History OnlyAFleshWound / AnimeAndManga

* Hit and miss in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''. The really nasty wounds received are generally portrayed as such, but they're not very incapacitating once heroic resolve enters the equation.:

** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in nisinator1's "''Bleach [[TheAbridgedSeries Ridiculously Abridged]]'': "<injury> is not enough to kill a ''Bleach'' character!"

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' frequently does this when applied to the likes of stab wounds, the most blatant being Neji surviving being impaled just because he prevented it from injuring any vital organs and Kiba surviving stabbing himself in the chest (though the main character at least has the excuse of a HealingFactor). Subverted in that they spent weeks in the hospital afterwards. In Neji's case this came after a ''three hour surgery''.

** In the ''Blood Prison'' movie, Ryuzetsu and Naruto end up impaled through the abdomen by a claw that's almost as wide as their torsos. Naruto continues fighting, though he is fatally injured, and Ryuzetsu can still walk even though both of them just lost a large part of their spines.
* Hit and miss in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''. The really nasty wounds received are generally portrayed as such, but they're not very incapacitating once heroic resolve enters the equation. It's occasionally outright averted, however, such as when [[spoiler:Fate spears Negi through the shoulder with a rock lance, and he instantly collapses into a bleeding pile. Then hits Fate with it and passes out again. The next 'three minutes' are a race against time to get Konoka's artifact out so he doesn't bleed to death while a semiconscious Negi holds himself together with what magic he can]].
** Played straight later on when [[spoiler: Tsukuyomi]] cuts [[spoiler: Fate]]'s arm off. He's completely unfazed, although his subordinates freak out when they see him. Justified in that he is a [[spoiler: doll]]. Also, he pats the head of one of his servants -- with his cut-off arm hold in his other hand. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in that his servants wonder if he is attempting physical humour.

** Kohza is pretty underrated example, but technically he predates Whitebeard in terms being a bullet sponge being shot ''many, many'' times. However unlike Whitebeard Kohza is still alive by the end of the arc.
** People seem to shrug off missing limbs all the time in One Piece: losing an arm like Shanks, Jozu, Zephyr, Nekomamushi, Perospero and Kidd or losing a leg like Zeff, Kyros and Inuarashi is more of a mild inconvenience than anything else in One Piece.
** Zoro is one of the biggest examples of this trope -- in the Arlong arc, WordOfGod is that he lost 5 liters of blood. The human body can hold up to six liters of blood at the very most. Let's assume Zoro has six liters at the very most. Zoro is stated to have lost nearly 90% of blood in the arc due to the wound Mihawk gave him. ''That's more than twice'' the amount of loss to be considered fatal (even ArcVillain Arlong is shocked that Zoro is still alive.). Yet, a few stitches later, he's up and partying with the gang...
*** In Wano Arc during Zoro's fight with Kamazo he takes a scythe to the shoulder and is clearly winded, but in true MadeOfIron fashion Zoro mans through the pain getting his usual SlasherSmile and uses the scythe in combination with his other katanas to wreck Kamazo. [[spoiler: [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Zoro then faints from blood loss... and needs urgent medical attention from Hiyori]]]].

* Averted in Creator/OsamuTezuka's ''Manga/{{Adolf}}'': protagonist Sohei Toge gets shot in the shoulder and, since his nerves were hurt, his arm is rendered pretty much useless until the end of the story. Tezuka graduated in Medicine before becoming a full-time manga artist.
* During Genesis' assault on Trident in the ''Manga/AirGear'' manga, Benkei cuts off her own leg at the thigh. She later explains that she's not losing much blood because of her vegetarianism, and that she needed to lose some blood to lower her blood pressure anyways.

** In spite of the series's attempts to keep to realism in regards to battle wounds, major characters tend to survive more grievous injuries. This may be {{justified|Trope}}, since those characters often note how [[LampshadeHanging lucky they were]], or others remark that they must be superhuman (* cough* [[TheJuggernaut Roberta]]* cough* ). In one example, Rock once points out that although one of Revy's injuries wasn't fatal, it was deep enough where it wouldn't clot, so she would need medical attention as soon as possible.
** Played ''slightly'' more realistically in regards to [[spoiler:Roberta]] in the ''Roberta's Blood Trail'' OVA, where [[spoiler:after being shot in her left shoulder during the final episode she can barely lift the arm, and the ending credits reveals it -- as well as a right leg that was also shot -- was later amputated]]. Normally you'd expect someone that badly injured to bleed out, however.

** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in nisinator1's "''Bleach'' [[TheAbridgedSeries Ridiculously Abridged"]]:
-->"<injury> is not enough to kill a ''Bleach'' character!"
* In ''Manga/{{Change 123}}'', there is a scene where one [[{{Ninja}} kunoichi]] threatens another by stabbing her in the chest with a scalpel. It's a surgically precise stab done so that the scalpel, while not doing any critical damage, goes so near the heart that it's on the very edge of stabbing it. {{Justified|Trope}} by the fact that the kunoichi who does the stabbing has a formal training in medicine.

* Subverted in ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' Season II, when [[spoiler:Dr. Pavlichenko, Suou's father]] is hit in the leg by a spear-like weapon. Although Suou manages to tightly bind the wound, it doesn't completely stop the bleeding, and he eventually dies from blood loss.

* Played with in ''Manga/DeathNote''. Matt gets shot several times by Takada's bodyguards. Even if one had missed something vital (and it appears several might have), [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill there were lots more to make up for it]]. One even went clean through him!
** Played straight with Light, who gets shot several times by Matsuda, and yet (despite being badly injured) manages to walk quite some distance before [[spoiler: being killed by Ryuk]].
* During Goku's fight with Piccolo in ''Manga/DragonBall'', he was shot by a ki blast that punched clean through his shoulder. He got back up, much to Piccolo's shock, saying that he missed his vital organs. He was also shot in his other limbs, and suffering from heavy blood loss. One senzu bean later and Goku is perfectly healed. He takes a similar beating from Vegeta, and until he gets another senzu, he's stuck in the hospital.
** Frieza has it as an ability: he is able to survive and function in the most horrible conditions. He got his tail chopped off twice, got vivisected and lost his left arm, then was caught in the explosion of the planet he was on, resulting in the loss of half his head. When he was found floating among the debris, he was (semi-)conscious. And as if that weren't enough he survives for at least a few seconds after being vivisected ''again'', vertically this time. In Ressurection 'F', when he is wished back to life, his body is in diced-up pieces, yet he is not only alive, but seemingly concious.
** His brother Cooler was just as hard to kill, if not more so. At the end of the movie ''Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge'', he was actually ''blown into the sun''. There was still enough left of him for his consciousness to usurp control of a machine called the Big Gete Star and create a new body, returning in the sequel, but this actually made him more vulnerable; at the conclusion, he perished for good when Goku and Vegeta destroyed his body ''and'' the Big Gete Star.
** Piccolo has [[HealingFactor regeneration]] so one mangled arm is no big deal, at one point he is turned into stone and then is unintentionally smashed to pieces by kid Trunks but a minute later Piccolo appears fine explaining he can heal from almost anything so long as his [[RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain head remains intact]].
** It gets really nasty when the next major villain combines Piccolo's regeneration with Freiza's survivability, and the Saiyan ability to get [[CameBackStrong stronger from being near death]]: [[FromASingleCell Ce]][[MeaningfulName ll]] survives getting half of his torso and his full upper body blown up, and ''his own self-destruction'' as well.
** Vegeta was able to walk after Krillin put a hole through him in Namek, and in ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' he even stayed conscious after Omega Syn Shenron turned him [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/powerlisting/images/5/5c/Vegeta_Endurance.gif/revision/latest?cb=20181015005602 into a pin cushion]].
* In ''Manga/ElfenLied'', Nana loses all of her limbs while fighting Lucy, but she doesn't bleed to death even though it takes a while for her to get medical attention.

* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' there is a scene of Mustang's crew going out of their way to avoid shooting soldiers in vital areas, but still shooting them just the same. You'd think being soldiers they'd know better.

--->[[spoiler: '''Ed (slowly pushing himself off the ground)''': I must have fallen down the mine shaft. Dammit... I can't let Kimblee get away...! ''(coughs blood, looks back, eyes widen as he sees he's been impaled by a girder)'' Y-you're kidding... No!... ''(collapses)'']]
** Ed's arm and leg are both severed from his body, but he still manages to live long enough for the machine replacements to be attached.
*** The above statement is not quite true. During a flashback, Ed is shown in a wheelchair, stumps bound, before he receives the surgery. It IS worth noting though that, with two limbs completely severed, he still has time to [[spoiler:bond his brother's soul to a suit of armor, his brother adjusting to being bound in said armor, the reasonable expectation of panic from such a young child in such a situation, and the fairly long run to the Rockbell house]]. Trope thoroughly in effect.

* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' plays it realistically with gunshot wounds, at least on non-cyborged individuals. In one episode, a soldier is shot in his upper-thigh by a sniper and bleeds to death on the ground while his squadmates are pinned down.

* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''

* Gray from ''Manga/GunsmithCats''. Apparently getting shot half a dozen times in the arm isn't that big of a deal for him. He just flexes them out, and bandages it up.
** The same applies to Bean Bandit.

* Averted in the ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' LightNovels and TheMovie, when Kyon gets stabbed in his abdomen with a knife and only barely escapes dying from blood loss.

* A variant of the 'Intentionally Shooting To Wound' theme occurred in ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', when KnightTemplar Alexander Anderson introduced himself by putting about a score of blessed bayonets through [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Seras Victoria's]] neck and torso while missing her heart to incapacitate her (and leave her in agony) while he entertained himself with Alucard. HeroicWillpower is invoked when she surprises Anderson by dragging herself away with her master's head.
** Seras and Alucard are both vampires, Alucard in particular has no trouble healing himself after being chopped into dozens of pieces, decapitated etc. Even if Anderson was just aiming to incapacitate, he has no particular reason to care if she ''does'' get permanently destroyed, since his mission is to obliterate her eventually anyway.
** Anderson in the FinalBattle keeps fighting while missing most of his left arm. Anderson's apprentice Heinkel survived a bullet fired by The Captain through her cheek mangling the side of her face and she was still able to talk.

* Zack, Tifa and [[spoiler: Cloud]] in ''Anime/LastOrderFinalFantasyVII'' as all three of them get badly sliced/stabbed by Sephiroth and unlike a certain flower girl they live to tell the tale. Bonus points for [[spoiler: Cloud]] since [[PullYourselfDownTheSpear he literally pulls himself along Sephy's murasame]] and briefly remains conscious with the katana sitting in his torso.
* Averted many times in ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'': characters who get wounded in a limb either lose said limb or die, sometimes even after having received futuristic medical treatment. This is played in a very cruel way with one of the main characters, especially since the WHOLE episode of his death was made in a way that lead many viewers to believe he would still get out of this alive and keep playing a large role in the next season.
** They play with it even further near the end of the show, blending it with the {{Determinator}} and ICanStillFight to good effect. Another main character is impaled through the chest with a massive sliver of glass, yet calmly pulls it out and tells his subordinate to stop shouting. Minutes later, it turns out the spike actually severed an artery between a lung and his heart, and though the doctors can stop the bleeding he will die without surgery and will probably die regardless. He ignores his doctors and keeps going in order to manage a withdrawal from a disastrous battle with such steely composure it seems he won't die, and then waits almost a whole day for his friend to return with such steely composure it seems he'll be fine, until he dies less than an hour before his friend arrives.
* Sleepy is frequent shot repeatedly in ''Manga/MadBull34'', but he shrugs off each injury like it's minor. This includes getting shot in the shoulder, shot in the arm, shot in the leg, and shot in the chest. During one shootout he's shot ''six times in the ass'', but he just stands up and starts throwing grenades he'd tied to his pubic hair!!
* In the finale of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'', Amuro is stabbed clean through the arm with a rapier. It doesn't seem to affect his piloting skills at all when he resurfaces in seven years later ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'' (although he is slightly superhuman & medical technology is presumably more advanced in the Universal Century).
** Amuro also became rich during those seven years by patenting [[SeriesMascot Haro's]] design, so it's not as if he was settling for minimum coverage, either. Char, though, survived just fine after getting stabbed in the face.
** In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'', Heero Yuy gets shot, blown up, drowned, etc, and does not die. Ever.
*** Also, Quatre gets [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabbed clean through]] by Dorothy, and ''still'' makes a speech and continues to act as a leader in the FinalBattle.
** Averted in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'', when Setsuna gets shot in the shoulder it severely debilitates him despite his best efforts to tough it out. It eventually leads him to lose consciousness two times before he gets the proper medical attention.
* ''Manga/{{Monster}}'':
** Averted repeatedly in ''Manga/{{Monster}}''. One character is shot in the shoulder and survives -- but his arm is rendered useless for the rest of his life. Other characters bleed to death from thigh wounds, stomach wounds, and shoulder wounds. For those that did survive, it was because a medical professional (usually Tenma) stopped the bleeding.

** Cyborgs on the other hand often play this straight, such as Hideo Kuze in ''2nd Gig''', who in an early episode get shot into Swiss cheese, with visible bullet holes even on his face, but thanks to his subdermal armour isn't even slowed down. All in all, the only way to actually hurt "full" cyborgs is to damage their still organic brain, which is encased in a heavily armored shell that can resist being crushed by the weight of a 4 meter tall walking tank.

** Averted in the training sequence of the anime's first episode. Henrietta is told to just aim for the center of mass, because at close range, hitting the target anywhere will stop them dead.

** Luffy, thanks to eat a devil fruit, has the properties of rubber turned up to a supernaturally high degree. In addition to being able to stretch his body parts to hundreds of times their normal length, he is also immune to both electrity and blunt force. Granted, this only applies to bullets and usually punches; ''blades'' are more than capable of piercing and slicing through his rubber body, which is why Zoro's the guy who usually takes swordsmen on, but even then Luffy's taken some pretty impressive blows, including being [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled through the chest]], and walked it off after some time. In Whole Cake Island he gets impaled ''in the middle of fight'' by Katakuri and unlike the time with Crocodile he stayed conscious and eventually won the fight since Luffy's stamina is nigh-unbeatable

** Charlotte Oven ''is a tank'' plain and simple he recovers from getting pierced through the chest by Vinsmoke Ichiji's exploding laser-like ability and appears shortly later with only a little bandage at his side and still strong enough to fight the Sun Pirates. And this was '''after''' getting kicked through a building by Sanji, then shot with a cannon ball and run over by Capone Bege.

** The eponymous cyborg assassins are for all practical purposes MadeOfIron. During gunfights they tend to keep their arms up high to protect their eyes (the only weak spot). Several of them shrug off multiple shots in the arms, Rico a shot in the neck, and Triela stand up after taking a bullet in the gut. The mooks they fight go down pretty realistically. [[spoiler:Triela ends up dying due to bleeding out from a gunshot wound.]]

* The eponymous cyborg assassins in ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' are for all practical purposes MadeOfIron. During gunfights they tend to keep their arms up high to protect their eyes (the only weak spot). We've seen several of them shrug off multiple shots in the arms, Rico a shot in the neck and Triela stand up after taking a bullet in the gut. The mooks they fight go down pretty realistically. [[spoiler:Triela ends up dying due to bleeding out from a gunshot wound.]]

** Triela's handler Hilshire decides he doesn't have the moral right to expose her to danger, and tries to carry out a hit without her. He's wounded in the process and tries to brush it off as 'just a scratch'. Triela is ''furious'' because she's been conditioned to protect her handler at all costs, and views this as a [[MoreThanMindControl betrayal of their trust]].

** Nami has two of these moments: first she gets impaled through the leg and then the foot by Miss Doublefinger... and ''walks just fine afterwards''. Later and even more impressively Nami tanks a powered up [[FingerPokeOfDoom Shigan]] from DarkChick Kalifa and keeps fighting, worth mentioning the Shigan one-shot Paulie one of the strongest Foremen in Galley-La.

-->[[spoiler: ''Ed (slowly pushing himself off the ground)'': I must have fallen down the mine shaft. Dammit... I can't let Kimblee get away...! ''(coughs blood, looks back, eyes widen as he sees he's been impaled by a girder)'' Y-you're kidding... No!... ''(collapses)'']]

* Sleepy is frequent shot repeatedly in ''Anime/MadBull34'', but he shrugs off each injury like it's minor. This includes getting shot in the shoulder, shot in the arm, shot in the leg, and shot in the chest. During one shootout he's shot ''six times in the ass'', but he just stands up and starts throwing grenades he'd tied to his pubic hair!!

* Lampshaded in ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', when Shizuo nonchalantly shows up on Shinra's doorstep with [[spoiler:a bullet in his side and leg]], Shinra is understandably confused as to how he manages to even walk with so much muscle damage to his leg. Shizuo simply shrugs and says "'Cause I can."

* In ''Anime/FullmetalALchemist2003'', Scar gets both of his arms severed through alchemy. Globs of blood splash down for a few seconds, then the bleeding miraculously stops.

* Averted in the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' LightNovels and TheMovie, when Kyon gets stabbed in his abdomen with a knife and only barely escapes dying from blood loss.

* ''Anime/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'':

* Played with in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' as a lot of the time (especially in the Golden Age arc) a single arrow or stab wound will realistically kill a regular person in this DarkFantasy. ''But'' played straight with Guts the protagonist whose been struck with multiple arrows and crossbow bolts [[TakingTheBullet protecting Casca]], stabbed multiple times, [[LifeOrLimbDecision hacked off his own arm]] and [[EyeScream lost his eye]] shortly after and in probably the most NauseaFuel Guts has been impaled through ''both cheeks'' and out the other side of his head and [[{{Determinator}} only got pissed off]]. The Berserker Armor makes this trope more apparent as it [[FeelNoPain blocks Gut's pain nerves]] meaning he can have his limbs broken and the armor will just knit his bones and skin back in place so he keep fighting. Averted when he takes the armor off as the collective injuries put Guts out of action for a month and he almost dies.

* Averted several times in ''Manga/BlackLagoon'', notably when {{creepy twin|s}} [[spoiler:Hansel]] gets shot in the leg and in the wrist, blowing his hand off. He dies within minutes (or even seconds) from the immense blood loss.

* There are barely any fights in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' that don't involve a character getting cut through one or both shoulders (and eventually everywhere else). This is usually the first wound inflicted in the whole fight and the only [[JustifiedTrope explanation]] for this is that spirits don't suffer as much from wounds, being spirits and all.

* {{Double Subver|sion}}ted and {{justified|Trope}} in one epic ''Manga/CityHunter'' early scene: to avoid having his .357 Magnum round go through a random perp and kill a passerby, Ryo slowed down the bullet by ''shooting through his left hand''. He acted like it was nothing until he was alone, at which point he started crying in pain; later at home, it's revealed it's ''literally'' a flesh wound because Ryo, [[ImprobableAimingSkills being just that good with a gun, managed to shoot without hitting the hand's bone]].

* Happens to [[spoiler:Mao]] in ''Anime/CodeGeass'', who is shot multiple times and comes back perfectly fine (albeit bandaged up a little bit) the ''very next'' episode; it's {{Hand Wave}}d by mentioning advanced Britannian medicine and pointing out that the policemen were not ordered to shoot to kill. YMMV on whether or not this is bad writing, but [[spoiler:it's later shown that Geass is a LiteralGenie and has ties to the collective subconscious of humanity, possibly being more influenced by its intent than the individual user's. It is also established that Geass can be defied by an unusually strong will, so another explanation is that each policeman's subconscious engaged in LoopholeAbuse]].