From the heartfelt dramas about young love, unrequited feelings, and relationship drama to the more serious stories that tackle issues like death, war, and illness, anime has found countless ways to break our hearts and make us weep.
15 Heartbreaking Anime That Will Make You Cry. 1 15 Plastic Memories. Plastic Memories is one of those shows that gives you a bracing dose of reality and the fact that nothing lasts forever. The ... 2 14 Violet Evergarden. 3 13 Chrono Crusade. 4 12 True Tears. 5 11 Elfen Lied. More items
Anohana is an emotional, tearjerking experience you don’t want to miss out on. 2 CLANNAD Clannad is the anime adaptation of Key’s visual novel of the same name. It’s probably the most well-known sad anime out there.
Despite student-teacher relationships being heavily frowned upon at the patisserie school, there were never any actual consequences for the main heroine and her classmates getting close to their attractive instructors other than spoken warnings from the head teacher.
Hinako Note first started with the main heroine, Hinako, moving to the city to join the theater club to overcome her social anxiety. However, the series increasingly focused more on the friendships she developed with her classmates and peers rather than tackling her anxiety in-depth, much to the chagrin of some fans.
My Next Life As A Villainess: All Routes Lead To Doom! initially had the protagonist Catarina trying to prevent her doom by befriending many of the conquerable characters and the protagonist of the game "Fortune Lover," since that was the world where the protagonist was reborn after dying.
I've Been Killing Slimes, much like My Next Life As A Villainess, initially focused on the consequences of Azusa doing nothing but lazing around and killing slimes for three hundred years. This resulted in Shalsha nearly killing Azusa in the second episode alone if it was not for Laika quickly defeating her.
Blend S was another anime that initially focused on the heroine's struggles, but quickly focused on her and her coworkers' bonds with each other. Maika struggled with looking sadistic, thanks to how slanted her eyes were compared to most people, and this ironically earned her a job at the cafe run by Dino.
Drugstore In Another World initially involved the Kirio Drugstore offering very practical solutions for problems that were difficult to solve for their clients. These concoctions included energy potions, tea that helped the consumer sleep and reduce anxiety, and beast repellent to get rid of the beasts eating crops.
Though Girlfriend, Girlfriend gave an ironically serious take on the repercussions of polyamorous relationships despite its humor, it quickly softened up on those consequences in its latter half thanks to focusing more on hilarious misunderstandings than further developing the relationship Naoya had with Nagisa and Saki.
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.
True Tears is a fairly uncomplicated and straightforward romance story but that doesn't mean it won't have you bawling your eyes out by the end of the series. It follows a boy named Shinichirou Nakagami who winds up living under the same roof as the girl he has feelings for.
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.
Shingo Ichinomiya was once a single Japanese salaryman until the day he fell asleep and woke up in a magical fantasy world as a young boy named Wendelin von Benno Baumeister, the eighth son of the noble Baumeister family.
Wendelin von Benno Baumeister is the main protagonist of the series. He was once a salaryman named Shingo Ichinomiya (一宮 慎吾, Ichinomiya Shingo) until he is reborn into a highly aristocratic and polygamic (for the nobles) fantasy world as the eighth son of Artur von Benno Baumeister.
Hachinan tte, Sore wa Nai Deshō! is written by Y.A. and illustrated by Fuzichoco. The light novels has been published by Media Factory, under their MF Books imprint.
The 8th Son? Are You Kidding Me? (light novel) at Anime News Network 's encyclopedia