People like sad stories, but what about ones that are truly depressing?
There is anime for every occasion, and if you need a good cry, check out this list!
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (Kimi no Suizō o Tabetai) is a heartbreaking drama anime about a girl who has a fatal illness and an initially unnamed boy who does not make it weird. Indeed, she likes him specifically because his reaction to learning about her deadly illness is quite calm. They spend a lot of time together, and while the story does not end the way you expect it to, it is still incredibly sad, with no happy endings.
Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no Haka) is about children dying during the war, which is as sad as it gets. The children's spirits seem to have made peace with their death, but a viewer would find it much more difficult. It is about war and everything it brings, such as death, injustice, hunger, and illness. It is a good anime, do not get us wrong, but it is rough and very sad.
Plastic Memories is about a future world where androids, who are just like people, are being produced with an expiration date, after which they become dangerous due to memory and personality disintegration. The lifespan of the newest model is only about nine years and a half, and special services are created to collect the androids that are close to the end of their life. The plot follows such a team made of a human and an android. As they fall in love, the android is nearing her own expiration date. The anime is said, and it is also set in a cyber-future, which might be a bonus for some viewers.
A Silent Voice (Eiga Koe no Katachi) is mostly a coming-of-age drama about children trying to figure themselves out, but it also features very complicated and heavy themes, especially bullying. The main characters have a complicated past at their middle school age, specifically due to one being the bullied and another the bully. The bullied girl is also born deaf, which is why she had been bullied. Both suffer from that experience.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magika) is a rather cruel turn on the magical girl genre. In it, a girl who is approached to become one of those magical girls quickly learns that the job is dangerous and requires giving up her soul. Not to spoil too much, the girls are used and discarded for a greater good, which is depressing and often frightening.
People like sad stories, but what about ones that are truly depressing?
There is anime for every occasion, and if you need a good cry, check out this list!
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (Kimi no Suizō o Tabetai) is a heartbreaking drama anime about a girl who has a fatal illness and an initially unnamed boy who does not make it weird. Indeed, she likes him specifically because his reaction to learning about her deadly illness is quite calm. They spend a lot of time together, and while the story does not end the way you expect it to, it is still incredibly sad, with no happy endings.
Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no Haka) is about children dying during the war, which is as sad as it gets. The children's spirits seem to have made peace with their death, but a viewer would find it much more difficult. It is about war and everything it brings, such as death, injustice, hunger, and illness. It is a good anime, do not get us wrong, but it is rough and very sad.
Plastic Memories is about a future world where androids, who are just like people, are being produced with an expiration date, after which they become dangerous due to memory and personality disintegration. The lifespan of the newest model is only about nine years and a half, and special services are created to collect the androids that are close to the end of their life. The plot follows such a team made of a human and an android. As they fall in love, the android is nearing her own expiration date. The anime is said, and it is also set in a cyber-future, which might be a bonus for some viewers.
A Silent Voice (Eiga Koe no Katachi) is mostly a coming-of-age drama about children trying to figure themselves out, but it also features very complicated and heavy themes, especially bullying. The main characters have a complicated past at their middle school age, specifically due to one being the bullied and another the bully. The bullied girl is also born deaf, which is why she had been bullied. Both suffer from that experience.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magika) is a rather cruel turn on the magical girl genre. In it, a girl who is approached to become one of those magical girls quickly learns that the job is dangerous and requires giving up her soul. Not to spoil too much, the girls are used and discarded for a greater good, which is depressing and often frightening.
