30 Sad Anime Series To Watch: Our Top Recommendations
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So yes, depending on your tastes and what you expect out of anime, it is very possible to outgrow anime. You call it "outgrowing," but it's really just getting bored. Interests change; people get bored with the same things and move on to other, different, things. Then they get bored with those things and move on to still other interests.
15 Saddest Scenes In Anime Of All Time10 Jiraiya's Demise At The Hands Of Pain (Naruto)11 Kayo Finally Getting The Treatment She Deserves (Erased) ... 12 Gin's Disappearance (Hotarubi No Mori E) ... 13 Ushio's Death (Clannad) ... 14 The Revelation At The End (Your Lie In April) ... 15 Setsuko's Demise (Grave Of The Fireflies) ... More items...•
A popular anime subgenre is sad or tearjerker anime. These anime make the viewer feel for the characters and even make them cry. With tragic scenarios, emotional scenes, and heartbreaking (even depressing) themes, these stories are powerful.
The 10 Best Sad Ending Anime Series That Will Make You Weep!Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso. ... Clannad & Clannad: After Story. ... Angel Beats. ... 5 Centimeters per Second. ... Hotaru no Haka. ... Ansatsu Kyoshitsu. ... Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai. ... Plastic Memories.More items...•
While given doesn't need to be anything more than a romance to be a good Boy Love anime, its handling of grief makes it one of the best anime stories detailing the subject regardless of genre. Instead of bringing you through constant sad emotions, given forces you piece them together when Mafuyu decides he's ready to.
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. The anime consists of two seasons: the twenty-three-episode-long Clannad and its infinitely more depressing follow-up, the twenty-four-episode-long Clannad: After Story.
I think baground musics and songs are the main factors that makes “your lie in april” sad.
It's shown that the characters that are left on Earth desperately miss Hiro and 002, the children are cursed to never see their friends again and don't seem to reincarnate alongside them. This is a bit sad since the show had such a heavy focus on how close all the parasites were to each other.
With that in mind, here are some of the best anime endings.8 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. ... 7 Cowboy Bebop. ... 6 Assassination Classroom. ... 5 Steins;Gate. ... 4 Your Lie in April. ... 3 Your Name. ... 2 I Want To Eat Your Pancreas. ... 1 Hunter X Hunter.More items...•
Erased (2016) This gives him not only the opportunity to save his mother, but to save the lives of his three childhood friends, who died as the result of a kidnapping. The sadness in this anime is intertwined with the desire to change the past, to save those you love.
Natsuki KizuGiven (Japanese: ギヴン Hepburn: Givun; stylized in all lowercase) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Natsuki Kizu.
Although the premise of Assassination Classroom involves a bunch of kids trying to murder their teacher, it's still devastating when he dies.
Banana Fish tackles some pretty heavy topics with gut-wrenching moments, making it one of the saddest animes to watch.
Few anime are as infamous for their sad endings as Your Lie In April. Focused on the story of Kosei Arima, a well-accomplished pianist, and musician, the story takes an interesting turn as the audience is introduced to the free-spirited Kaori Miyazono.
There is no bigger tragedy than war, something that the popular anime Violet Evergarden really hits home. The story surrounds the ex-soldier Violet Evergarden, the namesake character of the series, as she reintegrates after the end of a recent war.
Anohana is a recurring pick among sad anime for its unique premise. The story focuses on the story of a group of childhood friends that have slowly drifted apart in different directions. The issue? The group was divided after an accident that killed one of their friends, named Meiko.
Many prominent fantasy series have become the icons of the sadder side of the anime industry. However, one modern fantasy series which flies under the radar has the potential to be one of the most heart-wrenching of them all — Haibane Renmei.
Anime movies hold a special place in the hearts of anime and manga fans for their heartwarming moments that can't quite be reached in a normal anime series.
Key visual novels have become known for their heart-wrenching storylines ( and romantic subplots ), as well as their excellent visuals. Angel Beats, the anime released in 2010, has a legacy for many as being one of the most compelling of these.
Some series are built to hit the viewer right in the feels. I Want To Eat Your Pancreas (contrary to what the title alludes to) builds a world that is both heartwarming and heartbreaking to its very core. The story focuses on the story of a girl, named Sakura, who suffers from a rare, fatal pancreatic illness.
The main character: Masane Amaha is on the run from child services with her daughter as the anime begins. In the first stage of this anime it feels chipper, happy, action packed and curious. Like many shows of its kind, those feelings change into something more like despair in the end.
Magi: Labyrinth Of Magic & Kingdom Of Magic. This is an anime about a magi, which is someone who chooses a king to represent a kingdom. But it’s more than that. Magi Labyrinth Of Magic is probably the saddest out of both seasons of the series.
What makes this anime different is its approach to the traditional school/slice of life genre. The main characters are put through a set of challenges that F’s with their mind, emotions, friendship and confidence. These experiences don’t only make you think deep and question things in your own life.
Guardian Of The Sacred Spirit. Guardian Of The Sacred Spirit is an anime about a female bodyguard and a run-away prince who’s life is in danger. What makes this anime special is the bond formed between the 2 main characters. It’s almost like a mother and son relationship. Tender.
Orange highlights depression and concepts of suicide.
The music fit the mood so well and portrayed the weight of the episode that much more. It symbolizes a death that’s celebrated by all your loved ones,as they all gather to have their last moments with you.
This list wouldn’t be complete without Clannad, and especially Clannad After Story. Season 1 is sad, but it’s lightweight compared to what comes after. It’s the first push the anime gives you on an emotional level. Then season 2 drags you by the collar, and punches you right in the gut with its emotional train wreck.
It's a tale not usually covered in most slice-of-life anime and prominently highlights the difficulty of adulthood through the lens of two Tomoya and Nagisa.
At first glance, it sounds more like a comedy anime but I Want To Eat Your Pancreas has a deeper meaning that warrants watching it. It starts when an aloof and rather antisocial male protagonist named Haruki Shiga accidentally discovers that his charming female classmate Sakura Yamauchi has a pancreatic disease.
8 GOLDEN TIME - 7.79. Much like Rumbling Hearts, Golden Time is an anime that toys with the idea of unfortunate love triangles due to health circumstances. In this case, it's amnesia (another common plot device in romance). This time around though, its the male protagonist, Banri Tada who got the short end of the stick.
It's about a piano prodigy named Kousei Arima who sadly lost his affinity and passion for music after his mother died.
Tsukasa gets paired with a Giftia named Isla for a specialized job but in true romance anime fashion, he ends up falling for her. The problem is, Isla's life as a Giftia is nearly spent and any romance she pursues with Tsukasa will only be a fleeting moment of respite for her cold machine heart.
Rumbling Hearts is a romance anime that makes good use of a typical romance trope: comatose. It all started when Haruka Suzumiya, one of the main characters, confesses her love for Takayuki Narumi and they ended up together. That didn't last long since Haruka got into an unfortunate accident and went into a coma.
That's the question that Plastic Memories wants to ask and it does so through its protagonist Tsukasa Mizugaki. Tsukasa was lucky enough to land a job in SAI Corp who manufactures androids called Giftia that are pretty much perfect human replicas except they only have nine years to live at most.