History FamilyUnfriendlyDeath / Anime

* Anything Lucy does in ''ElfenLied''.

** And you have Takashi Shirogane's untimely death in one of the early episodes- this being one of the principle members of the team. His brother Shou suffers the same fate, albeit taking surviving BigBad Prince Sincline with him. ''{{Voltron}}'' (which pretended both characters were the same guy, Sven) made a shoddy job of covering both of these up, given some of the other characters are ''visibly in tears'' on both occasions.

** Don't forget Frieza's death at the hands of Trunks. Cut down the middle, sliced into pieces, ''then'' blasted into atoms. [[NoKillLikeOverKill Overkill much?]]

** This troper tends to remember [[spoiler:Krillin '''exploding''']] in the Frieza Saga being a particularly traumatic experience for Little Timmy, who was watching with tears welling in his eyes. Then again, [[spoiler:many other characters had been killed by that point on Namek, not to mention the Saiyan Saga]] so it's quite likely Little Timmy was in therapy at this point.

*** There's a scene in the original manga during the Cell arc, where Gohan in SSJ2 transformation, goes in a rampage killing brutally all the Cell Jrs. around. Meanwhile the anime only shows the Cell Jrs. exploding into gas, the manga goes as far as showing Gohan ripping apart their arms and breaking them in half.

*** At least Celebi and Darkrai got better.

* In the manga of ''SailorMoon'', the three cats get ''torn apart'' by one of Galaxia's minions in the final arc. Like everyone else who died that arc, they got better, but its still pretty unsettling.
** Sailor Venus' death in the anime is particularly violent (spikes impaling her in the stomach, then being imploded with fire). Don't worry, she gets better.
** Speaking of the manga, some of the villains die in rather unpleasant manners, placing emphasis on the fact that these deaths are at the hands the heroes. Yet these entries don't mention that there are two instances where we see the flesh melt off of the bones of ''the heroes '''themselves.'''''
** The anime also has Neflite, who gets stabbed by a mook with a thorn. Unlike when Ann, Diamond, and even two nonfatal instances of Tuxedo Mask get stabbed, the stabbing is fully shown onscreen, the thorn remains embedded in him despite Molly's attempts to remove it, and there is green blood everywhere. (Note: In the manga his name is Nephrite)

*** Viluy's death has the rare distinction of being scary in both the original Japanese and the Cloverway dub.

** Don't forget Frieza's death at the hands Trunks. Cut down the middle, sliced into pieces, ''then'' blasted into atoms. [[NoKillLikeOverKill Overkill much?]]

* ''{{Dragonball}} Z'' is full of them. Many are censored so that parts of them (but usually not the death itself) are not seen in the edited version. Aside from the bloody ones, there is a moment partially edited out of the edited version (but still making clear the character is dead) where Super Buu turns to liquid and goes down a deranged gunman's throat, making him expand and explode. It is also gruesome to watch the first time Cell absorbs someone - he jabs a rich man with his tail and sucks him in one bit at a time, causing him indescribable pain as he shrivels up before he is completely sucked into Cell's tail.

** How about Chi-Chi's death? She ''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulu slaps]]'' [[OmnicidalManic Majin]] [[BigBad Boo]] after he killed her oldest son...so he turns her into an egg and ''crushes her beneath his foot''. In front of her ''other'' son (who is approximately ''eight''.

** And you have Takashi Shirogane's death in one of the early episodes- this being one of the principle members of the team. His brother Shou suffers the same fate, albeit taking surviving BigBad Prince Sincline with him. ''{{Voltron}}'' (which pretended both characters were the same guy, Sven) made a shoddy job of covering both of these up, given some of the other characters are ''visibly in tears'' on both occasions.

* It's worth contrasting the differences between the original GoLion and the heavily {{Bowdlerise}}d {{Voltron}} adaptation. GoLion is pretty much full of death and destruction when you think about it:
** Right in the very first episode ''the entire earth has been destroyed by nuclear war'' and there's graphic descriptions of what happens to slaves of the Galra Empire- including been gorily despatched by Deathblack Beastmen for the amusement of their captors (which was of course edited out of ''{{Voltron}}'') and being used as food (which wasn't!)
** Also is the infamous death of one of the main members of the team, Takashi Shirogane ("Sven" in ''{{Voltron}}'') quite early on in the series, only to be later replaced by his brother Shou, who also dies in the final episode whilst taking out Prince Sincline. [[NeverSayDie (In Voltron, they pretended it was just Sven come back after being healed of his injuries, and neither he nor the prince dies at the end.)]]
** You also have other characters being brutally massacred, committing suicide, or otherwise being killed off, [[NeverSayDie which you never see in Voltron.]]

* It's worth contrasting the differences between the original GoLion and the heavily {{Bowlderise}}d {{Voltron}} adaptation. GoLion is pretty much full of death and destruction when you think about it:

* It's worth contrasting the differences between the original GoLion and the heavily {{Bowlderize}}d {{Voltron}} adaptation. GoLion is pretty much full of death and destruction when you think about it:

** You also have other characters being brutally massacred, committing suicide, or otherwise being killed off, [[NeverSayDie which you never see in ''Voltron''.]]

** You also have other characters being brutally massacred, committing suicide, or otherwise being killed off, [[NeverSayDie which you never see in ''{{Voltron}}''.]]

* It's worth contrasting the differences between the original GoLion and the heavily {{Bowlderize}}d {{Voltron}} adaptation. GoLion is pretty much full of death and destruction when you think about it- right in the very first episode ''the entire earth has been destroyed by nuclear war'' and there's graphic descriptions of what happens to slaves of the Galra Empire- including been gorily despatched by Deathblack Beastmen for the amusement of their captors (which was of course edited out of ''{{Voltron}}'') and being used as food (which wasn't!) Also is the infamous death of one of the main members of the team, Takashi Shirogane ("Sven" in ''{{Voltron}}'') quite early on in the series, only to be later replaced by his brother Shou, who also dies in the final episode whilst taking out Prince Sincline. [[NeverSayDie (In Voltron, they pretended it was just Sven come back after being healed of his injuries, and neither he nor the prince dies at the end.)]] You also have other characters being brutally massacred, committing suicide, or otherwise being killed off, [[NeverSayDie which you never see in ''{{Voltron}}''.]]

* Manga/{{Naruto}} has loads. The first arc gives us Kakashi being sliced to bits with spiked chains, and Zabuza dies an amazingly RasputinianDeath. The second arc has the random Rain ninjas that Gaara gets with his sand attack- they explode so hard that Gaara uses an umbrella to avoid the blood.

* In [[OsamuTezuka Osamu Tezuka's]] ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'', the death of Kimba's parents are pretty heartbreaking for many adults. Kimba's father gets shot, and his mother drowns while trapped in a boat just a few months later.
** Their deaths are tame compared to the eponymous character's death in the original manga and movie. Kimba performs a HeroicSacrifice for his human friends, who needed food and shelter while lost in a blizzard, ''by jumping off a mountain to impale himself with a kris sword so they can eat him.''
*** There is a Buddhist fable about a rabbit that kills itself by jumping into a fire so that a starving holy man can eat it. A rendition of this story is included in Tezuka's later manga series ''{{Buddha}}'' (which in general is not a kids' story), over twenty years after the first publication of ''Kimba''.

* ''GingaNagareboshiGin'' is about a pack of [[TalkingAnimal talking dogs]] on a quest to take down the BigBad. It also absolutely loves this trope to bits. The aforementioned BigBad? He gets his ''head sliced off''.
** A special mention should probably go to Gold Eye of the manga-only wolf arc: his chest ''explodes'' as result of Hyouma's [[SpecialAttack Metsu Hen'i Battouga]]. You can see ''bits of guts'' around the bloody cavity. And he doesn't even die straight away, managing to slip in a few final words before finally drifting off permanently.
* [[TwoWordsObviousTrope One title]]: ''GraveOfTheFireflies''. Nothing like melting like a stick of butter.
* In [[OsamuTezuka Osamu Tezuka's]] ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'', the death of Kimba's parents are pretty heartbreaking for many adults. Kimba's father gets shot, and his mother drowns while trapped in a boat just a few months later.
** Their deaths are tame compared to the eponymous character's death in the original manga and movie. Kimba performs a HeroicSacrifice for his human friends, who needed food and shelter while lost in a blizzard, ''by jumping off a mountain to impale himself with a kris sword so they can eat him.''
*** There is a Buddhist fable about a rabbit that kills itself by jumping into a fire so that a starving holy man can eat it. A rendition of this story is included in Tezuka's later manga series ''{{Buddha}}'' (which in general is not a kids' story), over twenty years after the first publication of ''Kimba''.

* In an episode of ''Anime/SpeedRacer'', one of the other drivers gets stuck in a mass of molten pitch. As he climbs onto the top of his car to salvage his stolen loot, a column of lava strikes his ''face'', and he falls and sinks into the pitch. Crashing and dying is commonplace in the show. Racing is SeriousBusiness.
** There was also the fate of the crew of the laser tank: Molten lava poured into the tank through a breach made by an ejected rock.
* An entire research team is boiled alive four and half minutes into ''{{Steamboy}}''.
* ''HokutoNoKen'' has scores of this in ''[[MadeOfPlasticine literally]] [[YourHeadASplode every]] [[YouAreAlreadyDead episode and chapter,]]'' but a particularly hard-to-watch example is when Kenshiro is fighting a serial killer and strikes his ''meimon'' acupressure point, causing his back muscles to involuntarily contract far beyond their normal point. After Kenshiro leaves the helpless, screaming and sobbing man for dead, an on-screen timer counts down; when it reaches zero, the murderer's spine breaks backwards and he dies in an unnatural, contorted position.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** Kaien Shiba's death is pretty horrible. Firstly, he has his body taken over by a Hollow, going on a rampage until he is killed by being impaled on Rukia's sword. Then the Hollow's body who he's fused with gets transported back to Hueco Mundo, and forms a new spirit body in the form of Kaien. Adding to this, said Hollow is soon eaten by Aaroniero Arruruerie, who later appears to Rukia as Kaien, and engages her in combat. Finally, Aaroniero's imitation of Kaien is stabbed by Rukia again - this time through the ''face''. Considering the fact that Kaien's body was being used as a puppet for quite a while after his death, it just adds to the nastiness.
** [[RapidAging What happens]] to a Bount when its Doll is destroyed is not pretty.
* Manga/{{Naruto}} has loads. The first arc gives us Kakashi being sliced to bits with spiked chains, and Zabuza dies an amazingly RasputinianDeath. The second arc has the random Rain ninjas that Gaara gets with his sand attack- they explode so hard that Gaara uses an umbrella to avoid the blood.

* If you wonder why some don't think the censorship in ''{{Voltron}}'' is so bad, look at every other death in ''GoLion''. Kids were evidently used to this in Japan, but American kids in the early 1980s, no way. It would give them nightmares.

* ''{{Dragonball}} Z'' is full of them. Many are censored so that parts of them (but usually not the death itself) are not seen in the edited version. Aside from the bloody ones, there is a moment partially edited out of the edited version (but still making clear the character is dead) where Super Buu turns to liquid and goes down a deranged gunman's throat, making him expand and explode. It is also gruesome to watch the first time Cell absorbs someone - he jabs a rich man with his tail and sucks him in one bit at a time, causing him indescribable pain as he shrivels up before he is completely sucked into Cell's tail.
** Don't forget Frieza's death at the hands Trunks. Cut down the middle, sliced into pieces, ''then'' blasted into atoms. [[NoKillLikeOverKill Overkill much?]]
** Even before then, Frieza's near-death on Namek was very graphic. In the manga, though, it was even worse in terms of gore.
** This troper tends to remember [[spoiler:Krillin '''exploding''']] in the Frieza Saga being a particularly traumatic experience for Little Timmy, who was watching with tears welling in his eyes. Then again, [[spoiler:many other characters had been killed by that point on Namek, not to mention the Saiyan Saga]] so it's quite likely Little Timmy was in therapy at this point.
** Yamucha's death by the Saibamen during the fight with Nappa and Vegeta deserves a mention. Krillin runs to his body and listens for a heartbeat. After screaming, "He's dead!" he then burst into tears. The death was also captured by the news crews, so everyone at Master Roshi's house witnessed the death. There's even an extended period where the visual keeps alternating between Bulma's stunned face and the scene on the television of Krillin crying beside his body.
*** Did not happen in the original dub (you know, the one that spawned the Over 9,000 meme). In the original dub, Yamcha is simply vaporized by the Saibaman's selfdestruct.
* Then there's Smokescreen's temporary death from ''TransformersArmada''. Guy gets a gigantic hole shot through him, and the force of the gun slowly shoves him through a wall. [[{{Determinator}} That still doesn't stop him, and he tries to fight]] even with the giant hole, and the fact that he appears to be ''melting''. After a minute of struggling, he finally collapses.
** The KarmicDeath of Thrust. During his monologue, his foot get caught in the transforming Unicron's gears. By the time he notices it's up to his thigh, and he gets slowly sucked in and crushed while he begs Galvatron for mercy. The final shot is of his head swelling from the pressure and then Unicron's armor finally closing over him with a jolt of electricity. This is a kid's show?
** Starscream's death toward the finale was, aside from being pretty sad, also pretty horrifying. While he's getting graphically disintegrated by Unicron's attack, you can clearly see his arm fall off before his body is completely destroyed.
* Lucario in ''Anime/PokemonLucarioAndTheMysteryOfMew''. Sure there's no blood, but we're treated to the poor guy sobbing and spasming in excruciating pain while he ''slowly'' disintegrates, and it's about six steps more horrifying than the series full of cutesy monsters tends to run.
** Even more so considering he's one of the good guys, and it's usually a BigBad who gets this type of death.
** Lucario is ''far'' from the only movie character to get this treatment. [[Anime/Pokemon4Ever Celebi]] had the life force drained from it until it became a withered, dessicated husk. [[Anime/PokemonHeroes Latios]] graphically drowns to death in a HeroicSacrifice. [[Anime/PokemonTheRiseOfDarkrai Darkrai]], similar to Lucario, is graphically disintegrated. [[Anime/PokemonZoroarkMasterOfIllusions Zoroark]] is graphically electrocuted to death by the BigBad while her young son is ForcedToWatch. The last one is notable for easily being the most graphic, brutal death of the entire series.
*** At least Celebi and Darkrai got better.
** In the Team Galactic finale, [[KnightOfCerebus Hunter J]] and her henchmen drown in the depths of Lake Valor.
*** They didn't have time to go that way, considering the ship exploded after it sank.
** And those scientists [[GoneHorriblyRight Mewtwo]] killed at the very beginning of ''Anime/PokemonTheFirstMovie''.
*** Not to mention [[spoiler: Ash getting turned to stone]] later in that movie. Granted he got better.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': *sob* [[spoiler: Portgas D. Ace]]. That's what [[spoiler: being punched with a fist of lava '''and''' having your insides ''melt down'' as a result]] will do to you.
** The same token, [[spoiler: Whitebeard's]] Robocop-esque death. (Given the ethical arguments being made in that scene, this is probably designed to prove his moral correctness by reference to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benkei Benkei's]] [[DiedStandingUp standing death]].)
** Also the victims of [[PuttingOnTheReich Magellan's]] [[PoisonousPerson Hydra poison]] are coaxed in a glob of extremely painful poison that will eventually melt them. Uuuuuk...
* While hardly the only example in ''{{Kinnikuman}}'', Ramenman kills Brockenman in the anime by turning him into noodles and ''eating him'', which is a lot more disturbing than it should be. In the manga he ''rips Brockenman in half'' with his Camel Clutch. ''Messily.''
* In {{Toriko}}'s Puffer Whale arc, Toriko, Coco and Komatsu come across a pit of toxic insects. Then an unlucky Bishokoya falls in, gets swarmed while screaming in agony, and is reduced to several bones on the floor. OUCH. Later on, several animals are sucked dry by killer trees, The two Wall Penguins in Ice Hell are killed when Tommyrod sends a giant parasite to burrow through them in a VERY gruesome manner, and finally, [[spoiler: Tommyrod himself has his "Child", a gigantic insect abomination explode out of his body, leaving him an empty husk (It's implied that he got better, but ''still''.....)]]
* ''ChirinnoSuzu'' has Chirin's mother being strangled to death by the Wolf King, Chirin accidentally knocking over a bird's nest full of eggs after the mother has been killed by a snake, and finally, the Wolf King being stabbed to death by a now-adult Chirin, [[spoiler: who has transformed into a demonic ram.]]
* Anything Alucard does in ''{{Hellsing}}''.
* Anything Lucy does in ''ElfenLied''.
* Presumably the reason why Episodes 27 and 35 of ''Anime/MonsterRancher'' were skipped after their first airing by the Fox channel. In the former, Gray Wolf is stabbed in the throat by Tiger with his horn (though the cause of death seems to be the destruction of his baddie crest from said stab). Especially considering that Gray Wolf is Tiger's brother who was turned evil by [[BigBad Moo]]. In the latter, Naga commits suicide by [[DisneyVillainDeath falling over the edge of his castle]], despite the others [[SaveTheVillain trying to]] [[TakeMyHand save him]].
** Undine commits suicide in Episode 24, jumping into the fire after Golem tries to save her despite her betrayal.
* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' has this covered with the fact that their human prey is EatenAlive. Titans themselves seem to have a wide variety of preferences for exactly ''how'' they eat humans; some are stuffed whole into mouths and crunched up, some are bitten in half, some are slurped down, some are dropped straight into the gaping mouth, one was even halfway down feet first being slowly gnawed down.
** Eren and Mikasa's mother stands out; the Titan actually bent her in half to stop her struggling before placing her in its mouth and snapping down everything but her feet.
** The Female Titan loves this trope, finding innovating ways to crush and kill humans, sometimes using them as a yo-yo's and soccer balls. The anime toned the violence down heavily, but it's still there as FreezeFrameBonus.

* {{Naruto}} has loads. The first arc gives us Kakashi being sliced to bits with spiked chains, and Zabuza dies an amazingly RasputinianDeath. The second arc has the random Rain ninjas that Gaara gets with his sand attack- they explode so hard that Gaara uses an umbrella to avoid the blood.

ValuesDissonance heavily ties in with the frequency of the trope in Anime, due to Japan's ''very'' different idea of what's okay for children.

** The Female Titan loves this trope. The anime toned the violence down heavily, but it's still there as FreezeFrameBonus.