Saddest Anime & Saddest Anime Scene(s)

[skyablaze]

1.Elfen Lied - way too many sad moments to mention, and contains one of the saddest final episodes in any anime

2.Grave of the Fireflies - sad to see the what war can do to people

3.Air tv - pretty much every one in the anime has a tragic life.

[Poparteeb]

I have to say Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien, due to the complete destruction in relationships and infidelity...

or as I 've heard, School Days is pretty messed up.

[KholdStare]

Originally Posted by Poparteeb

I have to say Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien, due to the complete destruction in relationships and infidelity...

or as I 've heard, School Days is pretty messed up.

KgNE is messed up and sad, but School Days is just messed up.

[Smithsky]

For me it was definitely Bokurano. I couldn't stop thinking about this anime for like 2 weeks, having opening song in my head and all characters. This serie totally raped my brain ;/ the saddest serie ever ;/ ( imo ;p )

[mcruz1014]

Well, if we're talking about consistently forcing you to the verge of tears for the length of a series, then Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien is definitely tops. However, I thought the ending was resolved rather happily.

Elfen Lied was the saddest for me, because in my mind there was no real resolution at the end...

Spoiler for ending:

I mean, you're not really sure whether Lucy dies or not, but Mariko dies for sure... sigh

[Leopluradonsauce]

Elfen Lied

Grave of the Fireflies

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Fullmetal Alchemist

[SabakunoPara]

The ending of Cowboy Bebop still gets me...

[Mistress 9]

Kiminozo is sad...but the only anime to bring me to tears was Nana...the end of Ep. 47 and the end of the first Nana movie both brought me to tears...and I couldnt rewatch either (or listen to the song Kuroi Namida) for a long time after my first time watching them.



Fushigi Yuugi also made me cry everytime a character died. I just couldnt take it.

[Rooked]

There are many scenes in Toppa Tengen Gurren Lagann that really pulled at my heart strings.

I find it's hard for an anime to be generally sad as they are usually too long for that, there are certainly impacting scenes in them though. But the saddest things for me are usually manga/games (Tomoyo After & The Hotel are recent ones that come to mind for manga, and MinDeaD BlooD for games).

However I would say Fullmetal Alchemist and Code Geass have overarching themes of sadness to them, for me at least. For both of them it's probably the theme of losing innocence or happy and peaceful days, and there's just no way it can ever be like that again. A meloncholic atmosphere would be more appropriate.

Thinking of sad anime Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu comes to mind, a 6 episode anime OVA. Definately bittersweet.

[radioIzzy]

I feel sad whenever I finish a manga or anime knowing that there is no more episodes or volumes left to read :'(

[patnam]

Recently some of the CB members died in last battle in MSG 00 finale... especially Lockon's Death... cannot acceptable......!!!

[Irkalla]

Rose of Versailles has to be my all time best tear breaker.
Then there was Candy Candy, little princess Sara and maybe some other older anime that I can't really remember right now.
Sure a lot of other animes made me cry sometimes, but I wouldn't consider them as being overall sad.

[Shinbou]

Am i do only one who cant stop crying everytime i see somewhere at the end of mahou sensei negima?

[Solais]

Air Movie... The ending of the TV version is so much better...

[michelle21]

Kannon is really sad cause every time you think the shows someone dies!!

[KholdStare]

Originally Posted by michelle21

Kannon is really sad cause every time you think the shows someone dies!!

I'm not sure what that means really but every time I think about SaiKano the first few scenes that pop up in my heads are with people dying. That's a pretty sad anime.

[Banditopants]

Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~ episode 12 was......

[Endrance]

S-cry-ed i cried my eyes out when

Spoiler for S-cry-ed:

Scheris used Her Alter Eternal Devote and died saving Ryuho

saddest moment ever

[siber222000]

read couple of bokurano's chapter... and it's VERY depressing.. i'm not gonna lie, i've never seen anything like this kind of manga

Originally Posted by KholdStare

Here I am, posting in this thread yet again, because sad anime are so good (in a non-sadist, non-emo way).

My revised top three is:

Kimi ga Nozomu Eien: Emotional destruction to the maximum.
SaiKano: Emotional destruction to the maximum.
Bokurano: Emotional annihilation consistently every other episode.

[Kollunz]

elfin lied!