Apparently, anime creators love making their audience cry. Lots of anime seem to be created specifically to make fans bawl their eyes out. From the heartfelt dramas about young love, unrequited feelings, and relationship drama to the more serious stories that tackle issues like death, war, and illness, anime has found countless ways to break hearts and make viewers weep.
Anime is one of the most popular mediums out there right now. People from across the globe enjoy watching it for the intricate storytelling and oftentimes, anime is even better at telling profound and moving stories than Western animation. We decided to update the following list with some more heartbreaking anime series. If you're someone who likes it when your television shows can make you cry, then you definitely need to check out the anime we've recommended below.
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#10 5 Centimeters Per Second
Makoto Shinkai’s films are known for their breathtakingly beautiful visuals that set them apart from pretty much everything else out there. While his hit Your Name. is certainly his best-made film overall, the one that hits fans hardest in the feels is still 5 Centimeters Per Second. Revolving around two close friends who are torn apart by life, the film is about growing up and growing apart.
Despite their efforts to stay in touch, the characters keep drifting further apart as they go through life. However, their memories of each other remain, and they keep hoping to meet once again — despite the growing distance between them. The film gives a realistic portrayal of the natural progression of life, and how people tend to naturally drift apart sometimes. The title is a reference to the speed of falling cherry blossoms, a poetic metaphor.
#9 Steins;Gate
While Steins;Gate isn’t “classified” or “marketed” as sad anime, it still has one of the most heartbreaking arcs in all anime. Steins;Gate tells the story of Okabe Rintarou, a college student and self-proclaimed mad scientist who accidentally discovers a way to change past events, by sending so-called D-mails. After making use of the D-mails, Okabe and his friends find out that when one messes with time, it tends to mess back.
Okabe must race against the clock to save his childhood friend Mayuri, and ends up watching her die again and again. Eventually, Okabe arrives at the point where he must choose between Mayuri and the girl whose life he saved when he sent the first D-mail — the girl who's been helping him all this time, the one he fell in love with: Makise Kurisu. Watching Okabe fail time and time again and seeing the two of them grow desperate in the face of overwhelming obstacles is enough to break anyone.
#8 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is an anime sporting one of the most gut-wrenching stories ever told. It’s a tale about two young brothers who broke the laws of alchemy by attempting human transmutation, in order to bring their deceased mother back to life. The brothers paid a high cost for their indiscretion. The younger Alphonse lost his entire body. Older brother Edward lost his leg and then his arm in the process of bringing his brother's soul back and binding it to a suit of armor.
Nevertheless, these brave and tenacious brothers refused to resign themselves to their fates and set out to find a way to get their bodies back. They believed the Philosopher’s Stone to be the key, but, faced with the stone's true nature, they had to grapple with the moral implications of using it. That’s only scratching the surface. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is a rich, layered, and poignant anime featuring several tragic stories that will make one's blood chill and eyes tear up.
#7 Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
When an 8.0 magnitude earthquake located 25 km under the sea hits Tokyo, two young siblings, Mirai and Yuki, found themselves struggling to reach their parents as they track their way home from a robot exhibition in Odaiba. The children are assisted by a single mother and motorcycle courier, Mari, who's making her way to her daughter and mother.
On their long and arduous journey to reunite with their families, the trio finds comfort and support in each other and becomes a family in their own way. Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 is a horrifying, poignant and realistic depiction of the aftermath of a huge natural disaster, as seen through the eyes of three well-portrayed characters. It's guaranteed to make an impact on anyone.
#6 A Silent Voice
The 2016 anime movie A Silent Voice from Kyoto Animation isn't a pleasant experience, but that actually works in its favor. This movie doesn't want viewers to feel comfortable. It wants the audience to feel what the characters on the screen are feeling, and it does its job. A Silent Voice is about a deaf girl named Shouko who was constantly harassed by her peers in elementary school to the point that she had to transfer schools multiple times. It’s also about Shouya, the boy who bullied Shouko and who later became the target of bullying himself when he turned on his friends.
A SilentVoice is also about Shouya, the boy who bullied Shouko and who later became the target of bullying himself when he turned on his friends. In his third year of high school, Shouya, haunted by his wrongdoings and regretting his past actions, resolves to go on a journey of redemption. He finds Shouko again and strives to make amends. A Silent Voice is unsettling and heartbreaking, but it’s also heartwarming and hopeful.
#5 Angel Beats!
Angel Beats! kicks off with a boy named Otonashi waking up only to realize he’s dead. Luckily for him, a rifle-carrying girl named Yuri explains he’s arrived in the afterlife and that she's the leader of a name-changing battlefront that rebels against God and fights God's henchwoman, the student body president Angel who possesses supernatural powers.
Angel Beats! is actually pretty funny, up until the point when it isn't, and viewers forget what laughter is. As the battlefront orchestrates and executes various missions against Angel, Otonashi questions the morality of their actions. Eventually, the true nature of the afterlife school is revealed and Otonashi begins working with Angel to realize the purpose of this limbo — allowing people who have experienced trauma and hardships in life to move on. Watching the story of these characters unfold as they strive to let go of their attachments to their past lives is a real tearjerker.
#4 Your Lie In April
The Fall 2014 anime, Your Lie in April from A-1 Pictures, follows a piano prodigy and famous child musician named Kousei Arima, who lost the ability to hear the sound of his own piano after his mother’s death. Two years later, Kousei meets Kaori Miyazono, a lively violinist who helps him see that music should be played freely, and not in the strict, structured manner his mother taught him.
Your Lie in April addresses the story of Kousei’s recovery as he learns there’s more to music than hitting each note perfectly (and falls in love with Kaori along the way). Unfortunately, much like the anime's bright color palette, Kaori’s cheerfulness is merely masquerading the impending tragedy. Set to a beautiful, touching soundtrack, Your Lie in April is a deep-felt and heartbreaking story that deals with emotional trauma, overcoming loss, and moving forward. It'll make anyone shed a tear.
#3 Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
There are few anime that gets the audience to cry not only for eleven consecutive episodes, but also gives the audience the ability to cry on cue upon hearing the first notes of a song. Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day is an original anime from A-1 Pictures that aired in the spring of 2011. This eleven-episode anime tells the story of a group of childhood friends, now teenagers, attempting to cope with the loss of their friend Menma, who died when they were kids.
Five years after Menma’s death, the group of friends has drifted apart, but the ghost of their long-lost friend might just be enough to bring them together once again. The group reunites so Menma can finally make her wish and move on, while at the same time providing her friends the closure they need to move on without her. Throughout the story, viewers see how Menma’s death affects each of her friends, as they come to terms with their own inability to cope and overcome their feelings of guilt. Anohana is an emotional, tear-jerking experience no one should miss out on.
#2 Clannad
Clannad is the anime adaptation of Key’s visual novel of the same name. It’s probably the most well-known sad anime out there. The anime consists of two seasons: the twenty-three-episode-long Clannad and its infinitely more depressing follow-up, the twenty-four-episode-long Clannad: After Story. While the first part deals with run-of-the-mill high school drama, mostly friendships and romantic relationships, the second part is a much more serious and impactful look at the struggles of adulthood (with an emphasis on the importance of family).
Clannad is a rare anime that allows viewers to see the character’s whole lives play out, instead of ending with high school graduation or the couple holding hands. Be prepared, however, because Clannad doesn't pull punches. It will break viewers hearts and leave them sobbing in a pool of tears. If one enjoys the experience, consider watching other Key anime adaptations, like Little Busters!
#1 Grave Of The Fireflies
Grave of the Fireflies is one of the most heartbreaking movies fans will ever see. Set in the final days of World War II, the film tells the story of a boy named Seita and his younger sister Setsuko, whose lives have been devastated by the cruel and brutal war that’s left them without their parents and their home.
Left to fend for themselves in the Japanese countryside, the siblings’ youthful optimism is blinding in the face of unyielding adversity, giving them the strength to attempt to resist an inevitable fate. Grave of the Fireflies is an achingly depressing, profoundly beautiful, and deeply moving film that won't leave anyone indifferent.
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