Grave of the Fireflies

Violet Evergarden. Specifically, the episode with the mother and daughter.

Your Name. Yes, I'm basic.

It was either Anohana or Your Lie in April

Clannad After Story in the sunflower field 😭

Pokemon: The First Movie back in 1998.

First I can think of is the end of K-On! I watched the show for the first time in my senior year of college, so that feeling of having to go away from the friends I had made in my time there was pretty significant.

Some random others off the top of my head:

Frieren for kind of the same reason.

Violet Evergarden, especially the episode about the mom writing to her daughter.

Grave of the Fireflies.

Probably some others I’m forgetting.

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Angel Beats

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I managed to survive the sequence where My Most Precious Treasure played, but the last episode got me good.

Thankfully, the ending appears hopeful / happy. :::

(Most recently) First episode of Frieren. I have regrets about how little I've connected with the people around me and it just hit hard.

Edit: ohhh, FIRST time? Fullmetal alchemist maybe, or Elfen Lied (little teenage me went in because boobs and got a lot more than i bargained for; i don't even remember it beyond it being sad)?

Death of Going Merry.

The Pokemon movie when Ash turns to stone.

Probably CLANNAD, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was SAO S1, god forbid.

Cowboy BeBop or FMA before Brotherhood came out. There's a few emotional moments in both that'd probably still get me.

Stein's Gate. I cried so much that I had to pause the episode.

Fruits Basket. “Rice ball!”

Saikano.

guy i know watch it cause i said it messed me up. Dude was locked in for 4 days afterwards... seriously I liked it but my God thst show breaks you down. Only show i watched where fan subber said stop here if you want happy ending. That was like episode 5.

can't remember the first time. but I can tell you when I cried the hardest.

To Your Eternity.

::: spoiler the whole first season was a cry fest.

when the boy died, it broke something inside me. he tried the best he could, and it was still not enough.

when the little girl was practically tortured and sacrificed. I had to pause the episode and bawl for like 30 minutes.

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I cried so much that my wife asked me the next day why my eyes were all red and puffy.

it's the only story that inflicted serious psychological damage to me. it took me a year to work through the damage, and even now I'm misty-eyed remembering everything.

I was going through some really rough times at work with an abusive boss and my emotional state was probably not very stable. watching human suffering just...broke something in me.

First time? No idea. Maybe one of those iconic sad moments from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Most recent was LOOK BACK though. What an emotional movie.

Edit: first might've actually been Erased, in the scene at the end of Episode 8 where Kayo has a decent breakfast for the first time, which is really funny because growing up I usually just had breakfast cereal and that's really not that great either. Maybe it was the music that got me. I liked Erased's soundtrack.

Violet Evergarden, episode 9. You know the one.

Though since you mentioned the movie, I nearly cried over how angry I was that this was the ending they decided to go with.

As a husband to a spouse with chronic medical issues and kids who share them, Clannad destroyed me.

There are 8 anime that made me cry, in order from ~2019 to 2024:

1. Sora yori mo Tooi Basho
2. Hibike! Euphonium 2
3. Mawaru Penguindrum
4. March comes in like a lion
5. Clannad: After Story
6. March comes in like a lion 2nd Season
7. Toradora!
8. Spirited Away

Highly recommend all of these

I was watching Sora No Otoshimono and they were treating a character horribly. There was a scene where she was forced to kill her pet. I couldn't believe it, I cried my eyes out.

Clannad Afterstory

Probably the first season of Re:Zero or Neon Genesis Evangelion. I don't remember which I watched first.

I cried while watching Yuri on Ice, when yuri perfectly executed his eros performance ;_; those were wild times

Fruits basket, and the whole thing with foster care and bio dads. I work with foster kids and it absolutely wrecked me.

Hard to remember them, Eureka 7, I think the whole ppl on the other side adopting him and really treating him like a son after he ran away, scenes with his grandpa would make me tear up (I was like 14/15 when I watched it so renton was very relatable, he was like me at 13, then by the end he grows and matured past me at the time after all the sht he went through) I really like how all the characters are written in that show, they actually have real emotions, change over time, feel real, hella diversity.

First time was probably Angel Beats, as it was one of my first shows.

Though I still rewatch and shed tears at the end of Madoka (2nd movie). Just the best piece of media I've ever enjoyed.

"Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song"... even more after rewatching it, now even the intro song hits hard enough for tears.

takopi got an anime? sick

my first was anohana

eva. basic, but true

Can't say for sure as my memory is not the best, but the first anime I remember me crying was the No Game No Life movie. The most recent (even if this is already a while ago) was Planetarian - Storyteller of the Stars.

And the first anime-related content which made me cry was the finale of the visual novel Corona Blossom (which was also my fist VN and has a special place in my heart).

I don't remember 100℅ but I am pretty sure it was Princess Mononoke. If not that, then either Card Captors or Inuyasha.

I just found this looking for people to talk to about that stupid octopus. Guess I'm not one to cry anymore. Not more than a sparkle, at least.

What hit me hard was the end of Fushigi Yuugi: The Mysterious Play. I don't even remember any one episode, and seeing the artwork brings me a total blank.

Probably Gintama, I don't know exactly at what point. I definitely remember watching Gintoki vs Takasugi and having to rewind because I couldn't see shit through my tears.

Suprised no one has said angel beats. I think it was the first time one of the main cast ::: spoiler spoiler reincarnated :::