saddest anime ever

I didn't really find Evangelion sad in a conventional way, it more just left a really horrible feeling in my stomach after watching all of it. Let's just say I went in sort of expecting it to ultimately end with a happy ending, and for Shinji and Asuka to fall in love and Shinji and his father to make up etc., and not for everyone to start going crazy and to see their insanity unfold before your eyes, and then go on to die, only then to see the Human Instrumentality Project begin and everyone joining together and becoming a single person.

I personally wouldn't give this to animes like Clannad or Air simply for how poorly they compare to the visual novels that they originated from. The animes don't possess a tenth of the emotional value that the VNs do.

^ Truth. They get you emotionally invested in the characters and then they all fricking die or go shitfaced at the end. That is pretty depressing. But maybe we'll get a happy ending with this new version. He isn't suicidal this time so fingers crossed!

As much as I'm a total girl for watching it, Strawberry Panic is pretty goddamn sad at the end, just because 2 of the more likable characters have their lesbian crushes completely swiped from under them and they have to just smile and be happy for them. Actually, it's pretty much an emotional rollercoster throughout now that I think about it.

Originally posted by wakkawakkawakka
I would like to put "Claymore" into this if I can. The whole Teresa backstory and Pieta incident were depressing as hell. Then again the whole series is about sochiopathic women w/swords so I guess that could be expected.

Hardly any of them are sociopathic. And, when they do go SP, they are killed...for the most part.

In fact, it is one of their rules to NOT kill a human. 🙂 WEEEE!

(Yes, I agree with you...I just like to get nerdy.)

Originally posted by NCRotCA
I didn't really find Evangelion sad in a conventional way, it more just left a really horrible feeling in my stomach after watching all of it. Let's just say I went in sort of expecting it to ultimately end with a happy ending, and for Shinji and Asuka to fall in love and Shinji and his father to make up etc., and not for everyone to start going crazy and to see their insanity unfold before your eyes, and then go on to die, only then to see the Human Instrumentality Project begin and everyone joining together and becoming a single person.

Originally posted by NemeBro
Elfen Lied and Evangelion are hilarious, IMHO.

The saddest anime are the ones where in the end things never seem to work out. I say my top more upsetting anime are:

-Fate/Stay Night (Everyone pretty much dies in the end)
-Death Note (All the main characters die)
-Full Metal Alchemist (I think Brotherhood was more upsetting though)

There was one anime where no matter how good it became, a sad factor came into play which always instantly dropped to tears.

What's well written if those two are poorly written out of curiosity?

Why the focus on the writing in the first place anyway? Given that with anime/manga, the story is predominately demonstrated, rather than described as it is in a book, the writing's only really of merit as far as what it means within the context of the story. It's the storytelling that's significant.

I er, con-cer. Elfen Lied and Evangelion, whatever their faults, had fantastic emotional depth in my opinion. With Evangelion its because of the amazing soul-crushing atmosphere and direction as well as the strength of the characters and Elfen Lied is just really good at emotionally manipulating the reader/watcher.

I do agree, Elfen Lied has a lot of good dramatic scenes (though a lot of perverted ones as well) =P

Elfen Lied is actually pretty bad.

Boku no pico is sad. Watch that instead.

Originally posted by Nephthys
I er, con-cer. Elfen Lied and Evangelion, whatever their faults, had fantastic emotional depth in my opinion. With Evangelion its because of the amazing soul-crushing atmosphere and direction as well as the strength of the characters and Elfen Lied is just really good at emotionally manipulating the reader/watcher.

Evangelion, eh, sort of the same reason, though is nowhere near as bad as Elfen Lied.

Originally posted by captain sock
Elfen Lied is actually pretty bad.

Boku no pico is sad. Watch that instead.

Only sad if you were a gay child that couldn't get laid.

I think I need to watch Elfen Lied again. i don't remember it being this bad. 🙁

Oh, well I am mainly thinking about the manga.

I didn't see much of Elfen Lied but from what I did see I can make the following summary; a girl with horns that look like cat ears has a puppy, the puppy dies, and she goes apeshit with invisible hands.

I know its more detailed than that but like I said I didn't see much of it.

This thread's been gone for nearly 9 months or so now so I'm not sure about posting but I do have to say...

Since my last opinion I spent a week of doing nothing but watching anime, this was a down week for me where I spent time in another state with my best friend and sense internet connection down there is so good we watched Netflix Anime. Claymore seemed interesting but the Claymores themselves seem badly drawn. I couldn't see much sadness from the few episodes I saw. Kenichi was er.. a little sad? I just laughed at mostly everything. Gurren Lagann had some real sad points considering everyone who died and Yoko's Kiss of Death, lmao.

Out of every Anime I've ever watched, ever heard of, etc the most sad anime by far in my new opinion is...

#1 Saddest Anime Ever: Clannad

or to be more specific...

Clannad ~ After Story

Clannad leads up with 24 episodes in 1 semester of Highschool which really gets you to know the characters deeply. I really got in-touch with the idea of Tomoya - a boy who has lost his desire to try hard in school because of his life, having fought with his father which cost him his shoulder and his basketball career. All having to lead him to Nagisa, someone who as strange as she was just seemed to call out to him. While the original 2 parts of it was tear jerking specifically at the points including Fuko and Kotomi with Death, After Story pulled it all into an utter sadness that my heart couldn't bare any longer.

Not just the death but a lot of it, it caused me to fall out of my bed and onto the ground. It was... really the saddest collection of moments I've ever seen. I found myself crying so hard through the episodes that I lost the ability to breath temporarily. I've tried having some of my friends watch it, even a friend of mine who never cries but even he shed a tear for it. Anyways, my last opinions would rank like... Rank 59 in comparison so I just thought that I should post my last post on this thread as far as what I think.

Ending of Battle Angel was sad.

The last episode of Angel Beats 🙁

mobile suit gundam victory. easily

yoshiyuki tomino was going through depression due to the sunrise-bandai corporate merger, so while it was being made he sort of tried to sabotage it, so the huge body count started early in the series.

nothing beats a series created from frustration and depression. the box set even has a message on it from him telling people not to purchase it. 😐