':
282** This was what happened to Kaiba Seto and Mokuba abusive step-father, Gozaburo. After Seto took control of the Kaiba Corporation, Gozaburo threw himself out of his office window. His FamousLastWords? "Seto! I lost my game with you! Burn this into your brain! ''This'' is what a loser ''deserves! Ha ha ha ha ha!''"
283** In the Crashtown Arc of ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', (a DarkerAndEdgier arc of an already darker part of the franchise) Kiryu planned to kill himself in the dyne mines after losing to Yusei, unable to forgive himself for his actions as a Dark Signer. (Changed in the dub, of course, where he simply wanted to be sent there as punishment.) Yusei convinced him not to after his loss caused Lotten to [[BetterTheDevilYouKnow take over the place and rule it like a tyrant]].
284* As the BittersweetEnding to one episode of''Anime/YuGiOhArcV''. [[TheMole Dennis]] is defeated by Kaito, and tells the heroes where they can find the kidnapped Ruri and Rin. Despite being offered a chance at redemption by joining the good guys, Dennis feels that he doesn't deserve to come back after his betrayal. Instead, he decides to do his final performance: jumping off the boat and carding himself.
285** ''Anime/YuGiOhVRAINS'': After seeing [[GreaterScopeVillain Lightning’s]] simulation of what he will become, [[{{Deuteragonist}} Ai]] ran countless simulations of his own to see if he could change the future. However, when he saw a future that had Yusaku [[AndIMustScream dying because of him]], Ai decided that he had to die.
286* [[spoiler:Togo]] from ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'' tried at least ten different ways to kill herself but failed constantly. [[spoiler:She didn't want to actually die - well, that's at least [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation what she said]] - but was testing out how she, and none of the other magical girls, [[NighInvulnerability cannot die]].]]
287* In ''Anime/YuYuHakusho'' Hina, Hiei and Yukina's mother, commits suicide after assuming her son is dead.
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