Examples of this trope in Anime and Manga
- Several times in Wolf's Rain:
- Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion from Sailor Moon.
- Later, Haruka and Michiru. They even use the last of their strength to hold hands.
- Itsuki and Sensui from Yu Yu Hakusho.
- In the (somewhat (in?)famous Tear Jerker) ending of the anime version of Chrono Crusade, Chrono and Rosette's bodies are found sitting on a bench together, their hands clasped and smiling peacefully. They're buried together in a grave with a single headstone. Also, Rosette and Joshua met Chrono when they found him sleeping in the tomb of Mary Magdalene, although that's a bit of a variation since he was actually alive.
- Fullmetal Alchemist: A parent and child example in the movie with Wrath walking into Izumi's arms at the Gate.
- This is also invoked with Trisha and Hohenheim in the manga and Brotherhood. Hohenheim passes away right in front of Trisha's grave.
- Hansel and Gretel from Black Lagoon, as shown in the ending of episode 15 - the only one not to feature the standard Revy ending.
- Katsuya and Kyoko Honda from Fruits Basket. More exactly, Katsuya dies of illness several years before Kyouko is fatally struck down by a car... and when she dies, the last thing she sees is the already Katsuya's soul, welcoming her into the afterlife.
- Rather ironically, the driver that hit Kyouko with his car... did it because he had a heart attack at the steering wheel. And he dies too. For worse, he's the father of Komaki Nakao, one of Tohru's schoolmates.
- Subverted in Weiss Kreuz: when Tot is fatally stabbed, Nagi has a telekinetic meltdown which destroys the house they're in and apparently kills him. Seeing the two lying next to one another in the wreckage, Yoji moves Nagi's hand to rest on top of Tot's in a Together in Death pose. After the surviving cast members have left, however, Tot gets up... and in another episode or two, Nagi shows up in perfect health and the incident is never mentioned again.
- In the Battle Royale manga, this happens with Sugimura and his love interest (Kayoko Kotohiki)
- Additionally, one couple (Kazuhiko Yamamoto and Sakura Ogawa) does a double suicide at the start.
- Not to mention the girls in the lighthouse. Even the one who precipitated the whole awful series of events is there.
- In Fushigi Yuugi, Suzuno, Byakko no Miko and her Seishi, Tatara. Who had to wait for decades to get together, as Tatara's soul was bonded to the Shinzaho's resting place and Suzuno died of old age in the Real World Snifffff...
- In Mazinger Z, Dr. Hell found the bodies of a man and his lover who had been Buried Alive together for being caught trying to break their Star-Crossed Lovers destinies. One half of each body was destroyed, so he stitched them together to create his most loyal supporter Baron Ashura.
- In Shin Mazinger, the two halves of Baron Ashura are actually Tristan and Isolde.
- In Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Jack tries to do this during his duel with D-Carly by playing a trap card that would cause both of their life points to drop to 0 at the same time. She manages to stop him by activating a trap card that causes only her life points to 0 before Jack can activate his. Jack wasn't too happy about this turn of events.
- This is later played straight with the Godwin brothers, Rex and Rudger, who, after Rex is defeated by the team of Yuusei, Jack, and Crow, walk together into the afterlife.
- Romeo and Juliet in Romeo X Juliet. Considering it is based on (no matter how loosely) Romeo and Juliet, it's sort of a Foregone Conclusion from the start.
- At the end of Winter Cicada, Akizuki performs Seppuku so as to no longer be a burden on his lover, Kusaka. Kusaka weeps over him, then performs Seppuku as well.
- Happens in the eighth Pokémon movie with Aaron and Lucario. Also, in Noodles! Roamin' Off! when Musashi and Kojiro (Jessie and James) believe they're about to die, they reconcile for an earlier fight and promise that if there is an afterlife, to meet up again there.
- The 7th as there are two of them does this in Mirai Nikki. It's also a metaphorical You Are Worth Hell.
- Ai no Kusabi ends like this for Iason and Riki. For better/worse, they didn't have to die together. Only Iason was fatally injured after having his legs cut off, but Riki willingly stays by his side to have One Last Smoke and die with him.
- In Basilisk, after Oboro commits suicide both to not kill Gennosuke and to screw up Ofuku's plan, Gennosuke kills himself as well.
- Subverted earlier, when a maddened and dying Kagerou tries to kill Gennosuke too to invoke the trope, but Oboro's Anti-Magic powers kick in and manages to stop her
- Given a very dark and tragic twist in King of Thorn with the final meeting between Kasumi and Shizuku. One of the two has a chance at living, but wants them both to die together so they can be Together in Death. The second wants the first to take the opportunity to go on living. They argue over it. Tragedy, Freak-Out, and The End of the World as We Know It ensue.
- Fall and Digree in Nora.
- Marg and Rose in God Mars.
- In Umineko no Naku Koro ni, the second twilight's requirement of "tear[ing] apart the two who are close" often winds up playing around with this trope. Probably the most notable one was actually an intentional aversion where Beatrice erases Kanon's corpse particularly so he and Jessica can't be together in death. And in the process frames him for the entire thing. Or Did She?
- However, the ending of the series plays this Tear Jerkingly straight when Beatrice beckons Battler to the Golden Land / afterlife.
- In the movie version of Eureka Seven, Eureka claims that she will continue to exist as long as her lover lives or did not forget his memories. This implies Eureka won't ever outlive Renton and will automatically follow Renton in death, regardless of her will when that time comes.
- Chinkyuu and Ryoufu in the Ikki Tousen manga.
- Inversion/Subversion/SOMETHING: Nanami and Yuzuru in Dance in the Vampire Bund, seeing as Yuzuru openly welcomed vampirism if it meant he could stay by his beloved Nanami, and seeing her infatuation with her young boy lover, she wasn't about to say no, making it something more of a Together In UNdeath.
- The 'together in the afterlife' variant is used for Ryuuya and Uruha in AIR.
- Sakura Gari has Souma invoke this when he and Masataka are trapped by Sakurako in a burning warehouse, and he loses hope to survive. In a twist, Masataka manages to save them both.
- In Rurouni Kenshin, Shishio and Yumi plot to take over Hell.
- In the (thankfully non-canon) OVA, Reflections Kenshi and Kaoru end up dying together.
- In Code Geass, the immortal C.C. apparently desires this outcome with her Yandere Mao for a while as she tells him to wait for her before giving him a Mercy Kill and then spends most of the series attempting to ensure her own demise.
- Claude, Hannah, and the Macken brothers (Luka and Alois/Jim) in Black Butler.
- Subverted in the end of the Cardcaptor Sakura manga, as Fujitaka does not need to die to see Nadeshiko again, since being one of the two reincarnations of Clow Reed (the other being Eriol) gives him the power to see her spirit.
- Minato and Kushina die after they protect their son and Konoha from The Kyuubi.
- In Clannad Ushio dies in Tomoya's arms and then he dies soon after from despair. They're revived, however.
- Macross Frontier - The Wings of Goodbye invokes a variation with (Warning: Love Triangle Ending Spoilers) Alto and Sheryl. At the end Alto is Missing In Action, and Sheryl is in a coma, but they were each wearing one of the two Fold Quartz earrings that convey feelings and ignore the laws of time and space, and yes, that's definitely The End as far as Macross Frontier goes.. Later, however, Word of God dispelled such an interpretation and said otherwise: Alto manages to return, Sheryl wakes up, and they live together.
- Kyouko Sakura and Sayaka Miki/Oktavia von Seckendorff in Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
- In the finale, Madoka does this for every Magical Girl in the past, present and future.
- Puella Magi Oriko Magica has Kirika and Oriko. They both die and are apparently reunited in the afterlife.
- In Uzumaki, this happens to Kirie's mother and father and Kirie and Shuichi, respectively.
- Given what happens later, we can safely assume this is what happened to the two Star-Crossed Lovers who stretched, twisted and contorted their bodies together like mating snakes so their feuding families couldn't separate them before plunging in the lake hiding the source of the spirals' curse.
- Gold Roger and his lover and mother of his child, Rouge were reunited this way in One Piece.
- A non-romantic example could be Whitebeard and Ace after being separated for quite some time and were properly "reunited" after their deaths by being buried next to each other.
- Alma and Kanda in D.Gray-man. Also Bak's parents where after their deaths by Alma's hands, For arranges their bodies so that they were leaning towards each other and holding hands.
- Grave of the Fireflies provides a brother/sister example. Two children starve to death in WWII Japan, but their much-happier spirits/ghosts are shown together throughout the film.
- Invoked by Kriem from Tiger and Bunny, who commits suicide to be with the recently killed Jake Martinez after giving a Deathbed Confession.
- Windaria - Alan's goal is to reunite with his true love in the afterlife. The opening shows his soul bird flying to the place hers went off to.
- Alas this is probably a good example of a Macekre in which there is no such bittersweet ending. The original ending was a subversion; Izu (Alan) is given the chance to rejoin Marin/Marlin (Marie) and doesn't have the guts to go through with it, pulling himself back from the edge of the cliff Marin's spirit lead him to at the very last second. This leaves him, the broken betrayer, the only survivor at the end of the film.
- In Ranma One Half, this trope is conversed, but not actually carried out, after Ranma and Akane eat Love Mushrooms.
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- Renda de Baroma and Duker Iq aka the local Battle Couple, in Victory Gundam. Not only that, but Odelo, Usso and Marbet have visions of Renda and Duker actually riding in a Harley towards the afterlife.
- At the end of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood, Erina Joestar-Pendleton wants to die with her husband Jonathan Joestar in the sinking ship they're in, which was attacked by Dio and his zombies. The dying Jonathan convinces her to defy the trope and escape so she can live on, plus take in a baby girl whose mother died protecting her. Erina does so and lives on for decades afterwards; the baby she saved would grow into Elizabeth "Lisa Lisa" Saizo, her daughter in law and mother to Joseph Joestar from Battle Tendency.
- Magic Knight Rayearth has Zagato and Esmeraude. He had died fighting the Magic Knights, in a desperate attempt to keep them from getting to Esmeraude who, unbeknownst to the girls, had summoned them to kill her so someone else could take over as the Pillar. When this happened, Esmeraude lost it and fought the girls to death; as they tearfully strike her down at her own request (or better said, that of her Astral Projection-like conscience), they have a vision of the Star-Crossed Lovers in a happy embrace, and Esmeraude's soul thanks the girls for releasing her.
- In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, when the Big Good Kagaya pulls a Suicide Attack against the Big Bad Muzan to give the rest of the cast a chance to attack him and go Storming the Castle, his wife Amane and their two eldest kids (Hinaki and Nichika) willingly stayed by his side and died with him.
- Almost at the end, Mitsuri and Obanai die in an embrace after exchanging Dying Declarations of Love and promising to get together in their next lives
- Back to Together in Death