User blog:Jamster93/List of deceased anime characters

Below is a partial list of fictional characters who have died in anime, and, so far, have not returned.

Characters frequently die in anime, but are also frequently resurrected. Creators kill characters to increase drama and ratings and to meet the demands of viewers who call for evil or unpopular characters be killed. However, if a popular character is killed, fans often ask for his or her resurrection and creators find such returns can lead to more boosts in ratings. Another reason creators resurrect characters is that they want to use them in new storylines. This cycle creates a vicious circle: after witnessing several improbable returns, fans begin to doubt that any characters are permanently dead, and death begins to lose its dramatic impact.

Although many dead anime characters are resurrected, some are not. Usually, characters associated with a major character's origin story (e.g. Tobio Tenma from Astro Boy), or those whose deaths significantly alter the development of a major character, remain dead. Death is also a convienent method of closure for characters who can no longer be used due to licensing restrictions, copyright, or other issues of ownership. Lastly, from time to time, anime characters, judged by their creators to have served their dramatic purposes, remain dead because their stories are considered over.

As there are no "rules" to fiction, all characters carry the possibility of being resurrected at any time. The following list of characters are present exceptions to the standard conventions of anime deaths. Currently, they remain dead.

The latter part of this article also includes characters who were once "dead" and then returned. While persons listed may or may not have actually died in their respective anime, they were presented as dead by the storytellers for a long enough time for the reversal to be meaningful (usually not within the same story arc). By contrast, many anime stories involve cliffhangers in which a character appears dead for a short time but is revealed to be alive or resurrected without enough time for the death to be meaningful. An example would be C.C. from Code Geass, who died in the first episode but was revived only three episodes later.