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Characters That Have Killed Their Friends Anime

Nigel, AKA Bubblegum Senpai, was voted most likely to dice due to an accident involving a cuddle pillow. Haruhi Suzumiya for Life.

You just can't keep a good character - or sometimes a bad character - down. — You only tin can't continue a good character - or sometimes a bad character - downwards.

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Expressionless Anime Characters That Ended Up Surviving

Expiry is an often-used trope in entertainment - a tool designed to evoke emotion in the audience, particularly if the audience has grown fastened to that particular grapheme. Afterward all, in the real earth death is permanent and we oft lament when a favorite character leaves a bear witness we're watching without a proper chance to say goodbye. This isn't always a case of a grapheme dying - cast members oftentimes rotate in and out of our favorite shows if they run long enough - simply death itself has a certain finality to it.

The joy of fantasy and fiction, though, is that they don't have to follow the rules, and nowhere is this more common than in the wacky world of anime. Sure, you lot go some shows like Golden Time that follow very closely the rules of reality, or on the other hand, y'all get the shows like How Clumsy You Are Miss Ueno that take unrealistic situations and dial them up to 11 for issue. In a genre that isn't leap by the rules of reality, it makes sense that the rules we know of for expiry don't apply either.

That being said, whether it exist through magic, time travel, divine intervention or other forms of bending the rules of reality, here are five characters in anime who died, and lived to tell the tale. And considering that this whole topic is near how a certain plot device is used, the standard spoiler alert is in effect in all examples.

Shido, the moment he realizes he isn't dead anymore.

Appointment a Live

Shido Itsuki is the main protagonist in Date a Live, who has the power to seal the power of destructive beings called "spirits." One time he has sealed their ability, he tin can learn to use their powers or phone call upon the spirit's angels or astral weapons - god-like weapons of great power. Pertaining to this listing specifically, the angel 'Camael' allows him to heal from injuries - including nigh injuries that are fatal.

While not as directly emotional to the audition - the power is used for the first time early in the series so it's rather unlikely that death is permanent - his death does still take some touch on as neither he - nor the uninitiated audition - knows he has sealed a spirit in the past, or that he has this ability.

The particular expiry I am referring to is the just mentioned one in the early on parts of the showtime season. In his efforts to convince the destructive spirit Tohka that she can co-exist in the man world if she lets him seal her powers, he thwarts a military assassination endeavour on her life past pushing her out of harm's way and taking the bullet himself. Tohka, having lost the 1 person who has gone out of his way to not just be dainty to her, just convince her to attempt to stay, goes into berserker mode. She pulls out not just her astral weapon, but augments it with her angel to turn it into a sword much larger than she is and sets upon avenging the assassin who took Shido's life.

Meanwhile, dorsum at the base of operations of operations for our hero, the coiffure of the Fraxinus confirms that he'southward dead according to his vital signs, until Helm Kotori mentions that it volition take "more than that" to keep her brother down. Tohka is losing command of her powers and sanity equally she virtually destroys the boondocks until Shido'southward gun wound starts to heal and he jumps up feeling "hot" because of the healing burn, only to encounter Tohka on the rampage. It turns out, according to Kotori, that one of the trump cards they were hoping to not apply was that Shido has the ability to respawn after death - even comparing it to standing after dying in a video game. The crew and so retrieve his torso only to drop him from midair where he would be able to become Tohka'due south attention and properly seal her powers.

Shido has no memories of always sealing a spirit before, and then he did not know he had this ability, nor does he know why he has it. Whether that makes his sacrifice noble or stupid is anyone's guess. If he hadn't died Tohka would non have gone mad, but on the other hand, his cede also made sealing her powers possible later on his resurrection considering of her stronger emotional connection to him for what he did for her.

There weren't any appropriate pictures of Sakura in death, so here's a picture of Dokuro reviving him. — There weren't whatever advisable pictures of Sakura in death, then here'southward a picture of Dokuro reviving him.

Bludgeoning Affections Dokuro-chan

Sakura Kusakabe

This 1 actually gets played out. Sakura non only dies, but he dies over and over again. He'south non immortal. He does actually die. Brutally and violently.

In Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan Sakura invents a device that stops girls from aging one time they become a teenager, thus creating a "fantasy world" of sorts, or at to the lowest degree a fantasy according to often overused stereotypes in anime. Considering non aging effectively makes these girls immortal, it is considered an offense confronting both God and nature then an angel (Dokuro) is sent from the future to kill him earlier he tin can invent this device. Unwilling to kill him permanently, more affections assassins from the future come down to kill him.

Of course, Dokuro indeed does kill him herself. But she likewise has developed feelings for Sakura, and as such, every time she does kill him, she and so resurrects him. Every bit such, he frequently dies multiple times per episode. For this anime, I can't really selection a specific death. There are so many to pick from and many of them are the same: bludgeoned to death by a club.

If you do choose to spotter this series, be advised: it's gory. It's a one-act, but this series was direct-to-video, allowing them to show the violence without the usual censorship that applies to Japanese television laws.

Curl to Go on

Kazuma Sato

At that place's no shortage of shows where a character dies in our world and is reincarnated in a fantasy realm, but that trope seems like it'south cheating. That'south where KonoSuba (an abbreviation of the full championship God's Approving on This Wonderful World) comes in. In this series, Kazuma dies - in a rather embarrassing manner - and in the afterlife is greeted past the beautiful but arrogant and rude goddess Aqua. She offers him a second gamble at life past becoming an adventurer in a fantasy earth and permits him to take anything with him. After putting upwardly with Aqua'due south humiliation, he chooses to have her into the new world.

Now, let'southward be articulate: for this list, that'southward kind of cheating. If he's in a new globe, then to the inhabitants of this world, he'southward not coming back from the dead. He's but arriving as a new adventurer. It'due south like he's a new person, simply with memories of a past life. It'southward a reincarnation, not a return from death.

So how does he even so brand this listing? Past dying a second fourth dimension. While hunting monsters in a Winter storm, his political party is found by the leader of the Winter monsters: The Winter Shogun. Clueless nearly what is going on, Kazuma is killed and finds himself dorsum in the afterlife again, where he is greeted by the goddess Eris. As information technology turns out, Eris and Aqua are the master goddesses worshiped by the ii ascendant and rival religions in this world.

Eris is much kinder to Kazuma and recognizes the struggles he had in both his previous lives, and is near to transport him back to Nihon in an affluent family unit and comfort when in the afterlife they all of a sudden hear Aqua yelling at him. As it turns out, Aqua is adept at using healing magic and is attempting to revive him, whether he likes information technology or not. After Aqua threatens Eris and Kazuma admits he misses the fantasy world, Eris agrees to permit him to render to Aqua and his party every bit a ane-time exception.

Yuzuro Otonashi, waking up after being killed. — Yuzuro Otonashi, waking up after beingness killed.

Angel Beats!

Yuzuru Otonashi

Despite the whole point of Angel Beats beingness that everyone is already expressionless, this still counts. While Yuzuru isn't the only one who dies and comes back, it certainly seems to happen more often to him. Whether he's being stabbed by the student council president, or springing mortiferous booby-traps, Yuzuru just can't stay down.

The characters who've been effectually in this world long enough tend to take this for granted. This is where Yuzuru'southward first death in this world is pregnant because he has only been in this world for scarcely x minutes. He's barely even candy that he's dead. He doesn't even believe he's dead. So when he asks someone - the student council president who goes past the proper noun "Affections" - to show to him he's actually dead, she does so simply by stabbing him.

In a 'where was he going to go, Detroit?' moment, he wakes up several hours later in the school infirmary without and then much as a mark. Thinking he was dreaming, he suddenly notices his shirt folded on the chair cyberspace to his bed. Non only is it claret-stained, it's soaked enough to still make a wet sound when he picks it up. I mean, if yous die in the afterlife, where else are you going to go too the afterlife?

And let's be articulate: death is however painful in this earth, but the students who take been in the afterlife long plenty have little regard or reverence for mortality. What happens when a bunch of students live in a globe where death is an inconvenience instead of a issue? Total anarchy, apparently.

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Krillin, who has become the poster child of repeated deaths in the Dragon Ball series. — Krillin, who has become the affiche child of repeated deaths in the Dragon Ball serial.

Dragon Ball Z

Near Everyone in the Dragon Brawl Series

Again, for the characters in the Dragon Ball franchise, death is actually a small-scale inconvenience. I can't say for sure, but I think the only person who hasn't died nonetheless is Mr. Satan, and that's only because his decease was retconned rather than a resurrection.

Of class, at that place's Krillin, who is often the butt of death-related jokes in the fanbase; Prison cell, who literally came back to life from a unmarried prison cell left after he died; or even Son Goku, who literally sumo wrestled his way out of Hell - or HFIL if you lot adopt (Though I don't call back he got to Hell by dying. I recall he - literally - only fell in). Heck, in Dragon Ball Super all seven universes that make the Super Multiverse get wiped from existence, only to be wished dorsum into existence with the Tournament of Power prize - the 'Super Dragon Balls.'

Then yep. Dragon Ball. All of the series. Lots of death. Lots of resurrections.