Bungled Suicide in Anime & Manga.
- The first chapter of Ana Satsujin shows our main character, Kurosu, try to commit suicide by hanging himself on a wall-mounted hanger. However, the hanger tears out of the wall due to shoddy construction, creating a peephole into his neighbor's bedroom and acts as the catalyst to the story.
- Berserk provides a particularly depressing example with Griffith. After enduring a year of Cold-Blooded Torture that left him permanently crippled, seeing all his dreams and ambitions go up in smoke, and finding out that both his Love Interests hooked up with each other, he tries to kill himself, only to find that he can't even do that right. Unfortunately for the entire cast, this sends him over the mother of all Moral Event Horizons.
- In Blue Exorcist, Yukio's trauma and self-esteem issues eventually stack up to the point that he tries to kill himself, only to mysteriously survive due to Satan's intervention. He attempts multiple times after that, aiming to either finally put himself out of his misery or at least just figure out the reasons behind his sudden immortality.
- Bungou Stray Dogs: Dazai loves suicide, but as the plot needs him, he just can't die yet. Every of his attempt so far ends up with being either interrupted by his coworkers or this trope.
- In the April fool's spinoff which was in a school setting, student!Dazai stated that as he had attempted suicide so many times, he end up became immune to it. To the point that he didn't even break a single bone and instead just walked away like nothing with a huge hole on the ground after falling from the school rooftop.
- A Cruel God Reigns:
- Jeremy tries to throw himself into a lake after finding out his mother knew he was being raped by his stepfather. Good thing Ian has ears like a fox, heard it, and managed to find him through the sleeting rain and fish him out. Jeremy also has two failed suicide attempts after returning to Boston while he is living with his aunt.
- Sandra has two of these, one pre-series and then another after Greg cancels their wedding.
- Marjorie has quite a few failed suicide attempts. The most notable of these is when Pascal locks her in the bathroom while he beats Jeremy in a drug induced rage. She tries to drown herself in the bathtub.
- Digimon Tamers:
- After hitting his Villainous BSoD, Beelzemon attempted a Suicide by Cop via throwing himself at a huge group of Chrysalimon. It failed for three reasons: one, the Chrysalimon thought he was dead and left him there after Calumon's Shining Digivolution upgraded them to Diaboromon; two, Renamon and Rika came and patched him up; and three, he was just too damn tough to die. And yes, they show the whole thing.
- After Leomon's death, Jeri falls into such a deep depression that she basically goes to the D-Reaper hoping it will kill her. Unfortunately, it doesn't...and then things get a lot worse for everyone on the show.
- Nyu tries to kill herself by wrist-slitting in the Elfen Lied manga, after learning of her Split Personality's Psycho for Hire ways. She fails.
- In the reboot adaptation of Fruits Basket, Momiji's mother stabbed herself with a pair of scissors in her insanity over having Momiji. She is taken to the hospital in time, prompting the talk to wipe the memories of her son's existence.
- Ogiue in Genshiken joins the group after hurling herself out a window (and breaking her arm) following an altercation with the Manga Club. Later it's revealed she jumped off the roof of her old school after her "friends" ruined her life. It's not stated how she survived or what injuries she incurred.
- Punpun from Goodnight Punpun shoots himself in the eye at the end however survives. He loses the eye.
- The second chapter of Gunjo has a woman who tries to kill herself after the death of her son and fails. She succeeds after another try.
- In Half & Half, Shinichi and Yuuki want to commit double-suicide before their 7 Days are up and jump off a cliff together. But the same light that saved them at the beginning keeps them from dying, so that they have to wait the remaining days out.
- In Hoshi wa Utau, this is what happened to Chihiro's previous love Sakura. Her attempt left her comatose in the hospital.
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
- Diamond is Unbreakable: Hayato is pushed into a corner when the heroes question him about his father, knowing Yoshikage Kira's Bites The Dust will kill them if he says too much, Hayato resorts to chucking down a pocketknife to save them. Unfortunately, Kira's Bites The Dust also prevents Hayato from taking his life, and this act leads to the heroes getting blown up and the "Groundhog Day" Loop starting again.
- Stone Ocean: Thunder McQueen has repeatedly tried to end himself several times at the prison, from hanging himself before Ermes cut him loose, to electrocuting himself without saltwater. What makes him dangerous is that his Stand, Highway to Hell, will reflect his injuries onto whoever is his target, and as Ermes found out, fleeing from him doesn't stop the effect.
- JoJolion: Yasuho tried to kill herself when she was thirteen due to the influence of a Rock Animal building stress and trauma from her parents' divorce before she was saved by Yoshikage Kira.
- Kaze Hikaru has two: Okita's first love and the 10th unit's captain Sanosuke Harada's historical attempted seppuku. The latter is Played for Laughs, as it was years before the story starts and Sanosuke only did to prove he could. He brags about the scar (as he did in Real Life).
- One of the bullied characters in Life (2002) attempts to kill herself by jumping from a school balcony, but only ends up fracturing her foot and hurting herself.
- In the very beginning of the manhwa My Lovable Fatty the protagonist tries to hang herself but ends up breaking the rope.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion:
- It's implied that Asuka cut her wrists in episode 24, and is seen in a bathtub with water that looks like it's stained red. It's also implied that she was starving herself. She survived only because Section 2 found her before she bled out and she was too weak to resist being taken into custody.
- Rei subverts the trope. She's a confirmed Death Seeker and in episode 23, she pulled off a Taking You with Me and succeeded... only to be brought Back from the Dead against her will.
- The first scene of End of Evangelion heavily implies that Shinji tried to drown himself but failed. After watching the rest of the movie, everyone will agree that it would've been better for everyone if he succeeded.
- Kaworu's character design originally included scars on his throat and wrists to hint at multiple failed suicide attempts, explaining why he asks Shinji to kill him.
- One Piece:
- Parodied by Kumadori's inability to commit Seppuku (every times he use the ability "Tekkai" and save himself).
- Played less for laughs and more for awesome by Kaido. The man has survived so many execution and suicide attempts that he regularly takes up suicide as a hobby, to find out if he can be killed. His Establishing Character Moment shows him jumping off a freaking sky island and coming out without a scratch despite leaving a huge Impact Silhouette.
- Paranoia Agent has an episode dealing with three people who have made a Suicide Pact over the internet. Over the course of the episode, all of their attempts to kill themselves (jumping in the path of a subway train, hanging) are thwarted, and it's all Played for Laughs. Subverted at the end when it's revealed that they were Dead All Along. One of their suicide attempts was successful — in fact, an astute viewer may notice that after their "failed" attempt at carbon monoxide poisoning, they no longer cast shadows, which is the fact that clues them in. This is foreshadowed when they watch a man throw himself in front of a train, only to stagger away seemingly unharmed... but without a shadow.
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Poor Sayaka. She doesn't purify her Soul Gem (which she needs to in order to stay alive), thinking that this will put her out of her misery, only for this suicide to be bungled in a rather horrifying way.
- In one episode of Q.E.D., a graduate of MIT tries to mark himself as the math major with highest honors of his graduating year by killing three highest-honor holders in other majors, then attempting suicide, but fails.
- Played for drama in Rurouni Kenshin — it's evident in the scars on Megumi's wrists that she'd attempted suicide multiple times before meeting (and joining) the Kenshin-gumi.
- Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei has this happen repeatedly. In fact, Fuuka first meets Itoshiki-sensei in the park after a failed attempt to "make himself taller".
- In UQ Holder! Karin Yuuki tried to hang herself 2000 years prior to the start of the story after selling out her beloved teacher for thirty pieces of silver and watching him get put to death. If it sounds like a familiar story, it's because she's Judas. Karin was given a curse after the fact and it prevented her from ever dying.
