Saddest anime?
Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso
26.9%
77
Clannad: After Story
37.1%
106
Violet Evergarden
11.9%
34
Anohana
14.0%
40
Angel Beats!
10.1%
29
286 votes
| -Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso -Clannad: After Story -Violet Evergarden -Anohana -Angel Beats! For me it's in that exact order. Shigatsu is the saddest anime I've watched. It's a really close one between this and Clannad and both consistently make me cry, but Shigatsu sticks to the sadness until the very end, while Clannad has a happy ending. Shigatsu's ending is both amazingly beautiful and very tragic. Clannad AS is second. Episode 18 is the single most touching anime episode I've seen and never fails to make me cry and several other scenes surrounding it are also quite emotional. The ending harms the impact a bit but whenever I watch ep 16 - 21 I still get very emotional. Violet is third. Ep 7 - 13 all contained some extremely emotional scenes. Especially ep 7 and 10 make me quite sad. The beautiful animation and music really enhance this. Anohana then. There's a big gap between Anohana and Violet for me. Anohana has plenty of sadness scattered throughout the show reaching its peak at the beautiful episode 10, but I can't stand the last episode (ep 11). All the shouting, cheesy hide-and-seek game, synchronized crying and melodrama just didn't do it for me and made me cringe more than feeling sad. Angel Beats is last. While I really like the show overall, I simply didn't find it standing out in sadness. I'm quite confused actually. I mean, the characters have tragic backgrounds which is rather common in anime. Episode 10 was pretty emotional but not necessarily that sad, and the ending was bittersweet at first and then turned into a happy ending. I really don't get why it's considered one of the saddest anime. I actually found stuff like Aria and K-On much more impactful because I actually cared a lot about the characters. |
| Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso or Angel Beats! didn't leave any impact on my due to their inferior writing. Anohana and Clannad were good tearjerkers though, Violet Evergarden is still in my PTW. It seems like you didn't get Clannad nor Clannad's ending. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE_xiK2a3sc |
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Yuissi said: Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso or Angel Beats! didn't leave any impact on my due to their inferior writing. Anohana and Clannad were good tearjerkers though, Violet Evergarden is still in my PTW. It seems like you didn't get Clannad nor Clannad's ending. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE_xiK2a3sc I do get Clannad's ending and I've seen that exact video before, but it's still a happy ending, isn't it? |
| The only sad thing about them is that they are all bad (especially Anohana) |
| Well, only Clannad is the only anime where i cried haven't watched Anohana just 2 episodes aside from that I think none of the animes are sad especially Angel Beats/ |
| For me, it's a tie between Violet Evergarden and Your Lie in April. I was bored to death by Clannad. So, it's Your Lie Violet AnoHana Angel Beats Clannad |
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| Out of 10, they would have; Shigatsu: 3 Clannad AS : 5 at best VE: watching it, 2 AnoHana: 3 Angel Beats: 2 at best |
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| Anohana - That ending T_T Violet Evergarden Clannad: After Story - Haven't watched it, but just watching clips of the sad scenes made me tear up. Angel Beats! Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso - Dropped it early on, so i guess i didn't make it to the sad bits. |
| shigatsu made me shed a tear almost every episode no lie. anohana had some sad moments but not even comparable wasnt a big fan of that anime. violet evergarden had me crying a few times too. had to drop clannad because of the character design unfortunately because i think i would like the anime. never watched angel beats. Shigatsu number 1 by far |
| For me it's Berserk but oh well I voted anohana. Nothing saddens me more than friends fighting each other or dying. |
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| I haven't watched Shigatsu, but okay. Clannad After Story is a clear tragedy. Number 1. Angel Beats! is very sad but it also has a lot of comedy before the emotional heaviness comes. Number 2. Anohana and Violet Evergarden are actually positive portrayals of life in the end, tragedy is something in the background of the characters they have to move on from. I'd say Violet Evergarden takes the cake here because the drama it deals with is more extreme and disturbing. |
| The 3 I've seen from the list aren't sad, so why would I bother. |
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Aslt said: Angel Beats is the saddest one because it's awful. Damn, bruh. 30 characherssftuisdf |
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| I'm sad that the abomination called shitgatsu is allowed to exist, does that count? |
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| Angel Beats was very tragic,but I thought it had the worst execution. Clannad was a great drama,but ended on a positive note,same for Violet Evergarden and Anohana. First place goes to Shigatsu in this case,the ending was just heartbreaking. |
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| I'll have to put all of them at the bottom since none of them made me feel sad. |
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| And Here I thought Nagisa's route was a better execution to make even more cheap melodramatic *Sad Emo Boi in Blues* material Oh Pls Play Tomoyo After instead.. |
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| This is just a ranking relative to the entries listed. The series are all not what I would consider "sad" in the first place Violet Evergarden Clannad After Story (huge ass gap) Angel Beats Shigatsu Anohana |
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| Violet Evergarden really? Maybe one of the most boring anime ever |
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| Anohana - it was so sad man Shigatsu - didn't make me cry because a friend kind of spoiled the ending for me, still liked it a lot Don't know about the others. |
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| Haven't seen most of them but the ones I have are more dramatic than sad. Also, I enjoy how this thread can be summarized as "they're all shit reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" |
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shayed__ said: shigatsu made me shed a tear almost every episode no lie. anohana had some sad moments but not even comparable wasnt a big fan of that anime. violet evergarden had me crying a few times too. had to drop clannad because of the character design unfortunately because i think i would like the anime. never watched angel beats. Shigatsu number 1 by far I almost dropped Clannad too because most of the characters seem retarded and because the best girl wasn't chosen. I can't stand Fuko arc at all, and I think it is just fucking retarded. I don't understand how they were able to add so much retardation in Clannad. Anyways, I suggest you pick Clannad up again because of the after story. It is great, especially after they leave school and become adults. That part of Clannad AS is my favorite out of every anime I have ever seen. I am sad the whole show isn't as high quality. Clannad has many flaws, but ultimately the positive outweigh all the trash. I would recommend trying to watch it and AS even if it feels painfully boring and retarded at times. |
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ZionPulse said: Also, I enjoy how this thread can be summarized as "they're all shit reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" Haters of drama anime are always so vocal and always have to let everybody know how shit drama anime is. It's like they're proud of it. Pretty tiring. |
| anohana, april, the other two that i haven't seen, angel beats angel beats wasn't particularly sad for me |
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ThomVD said: Mate that's all anime fans in general. ZionPulse said: Also, I enjoy how this thread can be summarized as "they're all shit reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" Haters of drama anime are always so vocal and always have to let everybody know how shit drama anime is. It's like they're proud of it. Pretty tiring. |
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ZionPulse said: ThomVD said: Mate that's all anime fans in general. Haters of drama anime are always so vocal and always have to let everybody know how shit drama anime is. It's like they're proud of it. Pretty tiring. Hah, true, but I feel that with drama anime it's even more than usual. Melodrama is one of the easiest ways for people to be triggered it seems. |
spacer1 said: shayed__ said: shigatsu made me shed a tear almost every episode no lie. anohana had some sad moments but not even comparable wasnt a big fan of that anime. violet evergarden had me crying a few times too. had to drop clannad because of the character design unfortunately because i think i would like the anime. never watched angel beats. Shigatsu number 1 by far I almost dropped Clannad too because most of the characters seem retarded and because the best girl wasn't chosen. I can't stand Fuko arc at all, and I think it is just fucking retarded. I don't understand how they were able to add so much retardation in Clannad. Anyways, I suggest you pick Clannad up again because of the after story. It is great, especially after they leave school and become adults. That part of Clannad AS is my favorite out of every anime I have ever seen. I am sad the whole show isn't as high quality. Clannad has many flaws, but ultimately the positive outweigh all the trash. I would recommend trying to watch it and AS even if it feels painfully boring and retarded at times. yea its one thing to think that the characters are retarded but i just fucking hate the clannad eye's i can't even imagine shedding tears with these ugly females characters.. i mean the males look fine but i just hate the kyoto animation female design. |
shayed__ said: spacer1 said: I almost dropped Clannad too because most of the characters seem retarded and because the best girl wasn't chosen. I can't stand Fuko arc at all, and I think it is just fucking retarded. I don't understand how they were able to add so much retardation in Clannad. Anyways, I suggest you pick Clannad up again because of the after story. It is great, especially after they leave school and become adults. That part of Clannad AS is my favorite out of every anime I have ever seen. I am sad the whole show isn't as high quality. Clannad has many flaws, but ultimately the positive outweigh all the trash. I would recommend trying to watch it and AS even if it feels painfully boring and retarded at times. yea its one thing to think that the characters are retarded but i just fucking hate the clannad eye's i can't even imagine shedding tears with these ugly females characters.. i mean the males look fine but i just hate the kyoto animation female design. Well they were original to their source material (visual novel) so it isn't kyoto animations fault. I never found them bad, just different than most. Big eyes are for that extra "moe"factor and I can see why that might turn some people away from the anime. |
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spacer1 said: shayed__ said: yea its one thing to think that the characters are retarded but i just fucking hate the clannad eye's i can't even imagine shedding tears with these ugly females characters.. i mean the males look fine but i just hate the kyoto animation female design. Well they were original to their source material (visual novel) so it isn't kyoto animations fault. I never found them bad, just different than most. Big eyes are for that extra "moe"factor and I can see why that might turn some people away from the anime. maybe but a lot of the kyo animes from that era look like that |
shayed__ said: spacer1 said: Well they were original to their source material (visual novel) so it isn't kyoto animations fault. I never found them bad, just different than most. Big eyes are for that extra "moe"factor and I can see why that might turn some people away from the anime. maybe but a lot of the kyo animes from that era look like that They are all Key adaptations if I'm not mistaken. At least Air, Kanon and Clannad. I think KyoAni's modern female character design is some of the best in the industry. I mean, look at Violet. |
ThomVD said: shayed__ said: maybe but a lot of the kyo animes from that era look like that They are all Key adaptations if I'm not mistaken. At least Air, Kanon and Clannad. I think KyoAni's modern female character design is some of the best in the industry. I mean, look at Violet. yea the design's nowadays are absolutely gorgeous.. koe no katachi and violet evergarden are beautiful |
| Haven't seen any except Angel Beats. I wouldn't call Angel Beats "sad", but I would agree it's quite emotional. |
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| I only watched VE. I just remember good animation and pretty desings, nothing more. Ah, it was boring. Despite of my score of Sora yori mo Tooi Basho, Shirase's past was sad. Where is Aoi Bungaku Series? Run, Melos! and No Longer Human are pretty sad too. |
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| I didn't find AnoHana sad, more like ironically comedic. Shigatsu managed to make me shed a tear, though there were too many flaws to make me care in the long run. Still, it wins, since I haven't seen the other 3. |
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| How is violet evergarden even belong on this list. Nande?! But my list goes like this -Angel Beats -Your Lie In April -Anohana -Clannad/AS VE is disqualified. |
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| All of these are melodramatic shows and while there's nothing inherently wrong with it, only Clannad: After Story really delivers well with its promise of feels. On a sidenote, it's the only fantastic work by Jun Maeda in that department while Angel Beats! is serviceable, it lacks the necessarily build up on its big pay off. Violet Evergarden and AnoHana are good but the melodrama in these shows is nothing to write home about. And we go to Your Lie in April, it's weird mixture of slapstick comedy and melodrama really is just off putting that it hurts the whole show and what's it is trying to do. |
| Gotta be Clannad-After Story but Air is a very close second. |
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| I think I enjoyed Little Buster more than any of those. |
| From what I've seen so far (except Clannad), none of these anime are sad to me. |
| None of them were sad to me. I have noticed more normal people like those anime though... Meanwhile, I cry at stuff like Video Girl Ai and Chu Bra |
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CapitalistGod said: All of these are melodramatic shows and while there's nothing inherently wrong with it, only Clannad: After Story really delivers well with its promise of feels. On a sidenote, it's the only fantastic work by Jun Maeda in that department while Angel Beats! is serviceable, it lacks the necessarily build up on its big pay off. Violet Evergarden and AnoHana are good but the melodrama in these shows is nothing to write home about. And we go to Your Lie in April, it's weird mixture of slapstick comedy and melodrama really is just off putting that it hurts the whole show and what's it is trying to do. This really really explains something I guess. Maybe I just think Evangelion and NHK did a better job at mixing comedy and drama. As in both are more on the drama side. But then you have stuff like Video Girl Ai which I feel did the perfect balancing act. And Chubra which is more comedy than drama. |
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