Driven To Suicide / Anime & Manga

The process of suicide from the brain's POV.

As a Death Trope, expect spoilers, both marked and unmarked.

Times where somebody is Driven to Suicide in Anime and Manga.

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• The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You:
  • 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.
  • Tama Nekonari was worn down and burned out by a Soul-Crushing Desk Job 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.
• +Anima: In the final arc, 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, 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, where they apologize about their fight and urge him to think about himself for once, stops him from killing himself.
• After God: The Danger Zones have become known as popular suicide spots, due to causing a "peaceful death". Shion has entered it willingly to avoid Abusive Parents, but Waka blames the Gods anyway. It's also progressively hinted that Alula accidentally made going there appealing. There are also inconsistencies in the recording of her death, as someone even recording it at all, Shion not being killed by poisoned gas faster, and levitation is an ability Yako is known for.
• In Akumetsu chapter 32, one of the bankers spared by Akumetsu decides to commit suicide rather than face up to Akumetsu's demands.
• Rayet from Aldnoah.Zero tries to shoot herself after revealing she's half-Martian and almost killing Princess Asselyum. She's stopped though.
• Subverted in Angel Beats!. Despite being a Broken Bird who has deep trauma over 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.
• Subverted in Angel Densetsu. 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.
• In the opening of the 1988 OAV of Appleseed, a woman leaps to her death rather than continue to live in Olympus, which she views as a Gilded Cage. Between the trauma of watching her do this and the very dubious response of the government, her husband becomes a Tragic Villain who blames Olympus for killing her and teams up with an anti-bioroid terrorist to bring it down.
• Toward the end of the Area 88 manga, 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.
• In the first few chapters of 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.
• Attack on Titan:
  • Twofer—Mikasa becomes dangerously reckless after she believes that 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 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.
  • An unnamed soldier puts a shotgun in his mouth when the facility they're in is surrounded by Titans.
  • Much later, this happens with Reiner Braun, due to Survivor Guilt and a hefty helping of PTSD, along with many other factors. Moments before eating his gun, he's interrupted.
• In Barefoot Gen, Koji's friend Hanada hangs himself after being beaten too many times by the Drill Sergeant Nasty.
• Basilisk:
  • 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: he cannot deactivate it, so he must keep his eyes closed and effectively blind himself outside of battle.
  • Oboro kills herself at the end of the series, unwilling to kill her beloved Gennosuke.
• Berserk:
  • Guts goads Theresia into killing herself after the death of her father the Slug Baron. Luckily, Puck intereferes before she cut her veins.
  • 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.
  • A rather crueller version happens to Griffith, when he tries to impale himself on a rock following a years worth of Cold-Blooded Torture, only to fail.
  • Emperor Ganiska murdered his younger brother after their mother tried to poison Ganiska. This resulted in the mother killing herself afterward.
• In Black Butler:
  • 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.
  • The reapers were all humans who committed suicide.
• Yukio Washimine in Black Lagoon, who commits jigai with the also deceased Ginji's trusty katana at the end of the Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise arc.
• Black Paradox is a manga about 4 people gathering together to commit a group suicide. Creepy things happen instead.
• Johann of 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.
• Blue Reflection Ray:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
• In Brigadoon: Marin and Melan, two different characters are tempted to drown themselves, for different reasons, in the second half of the anime. They got better.
• Asshole Victims in Case Closed seem to have this as their side job.
  • Some Sympathetic Murderers try/do that too, like the Anti Villainous cross dresser Seiji/Narumi.
  • Shinichi/Conan himself tried his best to avoid driving criminals to suicide after Pulling the Thread on the criminal; the only failure being 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.
• Chaos;Head. 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.
• Chobits: Freya becomes weak and catatonic, eventually killing herself, when she realizes her love for her father can't be requited.
• In Claudine, the titular character Claudine does this by shooting himself in the middle of a snowy night after he finds out his last lover Sirene chooses to be with his brother Andre.
• This is the plot of the first story in Confidential Confessions. Two high school girls befriend each other due to their shared desire to die. One is bullied by girls, another has an abusive father. "Asparagus" does end up committing suicide in the end.
• Both Oonagi's wife Coco and Mina attempt suicide in Copernicus Breathing But they both end up being Bungled Suicides.
• Count Cain: 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 Alexis.
• Cross Ange: During a massive Heroic BSoD after her Love Interest and head maid are seemingly killed saving her from the main villain, 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 she's that full of despair, and breaks down in tears. It's implied that she might have eventually done so... had not Tusk, said L.I., returned at a critical moment.
• A Cruel God Reigns:
  • Jeremy throws himself into the lake in Lynn Forest after finding out that his mother knew that he was being raped by his stepfather, but did nothing. He also attempts to asphyxiate himself with a gas oven after returning to 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.
  • Greg's first wife, Lilya, committed suicide to escape Greg's emotional abuse.
  • Sandra tried to commit suicide after Greg ended their engagement and once when Jeremy was a child.
• At the end of "What Will the Video Camera Reveal?" from The Curse of Kazuo Umezu, 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.
• In Dear Brother, Rei, Fukiko, Mariko and Aya all either contemplate or attempt to do this to varying degrees, but ultimately fail. 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, her mother commits suicide by drowning herself in the ocean.
• Death Note:
  • In the manga, Misa Amane dies one year after Light's death by jumping off a rooftop. In the anime, it is implied she did the same... when he was dying.
  • In the manga, it's mentioned in the epilogue that Teru Mikami dies in prison shortly after his capture. Nobody knows why, but suicide is highly implied. The anime clears this up, as Mikami ends up stabbing himself with a pen after Light is shot multiple times by Matsuda.
  • Subverted with Naomi Misora and Kiyomi Takada, who commit suicide, but not by choice: they are forced into suicide by Light's use of the Death Note.
  • Soichiro Yagami does this in a more traditional manner, considering suicide and eventually committing suicide by Mello.
• Death Parade:
  • Chiyuki, 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.
  • Yousuke in episode 4 commited suicide due to family issues. It was a random decision and he regretted it in Quindecim.
  • One of Harada's girlfriends killed herself after he broke up with her. Her sister killed him in revenge.
  • Mayu tries sacrificing herself for Harada however everyone is Dead All Along and the trap was fake.
• Debusen:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
• Denjin N: Tadahiro was violently bullied by peers, 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.
• In Descendants of Darkness, Tsuzuki succeeded with this when he was a human, and a while later he became a Shinigami. (Which explains why he angsts/wangsts so much about his work). Later, he tries to comit suicide again thanks to Muraki, and Hisoka has to hug him and beg him to not do so.
• Detective School Q:
  • Ryu Amakusa seriously ponders suicide after being told by Anubis, the sub-leader of the criminal organization (Pluto/Meiousei) he reluctantly belongs to, that there's no way he can escape from them. It doesn't help that he was almost killed by another Meiousei member when he attempted to save his partner and best friend, 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.
  • In another episode, 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 brainwash the woman into killing the DDS team instead, but she's stopped just in time.
• In D.Gray-Man, main protagonist Allen Walker attempts to slit his own throat in order to stop his Innocence from harming someone who was having an And Then John Was a Zombie moment. While the attempt was quickly interrupted, it gives a whole new grim meaning to Allen's earlier promise that he would stop The 14th if he attacked the Order.
• Dirty Pair: 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.
• Durarara!! has the 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. 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 Big Bad and a truly Manipulative Bastard. 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 Demoted to Extra.
• EDENS ZERO: As a child, Elsie Crimson was forced to make the Sadistic Choice to expose her kingdom's Dark Secret, 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 Impoverished Patrician, after he became the story's Big Bad and vows to Kill All Humans. In the fight on her home planet Lendard, she sees her crewmembers Hyoga and Gowen killed by Jesse in front of her, and then 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 the Chronophage make her disappear when it eats Lendard's time.
• In the Eureka Seven 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.
• In a rare good character example, a minor ally in Fang of the Sun Dougram commits suicide on screen by shooting his brains out.
• Yuria, Kenshiro's fiancee of Fist of the North Star, 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 Yuria's case, however, she survived. Only for us to learn she's dying of radiation poisoning anyway. Well, at least she gets to spend her last days with Kenshiro...
• Honoo no Alpen Rose: 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.
• Because Kids Are Cruel, Flame of Recca'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.
• Chapter 38 of Franken Fran 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.
• In Fruits Basket, Kyo's mom committed suicide - most people assumed that it was because of Kyo himself, but it's later revealed that it had more to do with her abusive husband.
• Fullmetal Alchemist:
  • 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 the first anime).
  • 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. That's enough to convince Roy to stand down.
  • Moments after the above, Envy ends his own life by destroying his own Philosopher's Stone to avoid what he perceives as the ultimate humiliation: being beaten and actually pitied by lowly humans.
• Full Moon:
  • In the manga, those who kill themselves become Shinigami. There is some debate as to whether this is a a punishment or not.
  • In the anime Mitsuki attempts suicide twice. Once she tries sleeping out in the snow on Eichi's grave so she could join him in death. And a second time she tries jumping off the hospital roof. Only to be rescued by Takuto.
• Fushigi Yuugi:
  • One particularly cruel version of this trope: Chiriko, the Teen Genius 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 and killing both of them in the process. Chiriko did this by stabbing himself to death, despite his friends' pleas to stop.
  • 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.
  • There's some attempted suicides from other characters before that, too. Most notably, 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 Nakago in order to turn her against her friend.
  • Additionally, in the second OVA, one of the villains uses mind control to manipulate Tasuki's hidden feelings for Miaka into a Near-Rape Experience. When his friends finally break through to him and he realizes what's going on, the combination of horror at what he's done and desperation to stop himself lead Tasuki to blow himself up with his own fire attack.
  • And finally, in the series Miaka tries to drown herself when Tamahome was Brainwashed and Crazy. Hotohori had to dive in and save her.
    • Also in the 3rd OVA, 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 make amends and save the Universe of the Four Gods.
• Chika Ogiue in Genshiken tried to throw herself off the roof of her old school 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 Running Gag that she will jump out of the nearest window when she seems to be losing an argument.
• Ghost Talker's Daydream features 11 suicide cases between chapters 3 and 17, most of which were orchestrated by 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 to prevent it from taking place.
• Gintama:
  • Played for Laughs 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 this.◊
  • In Red Spider arc, Jiraia's sister committed suicide by jumping off a cliff after seeing what her brother had became.
  • This is the final goal of Utsuro, to end his life as well as pull the whole world down with him.
• Girls Go Around 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. Needless to say, that's not okay with Chihiro, but...
• 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.
• Being such a cynical series, Goodnight Punpun is filled to the brim with this:
  • Aiko hangs herself in the final chapters.
  • Punpun's mom tried to kill herself and Punpun. Her husband caught her but Punpun saw it and thought he was abusing her. This caused his dad to become arrested at the start of the manga.
  • Punpun himself is very depressed and suicidal for much of the manga. He expresses wants and plans to kill himself several times. He stabs himself in the eye at the end of the manga but survives, losing his eye.
• In the last episode of Gravitation, Eiri Yuki, after remembering his troubled past, is about to pull the trigger on his life when Shuichi arrives in the nick of time.
• Great Teacher Onizuka:
  • 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.
  • Onizuka also saves a lot of other students from suicide (his class is full of problem kids).
• Gundam:
  • Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ. 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.
  • Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory. 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.
  • Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket: 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.
  • Heero Yuy harbored a good deal of self-loathing in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing because of the remorse he felt for his victims, especially after killing a little girl he had befriended, as seen in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz. 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 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 Death Seeker.
• In chapter two of Gunjo the women run into a lady who wants to kill herself out of guilt for the death of her son.
• Gunslinger Girl:
  • Henrietta clearly exhibited suicidal tendencies before her conversion, after having her parents killed in front of her and being repeatedly raped near their corpses.
  • Elsa killed her handler then herself prior to the manga beginning.
  • 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. 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.
• Haibane Renmei:
  • It's implied that takes place in a Mundane Afterlife type of purgatory. The ending to the anime implies that 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 sin-bound. Rakka might have also killed herself, however it's harder to tell.
  • Though not a suicide, what happens to Reki in the final episode is treated like a suicide attempt, complete with her packing up all her belongs, detaching herself from her friends, saying goodbye to everyone, and imagery of her standing on a train track. After hitting the Despair Event Horizon, she breaks out of her Circle of Sin and is allowed to finally have her Day of Flight.
• Eugene in Hanasakeru Seishounen, bonus points for 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.
• Kurumi in Haou Airen 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.
• In the last chapter of Heaven's Lost Property, 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 Reset Button Ending, though.
• In Holyland, 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.
• According to Word of God in HuGtto! Pretty Cure, it is implied that this is what happened to Hana in the Bad Future 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.
• Igano Kabamaru: 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. Eleven years later, we see Hoshiko after the Time Skip - she's fulfilled her dream.
• I Had That Same Dream Again: Subverted; Skank-san tells 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.
• Hello! Sandybell: Discussed in-universe. Some characters, notably the Shearers, speculate that the tragic deaths of 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.
• I'm In Love With the Villainess: In her past life, one of Rei's friends committed suicide after facing constant rejection for being FtM trans.
• In Infinite Ryvius Airs Blue threatens to kill himself as a last resort, and goes so far as to hold the gun to his head. It doesn't happen.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
  • Golden Wind: Cioccolata is a depraved Mad Doctor who would psychologically abuse elderly nursing home residents and drive them to suicide 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. He absolutely deserved the 7-page-Muda death Giornio dished out to him.
  • Stone Ocean: There's Thunder Mcqueen, a suicidal maniac whose Stand ability is to drag people down with his suicide attempts.
• The works of Junji Ito can feature suicide as a source of horror, with two series, Black Paradox and Lovesickness both using it as a central force driving the plot.
• Shiori and Sayuri in Kanon. The former believes she has a month left to live, and her sister, perhaps the only person she has been living for, rejects her. The latter 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.
• In Kasane, Tanzawa Nina jumps off a roof when she starts to feel like her existence is worthless now that Kasane is playing her "role". Instead of dying, she ends up catatonic - but retains her consciousness -, which only makes matters worse.
• Kasumi in King of Thorn, although it's a bit complicated. She originally tries to kill herself in the bath, unable to cope with the fact that she'll live and Shizuku will die, but is 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 what Shizuku has become, Medusa!Kasumi tries to throw herself off a high place thinking that it'll help her twin, and in order to be with Marco, but is stopped by Zeus.
• When Youtarou from Kurage no Shokudo opens up about his brother's death, it turns out that 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.
• Life (2002):
  • Manami tried to jump in front of a train after her boyfriend dumped her but Ayumu saved her. It's left vague if she was serious or not. She's a Manipulative Bastard who later bullied Ayumu into attempting suicide, so that could have either been a 'game' or her Start of Darkness.
  • Ayumu tries to jump in front of a car due to depression and being severely bullied. Luckily Hatori stops her and that is where their friendship starts.
  • To avoid Manami's bullying a girl jumped from a school balcony. She survived but ended up in the hospital.
• The Love and Creed of Sae Maki:
  • 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 Psycho Lesbian Yandere abuser, did to her Childhood Friend 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 Police Are Useless 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.
  • The ultimate fate of Jin, the Maki family Battle Butler, after Sae's death. He still has the gun he shot the Mysterious Baron with and shoots himself.
• From Lupin III, we have the Honor Before Reason Goemon, who would sometimes attempt suicide because his sword was stolen and he felt he was nothing without it.
• Magical Girl Site: 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 Magical Girl.
• Tohma of Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force, 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 Superpowered Evil Side had other ideas.
• Mazinger Z: The Dragon Baron Ashura, thrice. The two first attempts were averted by Dr. Hell, who was not a fan of the You Have Failed Me trope.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 flying fortress Ghoul to crash it against the Institute in a Taking You with Me tactic. He failed, but he died believing he had finally won.
• Ayano from Mekakucity Actors/Kagerou Project jumped off her school's roof as a first year in high school. This incident caused her best friend Shintaro to become a hikikomori.
• 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 is so horrified by everything that's happened to her and by what she's become that she smashes the mirror and deliberately overdoses on her remaining heroin supply, dying shortly thereafter.
• The Misfit of Demon King Academy: 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.
• Several in Monster:
  • After Nina finally regains most of her memories, Tenma had to talk her out of suicide.
  • 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...
  • And Johan is also an expert at driving perfectly sane and normal people to suicide through total Mind Rape. And he does it a lot.
• My-HiME has two: Yukariko Sanada prefers to kill herself and her love interest Ishigami, rather than killing the main character and 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.
• In My Lovely Ghost Kana, the titular Kana is dead via suicide on the very first page. Daikichi is on the verge until he meets Kana's ghost, as is Utako. Fortunately, they all got better.
• Naruto:
  • 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.
  • 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 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 learning his teammate and childhood best friend Obito was the Big Bad 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 after retiring from his position as Hokage.
  • Rin, Kakashi's comrade committed suicide by throwing herself in front of 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.
  • Madara was aware this was a possible outcome of his Despair Gambit on Obito. As he needed the latter alive, he averted this trope by placing a seal on Obito to prevent suicide.
  • In the Naruto (1997) pilot, Saburo couldn't handle his friend Kuroda becoming the new chairman of the Cultural Advancement Committee. He stabbed Kuroda, painted his final painting, then killed himself.
• In the classic manga Natsu e no Tobira, 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.
• Negima! Magister Negi Magi: 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. Subverted as it turns out she had a grappling hook. 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.
• Neon Genesis Evangelion:
  • It's implied that Shinji and Asuka attempt suicide, though the suicide is implied rather than explicitly shown. Asuka is found naked and barely conscious in a bathtub with what may be slit wrists, and Shinji is shown at the beginning of End of Evangelion clearly dampened from an attempted drowning.
  • Naoko Akagi dies of a fall from the top of the MAGI superstructure. It's strongly implied that she threw herself off the bridge after learning that Gendo didn't love her and murdering Rei.
• One Piece:
  • Played for Laughs 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.
  • Definitely NOT Played for Laughs in regards to at least one of the Celestial Dragons' victims. One woman who was part of an angry mob 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.
  • Kaido has been shown to attempt suicide multiple times through extreme means, one of which includes throwing himself down from the clouds. Him being ridiculously tough, it never works.
  • 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 family suicide is a common occurrence here.
  • 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.
• Orange: It turns out that 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. They succeed, but not without some hiccups along the way.
• In one episode of Osomatsu-san, Jyushimatsu falls for a 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 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.
• In PandoraHearts, Alice's death is initially set up to make Vincent look like the murderer. Turns out, in a combination of this trope and Heroic Sacrifice, 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.
• An episode of Paranoia Agent 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. 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.
• Kotaroh of Pita-Ten does so rather than lose Misha when she is forced to return to heaven.
• Pokémon, of all things, has this:
  • A Pokemon does it in the manga The Electric Tale of Pikachu. It was the "Black Fog", a giant evil Haunter. It was so proud it preferred death to being captured.
  • Mitsumi from Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure!. 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 Jun comes in and saves her.
• Precarious Woman Executive Miss Black General: Played for Laughs. 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.
• Princess Tutu 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.
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica:
  • Kyoko's 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.
  • In one of the past timelines, Mami tries a Murder-Suicide after learning the Awful Truth. Believing they all must die to avoid becoming Witches, she kills Kyoko and tries to kill Homura, but is killed by Madoka first.
  • Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Different Story: Mami, after finding out that her student has become a Witch, and her best friend died after fighting it.
  • Puella Magi Oriko Magica: Oriko's father.
• In Ranma ½, Akane is staring wistfully at the pool, depressed that she can't swim worth a damn, while standing at the water's edge. Principal Kuno thinks she's about to commit suicide, and rushes in to stop her... by pushing her into the pool.
• The Rebirth of Buddha: 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.
• In Reborn to Master the Blade, 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. 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.
• In ReLIFE this is revealed to be why Kaizaki left his job. His senpai killed herself after being treated horribly by the rest of the company.
• Played with in Re:Zero. In one time loop, Subaru successfully manages to survive his fourth night as Roswaal's mansion, but Rem dies instead. After Ram initiates a Roaring Rampage of Revenge 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 fix things, not because he's given up.
• In Revolutionary Girl Utena episode 37, Anthy tries to commit suicide by throwing herself off of a building. Fortunately, Utena saves her.
• In the Romantic Trilogy Super Robot series (Combattler V, Voltes V and Daimos), all the dragons in their respective series chose to end their lives; 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 Proud Warrior Race Guy that he is; and the other two for deciding that they have given the people around them too much grief and suffering to even have a right to continue living.
• Rurouni Kenshin:
  • In the first OVA, Kenshin ends up living with Tomoe, who is actually trying to get revenge on him for assassinating her fiancé. However, she falls in love with him, forgives him and decides to give up on the plot to kill him. When she finds out 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 tries biting off her tongue instead. She doesn't succeed, but she soon dies anyway in a Heroic Sacrifice complete with Slipknot Ponytail and blood-soaked snow.
  • Megumi Takani was Driven to Suicide by Aoshi, but the heroes got there in time.
  • Houji kills himself in prison when the Meiji government refuses him a trial.
• In Saikano, the scientist who made Chise what she is eventually comes face to face with the consequences of his work. He shoots himself to death.
• Sailor Moon:
  • In the manga, Princess Serenity killed herself in her past life after the Big Bad offed her fiance. She also succeeded at a Murder-Suicide on a Brainwashed and Crazy Tuxedo Mask, but was brought back to life by the other sailor soldiers who sacrificed their own lives to do it.
  • 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.
  • Sailor Uranus in S practically kills herself after experiencing a massive Heroic BSoD 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.
• In Sakura Gari both Masataka (neck piercing with a knife) and Souma (slitting his wrists and then placing his arms in a bath tub) either consider or attempt to kill themselves but fail. 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.
• Played completely for laughs in Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei where the main character, a teacher tries to commit suicide because of every minor thing that happens to him, usually more than Once an Episode. 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 fail by being COMPLETELY invulnerable in the long run. He's even survived having his name written in the Death Note.
• School-Live!:
  • Kurumi finds a boy who hanged himself due to the Zombie Apocalypse. She calls him "cowardly" because he preferred to die than try and survive.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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.
• The Secret Garden: when it seems 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.
• Serial Experiments Lain:
  • Arguably, Yomodo Chisa. Although it's heavily implied that she did it to escape the Epiphanic Prison of reality, in theory the corrupting contact with 'God' made her do it.
  • Halfway through the series, many people around the world commit suicide after being exposed as members of Knights. They were going to be killed anyway.
• Shadow Star has Akira Sakura, a cripplingly 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. 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.
• Shi ni Aruki:
  • Chapter 13. 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.
  • In Chapter 14, Tokiko reveals that Aiko, a classmate from middle school, did this a year prior out of guilt for when she and Tokiko allowed their teacher to be killed in order to save themselves.
  • Chapter 32. 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.
• X eggs in Shugo Chara! 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.
• In Shy, the Big Bad gives out rings which force the darkest feelings of a person to surface. When he puts one on Iko, she tries to kill herself because of her survivor's guilt. Fortunately, Shy is able to stop her.
• A Silent Voice:
  • 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 good calling out when she realizes his plans.
  • Shoko Nishimiya is revealed to have been suicidal due to Shoya's previous bullying. Years later she attempts suicide after a festival however Shoya saves her. He ends up falling into a body of water and ends up in a coma.
• 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.
• This is Moeka's backstory in Steins;Gate; due to 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) for SERN.
• Suicide Island: People who attempted suicide in this series can be dropped off on the titular island, declared to be Un Persons. Naturally, the series examines why various characters reached this point.
  • For some, it was a due to the Crapsack World they're living in.
  • 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.
  • Sei himself is pretty complicated. He started out as a Loners Are Freaks 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.
  • 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!
• Several show up in Sword Art Online:
  • Soon after the players are told 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • When Kirito has to fight a one-on-one duel with Akihiko Kayaba, Kirito requests that if he loses, that his opponent keep Asuna from killing herself. Asuna ends up Taking the Bullet for Kirito, but apparently Kayaba interpreted "keep her from killing herself" as "if she dies, stick her in a waiting room rather than microwaving her brain immediately," so when Kirito wins the game moments later, they are both saved.
• Rossiu attempts to shoot himself in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann after realizing just how much of an Evil Chancellor he had become. Simon stops him with a Dynamic Get A Hold Of Yourself Man punch delivered through hyperspace. This is TTGL we're talking about here.
• Doc in Texhnolyze.
• Tokyo Ghoul:
  • 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 CCG. This is all leading up to betraying his superiors during a critical mission, arranging a prison break with a two-part Self-Sacrifice Scheme 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.
  • In the same vein, Kisho Arima turns out to be a Death Seeker secretly plotting to groom a successor to kill him and lead a revolution against the Government Conspiracy. 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 Secretly Dying 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 Hope Bringer for ghouls by defeating the "Grim Reaper".
• The manga version of the Trigun flashback arc, which reveals to us the background of both Vash and Big Bad Knives, with Freudian Excuse 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 Better to Die than Be Killed, and a lot of disillusionment. First, the twins lock themselves in the lab where they found out 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 got better.
• Prince Fay of Valeria does this in Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-. After years spent in a tower for the sin of being born, he finally breaks and declares that he wants to die. Fei Wang Reed then conveniently shows up and offers to free Yuui in exchange for Fay's life. Fay takes him up on this offer.
  • Prince Yuui - the twin that survived, the Fai we know - as well. After he stabbed Sakura because his curse activated he was only a sword swipe away from killing himself after killing the other two as well but Kurogane stopped him. If not he would have committed suicide. Sakura knew this and tried to change it which resulted in this.
• Subverted in Unlimited Fafnir. 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.
• Welcome to the NHK 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. 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.
• Windaria has a cute scene where the Star-Crossed Lovers, 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... 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... 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.
• Suicide (specifically that of teenage girls) is a major theme of Wonder Egg Priority:
  • Each Wonder Egg contains the soul of a girl in one of countless Alternate Universes, who committed suicide for one reason or another. By hatching the Egg, defending the girl, and then slaying the Wonder Killer that embodies her trauma, the protagonists are able to lay the girl's soul to rest.
  • 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 Egg World resembles the place at which their loved one died, complete with a statue of them about to commit the deed.
    • 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.
    • Neiru has her sister, who apparently attempted to kill Neiru and then jumped off a bridge.
    • 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 Cruel to Be Kind went horribly wrong.
    • 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.
  • In Episode 7, a combination of personal troubles and a Wonder Killer's manipulation cause Rika to briefly cross the Despair Event Horizon and decide to commit suicide-by-Wonder Killer. Her familiar blocks the killing blow, which is enough to snap her out of it and convince her to keep fighting.
• Played with in Your Lie in April. A terminally ill and bed-bound 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.
• Yu-Gi-Oh!:
  • 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 Famous Last Words? "Seto! I lost my game with you! Burn this into your brain! This is what a loser deserves! Ha ha ha ha ha!"
  • In the Crashtown Arc of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, (a Darker and Edgier 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 take over the place and rule it like a tyrant.
• As the Bittersweet Ending to one episode ofYu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V. 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.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS: After seeing Lightning’s simulation of what he will become, Ai ran countless simulations of his own to see if he could change the future. However, when he saw a future that had Yusaku dying because of him, Ai decided that he had to die.
• Togo from Yuki Yuna is a Hero tried at least ten different ways to kill herself but failed constantly. She didn't want to actually die - well, that's at least what she said - but was testing out how she, and none of the other magical girls, cannot die.
• In YuYu Hakusho Hina, Hiei and Yukina's mother, commits suicide after assuming her son is dead.

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