12/28/2023 0 Comments Before your eyes storyEvery character (good and bad) seems to have a flashback sequence or a life flashing experience as part of their death scene. Gungrave uses this trope as much as possible.Literally happens in Black Butler when Shinigami Grell slices into people's bodies and ribbons of film burst out this so the Shinigami can determine where their victims go in the afterlife. A vision of what life could have been like if his daughter wasn't a diclonius and his wife therefore hadn't died rather than how it actually was (thus avoiding the usual Clip Show part of this trope) flashes before his eyes just before the bomb goes off. A variation of this occurs in Elfen Lied when Kurama blows himself up with his diclonius daughter.In the first episode of Excel♡Saga, really bizarre scenes from Excel's life flash before the paramedics in the ambulance and one of them says, "Uh oh, her life's flashing by.Though it takes a little bit to think of it. Azumanga Daioh: Osaka says that, while they're out seeing the pandas, she wants to see this.Played completely straight in Mobile Suit Gundam 00 when Lockon dies.Later, Hinata has flashbacks of how Naruto inspires her during her fight against Pain. This drives him to wake up to encode a message before he dies for real. In Naruto Jiraiya sees flashbacks of him with Minato and Kushina and also of Naruto after he gets his throat slashed by Pain.In the last episode of Death Note, as mortally wounded Light Yagami runs away from those who have just exposed him, he begins to cry softly as he has flashbacks his younger self, innocuous and well-meaning, and finally sees a vision of that same younger self walking past him as he runs towards his death.
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