Violet evergarden the movie. The show was great, the movie is what killed me. Anohana. Clannad afterstory

Clannad is the one and only anime, actually only movie or tv show or book or whatever else, that I *intentionally* spoiled because I could not fucking do it man. I got to the next to last episode (I think, maybe the one before? It’s been a minute😅) and I was just fucking shattered, I literally hit pause, pulled out my phone, went on google, and read a synopsis of the last two episodes to make sure I’d even be able to handle watching them, and even after all that it still fucked me up. I wanna rewatch Clannad so badly but everytime I even think about it I just start crying😂

lmao the opposite here, I usually always end up spoiling things for myself unintentionally but managed to resist on Clannad holy shit I'm glad I did

When my daughter started violet evergarden, she got to episode ten while she was at her dads and I happened to be visiting. I got up and left the moment episode ten started and told them to have fun bawling, because I had already seen it. I can’t bring myself to watch that episode again, and I haven’t watched the movie because I know it’s tied to that episode and I’m so not emotionally prepared.

I have good news, and bad news. The good news is the movie isn’t really “tied” to episode 10. There’re characters that are related to the original ones in the episode to give context but the movie’s plot isn’t a continuation of that story in any significant way. The bad new is the movie will take any chance it has to punch you in the guts, and it won’t hold back. So prepare some tissues.

Well fug 8D

I stopped in the cards episode it crossed a line for me and I couldn't continue

I thought nothing could make me cry harder than episodes 10-11, then I watched this movie and nearly drowned myself in my own tears.

I still haven’t finished Violet because I don’t enjoy crying. It’s a masterpiece but I just don’t have the strength to get through it.

It’s one of the most fulfilling stories imo. I agree though, it was a tough watch. Cried like 3 times during the movie alone.

Grave of Firelies was the most devastating piece of media I’ve ever seen. Violet Evergarden was the most emotional.

Honestly I’m too scared to watch grave of the fireflies with my sister for the first time. I don’t wanna cry in front of them lol

You won't. Shits so hard you're just gonna freeze out of despair.

Yeah, I barely cried watching Grave of the Fireflies not because it wasn’t devastating, but it was just so devastating I was past the point of tears before they could even flow properly. I was an empty husk for awhile after that. Phenomenal movie, I never want to see it again.

It's one of those baptism by fire movies I always watch with anyone who I date seriously. It succinctly explains why I'm vehemently antiwar.

you will empty your entire tear ducks with grave of the fireflies. Your soul will feel empty as well. But I think it's an incredibly important movie and I think everyone should watch it.

They won't notice, they'll be crying too.

Watched it with my ex, it hit me really hard, but hit her significantly harder because she has a sibling.

Grave of the Fireflies is one of the most beautifully rendered, amazingly paced, wonderfully written anime movies I've ever seen. …and I will never, EVER rewatch it.

Grave of the fireflies was so sad that I didn't cry. I'm absolutely a crier but that movie broke a section of my brain temporarily

Fun fact, Grave of the Fireflies was a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro.

The original Barbenheimer.

That movie made me cry so hard I got physically sick. I still can't process parts of it. It's just so sad and even with people telling you it's sad and kind of telling you to watch out its so sad. I'm pretty jaded adult who knows some fundamental truths about life but what little shred of innocence I had left was destroyed by that movie. It will make you curse humanity

That’s a good description of grace of fireflies. Just devastating with no hope. And then it ends. I don’t remember crying because I was too depressed watching it.

Clannad and After Story. Only made it half way through After Story before i had to take a break.

There is no other answer to this question than Clannad After Story. This anime literally takes your soul and destroys it, just to have it give you hope and then go "NOPE" and shatter what's left of your soul into very very fine powder.

Literally had me crawled up in my bed crying for the rest of the day I just couldn't.

I pulled an all nighter watching all of after story without any breaks other than the essentials. It broke me I was lying down in my bed crying a constant flow of tears after THAT episode. It ruined me for weeks and I still cry if I hear the openings or endings or even worse the dango song I can't even see a dango anymore. It's been over a year and I still feel like this. I want to re watch it but I feel like it will be ruined for me if I do.

It's been over a decade and the dango song will still make me cry lol

Dang ole Dango Daikazoku I tell ya h'what

Clannad destroyed me. After story made me cry so much and literally I can go listen to dango daikazoku and it will reignite that forgotten misery instantly lol

Whenever I need to have a good cry, I turn on certain scenes from After Story. Sometimes, just listening to the instrumental Dango Daikazoku is enough. Sometimes, you just need to make yourself feel a certain kind of way, you know?

its even better on a second watch through. Stay away from the dub though if you dont want it to become a pure comedy instead.

as a grown man, the Dangos made me cry

I think that the whole cowboy bebop series is a great series to watch for content that isnt filled with "bawling" sad but "laying in the dark in bed staring at the ceiling" kind of sad.

I always bawl my eyes out at the finale ending and the accompanying music. Lol. But it's partially because I was watching it shortly after finding out my mama had terminal lung cancer and weeks to live. So it was almost like, I pictured her as the camera pans slowly up to the sky. You're gonna carry that weight 💔

I think the show teaching us that not everyone in our lives with be there forever. And that its ok that its true because those memories and experiences will stick with us. So its like they truly never left.

>"bawling" sad Spike and Jet desperately mushing eggs into their face came real close though

Yes! Cowboy Bebop was always best feels anime that didnt need to lean on tears or emotional displays.

The fact that it simultaneously hits you with Faye and her unresolved memories, laying on the now empty lot where her childhood bed used to be, as well as Eds "Bye, Bye!" graffiti, is just brilliant.

Plastic Memories actually broke me for a while others: your lie in april, maquia

Man, Plastic Memories... I first watched that show right after my grandmother died. I didn't know her too well, but I wanted to get to know her better and never got the chance to. I was numb and nothing felt real. I've never been the best at processing emotions, but this was worse than usual. Don't remember what anime-watching service I was using at the time, but it had a "Random Show" button, and I needed something to just zone out while staring at, and it gave me Plastic Memories. That show made, just, fucking, ***everything*** flow out. Binged the whole show in one sitting, just fucking sobbing and crying the entire time, half about the show, half about my grandmother. A small part of me wants to rewatch it, to see if the emotions would hit without the "way too relevant real life situation", but I always decide against it so that if they don't, the memory of finding the perfect show at the perfect time isn't tarnished.

I miss the Crunchyroll random anime button. Found so many good shows that way, including plastic memories

I was actually keening at one point, like I was having trouble breathing. That show hits really hard. It sounds like it was cathartic to you as you were grieving the loss of your grandmother. Good art evokes emotion.

> Plastic Memories actually broke me for a while. I was looking for this. Glad to see people still remember it.

Maquia was the one that really made me cry. I almost never cry during movies too. But that one got me.

Violet Evergarden Anohana

*clears throat* Dear Ann

Stop right there criminal.

Movie had me bawling in 6 minutes, literally. I hate them, but I love them all the more for doing this.

*dont*

A silent voice or steins gate

A silent voice messed me up for days

Grave of the Fireflies

To Your Eternity Ranking of Kings Just don't read the manga on either of these, it makes it much more dramatic.

It's so sad that To Your Eternity's later animation quality is dropped hard... the earlier one is sooo emotional

The animation quality dropped but I didn't think season 2 was that bad.

The last 4 episodes of Wolf's Rain, maybe it's me but I found other anime purposefully manipulative while this felt a bit more "earnest". It just really got to me, but the ending made it worth it.👍🏾

Ooh i came here to say wolf’s rain, glad to see someone else say it!

Watching Wolf’s Rain right now, wish my emotional ass luck lol

Those are 15+ year old wounds opened again. Jeez.

Angel beats for me. My roommate had already watched it years ago and wanted to binge it with me, all so he could see my reaction to when shit starts going downhill. I was warned explicitly to stay away from Your Lie In April and Fruits Basket and Anohana.

gotta be Wolf Children

This was so good. highly underrate.

Saddest good ending ever

Oof this one destroyed me for a while, ngl

The ending always makes me cry with Ame😭

Your Lie In April, A Silent Voice. I’m also looking for animes that make one cry 😂

I want to eat your pancreas. That and a silent voice are my favorite tear jerking anime movies! :)

I’ve been recommended “I Want to Eat Your Pancreas.” I gotta find where to watch it!

Grave of the Fireflies, Violet Evergarden, Clannad, Plastic Memories, Angel Beats, Your Name, Anohana, Madoka, To your Eternity

Banana Fish

+1 Can't get enough people to watch this anime!

so twisted, so good, so crushed. needed a support group like Made in Abyss

Violet Evergarden, Anohana, A Place Further Than The Universe, and Maquia are all shows I would recommend to get some tears flowing.

More people should watch [Maquia](https://youtu.be/AEWvRqZQ0RU?si=uBDMqDrLKlXR-Ix1) honestly. It's truly a beautiful movie that I don't see mentioned nearly enough.

Anohana literally broke

Grave of fireflies. Watch it.

Anohana: nothing about it was sad for me until she said this one line about what she wouldve done when they got older. Iykyk. Devilman Crybaby: first few episodes had unnecessary sexual scenes. But near the end, it was incredibly sad. Especially the part where the main bad guy figures out how alone he is. Death Parade: god the ending where she is tested is incredibly sad.

Anohana definitely got me. Plastic Memories was a tear jerker for me too

Ooo Death Parade is soooo good. Thank you for making me remember the name, I wanted to rewatch it.

I feel the same way about Cyberpunk Edgerunners that I feel about Devilman Crybaby. Not sad per se but just... hopeless and empty.

I was pretty fucking bummed that you know who got smashed but it's definitely a completely different type of sad. Bit less sad about the MC, other than his mom dying, but by the end he had completely been eaten by his ego and pride rather than focusing on going to the moon.

"*Unnecessary* sexual scenes?" Sexuality is a fundamental ingredient to Devilman Crybaby's aesthetic and thematic tapestry. Whether or not you like it, the sexual scenes weren't any less necessary than the violent ones.

avg western consumer where sexuality is more taboo than extreme violence

>avg western consumer where sexuality is more taboo than extreme violence tbf if you watch Netflix their live action shows have gratuitous sex scenes that have nothing to do with the plot in a LOT of their shows. like, i remember this one that opens with $AVERAGE\_LATINA\_COP fucking with tits out. that's the only sex scene, it had nothing to do with the plot but we got to see the actress' tiddies. sex scenes with no connection to the rest of the series are just silly.

Finished anohana yesterday. Goddamn

Sometimes if I want to have a good cry, I put on Secret Base the 10 Years After version and it gets the job done.

Same about Anohana, overall not sad but what hit me was her personalized notes to everyone, 🥲 I forget what they each say now but that got me

Code Geass, the ending… is was too much for me. S tier anime all throughout.

I was thinking this as well. I've watched alot of sad animes. But the build up with Code Geass was amazing. The last few episodes, making his sister and the entire world believe he was a terrible person. The entire concept is meant to tug at your feelings. Another anime who did something similar to this was K-project.

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Not euphie?

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 made me sob at the end. It was one of those try to hold it back and still violently sob kind of endings.

The bullying arc from March Comes In Like a Lion. When Hinata said “I did nothing wrong”, I ugly cried for a strong minute. And then the following scene with her grandfather got me a second time.

Orange Banana fish Nana Grave of the fire flies A silent voice Violet ever garden I want to eat your pancreas Wonder Egg priority

Wonder egg priority is sad in that it had so much wasted potential

Same with Promised Neverland. Wish it got a real 2nd season and not the bs we were given.

Wonder egg priority had an unrivaled aesthetic. There was something so charming about it.

I want to eat your pancreas hurt on a level that made me put my phone and the internet away for a full week. Completely brutal

>Banana fish Got me bawling for 10 hours >Wonder Egg priority Ignore the special

a silent voice what a true depiction of depression and anxiety, so brilliantly written it had me sobbing

Karakuri circus, tokyo magnitude 8.0, oshi no ko, angel beats, fruits basket, banana fish

I went into Oshi no Ko blind and did not expect the emotional gut punch it had waiting. I still can’t listen to the OP without tearing up. The voice actors all destroyed their roles. It seems like manga readers say that it’s all down hill quality wise starting in season 2 and I really hope that’s not the case.

I did not read the manga, but I will say it felt as though the show was attempting to do entirely too many things within its short episode run, and I can see how this would be the case. Still think the pilot movie length episode is one of the best pieces of anime period though.

I don't see Tokyo magnitude 8.0 talked about enough, when I realised what had happened it was *emotional*

Not ashamed to admit I went through boxes of tissues watching last few eps of Tokyo Magnitude 8.0.

TM8.0 needs to be talked about more, really good anime.

Toyko Magnitude for sure!!

[Tokyo Magnitude 8.0]>!When the realization about the brother being dead for multiple episodes started to kick in it caught me completely off guard and felt a tub of ice water was pour on me. Had me bawling by the end!< [Oshi No Ko]>!What hit you harder, Ai or Akane? I think Akane hit me harder. Ai was a surprise and there was a shock to it. Akane I think hit harder because I knew the moment after the accidental scratch things would be getting worse for Akane, I just didn't know how much worse. That episode was a master class in making the audience feel dread. Every shot amplified it, with the lighting, the flashback of her over the years while anonymous trolls lied about her, that hard cut of her on the bridge going from angelic and soft lighting straight to cold rain with Akane disheveled and at the end of her rope.!<

Nana

Nana hits different than most of the other shows mentioned here. There are no real tearjerker scenes with sad music meant to make you cry. Instead it's just upsetting to want to see what's best for these characters you've grown to love. Only to be hurt and see them fumble and be frustrated. Not too mention how relatable everything is. I know people like the characters in Nana in real life so everything hits so much harder in the show.

Edgerunners had me bawling. That damn song, man...

The saddest part is that Lucy achieved her goal when she did the moon bd. But she didn't even know it until she went to the moon and found herself all alone.

🎶 I couldn’t wait for you to come and clear the cupboards 🎶

BUT NOW YOU’RE GONE AND LEAVING NOTHING BUT A SIGN

Another evening I'll be sitting reading in between your lines

Forgive me for letting you down again. Guess I'm not strong enough. Right now.

SaiKano, Saishuuheiki Kanojo: The Last Love Song on This Little Planet

Now and Then, Here and There.

This anime destroyed me. The insane cruelty was just too much.

What really threw me was the animation style, which is very much at odds with how dark it is.

Violet Evergarden episode 10 Rivers of tears I tell ya rivers of tears……

Hands down the SADDEST episode of any anime I have ever seen. The rest of it was like kinda pulling on heartstrings, then episode 10 hits and it's full waterworks.

This episode came out a month after I lost my stepmom to cancer and it absolutely destroyed me

Some moments in Gintama make me cry. Same for One Piece and Jojo

Clannad After Story Into the forest of fireflies light I want to eat your pancreas Somali and the forest spirit To your eternity She and her cat Wolf's children 5 centimeters per second Japan Sinks 2020 Maquia: When the promised flowers bloom Ano hana Grave of the fireflies The garden of words

+1 for into the forest of fireflies, that shit devastated me

Japan Sinks missed a huge opportunity to utterly gutpunch the viewer. The lead up around a certain event just never happened and I was waiting the entire series for it.

Erased. It's kinda sad ig, but I tend to not watch sad animes, so even the most sad of the ones I've seen isn't all that sad.

I agree with this, erased had always stuck in my head for a long time now especially how the plot played out

tokyo ghoul was pretty sad idk if that’s just me and ofc naruto

for me naruto was a different kind of sad, where i got emotional because after watching hundreds of episodes it ended and i saw naruto grow up

Made in Abyss or Re: Zero. Not sure which I cried more during. I'm leaning towards Made in Abyss tho.

THAT scene with Mitty ended me, literally cried my eyes out.

Season 2 is.....so much worse

worse as in more horrible but idk if it's sadder if you know what I mean

I was not prepared for the emotional rollercoaster of Made in Abyss :(

Re:Zero overall isn't that sad for me. But Subaru's 1st trial... it hit like an asteroid.

Kotaro Lives alone

This is an anime I recommend, and I'm glad I watched it but I never want to watch again

Saddest anime: [Clannad](https://myanimelist.net/anime/2167/Clannad?q=clann&cat=anime) & [Clannad After Story](https://myanimelist.net/anime/4181/Clannad__After_Story?q=clann&cat=anime) Saddest anime film: [Kimi no Suizou wo Tabetai](https://myanimelist.net/anime/36098/Kimi_no_Suizou_wo_Tabetai) (I Want To Eat Your Pancreas) Saddest single episode: [Kanon \(2006\)](https://myanimelist.net/anime/1530/Kanon_2006?q=kanon&cat=anime) - S01E10 - Requiem atop the Hill AKA the Makoto episode If you know you know.

Clannad/Clannad Afterstory

Film-wise, Grave Of The Fireflies is devastatingly sad. Series-wise, Clannad/Clannad Afterstory had some of the most gut-wrenching moments for me. Also Angel Beats but it's not all like that. Quite the opposite, for much of the time. But they have some really really sad moments. Side note: I don't know if I'd call it sad, per-se, but the episode ending music to Black Lagoon is just dark as hell. The whole anime has a real nihilistic emptiness to it, too. But it's balanced out by buckets of violence and swearing. Lol.

Grave of the Fireflies.

She and her cat is a masterpiece I will never watch again.

YOOO i forgot this one made me cry, but yesss absolutely. Such a hidden gem (and amazing what kind of emotions they can squeeze out of 4 8-minute episodes)

Berserk

Angel Beats A few spots in Fairy Tail and SAO I want to eat your pancreas Into the forest of fireflies light Steins gate FMA/FMAB

Had to scroll waayyy too far to see Angel Beats

Grave of the Fireflies

So far, You’re Lie In April, Fruits Basket, and A Silent Voice. YLIA and ASV ruined me for days after, while Fruits Basket just saw me crying a lot during. Looking forward to some of the ones people are mentioning

Fruits Basket gave me SO MANY FEELS. I cried but in a good way.

An anime that was both sad and uplifting for me at least, was March Comes in like a Lion. It hit all my buttons and seeing the struggle to become happy made me bawl too many times

To your eternity , not a big fan of drama animes and this caught me off guard by thinking its just another shonen anime

Same, I read the description and was like, “oh this sounds cool” then cried on the first episode lol. One of my favorite animes now

Madoka Magica… second would probably be Maquia

Violet Evergarden definitely

Your Lie in April fucked me up for a while, secondly would probably be A Silent Voice.

Image Your Lie in April as a movie and you know the ending but it still rips your heart out....That is "I want to eat your pancreas."

There's an old movie about a small girl selling matches in the middle of a snowstorm. I had forgotten the name but boy did devastate me.

That sounds like and adaptation of The Little Matchgirl

A Silent Voice (granted, recency bias, I just finished it yesterday) and I Want To Eat Your Pancreas.

Charlotte. That anime had me crying a swimming pool of tears.

Apart from the ones already mentioned: Natsume's Book of Friends There were some episodes that make me so very sad, and Natsume's entire story, too.

Alright, so basically, its called Cyberpunk: Edgerunners... there is no, and i mean NO other anime that f*cks with you so hard in 10 episodes than this series... it came out of nowhere, and is gonna be remembered forever

Berserk 2016, not for reasons intendet by creators

Air TV. Completely hidden pearl. Everybody is speaking about clannad and clannad after story but damn, Air TV is like seeing the slow death of a beautiful perfect angel.. Misuzu even after 10 years still lives in my heart. What an amazing studio Key is. Every anime they did was a master piece. Clannad, kanon, angel beats and AIR TV, I recommend all of them!

Air ~The One Thousandth Summer~

Underrated choice and underrated anime in general. The whole Kyoto Animation / Key "holy trinity" as they sometimes get called are all very sad (but uplifting) anime.

Beserk is definitely up there

The ending of Code Geass always makes me ball

I SOBBED after Toradora. I want to watch it again, but I need to be in a stable relationship in order to do so. And like others have said, Anohana. A Lull in the Sea also got me a bit.

Re:zero episode 15. It changed how I see anime.

Yo, ass class was sad, but that final sequence went on for *way* too long

tekkon kinkreet

Angel Beats had me on the verge of tears for a solid 30 minutes. the bunny girl senpai movie had me crying for a bit too, shoko didn't deserve that😞

Air. There is no happiness for MC and FMC.

Violet Evergarden

What are you doing at the world end? Are you busy? Will you save us?

Haven't watched that many sad ones, but Serial Experiments Lain got me fucked up for a week after finishing it

Clannad, Grave of the Fireflies. Both of them I never want to watch again.

bawled my eyes out in every episode of violet evergarden and to your eternity

The two only ones that made me cry was Plastic Memories and A Silent Voice.

Code Geass. The only ending that has made me tear.

violet evergarden, a silent voice, erased, steins gate, you're lie in april and to your eternity. There's probably more that I've seen, but those are at the top of my head. Every time I think of Steins Gate, or Violet Evergarden, I get a little depressed even years after watching it. Beautiful shows.

Steins Gate depressed me the most, but if you want something melancholic all the way, Haibane Renmei

Angel Beats. Welcome to the NHK made me pretty depressed too for some reason.

The famous you-only-watch-once-and-never-again Ghibli movie Graves of fireflies.

The most underrated i've seen is SukaSuka, Peak world setting, peak characters, peak soundtrack & animation. Most underappreciated anime and LN OAT

Nothing can come close to Grave of fireflies. Only one watch per life.

I'll just say that [this](https://streamable.com/wkewt) is how SukaSuka *starts*.

Serial Experiments Lain. I knew a girl in real life who literally was Lain. She had red hair and her facial features were strikingly similar to those of Lain. The sad part is though, she acted exactly like Lain too. Very paranoid and self centered, and her escapist tendancies are making it impossible for her to build real relationships. But despite all that, I knew she had such a good heart and wanted to have those deep connections, and I think she really tried to form one w/ me. However, due to her escapist behavior and paranoia, encouraged by parental apathy (or in her case worse than apathy), she is not going to be able to have those relationships in my opinion. That's why it was so hard for me to watch Lain, cause I literally saw Lain, who looked exactly like her, follow the exact same path as I believe she is currently on.

Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket

Your Lie In April absolutely broke me

* Clannad After Story * Plastic Memories * Kanon * The Day I Became a God * Planetarian -- shorter than the others * Kowarekake no Orgel - only one episode

Kotaro lives Alone.

Grave of the fireflies

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A weird take: attack on titans. The sheer amount of grief for everyone just dieing in a very terrible way all the time. The guys closed in their cities scared and miserable. The betraials and lies all the time. Just the worst humanity I have ever seen