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* ''Manga/AkameGaKill'' manga:
** In the manga Syura shows off his depravity by having Bol's wife and daughter raped and murdered. In the anime, he never meets them before he is killed. Also, the three village girls from a one-shot chapter are never raped and killed in the anime.
** Also in the anime version, Run survives to the end of the series and lives to become the chief of security for the capitol. Whereas in the manga, he died and had his corpse remade into one of Kurome's PeoplePuppets.
* Many {{Historical Domain Character}}s were spared in ''LightNovel/TheAmbitionOfOdaNobuna'', including Imagawa Yoshimoto (died 1560) and Saitou Dousan (died 1556), which are still there in the 1570s. Subverted by several {{Composite Character}}s; their namesakes may have died for a long time, but other characters that the characters were based on were still alive; such as Saitou Yoshitatsu--he died in 1561, but he's a composite together with his son Tatsuoki, which was still alive at the time.
* The ''Manga/{{Area 88}}'' OVA ends with [[BigBad Satoru Kanzaki]] arrested for tax evasion. In the manga, he gets away and antagonizes the heroes until he's finally shot down by Shin Kazama.
* In the adaptation of "The Greatest Robot in the World" storyline from the 2003 ''Anime/AstroBoy'' anime, Pluto doesn't kill Epsilon (the {{Gender Flip}}ped version of Photar), despite killing her equivalent in the original manga and previous TV shows.
* Pretty much the case for ''Manga/AttackOnTitanJuniorHigh'', since every character who's died in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' is perfectly fine in this alternate universe, except for Frieda Reiss, who appeared in the eighth episode as a ghost.
* Seiji the painter from the anime adaptation of ''Manga/BarefootGen'', in the manga he died not long after Gen and Ryuta's visit, in the anime he survived and Gen and Ryuta promise to visit him in the future.
* In the ''Disney/BigHero6'' manga [[spoiler: Tadashi doesn't die in a fire, he gets sucked into a portal while trying to help Robert Callaghan bring Abigail back. Hiro believes that he could be alive in AnotherDimension but Baymax confirmed that he wasn't in the AcidTripDimension where they found Abigail.]]
* In ''Manga/BlackLagoon'''s manga, the final fight between Grey Fox and Roberta becomes a MookHorrorShow with almost all of the former being completely wiped out and Roberta escaping without a scratch (physically, at least). In the anime, the battle is much less one-sided: Grey Fox suffers several casualties but much less (and some are shown to be still-alive stretcher cases), and Roberta [[AnArmAndALeg is almost killed in return]] to the degree that the plan to save Grey Fox in the manga becomes more about saving Roberta in the anime.
* The ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' anime was cancelled before it reached the final manga arc, (mercifully) sparing [[spoiler:Chojiro Sasakibe and Shigekuni Yamamoto]]. [[spoiler:Retsu Unohana]], [[spoiler:Nemu Kurotsuchi]], [[spoiler:Jushiro Ukitake]] and [[spoiler:Sajin Komamura]] were also spared by the cancellation.
* ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'':
** In the manga, Kana Ushiro dies alongside all of the kids. In the anime, however, Ushiro and Youko team up to save her and undo her contract with Zearth; Youko manages to take her place as a pilot ''and'' kill Koyemshi, thus Kana survives the game.
** Also Captain Seki, whose HeroicSacrifice doesn't happen in the anime.
* In ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'' Fou-lu either is absorbed into or absorbs Ryu in a SplitPersonalityMerge in the original video game (depending on which of the MultipleEndings one ultimately selects). The manga adaptation went for a ThirdOptionAdaptation [[spoiler:which not only managed to incorporate ''both'' the Bad and Good Ends but ultimately ended with a failed SplitPersonalityMerge and Fou-lu's ultimate survival (if in a BroughtDownToNormal state).]]
** There is quite a lot of WildMassGuessing as to why this is the case - one persistent rumour is that the manga was deliberately set up for either a video-game or manga sequel to ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'' (especially considering that Capcom is talking of reviving the franchise and directed the ComicBookAdaptation in the first place). This would fit with the other, rather extensive changes made to the manga's end - which, up till that point, largely followed the plot of the game save for some AllThereInTheManual stuff from the artbook that was included in the manga.
* In the ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' manga, out of the 24 Claymores sent to fight the Awakened beings of the North only ''seven'' survive, which is even more than expected as it was always considered a SuicideMission by the [[NebulousEvilOrganization Organization]]. In the anime GeckoEnding however it seems that the body count is much lower, as many Claymores are seen moving around after the battle, only six are seen dying and three more seems to have died offscreen, leaving 15 Claymores alive at the end of the day.
* ''Franchise/CodeGeass'':
** In the spinoff ''Manga/CodeGeassNightmareOfNunnally'', both [[spoiler:Lelouch and Euphemia]] survive, though the former starts WalkingTheEarth while the latter becomes the new Empress of Britannia.
** [[spoiler: Euphemia]] also survives in several video games, such as in the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' franchise.
** [[spoiler:Lelouch]] also survives in ''Suzaku of the Counterattack'', another manga spinoff.
** In Manga/CodeGeassTalesOfAnAlternateShogunate, [[spoiler:everyone, except possibly for Jeremiah Gottwald]], survives.
** In ''Manga/CodeGeassOzTheReflection'', Marika Soresi survives the Second Battle of Tokyo ([[RetCanon though the story is meant to be canon]]).
** [[spoiler: The second recap movie of the [[CompilationMovie compilation film]] trilogy has Shirley survive her encounter with Rolo.]]
** Double Subverted with the announced sequel. [[spoiler: Even with Lelouch confirmed as alive, the other versions of him above are still spared his canon fate.]]
* All the characters who die in ''Anime/CrossAnge'' live in [[HighSchoolAU Cross Ange: Tenshi to Ryuu no Gakuen]][[spoiler:, even Embryo.]]
* In the original ''Anime/CuteyHoney'' manga, Panther Claw's attack on Honey's school was a bloodbath, killing everyone except Honey (including Alphonne and Miharu, whose deaths were PlayedForLaughs). In the anime version, the only casualty was [[spoiler:Natsuko]].
** In most versions of the series, the plot is kicked off by the murder of Dr. Kisaragi, and Honey fights Panther Claw to avenge him. In ''Cutey Honey Flash'', the {{Shoujo|Demographic}} version, the plot is kicked off by the ''kidnapping'' of Dr. Kisaragi, and Honey fights Panther Claw to rescue him.
* Happens in several of the ''Manga/DeathNote'' spinoffs:
** Soichiro, Ukita, Demegawa, and Misa in the LiveActionAdaptation. In the novelization of ''L Change The World'', it is vaguely suggested that Mello might exist in the movie continuity. If he does, then he falls under the trope too.
** L subverts this in the live action movies. He avoids being killed by Rem, but only because he wrote his own name and time of death in the Death Note. He outlives Light, but dies 20 days later (23 days from when he wrote his name in).
** Though neither avoids death per se, Light and Sayu have their fates softened and avoided, respectively - Sayu isn't kidnapped, and thus doesn't go temporarily insane, and Light dies [[DiedInYourArmsTonight in Soichiro's arms]] rather than alone, though ''he's'' still batshit insane to the end, much to [[TheWoobie Soichiro's]] dismay. Oh, and just to rub salt in the wound, Light dies begging Soichiro to believe that he acted as Kira to put justice, which Soichiro had [[FreudianExcuse taught him about since childhood]], into effect.
** Soichiro is also not shown to die in the second rewrite special due to the Mafia subplot being excised from it... leading to plotholes regarding his absence as well as how Light was able to acquire Mello's true name.
** In [[Series/DeathNote the TV drama]], Mikami and Misa, both of whom die in the manga and anime, [[AmnesiacsAreInnocent lose their memories of using the Death Note]] and survive the ending. Rem and Watari also survive, due to Mikami being the one to kill L instead.
* An odd variant is done in the anime adaptation of ''Manga/DetectiveConan''. In the manga, the criminal is shot and killed [[spoiler:and later turns out to be the sister of a character who joins the cast]]. In the anime she survives when Conan steps in, however she's just a random criminal. [[spoiler: And then this is subverted... a whole episode is created to fix the potential plot-holes, and the woman actually dies [[DiedInYourArmsTonight in Conan's arms.]] And soon her sister shows up and joins the cast...]]
* ''Manga/DetectiveSchoolQ''
** Since the anime adaptation ends after adapting half of the manga's total volumes, a certain character who dies at the end of the series is still alive: [[spoiler:Dan Morihiko]].
** Maya Asabuki, one of the "Collector's Murder Case" victims, dies from a stab wound in the manga. In the anime, she is [[TapOnTheHead hit with a vase inside her dorm room]] and though it's believed that she ''was'' killed, it's shown that she survived and had to go FakingTheDead for a short while, so the culprit wouldn't attack her again.
* Miki is famously killed and dismembered near the end of ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'', but in the 1972 anime adaptation, she survives and gets a happy ending.
* Technically done in ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersLeapingThroughTime''; During the [[spoiler: MassiveMultiplayerCrossover]] finale, [[spoiler:Grani]] turns up to help Dukemon; he even [[spoiler:combines with him, giving rise to Dukemon: Crimson Mode. This only happened in their own series, Anime/DigimonTamers, because Grani was about to die and he gave up his life energy to help his friend Guilmon]]. They even [[spoiler: uncombine]] afterwards.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** Bardock is a very odd subversion in the 3-chapter spin-off manga, ''History of Bardock''. He survives Frieza's attack, but winds up going back in time. The manga gives no indication that he ever returns to his own time, meaning that he'll die long-before any of the events in the official series.
** A minor case, but during the epilogue to the Cell Saga that showcases Future Trunks finally saving his time, there's a moment where Androids 17 and 18 are shot at by a vengeful old man whose family was previously killed by the duo and is currently trapped under some debris. 17 decides to kill him, but Trunks then arrives and manages to destroy him and his sister in a CurbStompBattle and is then shown helping the man out. In the original manga, 17 kills the man moments before Trunks arrives on the scene.
** The animé could be said to have done this to Captain Ginyu as well - while the manga (and ''Dragon Ball Z Kai'') [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse ignores him after he becomes a frog]] (implying he died when Namek exploded), the animé has him sent to Earth, where he causes trouble even after the Frieza Saga before [[spoiler: he dies following Kid Buu's destruction of Earth...that is, until...]]
*** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' ends up sparing Tagoma, one of Frieza's men in ''Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF'', during its adaptation of said movie. Here, he ends up becoming a cold and ruthless monster after Frieza uses him as his personal four-month long punching bag. Upon arriving on Earth, he proves to be quite the fighter, even keeping the likes of Gohan and Trunks on his toes... [[spoiler:then ''Ginyu'' returns and ''[[GrandTheftMe steals his body]]''.]]
** Broly is presumed dead at the end of ''Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan'' and KilledOffForReal at the end of ''Anime/DragonBallZBrolySecondComing'', and his clone likewise does not live through ''Anime/DragonBallZBioBroly''. Broly has ''much'' better luck in ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'', where Cheelai uses the Dragon Balls to teleport him off planet before [[spoiler:Gogeta]] can turn him into a smoking pile of ash, and he is last seen retiring peacefully back to planet Vampa.
* In ''VideoGame/EternalSonata'', [[spoiler:Waltz and his agents]] all survive. [[spoiler:Claves]] doesn't [[AdaptedOut even appear]].
* In the Anime adaptation of ''Manga/ElfenLied'', Lucy most likely survives the officers shooting at her but she loses one of her horns in the process, but in the original manga, She faces actual death by melting from overusage of her vectors during several battles.
* In the anime version of ''Manga/FairyTail'', Trinity Raven is last seen escaping from the Tower of Heaven, while in the manga, they were apparently still in it when it was destroyed, [[spoiler:and Ikaruga is later brought BackFromTheDead as a Historia]], confirming their deaths
* In the ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' manga, [[spoiler: Shinji Matou]] lives compared to his VN and Anime counterpart (Excluding the Unlimited Blade Works route where he lives).
* [[spoiler:Raoh]] in the ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' OVA.
* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** Shou Tucker died in the manga very early, while he survives way past into the anime beyond the time of his death [[spoiler:and makes it to the finale. Albeit considering his ultimate fate is being turned into a deranged and twisted chimera, one could say [[FateWorseThanDeath death would have been kinder]]]].
** There are a few subversions, such as Basque Grand's death being given a passing mention in the manga (he wouldn't be shown in person until a later flashback), but in the 2003 anime, he gets some characterization and dies onscreen. Then in ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Brotherhood]]'', he doesn't get the same characterization, but dies onscreen and goes down fighting. Likewise, Marta survives the attack on Greed's base that killed her in the manga, but is killed by Bradley a few episodes later--in fact, she is killed in the ''exact'' same manner as the manga (stabbed while hiding inside [[AnimatedArmor Alphonse]]), whereas the other chimeras had their deaths changed from Bradley to Amestrian soldiers.
* The pivotal scene of the ''Manga/{{Fuuka}}'' manga is that of the titular character being hit by a truck and killed, driving her boyfriend, the protagonist, into a HeroicBSOD followed by some vital CharacterDevelopment. In the anime, the truck narrowly misses her instead. WordOfGod has given three reasons for the change: they didn't want the anime to have a DownerEnding; they didn't think they could adequately portray the effects of Fuuka's death within the remaining two episodes; and the crew members ''really'' wanted to see her survive.
* ''[[Manga/{{Gantz}} Gantz O]]'' has a unique case with Anzu, who dies in the same place as she did in the manga, being ressurected at the end of the movie instead of the end of the Italy arc much later on.
* By the end of the ''Manga/GetterRobo Go'' manga, Gai has been assimilated by the Shin Getter Robo, Kei has been rendered comatose after suffering severe brain damage, and Go, Ryouma and Tahir have [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificed their lives]] to stop the Dinosaur Empire once and for all. In the ''Getter Robo Armageddon'' OVA series, it's Benkei and Hayato who sacrifice themselves alongside Ryouma, while Go, Kei and Gai all survive the final battle intact. [[AdaptedOut Tahir, meanwhile, doesn't appear at all]].
* In ''Manga/{{Grenadier}}'', Koto (a secondary character) is killed by the BigBad (and fuels Rushuna's revenge against him). She survives in the anime.
* ''Anime/GrimmsFairyTaleClassics'':
** The stepmother in "Literature/BrotherAndSister" has her power broken and ends up wandering the woods in a daze, but she doesn't get [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]].
** The older sisters in "Literature/{{Bearskin}}". In the original story, reduced to envy, they commit suicide and the Devil take their souls. Here they are clearly upset when they find out what they lost, but they don't actually kill themselves.
* ''Manga/{{Ikkitousen}}'' heads towards KnightOfCerebus territory later on with several characters in the series killed off, but the anime held dear to the cast, keeping them all alive. With the exception of [[spoiler:Ryofu and Ukitsu]], that is.
* ''Anime/InazumaElevenAres'': Due to being meant to be an AlternateContinuity where "aliens never attacked the earth", one of the things that change in ''Ares'' compared to the original series is that Kira Hiroto, whose death is the main reason why the whole alien project happened in the first place, remains alive. He also takes a [[YouDontLookLikeYou completely different appearance]], ItMakesSenseInContext why. Fubuki Atsuya is also spared of the avalanche accident which killed him in the original timeline.
* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', Nena is introduced as a beautiful young Indian girl, but actually turns out to be a fat, middle aged white woman who had used her Stand to kill the girl in question and steal her identity. In the OVA, Nena actually ''is'' the young Indian girl, as she's [[AdaptationalHeroism not evil]] and has no Stand powers in this continuity.
* The 60s anime of ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'' is the only edition of the original story that doesn't have the title character killed off.
* The manga adaptation of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'' spared [[BetaTestBaddie Repliku]] from his heart-wrenching fate, but not his angst, and it played it for ''comedy!'' Poor kid can't catch a break, eh?
* ''Manga/KingdomHeartsII'':
** Jafar survives the events of Agrabah instead of blowing up, but he is now eternally trapped in his lamp in a sealed off concrete box in the dungeon.
** {{Subverted|Trope}} with Demyx. He never shows up to the Battle of the 1000 Heartless to fight Sora like in the game, but he gets killed off later when they fight in The World That Never Was.
* ''Anime/LesMiserablesShojoCosette'' mostly respects the deaths of the original book, but a few characters were spared, including [[spoiler:Madame Thenardier, Gavroche and Javert. Some fans weren't very happy in the case of the latter, since ''all the build-up'' to his suicide is still retained, and then he just decides against it at the last minute for no good reason.]]
* Subverted in the case of Alcyone in ''Anime/MagicKnightRayearth''. She dies due to wounds inflicted by Umi in the manga, but in the anime she survives them and hangs around until almost the end, where she vanishes after being rejected by Zagato yet again. But then came ''[=MKR=] 2''... where she ends up BrainwashedAndCrazy thanks to Debonair. And when her brainwashing is undone, she spends some time as an EmptyShell... and ''then'' she's killed by Debonair.
** Emmeraude dies in the original saga, but lives in ''Anime/RayearthOVA''.
* The 3rd PSP game version of ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' does this to [[spoiler: Michael]] who ends OnlyMostlyDead twice in the UN Spacy route. But [[TheyKilledKenny They Killed]] [[spoiler: Alto]] instead! Those Bastards!
** Bit of an ongoing theme due to his popularity. [[spoiler:Even the movie version spared him]].
* In the ''Manga/MaiOtome'' manga, [[spoiler:Erstin Ho]] survives.
* ''Anime/MegaloBox'' is a retelling of ''Manga/AshitaNoJoe'' rather than an adaptation, but [[spoiler:both its Joe and its version of Tooru Rikiishi, Yuri, survive to the end of the show.]]
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'':
** Icelina Eschonbach in the film version.
** As is M'Quve, but he later gets killed off in the manga ''Char's Deleted Affair: Portrait of a Young Comet''.
** Ramba Ral survives in the novelization, where he is a bodyguard instead of a Mobile Suit pilot and never meets Amuro.
* In a ''Gundam Evolve'' short set in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'', Quess Paraya (and by extension Chan Agi) are spared their deaths and Amuro interferes with Quess' rampage and is able to give her a Newtype-fueled CooldownHug.
* Thanks to the film only loosely adapting roughly the first quarter of the then unfinished manga, both Yupa and Teto are still alive at the end of the anime of ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind''.
* Satsuki and Nanami, two minor characters in ''Manga/{{Needless}}'' who were gutted alive by Mio, were only humiliated in the anime.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'' also has a minor case early on during Buggy's introduction. When one of Buggy mistakenly believes that one of his crew is insulting his nose, he snaps and proceeds to blow the guy to smithereens with a cannonball. In the anime, Buggy is initially going to do the same thing, but manages to be persuaded in letting him live.
* Though it's not strictly a ''death'', the Team Rocket organization in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' remains active well into the modern seasons, unlike every other evil team that appears. In the games, Team Rocket is disbanded at the end of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', and after brief revivals in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'', they never appear again outside of remakes.
* The title character in ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'', which is a loose adaptation of "Literature/TheLittleMermaid".
* The [[spoiler:[[CloningBlues second]] Rei Ayanami]] still pulls a HeroicSacrifice in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' and ends up being swallowed alive by the EldritchAbomination she was fighting - This time, however, her love interest [[spoiler: and half-brother... sorta]] Shinji [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome rips her directly out of the bastard]] and saves her life. [[spoiler: The third movie then reveals that she survived, but is [[AndIMustScream trapped inside the core of Unit-01]] alongside the soul of Shinji's mother]].
** While the character didn't die in [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion the original anime]], [[spoiler: Touji Suzuhara is saved from piloting Unit-03[=/=]Bardiel, which horribly crippled him. Instead Asuka was the test pilot, and "only" lost an eye.]] He did die in the manga despite not doing so in the anime, so ''Rebuild'' spares him that in general. The 3rd movie in the series apparently subverts this with everything indicating that he died anyway [[spoiler:when the Third Impact wiped out most of humanity before being stopped]].
** In the manga [[spoiler: Asuka survives her battle with SEELE's Evas, and the entirety of humanity is shown restored once the Human Instrumentality Project is averted.]] On the whole, the manga finishes on a ''much'' more optimistic note than ''End of Evangelion''.
** The AlternateUniverse series ''[[Manga/NeonGenesisEvangelionCampusApocalypse Campus Apocalypse]]'' has a far more optimistic ending. [[spoiler: Gendo and Yui]] are the only real casualties among the human characters, and the ending sees [[spoiler: Shinji, Rei and Asuka happily returning to a normal life]].
*** Makoto and Cecilia, the two halves of the Angel Israfel, also survive and are implied to also be living out a peaceful existence in Italy.
** There is at least one ''Evangelion'' LicensedGame where you can save Kaworu Nagisa. He pilots Unit-04, which arguably also falls under this trope.
* Ultimately subverted in ''Anime/RomeoXJuliet''. The series toys with the idea of the two defying the show's ForegoneConclusion, but in the end kills them off anyway.
** Played straighter with the series's renditions of [[spoiler: Lady Montague (Portia), Tybalt, Mercutio and Count Paris ([[GenderFlip Hermione]]).]]
* Professor Tomoe in ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' was killed in the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]], but saved in the [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]] (where he's just possessed). Since the next storyline required having Sailors Uranus and Neptune raising his daughter, he was quickly PutOnABus at the start of the next season.
** Likewise in the original anime, this also happens to Jadeite, the Ayakashi Sisters, Mimete, the Amazon Trio (sort of...they become souls/dreams/some sort of spiritual light and go to Elysian rather than die outright), Queen Nehelenia and Sailor Galaxia. All of them are either purified (the Ayakashi Sisters and the Amazon Trio), trapped in a FateWorseThanDeath (Jadeite and Mimete), or brought to {{Heel Face Turn}}s by [[MessianicArchetype Sailor Moon]] (Queen Nehelenia and Sailor Galaxia).
** [[spoiler: Prince Diamond]] dies in the manga ''and'' the anime, but lives in the [[Theatre/SeraMyu Musicals]].
** Nephrite in the live action show ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon''.
** Episode 3 of ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'' (which is [[TruerToTheText more accurate to the original manga]] bar a SettingUpdate) spares Jadeite from being immolated by Sailor Mars, instead having him teleport away. Episode 5 spares Nephrite from Sailor Jupiter's wrath, teleporting away before being obliterated by her Jupiter Thunder attack. [[AvertedTrope They still die later though]], in a variation of RedemptionEqualsDeath. They just last longer than they did in the manga.
** Another ''Crystal'' example. In the manga, Endymion apparently (the artwork is kind of unclear) disintegrates Motoki's friend Endou [[KillAndReplace in order to steal his identity]]. In ''Crystal'', he merely brainwashes Endou and makes him go away, which still allows Endymion to impersonate him.
* ''Anime/SakuraWarsTV'': Ayame Fujieda survives the show, mainly because, unlike the game series, she doesn't make a FaceHeelTurn.
* The Village Elder and Sanai in ''Anime/SamuraiSeven''. Subverted with Heihachi. Surprising fans of [[Film.SevenSamurai the original movie]], he was spared from being the first samurai to die, but he finally meets his end in episode 25.
* While averted in the original Japanese version, the English dub of ''Anime/SonicX'' made it looked like this occured. In the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' games Maria Robotnik is consistently a PosthumousCharacter. In the English dub of the anime Maria is just described as having "taken away". It's never stated what happened to her afterwards or where she is fifty years later so it possibly was a DeadlyEuphemism, however most fans consider it the English dub censoring Maria's death.
* Taroumaru in the ''Manga/SchoolLive'' manga is a one-shomt character, a puppy bitten by a zombie in a flashback who Megu-nee had to kick out. In the anime he appears chronologically later but is there from episode 1. He never even met Miki in the manga. [[spoiler:Later subverted when a zombified Megu-nee bites him]].
* Scheris and Kimishima both die in the ''Anime/{{Scryed}}'' anime, but survive in its manga adaptation.
* Lori and Loru die in the original ''Anime/MazingerZ'' manga and ''Anime/{{Mazinkaiser}}'', but survive in ''Anime/ShinMazinger''.
* Duclis, a tiger-like creature from ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' has two completely different backstories and fates in the novel and anime; in the anime, he's the friend and assistant to the prince [[BrattyHalfPint Pokota]] who goes on a massive RoaringRampageOfRevenge in the name of their kingdom with the help of Zanaffar, a great beast. Despite all the chaos that occurs, he manages to survive, and flees. In the LightNovel series, he's a member of a cult that worships the world's almighty BigBad, Shabranigdo, and he, along with almost all of the other members of the cult, winds up getting killed by Lina and her party.
** And in a twisted meta-version of this trope, the eighth novel has [[CreepyChild Fibrizo]] the demonic lord only imprison Lina's companions and threaten their lives, which triggers Lina's second use of the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Giga Slave.]] This is a far cry from the anime season it was based on, in which Fibrizo [[YourSoulIsMine crushes the physical embodiments of the life forces]] of Lina's party members ''before'' imprisoning them.
* ''Manga/SoulEater'':
** By the time the anime had ended, several characters had already died in the manga after the point where the anime diverged. In the anime, [[spoiler:Arachne]] still died, but in a very different way, and all the others lived to the very end of the anime:
*** In both the manga and anime the Flying Dutchman is shown [[WeWillMeetAgain swearing to get revenge for his defeat]] after the battle on the Nidhogg. The manga had a mini-arc where he comes back and is killed by Blair; it was the first storyline of the manga that the anime did not adapt at all.
*** [[spoiler:Joe Buttataki]] was killed in the manga [[spoiler:by Justin, because Joe found out he was a mole.]] No such thing happened in the anime, and his role in general was completely different.
*** In the manga, [[spoiler:Mifune]] died moments after losing his last fight with [[spoiler:Black Star]]. In the anime, he still lost, but his injuries were OnlyAFleshWound and he instead surrenders.
*** In the manga, [[spoiler:Mosquito]] tries to kill Noah, but is [[CurbstompBattle easily defeated and killed himself]]. In the anime, Noah [[AdaptedOut was never introduced]] because his storyline in the manga had just started and [[spoiler:Mosquito]] was shown in the credits to have survived his final battle.
** A significantly larger number of characters fit into this trope retroactively, as they were alive in the manga when the anime was produced, survived to the end of the anime, then later died in the manga:
*** Near the end of the anime, [[spoiler:Giriko]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere abandons Arachnophobia]] for [[WeHaveReserves firing their weapons even though it might hit him.]] In the manga, he stayed loyal to them, continuing to fight the DWMA to [[AvengingTheVillain avenge]] [[spoiler:Arachne]], which eventually leads to his death.
*** [[spoiler:Medusa]] in the anime is a possible example. While she appeared to have died near the end of the anime, the end credits for the last episode show [[spoiler:her snake form]], implying she survived. When she later died in the manga, nothing from then on would even hint otherwise.
*** A minor example is Granny the reception attendant. In the manga, she helped fighting alongside with Kid during the battle on the Moon showing how tough she is. Unfortunately, she gets killed by [[spoiler:Justin Law]]. In the anime, she had a much smaller role and we only saw her face in a ContinuityCameo. It's unsure if she's still around at the end of the anime.
*** In the anime [[spoiler:Justin]] turns out to be exactly what he appears, and lives. In the manga, we find out [[spoiler:he's really evil (as the first part of the entry implies)]] and he later dies fighting the DWMA.
*** In the manga it's revealed [[spoiler:Kid unlocking his full power and becoming the next Grim Reaper]] will cause [[spoiler:the previous reaper]] to die, which happens shortly thereafter. Said event does not happen in the course of the anime, and given the anime was made before said revelation it's unknown if it would have the same result.
*** [[spoiler:Crona and Ragnarok]] end the anime alive and well, having [[spoiler:ended their HeelFaceRevolvingDoor on the side of the DWMA.]] [[spoiler:In the manga, if they technically ''died'' is highly debatable[[labelnote:spoiler]]Crona's body was left trapped inside Asura, who, in turn was encased in mad blood. What happened to Ragnarok [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse is even less clear]]; he went through the same process as Crona but we don't see the effect and either way he may have been effectively rendered non-sentient a while before.[[/labelnote]] and depends whether you interpret that Maka will make good on her promise to rescue Crona at manga's end or whether they will stay trapped [[RedemptionEqualsDeath for the remainder of human history.]] If nothing else, Crona and Ragnarok were spared the fate of becoming trapped alongside Asura for [[RedemptionEqualsAffliction an indeterminate length of time.]]]]
* In the movie compilation of ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'', the mutiny of Yasu (Sparks) and several other crew members who wish to stay on Iscandar is omitted, meaning that they naturally don't die in the film version.
* Chun-Li's father is still alive (albeit hospitalized and in a coma) the last time we see him in ''Anime/StreetFighterIIV''.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia: {{The Anim|eOfTheGame}}ation'' is ''extremely'' {{compressed|Adaptation}} due to having to fit forty hours of gameplay into ten episodes' worth of anime screentime, leading them to combine the Dragons' Nest and Rodyle's Human Ranch into the same encounter. Since it takes place ''in'' the Dragons' Nest and not underwater, this has the effect of nullifying any need for [[MauveShirt Botta]] to make a HeroicSacrifice.
* The second ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' movie doesn't kill off the MauveShirt members of the Gurren gang (specifically, Jorgun, Balinbow, Kidd, Iraak, Zorthy, and Makken), re-drawing them into the scenes that occur afterwards.
** Everyone who died in the show survives in the HighSchoolAU manga, and yes, that includes Kamina. [[LargeHam His]] interaction with [[TheIngenue Nia]] has to be seen to be believed.
* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'''s BigGood Ichiryu's battle with Midora initially has the same outcome in both the manga and anime...until the manga kills Ichiryu off via a Blue Nitro after Midora spares him.
* ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'' depicts Prowl as being alive and well, as does ''Anime/TransformersVictory'' with Wheeljack, despite both those characters dying in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie''. This may be due to the latter's delayed Japanese release (it came out after ''Victory'' in 1989). A retcon decades later would explain this; Prowl and Wheeljack ''did'' die, but were replaced by doppelgangers from an alternate universe.
* In the ''Manga/{{Trigun}} Maximum'' manga, the character Descartes (a boomerang-wielding thug who [[CanonImmigrant originally appeared in the anime]]) winds up being impaled on his own weapon by Grey the Nine-Lives. As he never appears in the anime again after his debut, it can assumed that in that version he survived.
* In ''VisualNovel/TriangleHeart3SweetSongsForever'', Shirou Takamachi was killed while working as a bodyguard before Nanoha was born. While the incident that killed him still occurred in ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'', it happened several years later and he was merely hospitalized for a few months.
** In ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaINNOCENT'', [[spoiler:Precia, Alicia, Linith, Reinforce Eins, Quint, Due, Granz, Clyde, and Tiida]] are all alive and well (although the last two never actually appear on screen).
** ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaDetonation'' changes the scene in ''[[VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable The Gears of Destiny]]'' where Stern and Levi [[BequeathedPower transfer all their powers to Dearche]]. Rather than lose their physical forms, they instead [[spoiler:[[AdaptationSpeciesChange revert to being cats]].]]
* [[spoiler: The Dragonslayers]] in the movie's adaptation of ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne''.
** [[spoiler: Same thing with Nariya and Eriya, who are {{demoted to extra}}s in the movie]].
* In ''Anime/UmaMusume'', the 1998 Tenno Sho is adapted with a less tragic outcome. In the anime, Silence Suzuka breaks her leg mid-race and ends up hospitalized with what may be a CareerEndingInjury. The real horse was not so fortunate, and had to be euthanized due to the severity of his injuries. As such, it's a LighterAndSofter version of what can happen to race horses.
* ''Manga/VinlandSaga'' bases its backstory on ''Literature/TheIcelandicSagas'', especially ''Literature/TheSagaOfTheJomsvikings''. In said saga, the Jomsviking band is destroyed at the end, while in ''Vinland Saga'' the band is still present and active some twenty years later.
* In ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'', Sven luckily survived through the series thanks to [[EnsembleDarkhorse his character's popularity]] with the audience and due to the broadcast standards at the time (which [[SarcasmMode includes wonderful tropes]] like NeverSayDie and that all deaths must be portrayed as a DisneyDeath). Sven's counterpart in the original ''Anime/GoLion'' series was killed off six episodes in and then replaced by a BackupTwin, who was also later killed.
** This has carried over to ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'', as Shirogane survived the entire first season and is ([[EnsembleCast arguably]]) the main character in this continuity. However, this doesn't stop him from disappearing... a lot. Only for season 6 to reveal that he died back in the season 2 finale with his spirit living inside the Black Lion.
* A one-episode character of ''Manga/{{xxxHOLiC}}'' who's a pathological liar dies as a result of being unable to break her bad habit after Yuko gives her a ring (which gets dirtier the more she lies), but in the anime version she lives and [[AnAesop learns a lesson from it.]]
* ''Manga/YuGiOh [[Anime/YuGiOh Duel Monsters]]'':
** Pegasus J. Crawford; after his defeat, Evil Bakura [[EyeScream plucks out his]] [[ClingyMacGuffin Millennium Eye.]] In the manga, this kills him. In the anime, it merely knocks him out and he is almost immediately PutOnABus as his henchmen get him to a hospital to recover. Not only does he survive in time for the filler arcs and movies, but he is also a major RecurringCharacter in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''.
** "Bandit" Keith Howard is another example. In the manga, he threatens Pegasus with a knife demanding the prize money. Pegasus uses his Millenium Eye to create a Penalty Game by turning Keith's hand into a gun and "killing" himself with it. In the anime, Keith's uses a gun instead for the same reason only to fall into the trapdoor and into the ocean. He returns later under the control of Marik. In the ''Manga/YuGiOhR'' manga, Keith is also revived by Tenma.
** Gozaburo Kaiba was a character who still perished, but at a much later date. In the manga, he was a PosthumousCharacter who had been DrivenToSuicide after Seto wrested control of [=KaibaCorp=]. In the anime, he suffered a heart attack instead, but his mind was downloaded into his special virtual world, where he was later the BigBad of the Virtual Nightmare Arc; at the end of which, [[spoiler:he and the other villains of that arc were deleted permanently when the Virtual World was destroyed]].
* In ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', a minor character named Sergio performs a HeroicSacrifice, risking his life to help Kiryu and his kids escape the slavery mines. After asking Kiryu to watch over his children, he falls into the abyss and is killed. But the English dub cuts the fall, and Jack later says that he was found alive.
* In ''[[Anime/YuGiOhARCV Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V]]'''s English dub, Sergey falls off the dueling track, and Jack says that they'll meet again, implying that Sergey's fall won't be lethal. In the original, Jack says no such thing as Sergey falls. The dub also cuts out Sergey's final fate: he ''does'' survive the fall, but is beaten to death by rioters soon after.
* [[spoiler:Genkai]] in ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' passes away in the last chapter of the manga, but lives until the end of the series in the anime ([[spoiler:ignoring her death and resurrection in the Dark Tournament saga]]).
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* In the manga adaption of ''Literature/{{Another}}'', [[spoiler:Akazawa Izumi]] does not die, despite dying in the original novel version and the anime adaptation.
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* ''Manga/AkameGaKill'' manga:
** In the manga Syura shows off his depravity by having Bol's wife and daughter raped and murdered. In the anime, he never meets them before he is killed. Also, the three village girls from a one-shot chapter are never raped and killed in the anime.
** Also in the anime version, Run survives to the end of the series and lives to become the chief of security for the capitol. Whereas in the manga, he died and had his corpse remade into one of Kurome's PeoplePuppets.
* Many {{Historical Domain Character}}s were spared in ''LightNovel/TheAmbitionOfOdaNobuna'', including Imagawa Yoshimoto (died 1560) and Saitou Dousan (died 1556), which are still there in the 1570s. Subverted by several {{Composite Character}}s; their namesakes may have died for a long time, but other characters that the characters were based on were still alive; such as Saitou Yoshitatsu--he died in 1561, but he's a composite together with his son Tatsuoki, which was still alive at the time.
* The ''Manga/{{Area 88}}'' OVA ends with [[BigBad Satoru Kanzaki]] arrested for tax evasion. In the manga, he gets away and antagonizes the heroes until he's finally shot down by Shin Kazama.
* In the adaptation of "The Greatest Robot in the World" storyline from the 2003 ''Anime/AstroBoy'' anime, Pluto doesn't kill Epsilon (the {{Gender Flip}}ped version of Photar), despite killing her equivalent in the original manga and previous TV shows.
* Pretty much the case for ''Manga/AttackOnTitanJuniorHigh'', since every character who's died in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' is perfectly fine in this alternate universe, except for Frieda Reiss, who appeared in the eighth episode as a ghost.
* Seiji the painter from the anime adaptation of ''Manga/BarefootGen'', in the manga he died not long after Gen and Ryuta's visit, in the anime he survived and Gen and Ryuta promise to visit him in the future.
* In the ''Disney/BigHero6'' manga [[spoiler: Tadashi doesn't die in a fire, he gets sucked into a portal while trying to help Robert Callaghan bring Abigail back. Hiro believes that he could be alive in AnotherDimension but Baymax confirmed that he wasn't in the AcidTripDimension where they found Abigail.]]
* In ''Manga/BlackLagoon'''s manga, the final fight between Grey Fox and Roberta becomes a MookHorrorShow with almost all of the former being completely wiped out and Roberta escaping without a scratch (physically, at least). In the anime, the battle is much less one-sided: Grey Fox suffers several casualties but much less (and some are shown to be still-alive stretcher cases), and Roberta [[AnArmAndALeg is almost killed in return]] to the degree that the plan to save Grey Fox in the manga becomes more about saving Roberta in the anime.
* The ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' anime was cancelled before it reached the final manga arc, (mercifully) sparing [[spoiler:Chojiro Sasakibe and Shigekuni Yamamoto]]. [[spoiler:Retsu Unohana]], [[spoiler:Nemu Kurotsuchi]], [[spoiler:Jushiro Ukitake]] and [[spoiler:Sajin Komamura]] were also spared by the cancellation.
* ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'':
** In the manga, Kana Ushiro dies alongside all of the kids. In the anime, however, Ushiro and Youko team up to save her and undo her contract with Zearth; Youko manages to take her place as a pilot ''and'' kill Koyemshi, thus Kana survives the game.
** Also Captain Seki, whose HeroicSacrifice doesn't happen in the anime.
* In ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'' Fou-lu either is absorbed into or absorbs Ryu in a SplitPersonalityMerge in the original video game (depending on which of the MultipleEndings one ultimately selects). The manga adaptation went for a ThirdOptionAdaptation [[spoiler:which not only managed to incorporate ''both'' the Bad and Good Ends but ultimately ended with a failed SplitPersonalityMerge and Fou-lu's ultimate survival (if in a BroughtDownToNormal state).]]
** There is quite a lot of WildMassGuessing as to why this is the case - one persistent rumour is that the manga was deliberately set up for either a video-game or manga sequel to ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'' (especially considering that Capcom is talking of reviving the franchise and directed the ComicBookAdaptation in the first place). This would fit with the other, rather extensive changes made to the manga's end - which, up till that point, largely followed the plot of the game save for some AllThereInTheManual stuff from the artbook that was included in the manga.
* In the ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' manga, out of the 24 Claymores sent to fight the Awakened beings of the North only ''seven'' survive, which is even more than expected as it was always considered a SuicideMission by the [[NebulousEvilOrganization Organization]]. In the anime GeckoEnding however it seems that the body count is much lower, as many Claymores are seen moving around after the battle, only six are seen dying and three more seems to have died offscreen, leaving 15 Claymores alive at the end of the day.
* ''Franchise/CodeGeass'':
** In the spinoff ''Manga/CodeGeassNightmareOfNunnally'', both [[spoiler:Lelouch and Euphemia]] survive, though the former starts WalkingTheEarth while the latter becomes the new Empress of Britannia.
** [[spoiler: Euphemia]] also survives in several video games, such as in the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' franchise.
** [[spoiler:Lelouch]] also survives in ''Suzaku of the Counterattack'', another manga spinoff.
** In Manga/CodeGeassTalesOfAnAlternateShogunate, [[spoiler:everyone, except possibly for Jeremiah Gottwald]], survives.
** In ''Manga/CodeGeassOzTheReflection'', Marika Soresi survives the Second Battle of Tokyo ([[RetCanon though the story is meant to be canon]]).
** [[spoiler: The second recap movie of the [[CompilationMovie compilation film]] trilogy has Shirley survive her encounter with Rolo.]]
** Double Subverted with the announced sequel. [[spoiler: Even with Lelouch confirmed as alive, the other versions of him above are still spared his canon fate.]]
* All the characters who die in ''Anime/CrossAnge'' live in [[HighSchoolAU Cross Ange: Tenshi to Ryuu no Gakuen]][[spoiler:, even Embryo.]]
* In the original ''Anime/CuteyHoney'' manga, Panther Claw's attack on Honey's school was a bloodbath, killing everyone except Honey (including Alphonne and Miharu, whose deaths were PlayedForLaughs). In the anime version, the only casualty was [[spoiler:Natsuko]].
** In most versions of the series, the plot is kicked off by the murder of Dr. Kisaragi, and Honey fights Panther Claw to avenge him. In ''Cutey Honey Flash'', the {{Shoujo|Demographic}} version, the plot is kicked off by the ''kidnapping'' of Dr. Kisaragi, and Honey fights Panther Claw to rescue him.
* Happens in several of the ''Manga/DeathNote'' spinoffs:
** Soichiro, Ukita, Demegawa, and Misa in the LiveActionAdaptation. In the novelization of ''L Change The World'', it is vaguely suggested that Mello might exist in the movie continuity. If he does, then he falls under the trope too.
** L subverts this in the live action movies. He avoids being killed by Rem, but only because he wrote his own name and time of death in the Death Note. He outlives Light, but dies 20 days later (23 days from when he wrote his name in).
** Though neither avoids death per se, Light and Sayu have their fates softened and avoided, respectively - Sayu isn't kidnapped, and thus doesn't go temporarily insane, and Light dies [[DiedInYourArmsTonight in Soichiro's arms]] rather than alone, though ''he's'' still batshit insane to the end, much to [[TheWoobie Soichiro's]] dismay. Oh, and just to rub salt in the wound, Light dies begging Soichiro to believe that he acted as Kira to put justice, which Soichiro had [[FreudianExcuse taught him about since childhood]], into effect.
** Soichiro is also not shown to die in the second rewrite special due to the Mafia subplot being excised from it... leading to plotholes regarding his absence as well as how Light was able to acquire Mello's true name.
** In [[Series/DeathNote the TV drama]], Mikami and Misa, both of whom die in the manga and anime, [[AmnesiacsAreInnocent lose their memories of using the Death Note]] and survive the ending. Rem and Watari also survive, due to Mikami being the one to kill L instead.
* An odd variant is done in the anime adaptation of ''Manga/DetectiveConan''. In the manga, the criminal is shot and killed [[spoiler:and later turns out to be the sister of a character who joins the cast]]. In the anime she survives when Conan steps in, however she's just a random criminal. [[spoiler: And then this is subverted... a whole episode is created to fix the potential plot-holes, and the woman actually dies [[DiedInYourArmsTonight in Conan's arms.]] And soon her sister shows up and joins the cast...]]
* ''Manga/DetectiveSchoolQ''
** Since the anime adaptation ends after adapting half of the manga's total volumes, a certain character who dies at the end of the series is still alive: [[spoiler:Dan Morihiko]].
** Maya Asabuki, one of the "Collector's Murder Case" victims, dies from a stab wound in the manga. In the anime, she is [[TapOnTheHead hit with a vase inside her dorm room]] and though it's believed that she ''was'' killed, it's shown that she survived and had to go FakingTheDead for a short while, so the culprit wouldn't attack her again.
* Miki is famously killed and dismembered near the end of ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'', but in the 1972 anime adaptation, she survives and gets a happy ending.
* Technically done in ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersLeapingThroughTime''; During the [[spoiler: MassiveMultiplayerCrossover]] finale, [[spoiler:Grani]] turns up to help Dukemon; he even [[spoiler:combines with him, giving rise to Dukemon: Crimson Mode. This only happened in their own series, Anime/DigimonTamers, because Grani was about to die and he gave up his life energy to help his friend Guilmon]]. They even [[spoiler: uncombine]] afterwards.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** Bardock is a very odd subversion in the 3-chapter spin-off manga, ''History of Bardock''. He survives Frieza's attack, but winds up going back in time. The manga gives no indication that he ever returns to his own time, meaning that he'll die long-before any of the events in the official series.
** A minor case, but during the epilogue to the Cell Saga that showcases Future Trunks finally saving his time, there's a moment where Androids 17 and 18 are shot at by a vengeful old man whose family was previously killed by the duo and is currently trapped under some debris. 17 decides to kill him, but Trunks then arrives and manages to destroy him and his sister in a CurbStompBattle and is then shown helping the man out. In the original manga, 17 kills the man moments before Trunks arrives on the scene.
** The animé could be said to have done this to Captain Ginyu as well - while the manga (and ''Dragon Ball Z Kai'') [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse ignores him after he becomes a frog]] (implying he died when Namek exploded), the animé has him sent to Earth, where he causes trouble even after the Frieza Saga before [[spoiler: he dies following Kid Buu's destruction of Earth...that is, until...]]
*** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' ends up sparing Tagoma, one of Frieza's men in ''Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF'', during its adaptation of said movie. Here, he ends up becoming a cold and ruthless monster after Frieza uses him as his personal four-month long punching bag. Upon arriving on Earth, he proves to be quite the fighter, even keeping the likes of Gohan and Trunks on his toes... [[spoiler:then ''Ginyu'' returns and ''[[GrandTheftMe steals his body]]''.]]
** Broly is presumed dead at the end of ''Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan'' and KilledOffForReal at the end of ''Anime/DragonBallZBrolySecondComing'', and his clone likewise does not live through ''Anime/DragonBallZBioBroly''. Broly has ''much'' better luck in ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'', where Cheelai uses the Dragon Balls to teleport him off planet before [[spoiler:Gogeta]] can turn him into a smoking pile of ash, and he is last seen retiring peacefully back to planet Vampa.
* In ''VideoGame/EternalSonata'', [[spoiler:Waltz and his agents]] all survive. [[spoiler:Claves]] doesn't [[AdaptedOut even appear]].
* In the Anime adaptation of ''Manga/ElfenLied'', Lucy most likely survives the officers shooting at her but she loses one of her horns in the process, but in the original manga, She faces actual death by melting from overusage of her vectors during several battles.
* In the anime version of ''Manga/FairyTail'', Trinity Raven is last seen escaping from the Tower of Heaven, while in the manga, they were apparently still in it when it was destroyed, [[spoiler:and Ikaruga is later brought BackFromTheDead as a Historia]], confirming their deaths
* In the ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' manga, [[spoiler: Shinji Matou]] lives compared to his VN and Anime counterpart (Excluding the Unlimited Blade Works route where he lives).
* [[spoiler:Raoh]] in the ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' OVA.
* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** Shou Tucker died in the manga very early, while he survives way past into the anime beyond the time of his death [[spoiler:and makes it to the finale. Albeit considering his ultimate fate is being turned into a deranged and twisted chimera, one could say [[FateWorseThanDeath death would have been kinder]]]].
** There are a few subversions, such as Basque Grand's death being given a passing mention in the manga (he wouldn't be shown in person until a later flashback), but in the 2003 anime, he gets some characterization and dies onscreen. Then in ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Brotherhood]]'', he doesn't get the same characterization, but dies onscreen and goes down fighting. Likewise, Marta survives the attack on Greed's base that killed her in the manga, but is killed by Bradley a few episodes later--in fact, she is killed in the ''exact'' same manner as the manga (stabbed while hiding inside [[AnimatedArmor Alphonse]]), whereas the other chimeras had their deaths changed from Bradley to Amestrian soldiers.
* The pivotal scene of the ''Manga/{{Fuuka}}'' manga is that of the titular character being hit by a truck and killed, driving her boyfriend, the protagonist, into a HeroicBSOD followed by some vital CharacterDevelopment. In the anime, the truck narrowly misses her instead. WordOfGod has given three reasons for the change: they didn't want the anime to have a DownerEnding; they didn't think they could adequately portray the effects of Fuuka's death within the remaining two episodes; and the crew members ''really'' wanted to see her survive.
* ''[[Manga/{{Gantz}} Gantz O]]'' has a unique case with Anzu, who dies in the same place as she did in the manga, being ressurected at the end of the movie instead of the end of the Italy arc much later on.
* By the end of the ''Manga/GetterRobo Go'' manga, Gai has been assimilated by the Shin Getter Robo, Kei has been rendered comatose after suffering severe brain damage, and Go, Ryouma and Tahir have [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificed their lives]] to stop the Dinosaur Empire once and for all. In the ''Getter Robo Armageddon'' OVA series, it's Benkei and Hayato who sacrifice themselves alongside Ryouma, while Go, Kei and Gai all survive the final battle intact. [[AdaptedOut Tahir, meanwhile, doesn't appear at all]].
* In ''Manga/{{Grenadier}}'', Koto (a secondary character) is killed by the BigBad (and fuels Rushuna's revenge against him). She survives in the anime.
* ''Anime/GrimmsFairyTaleClassics'':
** The stepmother in "Literature/BrotherAndSister" has her power broken and ends up wandering the woods in a daze, but she doesn't get [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]].
** The older sisters in "Literature/{{Bearskin}}". In the original story, reduced to envy, they commit suicide and the Devil take their souls. Here they are clearly upset when they find out what they lost, but they don't actually kill themselves.
* ''Manga/{{Ikkitousen}}'' heads towards KnightOfCerebus territory later on with several characters in the series killed off, but the anime held dear to the cast, keeping them all alive. With the exception of [[spoiler:Ryofu and Ukitsu]], that is.
* ''Anime/InazumaElevenAres'': Due to being meant to be an AlternateContinuity where "aliens never attacked the earth", one of the things that change in ''Ares'' compared to the original series is that Kira Hiroto, whose death is the main reason why the whole alien project happened in the first place, remains alive. He also takes a [[YouDontLookLikeYou completely different appearance]], ItMakesSenseInContext why. Fubuki Atsuya is also spared of the avalanche accident which killed him in the original timeline.
* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', Nena is introduced as a beautiful young Indian girl, but actually turns out to be a fat, middle aged white woman who had used her Stand to kill the girl in question and steal her identity. In the OVA, Nena actually ''is'' the young Indian girl, as she's [[AdaptationalHeroism not evil]] and has no Stand powers in this continuity.
* The 60s anime of ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'' is the only edition of the original story that doesn't have the title character killed off.
* The manga adaptation of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'' spared [[BetaTestBaddie Repliku]] from his heart-wrenching fate, but not his angst, and it played it for ''comedy!'' Poor kid can't catch a break, eh?
* ''Manga/KingdomHeartsII'':
** Jafar survives the events of Agrabah instead of blowing up, but he is now eternally trapped in his lamp in a sealed off concrete box in the dungeon.
** {{Subverted|Trope}} with Demyx. He never shows up to the Battle of the 1000 Heartless to fight Sora like in the game, but he gets killed off later when they fight in The World That Never Was.
* ''Anime/LesMiserablesShojoCosette'' mostly respects the deaths of the original book, but a few characters were spared, including [[spoiler:Madame Thenardier, Gavroche and Javert. Some fans weren't very happy in the case of the latter, since ''all the build-up'' to his suicide is still retained, and then he just decides against it at the last minute for no good reason.]]
* Subverted in the case of Alcyone in ''Anime/MagicKnightRayearth''. She dies due to wounds inflicted by Umi in the manga, but in the anime she survives them and hangs around until almost the end, where she vanishes after being rejected by Zagato yet again. But then came ''[=MKR=] 2''... where she ends up BrainwashedAndCrazy thanks to Debonair. And when her brainwashing is undone, she spends some time as an EmptyShell... and ''then'' she's killed by Debonair.
** Emmeraude dies in the original saga, but lives in ''Anime/RayearthOVA''.
* The 3rd PSP game version of ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' does this to [[spoiler: Michael]] who ends OnlyMostlyDead twice in the UN Spacy route. But [[TheyKilledKenny They Killed]] [[spoiler: Alto]] instead! Those Bastards!
** Bit of an ongoing theme due to his popularity. [[spoiler:Even the movie version spared him]].
* In the ''Manga/MaiOtome'' manga, [[spoiler:Erstin Ho]] survives.
* ''Anime/MegaloBox'' is a retelling of ''Manga/AshitaNoJoe'' rather than an adaptation, but [[spoiler:both its Joe and its version of Tooru Rikiishi, Yuri, survive to the end of the show.]]
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'':
** Icelina Eschonbach in the film version.
** As is M'Quve, but he later gets killed off in the manga ''Char's Deleted Affair: Portrait of a Young Comet''.
** Ramba Ral survives in the novelization, where he is a bodyguard instead of a Mobile Suit pilot and never meets Amuro.
* In a ''Gundam Evolve'' short set in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'', Quess Paraya (and by extension Chan Agi) are spared their deaths and Amuro interferes with Quess' rampage and is able to give her a Newtype-fueled CooldownHug.
* Thanks to the film only loosely adapting roughly the first quarter of the then unfinished manga, both Yupa and Teto are still alive at the end of the anime of ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind''.
* Satsuki and Nanami, two minor characters in ''Manga/{{Needless}}'' who were gutted alive by Mio, were only humiliated in the anime.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'' also has a minor case early on during Buggy's introduction. When one of Buggy mistakenly believes that one of his crew is insulting his nose, he snaps and proceeds to blow the guy to smithereens with a cannonball. In the anime, Buggy is initially going to do the same thing, but manages to be persuaded in letting him live.
* Though it's not strictly a ''death'', the Team Rocket organization in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' remains active well into the modern seasons, unlike every other evil team that appears. In the games, Team Rocket is disbanded at the end of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', and after brief revivals in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'', they never appear again outside of remakes.
* The title character in ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'', which is a loose adaptation of "Literature/TheLittleMermaid".
* The [[spoiler:[[CloningBlues second]] Rei Ayanami]] still pulls a HeroicSacrifice in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' and ends up being swallowed alive by the EldritchAbomination she was fighting - This time, however, her love interest [[spoiler: and half-brother... sorta]] Shinji [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome rips her directly out of the bastard]] and saves her life. [[spoiler: The third movie then reveals that she survived, but is [[AndIMustScream trapped inside the core of Unit-01]] alongside the soul of Shinji's mother]].
** While the character didn't die in [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion the original anime]], [[spoiler: Touji Suzuhara is saved from piloting Unit-03[=/=]Bardiel, which horribly crippled him. Instead Asuka was the test pilot, and "only" lost an eye.]] He did die in the manga despite not doing so in the anime, so ''Rebuild'' spares him that in general. The 3rd movie in the series apparently subverts this with everything indicating that he died anyway [[spoiler:when the Third Impact wiped out most of humanity before being stopped]].
** In the manga [[spoiler: Asuka survives her battle with SEELE's Evas, and the entirety of humanity is shown restored once the Human Instrumentality Project is averted.]] On the whole, the manga finishes on a ''much'' more optimistic note than ''End of Evangelion''.
** The AlternateUniverse series ''[[Manga/NeonGenesisEvangelionCampusApocalypse Campus Apocalypse]]'' has a far more optimistic ending. [[spoiler: Gendo and Yui]] are the only real casualties among the human characters, and the ending sees [[spoiler: Shinji, Rei and Asuka happily returning to a normal life]].
*** Makoto and Cecilia, the two halves of the Angel Israfel, also survive and are implied to also be living out a peaceful existence in Italy.
** There is at least one ''Evangelion'' LicensedGame where you can save Kaworu Nagisa. He pilots Unit-04, which arguably also falls under this trope.
* Ultimately subverted in ''Anime/RomeoXJuliet''. The series toys with the idea of the two defying the show's ForegoneConclusion, but in the end kills them off anyway.
** Played straighter with the series's renditions of [[spoiler: Lady Montague (Portia), Tybalt, Mercutio and Count Paris ([[GenderFlip Hermione]]).]]
* Professor Tomoe in ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' was killed in the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]], but saved in the [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]] (where he's just possessed). Since the next storyline required having Sailors Uranus and Neptune raising his daughter, he was quickly PutOnABus at the start of the next season.
** Likewise in the original anime, this also happens to Jadeite, the Ayakashi Sisters, Mimete, the Amazon Trio (sort of...they become souls/dreams/some sort of spiritual light and go to Elysian rather than die outright), Queen Nehelenia and Sailor Galaxia. All of them are either purified (the Ayakashi Sisters and the Amazon Trio), trapped in a FateWorseThanDeath (Jadeite and Mimete), or brought to {{Heel Face Turn}}s by [[MessianicArchetype Sailor Moon]] (Queen Nehelenia and Sailor Galaxia).
** [[spoiler: Prince Diamond]] dies in the manga ''and'' the anime, but lives in the [[Theatre/SeraMyu Musicals]].
** Nephrite in the live action show ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon''.
** Episode 3 of ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'' (which is [[TruerToTheText more accurate to the original manga]] bar a SettingUpdate) spares Jadeite from being immolated by Sailor Mars, instead having him teleport away. Episode 5 spares Nephrite from Sailor Jupiter's wrath, teleporting away before being obliterated by her Jupiter Thunder attack. [[AvertedTrope They still die later though]], in a variation of RedemptionEqualsDeath. They just last longer than they did in the manga.
** Another ''Crystal'' example. In the manga, Endymion apparently (the artwork is kind of unclear) disintegrates Motoki's friend Endou [[KillAndReplace in order to steal his identity]]. In ''Crystal'', he merely brainwashes Endou and makes him go away, which still allows Endymion to impersonate him.
* ''Anime/SakuraWarsTV'': Ayame Fujieda survives the show, mainly because, unlike the game series, she doesn't make a FaceHeelTurn.
* The Village Elder and Sanai in ''Anime/SamuraiSeven''. Subverted with Heihachi. Surprising fans of [[Film.SevenSamurai the original movie]], he was spared from being the first samurai to die, but he finally meets his end in episode 25.
* While averted in the original Japanese version, the English dub of ''Anime/SonicX'' made it looked like this occured. In the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' games Maria Robotnik is consistently a PosthumousCharacter. In the English dub of the anime Maria is just described as having "taken away". It's never stated what happened to her afterwards or where she is fifty years later so it possibly was a DeadlyEuphemism, however most fans consider it the English dub censoring Maria's death.
* Taroumaru in the ''Manga/SchoolLive'' manga is a one-shomt character, a puppy bitten by a zombie in a flashback who Megu-nee had to kick out. In the anime he appears chronologically later but is there from episode 1. He never even met Miki in the manga. [[spoiler:Later subverted when a zombified Megu-nee bites him]].
* Scheris and Kimishima both die in the ''Anime/{{Scryed}}'' anime, but survive in its manga adaptation.
* Lori and Loru die in the original ''Anime/MazingerZ'' manga and ''Anime/{{Mazinkaiser}}'', but survive in ''Anime/ShinMazinger''.
* Duclis, a tiger-like creature from ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' has two completely different backstories and fates in the novel and anime; in the anime, he's the friend and assistant to the prince [[BrattyHalfPint Pokota]] who goes on a massive RoaringRampageOfRevenge in the name of their kingdom with the help of Zanaffar, a great beast. Despite all the chaos that occurs, he manages to survive, and flees. In the LightNovel series, he's a member of a cult that worships the world's almighty BigBad, Shabranigdo, and he, along with almost all of the other members of the cult, winds up getting killed by Lina and her party.
** And in a twisted meta-version of this trope, the eighth novel has [[CreepyChild Fibrizo]] the demonic lord only imprison Lina's companions and threaten their lives, which triggers Lina's second use of the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Giga Slave.]] This is a far cry from the anime season it was based on, in which Fibrizo [[YourSoulIsMine crushes the physical embodiments of the life forces]] of Lina's party members ''before'' imprisoning them.
* ''Manga/SoulEater'':
** By the time the anime had ended, several characters had already died in the manga after the point where the anime diverged. In the anime, [[spoiler:Arachne]] still died, but in a very different way, and all the others lived to the very end of the anime:
*** In both the manga and anime the Flying Dutchman is shown [[WeWillMeetAgain swearing to get revenge for his defeat]] after the battle on the Nidhogg. The manga had a mini-arc where he comes back and is killed by Blair; it was the first storyline of the manga that the anime did not adapt at all.
*** [[spoiler:Joe Buttataki]] was killed in the manga [[spoiler:by Justin, because Joe found out he was a mole.]] No such thing happened in the anime, and his role in general was completely different.
*** In the manga, [[spoiler:Mifune]] died moments after losing his last fight with [[spoiler:Black Star]]. In the anime, he still lost, but his injuries were OnlyAFleshWound and he instead surrenders.
*** In the manga, [[spoiler:Mosquito]] tries to kill Noah, but is [[CurbstompBattle easily defeated and killed himself]]. In the anime, Noah [[AdaptedOut was never introduced]] because his storyline in the manga had just started and [[spoiler:Mosquito]] was shown in the credits to have survived his final battle.
** A significantly larger number of characters fit into this trope retroactively, as they were alive in the manga when the anime was produced, survived to the end of the anime, then later died in the manga:
*** Near the end of the anime, [[spoiler:Giriko]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere abandons Arachnophobia]] for [[WeHaveReserves firing their weapons even though it might hit him.]] In the manga, he stayed loyal to them, continuing to fight the DWMA to [[AvengingTheVillain avenge]] [[spoiler:Arachne]], which eventually leads to his death.
*** [[spoiler:Medusa]] in the anime is a possible example. While she appeared to have died near the end of the anime, the end credits for the last episode show [[spoiler:her snake form]], implying she survived. When she later died in the manga, nothing from then on would even hint otherwise.
*** A minor example is Granny the reception attendant. In the manga, she helped fighting alongside with Kid during the battle on the Moon showing how tough she is. Unfortunately, she gets killed by [[spoiler:Justin Law]]. In the anime, she had a much smaller role and we only saw her face in a ContinuityCameo. It's unsure if she's still around at the end of the anime.
*** In the anime [[spoiler:Justin]] turns out to be exactly what he appears, and lives. In the manga, we find out [[spoiler:he's really evil (as the first part of the entry implies)]] and he later dies fighting the DWMA.
*** In the manga it's revealed [[spoiler:Kid unlocking his full power and becoming the next Grim Reaper]] will cause [[spoiler:the previous reaper]] to die, which happens shortly thereafter. Said event does not happen in the course of the anime, and given the anime was made before said revelation it's unknown if it would have the same result.
*** [[spoiler:Crona and Ragnarok]] end the anime alive and well, having [[spoiler:ended their HeelFaceRevolvingDoor on the side of the DWMA.]] [[spoiler:In the manga, if they technically ''died'' is highly debatable[[labelnote:spoiler]]Crona's body was left trapped inside Asura, who, in turn was encased in mad blood. What happened to Ragnarok [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse is even less clear]]; he went through the same process as Crona but we don't see the effect and either way he may have been effectively rendered non-sentient a while before.[[/labelnote]] and depends whether you interpret that Maka will make good on her promise to rescue Crona at manga's end or whether they will stay trapped [[RedemptionEqualsDeath for the remainder of human history.]] If nothing else, Crona and Ragnarok were spared the fate of becoming trapped alongside Asura for [[RedemptionEqualsAffliction an indeterminate length of time.]]]]
* In the movie compilation of ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'', the mutiny of Yasu (Sparks) and several other crew members who wish to stay on Iscandar is omitted, meaning that they naturally don't die in the film version.
* Chun-Li's father is still alive (albeit hospitalized and in a coma) the last time we see him in ''Anime/StreetFighterIIV''.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia: {{The Anim|eOfTheGame}}ation'' is ''extremely'' {{compressed|Adaptation}} due to having to fit forty hours of gameplay into ten episodes' worth of anime screentime, leading them to combine the Dragons' Nest and Rodyle's Human Ranch into the same encounter. Since it takes place ''in'' the Dragons' Nest and not underwater, this has the effect of nullifying any need for [[MauveShirt Botta]] to make a HeroicSacrifice.
* The second ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' movie doesn't kill off the MauveShirt members of the Gurren gang (specifically, Jorgun, Balinbow, Kidd, Iraak, Zorthy, and Makken), re-drawing them into the scenes that occur afterwards.
** Everyone who died in the show survives in the HighSchoolAU manga, and yes, that includes Kamina. [[LargeHam His]] interaction with [[TheIngenue Nia]] has to be seen to be believed.
* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'''s BigGood Ichiryu's battle with Midora initially has the same outcome in both the manga and anime...until the manga kills Ichiryu off via a Blue Nitro after Midora spares him.
* ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'' depicts Prowl as being alive and well, as does ''Anime/TransformersVictory'' with Wheeljack, despite both those characters dying in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie''. This may be due to the latter's delayed Japanese release (it came out after ''Victory'' in 1989). A retcon decades later would explain this; Prowl and Wheeljack ''did'' die, but were replaced by doppelgangers from an alternate universe.
* In the ''Manga/{{Trigun}} Maximum'' manga, the character Descartes (a boomerang-wielding thug who [[CanonImmigrant originally appeared in the anime]]) winds up being impaled on his own weapon by Grey the Nine-Lives. As he never appears in the anime again after his debut, it can assumed that in that version he survived.
* In ''VisualNovel/TriangleHeart3SweetSongsForever'', Shirou Takamachi was killed while working as a bodyguard before Nanoha was born. While the incident that killed him still occurred in ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'', it happened several years later and he was merely hospitalized for a few months.
** In ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaINNOCENT'', [[spoiler:Precia, Alicia, Linith, Reinforce Eins, Quint, Due, Granz, Clyde, and Tiida]] are all alive and well (although the last two never actually appear on screen).
** ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaDetonation'' changes the scene in ''[[VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable The Gears of Destiny]]'' where Stern and Levi [[BequeathedPower transfer all their powers to Dearche]]. Rather than lose their physical forms, they instead [[spoiler:[[AdaptationSpeciesChange revert to being cats]].]]
* [[spoiler: The Dragonslayers]] in the movie's adaptation of ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne''.
** [[spoiler: Same thing with Nariya and Eriya, who are {{demoted to extra}}s in the movie]].
* In ''Anime/UmaMusume'', the 1998 Tenno Sho is adapted with a less tragic outcome. In the anime, Silence Suzuka breaks her leg mid-race and ends up hospitalized with what may be a CareerEndingInjury. The real horse was not so fortunate, and had to be euthanized due to the severity of his injuries. As such, it's a LighterAndSofter version of what can happen to race horses.
* ''Manga/VinlandSaga'' bases its backstory on ''Literature/TheIcelandicSagas'', especially ''Literature/TheSagaOfTheJomsvikings''. In said saga, the Jomsviking band is destroyed at the end, while in ''Vinland Saga'' the band is still present and active some twenty years later.
* In ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'', Sven luckily survived through the series thanks to [[EnsembleDarkhorse his character's popularity]] with the audience and due to the broadcast standards at the time (which [[SarcasmMode includes wonderful tropes]] like NeverSayDie and that all deaths must be portrayed as a DisneyDeath). Sven's counterpart in the original ''Anime/GoLion'' series was killed off six episodes in and then replaced by a BackupTwin, who was also later killed.
** This has carried over to ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'', as Shirogane survived the entire first season and is ([[EnsembleCast arguably]]) the main character in this continuity. However, this doesn't stop him from disappearing... a lot. Only for season 6 to reveal that he died back in the season 2 finale with his spirit living inside the Black Lion.
* A one-episode character of ''Manga/{{xxxHOLiC}}'' who's a pathological liar dies as a result of being unable to break her bad habit after Yuko gives her a ring (which gets dirtier the more she lies), but in the anime version she lives and [[AnAesop learns a lesson from it.]]
* ''Manga/YuGiOh [[Anime/YuGiOh Duel Monsters]]'':
** Pegasus J. Crawford; after his defeat, Evil Bakura [[EyeScream plucks out his]] [[ClingyMacGuffin Millennium Eye.]] In the manga, this kills him. In the anime, it merely knocks him out and he is almost immediately PutOnABus as his henchmen get him to a hospital to recover. Not only does he survive in time for the filler arcs and movies, but he is also a major RecurringCharacter in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''.
** "Bandit" Keith Howard is another example. In the manga, he threatens Pegasus with a knife demanding the prize money. Pegasus uses his Millenium Eye to create a Penalty Game by turning Keith's hand into a gun and "killing" himself with it. In the anime, Keith's uses a gun instead for the same reason only to fall into the trapdoor and into the ocean. He returns later under the control of Marik. In the ''Manga/YuGiOhR'' manga, Keith is also revived by Tenma.
** Gozaburo Kaiba was a character who still perished, but at a much later date. In the manga, he was a PosthumousCharacter who had been DrivenToSuicide after Seto wrested control of [=KaibaCorp=]. In the anime, he suffered a heart attack instead, but his mind was downloaded into his special virtual world, where he was later the BigBad of the Virtual Nightmare Arc; at the end of which, [[spoiler:he and the other villains of that arc were deleted permanently when the Virtual World was destroyed]].
* In ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', a minor character named Sergio performs a HeroicSacrifice, risking his life to help Kiryu and his kids escape the slavery mines. After asking Kiryu to watch over his children, he falls into the abyss and is killed. But the English dub cuts the fall, and Jack later says that he was found alive.
* In ''[[Anime/YuGiOhARCV Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V]]'''s English dub, Sergey falls off the dueling track, and Jack says that they'll meet again, implying that Sergey's fall won't be lethal. In the original, Jack says no such thing as Sergey falls. The dub also cuts out Sergey's final fate: he ''does'' survive the fall, but is beaten to death by rioters soon after.
* [[spoiler:Genkai]] in ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' passes away in the last chapter of the manga, but lives until the end of the series in the anime ([[spoiler:ignoring her death and resurrection in the Dark Tournament saga]]).
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* In the manga adaption of ''Literature/{{Another}}'', [[spoiler:Akazawa Izumi]] does not die, despite dying in the original novel version and the anime adaptation.
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* ''Manga/AkameGaKill'' manga:
** In the manga Syura shows off his depravity by having Bol's wife and daughter raped and murdered. In the anime, he never meets them before he is killed. Also, the three village girls from a one-shot chapter are never raped and killed in the anime.
** Also in the anime version, Run survives to the end of the series and lives to become the chief of security for the capitol. Whereas in the manga, he died and had his corpse remade into one of Kurome's PeoplePuppets.
* Many {{Historical Domain Character}}s were spared in ''LightNovel/TheAmbitionOfOdaNobuna'', including Imagawa Yoshimoto (died 1560) and Saitou Dousan (died 1556), which are still there in the 1570s. Subverted by several {{Composite Character}}s; their namesakes may have died for a long time, but other characters that the characters were based on were still alive; such as Saitou Yoshitatsu--he died in 1561, but he's a composite together with his son Tatsuoki, which was still alive at the time.
* The ''Manga/{{Area 88}}'' OVA ends with [[BigBad Satoru Kanzaki]] arrested for tax evasion. In the manga, he gets away and antagonizes the heroes until he's finally shot down by Shin Kazama.
* In the adaptation of "The Greatest Robot in the World" storyline from the 2003 ''Anime/AstroBoy'' anime, Pluto doesn't kill Epsilon (the {{Gender Flip}}ped version of Photar), despite killing her equivalent in the original manga and previous TV shows.
* Pretty much the case for ''Manga/AttackOnTitanJuniorHigh'', since every character who's died in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' is perfectly fine in this alternate universe, except for Frieda Reiss, who appeared in the eighth episode as a ghost.
* Seiji the painter from the anime adaptation of ''Manga/BarefootGen'', in the manga he died not long after Gen and Ryuta's visit, in the anime he survived and Gen and Ryuta promise to visit him in the future.
* In the ''Disney/BigHero6'' manga [[spoiler: Tadashi doesn't die in a fire, he gets sucked into a portal while trying to help Robert Callaghan bring Abigail back. Hiro believes that he could be alive in AnotherDimension but Baymax confirmed that he wasn't in the AcidTripDimension where they found Abigail.]]
* In ''Manga/BlackLagoon'''s manga, the final fight between Grey Fox and Roberta becomes a MookHorrorShow with almost all of the former being completely wiped out and Roberta escaping without a scratch (physically, at least). In the anime, the battle is much less one-sided: Grey Fox suffers several casualties but much less (and some are shown to be still-alive stretcher cases), and Roberta [[AnArmAndALeg is almost killed in return]] to the degree that the plan to save Grey Fox in the manga becomes more about saving Roberta in the anime.
* The ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' anime was cancelled before it reached the final manga arc, (mercifully) sparing [[spoiler:Chojiro Sasakibe and Shigekuni Yamamoto]]. [[spoiler:Retsu Unohana]], [[spoiler:Nemu Kurotsuchi]], [[spoiler:Jushiro Ukitake]] and [[spoiler:Sajin Komamura]] were also spared by the cancellation.
* ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'':
** In the manga, Kana Ushiro dies alongside all of the kids. In the anime, however, Ushiro and Youko team up to save her and undo her contract with Zearth; Youko manages to take her place as a pilot ''and'' kill Koyemshi, thus Kana survives the game.
** Also Captain Seki, whose HeroicSacrifice doesn't happen in the anime.
* In ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'' Fou-lu either is absorbed into or absorbs Ryu in a SplitPersonalityMerge in the original video game (depending on which of the MultipleEndings one ultimately selects). The manga adaptation went for a ThirdOptionAdaptation [[spoiler:which not only managed to incorporate ''both'' the Bad and Good Ends but ultimately ended with a failed SplitPersonalityMerge and Fou-lu's ultimate survival (if in a BroughtDownToNormal state).]]
** There is quite a lot of WildMassGuessing as to why this is the case - one persistent rumour is that the manga was deliberately set up for either a video-game or manga sequel to ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'' (especially considering that Capcom is talking of reviving the franchise and directed the ComicBookAdaptation in the first place). This would fit with the other, rather extensive changes made to the manga's end - which, up till that point, largely followed the plot of the game save for some AllThereInTheManual stuff from the artbook that was included in the manga.
* In the ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' manga, out of the 24 Claymores sent to fight the Awakened beings of the North only ''seven'' survive, which is even more than expected as it was always considered a SuicideMission by the [[NebulousEvilOrganization Organization]]. In the anime GeckoEnding however it seems that the body count is much lower, as many Claymores are seen moving around after the battle, only six are seen dying and three more seems to have died offscreen, leaving 15 Claymores alive at the end of the day.
* ''Franchise/CodeGeass'':
** In the spinoff ''Manga/CodeGeassNightmareOfNunnally'', both [[spoiler:Lelouch and Euphemia]] survive, though the former starts WalkingTheEarth while the latter becomes the new Empress of Britannia.
** [[spoiler: Euphemia]] also survives in several video games, such as in the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' franchise.
** [[spoiler:Lelouch]] also survives in ''Suzaku of the Counterattack'', another manga spinoff.
** In Manga/CodeGeassTalesOfAnAlternateShogunate, [[spoiler:everyone, except possibly for Jeremiah Gottwald]], survives.
** In ''Manga/CodeGeassOzTheReflection'', Marika Soresi survives the Second Battle of Tokyo ([[RetCanon though the story is meant to be canon]]).
** [[spoiler: The second recap movie of the [[CompilationMovie compilation film]] trilogy has Shirley survive her encounter with Rolo.]]
** Double Subverted with the announced sequel. [[spoiler: Even with Lelouch confirmed as alive, the other versions of him above are still spared his canon fate.]]
* All the characters who die in ''Anime/CrossAnge'' live in [[HighSchoolAU Cross Ange: Tenshi to Ryuu no Gakuen]][[spoiler:, even Embryo.]]
* In the original ''Anime/CuteyHoney'' manga, Panther Claw's attack on Honey's school was a bloodbath, killing everyone except Honey (including Alphonne and Miharu, whose deaths were PlayedForLaughs). In the anime version, the only casualty was [[spoiler:Natsuko]].
** In most versions of the series, the plot is kicked off by the murder of Dr. Kisaragi, and Honey fights Panther Claw to avenge him. In ''Cutey Honey Flash'', the {{Shoujo|Demographic}} version, the plot is kicked off by the ''kidnapping'' of Dr. Kisaragi, and Honey fights Panther Claw to rescue him.
* Happens in several of the ''Manga/DeathNote'' spinoffs:
** Soichiro, Ukita, Demegawa, and Misa in the LiveActionAdaptation. In the novelization of ''L Change The World'', it is vaguely suggested that Mello might exist in the movie continuity. If he does, then he falls under the trope too.
** L subverts this in the live action movies. He avoids being killed by Rem, but only because he wrote his own name and time of death in the Death Note. He outlives Light, but dies 20 days later (23 days from when he wrote his name in).
** Though neither avoids death per se, Light and Sayu have their fates softened and avoided, respectively - Sayu isn't kidnapped, and thus doesn't go temporarily insane, and Light dies [[DiedInYourArmsTonight in Soichiro's arms]] rather than alone, though ''he's'' still batshit insane to the end, much to [[TheWoobie Soichiro's]] dismay. Oh, and just to rub salt in the wound, Light dies begging Soichiro to believe that he acted as Kira to put justice, which Soichiro had [[FreudianExcuse taught him about since childhood]], into effect.
** Soichiro is also not shown to die in the second rewrite special due to the Mafia subplot being excised from it... leading to plotholes regarding his absence as well as how Light was able to acquire Mello's true name.
** In [[Series/DeathNote the TV drama]], Mikami and Misa, both of whom die in the manga and anime, [[AmnesiacsAreInnocent lose their memories of using the Death Note]] and survive the ending. Rem and Watari also survive, due to Mikami being the one to kill L instead.
* An odd variant is done in the anime adaptation of ''Manga/DetectiveConan''. In the manga, the criminal is shot and killed [[spoiler:and later turns out to be the sister of a character who joins the cast]]. In the anime she survives when Conan steps in, however she's just a random criminal. [[spoiler: And then this is subverted... a whole episode is created to fix the potential plot-holes, and the woman actually dies [[DiedInYourArmsTonight in Conan's arms.]] And soon her sister shows up and joins the cast...]]
* ''Manga/DetectiveSchoolQ''
** Since the anime adaptation ends after adapting half of the manga's total volumes, a certain character who dies at the end of the series is still alive: [[spoiler:Dan Morihiko]].
** Maya Asabuki, one of the "Collector's Murder Case" victims, dies from a stab wound in the manga. In the anime, she is [[TapOnTheHead hit with a vase inside her dorm room]] and though it's believed that she ''was'' killed, it's shown that she survived and had to go FakingTheDead for a short while, so the culprit wouldn't attack her again.
* Miki is famously killed and dismembered near the end of ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'', but in the 1972 anime adaptation, she survives and gets a happy ending.
* Technically done in ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersLeapingThroughTime''; During the [[spoiler: MassiveMultiplayerCrossover]] finale, [[spoiler:Grani]] turns up to help Dukemon; he even [[spoiler:combines with him, giving rise to Dukemon: Crimson Mode. This only happened in their own series, Anime/DigimonTamers, because Grani was about to die and he gave up his life energy to help his friend Guilmon]]. They even [[spoiler: uncombine]] afterwards.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** Bardock is a very odd subversion in the 3-chapter spin-off manga, ''History of Bardock''. He survives Frieza's attack, but winds up going back in time. The manga gives no indication that he ever returns to his own time, meaning that he'll die long-before any of the events in the official series.
** A minor case, but during the epilogue to the Cell Saga that showcases Future Trunks finally saving his time, there's a moment where Androids 17 and 18 are shot at by a vengeful old man whose family was previously killed by the duo and is currently trapped under some debris. 17 decides to kill him, but Trunks then arrives and manages to destroy him and his sister in a CurbStompBattle and is then shown helping the man out. In the original manga, 17 kills the man moments before Trunks arrives on the scene.
** The animé could be said to have done this to Captain Ginyu as well - while the manga (and ''Dragon Ball Z Kai'') [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse ignores him after he becomes a frog]] (implying he died when Namek exploded), the animé has him sent to Earth, where he causes trouble even after the Frieza Saga before [[spoiler: he dies following Kid Buu's destruction of Earth...that is, until...]]
*** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' ends up sparing Tagoma, one of Frieza's men in ''Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF'', during its adaptation of said movie. Here, he ends up becoming a cold and ruthless monster after Frieza uses him as his personal four-month long punching bag. Upon arriving on Earth, he proves to be quite the fighter, even keeping the likes of Gohan and Trunks on his toes... [[spoiler:then ''Ginyu'' returns and ''[[GrandTheftMe steals his body]]''.]]
** Broly is presumed dead at the end of ''Anime/DragonBallZBrolyTheLegendarySuperSaiyan'' and KilledOffForReal at the end of ''Anime/DragonBallZBrolySecondComing'', and his clone likewise does not live through ''Anime/DragonBallZBioBroly''. Broly has ''much'' better luck in ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'', where Cheelai uses the Dragon Balls to teleport him off planet before [[spoiler:Gogeta]] can turn him into a smoking pile of ash, and he is last seen retiring peacefully back to planet Vampa.
* In ''VideoGame/EternalSonata'', [[spoiler:Waltz and his agents]] all survive. [[spoiler:Claves]] doesn't [[AdaptedOut even appear]].
* In the Anime adaptation of ''Manga/ElfenLied'', Lucy most likely survives the officers shooting at her but she loses one of her horns in the process, but in the original manga, She faces actual death by melting from overusage of her vectors during several battles.
* In the anime version of ''Manga/FairyTail'', Trinity Raven is last seen escaping from the Tower of Heaven, while in the manga, they were apparently still in it when it was destroyed, [[spoiler:and Ikaruga is later brought BackFromTheDead as a Historia]], confirming their deaths
* In the ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' manga, [[spoiler: Shinji Matou]] lives compared to his VN and Anime counterpart (Excluding the Unlimited Blade Works route where he lives).
* [[spoiler:Raoh]] in the ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' OVA.
* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** Shou Tucker died in the manga very early, while he survives way past into the anime beyond the time of his death [[spoiler:and makes it to the finale. Albeit considering his ultimate fate is being turned into a deranged and twisted chimera, one could say [[FateWorseThanDeath death would have been kinder]]]].
** There are a few subversions, such as Basque Grand's death being given a passing mention in the manga (he wouldn't be shown in person until a later flashback), but in the 2003 anime, he gets some characterization and dies onscreen. Then in ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Brotherhood]]'', he doesn't get the same characterization, but dies onscreen and goes down fighting. Likewise, Marta survives the attack on Greed's base that killed her in the manga, but is killed by Bradley a few episodes later--in fact, she is killed in the ''exact'' same manner as the manga (stabbed while hiding inside [[AnimatedArmor Alphonse]]), whereas the other chimeras had their deaths changed from Bradley to Amestrian soldiers.
* The pivotal scene of the ''Manga/{{Fuuka}}'' manga is that of the titular character being hit by a truck and killed, driving her boyfriend, the protagonist, into a HeroicBSOD followed by some vital CharacterDevelopment. In the anime, the truck narrowly misses her instead. WordOfGod has given three reasons for the change: they didn't want the anime to have a DownerEnding; they didn't think they could adequately portray the effects of Fuuka's death within the remaining two episodes; and the crew members ''really'' wanted to see her survive.
* ''[[Manga/{{Gantz}} Gantz O]]'' has a unique case with Anzu, who dies in the same place as she did in the manga, being ressurected at the end of the movie instead of the end of the Italy arc much later on.
* By the end of the ''Manga/GetterRobo Go'' manga, Gai has been assimilated by the Shin Getter Robo, Kei has been rendered comatose after suffering severe brain damage, and Go, Ryouma and Tahir have [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificed their lives]] to stop the Dinosaur Empire once and for all. In the ''Getter Robo Armageddon'' OVA series, it's Benkei and Hayato who sacrifice themselves alongside Ryouma, while Go, Kei and Gai all survive the final battle intact. [[AdaptedOut Tahir, meanwhile, doesn't appear at all]].
* In ''Manga/{{Grenadier}}'', Koto (a secondary character) is killed by the BigBad (and fuels Rushuna's revenge against him). She survives in the anime.
* ''Anime/GrimmsFairyTaleClassics'':
** The stepmother in "Literature/BrotherAndSister" has her power broken and ends up wandering the woods in a daze, but she doesn't get [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]].
** The older sisters in "Literature/{{Bearskin}}". In the original story, reduced to envy, they commit suicide and the Devil take their souls. Here they are clearly upset when they find out what they lost, but they don't actually kill themselves.
* ''Manga/{{Ikkitousen}}'' heads towards KnightOfCerebus territory later on with several characters in the series killed off, but the anime held dear to the cast, keeping them all alive. With the exception of [[spoiler:Ryofu and Ukitsu]], that is.
* ''Anime/InazumaElevenAres'': Due to being meant to be an AlternateContinuity where "aliens never attacked the earth", one of the things that change in ''Ares'' compared to the original series is that Kira Hiroto, whose death is the main reason why the whole alien project happened in the first place, remains alive. He also takes a [[YouDontLookLikeYou completely different appearance]], ItMakesSenseInContext why. Fubuki Atsuya is also spared of the avalanche accident which killed him in the original timeline.
* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', Nena is introduced as a beautiful young Indian girl, but actually turns out to be a fat, middle aged white woman who had used her Stand to kill the girl in question and steal her identity. In the OVA, Nena actually ''is'' the young Indian girl, as she's [[AdaptationalHeroism not evil]] and has no Stand powers in this continuity.
* The 60s anime of ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'' is the only edition of the original story that doesn't have the title character killed off.
* The manga adaptation of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'' spared [[BetaTestBaddie Repliku]] from his heart-wrenching fate, but not his angst, and it played it for ''comedy!'' Poor kid can't catch a break, eh?
* ''Manga/KingdomHeartsII'':
** Jafar survives the events of Agrabah instead of blowing up, but he is now eternally trapped in his lamp in a sealed off concrete box in the dungeon.
** {{Subverted|Trope}} with Demyx. He never shows up to the Battle of the 1000 Heartless to fight Sora like in the game, but he gets killed off later when they fight in The World That Never Was.
* ''Anime/LesMiserablesShojoCosette'' mostly respects the deaths of the original book, but a few characters were spared, including [[spoiler:Madame Thenardier, Gavroche and Javert. Some fans weren't very happy in the case of the latter, since ''all the build-up'' to his suicide is still retained, and then he just decides against it at the last minute for no good reason.]]
* Subverted in the case of Alcyone in ''Anime/MagicKnightRayearth''. She dies due to wounds inflicted by Umi in the manga, but in the anime she survives them and hangs around until almost the end, where she vanishes after being rejected by Zagato yet again. But then came ''[=MKR=] 2''... where she ends up BrainwashedAndCrazy thanks to Debonair. And when her brainwashing is undone, she spends some time as an EmptyShell... and ''then'' she's killed by Debonair.
** Emmeraude dies in the original saga, but lives in ''Anime/RayearthOVA''.
* The 3rd PSP game version of ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' does this to [[spoiler: Michael]] who ends OnlyMostlyDead twice in the UN Spacy route. But [[TheyKilledKenny They Killed]] [[spoiler: Alto]] instead! Those Bastards!
** Bit of an ongoing theme due to his popularity. [[spoiler:Even the movie version spared him]].
* In the ''Manga/MaiOtome'' manga, [[spoiler:Erstin Ho]] survives.
* ''Anime/MegaloBox'' is a retelling of ''Manga/AshitaNoJoe'' rather than an adaptation, but [[spoiler:both its Joe and its version of Tooru Rikiishi, Yuri, survive to the end of the show.]]
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'':
** Icelina Eschonbach in the film version.
** As is M'Quve, but he later gets killed off in the manga ''Char's Deleted Affair: Portrait of a Young Comet''.
** Ramba Ral survives in the novelization, where he is a bodyguard instead of a Mobile Suit pilot and never meets Amuro.
* In a ''Gundam Evolve'' short set in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'', Quess Paraya (and by extension Chan Agi) are spared their deaths and Amuro interferes with Quess' rampage and is able to give her a Newtype-fueled CooldownHug.
* Thanks to the film only loosely adapting roughly the first quarter of the then unfinished manga, both Yupa and Teto are still alive at the end of the anime of ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind''.
* Satsuki and Nanami, two minor characters in ''Manga/{{Needless}}'' who were gutted alive by Mio, were only humiliated in the anime.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'' also has a minor case early on during Buggy's introduction. When one of Buggy mistakenly believes that one of his crew is insulting his nose, he snaps and proceeds to blow the guy to smithereens with a cannonball. In the anime, Buggy is initially going to do the same thing, but manages to be persuaded in letting him live.
* Though it's not strictly a ''death'', the Team Rocket organization in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' remains active well into the modern seasons, unlike every other evil team that appears. In the games, Team Rocket is disbanded at the end of ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', and after brief revivals in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' and ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'', they never appear again outside of remakes.
* The title character in ''Anime/PonyoOnTheCliffByTheSea'', which is a loose adaptation of "Literature/TheLittleMermaid".
* The [[spoiler:[[CloningBlues second]] Rei Ayanami]] still pulls a HeroicSacrifice in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' and ends up being swallowed alive by the EldritchAbomination she was fighting - This time, however, her love interest [[spoiler: and half-brother... sorta]] Shinji [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome rips her directly out of the bastard]] and saves her life. [[spoiler: The third movie then reveals that she survived, but is [[AndIMustScream trapped inside the core of Unit-01]] alongside the soul of Shinji's mother]].
** While the character didn't die in [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion the original anime]], [[spoiler: Touji Suzuhara is saved from piloting Unit-03[=/=]Bardiel, which horribly crippled him. Instead Asuka was the test pilot, and "only" lost an eye.]] He did die in the manga despite not doing so in the anime, so ''Rebuild'' spares him that in general. The 3rd movie in the series apparently subverts this with everything indicating that he died anyway [[spoiler:when the Third Impact wiped out most of humanity before being stopped]].
** In the manga [[spoiler: Asuka survives her battle with SEELE's Evas, and the entirety of humanity is shown restored once the Human Instrumentality Project is averted.]] On the whole, the manga finishes on a ''much'' more optimistic note than ''End of Evangelion''.
** The AlternateUniverse series ''[[Manga/NeonGenesisEvangelionCampusApocalypse Campus Apocalypse]]'' has a far more optimistic ending. [[spoiler: Gendo and Yui]] are the only real casualties among the human characters, and the ending sees [[spoiler: Shinji, Rei and Asuka happily returning to a normal life]].
*** Makoto and Cecilia, the two halves of the Angel Israfel, also survive and are implied to also be living out a peaceful existence in Italy.
** There is at least one ''Evangelion'' LicensedGame where you can save Kaworu Nagisa. He pilots Unit-04, which arguably also falls under this trope.
* Ultimately subverted in ''Anime/RomeoXJuliet''. The series toys with the idea of the two defying the show's ForegoneConclusion, but in the end kills them off anyway.
** Played straighter with the series's renditions of [[spoiler: Lady Montague (Portia), Tybalt, Mercutio and Count Paris ([[GenderFlip Hermione]]).]]
* Professor Tomoe in ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' was killed in the [[Manga/SailorMoon manga]], but saved in the [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]] (where he's just possessed). Since the next storyline required having Sailors Uranus and Neptune raising his daughter, he was quickly PutOnABus at the start of the next season.
** Likewise in the original anime, this also happens to Jadeite, the Ayakashi Sisters, Mimete, the Amazon Trio (sort of...they become souls/dreams/some sort of spiritual light and go to Elysian rather than die outright), Queen Nehelenia and Sailor Galaxia. All of them are either purified (the Ayakashi Sisters and the Amazon Trio), trapped in a FateWorseThanDeath (Jadeite and Mimete), or brought to {{Heel Face Turn}}s by [[MessianicArchetype Sailor Moon]] (Queen Nehelenia and Sailor Galaxia).
** [[spoiler: Prince Diamond]] dies in the manga ''and'' the anime, but lives in the [[Theatre/SeraMyu Musicals]].
** Nephrite in the live action show ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon''.
** Episode 3 of ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'' (which is [[TruerToTheText more accurate to the original manga]] bar a SettingUpdate) spares Jadeite from being immolated by Sailor Mars, instead having him teleport away. Episode 5 spares Nephrite from Sailor Jupiter's wrath, teleporting away before being obliterated by her Jupiter Thunder attack. [[AvertedTrope They still die later though]], in a variation of RedemptionEqualsDeath. They just last longer than they did in the manga.
** Another ''Crystal'' example. In the manga, Endymion apparently (the artwork is kind of unclear) disintegrates Motoki's friend Endou [[KillAndReplace in order to steal his identity]]. In ''Crystal'', he merely brainwashes Endou and makes him go away, which still allows Endymion to impersonate him.
* ''Anime/SakuraWarsTV'': Ayame Fujieda survives the show, mainly because, unlike the game series, she doesn't make a FaceHeelTurn.
* The Village Elder and Sanai in ''Anime/SamuraiSeven''. Subverted with Heihachi. Surprising fans of [[Film.SevenSamurai the original movie]], he was spared from being the first samurai to die, but he finally meets his end in episode 25.
* While averted in the original Japanese version, the English dub of ''Anime/SonicX'' made it looked like this occured. In the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' games Maria Robotnik is consistently a PosthumousCharacter. In the English dub of the anime Maria is just described as having "taken away". It's never stated what happened to her afterwards or where she is fifty years later so it possibly was a DeadlyEuphemism, however most fans consider it the English dub censoring Maria's death.
* Taroumaru in the ''Manga/SchoolLive'' manga is a one-shomt character, a puppy bitten by a zombie in a flashback who Megu-nee had to kick out. In the anime he appears chronologically later but is there from episode 1. He never even met Miki in the manga. [[spoiler:Later subverted when a zombified Megu-nee bites him]].
* Scheris and Kimishima both die in the ''Anime/{{Scryed}}'' anime, but survive in its manga adaptation.
* Lori and Loru die in the original ''Anime/MazingerZ'' manga and ''Anime/{{Mazinkaiser}}'', but survive in ''Anime/ShinMazinger''.
* Duclis, a tiger-like creature from ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' has two completely different backstories and fates in the novel and anime; in the anime, he's the friend and assistant to the prince [[BrattyHalfPint Pokota]] who goes on a massive RoaringRampageOfRevenge in the name of their kingdom with the help of Zanaffar, a great beast. Despite all the chaos that occurs, he manages to survive, and flees. In the LightNovel series, he's a member of a cult that worships the world's almighty BigBad, Shabranigdo, and he, along with almost all of the other members of the cult, winds up getting killed by Lina and her party.
** And in a twisted meta-version of this trope, the eighth novel has [[CreepyChild Fibrizo]] the demonic lord only imprison Lina's companions and threaten their lives, which triggers Lina's second use of the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Giga Slave.]] This is a far cry from the anime season it was based on, in which Fibrizo [[YourSoulIsMine crushes the physical embodiments of the life forces]] of Lina's party members ''before'' imprisoning them.
* ''Manga/SoulEater'':
** By the time the anime had ended, several characters had already died in the manga after the point where the anime diverged. In the anime, [[spoiler:Arachne]] still died, but in a very different way, and all the others lived to the very end of the anime:
*** In both the manga and anime the Flying Dutchman is shown [[WeWillMeetAgain swearing to get revenge for his defeat]] after the battle on the Nidhogg. The manga had a mini-arc where he comes back and is killed by Blair; it was the first storyline of the manga that the anime did not adapt at all.
*** [[spoiler:Joe Buttataki]] was killed in the manga [[spoiler:by Justin, because Joe found out he was a mole.]] No such thing happened in the anime, and his role in general was completely different.
*** In the manga, [[spoiler:Mifune]] died moments after losing his last fight with [[spoiler:Black Star]]. In the anime, he still lost, but his injuries were OnlyAFleshWound and he instead surrenders.
*** In the manga, [[spoiler:Mosquito]] tries to kill Noah, but is [[CurbstompBattle easily defeated and killed himself]]. In the anime, Noah [[AdaptedOut was never introduced]] because his storyline in the manga had just started and [[spoiler:Mosquito]] was shown in the credits to have survived his final battle.
** A significantly larger number of characters fit into this trope retroactively, as they were alive in the manga when the anime was produced, survived to the end of the anime, then later died in the manga:
*** Near the end of the anime, [[spoiler:Giriko]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere abandons Arachnophobia]] for [[WeHaveReserves firing their weapons even though it might hit him.]] In the manga, he stayed loyal to them, continuing to fight the DWMA to [[AvengingTheVillain avenge]] [[spoiler:Arachne]], which eventually leads to his death.
*** [[spoiler:Medusa]] in the anime is a possible example. While she appeared to have died near the end of the anime, the end credits for the last episode show [[spoiler:her snake form]], implying she survived. When she later died in the manga, nothing from then on would even hint otherwise.
*** A minor example is Granny the reception attendant. In the manga, she helped fighting alongside with Kid during the battle on the Moon showing how tough she is. Unfortunately, she gets killed by [[spoiler:Justin Law]]. In the anime, she had a much smaller role and we only saw her face in a ContinuityCameo. It's unsure if she's still around at the end of the anime.
*** In the anime [[spoiler:Justin]] turns out to be exactly what he appears, and lives. In the manga, we find out [[spoiler:he's really evil (as the first part of the entry implies)]] and he later dies fighting the DWMA.
*** In the manga it's revealed [[spoiler:Kid unlocking his full power and becoming the next Grim Reaper]] will cause [[spoiler:the previous reaper]] to die, which happens shortly thereafter. Said event does not happen in the course of the anime, and given the anime was made before said revelation it's unknown if it would have the same result.
*** [[spoiler:Crona and Ragnarok]] end the anime alive and well, having [[spoiler:ended their HeelFaceRevolvingDoor on the side of the DWMA.]] [[spoiler:In the manga, if they technically ''died'' is highly debatable[[labelnote:spoiler]]Crona's body was left trapped inside Asura, who, in turn was encased in mad blood. What happened to Ragnarok [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse is even less clear]]; he went through the same process as Crona but we don't see the effect and either way he may have been effectively rendered non-sentient a while before.[[/labelnote]] and depends whether you interpret that Maka will make good on her promise to rescue Crona at manga's end or whether they will stay trapped [[RedemptionEqualsDeath for the remainder of human history.]] If nothing else, Crona and Ragnarok were spared the fate of becoming trapped alongside Asura for [[RedemptionEqualsAffliction an indeterminate length of time.]]]]
* In the movie compilation of ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'', the mutiny of Yasu (Sparks) and several other crew members who wish to stay on Iscandar is omitted, meaning that they naturally don't die in the film version.
* Chun-Li's father is still alive (albeit hospitalized and in a coma) the last time we see him in ''Anime/StreetFighterIIV''.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia: {{The Anim|eOfTheGame}}ation'' is ''extremely'' {{compressed|Adaptation}} due to having to fit forty hours of gameplay into ten episodes' worth of anime screentime, leading them to combine the Dragons' Nest and Rodyle's Human Ranch into the same encounter. Since it takes place ''in'' the Dragons' Nest and not underwater, this has the effect of nullifying any need for [[MauveShirt Botta]] to make a HeroicSacrifice.
* The second ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' movie doesn't kill off the MauveShirt members of the Gurren gang (specifically, Jorgun, Balinbow, Kidd, Iraak, Zorthy, and Makken), re-drawing them into the scenes that occur afterwards.
** Everyone who died in the show survives in the HighSchoolAU manga, and yes, that includes Kamina. [[LargeHam His]] interaction with [[TheIngenue Nia]] has to be seen to be believed.
* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'''s BigGood Ichiryu's battle with Midora initially has the same outcome in both the manga and anime...until the manga kills Ichiryu off via a Blue Nitro after Midora spares him.
* ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters'' depicts Prowl as being alive and well, as does ''Anime/TransformersVictory'' with Wheeljack, despite both those characters dying in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie''. This may be due to the latter's delayed Japanese release (it came out after ''Victory'' in 1989). A retcon decades later would explain this; Prowl and Wheeljack ''did'' die, but were replaced by doppelgangers from an alternate universe.
* In the ''Manga/{{Trigun}} Maximum'' manga, the character Descartes (a boomerang-wielding thug who [[CanonImmigrant originally appeared in the anime]]) winds up being impaled on his own weapon by Grey the Nine-Lives. As he never appears in the anime again after his debut, it can assumed that in that version he survived.
* In ''VisualNovel/TriangleHeart3SweetSongsForever'', Shirou Takamachi was killed while working as a bodyguard before Nanoha was born. While the incident that killed him still occurred in ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'', it happened several years later and he was merely hospitalized for a few months.
** In ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaINNOCENT'', [[spoiler:Precia, Alicia, Linith, Reinforce Eins, Quint, Due, Granz, Clyde, and Tiida]] are all alive and well (although the last two never actually appear on screen).
** ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaDetonation'' changes the scene in ''[[VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable The Gears of Destiny]]'' where Stern and Levi [[BequeathedPower transfer all their powers to Dearche]]. Rather than lose their physical forms, they instead [[spoiler:[[AdaptationSpeciesChange revert to being cats]].]]
* [[spoiler: The Dragonslayers]] in the movie's adaptation of ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne''.
** [[spoiler: Same thing with Nariya and Eriya, who are {{demoted to extra}}s in the movie]].
* In ''Anime/UmaMusume'', the 1998 Tenno Sho is adapted with a less tragic outcome. In the anime, Silence Suzuka breaks her leg mid-race and ends up hospitalized with what may be a CareerEndingInjury. The real horse was not so fortunate, and had to be euthanized due to the severity of his injuries. As such, it's a LighterAndSofter version of what can happen to race horses.
* ''Manga/VinlandSaga'' bases its backstory on ''Literature/TheIcelandicSagas'', especially ''Literature/TheSagaOfTheJomsvikings''. In said saga, the Jomsviking band is destroyed at the end, while in ''Vinland Saga'' the band is still present and active some twenty years later.
* In ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'', Sven luckily survived through the series thanks to [[EnsembleDarkhorse his character's popularity]] with the audience and due to the broadcast standards at the time (which [[SarcasmMode includes wonderful tropes]] like NeverSayDie and that all deaths must be portrayed as a DisneyDeath). Sven's counterpart in the original ''Anime/GoLion'' series was killed off six episodes in and then replaced by a BackupTwin, who was also later killed.
** This has carried over to ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'', as Shirogane survived the entire first season and is ([[EnsembleCast arguably]]) the main character in this continuity. However, this doesn't stop him from disappearing... a lot. Only for season 6 to reveal that he died back in the season 2 finale with his spirit living inside the Black Lion.
* A one-episode character of ''Manga/{{xxxHOLiC}}'' who's a pathological liar dies as a result of being unable to break her bad habit after Yuko gives her a ring (which gets dirtier the more she lies), but in the anime version she lives and [[AnAesop learns a lesson from it.]]
* ''Manga/YuGiOh [[Anime/YuGiOh Duel Monsters]]'':
** Pegasus J. Crawford; after his defeat, Evil Bakura [[EyeScream plucks out his]] [[ClingyMacGuffin Millennium Eye.]] In the manga, this kills him. In the anime, it merely knocks him out and he is almost immediately PutOnABus as his henchmen get him to a hospital to recover. Not only does he survive in time for the filler arcs and movies, but he is also a major RecurringCharacter in ''Anime/YuGiOhGX''.
** "Bandit" Keith Howard is another example. In the manga, he threatens Pegasus with a knife demanding the prize money. Pegasus uses his Millenium Eye to create a Penalty Game by turning Keith's hand into a gun and "killing" himself with it. In the anime, Keith's uses a gun instead for the same reason only to fall into the trapdoor and into the ocean. He returns later under the control of Marik. In the ''Manga/YuGiOhR'' manga, Keith is also revived by Tenma.
** Gozaburo Kaiba was a character who still perished, but at a much later date. In the manga, he was a PosthumousCharacter who had been DrivenToSuicide after Seto wrested control of [=KaibaCorp=]. In the anime, he suffered a heart attack instead, but his mind was downloaded into his special virtual world, where he was later the BigBad of the Virtual Nightmare Arc; at the end of which, [[spoiler:he and the other villains of that arc were deleted permanently when the Virtual World was destroyed]].
* In ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', a minor character named Sergio performs a HeroicSacrifice, risking his life to help Kiryu and his kids escape the slavery mines. After asking Kiryu to watch over his children, he falls into the abyss and is killed. But the English dub cuts the fall, and Jack later says that he was found alive.
* In ''[[Anime/YuGiOhARCV Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V]]'''s English dub, Sergey falls off the dueling track, and Jack says that they'll meet again, implying that Sergey's fall won't be lethal. In the original, Jack says no such thing as Sergey falls. The dub also cuts out Sergey's final fate: he ''does'' survive the fall, but is beaten to death by rioters soon after.
* [[spoiler:Genkai]] in ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' passes away in the last chapter of the manga, but lives until the end of the series in the anime ([[spoiler:ignoring her death and resurrection in the Dark Tournament saga]]).
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** ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaDetonation'' changes the scene in ''[[VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable The Gears of Destiny]]'' where Stern and Levi [[BequeathedPower transfer all their powers to Dearche]]. Rather than lose their phyiscal forms, they instead [[spoiler:[[AdaptationSpeciesChange revert to being cats]].]]
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** ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaDetonation'' changes the scene in ''[[VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable The Gears of Destiny]]'' where Stern and Levi [[BequeathedPower transfer all their powers to Dearche]]. Rather than lose their phyiscal physical forms, they instead [[spoiler:[[AdaptationSpeciesChange revert to being cats]].]]
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** ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaDetonation'' changes the scene in ''[[VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable The Gears of Destiny]]'' where Stern and Levi [[BequeathedPower transfer all their powers to Dearche]]. Rather than lose their phyiscal forms, they instead [[spoiler:[[AdaptationSpeciesChange revert to being cats]].]]
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** Likewise in the original anime, this also happens to Jadeite, the Ayakashi Sisters, Mimete, the Amazon Trio (sort of...they become souls/dreams/some sort of spiritual light and go to Elysian rather than die outright), Queen Nehelenia and Sailor Galaxia. All of them are either purified, trapped in a FateWorseThanDeath, or brought to {{Heel Face Turn}}s by [[MessianicArchetype Sailor Moon.]]
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** Likewise in the original anime, this also happens to Jadeite, the Ayakashi Sisters, Mimete, the Amazon Trio (sort of...they become souls/dreams/some sort of spiritual light and go to Elysian rather than die outright), Queen Nehelenia and Sailor Galaxia. All of them are either purified, purified (the Ayakashi Sisters and the Amazon Trio), trapped in a FateWorseThanDeath, FateWorseThanDeath (Jadeite and Mimete), or brought to {{Heel Face Turn}}s by [[MessianicArchetype Sailor Moon.]]Moon]] (Queen Nehelenia and Sailor Galaxia).
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** Likewise in the original anime, this also happens to the Ayakashi Sisters, the Amazon Trio (sort of...they become souls/dreams/some sort of spiritual light and go to Elysian rather than die outright), Queen Nehelenia and Sailor Galaxia. All of them are either purified or brought to {{Heel Face Turn}}s by [[MessianicArchetype Sailor Moon.]]
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** Likewise in the original anime, this also happens to Jadeite, the Ayakashi Sisters, Mimete, the Amazon Trio (sort of...they become souls/dreams/some sort of spiritual light and go to Elysian rather than die outright), Queen Nehelenia and Sailor Galaxia. All of them are either purified purified, trapped in a FateWorseThanDeath, or brought to {{Heel Face Turn}}s by [[MessianicArchetype Sailor Moon.]]
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* ''[[Anime/InazumaEleven Inazuma Eleven Ares no Tenbin]]'': Due to being meant to be an AlternateContinuity where "aliens never attacked the earth", one of the things that change in ''Ares'' compared to the original series is that Kira Hiroto, whose death is the main reason why the whole alien project happened in the first place, remains alive. He also takes a [[YouDontLookLikeYou completely different appearance]], ItMakesSenseInContext why. Fubuki Atsuya is also spared of the avalanche accident which killed him in the original timeline.
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* ''[[Anime/InazumaEleven Inazuma Eleven Ares no Tenbin]]'': ''Anime/InazumaElevenAres'': Due to being meant to be an AlternateContinuity where "aliens never attacked the earth", one of the things that change in ''Ares'' compared to the original series is that Kira Hiroto, whose death is the main reason why the whole alien project happened in the first place, remains alive. He also takes a [[YouDontLookLikeYou completely different appearance]], ItMakesSenseInContext why. Fubuki Atsuya is also spared of the avalanche accident which killed him in the original timeline.
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* In the ''Manga/LuckyStar'' fanfic, Fanfic/MissingPiece, Kanata Izumi, the deseased mother of Konata, is alive. However, she was still abstent for most of Konata's life due to being kidnapped when Konata was still a little babie.
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* In the ''Manga/LuckyStar'' fanfic, Fanfic/MissingPiece, Kanata Izumi, the deseased mother of Konata, is alive. However, she was still abstent for most of Konata's life due to being kidnapped when Konata was still a little babie.
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** This has carried over to ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'', as Shirogane survived the entire first season and is ([[EnsembleCast arguably]]) the main character in this continuity. However, this doesn't stop him from disappearing... a lot.
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** This has carried over to ''WesternAnimation/VoltronLegendaryDefender'', as Shirogane survived the entire first season and is ([[EnsembleCast arguably]]) the main character in this continuity. However, this doesn't stop him from disappearing... a lot. Only for season 6 to reveal that he died back in the season 2 finale with his spirit living inside the Black Lion.
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* Seiji the painter from the anime adaptation of ''Manga/BarefootGen'', in the manga he died not long after Gen and Ryuta's visit, in the anime he survived and Gen and Ryuta promise to visit him in the future.
