History GoryDiscretionShot / AnimeAndManga

* In the anime of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Stardust Crusaders'', the scene where DIO forces American senator Wilson Phillips to circumvent a traffic jam by driving on the sidewalk cuts out all shots of pedestrians being mowed down. Right when Phillips gets onto the sidewalk, the scene cuts to Jotaro and company pursuing DIO on a motorcycle, then cuts back to Phillips barreling down the street with blood splattered all over the front of his car. Among all the various bits of censorship the anime had to go through, this is one that was '''not''' undone for the Blu-Rays.
** In ''Diamond is Unbreakable'', whenever Reimi shows the scar on her back from her stab wounds (first to Rohan and Koichi, and later to Kira's ghost), the reader never actually sees the scar. It's implied to be totally horrific - and since she's a ghost, it probably looks as fresh as the day she was killed.

* The first episode of ''Anime/WeissKreuz'' shamelessly abuses the non-gory gory discretion shot when Aya kills the target of the day with a dramatic slow-motion horizontal sword cut... and the target's death is immediately illustrated by a shot of his mask falling to the ground in two pieces, having somehow been cut in half ''vertically.''

* In ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', a rogue Syaoran [[CloningBlues Clone]] decides to [[EyeScream gouge out Fai's left eye]] to gain magical power. We only see poor Fai's ''eyes trembling in fear'' just before [[RescueRomance Kurogane]] rushes down the stairs to meet everyone watching a big cyclone of water. Right when he gets there, the cyclone falls apart, and we only see the result of the eye-gouging. Luckily Kurogane was able to stop the clone from biting out Fai's other eye.

** ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' uses this in a way that doesn't make it even slightly better when [[spoiler:Charlotte bites off Mami's head, and then devours her body]]. While you can't ''see'' it happening, you can ''[[HellIsThatNoise hear]]'' it. The camera never shows teeth meeting flesh, just the lower part of the body twitching, and then it falling (silhouetted) to the ground from a distance, [[OffWithHisHead a bit shorter now.]] In the manga, this is averted. [[NauseaFuel Unfortunately]].

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'':

* Slightly subverted in ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer''. The [[RedheadInGreen Wizard]] was stabbed by a poison knife which pretty much paralyzed her and would've slowly killed her had the [[ProtagonistTitle actual Goblin Slayer]] not shown up and fulfilled her request to MercyKill her. He cut her head off, which was not actually seen, but while [[ShrinkingViolet Priestess]] was speaking to Goblin Slayer it's hard not to notice Wizard's head is a bit... dislocated.

* Happens all over the place in ''LightNovel/{{Katanagatari}}'', which actually [[NothingIsScarier makes the horrific levels of violence much more disturbing]]. For instance, [[WouldHurtAChild Emonzaemon killing a child by sticking a gun in his mouth]] springs to mind.

** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', which is normally not gore-shy, has two scenes gets one of these when the scene really would have been too horrific to contemplate (or hard to draw) in the Buu saga.

** Happens again with another Arukenimon in ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame''. She abducts a group of humans and [[BrainFood messily devours one's head]] as the camera pans to his horrified associate. When Hiro comes across the survivors, [[DarkerAndEdgier he sees the headless corpse]] (which is given a CensorShadow).

* In ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' Pierrot Le Fou is [[spoiler: crushed under the heel of a giant mechanical toy dog]]. The scene shifts from focusing right on him to Spike's perception a ways away. We see nothing but his silhouette disappearing.
** Also inverted in the same episode. When Pierrot Le Fou [[spoiler: escapes from the research center that created him]], we don't get to see [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome how it happened]], we ''do'' get to see the horrifying aftermath.
** In the opening of "Ballad of Fallen Angels", we only see the mob boss's eyes grow wide and the blood on Vicious's sword when Vicious slices his throat. Subverted or inverted when Vicious walks out of the room, and while we don't get to see [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome the actual battle]], the hallway Vicious walks through is knee-deep in the bloody bodies of the mob boss's goons.

** ''Anime/DanganRonpa3'' employs lots of shadows and camera cuts to avoid showing the gorier parts of the (already horrifically violent) [[spoiler: Mutual Killing Game among the Hope's Peak Student Council]].

** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': When Myotismon kills Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon in "[[Recap/DigimonAdventureE33PumpAndGotsuAreShibuyaTypeDigimon Out on the Town]]", the camera cuts away before he actually strikes them down -- but we do see Pumpkinmon's axe and a small pebble that's clearly part of Gotsumon falling to the ground and then dissolving into air. Matt also creates one in-universe for TK, telling him not to look when the crucial moment hits.

** A variation occurs in ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist''; in a flashback scene where Colonel Mustang is about to immolate a [[ChildSoldiers child soldier]] with his flame alchemy, the camera suddenly pans off to the side at the critical moment, showing the wall behind them lighting up and his shadow stretching.

*** In the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist 2003 series]], Ed (along with the viewers) merely see her splattered remains on the wall.

* In the third episode of the TV anime adaptation of ''Manga/{{Phoenix}}'', a hunter pins the titular Phoenix down with arrows before approaching the bird, machete in hand. Cue a scene change right as he deals the final blow.

* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': When Myotismon kills Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon in "[[Recap/DigimonAdventureE33PumpAndGotsuAreShibuyaTypeDigimon Out on the Town]]", the camera cuts away before he actually strikes them down -- but we do see Pumpkinmon's axe and a small pebble that's clearly part of Gotsumon falling to the ground and then dissolving into air. Matt also creates one in-universe for TK, telling him not to look when the crucial moment hits.
** The torturous death of Arukenimon in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' also falls under this. Every hero has to close their eyes from the sight of [=MaloMyotismon=] likely impaling her body twice before finishing her off.

** ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' uses this in a way that doesn't make it even slightly better when [[spoiler:Charlotte bites off Nami's head, and then devours her body]]. While you can't ''see'' it happening, you can ''[[HellIsThatNoise hear]]'' it. The camera never shows teeth meeting flesh, just the lower part of the body twitching, and then it falling (silhouetted) to the ground from a distance, [[OffWithHisHead a bit shorter now.]] In the manga, this is averted. [[NauseaFuel Unfortunately]].