Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Berserk, Planet of the Beast King..the list goes on and it's almost like anime CAN'T have an ending without at least one of the main couple in it dieing or the main character dieing. Is this a social norm in Japan or what? It seems like no anime can have a good ending and I've been watching anime for a long while. If the main characters aren't dead within the last 10 minutes I just seem to wait for the bullet and I'm rarely wrong.