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(#7) Mami Tomoe
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Mami Tomoe serves as a mentor for Madoka and company, and shows them the dangers and delights of fighting witches. She's warm, welcoming, kind, and seemingly has everything under control, up until she's unceremoniously killed by a witch.
From a narrative standpoint, Mami's death is supposed to illustrate the risks inherent in fighting witches. However, Mami was forced into her position as a magical girl, so it seems odd to kill her for a decision she had no say in.
After a brutal car accident pushed Mami to the brink of death, she decided to become a magical girl so she could wish for her own survival. Pretty much every other magical girl actively chooses to take up the position, so punishing a character whose only other option was death seems totally unfair.
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(#8) Biscuit Griffon — Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
Biscuit Griffon has an important role in Iron Blooded Orphans. He's best friends with Orga Itsuka, the leader of a private security company called Tekkan, and often acts as a voice of reason when Orga is making tough decisions. On top of that, his main motivation for working with the organization is to support his younger siblings and send them to school.
When he dies under a pile of wreckage, the loss takes a serious toll on the other characters. Without his sounding board, Orga is forced to make difficult choices on his own, and Biscuit's sisters are left to fend for themselves.
Although Biscuit is fat, his personality defies the disconcerting stereotypes seen in many popular anime. There are still some problems with his characterization (why is he named Biscuit, anyway?), but it's exciting to see an overweight character who uses his brain more than his stomach.
When he dies, fans lose one of the medium's best depictions of an underrepresented demographic.
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(#12) Mao — Code Geass
Normally, when someone dies in Code Geass, their demise serves a larger narrative purpose. Even if it's hard to say goodbye, characters' departures usually feel like they had to happen.
This isn't the case with Mao, a minor villain who kidnaps Nunnally to get CC's attention. Mao has a good reason for picking a fight with CC; when he was a child, the Immortal Witch found him on the street, and started showing him the supernatural ropes.
The Geass CC bestowed upon Mao gave him the power to read people's minds, but came with some nasty side-effects. Because Mao couldn't turn off his new power, he was driven mad by the unrelenting noise of other people's thoughts. Unsurprisingly, he's fixated on exacting revenge.
After Nunnally is rescued unharmed, the police are quick to kill Mao. He never gets the chance to resolve his issues or move on with his life. Mao's more than just CC's mistake, and he deserves better.
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(#2) L Lawliet
- Death Note
L Lawliet's death marks the moment when a lot of fans stop watching Death Note. While there's some cool material in the second half of the show, L's absence leaves a gaping hole that never gets properly filled.
Over the course of the series, L and Light Yagami develop a surprisingly intimate bond that complicates their mutual desire to eliminate one another.
After Light successfully kills L using the Death Note, the eccentric detective is quickly replaced by Near. While fans are divided on whether Near is a good character, he definitely doesn't possess the same connection to Light as his predecessor. When Near finally succeeds in taking Light down, his victory is way less meaningful than L's would have been.
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(#13) Kureo Mado
Even though Kureo Mado is technically a villain, his presence on the series Tokyo Ghoul is still missed by fans. Kureo Mado is a First-Class Investigator of the Commission of Counter Ghoul, and a psychotic one at that. Still, he has his reasons: his wife was killed by the One-Eyed Owl, and he has been seeking vengeance ever since.
Experienced and ruthless, Mado serves as Kotaro Amon's mentor and partner. Mado is obsessed with quinques – weapons made from ghosts' kagune – which ends up being his ultimate demise in Season 1.
While fighting Touka and Hinami, Mado gloats about his Fueguchi Two Kagune and becomes distracted. This is just enough time for Hinami to kill Mado. He uses his last breath to talk about how he must continue his life-calling of killing ghouls.
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(#4) Marco Bodt — Attack On Titan
Marco's death isn't explicitly shown, so when the Survey Corps finds his body after an intense battle with Titans, viewers learn nothing new.
Not only does Marco's demise add little to the lore of Attack on Titan, it actually inhibits some potential plot lines that might have been interesting. Viewers don't get to see Marco's budding friendship with the prickly Jean Kirstein come to fruition, and Marco never succeeds in becoming a positive influence on the Survey Corps.
Marco's idealistic views could have changed the organization for the better, but instead, he's just another corpse on the Titans' hulking pyre.
*Update for Season 3*
Turns out that Marco's death is actually explained during a flashback. He still died too soon though!
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In television, the death of a character can be heart-wrenching. It’s the same in Anime, a classic anime. Once you’ve created a bunch of classic characters, if they end up dead, the audience will not be able to forget it or even accept it, for a long time. However, some of the classic anime characters just appeared soon to be destroyed, it is really difficult to accept.
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