Anime that made you cry the most

[cbwing0]

The ending for Berserk **** me off. I wanted to find the creator and beat the $&@! out of him.

I agree...it was the worst ending to a great series ever. Hopefully they will animate the rest of the manga some day...

[yog^sothoth]

Full Metal Alchemist is the saddest anime i've seen lately though Gunslinger Girls was also sad, but a little TOO sad. It seemed they were trying to make you cry a little too hard.

Nick

[Danyasaur]

OMGosh, it's so embarasing, I'm almost afraid to say it, but. . . . Pokemon THERE IS SAID IT! OKAY!. . . . but, yeah, I cried when Ash let Butterfree go ._.;;

[CobaltAngel]

Awww! That's sweet. ^^;; I can't remember ever crying during Pokemon... I I think I came close to in the 1st movie. XD

[neoassassin2078]

The ending ofmillenium actress was just so tragic.....

[Saint Kevin]

Trigun, because Vash's story is tragic. There were enough humorous scenes in there to generally keep me from crying during the anime, but when I reflected on it afterwards, I would cry. Sidenote: I don't know why, but I don't remeber crying after the first time I watched it as the Japanese dub, only the second time through on the English Cartoon Network dub. Maybe I did, but I can't remember.

Silent Mobius, same reason as above, replace Vash with just about every main character at some point during the series. It seems that no character can truly escape the tragedy that the Lucifer Hawk bring on the world. Kasumi's story is most tragic because she [spoiler]at one point turns her back on her friends and humanity and embraces her Lucifer Hawk blood (the transformation is complete with not only an evil persona but also very cool red hair).[/spoiler]

[supa dupa ninja]

the anime that made me cry is Boys be...
it's a shonen love story and it's story is great. that show made me show my softer side to my Big bro.

[cbwing0]

I forgot one, and I'm surprised that it hasn't already been mentioned given the large number of Kenshin fans on the site.

The backstories of the Juppongatana almost made me cry:

[spoiler=Rurouni Kenshin, Kyoto Arc]Particularly Anji's and Sojiro's, with the latter being worse.[/spoiler]

I saw a lot of parallels between my feelings and those of Anji at the time (although not in the actual events ).

[kaji]

I agree...it was the worst ending to a great series ever. Hopefully they will animate the rest of the manga some day...

I share both yours and CDLviking’s feelings about the end of Berserk. I was angry that they would destroy a potentially good story with garbage like that. I couldn’t even finish watching the last episode. But unlike you, I sincerely hope they never animate the manga, I found it to be just as bad as the ending of the anime.

As far as an anime that made me sad, I would have to say The Grave of the Fire Flies won that award, hands down.

-kaji

[thalia]

There were several epidsodes of Trigun that made me cry. Also, Fruits Basket, even though it is quite light-hearted, is really sad!!! There were some episodes of that series where I just broke down completely!!!

[Shinigami]

I definitely thought Escaflowne was pretty sad with Hitomi not staying with Van and Folken dying. I admit I get more emotionally charged when an anime character is being impersonated by someone and no one believes them. I can identify with that on some levels.

Hmm, more anime... Here is Greenwood made me cry tears of joy when I finished watching it, cause I was glad it was over and that someone else wanted to take it out of my collection
I got pretty emotionally tense with Please Teacher mainly because Kei was such a jerk to Mizuho most the time with his problems and his attitude.

[Mr.Prince]

I cried when zoro lost to mihwak. You could hear me yelling "don't do it! don't kill him yet mihawk!"

[shooraijin]

Well, I just watched Voices of a Distant Star (finally) and I bawled my eyes out at the end, even though the ending (given a few details) is actually a happy one. It was just ... just ... totemo kirei! *sobs inconsolably*

[CDLviking]

Well, I just watched Voices of a Distant Star (finally) and I bawled my eyes out at the end, even though the ending (given a few details) is actually a happy one.

How exactly was that a happy ending?

[shooraijin]

[SPOILER=my theory on Hoshi no Koe's ending]
Something I noticed during the scene where Mikako is talking to her future self is a wedding band on the future-self's finger. It's not even a brief glimpse; it's there for several seconds, and it glints -- and if you watch the animatic, which is relatively undetailed, the ring is there too for that scene (telling me it has some significance).

Plus, too, the fact that Noboru got his commission for the armada, makes me think that the band the future Mikako carries on her finger is from him, and that they do one day reunite.[/SPOILER]

I suppose the ending is ambiguous enough to insert whatever story you like to describe the events that follow, but for me (even though I was sniffling), I thought it was a happy one. Excuse me, I need a Kleenex.

[CDLviking]

I never noticed that. I'll have to take another look.

[Negotiatrix]

I didn't think I had anything to add to this thread, until last night! I finally finished watching Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal. And it wasn't the show itself that made me cry at last, but the ending credits! That pinwheel just got to me, and the music! <sniff>
I had wondered "why the pinwheel?" when I watched the 1st 3 episodes. But after watching all of it, now its a really sad symbol of Kenshin's lost innocence and childhood. Like the top that he leaves behind in the house on the mountain.

[Gypsy]

I never noticed that. I'll have to take another look.

I never caught it either, until Shooraijin pointed it out. It's quite the nice observation, though.

[Rev. Doc]

I get somewhat misty eyed at happy endings (Sugar, Chance Pop Session, Princess Nine). Couple more that did it to me have been mentioned, Grave Of The Fireflies, Voices and also Millenium Actress. But I also have to Throw in Kimagure Orange Road. The first movie was just so heartbreaking.

[Destroyer2000]

I believe she referred to the "$&@!"

As a moderator, I don't think I have any problem with it. Some of our members don't bother with that and just have the censor get rid of it, or there's the classic first letter + asterisks.

She?! No S! And I referred to pi**ed.

[uc pseudonym]

Ah. You can feel free to interprete that however you feel like... sorry, I guess.

[Gypsy]

I get somewhat misty eyed at happy endings (Sugar, Chance Pop Session, Princess Nine).

Sugar ... *sniffs* That ending really got me - I was sniffing halfway into the last episode!

[bigsleepj]

Hmmmm. Once when I was really young (before I could read or write) I saw a movie, dubbed into Afrikaans (from a European Dub, no less, not even the Japanese) which name means, roughly translated, "A Zoo without an Elephant." I can't say for a fact whether or not it was anime for sure, but I feel that my assumption is justified by the fact that it's animated and set in post-WW2 Japan. I don't know what it's name is and anyone who knows is welcome to share it because I'd like to revisit it again. I don't know anything except the story, which I can remember with much detail.

The story is about a 12-year oldish boy living under a railway bridge in a small Japanenese city with his younger sister. Their homeless neighbour (they live in sort of alcoves under the bridge) is a war veteran (I think) with a wooden leg who also sort of looks after them. His sister (I forgot their names) has a single wish and that is to see an elephant. So they set off to the local zoo (for which they saved by cleaning shoes) just to see an elephant. When they arrive at the elephant pen the boy is angry and upset that the zoo's elephant is not real but a card-board cut-out. He jumps into the pen and begins to attack when the zoo officials grab him and drags him away. He and his sister meets the old zoo-keeper who tells them a harrowing and tragic story about why the city has no elephant. During World War 2 the Japanese officials ordered that the zoo-keepers around the country must kill all the dangerous animals so that, in case a bomb breaks open their cages that they can't escape and attack the citizens or get hurt themselves. The lions were killed, I remember, by feeding them poisoned meat. But the elephants posed a harrowing problem; they can't be killed. So they tried to poison them with potatoes, but the elephants instinctly knew that these were poisoned. When they tried to inject the poison into them, the needles couldn't penetrate the skin. Because of the war they could not afford to shoot the elephant (I can remember it's name was Toki or something similar) so the only way to kill it was to starve it. When the elephant die, after a surreal dream filled with bombs and such, you can't help but cry, especially since the zoo-keeper loved it so much.

The animation, I can remember, was not too complex, but it was sufficient. Does anyone know what this anime's real name is?

Another anime that got my sister crying was an anime adaptation of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet named...er, "Swan Lake". I can remember it was rather good albeit soppy.

[Raiden no Kishi]

I'm pretty sure I cried when

[spoiler]Wolfwood died[/spoiler]

at the end of TRIGUN.

Rai

[Zarn Ishtare]

Man, I cried after Tenchi ended, but that was becuase the stupid networks stopped showing it....Well, I can't remember an Anime I cried for, but I did cry at the end of Klonia 1 for the PSX. That was So SAD!!!

[Jman]

I didn't really cry...I just got a little teary eyed

When..Naruto found out he was that Nine Tailed Demon Fox
it sorta made me wanna kill the dude that told Naruto of his past!

BTW this is the 2nd anime series i'm reading!

[AngelSakura]

Umm, I watched some uncut DB about five minutes ago, and:
[spoiler=Dragonball] When Goku saw his grandpa for the first time in years...Fourtuneteller Baba Saga...I said "Awww" a couple of times and then I started crying.[/spoiler]
I haven't really seen enough of anything else to cry about it.
[spoiler=DBZ]When Bejita hugged Trunks before going to sacrifice himself I almost cried...[/spoiler]

[CDLviking]

I've just been watching the Kyoto Saga of RK again. Man there are some great moments there.

[Minawa]

I got pretty teary eyed when I saw the end of Mahoromatic. I had never cried before wile watching a movie/show; and now I find I have to fight back tears wile watching other sad moments, even ones I had seen before.

For instance, I've seen all of trigun, but the other day I was watching it and like
Raiden no Kishi:

I'm pretty sure I cried when

[spoiler]Wolfwood died[/spoiler]

[PotBelliedCow]

Vampire Princess Miyu were pretty sad...NONE OF THE EPISODES ENDED HAPPILY!!!