Harukami's list of the top 30 most pathetic ways to die in an anime - in no particular order.
1. Death by the demon lord you were trying to resurrect's emergance INSIDE you.
2. Death by scroll.
3. Death in the middle of your victory speech.
4. Spontaneous combustion.
5. Dying without realizing you're dead.
6. Death by grumpy fire demon whilest ranting on how well you have the fire demon controlled.
7. Death by a Tactical Heart Nuke - or any of Sailor Moon's attacks. (Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss?!?)
8. Death by an attack that has the word 'Uterus' in it.
9. Death by a human falling on you.
10. Death by being accidentally pushed by your partner into Ultra Energy Matter.
11. Death by rampaging clown.
12. Death by being run over by a bus, followed by death by falling off a roof, followed by death by gunshot, followed by...
13. Death by a weapon that looks like a purple boomarang. Even more pathetic if said weapon is your own.
14. Death by rampaging genius who thinks you're her opposition in exams.
15. Death by being squished by a tonne of uncontrolled psionicist flesh.
16. Death by flute music.
17. Death by using a spell calling on the most powerful dark lord's power... against said dark lord.
18. Death by accidentally being hit by the wrong side of the sword.
19. Death by a person whom you had told, not three seconds earlier, had absolutely no chance in hell of winning.
20. Death at the hands of a florist group.
21. Death by dinky little tank.
22. Death by sneeze.
23. Death at the hands of angry girl in a dog costume.
24. Death through the most noble means possible - subsequently edited out in the Dub. All 5 of 'em.
25. Death by any attack involving pink hearts.
26. Death by accidentally bumping into someone.
27. Death by letting your lover stab you to get to the enemy.
28. Death by killer tattoo.
29. Death by two girls with kalidoscopes.
30. Death at the hands of transsexual aliens in leather bondage outfits. (Okay, I think it's kinda pathetic...)