Looking for sad animes. (SPOILERS)

[sa547]

Originally Posted by sweet-d

Grave of Fireflies Japan get's bomb to hell during WW2

This film trumps out the rest, capable of moving most of its audience to tears.

[Lawfer]

Originally Posted by sa547

This film trumps out the rest, capable of moving most of its audience to tears.

Not to me, Grave of the Fireflies is like War/Drama genre, it's too japanese, not animese enough, Rainbow is also kinda like that too, I read the manga translated in french up to volume 12 or 13 and it was really boring. These type of cartoons aren't sad to me.

[kitten320]

I find real like setting sadder than childish dramas.

Well to everyone their own

[MisaoFan]

I find a manga that is extremely sad and has tragic content : it's called My Heart is Beating.... I haven't read myself but I heard many good things about it : it has 30 chapters (I think) and it's completed, but the story itself is very touching that it will make you cry a lot.

[hyl]

Originally Posted by MisaoFan

I find a manga that is extremely sad and has tragic content : it's called My Heart is Beating.... I haven't read myself but I heard many good things about it : it has 30 chapters (I think) and it's completed, but the story itself is very touching that it will make you cry a lot.

Besides not being an anime (or even japanese) I disagree with this manhwa choice. I hardly find it sad due to it's odd and short chapter structure (most likely because it was a webcomic) and it's more a sports manhwa about waterpolo (i would say roughly 80% is about waterpolo) rather than a sad romance.

Spoiler for spoiler:

there is very little romance in it and the ending felt like a forced melodrama surrounding the main character being found out that he was crossdressing as a female in the waterpolo team the whole time and the healthproblems of the father of the main character.

So in short the drama part is not even close being similar to all the animes that the topic starter has mentioned.
You really should proof check your recommendations before recommending to others.

[Lawfer]

Originally Posted by kitten320

I find real like setting sadder than childish dramas.

Well to everyone their own

Any of these titles blow Grave of the Fireflies, Rainbow or any other post-war drama movies out of the water.

Sad animes > post-war dramas.

Originally Posted by erneiz_hyde

Saishuu Heiki Kanojo
Kimi ga Nozomu Eien

Saishuu Heiki Kanojo = Gut!

Kimi ga Nozomu Eien = Gut!

Originally Posted by erneiz_hyde

Steins;Gate

Funimation hasn't released it yet, but if it's anything like Chaos;Head then I probably won't like it.

Originally Posted by Deikan

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

I won't watch until Aniplex releases the third and final volume.

Originally Posted by Soliloquy

Noein

Boring and not sad.

Originally Posted by Trudinh

Guilty Crown

Funimation hasn't released it yet.

[Lawfer]

Originally Posted by totoum

5cm per second

Gut! (but way too short).

[Lawfer]

Is Shuffle! a sad anime?

[Arturia Polaris]

don't know if recomended yet, but rewatching Ano Hana moves me close to tears.

Niker

[MisaoFan]

Originally Posted by Lawfer

Is Shuffle! a sad anime?

Yeah, the sad moments seriously appear in the second half (the show itself has 24 episodes).

[Lawfer]

Originally Posted by Niker117

don't know if recomended yet, but rewatching Ano Hana moves me close to tears.

Niker

Hum, look at the opening post please:

Originally Posted by Lawfer

Here is a list of sad anime I already watched:

Air

Clannad

Kanon

Ano Hana

Elfen Lied

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But yeah Ano Hana is a great sad anime.

Originally Posted by MisaoFan

Yeah, the sad moments seriously appear in the second half (the show itself has 24 episodes).

Is it as good as Kanon? Because I noticed that the premise was very similar to Kanon.

[MisaoFan]

Originally Posted by Lawfer

Is it as good as Kanon? Because I noticed that the premise was very similar to Kanon.

Because its premise is similar, then Shuffle! will probably be as good as Kanon, but you need to watch yourself.

[Lawfer]

Originally Posted by MisaoFan

Becausr its premise is similar, then Shuffle! will probably be as good as Kanon, but you need to watch yourself.

Okay thanks, will do.

[Ten-Go]

Hikuushi e no Tsuioku
Sky Crawlers

[MisaoFan]

Originally Posted by Ten-Go

Hikuushi e no Tsuioku
Sky Crawlers

Despite you suggest these titles to Lawfer, the problem is that he doesn't like post-war dramas (no matter which time it sets).

[Ten-Go]

Originally Posted by MisaoFan

Despite you suggest these titles to Lawfer, the problem is that he doesn't like post-war dramas (no matter which time it sets).

Since when those titles are "post-war drama" ? Or maybe I can't get what kind of anime you call like that.

[MisaoFan]

Originally Posted by Ten-Go

Since when those titles are "post-war drama" ? Or maybe I can't get what kind of anime you call like that.

It's probably written on a certain Lawfer's post.

[hyl]

Well to be honest, he did like Saikano though and you can say that it's also somewhat similar to a postwar anime. However romance was probably the more central theme of that anime, rather than war.

[MisaoFan]

Originally Posted by hyl

Well to be honest, he did like Saikano though and you can say that it's also somewhat similar to a postwar anime. However romance was probably the more central theme of that anime, rather than war.

Because he enjoyed Saikano, he might like Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu.

[Ten-Go]

Originally Posted by MisaoFan

It's probably written on a certain Lawfer's post.

I don't think so. Although, has Makoto Shinkai's stuff already been marked as "post war drama"? Just wondering. Sorry if you feeling like my suggestions are offensive, lol.