History NeverSayDie / AnimeAndManga

* ''Manga/ZatchBell'':
** ''Zatch Bell'' had one strange example of this trope - in a certain episode telling us the events of Sherry's childhood, we learn that she had AbusiveParents and tried to commit suicide by throwing herself off a bridge on a stormy night. Viz's dub did something weird here - it edited the dialogue to Sherry "walking next to the river and ''almost'' falling", but edited very little of the footage. Most people who watched the dub version will still tell you that she tried to commit suicide.
** The series in general averts the trope sometimes, other times play it straight. One filler character who had his parents dead in the original had them "sent to a hospital" in the dub.

* Interesting case in Studio Ghibli's ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro''. Some time after Mei goes missing, a sandal that looks a lot like hers is found floating on the surface of the lake, and everyone immediately suspects the worst. Satsuki runs to the lake without another word, the old woman next door is seen praying, several dozen people are searching the lake for a body... and yet no one says anything about what they think happened to Mei. No "death," "die," not even "drown." Absolutely ''nothing'' is said about it.

** After Nephrite (Neflite) is killed, there's a story where Naru (Molly) meets a priest at a cemetery. The dub censored out ''all use of the word "priest",'' even referring to him with the curiously non-specific term "person" in the preview for the episode, or in one instance as "a kindly man".

** As for "god," the dubbers have usually replaced it with "sovereign" or something like that. They also seem to be doing away with the word "lord," despite it also having a non-religious definition. In the first series' dub, every bad guy was referred to as "lord" at some point; there's even a scene where [=DemiDevimon=] ''insists'' the Digi-Destined call Myotismon "lord." And there's the [=VenomMyotismon=] arc where the brainwashed humans were chanting, "Myotismon, lord and master!" But in later seasons, the use declined to the point where a character named [=LordKnightmon=] had his name changed first to [[Anime/DigimonFrontier Crusadermon]] (due to his [[ShesAManInJapan effeminacy]]) and then to '''Load'''Knightmon. Now, "master" is more often used.

*** ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': All mentions of death are replaced to being "sent to the stars", though death was still heavily implied. It became rather awkward when [[spoiler:the Supreme King/Jaden's SuperpoweredEvilSide]] went on a genocidal rampage.

** The beginning of the series had even more horrible mangling beyond "another dimension". Take, for example, when Nappa and Vegeta land on Earth for the first time in the middle of a bustling city. Nappa, just for the hell of it, destroys the entire city, and the last thing we see before it goes up in flames is a huge, bewildered crowd of people. The very next line is "They may have evacuated, but that'll teach them!". Yes, the entire town evacuated in ''two seconds''. Talk about [[OutrunTheFireball outrunning the fireball]].
** They also destroyed a building, Vegeta lamenting the fact that it was empty because it was Sunday. Yes, these aliens ''who just arrived'' from another planet and have ''never'' been to Earth before know exactly how we keep track of time and that we take Sundays off in some cultures.
** Then came the scene where Nappa takes out a couple of news vehicles. One, a futuristic hover vehicle, is {{handwave}}d as a drone with nobody aboard, but the second, a chopper, was explicitly shown to have people in it before it blew up. So they [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl4ghsv04V0 dubbed in Tienshinhan's voice]] saying "Look, I can see their parachutes! They're okay." despite the fact that there is clearly no indication of either a parachute, let alone any survivors in the first place.
** Parodied in [[WebVideo/DragonBallAbridged the abridged series]] ("Oh my God! They blew up the cargo robot! And the cargo was people!"), and in the [[WebVideo/AlternateRealityDBZ alternative reality series]] (Frieza, after destroying Planet Vegeta, says "There go all the Saiyans. Oh wait, it's OK, I can see their parachutes!"). It's also {{Parod|y}}ied in the TrappedInTVLand episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''. Timmy tells Vicky in the ''[[Anime/DragonBallZ DBZ]]'' parody that she can have the magic remote "over my cold, non-moving, limited-animation body!"
** Also parodied in ''Buttlord GT''. Snowflake shouts, "Time to send you to ANOTHER DIMENSION!" then crushes his opponent's skull with one hand. And afterwards: "Ah, he's UNCONSCIOUS".
** When Chiaotzu blows himself up trying to take out Nappa, Tien recalls that Chiaotzu has already been wished back to life with the dragon balls once. He shakes his fist and screams, "Now it's gonna be a lot harder to wish him back!" As far as Tien knows, it's ''impossible'' to wish Chiaotzu back -- the Namekian dragon balls are introduced later.

** In the same vein, when Raditz arrives on Earth, he encounters a frightened farmer who shoots at him. He catches the bullet and uses his thumb to shoot it back at the farmer, hard enough that it goes through him and hits his vehicle behind him. He lies motionless, but his voice is heard saying, "That smarts," like he just stubbed his toe but he'll get over it. Some other dubs cut the bit where Raditz throws the bullet back and just show the farmer falling over, presumably to imply that he fainted.
** They pretend that Dende's brother Kargo escaped during the attack on his village by editing the footage of Dodoria's mouth blast (cutting out the part where it hits Kargo and making it look like he just happened to miss Moori despite firing at point-blank range) and having other characters say he got away. After that, multiple characters repeatedly talk as if Kargo is still out there somewhere, despite him never appearing again until Frieza's victims are wished back to life.
** Maiming wasn't safe from sugarcoating either. When Nappa cuts off Tien's arm, they apparently decided it wasn't feasible to edit that much footage, so they just had Tien shout "you just wait until it grows back!" There are some characters who can regrow lost limbs, but Tien isn't one of them.

** The [[Creator/{{Toonzai}} CW4Kids]] [[EditedForSyndication version]] played this straight for the remake, ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'', going so far as to edit dead characters' [[HolyHalo halos]] into "orbs". The Nicktoons version also seems to play it semi-straight -- you can say "die", but you can't say "kill/murder/etc". It seems to be random in which it occurs, even kill has been used a few times. No murder, though, yet.

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'':

* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'':
** The American English-translated version uses this. During the ''Yellow'' arc, for example, the Nerd (who moments earlier was trying to kill Yellow) says that the "defeat" of Misty, Erika, Brock, and Blaine will make everything much more fair. The four react as if he had said "deaths" because... he does. The Viz Kid's version seems to flip between using this trope and averting it. The next mention, where Agatha tries to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kill]] the nerd because HeKnowsTooMuch, they note that the nerd will die if it continues.

*** In the ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' arc episode with Perfect Chaos, several fighter planes are downed while in combat with the monster. The camera shifts to a few people that are lamenting the condition of the city, and then, offscreen, you hear a voice that says "Don't worry! The pilots are okay!" What's even worse is that said people shouldn't even be in the city. They were all evacuated according to an earlier TV report.

* Inverted in ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' where Nyarko and Cuuko talk about how they killed the latter's ClingyJealousGirl cousin Cuune, only for [[OnlySaneMan Mahiro]] to immediately point out that she's not dead, she literally ''is'' trapped in another dimension[[note]]The three aliens set up individual bedrooms in a PocketDimension; when Cuune fell asleep in Cuuko's room, Nyarko closed it up and then removed the door[[/note]].

*** The treatment regarding Maria. In [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog the video games]], she was shot dead/fatally wounded by a G.U.N. soldier. This is canon, and [[CynicismCatalyst plays a good part in Shadow's storyline]]. In the dub, Maria is referred to as "lost" and 'taken away', though from the dialogue and sloppy editing, one could argue that they meant 'take her BODY away'. Close examination of the dialogue such as characters using past tense to refer to Maria, reveals she still died in the dub but without using any direct words such as "died" or "killed."

** ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'' sometimes did this and sometimes didn't; one of the episodes ends with King Dedede [[AntagonistInMourning thinking he'd caused Kirby's death]] and giving him a funeral, only to find out he's still alive. This scene remained unscathed. However, Knuckle Joe's first appearance was hit by this, with him saying [[YouKilledMyFather his father was "destroyed" and he's going to find the one who did this and "do the same thing he did to my father"]]. The episode was otherwise left mostly unedited.

** Despite Takato swearing vengeance against [[spoiler:Beelzemon]] for killing [[spoiler:Leomon]], where you would probably normally hear "I'LL KILL YOU!", even the toned-down dialogue, in the context of the moment, carries some degree of violent suggestion against what he'll do to [[spoiler:Beelzemon]]:
---->'''Takato:''' I'll make you hurt! '''''I'LL MAKE YOU PAY!!!'''''