Too Good For This Sinful Earth / Anime & Manga

Too Good for This Sinful Earth in Anime and Manga.

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• Air does this with both Misuzu Kamio and Michiru.
• Menma from Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day, a painfully-cute Genki Girl who always put others before herself until she one day drowned at the age of ten. She hangs around as a ghost for most of the series, invisible to most people, ultimately for the purpose of playing through the trope all over again as she writes heartfelt final letters for all her friends and "dies" a second time as her ghost departs for heaven.
• Marco Bott, from Attack on Titan. Idealistic, kindhearted, genuinely selfless without any sort of complex, always there to encourage the others, and pivotal in holding the 104th Trainees Squad together emotionally during their first battle. His best friend, Jean, discovers what's left of Marco on the second day of cleaning up after the battle, and is horrified when he cannot find anyone that saw his final moments. This tragedy serves as a catalyst for Jean's evolution from a selfish Jerkass into The Leader Marco always believed he could become. Later events suggest something more sinister may have been involved in his death...
• In Barefoot Gen, there is Tomoko Nakaoka, along with Shinji, Eiko, and many children who were vaporized in the bombing of Hiroshima and its aftermath effects.
• Same in CLANNAD for Fuko, Nagisa and Ushio. Thankfully, they got better.
• Code Geass has two prominent examples:
  • Shirley, who serves as Lelouch's most obvious tie to his civilian life. Kind, supportive, and always wanting to help him, Shirley's death signifies a change in Lelouch that also leads into the Zero Requiem.
  • Euphemia. It was her naivete and goodwill that led her to do something that led to the political need to meet with the man who could control people's minds, which ultimately led to her death. Ironically, that same compassion leads to the man admitting his defeat, a claim none of her more ruthless or intelligent siblings can make.
• Danganronpa 3: Given that this is the grand finale of the storyline started in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, this trope pops up more than a few times.
  • Daisaku Bandai was the former Ultimate Farmer and the Future Foundation branch leader in charge of distributing food in the post-apocalyptic world. Despite his intimidating appearance, he's a very kind and easygoing guy with the voice of a small child and a habit of creating random proverb-esque sayings that make zero sense. He's the second victim in the Final Killing Game, dying an extremely cruel and unfair death when his Forbidden Action is triggered and poisons him. His Forbidden Action code was "witness violence by participants"; he died because he was present when Juzo Sakakura kneed Ryota Mitarai the chest. Given that at least half the participants in the Killing Game were either prone to violence or saw violence as the answer to everything (including actual violence itself) the poor guy never stood a chance.
  • The Great Gozu (the latest Gentle Giant character in the tradition of Sakura and Nidai) is the large and immensely strong former ultimate wrestler. Despite the fact that he wears a bull mask and can be very scary if provoked, he's actually a rather gentle and polite soul with strong morals and a deep sense of loyalty to his comrades. Once the Final killing Game starts, he declares that he won't kill anyone, even if it costs him his own life, and protects Makoto Negaei and Aoi Ashina from Sakakura. After finding a hiding place and encouraging them to have hope, he is killed by the attacker during the second sleeping phase. He has his eyes slashed out, a knife stabbed through his heart, and his body is then thrown into the exposed cables hanging from the ceiling. Tragically, it's later revealed that, like all the other victims of the attacker, Gozu's death was really an extremely gory brainwashing-induced suicide.
  • Chiaki Nanami, or rather, the real one continues to be this. If you've already played Danganronpa 2; Goodbye Despair (see the Video Games entry), you already know just how sweet and caring Chiaki is/was. This Chiaki was just as kind and similarly reached out to the brooding Hajime when he was still a reserve student, and was the light of her class. Junko's brutal execution of her becomes a tool to drive the rest of the class into despair, and even makes Izuru Kamukura, who should have forgotten everything as Hajime by then, feel upset. The way the ending of Danganronpa 2 was set up gave the player the impression that she may have been able to come back along with the rest of the class, but that Chiaki was born from her classmates' memories and will never return.
  • Seiko Kimura is the former SHSL Pharmacist who, despite being part of the radical faction of the Future Foundation, is willing to treat her ideological rivals wounds. Despite her creepy appearance and demeanor, she is actually a very caring person with zero self-esteem who simply wants to be useful to everyone. While she does end up chasing and trying to kill her former friends Ruruka and Sonosuke, it's out of long-repressed anger at Ruruka's apparent "betrayal" in high school and how she used her throughout their friendship, and Seiko ends up giving up without harming them. As the third sleeping phase approaches she curls up in a hallway and thinks about how all she wanted was to have one true friend. She had actually loved Ruruka dearly and still wished that they could somehow make up. As she is knocked out by the sleeping drug, the last thing that she thinks about is the deaths of Bandai and Chisa and how she was unable to help them. She never wakes up, becoming the third victim after being brutally crucified, meaning that she died feeling worthless and thinking that she was unable to help anyone. And just like Great Gozu, it turns out that Seiko's death was caused by being brainwashed into suicide. For added insult, in the finale, it's revealed that the seemingly dead Kyoko actually survived due to taking a cure for the poison in the NG code bracelets that Seiko made during the killing game. She died not knowing that she had actually saved someone.
• DEVILMAN crybaby: Several of the characters in this show definitely qualify.
  • Akira's parents travelled abroad for their jobs but were nothing but loving towards their son. When Akira finally sees them again for the first time in years, his father has been possessed by the turtle demon Jinmen, who killed his mother and added her soul to his shell as a death mask, forcing Akira to kill them both.
  • Where do we begin with Miki and her family? First, her brother Taro becomes a Devilman, but because he can't control his Horror Hunger, he starts eating his mother... Just in time for Miki's father to find them and suffer a massive Despair Event Horizon before both he and Taro are shot to death by soldiers, with Akira being seconds too late to save them. Then after Akira's Devilman identity is outed by Ryo, Miki makes a heartfelt post online about her relationship with him, only to get doxxed by one of Wamu's rapper friends, who mistakenly believes Miko killed Kukun, resulting in their deaths and Miki's, with Akira again being too late to save them since he was injured in an earlier fight and couldn't fly to their aid.
• Android 16 from Dragon Ball Z - made to be a killing machine, somehow ended up a Friend to All Living Things. If he didn't have a soul when Dr. Gero built him, he would most likely have earned one by the time Cell brutally murdered him. To drive it home further, his is one of the few deaths to stick in a franchise notorious for its revolving-door afterlife.
  • Turns out that Dr. Gero based him off of his own son, who died in the Red Ribbon Army. If he was anything like Android 16 was in personality, it would help to explain how his death would drive Gero off the deep end.
• Spoofed in Fate/Zero's Einzbern Consultation Room extra. Lancer learns from Irisviel that the source of his suffering was not actually from his curse. As it turns out, being noble fangirl bait voiced by Hikaru Midorikawa in an "Urobutcher" series makes his likelihood of dying horribly and tragically 170%.
  Irisviel: If you're good-looking, your bad end karma will increase 20%. If you have a nice personality, it'll increase another 30%. If you make girls want it, even when you don't, that's another 30%. And if you're voiced by Hikaru Midorikawa, that's 90%.
• Fullmetal Alchemist has this in several flavors.
  • Nina and Alexander, an adorable girl and her dog, who suffer and die in a gruesome way in one of the most infamous scenes. They are literally fused together by her father, to the point their brains are combined and are mercy killed soon after. This event haunts Ed and Al arguably as much as their mother's death.
  • Maes Hughes, who is an unusual case in that he is a veteran of an exceptionally atrocious war and a bit of a Deadpan Snarker. All the same, he is a loving family man who brags endlessly about his wonderful wife and young daughter and tries to help his friends and country the best that he can. So, naturally, he dies not even a quarter of the way into the series, in a cruelly ironic way to boot.
    • Hughes earns triple points because his death is because he's "too good" in three separate ways. (1) He's too good a friend to the Elric brothers. (2) He's too good at his job. (3) He's too good of a family man, at the worst possible moment.
• Future Diary has two examples:
  • Among the diary users, Kamado Ueshita (Eighth) is the only one that doesn't crack her nice personality to the end, just carrying out her job as an orphanage mother. The kids she hands out Apprentice Diaries to are another story.
  • Yuki's mother Rea, who is a very sane individual in a cast of varying degrees of being unhinged. Turns out she had more than one good reason to divorce her ex Kurou, who stabs her in a panic when confronted on what happened to their son.
• Played upon in Gestalt. Ohri, the resident Cute Mute and Manic Pixie Dream Girl starts as a slave girl, offered to Oliver, the main character. As Oliver flatly refuses to accept her (as he's staunchly opposed to slavery), Ohri, willing to follow him, describes this trope point-by-point, telling him that being too cute and helpless to thrive in a world so sinful to accept slavery, she would be eventually sold to someone else, without Oliver's morality, and die in the most Anvilicious manner possible. Oliver finally relents and accepts her as one of the True Companions.
• Shuu from Get Backers, when he is killed by Kumon Horii.
  • Many childhood friends of Ginji, during his childhood in the Limitless Fortress, especially a girl who was a close friend of his.
• Shouyo Yoshida in Gintama is shown in flashbacks as an oasis of kindness, patience, and wisdom for his students during the Amanto war. He is perhaps the only purely gentle and caring character without any bizarre personality defects in the series. His death is a driving motivation for the serious storylines, particularly how his students responded to it: Gintoki accepts the sinful earth that killed his teacher and protects it anyway; Katsura rejects such a sinful earth and tries to change it (first violently, then more peacefully after meeting Gintoki again for the first time in years); Takasugi thinks an earth so sinful should only be destroyed completely. Even when he is revealed to be one of Big Bad Utsuro's many lives, Shouyo is still portrayed as innocent, as it was the one life Utsuro enjoyed fully and was mostly devoid of the horrors and tortured existence Utsuro suffered through millenia.
• GoLion: The mother of Prince Sincline was an Altean woman who died begging his father not to massacre a group of innocent slaves. Her pleas fell on deaf ears as she was killed as well. Her son has flashbacks of her, and constantly wonders what kind of woman she was.
• Hare in episode 15 of Guilty Crown. When a group of students fears they'll be allowed to die because their voids aren't useful enough, they go out to try and get more vaccine from a hospital and prove they aren't useless. Shu and Hare head out to stop them so they won't get killed pointlessly. Before Shu can get them to listen to reason, they are found and attacked by the Antibodies. Souta, having been among the group going to the hospital, asks Hare to use her void in order to "heal" a car so they can escape. She gets targeted by Daryl, Shu sees this, and he dives to save her. They both get caught in an explosion and get badly hurt. Hare chooses to use her void to heal Shu while she's bleeding out of her stomach and talks about a picture book she read once about a "kind king" who tries to make everyone happy, but his kindness ends up ruining his kingdom and angering his people. she says she liked him despite this and loved Shu because he was similarly kind to a fault. she then dies and starts to crystallize, only completely disappearing after Shu wakes up to see her dead body. What helps prove how good she is is that the sight of her fading from existence causes Shu's worst Heroic BSoD yet, sends him on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, and quite possibly (at time of writing) led to a Start of Darkness in Shu as he seems to lose all hope and kindness.
• Gunslinger Girl
  • Angelica is the first of the cyborgs, and everyone at the newly formed agency loves and dotes on her until her conditioning starts to break down. All the cyborg girls have their quirks and flaws, but Angelica is never portrayed as anything but nice, making her slow demise all the more tragic. However this is also the fate of the other cyborg girls who won't die in action, rather than a fate reserved for Angelica alone.
  • Subverted with Enrica; for the first several volumes of the manga, we only know Enrica through Jose's flashbacks, all of which portray her as incredibly innocent. When the manga begins to detail the Croce family's backstory, Enrica is portrayed with a lot of human flaws that weren't initially shown. Not that her dying in the backstory doesn't suck, mind you.
• Hello! Sandybell: The Countess of Wellington was a kind lady who bonded with Sandybell over their love of flowers. She passed away in a traffic accident while she was very young. And this was the start of the problems for her son Marc...
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood:
  • According to Dio, his mother was this. A truly kind woman who was ultimately worked to death by his abusive father.
  • George Joestar was a kind man who lent mercy to the otherwise awful Dario and his even worse son, Dio, while wishing he and his own son would eventually get along, something that is not rewarded as the ungrateful adoptee decides to kill him in order to become a vampire. This is even acknowledged in-universe by Speedwagon, believing that a kind man like him didn't deserve what happened to him.
  • Jonathan Joestar, in his final moments, despite all the horrible things Dio did to him throughout his life, felt only brotherly love rather than hatred for him, as well as pleading his pregnant wife to take care of a stranger's orphaned baby girl. A truly kind and gentle soul like his father before him, also murdered by his ungrateful brother. Notably, Dio agrees, having only come to truly understand how much of a kind and gentle soul Jonathan was at the end, regarding him as the greatest of his adversaries, and in his own twisted way does love and respects him as a noble paragon.
• Tatara Totsuka of K was an extremely kind and well-meaning young man who just happened to be friends with some dangerous people, the clan of the Red King. He was the light of their group, who kept them at least calm enough to not blow up everything. So when he dies, all hell breaks loose - just as the Colorless and Green kings wanted.
• Kaze no Shōjo Emily: Juliet Starr (née Murray). She was a happy, free-spirited soul, something which Laura admired about her. She chose to leave the Murray family to marry the man she loved, but died shortly afterwards.
• Susannah Julia Von Wincott from Kyo Kara Maoh! falls under this trope. Can almost be called the Messianic Archetype. It is said that she was too pure for the Shoushu, the Big Bad of the show, to possess her. Thus, making Yuuri the last hope. She sacrificed her life trying to help injured soldiers.
• Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair: Angela MacDowell was nothing but sweet and full of love for Jeanie, Frederick and everyone around her. She died when Jeanie was just a child, after collapsing in front of her, because her illness had progressed so far it was beyond treating.
• Lady!!:
  • Lynn's mother, Misuzu, died in a car accident while trying to visit her father, George, and she used her final moments to shield Lynn with her body. Even worse, George's family were racist and would speak badly of her, such as his father lambasting him for being involved with "that Eastern woman".
  • Sarah's mother, Frances Russell, was a kind woman who loved horses, but she passed away when Sarah was young. It's implied she died in childbirth.
• Legend of the Galactic Heroes, due to its large cast, has several examples, the absolute crowning example of which is Siegfried Kircheis, who serves as the series' first Sacrificial Lion. He's repeatedly touted, in-universe no less, as a shining ideal of friendship, kindness, and loyalty and one of the greatest military thinkers in the show, and his death trying to save Reinhart von Lohengramm from an assassin haunts an entire half of the cast for most of the series' run. "If only Kircheis had lived..." becomes Arc Words concerning Reinhart's fate for the rest of the show.
• Goro's father Shigeharu Honda in Major. A loving father whose son looked up to and wanted to follow his footsteps. He was finally moving on from his wife's death to marry again and give his son a new mom, and when it seemed he was going to make a successful comeback as a pinch hitter, he got hit in the head by a dead ball that ended his life.
• Maria no Danzai: All in all, Kiritaka Nagare was a kind boy who looked after others before himself, and absolutely did not deserve to be tortured for months on end by Okaya's gang or to die such a messy death as he did.
• Metamorphosis revolves around the life of a naive and innocent nerd-turned-popular girl Saki Yoshida. She gets taken advantage of by a sexual predator, blackmailed and bullied by her classmates, raped by her own father, disowned by her mother, spirals down into an addiction of drugs, turned into a homeless bum, gets pregnant without a father, but promises to be sober for the sake of the child. The aforementioned classmates then assault and violate her with intention to kill her child, rob her hard-earned money, and leave her for the dead. Even so, Saki never really blames any of those people for her miseries, all she blames is just herself for turning the way she is and that she is too weak to handle all these. She then commits suicide.
• Mission: Yozakura Family: From Taiyo's memories, it's clear that the Asanos were a close-knit family. Hide and Akari worked as a pharmaceutical worker and a nurse respectively to help ill patients to the point that one of them, Shirai, considered them her family, while Hikaru was by all counts a cheerful, happy child. Then they lost their lives in the car accident that leaves Taiyo the Sole Survivor.
• Haku of Naruto was incredibly selfless and kind. His death to protect Zabuza was what spurred the man into his Self-Destructive Charge and revealed the humanity he had long since buried. And then, as if the double-death scene wasn't poignant enough, it snowed. Furthermore, it was Haku's words that helped Naruto become the good and kind man he became. Kakashi himself lampshades it when the two are brought back to life during the 4th Shinobi War, thanking for meeting them.
• One Piece.
  • Ace's death. While not having a happy childhood, with nearly everyone unknowingly telling him that his father Gold Roger was a cruel, unsympathetic bastard and with the World Government claiming that a child of Gold Roger's didn't deserve to live, this character was a relatively friendly, polite and all-round nice person.
  • Bartholomew Kuma, although initially presented like a villain, is gradually revealed to actually be one of the kindest, humblest, and most righteous characters in the entire series. This in spite of an entire life from young child to adulthood dragged through some of the worst suffering imaginable, culminating in a forced Death of Personality, turning him into a soulless fighting machine in exchange for his daughter's life (a deal he made knowingly, without hesitation).
• Amber and her clone Ambertwo in Pokémon: The Birth of Mewtwo and its animated adaptation in Pokémon: The First Movie. Amber was her dad's Morality Pet and she died getting hit by a car. Her father tried to create a Replacement Goldfish, but human cloning wasn't advanced enough for Ambertwo to survive long. Ambertwo was Mewtwo's Cheerful Child best friend when he was still developing.
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica subverts this in a couple of different ways.
  • Mami, a rare example of a strong but also kind and heroic magical girl, gets decapitated and eaten by a witch to kick off the darker parts of the story. But it later turns out she was capable of some pretty horrifying acts after a good Freak Out, such as killing her friends so they won't become witches. And, in the end, she comes back to life, so the trope no longer applies.
  • Madoka, the poster child for Incorruptible Pure Pureness in a Crapsack World, seems doomed to this fate, and does suffer it many times in previous timelines. In the end, though, she sacrifices herself voluntarily to save all magical girls from becoming witches, cleverly saving herself in the process and literally becoming a god. She "dies" in the sense of being erased from the mortal realm, but there's no remaining sense of the cruel world punishing her for her goodness.
• Anchan of Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin is this, full stop. You come to realize fairly early on that someone so good and inspirational and beloved and constantly in danger isn't going to make it for very long.
• Re:CREATORS: Mamika Kirameki is the kindest, selfless, and has the strongest moral compass of all the characters that come to the real world. She dies first, in one of the most painful ways possible. For extra tragedy, she gets killed by the same person she was trying to help.
• Rebuild of Evangelion has Kaworu "Bishonen space Jesus" Nagisa. Although his morality was far more ambiguous in the anime series and the manga adaptation, all Rebuild Kaworu wanted was to see Shinji happy. And where his death in the TV series came by his own request, after he had attempted to cause Third Impact, in Rebuild it was basically because of a mistake on Shinji's part that he died.
• The Dauphin in The Rose of Versailles died before the Revolution started.
• The Secret Garden: Lilias Craven was a cheerful and idyllic soul, and met her end after climbing a tree to get Camila a gorgeous flower as a birthday gift. This was despite Camila begging her to get down and saying it was too dangerous. After she died, Camila was blamed for her death and kicked out.
• Princess Iria from Sound of the Sky. She brought hope to everyone who knew her and died trying to save a kid.
• Sword Art Online:
  • In the Aincrad arc, Sachi, the only female of the Black Cats of the Full Moon, was a girl who hated fighting, but also the kindest and nicest of all of them, and her death is what drove Kirito to go solo for so long because he was unable to protect her as he promised. To drive the point home, she preemptively recorded a message for Kirito, telling him that he shouldn't blame himself if she died and that she was happy she could meet him.
  • Yuuki Konno in the Mother's Rosario arc is a cheerful girl who encourages everybody around her to live their lives to the fullest and quickly gathers fame as the strongest swordfighter in all of Alfheim Online, never losing a single duel. In the end, she succumbs to her AIDS, but her friends and just about every player in the server comes to pay her respects when her time comes.
  • In Ordinal Scale, there's also Yuuna, who gets this twofold. First, during the SAO incident, she did her best to cheer her fellow players through her music. During a boss raid she used her abilities to draw the boss's minions away from the other players which allowed them to beat it but costed her life. And then in the movie proper, her Virtual Ghost helps Kirito and his friends to thwart her father's plans to revive her, and since her data is tied to that of Aincrad's final boss, she disappears for good once Kirito destroys it, though not before she gets the chance to fulfill her dream of singing on a stage for a large crowd.
• TAL brings us Laon Hiljo, a blind, somewhat blunt chachaoong under Ja Gwi's orders. He was only following Ja Gwi to ensure survival for himself and his two children, Haje and Jenna, and hopefully be freed from him by having their marks somehow removed even though Ei Mae had already removed Jenna's mark. Attempting to hide Yu Jin's identity from Ja Gwi, however, resulted in Ja Gwi detonating Hiljo's mark, killing him. Haje was so angered he was about to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge but was stopped by Yu Jin "awakening" as the Second King and disabling Ja Gwi, followed by Chau Yoong arriving and sending Ja Gwi to Hell for eternity. Chau Yoong stated he would ensure Hiljo's soul was taken care of, before taking him away to properly bury him.
• Hokuto is afraid something like this will happen to her brother Subaru in Tokyo Babylon. Given what happened, this trope might have been more merciful. And in a sense, that's what happened to her instead.
• Hide in the Alternate Continuity of Tokyo Ghoul √A. Kaneki's only friend since childhood, he has always been there to cheer him up and protect him. He spends the entire series completely devoted to helping Kaneki, even as the other pulls further and further away from him to keep him safe. When Kaneki goes missing, he becomes an Intern at CCG to gather information, and ends up on the battlefield during the finale. The friends finally reunite, with him acting like nothing is wrong and revealing he knew about Kaneki becoming a Ghoul all along — but it never mattered to him. He's then revealed to be fatally wounded, and dies in Kaneki's arms.
• Yuuki from Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 is the sweet, Cheerful Child brother of the cynical protagonist. He died due to complications arising from getting hit on the head on a piece of falling rubble a few days prior.
• Rubina from UFO Robo Grendizer -one of the Mazinger Z sequels-. All she ever wanted was people to stop killing each other and being happy with the man she loved. What did she get for her efforts in stopping the war and try to convince everybody to forgive, forget, and rebuild? She got killed.
• Valvrave the Liberator loves this trope so much that some wonder if the writers had problems with these kind of people.
  • First we have Aina, the character who deemed the hero's curse as a blessing and was one of the few people accepted Saki Rukino. She is blown to bits, and Kyuma's scream when he finds her is enough to do the same to your heart.
  • Then we have Lieselotte, a member of an alien-like clan who wanted her people to coexist with humans. She dies sacrificing her life to protect a person who she once saved as a child.
  • Then we have Kyuma Inuzuka, who had a crush on Aina and wanted to prove his curse is also a blessing by protecting the people who five minutes ago wanted him dead for that curse.
  • Think that's enough? Nope. In the finale, the hero Haruto loses all his memories as a result of his curse in his final fight. He dies shortly afterwards.
• Voltes V: Lozaria is sweet, kindhearted, doesn't have a single hateful bone in her body and supports the idea of people living peacefully together, hornless or not. For this, Emperor Zambajil has her sent away from her husband, and she dies in childbirth without him knowing. Her crime? Her husband rivaled Zambajil for the throne.
• Lady Hamona of Wolf's Rain was the only one of the four Nobles who was actually a good person. She was a gentle, soft-spoken woman unlike her sister, Jaguara, and was a Living Emotional Crutch to her lover Darcia. But that didn't prevent her fate, as when she visited Darcia's villa, she catches Paradise sickness from him as a part of his family curse, an illness that took away her soul, rendering her comatose. If that wasn't enough, her Evil Twin Jaguara became a Green-Eyed Monster because she was in love with Darcia too. So Jaguara takes the opportunity to kill Hamona while she was sick.
  • Toboe, the young Red Wolf as well. He risked his life to save Quent Yaiden, a man who hated wolves, from Darcia, but Quent accidentally shot Toboe, and the music playing when the other wolves find him and Quent (who had then been shot by Darcia) dead is just heartbreaking, an opera rendition of Toboe's theme. Even Jerk with a Heart of Gold Tsume weeps for his fallen friend.
  • And also Cheza, the flower maiden. She and the wolf she loved, Kiba, were mortally wounded by Darcia in the Grand Finale, and when she finally starts blooming, Darcia hauls her around by her spine. As soon as Kiba reaches her, and they share one last tender moment together, Cheza disintegrates into seeds in Kiba's arms.
• The Your Name side novel Another Side: Earthbound reveals that Mitsuha's late mother Futaba was Wise Beyond Their Years and very well-respected, revered even, by the people of Itomori. After her death by illness, some of the townspeople started saying this of her In-Universe.
• Kolulu from Zatch Bell!. Even though she was only sent back to the Mamodo World when her book was burned, this is still treated as the equivalent of the death in the series, not to mention the impact it has on people.