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* In ''Manhwa/IWish'', people of K's race die by simply leaving behind a small pile of ash.
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* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', Latios, Sir Aaron, and [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath Lucario]] disintegrate once they [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice themselves]].
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** In ''Manga/DragonBall'', Goku does this to a badly beaten Tambourine in their rematch, and when he attempted to run away, Goku, [[KamehameHadoken with his Kamahameha]], blasted him without a trace.
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** In ''Manga/DragonBall'', Goku does this to a badly beaten Tambourine in their rematch, and rematch: when he attempted to run away, Goku, [[KamehameHadoken with his Kamahameha]], blasted him without a trace.
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* Another TearJerker as TeleporterAccident crosses into this towards the end of ''Manga/GiantRobo'' with the death of Ginrei, as what's left of her body disappears.
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* Another TearJerker as TeleporterAccident crosses into this towards the end of ''Manga/GiantRobo'' ''Anime/GiantRobo'' with the death of Ginrei, as what's left of her body disappears.
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* Whenever anyone dies in ''Manga/HoshinEngi'', their body disappears and their soul flies away as a beam of light.
* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'': Happens fairly often to youkai slain by Inu-Yasha. Case in point: Hiten (the elder Thunder Brother) evaporated after Inu-Yasha delivered a [[DiagonalCut fatal blow]] with [[EmpathicWeapon Tessaiga]]. [[NotEnoughToBury The many cases where]] youkai are slain by [[DisintegratorRay sacred arrows]] or the [[KamehameHadoken Wind Scar]], ''et al'', don't count. When Kikyou and Kagura go through RedemptionEqualsDeath storylines, they also leave no bodies behind when they die.
** The black miko Tsubaki unites in the anime with a powerful demon. When he is destroyed, Tsubaki also dies and dissolves.
* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'': Happens fairly often to youkai slain by Inu-Yasha. Case in point: Hiten (the elder Thunder Brother) evaporated after Inu-Yasha delivered a [[DiagonalCut fatal blow]] with [[EmpathicWeapon Tessaiga]]. [[NotEnoughToBury The many cases where]] youkai are slain by [[DisintegratorRay sacred arrows]] or the [[KamehameHadoken Wind Scar]], ''et al'', don't count. When Kikyou and Kagura go through RedemptionEqualsDeath storylines, they also leave no bodies behind when they die.
** The black miko Tsubaki unites in the anime with a powerful demon. When he is destroyed, Tsubaki also dies and dissolves.
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* ''Manga/InuYasha'': Happens fairly often to youkai slain by Inu-Yasha. Case in point: Hiten (the elder Thunder Brother) evaporated after Inu-Yasha delivered a [[DiagonalCut fatal blow]] with [[EmpathicWeapon Tessaiga]]. [[NotEnoughToBury The many cases where]] youkai are slain by [[DisintegratorRay sacred arrows]] or the [[KamehameHadoken Wind Scar]], ''et al'', don't count. When Kikyou and Kagura go through RedemptionEqualsDeath storylines, they also leave no bodies behind when they die.
** The black miko Tsubaki unites in the anime with a powerful demon. When he is destroyed, Tsubaki also dies and dissolves.
** The black miko Tsubaki unites in the anime with a powerful demon. When he is destroyed, Tsubaki also dies and dissolves.
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* Whenever anyone dies in ''Manga/SoulHunter'', their body disappears and their soul flies away as a beam of light.
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*** All versions of Cell who appear in the main series has been hit with this trope. {{JustifiedTrope|Trope}} due to his [[FromASingleCell regenerative properties]] combined with his [[CameBackStrong saiyan genes]]. Present Cell is completely destroyed by Future Trunks and Krillin while still in his larval state. The Cell that is the BigBad of the Cell saga is completely atomised by Super Saiyan 2 Gohan's kamekameha. Future Cell is completely destroyed by Future Trunks' Heat Dome Attack.
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*** All versions of Cell who appear in the main series has been hit with this trope. {{JustifiedTrope|Trope}} {{Justified|Trope}} due to his [[FromASingleCell regenerative properties]] combined with his [[CameBackStrong saiyan genes]]. Present Cell is completely destroyed by Future Trunks and Krillin while still in his larval state. The Cell that is the BigBad of the Cell saga is completely atomised by Super Saiyan 2 Gohan's kamekameha. Future Cell is completely destroyed by Future Trunks' Heat Dome Attack.
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*** When Piccolo [[HeroicSacrifice dies protecting Gohan]], due to their shared life-link, Kami fades away from Mr. Popo telling Mr. Popo that he leaves the rest to him.
*** All versions of Cell who appear in the main series has been hit with this trope. {{JustifiedTrope|Trope}} due to his [[FromASingleCell regenerative properties]] combined with his [[CameBackStrong saiyan genes]]. Present Cell is completely destroyed by Future Trunks and Krillin while still in his larval state. The Cell that is the BigBad of the Cell saga is completely atomised by Super Saiyan 2 Gohan's kamekameha. Future Cell is completely destroyed by Future Trunks' Heat Dome Attack.
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** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': When Beerus kills the present timeline's Zamasu, he completely destroys him, disintegrating his body and leaving no trace of him.
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*** A flashback shows Future Trunks using a Burning Attack to completely vaporize Future Dabura and Future Babidi before they could release Majin Buu.
*** When Beerus kills the present timeline'sZamasu, Zamasu with hakai, he completely destroys him, disintegrating his body and leaving no trace of him.
*** A flashback shows Future Trunks using a Burning Attack to completely vaporize Future Dabura and Future Babidi before they could release Majin Buu.
*** When Beerus kills the present timeline's
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* The homunculi from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' disintegrate into nothingness upon dying, as well as [[spoiler: the Philosopher's Stone at their core that gives them life]]. Dismembered body parts also disintegrate as they're regenerated. In [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime]], however, a few (namely Greed and Pride) melted into red goop.
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* The homunculi from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' disintegrate into nothingness upon dying, as well as [[spoiler: the Philosopher's Stone at their core that gives them life]]. Dismembered body parts also disintegrate as they're regenerated. In [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003 the 2003 anime]], however, a few (namely Greed and Pride) melted into red goop.
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* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': When Panty and Stocking kill a ghost, it explodes. Becomes a plot point when they are tried for the murder of a [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire friendly Ghost,]] as the fact that there was a body meant that they didn't do it.
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* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': When Panty and Stocking kill a ghost, it explodes. Becomes a plot point when they are tried for the murder of a [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire friendly Ghost,]] as the fact that there was a body meant that they didn't do it.it, which their literal [[ItMakesSenseInContext monkey lawyer juiced-up on electricity to the brain]] even points out the photo of the victim presented as the decisive evidence against them actually saved their entire case.
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* In ''LightNovel/BalancingMySupportMagicAndSummoningMagicInADifferentWorld'', the monsters all disappear in a puff of smoke, leaving only some crystals, and whatever weapons or armor they were wearing, behind. It has yet to be explained how this works, as when wounded, they bleed [[AlienBlood blue blood]], and when they rape women, they clearly cover their targets with semen that sticks around even after they are long gone...
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* In ''LightNovel/BalancingMySupportMagicAndSummoningMagicInADifferentWorld'', ''Literature/BalancingMySupportMagicAndSummoningMagicInADifferentWorld'', the monsters all disappear in a puff of smoke, leaving only some crystals, and whatever weapons or armor they were wearing, behind. It has yet to be explained how this works, as when wounded, they bleed [[AlienBlood blue blood]], and when they rape women, they clearly cover their targets with semen that sticks around even after they are long gone...
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* In ''LightNovel/{{Campione}}'' Heretic Gods and Divine Beasts use matter associated with their nature to create bodies, and when killed their bodies revert to that substance. Thus a kraken turns to water and an earth goddess [[spoiler:like Athena]] turns to sand.
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* In ''LightNovel/{{Campione}}'' ''Literature/{{Campione}}'' Heretic Gods and Divine Beasts use matter associated with their nature to create bodies, and when killed their bodies revert to that substance. Thus a kraken turns to water and an earth goddess [[spoiler:like Athena]] turns to sand.
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* Subverted in ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' when Ren slays a dragon terrorizing a nearby village, only to just walk away, leaving the body behind on the mountainside. The body eventually rots, causing the exact same village to suffer a plague, and the dragon eventually resurrects as a [[FromBadToWorse zombie dragon]] and has to be put down ''again'' by Naofumi and burned to destroy the body. When he encounters Ren, he calls him out on leaving the body behind, accusing him of treating the world around him like a game where [[EverythingFades slain enemies just fade away eventually]].
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* Subverted in ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' when Ren slays a dragon terrorizing a nearby village, only to just walk away, leaving the body behind on the mountainside. The body eventually rots, causing the exact same village to suffer a plague, and the dragon eventually resurrects as a [[FromBadToWorse zombie dragon]] and has to be put down ''again'' by Naofumi and burned to destroy the body. When he encounters Ren, he calls him out on leaving the body behind, accusing him of treating the world around him like a game where [[EverythingFades slain enemies just fade away eventually]].
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* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':
** Goku's body fades away when he dies. Kami has taken it to the other world so that Goku can have his body in the afterlife for training. Otherwise, people usually stay put where they died.
** Chiaotzu [[SuicideAttack self-destructs]] in an attempt to take out Nappa, and no body gets left behind. Unfortunately his death is in vain as Nappa is unscathed.
** Piccolo and Guru (the second time) disappear as well.
*** This does NOT happen to the bodies of Burter, Guldo, and Recoome. Even though Guldo and Recoome look like they should have been obliterated by Vegeta's energy blast their corpses are still intact even though they are shown to retain their bodies when we see them in Other World. Jeice, on the other hand, gets completely vaporized, so this trope does apply to him.
** This happens to Krillin when he gets blown up by Frieza.
** Later, when Vegeta [[TakingYouWithMe sacrifices himself in an attempt to kill Buu]], his attack drains so much energy from his body that it turns to stone, which quickly crumbles into dust and is blown away by the wind.
* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': When Beerus kills the present timeline's Zamasu, he completely destroys him, disintegrating his body and leaving no trace of him.
** Goku's body fades away when he dies. Kami has taken it to the other world so that Goku can have his body in the afterlife for training. Otherwise, people usually stay put where they died.
** Chiaotzu [[SuicideAttack self-destructs]] in an attempt to take out Nappa, and no body gets left behind. Unfortunately his death is in vain as Nappa is unscathed.
** Piccolo and Guru (the second time) disappear as well.
*** This does NOT happen to the bodies of Burter, Guldo, and Recoome. Even though Guldo and Recoome look like they should have been obliterated by Vegeta's energy blast their corpses are still intact even though they are shown to retain their bodies when we see them in Other World. Jeice, on the other hand, gets completely vaporized, so this trope does apply to him.
** This happens to Krillin when he gets blown up by Frieza.
** Later, when Vegeta [[TakingYouWithMe sacrifices himself in an attempt to kill Buu]], his attack drains so much energy from his body that it turns to stone, which quickly crumbles into dust and is blown away by the wind.
* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': When Beerus kills the present timeline's Zamasu, he completely destroys him, disintegrating his body and leaving no trace of him.
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** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':
** *** Goku's body fades away when he dies. Kami has taken it to the other world so that Goku can have his body in the afterlife for training. Otherwise, people usually stay put where they died.
** *** Chiaotzu [[SuicideAttack self-destructs]] in an attempt to take out Nappa, and no body gets left behind. Unfortunately his death is in vain as Nappa is unscathed.
** *** Piccolo and Guru (the second time) disappear as well.
*** [[SubvertedTrope This does NOThappen happen]] to the bodies of Burter, Guldo, and Recoome. Even though Guldo and Recoome look like they should have been obliterated by Vegeta's energy blast their corpses are still intact even though they are shown to retain their bodies when we see them in Other World. Jeice, on the other hand, gets completely vaporized, so this trope does apply to him.
** *** This happens to Krillin when he gets blown up by Frieza.
** *** Later, when Vegeta [[TakingYouWithMe sacrifices himself in an attempt to kill Buu]], his attack drains so much energy from his body that it turns to stone, which quickly crumbles into dust and is blown away by the wind.
* ** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': When Beerus kills the present timeline's Zamasu, he completely destroys him, disintegrating his body and leaving no trace of him.
** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':
*** [[SubvertedTrope This does NOT
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* In ''LightNovel/HaremInTheLabyrinthOfAnotherWorld'', whenever a monster is slain, it dissolves into smoke and leaves loot behind. Nobody understands how this happens, nor cares to try and find out, not even Michio, the protagonist. When this happens to antagonists, or others inside a labyrinth, it's justified by the fact that labyrinths are actually living things and eat whoever dies inside them.
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* In ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'', the Anime and Light Novel[=/=]Manga differ on this. In the Anime a monster dissolves as soon as it is killed, but in the LN and Manga the bodies of monsters don't dissolve until their crystal is removed. The anime changing this leaves a slight PlotHole because the reason Lili and Bell are able to make so much more money working together is that Lili carves up the bodies while Bell focuses on fighting, meaning he doesn't have to waste time carving them himself. Ironically though the anime does show a scene where Bell defeats a monster just by destroying it's crystal.
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Times where [[NoBodyLeftBehind no body is left behind after death]] in {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}.
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* Naturally shows up in ''Franchise/DotHack''. When a monster is killed, it slumps to the ground, then vanishes. When a PC is killed, their body goes limp, and turns grey, and vanishes if there's no-one left to revive them. When someone gets data-drained, however, their sprite starts fragmenting, and drifts away piece by piece.
* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', any body parts cut off a Titan dissolves into steam and smoke. Their whole body dissolves if they are killed.
* In ''LightNovel/BalancingMySupportMagicAndSummoningMagicInADifferentWorld'', the monsters all disappear in a puff of smoke, leaving only some crystals, and whatever weapons or armor they were wearing, behind. It has yet to be explained how this works, as when wounded, they bleed [[AlienBlood blue blood]], and when they rape women, they clearly cover their targets with semen that sticks around even after they are long gone...
* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', low-level hollows dissolve when they are killed, while the bodies of most Arrancar and shinigami can last a few hours before breaking down (there are some exceptions, related to the manner in which they were killed).
* In ''LightNovel/{{Campione}}'' Heretic Gods and Divine Beasts use matter associated with their nature to create bodies, and when killed their bodies revert to that substance. Thus a kraken turns to water and an earth goddess [[spoiler:like Athena]] turns to sand.
* When a robot dies in ''Anime/CasshernSins'' it turns to dust due to the rapid rusting caused by the Ruin.
* In ''Manga/DeathNote'' when [[spoiler:Shinigami die]], they dissolve into sand.
* Thoroughly averted in ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'', since the party needs to harvest the corpses in order to get ingredients. This includes draining the blood, deboning them, etc.
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
** Digimon dissolve into data upon death. Occasionally, good Digimon revert to digieggs for plot-related purposes.
** In ''Manga/DigimonVTamer01'', only those who end their own program leave eggs behind.
** In ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', [[AllDeathsFinal nobody leaves eggs]], though their physical data remains and can be reformatted to create another Digimon, such as Mephistomon or the Devas.
** Also in ''Tames'', agents of the D-Reaper dissolve once destroyed.
** Pointedly averted in ''Anime/DigimonXEvolution'', where the only times a Digimon disappeared like that is if they were NOT dead, and if they were dead, their body WAS left behind.
* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':
** Goku's body fades away when he dies. Kami has taken it to the other world so that Goku can have his body in the afterlife for training. Otherwise, people usually stay put where they died.
** Chiaotzu [[SuicideAttack self-destructs]] in an attempt to take out Nappa, and no body gets left behind. Unfortunately his death is in vain as Nappa is unscathed.
** Piccolo and Guru (the second time) disappear as well.
*** This does NOT happen to the bodies of Burter, Guldo, and Recoome. Even though Guldo and Recoome look like they should have been obliterated by Vegeta's energy blast their corpses are still intact even though they are shown to retain their bodies when we see them in Other World. Jeice, on the other hand, gets completely vaporized, so this trope does apply to him.
** This happens to Krillin when he gets blown up by Frieza.
** Later, when Vegeta [[TakingYouWithMe sacrifices himself in an attempt to kill Buu]], his attack drains so much energy from his body that it turns to stone, which quickly crumbles into dust and is blown away by the wind.
* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': When Beerus kills the present timeline's Zamasu, he completely destroys him, disintegrating his body and leaving no trace of him.
* The homunculi from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' disintegrate into nothingness upon dying, as well as [[spoiler: the Philosopher's Stone at their core that gives them life]]. Dismembered body parts also disintegrate as they're regenerated. In [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime]], however, a few (namely Greed and Pride) melted into red goop.
* If a ''Manga/FutureDiary'' holder's diary gets destroyed, their body disappears in a vortex. Holders can still die any other way; the vortex only appears with this specific method. Yuno was rather put out with this revelation as [[AxCrazy she'd]] been expecting LudicrousGibs.
* In ''Manga/GetBackers'', [[spoiler:Amon]]'s body dissolves into feathers after he [[spoiler:gave his heart to Shido to bring him back to life. Shido's body stuck around, possible because his death was more mundane]].
* Another TearJerker as TeleporterAccident crosses into this towards the end of ''Manga/GiantRobo'' with the death of Ginrei, as what's left of her body disappears.
* The Zoanoids in ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'' (anime & manga) are engineered to dissolve after dying, in order to leave no evidence of their existence.
* In ''LightNovel/HaremInTheLabyrinthOfAnotherWorld'', whenever a monster is slain, it dissolves into smoke and leaves loot behind. Nobody understands how this happens, nor cares to try and find out, not even Michio, the protagonist. When this happens to antagonists, or others inside a labyrinth, it's justified by the fact that labyrinths are actually living things and eat whoever dies inside them.
* In ''Manhwa/IWish'', people of K's race die by simply leaving behind a small pile of ash.
* In ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'', the Anime and Light Novel[=/=]Manga differ on this. In the Anime a monster dissolves as soon as it is killed, but in the LN and Manga the bodies of monsters don't dissolve until their crystal is removed. The anime changing this leaves a slight PlotHole because the reason Lili and Bell are able to make so much more money working together is that Lili carves up the bodies while Bell focuses on fighting, meaning he doesn't have to waste time carving them himself. Ironically though the anime does show a scene where Bell defeats a monster just by destroying it's crystal.
* ''Manga/InuYasha'': Happens fairly often to youkai slain by Inu-Yasha. Case in point: Hiten (the elder Thunder Brother) evaporated after Inu-Yasha delivered a [[DiagonalCut fatal blow]] with [[EmpathicWeapon Tessaiga]]. [[NotEnoughToBury The many cases where]] youkai are slain by [[DisintegratorRay sacred arrows]] or the [[KamehameHadoken Wind Scar]], ''et al'', don't count. When Kikyou and Kagura go through RedemptionEqualsDeath storylines, they also leave no bodies behind when they die.
** The black miko Tsubaki unites in the anime with a powerful demon. When he is destroyed, Tsubaki also dies and dissolves.
* [[spoiler:Carrossea]]'s body in ''Anime/{{Madlax}}'' presumably disappears off-screen as it is never shown after the episode when he dies. That is probably because he was DeadAllAlong.
* ''Anime/MyHime'':
** Whenever someone dies as a result of the [=HiME=] battles, the victim's heart stops, then their body's color fades, finally ending with slow dissolution into green sparks. [[spoiler:Haruka, because she's a BadassNormal, simply refuses to "just die", preferring to get in a parting shot at Shizuru after [[WhatTheHellHero calling her out]] on her "disgusting behavior".]]
** In the ElseWorld sequel ''Anime/MyOtome'', the same thing happens to any Otome/Master or Slave/Master relationship. ''My-Otome'''s problem is that it was porting over yet another familiar element from ''My-[=HiME=]'' while ignoring that the logic ''that'' series used for the sparkly deaths was [[ContextSensitiveButton specifically for raising the columns and powering the HiME star]].
* [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Kira]] users in ''Manga/NabariNoOu'' fade into dust when they die. Their clothes don't dissolve, leaving an interesting scene.
* Late into the Magic World arc in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', a special attack is introduced that causes anyone it hits to vanish in seconds. This only affects (most) residents of the magic world [[spoiler:because said residents are actually part of an elaborate illusion, with the attack simply hacking them back out of existence]].
* In ''Manga/{{Noragami}}'', ayakashi spirits, upon defeat, disintegrate into nothing.
** [[spoiler: Ebisu]]'s body disappears with an explosion of blood, leaving only behind their bloodied clothes.
* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': When Panty and Stocking kill a ghost, it explodes. Becomes a plot point when they are tried for the murder of a [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire friendly Ghost,]] as the fact that there was a body meant that they didn't do it.
* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', Latios, Sir Aaron, and [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath Lucario]] disintegrate once they [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice themselves]].
* Anything that dies in ''Manga/{{Psyren}}'' dissolves into sand in a few minutes, due to [[spoiler:the changes in the environment after the meteor hit Earth]].
* In the final episode of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' you can briefly see [[spoiler:the body of a MagicalGirl doing this]]. It's hard to see though because the shot is panning out and she's dressed in green while laying on grass. [[spoiler:This now happens to every MagicalGirl upon death because of Madoka's wish.]] Evidence to support this is that [[spoiler:Sayaka didn't leave a body behind either]].
* Subverted in ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' when Ren slays a dragon terrorizing a nearby village, only to just walk away, leaving the body behind on the mountainside. The body eventually rots, causing the exact same village to suffer a plague, and the dragon eventually resurrects as a [[FromBadToWorse zombie dragon]] and has to be put down ''again'' by Naofumi and burned to destroy the body. When he encounters Ren, he calls him out on leaving the body behind, accusing him of treating the world around him like a game where [[EverythingFades slain enemies just fade away eventually]].
* Plenty of examples in ''Anime/SailorMoon'':
** Neflite/Nephrite is probably one of the more well-known examples, although it happens constantly to both villains and heroes. The latter obviously come BackFromTheDead in season finales.
** {{Averted|Trope}} in the first season finale: When the SphereOfDestruction from Sailor Moon's final attack starts consuming the area around the Dark Kingdom, the bodies of the four Senshi are shown still laying in the same places they fell.
** In the anime series, this happen a lot of times with the MonsterOfTheWeek, which are usually disintegrated or turned into dust once they are defeated.
* In ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', the final barrier between the [[{{Hell}} Hades]] and [[{{Heaven}} Elysium]] is the Wall Of Lamentation, seemingly indestructible. Only by channeling the [[BattleAura Cosmo]] of the [[LawOfChromaticSuperiority Twelve Gold Saints]] of the [[WesternZodiac Zodiac Houses]], and creating [[CueTheSun sunlight]] in the depths of Hades, can it be breached. All Gold Saints, living or dead, friends or foes, [[CombinedEnergyAttack burn their Cosmo]], there is a blinding burst of light... And Shun and Seiya can only [[ManlyTears weep]], for all that is left of the heroic Saints of Athena is their [[PoweredArmor Gold Cloths]] shining in their wake.
* In ''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo'', this becomes a case of Chekov's corpse. When members of the Mibu clan die or are killed, their bodies vanish into nothingness. Near the end it is revealed that this happens because [[spoiler:the members of the Mibu clan are in fact puppets created by the long dead True Mibu, and vanish into nothing because they were originally created from nothing]].
* A real TearJerker towards the end of ''[[Anime/{{Scryed}} s-CRY-ed]]'' when Ryoho awakens from near-death to find a pile of clothes and a recognizable hairclip. Scheris had saved his life using Eternal Devote, but doing so [[HeroicSacrifice had completely consumed her]]. The emotional shock of this causes Ryuho's emotionless shell to break and for a while he breaks down in weeping, urged on by Kazuma telling him there's no shame in mourning.
* Whenever anyone dies in ''Manga/SoulHunter'', their body disappears and their soul flies away as a beam of light.
* This happens to [[spoiler:Nia Teppelin]] from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' in the final episode.
* In ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Stakes of Purgatory]] do this when they die.
* ''Anime/YuGiOh'':
** Happens in ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' when [[BackFromTheDead Dark Signers]] [[KilledOffForReal die]] -- upon their death, they crumble to dust.
** In the third season of ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', [[CerebusSyndrome people actually start dying]]. When this happens on camera instead of falling off a cliff, the people/duel monsters tend to glow bright white then fade into dust that blows away.
** Worth noting that in both series [[UnexplainedRecovery they got better]].
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'''As a DeathTrope, this naturally involves spoilers.'''
Times where [[NoBodyLeftBehind no body is left behind after death]] in {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}.
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* Naturally shows up in ''Franchise/DotHack''. When a monster is killed, it slumps to the ground, then vanishes. When a PC is killed, their body goes limp, and turns grey, and vanishes if there's no-one left to revive them. When someone gets data-drained, however, their sprite starts fragmenting, and drifts away piece by piece.
* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', any body parts cut off a Titan dissolves into steam and smoke. Their whole body dissolves if they are killed.
* In ''LightNovel/BalancingMySupportMagicAndSummoningMagicInADifferentWorld'', the monsters all disappear in a puff of smoke, leaving only some crystals, and whatever weapons or armor they were wearing, behind. It has yet to be explained how this works, as when wounded, they bleed [[AlienBlood blue blood]], and when they rape women, they clearly cover their targets with semen that sticks around even after they are long gone...
* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', low-level hollows dissolve when they are killed, while the bodies of most Arrancar and shinigami can last a few hours before breaking down (there are some exceptions, related to the manner in which they were killed).
* In ''LightNovel/{{Campione}}'' Heretic Gods and Divine Beasts use matter associated with their nature to create bodies, and when killed their bodies revert to that substance. Thus a kraken turns to water and an earth goddess [[spoiler:like Athena]] turns to sand.
* When a robot dies in ''Anime/CasshernSins'' it turns to dust due to the rapid rusting caused by the Ruin.
* In ''Manga/DeathNote'' when [[spoiler:Shinigami die]], they dissolve into sand.
* Thoroughly averted in ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'', since the party needs to harvest the corpses in order to get ingredients. This includes draining the blood, deboning them, etc.
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
** Digimon dissolve into data upon death. Occasionally, good Digimon revert to digieggs for plot-related purposes.
** In ''Manga/DigimonVTamer01'', only those who end their own program leave eggs behind.
** In ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', [[AllDeathsFinal nobody leaves eggs]], though their physical data remains and can be reformatted to create another Digimon, such as Mephistomon or the Devas.
** Also in ''Tames'', agents of the D-Reaper dissolve once destroyed.
** Pointedly averted in ''Anime/DigimonXEvolution'', where the only times a Digimon disappeared like that is if they were NOT dead, and if they were dead, their body WAS left behind.
* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':
** Goku's body fades away when he dies. Kami has taken it to the other world so that Goku can have his body in the afterlife for training. Otherwise, people usually stay put where they died.
** Chiaotzu [[SuicideAttack self-destructs]] in an attempt to take out Nappa, and no body gets left behind. Unfortunately his death is in vain as Nappa is unscathed.
** Piccolo and Guru (the second time) disappear as well.
*** This does NOT happen to the bodies of Burter, Guldo, and Recoome. Even though Guldo and Recoome look like they should have been obliterated by Vegeta's energy blast their corpses are still intact even though they are shown to retain their bodies when we see them in Other World. Jeice, on the other hand, gets completely vaporized, so this trope does apply to him.
** This happens to Krillin when he gets blown up by Frieza.
** Later, when Vegeta [[TakingYouWithMe sacrifices himself in an attempt to kill Buu]], his attack drains so much energy from his body that it turns to stone, which quickly crumbles into dust and is blown away by the wind.
* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': When Beerus kills the present timeline's Zamasu, he completely destroys him, disintegrating his body and leaving no trace of him.
* The homunculi from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' disintegrate into nothingness upon dying, as well as [[spoiler: the Philosopher's Stone at their core that gives them life]]. Dismembered body parts also disintegrate as they're regenerated. In [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime]], however, a few (namely Greed and Pride) melted into red goop.
* If a ''Manga/FutureDiary'' holder's diary gets destroyed, their body disappears in a vortex. Holders can still die any other way; the vortex only appears with this specific method. Yuno was rather put out with this revelation as [[AxCrazy she'd]] been expecting LudicrousGibs.
* In ''Manga/GetBackers'', [[spoiler:Amon]]'s body dissolves into feathers after he [[spoiler:gave his heart to Shido to bring him back to life. Shido's body stuck around, possible because his death was more mundane]].
* Another TearJerker as TeleporterAccident crosses into this towards the end of ''Manga/GiantRobo'' with the death of Ginrei, as what's left of her body disappears.
* The Zoanoids in ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'' (anime & manga) are engineered to dissolve after dying, in order to leave no evidence of their existence.
* In ''LightNovel/HaremInTheLabyrinthOfAnotherWorld'', whenever a monster is slain, it dissolves into smoke and leaves loot behind. Nobody understands how this happens, nor cares to try and find out, not even Michio, the protagonist. When this happens to antagonists, or others inside a labyrinth, it's justified by the fact that labyrinths are actually living things and eat whoever dies inside them.
* In ''Manhwa/IWish'', people of K's race die by simply leaving behind a small pile of ash.
* In ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'', the Anime and Light Novel[=/=]Manga differ on this. In the Anime a monster dissolves as soon as it is killed, but in the LN and Manga the bodies of monsters don't dissolve until their crystal is removed. The anime changing this leaves a slight PlotHole because the reason Lili and Bell are able to make so much more money working together is that Lili carves up the bodies while Bell focuses on fighting, meaning he doesn't have to waste time carving them himself. Ironically though the anime does show a scene where Bell defeats a monster just by destroying it's crystal.
* ''Manga/InuYasha'': Happens fairly often to youkai slain by Inu-Yasha. Case in point: Hiten (the elder Thunder Brother) evaporated after Inu-Yasha delivered a [[DiagonalCut fatal blow]] with [[EmpathicWeapon Tessaiga]]. [[NotEnoughToBury The many cases where]] youkai are slain by [[DisintegratorRay sacred arrows]] or the [[KamehameHadoken Wind Scar]], ''et al'', don't count. When Kikyou and Kagura go through RedemptionEqualsDeath storylines, they also leave no bodies behind when they die.
** The black miko Tsubaki unites in the anime with a powerful demon. When he is destroyed, Tsubaki also dies and dissolves.
* [[spoiler:Carrossea]]'s body in ''Anime/{{Madlax}}'' presumably disappears off-screen as it is never shown after the episode when he dies. That is probably because he was DeadAllAlong.
* ''Anime/MyHime'':
** Whenever someone dies as a result of the [=HiME=] battles, the victim's heart stops, then their body's color fades, finally ending with slow dissolution into green sparks. [[spoiler:Haruka, because she's a BadassNormal, simply refuses to "just die", preferring to get in a parting shot at Shizuru after [[WhatTheHellHero calling her out]] on her "disgusting behavior".]]
** In the ElseWorld sequel ''Anime/MyOtome'', the same thing happens to any Otome/Master or Slave/Master relationship. ''My-Otome'''s problem is that it was porting over yet another familiar element from ''My-[=HiME=]'' while ignoring that the logic ''that'' series used for the sparkly deaths was [[ContextSensitiveButton specifically for raising the columns and powering the HiME star]].
* [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Kira]] users in ''Manga/NabariNoOu'' fade into dust when they die. Their clothes don't dissolve, leaving an interesting scene.
* Late into the Magic World arc in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', a special attack is introduced that causes anyone it hits to vanish in seconds. This only affects (most) residents of the magic world [[spoiler:because said residents are actually part of an elaborate illusion, with the attack simply hacking them back out of existence]].
* In ''Manga/{{Noragami}}'', ayakashi spirits, upon defeat, disintegrate into nothing.
** [[spoiler: Ebisu]]'s body disappears with an explosion of blood, leaving only behind their bloodied clothes.
* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': When Panty and Stocking kill a ghost, it explodes. Becomes a plot point when they are tried for the murder of a [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire friendly Ghost,]] as the fact that there was a body meant that they didn't do it.
* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', Latios, Sir Aaron, and [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath Lucario]] disintegrate once they [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice themselves]].
* Anything that dies in ''Manga/{{Psyren}}'' dissolves into sand in a few minutes, due to [[spoiler:the changes in the environment after the meteor hit Earth]].
* In the final episode of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' you can briefly see [[spoiler:the body of a MagicalGirl doing this]]. It's hard to see though because the shot is panning out and she's dressed in green while laying on grass. [[spoiler:This now happens to every MagicalGirl upon death because of Madoka's wish.]] Evidence to support this is that [[spoiler:Sayaka didn't leave a body behind either]].
* Subverted in ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' when Ren slays a dragon terrorizing a nearby village, only to just walk away, leaving the body behind on the mountainside. The body eventually rots, causing the exact same village to suffer a plague, and the dragon eventually resurrects as a [[FromBadToWorse zombie dragon]] and has to be put down ''again'' by Naofumi and burned to destroy the body. When he encounters Ren, he calls him out on leaving the body behind, accusing him of treating the world around him like a game where [[EverythingFades slain enemies just fade away eventually]].
* Plenty of examples in ''Anime/SailorMoon'':
** Neflite/Nephrite is probably one of the more well-known examples, although it happens constantly to both villains and heroes. The latter obviously come BackFromTheDead in season finales.
** {{Averted|Trope}} in the first season finale: When the SphereOfDestruction from Sailor Moon's final attack starts consuming the area around the Dark Kingdom, the bodies of the four Senshi are shown still laying in the same places they fell.
** In the anime series, this happen a lot of times with the MonsterOfTheWeek, which are usually disintegrated or turned into dust once they are defeated.
* In ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', the final barrier between the [[{{Hell}} Hades]] and [[{{Heaven}} Elysium]] is the Wall Of Lamentation, seemingly indestructible. Only by channeling the [[BattleAura Cosmo]] of the [[LawOfChromaticSuperiority Twelve Gold Saints]] of the [[WesternZodiac Zodiac Houses]], and creating [[CueTheSun sunlight]] in the depths of Hades, can it be breached. All Gold Saints, living or dead, friends or foes, [[CombinedEnergyAttack burn their Cosmo]], there is a blinding burst of light... And Shun and Seiya can only [[ManlyTears weep]], for all that is left of the heroic Saints of Athena is their [[PoweredArmor Gold Cloths]] shining in their wake.
* In ''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo'', this becomes a case of Chekov's corpse. When members of the Mibu clan die or are killed, their bodies vanish into nothingness. Near the end it is revealed that this happens because [[spoiler:the members of the Mibu clan are in fact puppets created by the long dead True Mibu, and vanish into nothing because they were originally created from nothing]].
* A real TearJerker towards the end of ''[[Anime/{{Scryed}} s-CRY-ed]]'' when Ryoho awakens from near-death to find a pile of clothes and a recognizable hairclip. Scheris had saved his life using Eternal Devote, but doing so [[HeroicSacrifice had completely consumed her]]. The emotional shock of this causes Ryuho's emotionless shell to break and for a while he breaks down in weeping, urged on by Kazuma telling him there's no shame in mourning.
* Whenever anyone dies in ''Manga/SoulHunter'', their body disappears and their soul flies away as a beam of light.
* This happens to [[spoiler:Nia Teppelin]] from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' in the final episode.
* In ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Stakes of Purgatory]] do this when they die.
* ''Anime/YuGiOh'':
** Happens in ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' when [[BackFromTheDead Dark Signers]] [[KilledOffForReal die]] -- upon their death, they crumble to dust.
** In the third season of ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', [[CerebusSyndrome people actually start dying]]. When this happens on camera instead of falling off a cliff, the people/duel monsters tend to glow bright white then fade into dust that blows away.
** Worth noting that in both series [[UnexplainedRecovery they got better]].
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