Top 10 Anime Characters Who Have Died the Most Times

“Pokemon” series (1997-)
He may be absolute shite when it comes to winning Pokemon Tournaments, but if there’s one thing this eternal ten-year old has nailed down, it’s dying. Who can forget the time he hung out with a trio of ghost Pokemon after a chandelier landed on him, or when he got inexplicably turned to stone after getting caught between Mew and Mewtwo’s attacks? Heck, he even ended up kicking the bucket in the elseworld timeline of Pokemon the Movie: I Choose You. Hey, maybe that’s the secret behind his unfading youth, he has to die every couple of seasons!

“Space Dandy” (2014)
While there have been a few exceptions, you can always count on the crew of the Aloha Oe to meet some kind of interstellar end, only for Dandy to be back next episode and on the way to Boobies. Ah, the benefits of being the one constant that binds all universes together. He’s been caught in a planetary explosion, fallen victim to a zombie apocalypse, sent tumbling billions of years into the future, possibly replaced by an alien chameleon, caused a second big bang, plus that one time he reset the universe, wiping out all alternate dimensions and reducing everything into a singularity. Yeah, THIS guy did all that.

“Digimon” series (1999-)
Jeez, they really had it out for this fluffy fella didn’t they? Across practically every series, this digital lion has found himself getting deleted in some pretty harrowing ways. In the original series, he got himself slain by MetalEtemon while protecting the Digidestined. In Tamers, he was stabbed in the gut by Beelzemon, consequently tipping Jeri over the edge due to grief and paving the way for the events with the D-Reaper. Even the damn Tri movies didn’t skip out on their chance to put down the not-so-pretty kitty!

“KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World” (2016-17)
While nothing will ever compare to the time where he died from shock while attempting to save a young maiden who wasn’t really in any danger, we can’t forget that ever since hooking up with the dysfunctional party of a useless goddess, masochistic paladin and explosion-obsessed mage, Kazuma has danced with death many a time, only to get whisked back to life by a far more capable goddess a moment later. Though…getting his head lopped off by a snow demon and drowning in acidic slime probably wouldn’t have been his preferred method of dropping dead.

“Dragon Ball” series (1989-2018)
Yeah that’s right, Piccolo over Krillin. Let’s be honest, everyone is a veteran when it comes to death in this show, though the one to take the crown is none other than everyone’s favourite Namekian. Despite being able to regenerate his limbs, Piccolo found himself in dire need of a wish-granting dragon after getting blasted apart by Nappa, slain by androids in an alternate timeline, blown up by Kidd Buu, dying along with an exploding Earth in another alternate timeline if you follow GT, all before getting killed by Frieza again in Super! It ain’t easy being green.

“Puella Magic Madoka Magica” (2011)
Make a contract with Kyubey, and you will end up paying for it. Just ask the pink-haired magical girl. In order to save her friend from her doomed fate, Homura was willing to travel back through time again and again in order to change things. Sadly, it always ended in tragedy. If she wasn’t killed off during the final battle with Walpurgis Night, then she ended up either getting killed during a scuffle with other Magical Girls or worst of all ended up becoming the biggest, baddest witch of them all. Even when she ascended to godhood in order to put an end to the Incubator’s twisted designs, she ended removing herself from reality, so…not much better.

“Re;Zero -Starting Life in Another World-“ (2016)
How much shit can one take before they totally break inside? If you’re Subaru, apparently a fair deal. Being able to transport back to the exact moment he entered this strange, new world, you’d think this tracksuit wearing knight would have been able to run circles around his foes due to his infinite amount of restarts. Unfortunately, it only occurs after death, which is only made worse when you consider just how many of Subaru’s expirations were horrifically violent. Gutted by Elsa, sliced apart by Rem, decapitated out in the cold, no wonder he accumulated so much trauma. You poor, poor bastard.

“Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan” (2005-07)
You might think having two stunning angels follow you around all the time might sound like an ideal situation, but for this guy, it’s his own special hell, all thanks to Dokuro and the giant spiked club she carries everywhere. Can you see where this is going? Thanks to her angelic ability to bring people back from the dead, the seemingly adorable cherub has no problem smashing Sakura to bloody chunks, strangling him until his neck snaps, ripping out his eyes, and basically subjecting him to every kind of torture imaginable. You have to wonder if a heavenly romance with Dokuro is even worth it after going through all that…

“Excel Saga” (1999-2000)
If we’re talking purely on-screen numbers, then this sidekick takes home the gold as the undisputed queen of keeling over. It’s kind of hard to top fifty deaths over the course of one series. Granted most of these involve Hyatt casually falling back and coughing up blood at the most inconvenient of times. Seriously, even the most causal of touches can result in her on the flood, dead as a doornail. Considering her various demises are treated as gags, they succeed in their gruesome purpose. Of course, nothing compares to the one time Hyatt ended up gushing out so much blood she ended up drowning the planet red…

“Steins;Gate” (2011)
In terms of both frequency and impact, nothing compares to the many, many ends of this slightly slow, forever chipper, little lady. After being gunned down by SERN’S enforcers, Okabe throws caution to the wind and frantically tries to save his childhood friend, leaping from timeline to timeline in the hopes of preventing her murder. While he may have been able to take Moeka and her gun out of the picture, that doesn’t prevent the laws of the universe from offing Mayuri in a multitude of other ways. Car crash, falling down the stairs, collapsing in front of an oncoming train, it appeared no amount of mad science could protect this cinnamon roll from the reaper. She’s not the sharpest tool in the shed, but she’s likely been bludgeoned by every other one in one timeline or another.