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6	!!As a {{Death Trope\|s}}, contains many spoilers. Tread with care.
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8	Times where AnyoneCanDie in {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}.
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11	* Not-dying is actually a task in ''Manga/SevenSeeds''. It takes place after TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, so the death toll is pretty large. The people who have died to date are majority of humanity of course, all but one member of Team Winter, every candidate for Team Summer A except the seven that were chosen for it, everyone in the Ryugu Shelter and three out of four guides for the teams.
12	* No one is safe in ''Manga/AirGear''. Though they do [[OnlyMostlyDead come back]] sometimes.
13	* ''Manga/AkameGaKill'' has become pretty well known for this. By the end of the manga, side characters are {{Red Shirt}}s, almost everyone from Team Wild Hunt is dead, and both the Jaegars and ''especially'' Night Raid have lost all but a few of their squad members and all that survived are irreparably maimed or changed in some way. The anime, meanwhile, nearly went full EverybodyDiesEnding in a GeckoEnding.
14	* ''Anime/AngelBeats'' may look like a series where nobody can die because they are...ya know, already dead, but it later revealed that the purpose of the place is to make the souls who had a troubled life come to terms with their lives and move on to next time, which more or less erases their existence in that plane completely and dying. So it's not that AnyoneCanDie. Everyone WILL die.
15	* Kaori Yuki in ''Manga/AngelSanctuary'' kills of a lot of the cast. It does not matter if you are human, angel, demon or whatsoever. Though, being main-casty gives you a bit of a protection. (Of course, depending on what your definition of main cast happens to be.)
16	* In the anime for ''Literature/{{Another}}'', practically one person dies per episode after the first two exposition/introductory episodes, usually in a pretty brutal or gory fashion due to a curse in a certain classroom...
17	* This trope goes full effect in ''Manga/AsTheGodsWill'' and its sequel, indiscriminately killing off scores of high school students in what can amount to fun and games. As for how many? Out of all the students that participated, initially 319 people survived, and the death counter is still rising.
18	* Surprisingly, ''Manga/AstroBoy'' uses this trope. People don't die that often, but nobody's too important to die. And we mean ''nobody.''
19	* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' is brutal when it comes to killing off characters given that they're fighting for their survival against man-eating naked giants. By the series' end, you can barely count how many in the Survey Corps and their allies survive.
20	* ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}''. Anyone can die... and by the end, [[EverybodyDiesEnding everyone]] '''[[EverybodyDiesEnding does]]''' [[EverybodyDiesEnding die]].
21	* In ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita'', aside from Alita (and even then...), there are absolutely no guarantees that anyone won't be offed later on in the series, AND you will generally have no clue as to when or who it'll be until it actually happens.
22	* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': people around Guts have a tendency to die horribly (including the near entirety of the Band of the Hawk due to the Eclipse).
23	* ''Manga/BlackGod'' doesn't pull any punches either. The very first episode kills off the protagonist's [[GenkiGirl best friend]] and his next-door neighbor's [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath 10 year old daughter.]] From then on, all but a few of the named character that appear, die.
24	* ''Manga/BlackButler'' enjoys delving into these antics frequently.
25	** Nearly all of the Noah's Ark Circus' members, who were the centre of an entire arc, are killed in a myriad of ways.
26	** Sebastian appears to be brutally murdered, though it turns out to just be an act.
27	*** In the the same arc, random guests at the Phantomhive manor are killed by a mysterious murderer.
28	* During ''Anime/BloodPlus'', several major characters are killed off for good [[spoiler:, including Saya's father and brother, who die in a particularly horrible manner.]]
29	* ''Anime/BloodC'' is even worse in the 6th episode: two major characters (as well as a truckload of random bystanders) are killed brutally, and in the 8th and 9th episode Saya's class (except for the ClassRepresentative) are all killed viciously. [[spoiler: However, those major characters turned out to be [[FakingTheDead faking]] and in the last episode '''EVERYBODY''' except Saya, Yuka and the BigBad dies.]]
30	* ''Anime/BlueGender'' has a similarly poor track record. Aside from a few extras introduced the episode before the end, only two named characters make it through the series alive.
31	** It was made clear fairly early on this would be the case. The first episode introduces 8 named characters. By the end of the second episode, four of them are dead, three within less than a minute of each other.
32	* ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'', made clear when it kills off the DecoyProtagonist in episode two, and then outright writing it in stone that not only can anyone die, but just about everyone ''will'' die.
33	* ''Literature/BookOfBantorra'' does this religiously. Nearly every new character introduced will be shot, stabbed, blown up, eaten, or lit on fire by the end of the arc. The creators, just to stick it to the audience, have no problem killing off [[EnsembleCast main characters]], either. One of the most memorable deaths being Volken, who's murdered after [[WasItAllALie finding out everything he fought for was a lie.]]
34	* In ''Manga/ChainsawMan'', no one is exempt from suddenly getting killed by some horrifying new enemy, not even the protagonist Denji, but he has resurrective powers. None of the other main characters do, and this series isn't afraid to off even characters Denji has befriended and fought alongside for many {{Story Arc}}s. Major threats are indicated by them casually and effortlessly killing off a few main characters who were introduced early on, as sort of a lethal variant of TheWorfEffect.
35	* ''Anime/LeChevalierDeon'' uses this trope ruthlessly. At the end of the series, there is only ONE main character left alive, out of a cast of perhaps 10 major players.
36	* ''Manga/ChoujinSensen'': It doesn't matter whether the selected players have superpowers or not, one of them will die, and the other will survive in a death match.
37	* ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' did this to almost the entire main cast.
38	* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' is noted for this trope, in that nobody except perhaps Clare and Raki are truly safe, and even ''that'' is stretched to its limit several times. The Northern Campaign had about a half-dozen notable Claymores killed unceremoniously. And [[PosthumousCharacter Theresa of the Faint Smile]] certainly ''feels'' like a protagonist once you see her backstory -- the segment which delves into her and Clare's backstory together makes her feel like TheHero of the story, and had it been told from the very beginning it would have made her being a rather effective DecoyProtagonist.
39	* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' mostly plays this straight during its first season. Examples include: Clovis, the first notable antagonist whose early exit surprised many fans. Mao, PsychopathicManchild and Geass user who somehow survived his initial stint as arc villain only to finally die an episode later. Euphemia, the RebelliousPrincess who became [[SacrificialLion increasingly important to the plot as time went on]]. But the second series tends to [[NotQuiteDead subvert the trope]] more often than not, something that displeased many viewers. Nevertheless, Shirley (the NaiveEverygirl love interest with her own long-running subplot dating back to the first season), Rolo (the TykeBomb manipulated into becoming Lelouch's newest subordinate at the beginning of R2), Charles Zi Brittania (Lelouch's father, the BigBad and main target of his revenge) and, ultimately, ''even Lelouch, the protagonist himself'', were killed off.
40	* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' uses this trope heavily during the last episodes. The last couple of arcs see recurring antagonists November 11 and Wei, November's boss, TheHandler Huang, most of [[LaResistance Evening Primrose]], and DeliberatelyCuteChild Amber killed off, and [[TalkingAnimal Mao]] gets reverted to a normal cat. (Though Mao got better in the sequel and at least one EPR member, Amigiri, is shown to have made it out alive.) And so many people tend to die in the course of an arc that focuses on them that it's often both a surprise and a relief when someone makes it out okay.
41	** Season 2 wastes no time in killing off a kid introduced as something like ThoseTwoGuys, an AntiVillain from the previous season, and [[FakingTheDead to all appearances]] a main character's father. Casualties continue apace with Suou's best-friend-turned-evil, TheTeamNormal of the QuirkyMinibossSquad ([[CruelAndUnusualDeath gruesomely]]), and as far as we can make out through a MindScrew of Evangelion-like proportions, Suou, July, and Yin all dying in the finale. Oh, and Genma, but he had it coming see above re: TheTeamNormal. Protip: Do not torture someone to death whose girlfriend is a PsychoLesbian ActionGirl with a [[LaserBlade laser]] [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]].
42	* ''Manga/DeadTube'''s setting is about a video hosting website that allows users to upload {{Snuff Film}}s, and even encourage said content by paying them money for it; aside that, there's Machiya's seemly unrelated group of supporting characters, the Film Research Club, all named and good friends of his, joint together for a common hobby of movie making. Only five chapters in, and all of the Film Research Club turn out to be snuff movie-loving psychos themselves who all lied and played Machiya like a fool, even secretly loathing him behind his back. Machiya answers with opening a stage for all their deaths, resulting in seven out of out of the eleven named characters introduced in six chapters dying because this string of betrayals alone.
43	* ''Anime/DeadmanWonderland'' also has a somewhat high body count, though due to the anime only covering part of the story and removing some characters, it doesn't seem to be as jarring as the manga. In the 12 episodes of the anime, two major characters get killed off suddenly [[SupportingLeader Nagi]] and [[CreepyChild Hibana]], along with numerous members of [[LaResistance Scar Chain]] and various one-shot characters. In the manga, more die in addition to the previous two; [[{{Tsundere}} Azami]], [[CreepyTwins En and Chan]] and [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Tamaki]]. Some other characters get crippled or lose limbs, but in a metaphorical sense another character dies when her evil SplitPersonality fully takes over her, turning Shiro from a NiceGirl who sometimes becomes evil briefly, into a monstrous sociopath seemingly permanently... unless [[TheHero Ganta]] uses his power and a machine called the Mother Goose System to reverse this, though the process would ''kill him instead'.
44	** Everyone seemed (relatively) safe for a little bit, after Deadman Wonderland actually closed down...but of course, the protagonists (and others) returned due to powerful and dangerous things (or people, in the case of the Wretched Egg and Hagire) left over in Deadman Wonderland. The Japan Self Defense Force went in to find out how to give people BloodyMurder powers like the Deadmen...and got slaughtered by Hagire. Then the protagonists teamed up to kill Hagire, though Hagire killed Yosuga before he went down for good.
45	* ''Manga/DeathNote'' lives up to its name. No character's survival is guaranteed. The body count of minor and major characters alike grows so high as the series progresses that there's suspense not in wondering who will die, but who ''won't''.
46	* While ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' is very idealistic and perhaps even formulaic, death among named and well-rounded characters is quite common.
47	* ''Franchise/{{Devilman}}'' in nearly all of its adaptations; absolutely no one is spared, hero or villain, minor or major, child or adult. It reaches the point that by the end of the series, [[spoiler: ''everybody is dead'', and works like ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'' and ''Manga/ViolenceJack'' strongly imply that [[EternalRecurrence they're going to relive their deaths again]]]]. The only exception to the rule is the 1972 anime, and even then, Akira Fudo himself dies at the very beginning (the Akira we see is just Amon posessing his corpse).
48	* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
49	** ''Manga/DragonBall'' and ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' live and breathe this trope since, thanks to the Dragon Balls, the afterlife of this series [[DeathIsCheap has a revolving door]]. Seriously, by the time the series is over, the only non-one-shot characters who havn't been killed, or at the very least sent to death's door and healed just in time[[note]]those being Bee, Majin Buu's pet dog, and Shin, a.k.a. the Supreme Kai[[/note]], are Fortuneteller Baba and Mr. Satan (Hercule in the dub), the FakeUltimateHero who, through this and a few other things, proves to be a BadassNormal.
50	** Technically, there's also King Yemma and his ogres, but how alive they are is up for debate.
51	** In ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', Pan, Goku and Hercule's granddaughter, is the only character never to get killed.
52	* ''Manga/ElfenLied'' tends to kill off its minor characters, and is good at convincing the audience that it will kill all the main ones eventually. And invisible razor arms mean they won't see it coming.
53	** To wit: A minor female character who is very quickly established to be a PluckyComicRelief CuteClumsyGirl and thus a potential EnsembleDarkHorse in an otherwise serious show is killed off before the end of the first half ''of the first episode.'' This show does not fuck around.
54	* In ''Anime/FafnerInTheAzureDeadAggressor'', the only character you can really be convinced has PlotArmor is Kazuki, the protagonist. Well over half the main characters die or are assimilated over the course of the series, either in {{Heroic Sacrifice}}s or just completely at random. By the end, when the four remaining pilots are told that any deaths disrupts the entire plan, it comes as a surprise that none of them do. It's taken to an extreme in the Right of Left OVA, where EVERYONE on the split island dies almost as soon as they found out that there was a way for them to escape.
55	* ''Literature/FateZero'' is full of characters dying. At the beginning of the story there are fourteen main characters (seven Masters and seven Servants) all in a war to get the Holy Grail and get any wish they want. There are also many supporting characters helping them. By the end, almost everyone has died with the exception of a handful of characters. The only characters who survive the war [[SavedByCanon survive due to being in]] ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', and even then, many of the survivors end up dead in the various routes of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. Even the main hero, Kiritsugu Emiya, dies in the final scene.
56	* A lot of heroes, civilians, and bad guys die in ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''. Any civilian Ken meets is likely to be killed in some horrid fashion.
57	** Advice to any ''Fist of the North Star'' character not named Kenshiro: Get far, far away from Kenshiro and [[ImprobableInfantSurvival use your kids as a shield (or the nearest kid if you don't have any)]] if something happens. Even this, however, is not guaranteed to work, and Website/TVTropes accepts no responsibility for the piles of dead babies that may ensue.
58	* ''Literature/FromTheNewWorld'' follows this. [[spoiler:By the end, only 2 out of 5 (6 if you count Reiko) of the main characters are still alive, and most of their townsfolk are gone]].
59	* ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' actually subverts this. While the death of [[SacrificialLion Maes Hughes]] established this trope, a majority of the minor and major characters were safe from death after his funeral. It wasn't until the last handful of episodes where the characters were really in danger.
60	** Once you think about it, Maes Hughes is really one of the only good guys who dies in the entire series. Others include Captain Buccaneer and Fu. Greed could also count since he's not really a villain, but rather an AntiHero. And lets not forget [[TragicOneShotCharacter Nina]], whom Ed and Al could not save early in the series.
61	** ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'' on the other hand plays this trope straight, with over 30 important or semi-important deaths between the series and TheMovie.
62	* For a romantic comedy, ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' has a shocking number of deaths: All of the Seiryuu Seven save Amiboshi, all of the Suzaku Seven save Tasuki and Chichiri, Tamahome's father and siblings, and the Emperor of Kutou.
63	** Its prequel ''Manga/FushigiYuugiGenbuKaiden'' ups it even more. Due to ForegoneConclusion we know that [[spoiler: Takiko, Eisuke, Tomite and Hikitsu]] will not survive the series, but that doesn't make their deaths any less shocking since it was a case of ''when'' they die. Among those, we also' have Lady Anlu, minor characters, several of the citizens of Hokkan due to famine, cold or the war, ''two'' Emperors in close succession and ThoseTwoGuys from the Kutou Army.
64	* ''Anime/GallForce'' All the [=OVAs=] and movies start with 12 or so main characters that get whittled down one by one until only a handful, if even that, are left. Only the the New Era OVA averts this with almost everyone surviving, and that's because its story never got finished.
65	* ''Manga/{{Gantz}}''. See ''Death Note'' above, except change "who won't die" with "who won't be [[CruelAndUnusualDeath utterly ripped to pieces, smashed to bits, squashed like a bug, eaten, blown apart, stabbed, disintegrated, melted]], etc." And those are the ''nice ways'' to die.
66	** ''Gantz'' is an interesting example in the sense that people can actually be resurrected (or even cloned), so when this is first revealed it seems like a case of DeathIsCheap, but it doesn't take long for you to figure out that not only is not that easy, but the process to resurrect someone requires the person to survive through sadistic games (in which the people they're trying to resurrect died at).
67	*** ''Gantz'' has been especially good in killing-off characters no matter how important or popular they might be. This goes to the point that the one protagonist to survive gets killed-off for good.
68	* ''Anime/GaReiZero'' kills off every single introduced character at the end of the first episode and the newly introduced character with the most focus at the end of the second one.
69	** Given that the original''Manga/GaRei'''s bodycount in the first Yomi incident alone was stated to be over 70 and character deaths happened without warning even later, it was a given.
70	* ''Anime/GenmaWars'' has a bleak tendency to drop characters that are close to the two main protagonists Loof and Gin. Whether its their mom, surrogate father, friends and love interests, nobody is safe. It comes to a head in the final episode where [[spoiler: [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt a nuclear war]] is triggered, destroying civilization and causing billions of deaths. By the end, only Gin, Loof, his girlfriend Namie and his protege Pogo are the only named survivors left to rebuild the world with the BigBad's survival is still unclear.]]
71	* Over the course of ''Manga/GingaNagareboshiGin'' and it's sequel ''Anime/GingaDensetsuWeed'', many important dogs, both good and bad, die horrible bloody deaths. A prominent example from ''Anime/GingaDensetsuWeed'' is John, who according to WordOfGod was killed off because his design was too similar to another German shepherd character.
72	* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''. It's a given that the girls will eventually die from poisoning by their conditioning drugs. However, actual casualties include [[spoiler:Angelica, Beatrice, Henrietta and her handler, and Triela and her handler]].
73	* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' combines this trope with a GroundhogDayLoop, allowing it to kill off its main cast ''repeatedly''. The causes of death are just about always [[CruelAndUnusualDeath cruel and gruesome to look at]]. Rika actually dies the same way in many arcs of the anime.
74	* ''Manga/HoshinEngi'': The Hoshin List contains 365 entries. It is inevitable that characters will drop in spades, and not just the bad guys or the small fries either.
75	* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' plays with this trope quite a bit throughout its run. Early on, several characters make appearances merely to be killed off only seconds later, although any character who is portrayed in a sympathetic matter is safe for the most part. Then the Chimera Ant arc rolls around, and key characters who've been around since the beginning of the series start dropping like flies. Suddenly nobody is safe, and the deaths go from being fairly mild to being brutal displays of violence and gore.
76	* ''Anime/JapanSinks'' has this in full effect with its setting in a Japan struck by apocalyptic earthquakes. Ayumu and her family, along with some friends, survive the first quakes, but not all of them will make it to the end of the story.
77	* From its very conception, the author of ''Manga/JyuOhSei'' only intended for 4 specific characters to still be alive by the end of the series, and 3 of them don't have a huge involvement with the plot.
78	* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', being eight parts long, has this in ''spades''. It gets even worse, because they're the heroes, and not even '''''main characters''''' are safe. In part order, there is...
79	** Part 1: Zeppeli, Dire, Jonathan.
80	** Part 2: Straizo (he counts even though he went evil), Caesar, Speedwagon, Stroheim (twice; the second time off-screen during WWII, after Part 2 is over), Erina.
81	** Part 3: Avdol, Iggy, Kakyoin, Joseph (he gets better).
82	*** In particular, Avdol dies twice. The first is earlier in the part when succumbing to an enemy attack, later retconned to make it seem like he had been mortally injured and recovering off-stage, later joining the others when it was called for.
83	** Part 4: Ryohei, Keicho (again, even though he was evil, he counts), Shigechi, Aya, Josuke, Koichi, Okuyasu, Jotaro, Rohan (the latter 5 got better).
84	*** In particular, Okuyasu was hit with this twice: the first time, he was killed alongside the rest of the main cast by Bites the Dust, but was brought back before it was made permanent. The second time, he was mortally wounded by Killer Queen, but got better once more.
85	** Part 5: Bucciarati, Abbacchio, Narancia, Trish (she gets better), Polnareff (he gets better... kinda).
86	** Part 6: F.F., Weather Report, Anasui, Ermes, Jotaro, Jolyne -- ''every hero'' but one (aside from [[RetGone F.F.]], they were all resurrected after Made in Heaven's second [[ResetButton universe reset]], but without their memories of Part 6's events).
87	** Part 7: Mountain Tim, Wekapipo, Hot Pants, Diego, Gyro.
88	** Part 8: Johnny, Kira, Josefumi, Kei, Mamezuku, Kaato (she started out as evil, but still counts), Lucy.
89	* ''Literature/JuniTaisenZodiacWar'' is about a [[DeadlyGame deadly]] battle royale staring twelve deadly mercenaries. Naturally, only one will survive.
90	* ''Anime/KeyTheMetalIdol'': Despite [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids its misleading premise]] about an android girl who's [[BecomeARealBoy trying to become human]] by making 30,000 friends, it's anything but family friendly. So many of its cast are killed off throughout the series, that it borders on outright killing them all; main characters included.
91	* ''Anime/KnightHunters'' makes its position clear with the opening scene of its first episode, in which a boyfriend and girlfriend spend several minutes making affectionate farewells -- and then a van comes flying off an overpass onto the boyfriend. Although the four original main characters never suffer more than {{Disney Death}}s, any other character is fair game, whether it's a one-shot potential love interest, a supporting character who's been around for the whole series, or both of the new lead characters introduced for the OddlyNamedSequel ''Weiss Kreuz: Gluhen''.
92	* ''Anime/LaSeineNoHoshi'': Nearly once an episode there's a major character death, either by tragedy or by the hands of the aristocrats - and even the finale kills off Marie Antoinette. Hey, did we mention that the latter half of this series was written by Creator/YoshiyukiTomino?
93	* ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'' plays this trope nearly to the extreme. This story does not ''know'' the concept of plot-armor, and not even the main characters are safe and in fact ''both'' protagonists die. And not only do people die, if you thought that glorious heroes will also get to have glorious deaths, think again... They even use this to pull a fast one on the viewers: During a particularly brutal battle that has already seen the deaths of two Admirals, the narrator suddenly mentions a report of the death of a major character, just as it shows his ship getting hit. There is just enough time to get the initial reactions of his friends before said character sends a message that he's okay.
94	* The author of ''Manga/Limit2009'' has absolutely no trouble killing characters at the drop of a hat. ANYBODY can die AT ANY TIME (except Konno, who has PlotArmor).
95	* In ''Anime/MarvelAnimeWolverine'', ''every'' named character except Wolverine and Kikyo gets it... and in the last scene of the series, those two are squaring off in a DuelToTheDeath.
96	* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' and, perhaps to a greater extent, some of its sequels or spinoffs use this with regularity. There's a ''reason'' Creator/YoshiyukiTomino got his nickname "Kill 'Em All," you know.
97	** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' was the holder of the most cast deaths, main and supporting, in the entire franchise, beating out even the notorious ''Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam''. Given that this was the first Gundam series to be broadcast in high definition, some of the deaths are particularly brutal thanks to new graphics capabilities.
98	** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' has quite a few deaths throughout, to the point where not even being a main character is enough to keep you from dying. By the finale the majority of the main characters have been annihilated, including every Tekkadan leader except for Eugene, the three most prominent members of the Turbines and every named member of the Gjallarhorn Revolutionary Fleet. Ironically the antagonists, the Arianrhod Fleet of Gjallarhorn, actually have fewer named characters die than the heroes, with [[GeneralFailure Iok Kujan]] being the only prominent member of theirs who bites the bullet.
99	* ''Manga/{{Monster}}'': Got a favorite character you like? Have they, at any point, so much as made eye contact with Johan? Big mistake.
100	* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has become increasingly willing to kill off characters, hero and villain alike, over the course of its run: first beginning with fairly minor supporting characters such as Magne and Sir Nighteye, then killing off more prominent side characters such as Midnight and Twice, and finally graduating to main characters in [[WhamEpisode Chapter 362]] with [[SacrificialLion Katsuki Bakugo]].
101	* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' towards about the last third of the series, while the movie shifts into EverybodyDiesEnding territory.
102	* ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere.'' Only three of the main characters wins up surviving.
103	* ''Manga/OnePiece'' Has been averting this for a very long time where death was only frequent in flashbacks. The paramount war slowly starts this trope as [[SacrificialLion Ace and Whitebeard]] lose their lives in the war. Luckily the timeskip era went for a downplayed variant, only occasionaly offing a tiny portion of allies and/or enemies per arc. Come the Final Saga however and this trope is starting to get played straight with the deaths of T Bone, Cobra, Mjosgard and Garp. While Kidd and Law's fates are unknown they're both on the verge of death as showcased by the aftermath of their latest fights.
104	* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' has one of the original {{magical girl}}s die ''two and a half episodes in''. [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Brutally]]. And for this {{deconstruction}} of a MagicalGirl series, it only gets worse from there. There is only one MagicalGirl who hasn't died at any point in the show, and for good reason. She's the one responsible for creating all the timelines, after all!
105	* This trope is made to occur in the first two cycles of ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'': given the series’ status as a {{Frankenslation}}, characters from one cycle couldn’t appear in others, which necessitated regular deck-clearing exercises to explain the disappearances. For example, by the time its first cycle, ''The Macross Saga'', had ended, fully half of its cast had died, including several characters that had in fact survived the [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross original series it had been based on]]. What’s more, part of the backstory for the series’ third and final cycle (''[[Anime/GenesisClimberMospeada The New Generation]]'') involves the revelation that the Army of the Southern Cross -- which included the great majority of the characters from the series’ second cycle (''[[Anime/SuperDimensionCavalrySouthernCross The Robotech Masters]]'') -- had been decimated by the Invid army that had taken over the Earth. While the statement is intentionally vague, and supplementary materials have established that several of the ''Masters'' characters did survive, current canon has only confirmed the survival of two of the ''Masters'' characters. Only the ''New Generation'' characters, by virtue of being last, manage to keep a survival rate higher than 50%.
106	* ''Manga/SailorMoon'' does this over and over again with pretty much every one of the senshi, as well as Tuxedo Kamen and the guardian cats.
107	** Most notoriously, the two-part finale of Season 1 has all of the Senshi become a DwindlingParty, dying graphically in battle against the youma. Reportedly many parents complained about the episode for making their children sick, and dubs subsequently edited out the death scenes to suggest the Senshi were only [[NeverSayDie "captured" or "taken to the Negaverse"]].
108	* ''Manga/SaintSeiyaTheLostCanvas'', a series well known for having minimal PlotArmor. This is a ForegoneConclusion, since the original series establishes that only two saints survived that war.
109	* ''Manga/ScumbagLoser'':
110	** [[spoiler:Murai, the main character,]] is eaten at the end of chapter 4. Although, he wakes up alive at the start of chapter 5, with no idea what exactly happened.
111	** By the end of the manga, the only characters that are still alive are [[spoiler:a stalker of Haruka named Yumi, and the police detective who had originally investigated the real Haruka's murder. Haruka, all of her "children", and Murai are killed when Murai eats Haruka.]]
112	* ''Manga/ShadowStar''. With emphasis on ''anyone'': and for good reason. [[TheHeroine Shiina]] herself was a casualty before she got better.
113	* ''Manga/ShiNiAruki'': Very much so. Named characters die regularly, with a character lineup sheet at the end of most chapters keeping track of who's alive or dead. By Chapter 14, the sheet needs to get swapped out for a new one, and by the end of the manga, only three main characters are still alive.
114	* ''Literature/{{Shiki}}'', although it sort of figures in a show that is about a zombie-like invasion on a small village. By the end of the series, nearly everyone from the main cast is dead.
115	* ''Literature/StarshipOperators'' kills off a main character almost every episode; even the main character's reciprocated love interest isn't safe.
116	* ''Anime/StrainStrategicArmoredInfantry'' starts off as any {{shojo}} series would, except in space with [[HumongousMecha mecha]]. However, by the time it reveals its true {{seinen}} colours after episode one, all but two characters are dead; important members of the new cast die every fourth episode after that.
117	* ''Manga/TailStar'': In the first and second chapters we meet the inhabitants of Ageha village and the "tail-hunters" who are trained to fight evil knights who basically have [[EpicFlail spiky dragon tail clubs]] attached to their heads. In chapter three [[CurbstompBattle all the tail-hunters and most of the villagers are killed]] by ''one'' of these guys.
118	* Kamina dies early on in ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', along with most of the rest of the cast in the second half. By ''Lagann-hen'' however, nearly all of them survive until the end, save for Kamina, Kittan, Lordgenome, and Nia, among others...
119	* In ''Manga/TetragrammatonLabyrinth'' none of the side characters are safe and even the main cast starts dwindling towards the last part of the manga.
120	* In the manga (and anime to an extent) of ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', creator Ishida Sui seems to practically have fun making a character that the audience will grow to like and love, even giving them great backstories...all just to dramatically rip off their heads with a surprise panel. That [[spoiler: Hairu women]] that's been kicking ass and taking names? This literally happens. That [[spoiler: Boy Shirazu]] working against a force that feasts on human flesh and modified his own body to [[spoiler: help support his hospitalized sister?]] All to just get impaled by a well known enemy in the series [[spoiler: (who was ultimately a flesh puppet corpse).]]
121	* ''Manga/TowardTheTerra'' spans decades and light-years with its plot, and the entire way is littered with bodies. Only ''two'' major characters make it out alive.
122	* True to its predecessor, ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' also embodies this. The first half a dozen deaths each arc are particularly brutal.
123	* In ''Manga/VinlandSaga'', only Thorfinn is left in the story out of all the characters from the opening chapters. It's safe to say that any character that doesn't have a historical basis, and even some that do, will meet a grisly end.
124	* In ''Anime/WolfsRain'', everyone dies in the last few episodes. ''Wolf's Rain'' basically sets the stage for this in the first episode when a kid whom is implied to a major character gets killed off at the end of the episode. After that, you get the sense that anybody could fair game despite most of the real cast deaths only occur towards the end of the series.
125	* ''Manga/{{X 1999}}'': While the movie just kills 'em all, the anime and manga both have this. Half the cast is lost in the anime, and while the manga is unfinished...well, it is a show about the Apocalypse after all.
126	* In ''Anime/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsters'', if a Capsule Monster is destroyed, it's forever lost. Solomon Muto's Summoned Skull is destroyed early on, showing the danger, and in the final battle almost ''every'' monster the heroes have collected is destroyed.
127	* In the third season of ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', this trope is in full effect. Faux-BigBad Cobra and one of his subordinates are killed, and then Manjoume, Tyranno, Fubuki and Asuka are sacrificed in the span of ten minutes. Jim and O'Brien both die against the Supreme King, and Edo and Echo are killed by Amon. Yubel then defeats ''[[TheAce Ryo]]''. It's later subverted when it's revealed that they're actually in a different dimension, but there's still a large number of villagers killed and Amon and Echo are KilledOffForReal, while Ryo didn't initially return. And then in the fourth season, the entire planet's population drop like flies and are absorbed into the World of Darkness, except for Judai, though he manages to get them out.
128	* By the end of episode 143, only 16 out of a cast of 96 characters were alive in ''Anime/YuGiOhZexal''.
129	* The Battle Royale mini-arc of ''Anime/YuGiOhARCV'' has the Obelisk Force, Yuri and Sora seal Michio, Teppei, Hikage, Halil, Olga, and the Knights of Duels into cards, which is effectively death since there isn't a known way to reverse it. Resident Badass Kurosaki also comes close to biting it since he actually loses. Hokuto also got sealed earlier by Serena.
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