Saddest Anime You Watched...:'( Page 3

Started by TEAM BLUE June 22nd, 2011 12:36 AM
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Cherrim

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I only see two people saying Grave of the Fireflies. The rest of you need to watch Grave of the Fireflies. It is, as my math teacher two years ago put it, the saddest movie ever.
Honestly? I cry at just about everything and that movie just didn't do it for me. I sat down to watch it with a box of tissues and didnt use a one of them. It was sad, yes, but iirc the main character could have made so many better choices to fix his problems and he didn't. I mean, I can't blame him a lot for it but... I just didn't find it heart-wrenching.

Not gonna answer the actual thread because honestly, everything makes me cry. 5 cm/s hits pretty close to home though, so it's always the first thing I think of when this question comes up.


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I thought that Toradora! was pretty sad.
Spoiler:
The two main characters were supposed to get married, but they didn't in the end.
D:
SPOILER ALERT LIKE HELL.

I found the first 15-20 of Graveyard of the Fireflies to be the saddest in the movie... I cried during it because of the decisions he made. It was heart-wrenching to watch him slowly destroy himself and his sister.... I don't know when I cried more...
Spoiler:
When she was burying the fireflies, or when she was eating dirt.
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I know it is inappropriate to give my opinion on this one BUT HONESTLY...
the only anime in the whole world that made me cry hard (literally) and had one of the most dramatic plot for me was the Ecchi/Yuri anime Strawberry Panic. Sounds kinda ridiculous huh? I gotta say it was awesome, I couldn't stand it ending so fast with such open ending....

Sorry if that was too...inappropriate but I couldn't hold my feeling toward this one :P

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Outlaw star (Twice) when Helga and Harry die. As far as deaths go, Helga had a much better death. (Depending on what version of the anime you watch, she either falls into a sun or activates a bomb and blows herself up before she falls into a sun)

Graceful

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I agree with everyone that say Clannad ~After Story~! It's one of the only animes I've cried at, another being an early episode in Bleach which was about Ichigo's Mother's real death >.>

And apparently Graceful is still alive after a very long hiatus ♥

Kevin

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Ohh Naruto had some dramatic/emotional scenes in the beginning (Haku's death, Hinata vs Neji backstory, Sakura's flashbacks in the Forest of Death and versus Ino, and more I forgot). I teared up in some of those scenes.

Sesh

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Hope I don't get shot if I say... Naruto! *ducks immediately* >.> I admit I don't go looking for anime often so I usually take a look at whatever is shoved in my face, Naruto did just that on Toonami and it was probably the first Anime I watched where they set everything up well enough for you to really care about the characters and unlike dbz since the deaths were permanent I really felt the heartache as I saw such great characters sacrifice themselves for their villages/friend/family namely of course the Third Hokage and plenty more to follow.

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Lots of anime make me cry, might it be for joy, or something happy, or maybe even a song at the right moment. But as sad episodes or moments there's a few that comes to mind... (and these aren't in any order of sadness, right now it'd be too hard to order them)

~ Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Gurren Lagann is a series I wish I watched from day one. I started on it a month or two after it had ended, so there were spoilers. I likely would have cried a lot more had people not come right out and say "OMG it was so sad when ... happened" while commenting on YouTube vids... sort of like this thread, I see so many people that clearly doesn't know how to use the spoiler tag.
I watched the series before it got really big around PC, but not soon enough for places like YouTube.
Spoiler:
Episode 8: I teared up when Kamina died. I'm pretty sure this was spoiled for me (I started Gurren Lagann a few months after it finished airing), so thus why I believe I would have cried a lot more then what I did. But still it was a sad episode.

Episode 25: Thankfully the whole series wasn't spoiled, so when Kittan died it came as a shock and I cried. I think I would have gotten at least the same reaction to Kamina had I not know before hand.

Episode 26: I cried when Simon last talked with Kamina and when he saved Nia.

Likely would have cried when Nia died had it not been spoiled.


~ Clannad
I started Clannad I believe 2 years after it first came out. And I think 7 months after After Story finished airing. So I was sort of behind with the series. But I'm surprised it wasn't spoiled more then what it was for me.
Spoiler:
Episode 8: Not really the whole episode, just halfway into the ep when everyone was trying to remember Fuko.

Episode 9: This episode used to hold the title of "most tears shed", and I might have been watching anime for a good while before watching Clannad but I was crying sooooo so much. I get sad when people are "forgotten", it's no fault of their own but they're just forgotten. So when Tomoya and Nagisa remembered Fuko plus the music going on... I was crying, I locked my door because I didn't want someone to come in and ask what the prob was. And when they were talking to Fuko's sister the tears started pouring out again. Even now, I just rewatched parts of the ep to remember all what went on and I'm in tears. This is likely in my top 5 (maybe top 3) saddest moments.


~ Clannad After Story
Spoiler:
Episode 18: When Tomoya is talking to Ushio, saying that toy was the first thing he got for her, about him being a bad dad, how he wants to change that, and so on. And then later on he was telling Ushio about Nagisa and he was remembering her.

And for another one of them "I likely would have cried moments" would have been when Nagisa died. But again YouTube comments...


~ K-ON!!
I know some people are thinking "K-ON? WTF? Why would that be sad?" but...
Spoiler:
Episode 20: ...I really did cry on episode 20. The part after the performance and they're sitting around talking about what they're going to do next year, but I'm thinking "There isn't going to be a next year". And then U&I is playing in the background and it was just sad.


~ Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai (AnoHana)
Spoiler:
Episode 11: I knew the ending was going to hit me like a ton of bricks, I knew it was going to be sad, I knew I was going to cry and cry a lot. But I didn't expect it to be that sad and didn't expect to cry that much. I mean I prepared myself, I went into it knowing I was going to cry and yet I still broke down and was squalling.


~ Angel Beats!
I'm happy to say that I started Angel Beats on day one. So there was like no chance of spoilers (other then going to Random Curiosity before the torrent finished, because they were damn quick getting their posts up back then). Even to this day it's the only series where I wanted to see the episodes so bad that I'd jump on the torrent as soon as I could and watch it as soon as it finished. Normally when anime gets released I just wait for a download. But Angel Beats wasn't like that... I had to watch it as soon as I could.
Spoiler:
Episode 10: I knew what was going to happen in this episode (as in Yui being the first one that Otonashi and Kanade went after so that everyone could move on), it was pretty clear by the "preview" at the end of episode 9. And I get chills when Yui talks there in that preview about how her happiness was stolen from her, and the title of the next ep (ep 10). And then there was no OP for episode 10. So it was pretty clear that this was going to be Yui's last episode. But it still didn't make it any easier when it happened. Close to the end when she said that one of her wishes was to be married I thought Otonashi was going to say "Yea, I'll marry you", she'll smile be happy and move on. It didn't cross my mind that Hinata would show up, I don't know why... But when he said that he'd marry her I started tearing up. And then them talking, and the visions going on and all of that, I was crying so so much. Even after the ep was over I was crying. I didn't expect anything to top the Fuko ep when it came to tears, but that episode did it.

Episode 13: I'd say the best 2 things things about watching an anime as soon as it airs is that you get to talk about it with friends who watched that ep as well, and that the chances of it being spoiled is slim to none. Episode 13 of Angel Beats makes me soooooo so so glad that it wasn't spoiled. I went into that episode not knowing what to expect. Was it going to end with Otonashi and Kanade staying there? Will everyone just move on? Will they meet up in the next life? But none the less I went on and watched the ep, and when she said she had his heart my mind was blown, I would have never thought that. I don't think I cried as much as I did with Yui's ep, but really how would it be rated? My vision was slightly less blurry then Yui's ep XD? Maybe it wasn't as "sad" because I was in shock, but I was still crying my eyes out by the end of the episode. It might not have been as sad as Yui but the ending to this episode was perfect, not a "Well I'll say it's perfect but it's just close to perfection.", it really was perfect and couldn't have been done any better. I think I had like 3 or 4 different "bursts" of tears just from the final 7 minutes of the episode. When Kanade said she had his heart, when they were holding each other and he didn't want her to leave, when the final credits came up, and after the credits when they met again.

Both of these eps might not make me cry when I rewatch them like AnoHana or Clannad, but then again I've seen the ending to these two eps countless times (Clannad and AnoHana I've seen maybe 3 times). And as for that first time watching impact... there's no way they can hold up against these two eps. When I watched Clannad and AnoHana I wasn't still crying 10 mins after the ep was over like I was episode 10 and 13 of AB.



I wanted to keep this short and sweet, but after I got started it kept going. Oh well, maybe someone will read my rambling... Maybe it would have made more sense had I not typed this up at 3am. XD

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Chairman Kaga

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I just finished AnoHana a few days ago.

Spoiler:
You could see it coming a mile away (read: minute one of episode one) and I'm normally pretty jaded when it comes to this kind of thing. I credit the great VAs with making me feel emotional as they did some of the absolutely most believable crying and despairful wailing that I've ever heard in an anime in the final episode. I know that everything about the show is scientifically manufactured to pull at the heartstrings, but I couldn't help but feel some genuine emotion in spite of it.


Among recent stuff, I should also mention that episode seven of Kamisama Dolls was the single saddest episode of anything that I've seen in a good while. It raised the show from slightly-above-average to well above average for me.

Kung Fu Ferret

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Saddest? I think some death scenes from Digimon were pretty sad

One example from each season
Adventure
Spoiler:
Wizardmon

02
Spoiler:
BlackWarGreymon

Tamers
Spoiler:
Leomon

Frontier
Spoiler:
Kouichi

Savers
Spoiler:
Merukimon

Xros Wars
Spoiler:
Deckerdramon


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Clannad After Story:
Spoiler:
Episode 21: While some people say that Nagisa's death was a real tearjerker and the most saddest moment of the CLANNAD series in general, nothing and I mean NOTHING compares to the tears I shed during Ushio's Death.

Why is Ushio's Death more sadder than Nagisa's you may ask, because while Nagisa's death is the death of Tomoya's wife, Ushio's death has to deal with his 5-YEAR OLD DAUGHTER DYING.

Now, picture it like this, it's been five years since you've lost your wife during childbirth, you regret meeting her and wished that you had never gotten together so that she'd still be alive, you become a workaholic drinker who gambles and smokes and cut all ties with the people you know.

Now imagine you have to meet the offspring who was born on the same day your wife died, it's been five years since that and she hasn't really met you once.

You begin talking to her and in the end start to get to know her, even going so far as to take her someplace out of town, that weekend you come to terms with everything in your life and accept her into your life.

Suddenly, everything changes and your happy again!

Now imagine that she's gotten deathly ill, her final wish is go to that place you went to go see the flowers again, you do so. Only for her to die in your arms as she does so.

Suddenly, depression hits again.

That's how Tomoya feels throughout this whole experience with Ushio and this death completely shatters him.

And whenever I see this scene I can't help but cry a freaking river because it's not only the death of a little girl mind you, but it's Tomoya's daughter and his second chance at getting his life back to normal.

And just because of a swift twist of fate, he loses everything for a second time.

THAT my friends, is why Ushio's death is more deserving of the saddest moment in CLANNAD and my personal saddest moment from the series


Angel Beats:
Everythings already been said regarding Angel Beats and my experiences with it's tear jerker moments are the same as everybody elses

Ano Hana:
Most of the series is littered with tearjerker moments, but Episode 11 will make you cry a glass and a half

Toradora!:
The last few moments of the final episode, everytime...they get to me.
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The saddest Animes I've seen are Clannad: After Story and Angel Beats hands down.

My sister thought I was a sissy for crying, but I couldn't help it.
I would usually go back and watch Animes I found really good, but I can't go back and watch those.
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johnny18

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There are a few episodes of anime that make me cry:
pokemon: Bye bye butterfree
D.Gray-man: Episode 5 - Sing me a lullaby
Naruto: neiji vs. the spider guy
..........and so on

MuffinPaula

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Clannad AS, Angel Beats!, Tegami Bachi,Tegami Bachi Reverse, Ano Hana, Ef ~A Tale of Memories~, Hanbun no Tsuki Ga Noboru Sora, Also to me Murder princess seems sad also some parts of Naruto as for movies.., Saishuu Heiki Kanoj

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Grave of the Fireflies

Tragedy is one of my favorite genre.