2012-07-29, 18:50
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Animes with bad or sad endings [SPOILERS]
Like the titles says, I'm looking for animes with bad or sad endings.
Edit: I already watched : School Days AnoHana Mirai Nikki 5 cm per second Fullmetal Alchemist
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2012-07-29, 18:55
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Texhnolyze - pretty much the worst ending imaginable
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2012-07-29, 22:55
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5 Centimeters per Second
Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom Black Butler 2 (the first might also count but is more debatable) Code Geass (debatable) Magic Knight Rayearth 1st season Neon Genesis Evangelion? (assuming it's possible to make any sense of it) |
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2012-07-29, 23:11
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Hiding Under Your Bed
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This is a hard one to answer, as we're supposed to give some explanation for suggestions, but when the request concerns endings, it's hard to do so without spoiling the suggestions. Also, these are suggestions based on sad endings. Not necessarily having any sadness throughout the entire series (as often anime that are sad throughout tend to end with an uplifting ending).
Ruroni Kenshin Reflection. It's an OVA, and you really should have watched the TV series first. It's quite the tragic ending to one of the best samurai series ever. Tokyo Magnitude 8.0. Sad ending. Follows the characters through the aftermath of a large earthquake. Depending on your point of view, I suppose, the ending of Saikano could be taken as either incredibly sad, or uplifting (if you're a weirdo). Boy meets girl. Girl is weapon of mass destruction and humanity's last hope. Sad ending. Cowboy Bebop. Does anything really need to be said about its ending? Or the tone of the last several episodes overall? Gunslinger Girl. Young girls on the edge of death are ostensibly helped by Italy's social welfare agency, but are in reality brainwashed and cybernetically enhanced to act as a test bed for spec ops and human augmentation. Sad ending, though what is presumably the ongoing ending in the manga is about a hundred times more tears-inducing. Like Saikano, it could be argued that the ending to Wolf's Rain was either sad or uplifting. Put me in the sad camp. It's a beautifully tragic story of a wolf in search of Paradise. Berserk. It was one of the first anime endings that motivated me to find the source material from a "it can't end this way!!!" approach.  Very...hrm...sad doesn't seem adequate of a word.Full Metal Alchemist. The first one, not Brotherhood. God, that ending was depressing after all the emotional investment leading up to it. I also thought it was a billion times better than Brotherhood, which followed the actual manga, but I know I'm in a very small minority. Zeta Gundam. Or, if you fell in love with Char, Char's Counterattack. Zeta is one of the most depressing of the Gundam shows, though I hated Kamille enough that I didn't feel what I was probably supposed to feel at the end (in all fairness, any guy named 'Kamille' is likely going to have too many issues to be likable). Objectively, the saddest ending of all Gundam series, but subjectively, as a jock-carrying Char fan, I go with Char's Counterattack for that title. An honorable mention from the Gundam metaverse would be Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket.The Ideon: Be Invoked. Oh gawd. Just writing this post makes me nostalgic for the good old days when Tomino was all depressed and directing anime left and right, and merrily killing men, women, children in his shows in as many ways as he could imagine.  Also, it came before Neon Genesis Evangelion, so it bears the bonus of being able to deflect criticisms that it tried to copy it.  The ending is incredibly sad, though it can also be argued that it was uplifting as well. Well, this post is getting rather long. There's tons more anime with sad/bad endings, but I'll let others have a chance at suggesting them.
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2012-07-30, 00:36
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Definitely Fate/Zero and as others have mentioned Puella Magi Madoka Magica is more of a bittersweet than sad.
I'd say Sola, Air (T.V.), and Katanagatari all had sad endings, that were more sad than bittersweet. Somewhat Bittersweet and Sad(like Madoka): Kannazuki no Miko, Code Geass, and Mawaru Penguindrum
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2012-07-31, 13:40
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Berserk - I won't say anything about the ending but it fits your requirements(and I hope others don't spoil it too)
Grave of the Fireflies - You'll be reduced to tears, almost certainly.
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