| Anime evokes a lot of emotions, typically joy, anger, boredom etc. … Sorrow, poignancy or simply the state of being moved (be it as a result of positive or negative events), however, is something that most anime can rarely communicate to me. Personally speaking, eliciting such emotional response requires very high standard. So, imo, for an anime to get the audience resonating with this feeling is extremely difficult — deserving to be call the best if they can. So that brings back the question, which anime have you shed tears for and why? |
CeymangoJan 28, 8:24 PM
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| Violet Evergarden and The Apothecary Diaries are the only 2 anime that have made me shed a tear. One being a love story that has an exceptionally well writen and developed plot. And another having stories that thoroughly explores different aspects of humanity which shows the beauty of life. |
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| This has been asked for so many times. I guess I'll give the same answer as last time. |
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| Digimon data squad final episode. I was a kid and I was sad that it ended. Pokemon Lucario movie. Again I was a kid. Elfen lied. Dog scene had me a bit sad and shocked. Plastic memories ending. Angel beats ending. Demon slayer Mugen train. Gintama with the Hijikata's sister arc. Never expected such sadness from a comedy anime. Had me crying for days. A silent voice. Because of the beauty and innocence. |
If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then its not a waste of time.  |
| Far far too many to count even last night Hanamonogatari made me. |
Reply to FZREMAKE
Digimon data squad final episode. I was a kid and I was sad that it ended.
Pokemon Lucario movie. Again I was a kid.
Elfen lied. Dog scene had me a bit sad and shocked.
Plastic memories ending.
Angel beats ending.
Demon slayer Mugen train.
Gintama with the Hijikata's sister arc. Never expected such sadness from a comedy anime. Had me crying for days.
A silent voice. Because of the beauty and innocence.
Pokemon Lucario movie. Again I was a kid.
Elfen lied. Dog scene had me a bit sad and shocked.
Plastic memories ending.
Angel beats ending.
Demon slayer Mugen train.
Gintama with the Hijikata's sister arc. Never expected such sadness from a comedy anime. Had me crying for days.
A silent voice. Because of the beauty and innocence.
| @FZREMAKE Despite only ever watching an overview video about A Silent Voice, I was also deeply touched by the story it tells. The acting from Tanjiro's VA in the Mugen Train arc for a moment really got me hating on those demon as well. |
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Reply to WaterMage
Far far too many to count even last night Hanamonogatari made me.
| @WaterMage That means you've probably seen a lot of great anime 👍 |
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| I don't usually cry when watching anime but i did get emotional watching Clannad: After Story. |
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I don't usually cry when watching anime but i did get emotional watching Clannad: After Story.
| @tchitchouan Many of my friends recommended Clannad as well. Have heard many great things about it too though I still haven't watched it yet. |
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Ceymango said: Anime evokes a lot of emotions, typically joy, anger, boredom etc. … Sorrow, poignancy or simply the state of being moved (be it as a result of positive or negative events), however, is something that most anime can rarely communicate to me in anime. Personally speaking, eliciting such emotional response requires very high standard. So, imo, for an anime to get the audience resonating with this feeling is extremely difficult — deserving to be call the best if they can. So that brings back the question, which anime have you shed tears for and why? Anime that made me shed some tears 🥲 - Ashita no Nadja - Black Clover - My Hero Academia - Buddy Daddies - Code Geass - Dororo - Hunter x Hunter - Jujutsu Kaisen - Demon Slayer - Fullmetal Alchemist - Gintama - JoJo's Bizzare Adventures - The Apothecary Diaries - Noragami - Orange - Re:zero - Attack On Titan - Spy x Family - Tokyo Revengers - Versailles no Bara - Yuu Yuu Hakusho Anime that made me completely bawl my eyes out 😭 - Blue Exorcist - Banana Fish - Digimon Frontier - Dr. Stone - Kuro ga Ita Natsu - Soul Eater - Sword Art Online - Vinland Saga Various reasons, character death, though usually it's more the emotional reaction of the other characters that gets me, maybe something relatable, the characters are in a situation that hits really close to home, most of all what these series share is great character writing that got me to connect to the characters and therefor be able to empathize with them |
DigiCatJan 28, 7:22 AM
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Ceymango said:
Anime evokes a lot of emotions, typically joy, anger, boredom etc. … Sorrow, poignancy or simply the state of being moved (be it as a result of positive or negative events), however, is something that most anime can rarely communicate to me in anime. Personally speaking, eliciting such emotional response requires very high standard. So, imo, for an anime to get the audience resonating with this feeling is extremely difficult — deserving to be call the best if they can. So that brings back the question, which anime have you shed tears for and why?
Anime evokes a lot of emotions, typically joy, anger, boredom etc. … Sorrow, poignancy or simply the state of being moved (be it as a result of positive or negative events), however, is something that most anime can rarely communicate to me in anime. Personally speaking, eliciting such emotional response requires very high standard. So, imo, for an anime to get the audience resonating with this feeling is extremely difficult — deserving to be call the best if they can. So that brings back the question, which anime have you shed tears for and why?
Anime that made me shed some tears 🥲
- Ashita no Nadja
- Black Clover
- My Hero Academia
- Buddy Daddies
- Code Geass
- Dororo
- Hunter x Hunter
- Jujutsu Kaisen
- Demon Slayer
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Gintama
- JoJo's Bizzare Adventures
- The Apothecary Diaries
- Noragami
- Orange
- Re:zero
- Attack On Titan
- Spy x Family
- Tokyo Revengers
- Versailles no Bara
- Yuu Yuu Hakusho
Anime that made me completely bawl my eyes out 😭
- Blue Exorcist
- Banana Fish
- Digimon Frontier
- Dr. Stone
- Kuro ga Ita Natsu
- Soul Eater
- Sword Art Online
- Vinland Saga
Various reasons, character death, though usually it's more the emotional reaction of the other characters that gets me, maybe something relatable, the characters are in a situation that hits really close to home, most of all what these series share is great character writing that got me to connect to the characters and therefor be able to empathize with them
| @DigiCat may i ask which part in jjk made u shed a tear? |
Itsuki >  |
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Ceymango said:
Anime evokes a lot of emotions, typically joy, anger, boredom etc. … Sorrow, poignancy or simply the state of being moved (be it as a result of positive or negative events), however, is something that most anime can rarely communicate to me in anime. Personally speaking, eliciting such emotional response requires very high standard. So, imo, for an anime to get the audience resonating with this feeling is extremely difficult — deserving to be call the best if they can. So that brings back the question, which anime have you shed tears for and why?
Anime evokes a lot of emotions, typically joy, anger, boredom etc. … Sorrow, poignancy or simply the state of being moved (be it as a result of positive or negative events), however, is something that most anime can rarely communicate to me in anime. Personally speaking, eliciting such emotional response requires very high standard. So, imo, for an anime to get the audience resonating with this feeling is extremely difficult — deserving to be call the best if they can. So that brings back the question, which anime have you shed tears for and why?
Anime that made me shed some tears 🥲
- Ashita no Nadja
- Black Clover
- My Hero Academia
- Buddy Daddies
- Code Geass
- Dororo
- Hunter x Hunter
- Jujutsu Kaisen
- Demon Slayer
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- Gintama
- JoJo's Bizzare Adventures
- The Apothecary Diaries
- Noragami
- Orange
- Re:zero
- Attack On Titan
- Spy x Family
- Tokyo Revengers
- Versailles no Bara
- Yuu Yuu Hakusho
Anime that made me completely bawl my eyes out 😭
- Blue Exorcist
- Banana Fish
- Digimon Frontier
- Dr. Stone
- Kuro ga Ita Natsu
- Soul Eater
- Sword Art Online
- Vinland Saga
Various reasons, character death, though usually it's more the emotional reaction of the other characters that gets me, maybe something relatable, the characters are in a situation that hits really close to home, most of all what these series share is great character writing that got me to connect to the characters and therefor be able to empathize with them
| @DigiCat That's some good taste on anime. Although you've noted that you hate agegap romance, I'd still recommend you to give Violet Evergarden a try again even just a few episodes. |
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@DigiCat
ah ok yeah I get it. Its hard to watch cruel stuff happen to animals even if its in anime.
ah ok yeah I get it. Its hard to watch cruel stuff happen to animals even if its in anime.
| @Zimmu It's been a while since I've completed JJK anime and I don't know if what I remembered are correct or not, but I was trying to refer to the whole sequence where Hope I didn't say something weird. |
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@Zimmu It's been a while since I've completed JJK anime and I don't know if what I remembered are correct or not, but I was trying to refer to the whole sequence where
Hope I didn't say something weird.
Hope I didn't say something weird.
| @Ceymango oh no dont worry that comment i was replying to digicat's comment where i asked which part in jjk she felt heart touching, which is the part where i replied to ur comment afterward haha |
| Itsuki > |
| WorldEnd The first minute of the first Episode is from a later part of the story and shows a rather dramatic scene. Then it goes back to the beginning of the story and while you follow the (romantic) story of the main characters you wonder all the time: When will it happen and what will happen? It hooked me in completely and after seeing the resolution to the dramatic scene I did shed a few tears. Normally I am an rather emotionless man who is moved by nothing at all but that scene did. In watching over 100 days of Anime WorldEnd is in fact the only one I can even remember ever shedding a tear for... |
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WorldEnd
The first minute of the first Episode is from a later part of the story and shows a rather dramatic scene.
Then it goes back to the beginning of the story and while you follow the (romantic) story of the main characters you wonder all the time: When will it happen and what will happen?
It hooked me in completely and after seeing the resolution to the dramatic scene I did shed a few tears.
Normally I am an rather emotionless man who is moved by nothing at all but that scene did.
In watching over 100 days of Anime WorldEnd is in fact the only one I can even remember ever shedding a tear for...
The first minute of the first Episode is from a later part of the story and shows a rather dramatic scene.
Then it goes back to the beginning of the story and while you follow the (romantic) story of the main characters you wonder all the time: When will it happen and what will happen?
It hooked me in completely and after seeing the resolution to the dramatic scene I did shed a few tears.
Normally I am an rather emotionless man who is moved by nothing at all but that scene did.
In watching over 100 days of Anime WorldEnd is in fact the only one I can even remember ever shedding a tear for...
| @Krautschi I totally get that feeling when you're spoiled already, but only to be more impressed when it actually happens. |
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| Only hentais make me cry............................. |
| Ah My Goddess made me cry, the relationship was pure. I loved the last episode and just the typical love and bonding A silent voice, all the bullying scenes made me cry Kid me cried at Pokemon when Ash let butterfree go |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by |
this scene had me crying like a little bitch |
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| Clannad's been the only one to do it for me so far, anohana did get close though. |
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| - Koi Kaze - Inuyasha - Elfen Lied - Mahoutsukai no Yome - Happy Sugar Life - Aku no Hana - Beatless - Kodomo no Jikan - Noragami - Hanasaku Iroha - Vinland Saga - Gakkougurashi! Basically many of my favorites, not limited to but especially if they involve one or multiple forms of transgressive romance (particularly incestuous, age gap, and interspecies). Those listed were all the biggest ones. Then there are more minor ones (I can't bother combing through the entire list of different series I've seen and picking them out one by one right now) where tears were for certain elicited in particular instances limited to a passing unexpected moment - a strikingly poignant line of dialogue or reaction, in an isolated scene. |
WatchTillTandavaJan 28, 1:11 PM
| For me Dragon quest dai og with a wholesome skull captain dying to save his son he raised Toradora Christmas scene Angel Beats (probably the music that got me) Pokemon movie Demon slayer (Rengoku) Ect I rarely cry, but I have a weakness for good music and decent death scenes. |
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| That I can recall: Angel Beats!, Anohana, Violet Evergarden, The Wind Rises, Nausicaä, Whisper of the Heart, Millennium Actress, Gon the Little Fox, Furiko, and various other shorts/MVs. |
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| I don't think there's a single one unfortunately... looking forward to changing that. |
Reply to rohan121
For me
Dragon quest dai og with a wholesome skull captain dying to save his son he raised
Toradora Christmas scene
Angel Beats (probably the music that got me)
Pokemon movie
Demon slayer (Rengoku)
Ect
I rarely cry, but I have a weakness for good music and decent death scenes.
Dragon quest dai og with a wholesome skull captain dying to save his son he raised
Toradora Christmas scene
Angel Beats (probably the music that got me)
Pokemon movie
Demon slayer (Rengoku)
Ect
I rarely cry, but I have a weakness for good music and decent death scenes.
| @rohan121 Understandable, the background music is an integral part of the experience after all. |
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Reply to BeastyAnimefan
this scene had me crying like a little bitch
| @BeastyAnimefan That's really an emotional rollercoaster. |
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Reply to WatchTillTandava
- Koi Kaze
- Inuyasha
- Elfen Lied
- Mahoutsukai no Yome
- Happy Sugar Life
- Aku no Hana
- Beatless
- Kodomo no Jikan
- Noragami
- Hanasaku Iroha
- Vinland Saga
- Gakkougurashi!
Basically many of my favorites, not limited to but especially if they involve one or multiple forms of transgressive romance (particularly incestuous, age gap, and interspecies). Those listed were all the biggest ones.
Then there are more minor ones (I can't bother combing through the entire list of different series I've seen and picking them out one by one right now) where tears were for certain elicited in particular instances limited to a passing unexpected moment - a strikingly poignant line of dialogue or reaction, in an isolated scene.
- Inuyasha
- Elfen Lied
- Mahoutsukai no Yome
- Happy Sugar Life
- Aku no Hana
- Beatless
- Kodomo no Jikan
- Noragami
- Hanasaku Iroha
- Vinland Saga
- Gakkougurashi!
Basically many of my favorites, not limited to but especially if they involve one or multiple forms of transgressive romance (particularly incestuous, age gap, and interspecies). Those listed were all the biggest ones.
Then there are more minor ones (I can't bother combing through the entire list of different series I've seen and picking them out one by one right now) where tears were for certain elicited in particular instances limited to a passing unexpected moment - a strikingly poignant line of dialogue or reaction, in an isolated scene.
| @WatchTillTandava Unexpected moment does often bring a huge impact with its element of surprise. Personally, I also find the build up to that moment enjoyable. Such as the now airing |
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thewiruJan 28, 9:33 PM
Reply to MedK001
- Dragon Ball GT's movie. I was like 7 and it was super sad.
- Kill la Kill's ending.
- Violet Evergarden, on the letter episode. I ugly cried fr T-T
There might've been more, but these r the ones I remember best.
| @MedK001 I watched Violet Evergarden as playful bet against my friend that ain't no way Im ever gonna shed a tear because of some anime 😂 I was wrong. Very, wrong. |
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Reply to thewiru
- Ushio to Tora (TV) 2nd Season (Hyou remembering his family)
- Bokura no (Takashi's father talking about him)
- Shigofumi (The end of episode 10)
- Kyousou Giga (TV)(Yase Douji remembering her childhood with Koto)
| @thewiru That's very relatable as it is also the reason that The Apothecary Diaries got to my heart and had me shed some tears. |
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| Granted, none of those came close to how this part of Umineko Chapter 4 broke me since it way too close to home. (Yes, the video is one hour long, it's from a 200 hour long VN, after all, took me two and a half months. You can skip the first 18 minutes if you want.). |
Reply to Ceymango
@thewiru That's very relatable as it is also the reason that The Apothecary Diaries got to my heart and had me shed some tears.
| @Ceymango I think I did get a bit emotional in the scene in episode 1 where Lihua bawls after losing her son, but it didn't cause me tears like the ones in my list. |
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