The most depressing cartoons

[ShadowKatt]

I haven't watched it, but all my friends have told me that Grave of the Fireflys was incredibly tragic and depressing. Which is why I haven't watched it, I don't think I could handle seeing japan after WWII and the broken people that still inhabited it.

 

[-Orgasmatron-]

Salad Fingers, anyone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuCw5k-Lph0&feature=PlayList&p=BRjXJd8PnNk

That's not even David Firth's most disturbing.

http://www.fat-pie.com/bwrt.htm

Man is fucked in the head.

 

[benbenthegamerman]

its not really a series or a cartoon, but theres an amateur WoW machinima video called
"The Unjoy of Undeath". its pretty lore specific as much as it is powerful and sad. it made me cry a little bit.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Not sad but still depressing in it's own way.

5 Centimeters Per Second, watch the whole thing start to finish and you never leave feeling positive.

 

[johnzaku]

By far the saddest cartoon I have ever watched.

D'X wow.... so.... inspiring, and yet....

 

[iamthehorde]

i only watch stuff that lightens me up as anything else in tv makes me angry as hell. the anger alienates me from friends and family and then i´m sad. so i don´t need no sad toons.

 

[DeAvatar]

By far the saddest cartoon I have ever watched.

/agree.
At least the Kiwi got what it wanted in the end.

 

[Gaderael]

Like a few people have said, the Jurassic Bark episode of Futurama. The Episodes where Fry gets infested with tape worms and becomes really intelligent and plays the Holophonor for Leela, and the original series finale, The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings.

 

[Captain Lag]

If you don't want to get sad when you watch something it helps to not have a soul. I'll gladly take yours off of your hands for you.

 

[theSovietConnection]

If you'll allow comics with cartoons, I'll have to say this version of the final Calvin and Hobbes comic I found

 

[lee1287]

watership down

bambi

lion king..


watership down should not be for kids

 

[Yegargeburble]

By far the saddest cartoon I have ever watched.

Oddly enough, I didn't find this all that sad. It was interesting to see

Spoiler

that the kiwi fulfilled his dreams of flying.

 

[letsnoobtehpwns]

Futurama, more preciesly, Jurassic Bark episode.

I assume you watched it, if not, you probably regret it... Anyway, in that episode, Fry (protagonist) finds a fossile of his dog from the year 2000. He tries to bring him back to life, meanwhile, we get to see a lot of scenes from their life - where they met, how did they spend time and play.

Then, Fry realises that his dog was fossiled at the age of 15 - so basically, he died 12 years after Fry was frozen. He knows that this dog wouldn't be happy, that he had a new life, new owners and has learned a lot new trick already...

But the truth was a lot sadder, and that makes me cry - the dog waited for Fry to come back, every single day, rain or snow, not moving from the place Fry worked at. God, why did I remind myself of how sad that was...

I agree that Futurama is one of the more emotional cartoons. One of my favorite episodes was the one where the crew goes to get the honey from the giant bees. you know, the one where Fry gets impaled by the queen bee's baby and Leela goes insane. At the end Leela wakes up from a coma to find it was all in her head. I wouldn't say that Futurama is the saddest show, but it has a lot of emotion into it.

 

[Mozared]

The first thing that came to my mind when I read the topic's title was the clip from Avenged Sevenfold's "A Little Piece of Heaven" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXMobqWhpsk].

 

[Dancingman]

This cartoon is very sad, but at the end becomes a bit more touching, it was made in 1939, the year WW2 began, and is a commentary on the nature of war.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8OYvHPpGDY

 

[elbowlick]

If you'll allow comics with cartoons, I'll have to say this version of the final Calvin and Hobbes comic I found

That is depressing. I hate when things depict people losing a part of who they used to be, especially if it's childhood innocence.

Also, Jurassic Bark, and that Futurama episode with Fry's nephew...there might've been another one but I don't remember. Futurama was quality programming.

 

[Sparkytheyetti]

Futurama, more preciesly, Jurassic Bark episode.

I assume you watched it, if not, you probably regret it... Anyway, in that episode, Fry (protagonist) finds a fossile of his dog from the year 2000. He tries to bring him back to life, meanwhile, we get to see a lot of scenes from their life - where they met, how did they spend time and play.

Then, Fry realises that his dog was fossiled at the age of 15 - so basically, he died 12 years after Fry was frozen. He knows that this dog wouldn't be happy, that he had a new life, new owners and has learned a lot new trick already...

But the truth was a lot sadder, and that makes me cry - the dog waited for Fry to come back, every single day, rain or snow, not moving from the place Fry worked at. God, why did I remind myself of how sad that was...

This. It is probably the saddest that has ever played on my TV.

EDIT: This one is also very sad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6ejPG-i03I

More or less. The real trick is sacrifice. How do you worth yourself to another?

 

[Frankydee]

I guess sad in a humorous sort of way....?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiARsQSlzDc

 

[jodko]

ren and stimpy

 

[Rigs83]

By far the saddest cartoon I have ever watched.

You just bummed my the hell out man. If anime counts than "Grave of the Firefly" if not "All Dogs Go to Heaven" both made me cry.