Whether immediately, or you didn’t notice at first until you went “oh… crap 😭”.
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Violet Evergarden, episode 10.
Same. That episode destroys me. I rewatched it recently and it got me as much as the first time.
My best single anime episode 😭
Of course Grave of the Fireflies. Kiki’s Delivery Service gets to me in a very different way.
As for series, Trigun (old one), end of episode 23.
Grave of the Fireflies is kind of the wrecking-ball version of this. Powerful, not subtle, and leaves you utterly devastated.
(Runner-up for me might be Gurren Lagann.)
Gurren Lagann is one of my favorites, and the ending always tears me to shreds. Also the space portions during the big battles against the Anti-spirals (should be fairly obvious why). Strangely, the mid-season-1 drop (just before Nia was introduced) never got to me.
I’ve yet to see Grave of the Fireflies (when I was younger I was scared of what I’d heard, nowadays I’m just overworked and probably depressed) but I will cry every fucking time I watch Kiki’s Delivery Service. Moreso at the people being nice than anything else. I’ve become such a softie as I’ve aged.
Ditto for Trigun, I assume I know the episode you’re talking about offhand. Look up Trigun Hallelujah AMV sometime if you want a nice feels trip.
Angel Beats
I barely remember anything about it because I watched it like 15 years ago. But I remember sobbing
I once had a friend say much the same about Angel Beats and maybe that, like, ruined what should have been emotional turns for me but I did not end up feeling anything during Angel Beats. It felt like it was trying way too hard to actually affect me.
Maybe it was. I was a hormonal teenager 15 years ago maybe that’s why it got me lol
Funny, it was also like 15 years ago for me and that may be why I didn’t feel anything
╮ (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.) ╭
I wasn’t a hormonal teenager 15 years ago but I was still bottling up my emotions like I’d been taught as a child back then. I’ve become much more prone to crying over stories nowadays and usually telling people when I do, because while I do cry often it’s not everyday a story comes along that can do it so I take it as a good thing when it can.
I felt most of the show was quite tonally inconsistent and a little too rushed, but the latter half of the final episode absolutely ruined me.
first season of “To Your Eternity”.
the early episodes were difficult to watch because they showed a true world where the characters tried their best and it just wasn’t enough and they ultimately paid with their lives.
I was going through a pretty hard emotional time when I watched it and it struck a nerve. I cried for like two hours. It made me realize that something was very broken in my life and unfortunately there wasn’t anything I could do to resolve it. but, the show made me feel “seen” somehow and that was enough.
One that I haven’t seen mentioned yet is the finale of AnoHana. The writers did a great job pulling the 10-years-before and current day storylines together, and then the little hide-and-seek game capping off the story just absolutely destroyed me.
For me it has to be LOOK BACK. What a great movie.
A place further than the universe
most recently–Love Unseen, halfway through the season (no spoilers)
To Your Eternity and Ranking of Kings immediately come to mind but I think the hardest I’ve been gut-punched in the feels is Dan Da Dan
Definitely not Clannad. You can go ahead and watch that, it’s just a happy-go-lucky slice of life comedy!
Maybe hot take, but the only bit that actually got me in the heart was starfish girl in the first season (sadly, I cannot recall any of the characters names anymore). The second season felt too drawn out and trying too hard.
That said I have the ending theme burned into my brain. 🎶 Dango, dango, dango, dango, dango daikazoku 🎶
There have been lots.
But my most recent was Moshoku Tensei and its current “future timeline (of the MC)” stuff. (I hope it’s just a “vision”).
I’m a middle aged dude and watching what happens to his 2 wives and then his lost love, Eris. I’m not ashamed to admit that I cried (and am now, typing this) and lost actual sleep over it. You’re (probably) laughing, and I’m amazed at how much I didn’t know I cared about the characters.
Storytelling, when done well, is powerful. Seriously. 🤯
Storytelling, when done well, is powerful. Seriously. 🤯
After one of my several rewatches of A Place Further Than The Universe, I earnestly prayed that I can write stories like it.
Wolf Children.
Gurren Lagann. “So, this is the power of the spiral? Not bad”
I cry at the drop of a hat these days.
First, the ones others have mentioned:
- Clannad – but only the first season
- Gurren Lagann – but not the dramatic moment in the first season that’s supposed to have that impact
- Kiki’s Delivery Service – everyone is so nice (╥﹏╥)
- Trigun (original) – Hallelujah
As for my own:
- Haibane Renmei – everyone is so nice ( ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥)
- WorldEnd (AKA SukaSuka AKA What Are You Doing at the End of the World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us?) – a tragic romance but it still got to me as it was meant to
- Cowboy Bebop – the ending of Ed & Faye’s stories always get me bawling
- Millennium Actress – just destroys me more than any other of Kon’s works
- The Light of a Firefly Forest
Only the first season of Clannad? I know theres some great parts of S1, but
After Story spoiler
“Sanae-san said the only places I can cry are in the toilet and in daddy’s arms”
absolutely destroys me every time - I’m welling up just typing it out lol. There’s plenty of other great scenes in S2 that at least put it on-par with S1 IMO.
Your lie in April,
it hit a little too close to home
Fuck you for reminding me. Also, I agree.
