Oh mate, clannad was sad
What do you consider the saddest anime?
Submitted 3 months ago by mo_lave@reddthat.com to anime@ani.social
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OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 3 months ago
zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Clannad, after story, and then your lie in april.
ramble81@ani.social 3 months ago
Came here to find After Story, wasn’t disappointed.
Sas@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Clannad after story is so sad that even the stupid Twitch plays Pokémon edit of it makes me cry.
Vibi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Your Lie in April and Angel Beats! both crushed me 😭
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 3 months ago
What’s the deal with angel beats? I watched it and I just don’t get it
Vibi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
spoiler
It pretty much takes place in a limbo/purgatory. Children who die without finding peace or have unresolved emotions end up there. The story slowly reveals this and explores each characters’ reasons for ending up there - often confronting their death and untangling the things which kept them from moving on. Time itself is kind of nebulous there; two of the main characters, one who starts as a sort of antagonist and the protagonist, are kind of tied together by fate with the protag being a heart donor to the antagonist. The protagonist died before and his heart was given to her, but somehow she ended up there before him even though she lived a full life (if I’m remembering right) l. It’s honestly a super beautiful story, and I think one of my favorite parts is the ending song/mv which plays at the end up each episode- it features every character, and as they move on during the series their spot in the ED is just blank with the final episode ending without any of them.
Brosplosion@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Your Lie in April. Easiest choice I’ve ever had to make.
brossman@infosec.pub 3 months ago
this one made me really sad for a long time
apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Me too. I was absolutely shattered for a few days, base-level sad for a few weeks, and bleak undertones for months. It was jaw droopingly beautiful as a story but fuck, ow.
recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Next Stop Anime Postpartum Depression
- Angel Beats
- Death Parade
- Steins;Gate S1
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
- Eureka Seven (happy with the conclusion, sad that the journey is completed, doesn’t help that E7 AO and the movies are also trash)
- [C] Control: The Money of Soul and Possibility
- Princess Principal (next movie when augh please release soon🙏🙏🙏)
All of the anime mentioned above are honestly great🤌 please consider giving any of them a watch if you’re bored🤗
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Man I didn’t think anyone else watched C
recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
It’s soo good🤌
I really enjoy watching and rewatching itI think it’s one of the main reasons why I obsessed over learning systems analysis
apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 months ago
I didn’t know what to do with my life when I finished steins;gate (which only has one season. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar)
Hoimo@ani.social 3 months ago
You didn’t like season 2? I honestly thought it was a great addition. S1 is a definite 11/10 and S2 is a 9 on its own, but watching S1 and S2 together is still a 10/10. I think the climax of S1 hits even harder when the seasons are combined.
recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Heads up there is S2👉👉✨
Please consider watching Steins;Gate before watching this opening as it contains spoilers~
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Cairden@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Your lie in april
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I don’t usually watch sad stuff so Welcome to the NHK is probably the saddest I’ve seen.
asudox@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Well, I can think of only Clannad: AF atm.
braindamagebuddy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If you mean most tears, definitely Clannad. Probably others that would be more sad in a depressing kinda way though.
kouichi@ani.social 3 months ago
It would be incredibly depressing if you excluded the last episode lol
ninjabard@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Not overall sad but had moments that absolutely wrecked me.
Elfen Lied Listen to Me Girls, I’m Your Father A Silent Voice Your Name Cowboy BeBop
tobogganablaze@lemmus.org 3 months ago
Listen to Me Girls, I’m Your Father
Is this like Higehiro, where it starts out really suggestive but turns into a kind of decent story? Because I’m getting nothing but red flags from the first episode.
ninjabard@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yes.
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Voices of a Distant Star. It tops Your Lie in April for me.
dgbbad@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I came to say this. Holy hell it’s brutal.
apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Shigatsu Wa Kimi No Uso or Your Lie In April is an absolutely heartbreaking story but its so beautiful. Strong contender.
Also Kimi No Na Wa or Your Name if movies count - I still cry like a baby every time I watch it, but it has a few of the story tropes that I’m an absolute sucker for so I’m biased. Its still incredibly moving even with that in mind.
astro_ray@piefed.social 3 months ago
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas. The only anime that made me cry.
6U2cKs9fcF@lemmy.world 3 months ago
A silent voice
NineSwords@ani.social 3 months ago
Lot’s of anime are sad but most of them end on a positive or hopeful note. That’s why I consider anime that end on a bleak note to be sadder. Stuff like Grave of the Fireflies or the recent Look Back.
Weebdeluxe@ani.social 3 months ago
Bible Black.
ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Clannad After Story, Liz and the Blue Bird, Phantom: Requiem for a Phantom, Violet Evergarden, A Silent Voice.
cccrontab@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Grave of the Fireflies
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I haven’t seen a TON like I assume most on this comm have, but for me Grave of the Fireflies. It was too real for an animated film. Not in the sense that kids can’t handle reality, but just in the fact that it’s NON-STOP misery for the characters. There’s literally never a high moment in the movie, just tragedy after tragedy happening to children.
NineSwords@ani.social 3 months ago
And it even continues after the movie ends when you look it up. First you see that the lights on the movie poster are not fireflies but incendiary bombs and then you read further and learn that it’s based on the real-life experiences of the author and was written as an apology to his dead sister. I mean it was his pride that killed her, so I can see him having problems coming to terms with that. It’s a movie that just keeps on giving. I always say it’s the best movie I only watch once.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Without knowing it was directly a true story about specific people, I knew it was more or less the truth for loads of unfortunate souls throughout history. Agreed on never watching it again.
jaschen@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Some might disagree, but I thought “Your Name” was sad.
apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Controversial
NeryK@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
It’s been 20ish years but the name that sprang up to mind was Now and Then, Here and There. I don’t remember much except it was pretty bleak and sad.
nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 months ago
Distant-future apocalypse with child soldiers and a scenery-chewing madman (not of the fun type) in charge. The adjective that comes to mind for me is “grim”, but “sad” works too—no one escapes the story unscathed. I have the original DVDs around here somewhere.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
I couldn’t finish that one. Still have the box set. But it was just too much.
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 3 months ago
To your eternity
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
I loved the first half of the first season, but I feel like it got a bit stale by the end of the first season. I haven’t watched the second.
Would absolutely recommend, though.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 months ago
[deleted]Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Yeah agreed. The character building in that was good.
Unboxious@ani.social 3 months ago
LOOK BACK was pretty dang sad, but it’s one of the only 10/10 anime I’ve ever seen.
Dororo (2019) is also up there.
mudmaniac@lemmy.world 3 months ago
::: spoiler The emails really hit from left field. spoiler :::
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Ninja Scroll. I will never forgive that evil dude for permanently cock blocking the protagonist.
anon6789@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Other than Grave of the Fireflies, some others I never see mentioned are Saikano and In This Corner of the World.
Mac@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Orange was pretty sad iirc.
USSEthernet@startrek.website 3 months ago
Trigun. Vash is just getting shit on for almost 2 centuries.
Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Something that had sad moments and I think is often overlooked is Gene of AI. It is more of a philosophical anthology series though than a show that builds up characters to hit you with emotional baggage.
e0qdk@reddthat.com 3 months ago
My kneejerk reaction to the question is “Grave of the Fireflies”.
RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Ditto. I like a lot of sad stuff and that is just another level.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
It really is in a class all its own. I don’t think I could ever watch it again.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Fun fact: originally a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro.
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 3 months ago
Which one played first?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
That sounds like a roller coaster of a ride.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
My Neighbor Totoro is really sad also (or can be).