An anime that made you cry

[thewaever]

Grave of the Fireflies.

I challenge anyone not to cry after watching that. Made all the sadder as it's based on the real life story of what really did happen to the author...

 

[Titan Buttons]

Near the end of Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood I almost cried
Also i almost cried in One piece

Spoiler

When they burnt the Going Mery

 

[Kermi]

The only anime that has made me feel a bit weepy was Voices of a Distant Star.

Grave of the Firelies was sad but didn't make me emotional.

 

[EeviStev]

Every anime I have seen has made me cry. With frustration. Because they don't make any goddamned sense. Except Afro Samaurai. And Dragon Ball Z. They were awesome.

 

[Sethzard]

Nothing, code geass easily came the closest.

 

[Caliostro]

Cried? Never. Quite a few tugged at my emotions though. Off the top of my head:

Cowboy Bebop
Katanagatari
Code Geass
Death Note
Gungrave

Japan in general and animes specifically have a penchant for the dramatic. However, those 5 (that I remember off the top of my head) did it very right. Hit you deep, you know?

Then there are animes that hit you with the strong stuff midway through and leave you to recover, like (MASSIVE spoilers bellow):

[spoilers=Death Note]L's death.[/spoilers]

or

[spoilers=Macross Frontier]When Michel is killed while Clan is in the tank and forced helpelessly to watch him die to defend her.[/spoilers]

[spoilers=Code Geass]Code Geass is just one emotional punch after the other... Hard to name ONE moment, the whole thing is an emotional rollercoaster.[/spoilers]

Also: obligatory tvtropes link [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TearJerker].

 

[Palfreyfish]

the end of Code Geass...

Cowboy Bebop. The song "Memory" by the Seatbelts gets me every damn time. I get that distant look in Spike's eyes everytime I here it. Needless to say, it's on my youtube playlist of relaxing/thinking music. Look it up.

Both of these, and episode 8 of Gurren Lagann >.>

So sad

 

[Motakikurushi]

Grave of the Fireflies


If you said anything else, go watch it then come back here and edit your post.

I know that feel. Manly tears were shed. Also, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time has some pretty devastating moments. The ending of the Cowboy Bebop episode Speak Like a Child was also incredibly moving. The entire finale of Welcome to the NHK is also depressing as hell. One of my favourite animes.

 

[Embz]

I have to agree with a few people here and say Clannad too, some parts are just heartbreaking!

 

[Scranton111]

Aria the Origination, Kanon, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
Three of those are my three absolute favourite anime, one was just overbearingly depressing until the end.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Cowboy Bebop made me shed a tear. It's such a bittersweet ending. Harsh, and you don't want it to happen, but at the same time it can't end any other way.

 

[Vhite]

Nothing so far. However last episodes of Rozen Maiden came close to it.

 

[Chaos Inverse]

The episode of Gits:SAC where the Tachikomas protect Batou made me tear up

 

[balol]

One Piece. Multiple times.

 

[Archangel768]

Gundam Seed Destiny
Clannad
Clannad After Story
Clannad Movie
K-ON!!
Kanon
Elfen Lied
Chrono Crusade

 

[ExileNZ]

Well, nothing.
Clannad: After Story came pretty damn close a few times, but i held firm.

Oh man, if you've gotta cry, that's the one to do it.

Later episodes of Higurashi came pretty close (when Keiichi realises what he's done), but otherwise little to nothing.

Gunslinger Girl (the manga), Angelica's hospital scene, although it's more that that allowed me to cry for a friend I'd lost.

I love stories that make me want to cry, but actually crying? Pretty much nothing.

 

[Sevre]

Evangelion, that was a pretty intense anime. It's probably the most divisive anime of all time (hate it, or revere it) but you can't deny its depth.

Spoiler: Spoiler!

I actually hated Asuka for the entire show but her redemption in the End of Eva movie made me weep...Okay it wasn't much of a spoiler.

 

[Toriver]

The Kenshin Samurai X OVAs and one scene in FMA: Brotherhood

Spoiler

when Winry faces Scar to deal with her parents' death and breaks down

tugged at me at least a bit, but I've never cried at an anime. I'm in the middle of watching through Elfen Lied and Gurren Lagann, so I'll see about them.

Spoiler

Kamina's death

surprised me a bit, but it didn't get at me too much.

 

[LJJ1991]

Clannad and Clannad: After Story. Only anime that ever made me cry.

 

[James Crook]

Oh, you watched Ouran High School Host Club too?
Man, that anime was great: the story was great, the premise was great. You almost cried at the ending that's right?
I had a tear in my eye in Code Geass' debut episode. A MANLY TEAR. Why? Because Lelouch's an absolute badass.

the end of Code Geass...

You know Lelouch is still alive, right? Or it was because of the emotion of all the flashbacks together and the slow-mo "death" scene?

<spoiler=All the people who said Grave of the Fireflies>

Grave of the Fireflies.

My god it is the most depressing thing I've ever seen, it's literally a story about two young children getting shit on over and over and over again until they die. I could barely watch it =/

Closest I ever came was for Grave of the Fireflies. Which I now want to see again to find out what its effect will be all these years after the first time I saw it.

Grave of the Fireflies. S'it.

Spoiler

S...Sei...ta...

Oh, I certainly remember watching that in French class once. (French name: Le Tombeau des Lucioles)
Good lord, half of the bloody class was practically in tears at the end. I wasn't. Why? I can't, for the life of me, remember why I wasn't crying.