10: Knowing that women outlive men, an ailing Ranma, lying in his deathbed, pleads for more water,
demanding, "Wet me." He dies getting a warm sponge bath from a somewhat puzzled nurse.
9: Like Elvis on the toilet, Cowboy Bebop's Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tiruvski IV met her end with,
"that was a mean bean burrito."
8: Duke Togo entered eternity while at the toilet as well, declaring, "I'm pissing orange."
7: Saya, the last vampire stared right into the jaws of death with, "Bite me!"
6: After aging out of "Pokémon," Pikachu took to drink and had trouble dealing with his anger. From
under the steel-toed boot of a boozed up biker with whom the famed Pokémon picked a fight came the expiring words,
"Pikachu ... pikachu ... pik ... pik ... ach ..."
5: Having conquered all of El Hazard, Jinai's over-confident cackle sends him into respiratory arrest.
4: "Blue Submarine's" Hayami snuffed it from food poisoning after ordering some bad seafood.
3: Dodging left instead of right, Kenshin's "ahgg" sealed his fate.
2: Inu Yasha buys the farm pinned to a tree with an arrow through his heart ... oh, no he doesn't.
1: Goku, again on the toilet, dies of dysentery with a "Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr."
Attention Akadot readers: This may be a morbid subject, but it has proven to be somewhat entertaining for
us here in the Akadot newsroom. And since the Akadot staff can't possibly think of them all, we invite Akadot
readers to write to us with their ironic deaths of anime characters. Send entries to
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