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What do you think the saddest moments in Anime are? What are the real tear jerkers for you?

Cowboy Bebop
[spoiler]When Faye watches the video of herself saying, "Don't lose me," when in fact she has lost her from her memory. Then when she leaves the Bebop to go home and there's nothing left.[/spoiler]

Now and Then, Here and There
[spoiler]When Shu stops Sara from killing her child.
When Boo and Soon die.
When Lala Ru fades away while she asks Shu if they can watch another sunset someday.[/spoiler]

Tenchi
[spoiler]When Ryoko "dies" after helping Tenchi get to the palace to rescue Ayeka.[/spoiler]

Those are the big ones for me.

how do you do that "spoiler" thing?

[ spoiler] something so shocking it will ruin your life if you don't watch the movie first. [/spoiler ]

without the spaces.

ah, ok thanks^^

saddest moment in anime for me is:

Fullmetal Alchemist
[spoiler]When Maes Hughes dies in ep.26 ; ; he was the coolest character..*sniff*[/spoiler]

"Haibane Renmei" is a very sad-toned anime all around. The ending left me with a great sense of hope, and it has a few cute comedic moments, but mostly, the anime is very wistful in tone.

Saddest moments:

[spoiler]Episode 6[The end of Episode 6 where the Haibane girls go out to the woods after Kuu took her Day of Flight... and Rakka finds her cold halo and scattered feathers on the old shrine. Then poor Reki looks up and says *Everyone leaves me.*[/spoiler]

[spoiler]Episode 7[Where Rakka is cleaning Kuus abandoned room. That's just sad.[/spoiler]

Episode 8. This doesn't need a spoiler. The whole episode is sad. I'll just say that.


Then, of course, the Trigun spoiler heard around the world:

[spoiler]Wolfwood's death in Episode 23 along with his confession. The first time I watched I cried more over Episode 24 because Vash and Milly were so sad over loosing him and were crying. Episode 25 is also very sad with Vash having to come to terms with having killed Legato.[/spoiler]





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I'm too lazy to write spoilers, so I'll just name the anime titles:

Here and There, Now and Then
Grave of the Fireflies
A Tree of Palme

This one isn't anime, but it's Japanese so I'll include it:
When the Last Sword is Drawn

edit: double post

Same with technomancer, i don't think i have enough strength left to fuss with the spoiler tags, lol (attending anime conventions tend to take a lot from me XD) :

-Haibane Renmei
-Fushigi Yuugi
-Flame of Recca / Rekka no Honou (i thought i was going to burst into tears right then and there)
-Ayashi no Ceres (some scenes from the manga...they didn't give them much emphasis in the anime)
-Ghost in the Shell: Stand-alone Complex (the scene lasted less than 3 seconds, but it was enough to move me)
-Klonoa (ok, it's a Japanese game, not anime, but the ending was still very touching)

i'm certain i'm forgetting something (or maybe i'm just hardhearted, lol). i'll come back when i remember.

I have some strength left in me to do with spoilers

Cowboy Bebop:

[spoiler]When Gren dies in Jupiter Jazz Part 2 (I didn't watch it at first cause of the nudity but after watching the full thing. I found it extremely sad.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]When Ed and Ein leave the Bebop (that is such a awesome song...Call Me Call me (Can't wait to do the Cowboy Bebop music video to the song ))[/spoiler]

Samurai X:

[spoiler]When Kenshin accidnelty kills Tomoe. I cried actually.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]When Kenshin dies in Kaoru's arm in Refelctions[/spoiler]

Trigun

[spoiler]When Wolfwood dies an dhis whole thing in the church....very sad.[/spoiler]

Each one of these makes me cry every time

X/1999
[SPOILER]When Kotori is killed by her brother *gasp sniff sniff*[/SPOILER]

Fushigi Yuugi
[SPOILER]When Tomohome almost dies but Miaka saves him, sotospeek, that one makes me cry every time [/SPOILER]

[SPOILER]When Noriko dies[/SPOILER]


Trigun
[SPOILER]When Wolfwood dies, *tear*, and Milly says that he told her not to leave the room until he got back but then you think (and know) that he's never coming back *tear, sniff sniff*[/SPOILER]

Inuyasha
[SPOILER]When Inuyasha go full demon(every time but mostly the first one cuz it's the sadest[/SPOILER]

[SPOILER]When Kagome tells Inuyasha that she wants to stay with him even though she knows that he's still in love with Kikyo, stupid kikyo ruins(postpones) everything[/SPOILER]

Evangelion-
End of Evangelion movie (the whole ending)

Fushigi Yuugi-
[spoiler]Nuriko's Death[/spoiler]
Samurai X-
[spoiler]When Kenshin kills Tomoe[/spoiler]

Grave of the Fireflies

Endings that are somewhat bittersweet:

Voices of a Distant Star
Miillennium Actress
Kimagure Orange Road

Inuyasha:
[spoiler]When KIKYOU finds out she shouldn't live on anger--yada yada....and she goes back to hell...then Inuyasha and co. are all sad and stuf....yea, that was sad!:([/spoiler]

Voices of a distant star...the whole plot was sad~!

I completely forgot my Trigun moments.

Other than what has already been said
[spoiler]Lost July, when she realizes that it was Vash who comforted her after July had been destroyed[/spoiler]

[spoiler]Out of Time, when Brad dies and he looks at his hands and remembers how small they used to be compared to Vash who hasn't aged at all. The AMV to the song Eden makes this moment even sadder.[/spoiler]

Hmm...sad moments? Lesee...

Saiyuki
[spoiler]When Goku said "He took me from the darkness and showed me a world more brilliant than the sun" when Sanzo was dying from the scorpion poison[/spoiler]

[spoiler]When Goku's little bird friend died. T.T[/spoiler]

Mantantei Loki Ragnarok
[spoiler]Heimdall's death on the bridge.[/spoiler]

Dragon Knights
[spoiler]Alfeegi's death after being run through by Rath and Kaistern's sacrificing himself to SAVE Rath.[/spoiler]

Escaflowne - A Girl in Gaia
[spoiler]Folken's flashback to little Van running to him as he dies[/spoiler]

Here are mine, the ones that really made me cry or got me misty-eyed:

Rurouni Kenshin

[spoiler] When Kenshin says goodbye to Kaoru to go to Kyoto and face Shishio; and when Kenshin slowly breaks down and finally dies in Reflections. [/spoiler]

Vandread

[spoiler] When Shirley, Bart's little friend, dies, and Bart really takes it HARD. [/spoiler]

Fushigi Yuugi

[spoiler] When Nuriko dies [/spoiler]

Now and Then Here and There -- most of the things that have to do with Sara, poor girl.

Texhnolyze -- it's too sad to spoil at all, especially since I don't think anyone here knows this anime yet. ^^

Haibane Renmei

[spoiler] Kou leaves them, and Rakka goes depressed [/spoiler]

Gundam Wing

[spoiler] Heero says goodbye to Relena, smiling at her and finally accepting his feelings for her, before fighting Zechs at the end of series [/spoiler]

And that one for Cowboy Bebop you keep mentioning.

There are a few others I'm probably forgetting right now.

EK 8 )

Here are mine:

Trigun-

[spoiler]When Wolfwood dies in episode 23, and in an earlier episode (I'm not quite sure which one) where Vash is remembering how he and everyone else got to the planet, and Rem sacrifices herself to save all the people on the ship[/spoiler]

Vision of Escaflowne-

[spoiler]When Folken dies (I think it's either episode 23 or 24) and before Hitomi keeps having visions of him dying and she warns him of it. He goes and confronts Dornkirk anyway, and then dies exactly like in Hitomi's vision. Far away at battle Van (his younger brother) feels that Folken is dead.[/spoiler]

Fruits Basket-

[spoiler]When Tohru visits the main house to speak with Hatori and accidentally transforms him, then there is the whole flashback about his fiancee and how Hatori had to erase her memory, and she never knew how in love they were[/spoiler]

oh no, nooooo, no way! I'm NOT going there again! >: (

thalia wrote: Fruits Basket-

[spoiler]When Tohru visits the main house to speak with Hatori and accidentally transforms him, then there is the whole flashback about his fiancee and how Hatori had to erase her memory, and she never knew how in love they were[/spoiler]

Yes ... that was really sad ... *sniffs*