Grave of the Fireflies
[Discussion] What anime tend to make you cry?
Submitted 2 weeks ago by mo_lave@reddthat.com to anime@ani.social
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Shipgirlboy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago Apart from anime with traditionally sad scenes like Violet Evergarden or Gintama, I have the strange ability to cry about cute girls doing cute things slice of life anime 😅. Like Non Non Biyori, K-ON, Gochiusa. I really like the tender and soft moments. For example that scene where Chino-chan decides to lean against Cocoa-chan and Mocha-chan. It’s a bit sad, but mostly it is just so sweet and pure and tender.
To me one of the most precious effects an anime can have is when it makes me cry without the scene being sad. The queen of this has to be ARIA. Of course that one scene with Alice. But also just Alicia explaining why she doesn’t get angry to Alice. The iyashikei just hits so hard I start feeling that being alive is wonderful. Those are my favorite tears!
ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
K-On was devastating tbh. CGDCT anime are typically very happy-go-lucky, so any emotional moment hits pretty hard.
Smash@lemmy.self-hosted.site 2 weeks ago
- Violent Evergarden
- a place further than the universe
- Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
In short: emotionally loaded
mo_lave@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Maybe I need to watch Dusk Maiden of Amnesia someday, because I cried in both of the others in your list.
Smash@lemmy.self-hosted.site 2 weeks ago
Will be worth it! It aged like fine wine, still looks amazing and has one of the best OST
When this song plays in the Anime, you will cry… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRPX2SXuG04
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Grave of the Fireflies.
I can only watch it once
Endmaker@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Stupid answer but: anything that moves me 😅
The easiest way is through a mother’s death. The ones that come to mind are:
meta spoiler; anime titles
- that episode of DanDaDan - that episode of Violet Evergarden - first episode of Oshi no Ko
Others that I’ve found moving include:
- Umamusume season 2
- Angel Beats
- Belle
I guess a common theme is that these anime feature characters who persevere / struggle through hardships.
ernest314@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
not the only thing, but one thing that reliably gets me to cry is someone making a sacrifice for someone else who doesn’t realize/comprehend what is happening, and lashing out at them (e.g. starving mother saves some extra food for her child, but the child is angry at her because it tastes bad)
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
86 always gets me. It doesn’t matter that I know what’s going to happen. I always end up crying.
MiRRoRMaN@ani.social 2 weeks ago Demon Slayer made me cry tears of boredom if that counts?
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Movies: Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms, A Silent Voice
Series: Your Lie in April, Angel Beats!, Sword Art Online: Mother’s Rosary (last 7 episodes of season 2), Clannad
shani66@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Endings can kinda get to me. Not the end of a show necessarily, but the end of a story. It often happens at the end of a show, but not always. The best example that comes to mind is actually a video game called Season letters to Tomorrow (or something like that). Without spoilers you leave your home and it’s as sad as it is uplifting, and then you document the last day of a town before it’s destroyed. There are other endings that you get to document too, big and small, and all of them are framed as emotionally complex.
I think I’m just a nostalgic person, because ancient ruins and stories in that context also get me. Girls front line was sad long before the ending! Maybe it’s because i was born in the late 90s and i saw the world getting better before it started getting worse.
Saber@ani.social 2 weeks ago Can’t name any anime genre in particular but two times i did cry was for Mitty in Made in Abyss and in Kotaro lives alone namely the park balloon scene.
ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Lots of anime tbh, but I’ve noticed KyoAni stuff is the best at it
Unboxious@ani.social 2 weeks ago
It’s gotta be LOOK BACK. It’s a very human story.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I did cry at the ending of Angel Beats
PM_ME_YOUR_ZOD_RUNES@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Season 1 of My Hero Academia. There’s just something about Deku trying so hard and caring so much. Makes me cry every time. By far my favorite anime season ever.
I wish the whole series was that good but it just gets worse every season. Don’t even get me started on that abomination of a finale.
tkohldesac@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago Viral’s alternate reality toward the end of Gurren Lagann. </3
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
When Kittan says “Huh, so this is the power of the spiral”
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago Grave of the Fireflies will make you cry so fucking hard you’ll never want to watch it again.
SaneMartigan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m born close to the water as they say.
Markus@organica.social 2 weeks ago
steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Episode 10 of Violet Evergarden is the only time I cried while watching anime.
Ann 😭😭😭. Definitely my favorite episode. The letter to Gilbert did me in as well. When she looks at the camera I’m so done for…
Pyotr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That one episode broke me for days like no other show has ever done, its why Violet Evergarden is my #1 show… That I will never rewatch.
For context, I was going through the same thing IRL as the characters in the episode were, so it hit all too close to home.