An anime that made you cry

[uzo]

AstroBoy - Robeo & Juliet

Where the two robots from rival racing car families where melted into 1 lump of steel when their fathers, attempting to kill each other, squished them between two racing cars.



What?? I was 4 years old damnit. I didn't know the story of Romeo & Juliet, nor the Tin Soldier. It was too much pathos for my wee bairn heart to handle.

EDIT: My wife absolutely baaaawled when Isara was shot in Valkyria. She didn't do too much better in one episode of Samurai Champloo - the one where the 'lovable street rat'-episode character was killed (think of Aladdin, but have Aladdin actually beheaded dismissively by Jafar instead of sent to the Cave of Wonders).

 

[Shidira]

Clannad: After Story, Grave of the Fireflies, 5cm per Second, and Voices of a Distant Star all made me cry. Such great animes.

 

[Rinshan Kaihou]

Time for an update. You can now add Valkyria chronicles (yes, you know which episode I'm talking about. Though the cry was after the RAGE. Dropped after that), and Madoka.

 

[Floggo]

Angel Beats! and whenever Kamina was mentioned in Gurren Lagann after he died.

 

[Khanht Cope]

Code Geass had several tugging moments.

Spoiler

Can't say I was particularly moved over Lelouch at the end of R2 though. I'd been alienated from his character since the closing events of the first series, in a way that made me reluctant to just put the baggage to one side for later events in the following series. My remaining investment in Lelouch had been by character proxy.

I don't know if I watched it 'wrong' somehow, but that was my experience.

 

[penguindude42]

Cowboy Bebop. The song "Memory" by the Seatbelts gets me every damn time. I get that distant look in Spike's eyes everytime I here it. Needless to say, it's on my youtube playlist of relaxing/thinking music. Look it up.

It made me cry too, because I didn't get to watch because my stupid brothers
absolutely HAD to watch friggin' Samurai Champloo. *facepalm*

 

[Portal Operater]

From the reaction here I should look up Clannad. but anyway.

Cowboy Bebop with a certain scene near the end that involes Edward. (Ed has to be my favourite character even above Jet sometimes).

At the end of Fruits Basket or at least the end the anime. (If the anime continued to the full end of the manga it would have also made the same effect).

Plus the Girl Who Leapt Through Time. One of my favourite movies ever.

And I'm pretty sure I cried to the first four-five of the pokemon movies (especially 4-ever and the first one) at some point. Although it doesn't take that much for me.

 

[Ken Sakai]

I seen all these anime but I didn't even come close with most of them. My friends tell me I don't have a heart, but I cried my eyes out with Anohana (Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai) and Ano Natsu de Matteru...

 

[Ch1pmunk4eva]

I cried at the end of code geass and angel beats is sad-I mean the anime not the manga!
I heard clannad is really sad

 

[Ch1pmunk4eva]

Made me cry? Clannad makes everyone and everything cry. Clannad breaks your mind, soul, and emotions into tiny chunks, smashing them repeatedly and brutally until they're nothing but dust, then slowly and painfully reforms that dust back into your mind, soul, and emotions, eventually leaving them whole and better off, but forever branded with the extreme highs and heartbreaking lows of its story. Clannad absolutely breaks you, and it's an amazing experience that you can never forget.

Others I've cried in are Kanon, Steins;Gate, Digimon Tamers, Angel Beats!, and though it's not actually anime, I'm going to stick Avatar: The Last Airbender on the list, because it's the greatest show ever made and made me cry multiple times (and more each time I watch it).

Angel Beats! is an anime now

 

[GrandmaFunk]

No tears were shed, but at the end of every Mahoromatic episode, when it counts down how many days she has left to live...that always made me really sad.

 

[Kitsune Hunter]

Well I never cried, but their are times when I came close:

Grave of the Fireflies: It really makes you think if what the US did was right, I know Japan was willing to fight to the death and an invasion on Japanese soil would have been a massarce, but still, you know what I mean

Cowboy Bebop's ending

Spoiler: Bang

a couple parts from One Piece

Spoiler: Nothing happened

Going Merry's funeral, One Piece is the only anime where I feel sad about a boat being destroyed, also whenever Zoro took all the pain Luffy received against Oars, I was just touched how Zoro was willing to go through so much pain to protect Luffy and make his dream a reality

Shiki: I mean it's just really sad how the people who were turned into vampires are treated by the humans and it's an anime that really makes you think as the vampires are still the same person as they once were before and asks the question, does it make you evil to live?

 

[Fappy]

I've gotten close during a few of them, but never shed more than a single man tear.

I think the closest I got may have been the end of Gai Rei: Zero. Talk about fucking depressing ending. Holy shit.

 

[Weaver]

Okay, in all my years of watching anime I have only teared up during one episode of a show that I shouldn't ever find that sad in a million years. I was watching a subbed episode of the Kirby anime and teared up near the end of an episode involving Kirby finding a robotic puppy and treating it as his own little brother. The puppy is actually programmed to kill Kirby, but instead decides to kill itself to save Kirby's life.

I just think it's weird how a kid's show can make me sad while pretty much every other show or anime can't.

OH MY GOD THAT EPISODE!
You and me might be the only people on this forum that watched the Japanese Kirby Anime, but that was an unbelievably depressing episode for a kids show.

 

[Weaver]

For me it's:
Clannad
Angel Beats!
K-ON! (yes, really. I couldn't handle Azusa's goodbye song and the montage.)

Also, the ending of "Shinryaku! Ika Musume". I don't even know why really. The show wasn't very good, but I just felt so goddamn bad for Ika Musume on that last episode.

edit:
Also, Grave of the Fireflies. But I'm pretty sure everyone cried at that. It's even sadder when you realize it was based on a semi-autobiographical book of the same name.

Oh and voices of a distant star, and the girl who lept through time, and 5cm per second.

 

[rvbnut]

Clannad: After Story.

FUCKING CLANNAD: AFTER STORY!!!!!!!!

 

[DarkishFriend]

Okay, in all my years of watching anime I have only teared up during one episode of a show that I shouldn't ever find that sad in a million years. I was watching a subbed episode of the Kirby anime and teared up near the end of an episode involving Kirby finding a robotic puppy and treating it as his own little brother. The puppy is actually programmed to kill Kirby, but instead decides to kill itself to save Kirby's life.

I just think it's weird how a kid's show can make me sad while pretty much every other show or anime can't.

God that is awful for something as harmless as a kids show. OT though the end of Full Metal Alchemist had me full on crying, right when Al transmutes Ed's arm back in exchange for his life and when their dad offered to be the sacrifice to bring back Al.
Also the end of the Invasion of Pain arc in Naruto. When all the villagers finally embrace Naruto.

 

[Ryotknife]

There were quite a few sad moments in code gaess (ending especially)

Full metal Alchemist also had a few sad moments. While i prefered Brotherhood overall because it was not drawn out like the original, it is that very aspect about the original that gave quite a few scenes such emotional impact. a certain military man's death in particular. From start to finish it was emotional and wonderfully done. It still tears me up, especially the end where the main character sees an image of him smiling and waving to the main character who was not aware that he had passed away yet.

 

[Nouw]

Digimon 02. Not only because of nostalgia, a part of my childhood finally finishing is just great, but because there is some truly sad stuff at the end.