Whether immediately, or you didn’t notice at first until you went “oh… crap 😭”.
Of course Grave of the Fireflies. Kiki’s Delivery Service gets to me in a very different way.
As for series, Trigun (old one), end of episode 23.
[Discussion] What anime hit you in the feels?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by mo_lave@reddthat.com to anime@ani.social
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zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
Grave of the Fireflies is kind of the wrecking-ball version of this. Powerful, not subtle, and leaves you utterly devastated.
(Runner-up for me might be Gurren Lagann.)
Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Gurren Lagann is one of my favorites, and the ending always tears me to shreds. Also the space portions during the big battles against the Anti-spirals (should be fairly obvious why). Strangely, the mid-season-1 drop (just before Nia was introduced) never got to me.
Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@ani.social 3 weeks ago
I’ve yet to see Grave of the Fireflies (when I was younger I was scared of what I’d heard, nowadays I’m just overworked and probably depressed) but I will cry every fucking time I watch Kiki’s Delivery Service. Moreso at the people being nice than anything else. I’ve become such a softie as I’ve aged.
Ditto for Trigun, I assume I know the episode you’re talking about offhand. Look up Trigun Hallelujah AMV sometime if you want a nice feels trip.
janus2@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago Angel Beats
I barely remember anything about it because I watched it like 15 years ago. But I remember sobbing
Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@ani.social 3 weeks ago
I once had a friend say much the same about Angel Beats and maybe that, like, ruined what should have been emotional turns for me but I did not end up feeling anything during Angel Beats. It felt like it was trying way too hard to actually affect me.
- janus2@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Maybe it was. I was a hormonal teenager 15 years ago maybe that’s why it got me lol
Silinde@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I felt most of the show was quite tonally inconsistent and a little too rushed, but the latter half of the final episode absolutely ruined me.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
first season of “To Your Eternity”.
the early episodes were difficult to watch because they showed a true world where the characters tried their best and it just wasn’t enough and they ultimately paid with their lives.
I was going through a pretty hard emotional time when I watched it and it struck a nerve. I cried for like two hours. It made me realize that something was very broken in my life and unfortunately there wasn’t anything I could do to resolve it. but, the show made me feel “seen” somehow and that was enough.
Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Ooh, I forgot To Your Eternity got an anime. I got the first 7 volumes on some Humble Bundle ages ago and remember getting all emotional reading them. Any idea how much of the manga got adapted? Because it really takes a while for the manga to catch its stride.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
no idea it even had a manga. I would assume all of it because the second season took quite awhile to be released.
didn’t finish it though. the second season felt broken and unfinished or rushed.
Feyd@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
A place further than the universe
Silinde@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
One that I haven’t seen mentioned yet is the finale of AnoHana. The writers did a great job pulling the 10-years-before and current day storylines together, and then the little hide-and-seek game capping off the story just absolutely destroyed me.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Gurren Lagann. “So, this is the power of the spiral? Not bad”
Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@ani.social 2 weeks ago
So glad you mention that scene in particular. I tend to get more emotional at the final scene (“I guess I’m nobody…”) but both of those actually get a reaction out of me whereas the turning point of season 1 that’s supposed to, doesn’t.
Zensate@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Definitely not Clannad. You can go ahead and watch that, it’s just a happy-go-lucky slice of life comedy!
Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Maybe hot take, but the only bit that actually got me in the heart was starfish girl in the first season (sadly, I cannot recall any of the characters names anymore). The second season felt too drawn out and trying too hard.
That said I have the ending theme burned into my brain. 🎶 Dango, dango, dango, dango, dango daikazoku 🎶
Unboxious@ani.social 3 weeks ago
For me it has to be LOOK BACK. What a great movie.
Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@ani.social 3 weeks ago
I cry at the drop of a hat these days.
First, the ones others have mentioned:
- Clannad – but only the first season
- Gurren Lagann – but not the dramatic moment in the first season that’s supposed to have that impact
- Kiki’s Delivery Service – everyone is so nice (╥﹏╥)
- Trigun (original) – Hallelujah
As for my own:
- Haibane Renmei – everyone is so nice ( ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥)
- WorldEnd (AKA SukaSuka AKA What Are You Doing at the End of the World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us?) – a tragic romance but it still got to me as it was meant to
- Cowboy Bebop – the ending of Ed & Faye’s stories always get me bawling
- Millennium Actress – just destroys me more than any other of Kon’s works
- The Light of a Firefly Forest
Silinde@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Only the first season of Clannad? I know theres some great parts of S1, but
After Story spoiler
"Sanae-san said the only places I can cry are in the toilet and in daddy’s arms"
absolutely destroys me every time - I’m welling up just typing it out lol. There’s plenty of other great scenes in S2 that at least put it on-par with S1 IMO.
Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Yeeeaaahh… I thought S2 was trying way too hard to actually get a reaction. Actually I still didn’t care for parts of S1. The arc that still sticks with me is starfish girl, that one made me a gibbering wreck.
Not that I’m saying any of that soured the experience, but with how obvious it was being, it couldn’t actually move me.
agentTeiko@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Your lie in April,
it hit a little too close to home
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Fuck you for reminding me. Also, I agree.
Bonje@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Journal with witch” Aka “Diary of a Strange Land” which is a much better name fuck you localization team
Brewchin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago There have been lots.
But my most recent was Moshoku Tensei and its current “future timeline (of the MC)” stuff. (I hope it’s just a “vision”).
I’m a middle aged dude and watching what happens to his 2 wives and then his lost love, Eris. I’m not ashamed to admit that I cried (and am now, typing this) and lost actual sleep over it. You’re (probably) laughing, and I’m amazed at how much I didn’t know I cared about the characters.
Storytelling, when done well, is powerful. Seriously. 🤯
mo_lave@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Storytelling, when done well, is powerful. Seriously. 🤯
After one of my several rewatches of A Place Further Than The Universe, I earnestly prayed that I can write stories like it.
ernest314@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
most recently–Love Unseen, halfway through the season (no spoilers)
darthelmet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They started the season saying it was going to be a tragedy but it still got me when it happened.
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Wolf Children.
CumbrianCucumber@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Assassination Classroom!. It starts off so goofy and cartoony, and as it goes on, it contextualises all of its silliness in the universe it’s built, and by the ending, well, it was the first time I had to leave a room full of friends to go cry my eyes out
Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0. After one of the last episodes I was just left staring at the wall blankly for a little, tears running down my face.
TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To Your Eternity and Ranking of Kings immediately come to mind but I think the hardest I’ve been gut-punched in the feels is Dan Da Dan
CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Mushoku Tensei, couldn’t watch the diary episode fully. Watchers do know what has been through from the previous episode but fucking hell man that was too sad.
Zensate@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah I felt nauseous afterwards
Violet Evergarden, episode 10.
darthelmet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Same. That episode destroys me. I rewatched it recently and it got me as much as the first time.
mo_lave@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
My best single anime episode 😭