So here’s a list of the Top 25 Saddest Girls in anime. 25. Shirahoshi "Mermaid Princess" (One Piece) 24. Tomoko Kuroki (Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui) 23. Hanabi Yasuraoka (Scum’s Wish) 22. Mamimi Samejima (FLCL) 21. Yukari Yukino (Kimi no Na wa) 20. Iwakura Lain (Serial Experiment Lain) 19. Moeka Kiryu (Stein’s Gate) 18.
But tragic and sad anime are an intricate part of anime, giving deeper insights into their culture and in general the human behaviour. Following is the list of saddest anime ever made that are total tear-jerkers. You can watch some of these sad anime on Netflix, Hulu or Amazon Prime. The list includes both anime series and anime movies. 20.
Golden Time is a fun but also a little sad anime series with a happy ending and superb characters including the lovable anime girl Koko. You can watch Golden Time online on Crunchyroll. The depressing story of Haibane girl named Rakka will take you to a very sad place.
A Lull in the Sea is sad romantic anime deals with so many important topics that are relevant nowadays. The hatred between the two groups has a terrible effect on children’s lives. You can watch A Lull in the Sea online on Crunchyroll. Rubmling Hearts deals with deep, complex and turbulent emotions.
Shirahoshi “Mermaid Princess” is from the anime-series One Piece. She’s a giant smelt-whiting mermaid and often called a ‘crybaby’ by the other characters.
Tomoko Kuroki is the awkward, introverted main character of her own series. In this anime, we follow her desperate attempts to try to be more popular at her school and how despite her efforts, she continuously fails. The poor girl looks so miserable with those tired bags under eyes! Even her daydreams go wrong!
I personally don’t like this character much, due to the way she uses her ex-boyfriend’s brother and her pets as a replacement for that very ex-boyfriend. Mamimi Samejima is a high-school absentee and Tasuku Nandaba’s ex-girlfriend. She looks and acts sad all the time, she also spends most of her time loitering under Mabase’s largest bridge.
Yukari Yukino is the main female character from The Garden of Words. And she suffers a curse. Oh, the terrible curse of beauty! Now, I know it may sound silly but I assure it’s not. Many girls in this modern day of ours wish to be seen as beautiful and unfortunately, we can’t always get what we want.
Iwakura Lain is a fourteen-year-old girl and the series is about her introduction to the Wired and how it drastically changes her life. She’s quite lonely due to her limited interactions with other people and her unaffectionate family members. Iwakura latches onto anyone who gives her the slightest bit of love and affection.
Yuki Nagato is a hominoid AI system created by the Data Overmind. She’s also one of the main characters of the Haruhi Suzumiya. Although she doesn’t classify as a real human, she was still designed to appear has one. And she shows signs of depression.
Victorique De Blois is a doll-like 15-year-old girl who is studying at Saint Marguerite Academy. The girl has a sharp tongue on her and carries a nihilistic attitude yet despite that she possesses an odd supernatural charisma. She’s lived a sad and isolated life, even with her God-given gifts.
Yuki Nagato From Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu. She appeared to be one of the saddest girls in anime. She is the humanoid interface in the series but looks like an ordinary human she has no emotion towards anyone, she rarely speaks with anyone.
Her character, in the beginning, seems in a typical tsundere way, yet later revealed that deep down, she is crying for help and has been so weighed down by her depression.
And that thing turned her into dark and depressed.
Mamimi is 17- year young character in the series. Her depression in the series is because of her breakup and we all know somewhere if you were deeply in love with anyone and suddenly that person or thing left, you started feeling lonely and sad and that journey is the starting point toward depression.
Rei is known as a “doll” because of her no emotions & no affection of nature towards anyone. Her Alone and Utterly sad behavior make her stay on the list.
Her shy character and socially awkward personality due to her power and intelligence make her stand and lonely. Hotaru grew up very alone, sick, and an outcast, bullied by her classmates who were frightened of her.
Princess Shirahoshi is a mermaid daughter of King Neptune. But the fact that she is so giant and at the same time very emotional you really can’t believe she cry out for small and pettiest things.
Many anime on this list is under the belt of Studio Ghibli. Anna Sasaki is a young girl who has asthma attacks. It his around her that the movie revolves around.
It is also a nice little love story. Mitsuha Miyamizu is the female protagonist of this anime. She lives in the countryside of Japan and studies at a high school there. But she always longs for something she doesn’t have i.e. life in the bustling Tokyo city.
‘Mirai no Mirai’ is a beautiful anime movie which deals in fantasy, adventure, and drama. Many people might tell you that it is a stereotypical film but don’t listen to them and watch it. Like other beautiful fantasy anime, ‘Mirai no Mirai’ is a visual treat for everyone. The settings and backgrounds are pretty decent and add to the feel of the movie. The character design is pretty slick too and the protagonist is really cute. If you have a younger brother or sister then you can watch this movie with them. Though the movie was quite fun to watch it will make you kind of sad, believe me. Kun Oota is the 4-year-old protagonist of ‘Mirai no Mirai’. Everybody is quite fond of him and he receives lots of love, cuddles, and pampers. He loves playing with his dog and his train sets. But all of this changes when his younger sister is born. The family names the baby Mirai which means future. At first, Kun loves the fact that he now has a baby sister and his mother is at home. But later Kun feels that his world has been shattered by the birth of his sister as now she is the one who is the center of attention and not him. Everybody now seems to be showering their love on Mirai and Kun is now moving towards oblivion. Kun slowly becomes jealous of his sister Mirai as his mother returns to work and his dad starts working from home to take care of the household. One day Kun storms off to the garden. There he meets and a number of guests from past and future and one of them is a teenage girl who tells him that she is Mirai from the future. Together they go on a journey across space and time learning more about their family. But the question that still lingers is ‘Why did Mirai come from future?’
Don’t worry ‘Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni’ isn’t just about suffering and loss but how to live life to the fullest in hard times. Suzu Urano is the protagonist of this anime. She is smart, hardworking and quite young. She has to move to Kure, a small town in Hiroshima, after marrying Shuusaku Houjo.
This movie is a visual delight having superb art and character design. The total length of the movie is about 1 hour 46 minutes.
It has to live in the body of a 14-year-old suicide victim Makoto. The soul has to find out what drove this young boy to commit suicide all the while trying to figure out his sin. The sin he committed which resulted in him getting kicked out of the cycle of reincarnation.
‘Colorful’ is a really long anime movie. It’s total length clocks at about 2hrs and 7 minutes. This the sort of supernatural drama that will make you emotional and move your heart. It is not an extreme tear-jerker like ‘Grave of Fireflies’ but rather a dramatic approach to showcasing the working of the world. It is a movie about self-realization and second chances. A depressed and sad soul reaches the train station death. While there, the authorities tell the soul that it has won some lottery and is a ‘Lucky’ soul who gets to have another shot at life. Our protagonist soul doesn’t want to live again but has to comply anyway. It has to live in the body of a 14-year-old suicide victim Makoto. The soul has to find out what drove this young boy to commit suicide all the while trying to figure out his sin. The sin he committed which resulted in him getting kicked out of the cycle of reincarnation. The soul has a time limit of six months during which he has to perform these tasks. But apart from this he also needs to learn how to enjoy this second chance at life.
Angel Beats! kicks off with a boy named Otonosahi waking up only to realizes he’s dead. Luckily for him, a rifle-carrying girl named Yuri explains that he’s arrived in the afterlife and that she is the leader of a name-changing battlefront that rebels against God and fights God's henchwoman, the student body president Angel who possesses supernatural powers.
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day is an original anime from A-1 Pictures that aired in the spring of 2011. This eleven-episode anime tells the story of a group of childhood friends, now teenagers, attempting to cope with the loss of their friend Menma, who died when they were kids.
It wants you to feel what the characters on the screen are feeling and it does its job thoroughly. A Silent Voice is about a deaf girl named Shouko who was constantly harassed by her peers in elementary school to the point that she had to transfer schools multiple times. It’s also about Shouya, the boy who bullied Shoko and who later became the target of bullying himself when he turned on his friends.
The anime addresses the story of Kousei’s recovery as he learns that there’s more to music than hitting each note perfectly (and falls in love with Kaori along the way). Unfortunately, much like the anime's bright color palette, Kaori’s cheerfulness is merely masquerading the impending tragedy.
While Steins;Gate isn’t “classified” or “marketed” as sad anime, it still has one of the most heartbreaking arcs in all of anime. Steins;Gate tells the story of Okabe Rintarou, a college student and self-proclaimed mad scientist who accidentally discovers a way to change past events, by sending so-called D-mails. After making use of the D-mails, Okabe and his friends find out that when you mess with time, it tends to mess back.
People from across the globe enjoy watching it for the intricate storytelling and oftentimes, anime is even better at telling profound and moving stories than Western animation.
This adventurous, often funny yet sad anime is about brotherly love. Cat Soup is one of the saddest animes that will make you feel hopeless for a while to then cheer you up a little.
Rubmling Hearts deals with deep, complex and turbulent emotions. Throughout the 14 episodes, you are going to feel a lot of love, happiness to then a tragic sadness turns everything dark.
Orange is one of the most devastating love stories of all time. This sad anime with love, regrets and a second chance to make everything turn out better is a very interesting ride.
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This fascinating sad romance fantasy anime is going to take you many places over centuries. As the actress begins telling her story, her roles seem to blur together with her life. Chiyoko tells about times from 500 years ago and her story ends up in the future. It is entertaining but also utterly sad.