History DeathIsCheap / AnimeAndManga

* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'', being an homage to ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', has a form of this. The main dungeon in the series bonds people's souls to their bodies, meaning that if a person dies in there, all one needs to do to revive them is use healing magic and heal their body back to good condition. Most of the adventurers in the series have died and come back multiple times (it's practically a RunningGag [[TheyKilledKennyAgain in Kabru's case]]), and healers even make a business out of traveling around the dungeon and reviving people for a fee. However, this form of resurrection only works if the body is in good condition; the worse it's damaged, the thinner the bond between soul and body, and the greater the risk of resurrection failure and permanent death, or CameBackWrong. If the body is beyond the reach of healing magic, then [[TheDarkArts more extreme methods]] are required.

* The ''Franchise/DragonBall'' franchise is notorious for exaggerating this trope [[JustForPun to death]]. Everybody and their grandmother (literally, at one point) dies and is resurrected at some point. Much of the show is in fact motivated by collecting the Dragon Balls to be able to wish somebody back to life. Originally this wasn't the case as the Dragon Balls could only be used to bring someone back once, and Piccolo dying meant they wouldn't be an option at all, but by the Namek Saga both of these were no longer an issue (unless they die naturally of sickness or old age). By the time ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' ended, only Mr. Satan the FakeUltimateHero, Uranai Baba and a few gods ''hadn't'' died at least once. Counting ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', [[OvershadowedByAwesome Krillin]] died ''four times''.

-->'''Bulma''': Are you even listening to yourself?! "Relax, because they're trapped with a monster that could kill them?!" They were ''children''! They should have ''never'' been made to fight! You grown men left the fate of the Earth in their hands! I hope you're ashamed!

* A strange thing happens in ''Anime/BakuganBattleBrawlers'' as characters are killed in the sense they end up in the afterlife. They manage to get back easily, but then in season two, the guardians of the afterlife are written out. Even though the heroes get their power, that means from then on Bakugan who die are blown apart, which apparently means they don't get an afterlife.

* ''Manga/InuYasha'': There are several ways to revive the dead in this manga.

* ''Anime/ReZero'' both downplays and deconstructs this. Subaru has the power to come back from death (more like [[RPGMechanicsVerse respawning]]), but even if you know that you'll be alright afterwards, being gutted hurts like hell, not to mention that dying is a primal fear that doesn't just go away. And if one near-death experience is enough to trigger PTSD, multiple complete-death experiences are sure to do the job.

* While 2001 anime adaptation of ''Manga/ShamanKing'' mostly averts this, with few BackFromTheDead moments being treated as a big thing, the source material and 2021 anime plays this painfully straight. Everybody dies at least once, some people such as [[spoiler:Ren]] die 3 times. At one point, the main cast is killed by supporting characters just for the sole reason of receiving TrainingFromHell and getting [[CameBackStrong a power upgrade]]. The only limitation to this is not having body and soul destroyed.

* ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan'': Every time Dokuro violently kills Sakura, she resurrects him right on the spot a couple seconds later, none the worse for wear. It still ''hurts'' though.
* The protagonist of ''LightNovel/DateALive'' almost dies all the time in the series only to come BackFromTheDead every single time. Shot a hole through his chest with an anti-''tank'' beam? Crossing a ''five-meter'' ice barrier? ''Using himself as hostage by jumping from the top of the school building?'' Yep, death is definitely cheap for Shido Itsuka. This is because those aren't his powers but the powers from his foster little sister who he kissed back when they were kids as a way to prevent spreading fire.

* ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' has an interesting/bizarre example. In the fifth movie, Touko got her body torn apart and then had her head crushed into bits. Then, she makes a comeback by rebooting her spare copy, a doll, to finish the job... or maybe the one that got killed was a spare copy all along. Both the second Touko and the guy who smashed her head aren't sure which one was the real one, and Touko quickly cuts the latter's confusion by stating she personally doesn't care one bit, beyond the fact it proves she's just good of a doll-making magus. What's funnier, is one of the bad guys KNEW this...and was keeping her head alive to prevent this.

* ''LightNovel/TheHeroIsOverpoweredButOverlyCautious'': Gods and heroes have "astral souls," which are copies of their real "divine souls" used to control their bodies in worlds that need saving. This prevents their real souls from being destroyed if their bodies are killed. Gaeabrande's Demon Lord attempts to defy this trope by developing the Chain Destruction device, which can destroy the divine soul upon destroying the astral soul. However, once he's killed, the effects of Chain Destruction disappear, allowing the hero Seiya's divine soul to survive despite his HeroicSacrifice.
* Zig-Zagged in ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD''. On one hand, dead humans can still be reincarnated as Devils, and the dying get a new body upon reincarnation. Even willing subjects reincarnated from a healthy state are considered "dead". On the other, this reincarnation is more of a second life, Devils (and [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Brave Saints]]) get a much longer lifespan, but can still be killed a second time, and that's it. Only once has a character been resurrected from this death, and that took the combined efforts of Great Red, a draconic overdeity, and Ophis, the manifestation of ''the infinite power of the universe'', and keeping the soul around long enough for them to do it required the sacrifice of every previous Boosted Gear users' soul, plus most of Ddraig's energy; all of that tied together with a ''colossal'' case of right place, right time for those elements to all be present and willing to work together.

* ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'', taking place in a world that operates on MMORPG mechanics, has any Adventurer who is killed come back to life at the Cathedral. This has an interesting legal effect when it comes to the laws in Akiba: murdering an Adventurer, while still a crime, is a much lesser one than theft or rape for this reason.
* In ''LightNovel/MyNewDungeonLife'', permanent deaths are rare, by the measure of the world setting. Old age, failure to be resurrected within a month of death, and dying in a dungeon are pretty much the only way death is permanent, and the protagonist Deek has managed to subvert a couple of those hard limits too via dungeon perk powers.

* ''LightNovel/TokyoRavens'': Downplayed. Many characters get revived but not as a human.

* The ''Franchise/DragonBall'' franchise is notorious for exaggerating this trope [[JustForPun to death]]. Everybody and their grandmother (literally, at one point) dies and is resurrected at some point. Much of the show is in fact motivated by collecting the Dragon Balls to be able to wish somebody back to life. Originally this wasn't the case as the Dragon Balls could only be used to bring someone back once, and Piccolo dying meant they wouldn't be an option at all, but by the Namek Saga both of these were no longer an issue. By the time ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' ended, only Mr. Satan the FakeUltimateHero, Uranai Baba and a few gods ''hadn't'' died at least once. Counting ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', [[OvershadowedByAwesome Krillin]] died ''four times''.

* For the main heroine [[spoiler:Akagi An, aka Kafuka]] in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', death only serves to [[spoiler: make her ascend into something that's akin to a demigod (which explains why the Itoshiki family's purification ceremony failed to purge her into the afterlife, since it only meant to work on typical ghosts). An indirectly lived on and spread her essence through the 11 girls who received her donor organs. The only way to kill her permanently is to kill every person, be it male or female, that has her organs transplanted, which by the end of the manga, it's made [[Main/ImpossibleTask even more difficult to achieve via conventional means]] since [[Main/BabiesEverAfter the girls have all given birth to the protagonist Nozomu's children,]] whom all likely shared An's [[Main/NightmareFuel 'infectious' gene cells]]]]

* For the main heroine [[spoiler:Akagi An, aka Kafuka]] in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', death only serves to [[spoiler: make her ascend into something that's akin to a demigod (which explains why the Itoshiki family's purification ceremony failed to purge her into the afterlife, since it only works on a typical ghost). An indirectly lived on and spread her essence through the 11 girls who received her donor organs. The only way to kill her permanently is to kill every person, be it male or female, that has her organs transplanted, which by the end of the manga, it's made [[Main/ImpossibleTask even more difficult to achieve via conventional means]] since [[Main/BabiesEverAfter the girls have all given birth to the protagonist Nozomu's children,]] whom all likely shared An's [[Main/NightmareFuel 'infectious' gene cells]]]]

* For the main heroine [[spoiler:Akagi An, aka Kafuka]] in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', death only serves to [[spoiler: make her ascend into something that's akin to a demigod (which explains why the Itoshiki family's purification ceremony doesn't purge her into the afterlife, since it only works on a typical ghost). An indirectly lived on and spread her essence through the 11 girls who received her donor organs. The only way to kill her permanently is to kill every person, be it male or female, that has her organs transplanted, which by the end of the manga, it's made [[Main/ImpossibleTask even more difficult to achieve via conventional means]] since [[Main/BabiesEverAfter the girls have all given birth to the protagonist Nozomu's children,]] whom all likely shared An's [[Main/NightmareFuel 'infectious' gene cells]]]]

* For the main heroine [[spoiler:Akagi An, aka Kafuka]] in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', death only serves to [[spoiler: make her ascend into something that's akin to a demigod (which explains why the Itoshiki family's purification ceremony doesn't purge her into the afterlife, since it only works on a typical ghost). An indirectly lived on and spread her essence through the 11 girls who received her donor organs. The only way to kill her permanently is to kill every person, be it male or female, that has her organs transplanted, which by the end of the manga, it's made even more difficult since [[Main/BabiesEverAfter the girls have all given birth to the protagonist Nozomu's children,]] whom all likely shared An's [[Main/NightmareFuel 'infectious' gene cells]]]]

* For the main heroine [[spoiler:Akagi An, aka Kafuka]] in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', death only serves to [[spoiler: make her into something that's akin to a demigod (which explains why the Itoshiki family's purification ceremony doesn't purge her into the afterlife, since it only works on a typical ghost). An indirectly lived on and spread her essence through the 11 girls who received her donor organs. The only way to kill her permanently is to kill every person, be it male or female, that has her organs transplanted, which by the end of the manga, it's made even more difficult since [[Main/BabiesEverAfter the girls have all given birth to the protagonist Nozomu's children,]] whom all likely shared An's [[Main/NightmareFuel 'infectious' gene cells]]]]

* For the main heroine [[spoiler:Akagi An, aka Kafuka]] in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', death only serves to [[spoiler: make her into something that's akin to a demigod (which explains why the Itoshiki family's purification ceremony doesn't purge her into the afterlife, since it only works on a typical ghost). An indirectly lived on and spread her essence through the 11 girls who received her donor organs. The only way to kill her permanently is to kill every person, be it male or female, that has her organs transplanted, which by the end of the manga, it's made even more difficult since [[Main/BabiesEverAfter the girls have all given birth to the protagonist Nozomu's children,]] whom all likely shared An's 'infectious' gene cells]]

* For the main heroine [[spoiler:Akagi An, aka Kafuka]] in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', death only serves to [[spoiler: make her into something that's akin to a demigod (which explains why the Itoshiki family's purification ceremony doesn't purge her into the afterlife, since it only works on a typical ghost). An indirectly lived on and spread her essence through the 11 girls who received her donor organs. The only way to kill her permanently is to kill every girl that has her organs transplanted, which by the end of the manga, it's made even more difficult since [[Main/BabiesEverAfter the girls have all given birth to the protagonist Nozomu's children,]] whom all likely shared An's 'infectious' gene cells]]

* For the main heroine [[spoiler:Akagi An, aka Kafuka]] in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', death only serves to [[spoiler: make her into something that's akin to a demigod (which explains why the Itoshiki family's purification ceremony doesn't purge her into the afterlife, since it only works on a typical ghost). An indirectly lived on and spread her essence through the 11 girls who received her donor organs. The only way to kill her permanently is to kill every girl that has her organs transplanted, which by the end of the manga, it's made even more difficult since [[Main/BabiesEverAfter the girls have all given birth to the protagonist Nozomu's children,]] whom all likely shared An's 'infectious' genes]]

* For the main heroine [[spoiler:Akagi An, aka Kafuka]] in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', death only serves to [[spoiler: make her into something that's akin to a demigod (which explains why the Itoshiki family's purification ceremony doesn't purge her into the afterlife, since it only works on a typical ghost). An indirectly lived on and spread her essence through the 11 girls who received her donor organs. The only way to kill her permanently is to kill every girl that has her organs transplanted, which by the end of the manga, it's made even more difficult since [[Main/BabiesEverAfter the girls have all given birth to Nozomu's children,]] whom all likely shared An's 'infectious' genes]]

* For the main heroine [[spoiler:Akagi An, aka Kafuka]] in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', death only serves to [[spoiler: make her into something that's akin to a demigod, and indirectly lived on and spread her essence through the 11 girls who received her donor organs. The only way to kill her permanently is to kill every girl that has her organs transplanted, which by the end of the manga, it's made even more difficult since [[Main/BabiesEverAfter the girls have all given birth to Nozomu's children,]] whom all likely shared An's 'infectious' genes]]

* For the main heroine [[spoiler:Akagi An, aka Kafuka]] in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', death only serves to [[spoiler: make her into something that's akin to a demigod, and indirectly lived on through the 11 girls who received her donor organs. The only way to kill her permanently is to kill every girl that has her organs transplanted, which by the end of the manga, it's made even more difficult since [[Main/BabiesEverAfter the girls have all given birth to Nozomu's children,]] whom all likely shared An's 'infectious' genes]]

* For [[spoiler:Akagi An]] in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', death only serves to [[spoiler: make her into something that's akin to a demigod, and indirectly lived on through the 11 girls who received her donor organs. The only way to kill her permanently is to kill every girl that has her organs transplanted, which by the end of the manga, it's made even more difficult since [[Main/BabiesEverAfter the girls have all given birth to Nozomu's children,]] whom all likely shared An's 'infectious' genes]]

* For [[spoiler:Akagi An]] in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', death only serves to [[spoiler: make her into something that's akin to a demigod, and indirectly lived on through the 11 girls who received her donor organs. The only way to kill her permanently is to kill every girl that has her organs transplanted, which by the end of the manga, it's made even more difficult since [[Main/BabiesEverAfter the girls have all given birth to Nozomu's children, whom all likely shared An's 'infectious' genes]]]]

* For [[spoiler:Akagi An]] in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', death only serves to [[spoiler: make her into something that's akin to a demigod, and indirectly lived on through the 11 girls who received her donor organs. The only way to kill her permanently is to kill every girl that has her organs transplanted, which by the end of the manga, it's made even more difficult since [[Main/BabiesEverAfter the girls have all given birth to Nozomu's children]]]]