Blood From The Mouth / Anime & Manga

Blood from the Mouth in Anime & Manga.

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• Frequent, but most often used when someone's about to die in Afro Samurai.
• Assassination Classroom: In Koro-sensei's backstory, he was a legendary assassin who was captured and experimented on, eventually turning him from a human into a tentacled Person of Mass Destruction. After one experiment he's shown coughing up massive amounts of blood, much to Aguri's concern. Over the intercom, Yanagisawa tells her the reaction is perfectly normal.
• Subverted constantly in Berserk. Whenever Guts takes a massive blow from an enemy, especially if it slams him into the wall or floor, blood pours vigorously from his mouth, and he certainly appears dead most of these occasions. But he never dies.
• In Beyblade, blood drips from Kai's mouth when he is battling Brooklyn.
• Black Butler II: Alois does this at the end of the 7th episode after being stabbed by Ciel.
• Bleach:
  • Happens a few times to Ichigo, most notably before his first real hollow transformation.
  • He somehow does it through a face-concealing mask in his later fight with Grimmjow.
  • Censorship in the anime (which is incredibly inconsistent about whether real blood can be shown) gets a bit silly with this. When Uryu's stomach is destroyed by Szayel Aporro, blood pours out of his mouth; in the anime, WATER comes out instead.
  • Ukitake does this on a regular basis because he suffers from Tuberculosis.
  • In Chapter 392, Hinamori has a bit of a trickle, though considering she had just been stabbed in the chest, she had a good reason.
  • During their fight in Hueco Mundo, the second time Nnoitra Gilga punches his hand through Kenpachi Zaraki's chest blood spurts out of Kenpachi's mouth. However, Kenny's just getting going.
• This is shown to be a symptom of the virus in the manga Bloody Monday, as well as that of those suffering from neutron radiation.
• Hilariously done in the manga version of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, where pretty much every attack causes characters to spew ridiculous amounts of blood.
• Liang Qi in Canaan, as a side effect of failing to give herself Synesthesia.
• Discussed in Book 40 of Case Closed, where Conan, Mouri, Ran and Sonoko find the Victim of the Week hanging from the ceiling in an apparent suicide. Because he is bleeding from the mouth, which, according to Ran and Sonoko, people who commit suicide by hanging usually do on TV. Conan points out that doesn't usually happen in real life unless the victim has been cut before the noose is tightened and movies only do it to make it clear to the viewers that the victims are dead.
• A Certain Magical Index: Index, in bit of a creepy moment when she's in her 'self defense' personality, is going through the magical requirement to heal her slashed internal organs — and hello proper reason to actually have such bleeding. She's trying to get Komoe to perform magic when she pauses to cough up blood and then instantly continues in her former robotic manner.
• In the opening chapter of Chainsaw Man, this is used to show that, apart from all the other miserable conditions in his life, Denji has also inherited the sickness that killed his mother.
• In Chivalry of a Failed Knight, Yuri spills out quite a mouthful of blood shortly after her introduction as Ikki and Stella's homeroom teacher. They take her to the nurse's office afterwards, and she tells them this happens on a regular basis.
• Since the demons of Chrono Crusade have the ability to regenerate, this trope is often used to show when someone's given them a serious blow. It's rarely used for humans, however—the only time is when Mary Magdalene is given a fatal blow by Aion in the manga.
• Almost everyone in Claymore has had blood spurt from their mouths at some point or another. It's usually justified by the character having just taken a sword or clawed hand straight through the gut. The blood itself usually isn't indicative of impending death on its own, as they can heal massive amounts of damage.
• Cowboy Bebop:
  • In "Jupiter Jazz (Part 2)", when Spike finds the dying Gren after the latter's ship crashes, shot down by Vicious.
  • In "The Real Folk Blues (Part 1)" when Vicious brutally murders each of the elders of the Red Dragon Syndicate.
• A Cruel God Reigns: Ian coughs/throws up quite a bit of blood after a long stint of stress over his relationship with Jeremy and Jeremy's emotional state.
• Played with in Darker than Black.
  • Towards the end of the first season, after November 11 has killed his treacherous boss, he's seen staggering down the street, trying to get call someone on his cell phone. He stops and coughs up blood, and smiles sadly—then the camera angle changes to show that he's been shot in the stomach and there's blood all over his suit. Blood From the Mouth was the least of his worries.
  • Also happens to Havoc earlier in the season when November 11 kills her.
• In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, whilst fighting the Older Brother Spider Demon, Zenitsu was poisoned and went through great stress to prepare his Thunder Breath technique to the point he vomited some blood in the middle of his struggle; way later in the series during a comedic extra story Zenitsu vomits blood in pure excitement, as he sees Nezuko wearing a swimsuit, comically dying in the process, it’s just a fun extra page though so obviously Zenitsu does not actually die for real.
• This seems to happen to Allen Walker in nearly every battle of D.Gray-Man, though it doesn't so much indicate his death as just him being beaten the crap out of by bad guys. He usually returns the favor.
• Pretty much every time a character in Dragon Ball Z got a nice hit in the gut, they'd fall to their knees and start hacking up blood. They are usually fine a few seconds later, strangely enough. It makes more sense in the dub, where the blood is edited out so that it seems like they are coughing just because the wind got knocked out of them.
  • This happens so frequently that when a character hacks up blood, it's treated with about the same concern as if they just had the nonlethal, busted lip variety. One notable instance was in the first Broly movie; blood is dripping down Broly's face, and he stares at his opponent... then abruptly smiles and licks it off, getting a fairly entertaining Squick reaction from Goku.
  • In the original version, Trunks gets one after getting a hole blown through his chest by Perfect Cell.
  • When Krillin is impaled by Frieza, he throws up a damn river's worth. This one was justifiable, though, as that hit would have killed him if not for Dende.
    • Which Frieza licked off of his face too.
  • When Frieza charges Goku at one point during their battle, Goku punches him right in his chest, causing him to vomit a big glob of blood as a reminder of Goku's newfound Super Saiyan power.
  • In the movie Bojack Unbound, this happens to Bojack when Super Saiyan 2 Gohan punches a hole straight through his stomach. In this case it's, if not a mortal wound (Future Trunks doing the same to one of his minions killed them instantly), then a severe one that likely would've killed him if he weren't so powerful.
• In the manga of Elfen Lied, this occurs to Lucy repeatedly as she overuses her enormously powerful vectors, causing her body to deteriorate from the effort. Eventually, she is reduced to nothing more than a puddle of flesh, bones, and organs.
• In Emerging, blood running from the mouth and eyes is a good sign that the unknown disease ravaging Tokyo is entering its final stage. This generally precedes blood gushing from the mouth, nose, eyes, and every other orifice.
• Hyatt from Excel♡Saga does this constantly. She also has the tendency to die, sometimes from this; in the final episode, she bleeds so much from her mouth that the world floods.
• Fairy Tail: Happens to anyone who breathes in Bradman's Anti-Magic particles, whether it kills them immediately or not. The only reason Gajeel lasted the whole fight with him is because there's trace amounts of iron in those particles, which he breathes in as a last-ditch effort to go Dragon Force, which was successful. A Curb-Stomp Battle then ensues in Gajeel's favor.
  • It actually happens more often than you'd expect for a series like this, though only in the manga.
• Fate/Zero uses this quite often when a character dies.
  • A standout example is when Kotomine covers Irisviel's mouth (to keep her from screaming) while he stabs her with his his Black Keys. The reaction shot of her face shows her eyes widening in pain and crying as she vomits blood through his hand.
• Fullmetal Alchemist has a fair bit of this.
  • Izumi coughs up a lot of blood due to her missing internal organs. Sometimes it's played for drama... and sometimes for laughs, like when she does that on a guy trying to attack her.
  • This is Riza Hawkeye's father's cause of death.
  • It is implied that Trisha died this way in the manga (shown via one of Edward's nightmares).
  • At the end of the Briggs arc when Edward is stabbed through the gut with a giant pole, he doesn't notice it at first and tries to get up...only to suddenly cough up blood and collapse.
  • Kimblee, after Scar punches through his chest.
  • While fighting Envy in Gluttony's stomach, Ling gets punched and flung into a stone pillar with enough force that he coughs up a small gob of blood.
  • During his Last Stand battle with Scar, King Bradley briefly stops to cough up a puddle of blood. Justified in this case, as it's established he's already mortally wounded and wants to go out fighting.
• Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) anime has some more examples:
  • Homunculi are capable of healing any wound by relying on the power of the red stones they've consumed, so the first real step in defeating them is often to perform an alchemical ritual which causes them to vomit up all of their red stones.
  • Greed vomits up red stones and blood.
  • Also happens to Edward in the last episode, when he is stabbed in the chest by Envy. He does get better, though.
  • In the movie, rivers of blood ooze from Wrath's mouth after he is bitten by Gluttony, and he spews even more when Gluttony nearly chomps him in half. Also, Alfons Heidrich develops a life-threatening illness that causes him to cough up blood from time to time.
• In Fushigi Yuugi, the first sign that Nuriko is a goner in his battle with Ashitare is when he coughs up blood, bleeding much from his lips among other places afterwards.
• Happens to Takiko in Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden, since she caught TB after taking care of her mother, who died of the disease.
• In Future GPX Cyber Formula, this is how Hayato's father, Hiroyuki dies when he coughs up blood from his mouth after being seriously injured in a car accident (in which the car exploded and the debris stabbed him), and the accident was set up by Smith.
• Happens at least twice in The Garden of Sinners, when Fujino was dying due to her appendicitis, and when Araya was impaled by Shiki.
• Happens in Gintama particularly when Gintoki takes a serious body shot. He always gets better.
• Giovanni's Island: Kanta vomits blood on the way back to the internment camp. It's the first sign that's what's wrong with him is much worse than a simple cough and cold.
• In Granblue Fantasy, it happens as the result of a ritual gone wrong. Two unsuspecting sacrifices were supposed to die in exchange for making a third person immortal. However, the ritual somehow ends up making the "wrong" person immortal and the others end up with blood from the mouth, indicating that they were indeed going to die soon after.
• Gundam 00:
  • Happens to Graham Aker every time his Mid-Season Upgrade (he's had a fairly absurd number of them) surpasses his body's tolerance. The explanation seems to be that the G-forces are messing with his internals. He lives, though.
  • Also happens to Sergei Smirnov, after his son "fatally wounds" his mobile suit. He is killed in the ensuing explosion.
  • Happens again with Nena Trinity when Louise Halevy brutally kills her to avenge her parents, although Nena's blood is a result of Louise's Regnant Mobile Armor running its Fang claw right into her, just about destroying almost her entire abdomen. She uses what little energy she had left to scream a Dying Curse at Louise before she is finished off by the explosion of her Throne Drei.
• Happens to Haruhi-chan while taking story suggestions from the SOS Brigade for their new amateur film. When Kyon kicks off with the idea of a sick and dying protagonist, she reacts like a sick and dying protagonist. Every suggestion she likes — which is all of them — causes her to cough up even more blood. She has to be hospitalized at the end of the sequence.
• In a later chapter of Hayate the Combat Butler this happens to Luca.
• In Hellsing, Alucard causes this to happen to Rip Van Winkle when he is killing her. Having a rifle jammed through your chest will do that.
• In a non-serious example, England from Hetalia: Axis Powers coughs up blood whenever the Fourth of July comes up or anything relating to independence is mentioned.
• The dying type shows up a few times in Higurashi: When They Cry, most notably when Keiichi is shot by Takano.
• Happens rather graphically◊ to Miroku in Inuyasha whilst trying to suck Naraku into his Air-Rip. He not only bleeds from the mouth but from the nose, ears and eyes.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
  • Stardust Crusaders: During his dying moments, Kakyoin's first attempt at delivering his Dying Clue is interrupted because he coughs up blood. His second attempt is successful, though, and he dies just after it hits the clock tower.
  • Golden Wind: After Abbacchio is mortally wounded, he immediately drops blood from his mouth before dying.
  • Steel Ball Run: Gyro experiences this from having his inner organs ruptured during the fight with Valentine.
• In K: Missing Kings to Kuroh during his second fight with Yukari, in a rather lovely garden. He doesn't die, but he does have blood from his mouth, which he wipes away as his hair blows in the wind, making for a particularly nice shot, were it not for the blood. When Iwafune dies in Return of Kings, he has this as well.
• Played for Laughs in Kaguya-sama: Love Is War. When resident Shipper on Deck Karen catches a glimpse of Kaguya and Shirogane's First Kiss, she passes out and starts to bleed out of her mouth as she's nearly killed from sheer joy. Later subverted when spin-off series We Want to Talk About Kaguya covered those events and revealed that the blood was actually from her biting her tongue to stay focused.
• In Kamichama Karin after Kazune finally pushes himself too far while fighting the Big Bad, he coughs up blood, and then continues bleeding from the nose and mouth for a while afterwards.
• Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru: During their fight Kevin squeezes Minoru's throat hard enough to make him cough up blood and drinks the blood.
• Kill la Kill has a few examples, often played for laughs due to the tone of the work.
  • One notable example has Satsuki Kiryuin instantly vomit out a mouthful of blood after being punched in the stomach by her own mother. In spite of this, she seemingly recovers and even survives a stint of capture and sexual abuse aftewards. Tough. As. Nails.
• In the Love Hina manga, Keitaro crashes into Mutsumi, knocking her over. Keitaro apologizes, then sees that blood is trickling from her nose and mouth. This, combined with her (temporarily) Blank White Eyes (plus the fact that she seems to have no pulse) convinces Keitaro and Naru that she has died. Of course, it's really just one of her fainting spells.
• Lyrical Nanoha:
  • Vita hacks up a lot of blood after one of the Mecha-Mooks impales her through her chest. One of the combat cyborgs is also shown with blood coming out of her mouth after Zest kills her.
  • Precia Testarossa also has this on occasion, as a byproduct of her Incurable Cough of Death.
• In Macross Plus, we see this just before Guld crashes his fighter into the unmanned drone; he coughs out a giant gob of blood as the G-forces crush his internal organs.
• Madlax ascends to Nigh-Invulnerability towards the end of the series (through being just that badass, no kidding) but does Blood From the Mouth to demonstrate to the Big Bad that inside, she is still a human being. It's symbolic, really.
• In Magical Pokaan, 4 Pachira squirts out liters of blood... because she had athletes' foot.
• Mekakucity Actors: Shion in episode 10's extended flashback when she uses her powers for the first time to protect Mary. She perishes shortly afterwards.
• Subverted in Metal Armor Dragonar, in which a somewhat minor Humongous Mecha pilot is shown coughing up blood constantly within the two episodes he is in. However, getting blown up when his giant robot is destroyed is what finally does him in.
• The Misfit of Demon King Academy: Blood starts spilling from Emila Lud(o)well's mouth when Anos fatally pins her to the ground with a sword prior to him permanently reincarnating her as a half-demon after she dies. Later, her mouth bleeds again in the fifth episode of season 2, as a result of the beatings she took thanks to her transformation into a half-demon.
• Played for Laughs in My Dad's the Queen of All VTubers?!. A Running Gag is Takashi vomiting blood after a particularly cringe-worthy moment.
• In My Hero Academia, All Might exhibits this constantly. He's lost his stomach and most of his lungs prior to the start of the series, which, in addition to giving him a gangly, emaciated appearance whenever he isn't using his powers, causes blood shoots out of his mouth whenever he overuses his powers or even gestures a little too hard. Occasionally it gets Played for Laughs when he coughs up blood in surprise for an improvised Spit Take.
• Naruto:
  • The Hyūga families fighting style uses chakra to inflict internal injuries rather than external ones. You only know you have been hit after you cough up blood.
  • When Naruto fights Sasuke in an effort to stop him from defecting to Orochimaru, the first hit Sasuke gives him is a Megaton Punch that causes this in addition to sending him flying.
  • We later see it happen to Itachi during his final fight with Sasuke. No, he hadn't been hit by a Hyūga, he just had tuberculosis or something the entire time. And he still kicked ass.
    • Also happened to Kimimaro who had a fatal disease.
  • Jiraiya has quite a bit of blood coming from his mouth when he dies, as a result of his throat being crushed. Hinata, while appearing to be dead in the eyes of many viewers, had a trickle of blood coming from her mouth. Pain coughs up blood after using Chibaku Tensei, having already used up most of his chakra.
  • In one of the chapters Naruto is bleeding from his mouth after a brutal beat-up from a Cloud ninja.
  • Who can forget Part 1's Big Finale, after which Sasuke coughs up blood near Naruto, who is passed out on the ground? (It was a rough fight.)
  • Danzo starts drooling the red stuff after getting squeezed by Sasuke's Susano'o. But it's apparently not fatal nearly as what happens at the end of the chapter (He's okay). He starts again (for real) after taking a fatal hit and Karin does as well (she lives though).
  • Asuma's death.
  • After Kushina restrains Kyuubi and later Minato when they both are using their bodies to stop Kyuubi from killing their son Naruto.
  • Tsunade has Blood From the Mouth in her battle with Orochimaru after she jumps out in front of his Kusanagi sword to protect Naruto. Subverted, though, in that she gets up and continues to fight (and even heals herself).
  • Sakura after being impaled with Sasori's sword. The preview has other characters talk like they're mourning her death, only to be interrupted: "Cut it out, you guys! I'm still here!"
• In the manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, some people who breath in too much poisonous miasma get this.
• Negima! Magister Negi Magi:
  • Negi gets some blood from the mouth after being impaled by a giant stone spear shortly after returning to the Magic World. He also heavily pukes blood after getting the complete crap beaten out of him by Rakan in the final match of the tournament. Both times, these are caused by obviously major damage. Both times, he gets up anyway.
  • It happens in a flashback too, when the Mage of the Beginning obliterates Ala Rubra in one hit, most of them have Blood From the Mouth.
  • Evangeline McDowell displays this in an early arc after keeping Negi from taking a stalactite meant for her. Of course for someone called the Undying Mage, getting a sharp piece of stone marginally less wide than her torso rammed through her gut is a transitory irritation.
• One Piece:
  • This regularly occurs in most major fights in this series as a means of showing how damaging an attack is.
  • Deliberately invoked during Luffy's fight with Usopp. Usopp pretends to start coughing blood as part of his deception tactic to attack Luffy. Although by the end of the fight, he genuinely does cough up blood.
  • There are also instances of this trope happening outside of fights as well, sometimes for comedy and other times for drama:
    • Played for Laughs by Sanji when he is forced to admit his poorly-drawn Wanted Poster is indeed him by Ivankov.
    • Dr. Hiriluk in Chopper's flashback does this to show that he's dying of an incurable disease.
    • In the Punk Hazard arc, after Mocha swallows all of the drugged candies she was carrying so as to protect the other kidnapped children from eating it, the poor girl ends up in immense pain, coughing lots of blood. Fortunately, Chopper was there to stabilize her condition.
• In Ookami Kakushi, Shigetsu bleeds heavily from the mouth before dying.
• Played with in PandoraHearts: Break sometimes does this after a battle, but it doesn't mean he's lost; in fact, it's a pretty good sign that he just stomped someone into the ground with Mad Hatter. It's just that using Hatter puts such a strain on his body that he'll probably be dead in a year.
• Invoked and Played for Laughs in The Quintessential Quintuplets. Trying to convince the sisters to stay and study, Yotsuba tries to make up a lie that Fuutarou has some crazy deadly illness. To at least make it somewhat believable, Fuutarou grabs a nearby bottle of ketchup to simulate this, and surprisingly it actually convinces them, if only for a moment.
• Rave Master abuses this one. In a sword fighting manga blood from the mouth is more common than cuts.
• Reborn! (2004):
  • Although toned down in the anime, by a lot, in the manga, you can't help but feel sorry for Tsuna when he gets punched around or nearly suffocated to death by the Big Bad. All this beat down results in a lot of that unpleasant red stuff. Good thing the manga portrays it as black.
  • Chrome suffers from this whenever her illusionary organs give out. Immensely freakier in the manga where they actually show her coughing up quite a bit of blood.
• In the conclusion of Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0, the Tenth Angel impales Unit-01, causing Shinji to vomit up a torrent of High-Pressure Blood due to his high synchronization rate. This is the first hint that things are going to happen, since it shows that Shinji retains an absurdly high synchronization with his Evangelion despite the fact that Unit-01 was impaled after the power ran out. Now angry, he reactivates the Unit, and an impressive resurgence against the Angel occurs.
• Alice in R.O.D the TV after getting the mother of all papercuts.
  • Also Ikkyu Soujun in the OVA when Nancy squeezes his heart.
• Tsukune from Rosario + Vampire coughs up a decent quantity after getting his shoulder crushed via an enraged half-breed monstrel.
• Rurouni Kenshin:
  • When Kenshin coughs up blood after a particularly brutal hit, one of the women watching the battle actually notes that this means he's sustained major organ damage. (The trope is played straight in the Seisouhen OVA: this is a sign that Kenshin, and then Kaoru have contracted The Incurable Cough of Death.)
  • Also happens with Sanosuke during his battle with Anji. Justified again: Anji is a Bare-Fisted Monk and has hit Sano's vital organs more than once with his fists.
  • Over the course of the Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal OVA, one of Kenshin's allies (erstwhile boss, really) Takasugi Shinsaku coughs up blood regularly, and eventually dies of his illness while overlooking a battlefield. Completely justified in that the actual historical figure the character is based on also died of tuberculosis before the end of the Meiji Restoration.
• Sailor Moon: An has a bit of blood on her mouth after she is stabbed by the Makai Tree. Though this injury is fatal, she is revived.
• Saint Seiya: Aphrodite after Shun unleashes his Nebula Storm on him.
• Just about every time someone dies in Samurai 7, they do it half-choking on blood.
• Though it's more a sign of grief than death, it happens in Slayers Evolution R (episode 10) to Zelgadis when he learns Rezo can't cure him. Oh the poor, poor dear...
  • Though to be fair, Rezo was likely screwing with him. Having the source of ultimate evil sealed in your soul and all that, maybe he just lied to keep Shabranigdo in check.
  • The trope is played straight during the more brutal battles, though. The most noteworthy case is from the same season above when Zelgadis is nearly crushed by the resurrected Rezo-Shabranigdo, causing him to cough up a notable dose of blood.
• Soul Eater:
  • This happens occasionally. Notable examples include when Death The Kid realized he'd had part of his hair cut (making it asymmetrical), Maka after the fight with Free on London Bridge, where the blood was black, indicating she was affected by... black blood and Mifune after being defeated by Black Star for the third time. In the anime he lives, in the manga he does not.
  • In the anime, the moon constantly has blood dripping out of the corner of its mouth. Except in the opening.
  • Medusa coughs up blood twice in her first battle with Stein in the anime: once when she gets slammed against a wall, the next when he hits her with his Soul Force attack.
• In The Story of Saiunkoku, Sa Sakujun bleeds copiously enough from the mouth to soak the front of his clothing, even though rather than suffering any internal injuries he is succumbing to a poison he'd taken much earlier in the day. Transferred to Shuurei's lips afterwards.
• In the Strike Witches movie, Yoshika gets this while she's being pursued by the giant tower Neuroi. She gets a much worse injury at the end of the fight, though.
• Nearly every fight scene in Tokyo Ghoul and it's sequels. Characters usually survive because of Ghouls' regenerative abilities.
• Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-:
  • Fai spits out blood when he fails to transport himself and Kurogane out of the collapsing world of Celes. Pretty much expected when half his power has been diminished after C!Syaoran ate his left eye.
  • Also happens to Kurogane's mother earlier on.
• Vision of Escaflowne:
  • In the first episode, Van is knocked aside by the dragon and rolls a little ways. He then vomits well over a quart of blood. Which is odd, since he survives so much damage during the series that he's clearly some sort of robot.
  • There's also a later time where Van begins coughing up blood, seemingly unprovoked, while the heroes are imprisoned by Zaibach. Rather than a rapid onset of Tuberculosis, it turns out to be because the bad guys have started dismantling the mech he's permanently synched to. Heart first.
• The Voynich Hotel:
  • The devil Ashkelon spews blood from his mouth just before dying, due to eating the poisoned cake the Serial Killer Snark had given to Demona.
  • As Snark is closing up her deal with Demona, she starts coughing up blood, a sign that her time before her soul is claimed is running out. In the last few minutes before she dies, she practically pukes blood.
• In The Wind Rises, the main character's fiancee/wife is shown coughing up a lot of blood when she has a lung hemorrhage — it's already been established that she has tuberculosis, but that's where it becomes obvious that she's not going to survive the movie.
• Yu-Gi-Oh!:
  • Yu-Gi-Oh!: Happens a few times in the final story arc. Whenever one of their monsters are destroyed, many of the characters cough up a small amount of blood, often shortly before dying. The most extreme example would be Bakura (or at least one of the numerous versions of him), who, upon losing a duel against Yuugi, coughs up a huge glob of blood, not long before dying.
  • The ancient Bakura actually vomits blood before dying. He comes back.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: In an episode explaining Daitokuji-sensei's, or rather, Amnael's, origins, he coughs up a little bit of blood due to succumbing to a terminal disease, but he makes a second body right before his first one dies.
• In Zombie Loan, Michiru exhibits this in the second episode. Although it's not as much of an indicator as the massive pool of blood around her after she took a sword strike for another character. She got better.

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