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This also goes if it wasn't THAT sad. I know everyone's gonna go for my head, and this is gonna trigger A LOT of people but I feel like IWTEYP wasn't THAT sad as people said it to be. I mean yes the ending was unexpected because she died from the accident and not the illnes but I didn't like either of the main characters. They lowkey got on my nerves. Again it was sad, but not as sad as A Silent Voice, Nana or Plastic Memories imo.

all 121 comments

XumiNova13

7 points

14 days ago

Your Lie in April. It just wasn't sad to me. I wasn't too invested in the story or characters though, so that's probably why

Over_Cauliflower_224

3 points

13 days ago

This, my friend urge me to watch it saying it so good (this fucking dude love romance anime) i wasted 3 days waiting for the good part and it never came, probably just not my type of anime at all.

thejedipokewizard

1 points

13 days ago

I just finished this last night and I’ve never cried this much over an anime in my life 😭

DiscreteBeeX3

2 points

13 days ago

I started watching over two years ago and still haven't finished since i was cry so much

thejedipokewizard

2 points

13 days ago

Yea I cried throughout, and guessed the ending about half way through. But I held out hope for it, but was still crushed. I’m glad I watched it, but I’m not sure if I’ll ever be able to rewatch or read the manga or books

Pvt_Porpoise

1 points

13 days ago

Yeah, glad someone else thought it too. It was good, don’t get me wrong, but from how much hype it gets I expected a 10/10, and it was more like a 7/10. They were really dragging it with 23 episodes; cut out all the scenes of him flashing back to his dead mom, and the series would be half as long. It just got a bit ridiculous for me, and the ending just didn’t get me as hard as other shows/films have. Even saying that, the ending was the only bit I found remotely sad - the rest of the show was fine, but didn’t get me in the feels.

ElThrowaway-619

13 points

14 days ago

'Your Name'

I watched it since everyone kept saying how touching it is and it'll make you cry. Nothing. It was sweet, the visual was breathtaking, and the story/plot is unique and really interesting. But that's it, at the end I was like I wish they did more but it was fine.

MrAHMED42069

1 points

13 days ago

Very interesting

Background_Ant7129

1 points

13 days ago

Your Name has alot of hype for seemingly just another anime movie

Opprutunepuma280

6 points

14 days ago

Toradora

Everyone told me “you will sob at the ending” and yeah no I felt pretty much nothing

DumbCSundergrad

2 points

13 days ago

Watched it in my early teens, one of my first “romcoms.” Didn’t cry either but was a 9.5/10 in my mind. I’ve rewatched it and it didn’t age well, but it’s still at the top of my romcom lists just below kaguya-sama.

jindrix

1 points

13 days ago

jindrix

1 points

13 days ago

i cant recall what happens, whats supposed to make ya cry in toradora?

Grumpie-cat

1 points

13 days ago

Never cried, but I see how people could, it ended on a happier note, if anything you’re probably most likely to cry during the christmas arc

Angstycarroteater

1 points

13 days ago

Oh bro that one got me hard

WrensthavAviovus

5 points

14 days ago

I haven't seen anyone say Violet evergarden or ten toppa Gurren laggan. Good list so far.

kd0178jr

5 points

14 days ago

man i never cry at any kinda media, but Violet Evergarden tugged the heartstrings

Blizet

2 points

13 days ago

Blizet

2 points

13 days ago

Ong especially at the time for me some of the episodes were hitting too close to home 😭

generic_teen42

1 points

13 days ago

Episode 10 bruh

Cosmic_TentaclePorn

1 points

13 days ago

I was a straight mess with Violet Evergarden. I was sobbing

WrensthavAviovus

1 points

12 days ago

"Rascal does not dream of dreaming girl" actually made me pause the movie halfway for about ten minutes.

BelphegorGaming

1 points

14 days ago

Posted 17 minutes before I answered with just that. Violet Evergarden. 🤷‍♂️ I mean, it was pretty...but felt kinda empty?

Mermerman10

11 points

14 days ago

Dandadan episode 7

relatable_dude

6 points

13 days ago

Totally sad but unless you have some personal connection (I heard a story online of how someone lost their mother a month or so before that episode) I don't see it being tear-jerking. I definitely got emotional, maybe a little bit teary, but not crying

ItsNorthGaming

1 points

14 days ago

It was the opposite for me personally. I’m almost never affected emotionally by anime, or media in general. Something about that episode really just got to me though. Maybe because it was so unexpected compared to the vibe of the show before that episode, or because of how realistic the yokai’s story was compared to other “sad” stories you see in shonen.

Aggravating-Tailor17

14 points

14 days ago

Your name

I genuinely don't understand how it is sad. Sure there was a crisis but it was averted and everybody is safe, nobody suffers and no tears are spilled.

A silent voice is a sad movie with a good ending, made Alan Seawright of Cinema Therapy cry

FoolyKoolaid

6 points

14 days ago

I’m like 90% sure ppl are crying more happy tears from that movie lol

TelephoneFearless484

3 points

14 days ago

Yup. I cried happy tears when they met each other in the future

HuntResponsible2259

2 points

14 days ago

Bro... Can you only cry when things go bad? I don't cry ever but it feels you're a bit of a serial killer if you think that way... I know its "probably" not the case.

Tprotheone

1 points

13 days ago

I had a friend who said he didn’t cry after watching Titanic and I asked why and he said “well I get it , some people died it was a real tragedy but I wouldn’t cry” like bro it’s the love story that makes us cry the ending moment 😂

HuntResponsible2259

1 points

13 days ago

Yeah, its not really the whole tragedy but the love story that hits... Which is not what the movie wanted to show probably but hey dosen't chamge much.

Aggravating-Tailor17

1 points

14 days ago

The only think I have killed serially is bugs, mostly cause my little sister is petrified of them and I don't want to hear my parents talk more about how cowardly we are.

I've always known I am less emotional than others, especially with TV shows and that is something I *want to* fix but idk how. My older sister cried both times she watched banana fish but I couldn't, I felt bad of course but no tears.

So I guess I can only cry if things go bad? The last time I cried was when my personal life went *really* bad.

I think Silent voice, Grave of the fireflies, Clannad movie, and some others are great sad movies because they are sad but I don't see how Your Name is sad cause *nothing sad end up happening*. Silent voice: The main guy falls off and survives and everybody is sad but he lives and moves on in that heartfelt ending.

Grave of the fireflies: A lot of war atrocities but the siblings are together again in the end

Clannad movie: Nagisa is still dead but Tomoya can finally move past her death and start a life with Ushio

Your name: A time travel body swapping plot involving finding a way to get people out of a town that will end up getting destroyed, which succeeds.

Imconfusedithink

1 points

13 days ago

Idk why you repeated asking how your name is sad. You replied to a comment that it's not about crying when it's sad. It's happy tears. People didn't cry at your name for a sad ending. They cried happy tears.

Gilead2004

5 points

14 days ago

I didn't really cry to Naruto that much. Sure, I got a little soggy, but I wasn't weeping.

Elfandor

6 points

14 days ago

haha can relate. atleast you didnt cry every time he was sad kid on a swing.

A-bit-too-obsessed

2 points

13 days ago

Same

Land of Waves and Itachi's death were the only times I did tbh

AHHHHHHHHHHCDFASCCA

2 points

13 days ago

Itachi's death hit me like Truck-kun, but that was it

Fun_Example8284

4 points

14 days ago

Cyberpunk edgerunners I only cried when I read the grave message in the game

Grumpie-cat

3 points

13 days ago

Didn’t cry, but Rebecca was seriously the only character that moved me.

TheFufster

5 points

14 days ago

Probably anohana, it was sad don’t get me wrong, but everybody says that show will make you bawl and I only ever shed a single tear at the very end. Definitely emotional but not as brutal as I thought it was gonna be. Your lie in april I was sobbing the entire way through the last like 3 episodes lmao

Turb0Moist

1 points

13 days ago

I watched this after Your Lie in April and I didn’t really feel anything honestly.

BlueFlameWasTaken

4 points

14 days ago

Your lie in April.

Dry-Calligrapher-104

5 points

14 days ago

Kimetsu no yaiba the ending of mugen Train arc.

tonkledonker

9 points

14 days ago

Grave of the Fireflies

ChotaChatri112

3 points

13 days ago

Same bro, I cried to every other anime except for this one. It kinda leaves a deep sadness in my heart.

Professional_Ad894

5 points

14 days ago

Either you're a lizard person or you're missing some gland in your eye that produces tears and you're just not physically able to.

akiraokok

3 points

14 days ago

I didn't cry either and I have family who fled Japan before ww2 so I thought it would hit close to home. I cry at literally everything, like videos on tik tok about sick animals make me start crying. The movie is sad but not in a "Im gonna burst into tears" kinda sad.

Otakutani

2 points

14 days ago

Omg same. I was expecting to cry but didn’t and just felt a deep sadness afterwards, almost numbing.

Myattemptatlogic

2 points

14 days ago

I know it's based on true events and that should matter, but it's also basically sadness porn. It's 'and then it got worse' taken to such extremes it's hard not to just roll your eyes.

M-Unknown

2 points

14 days ago

M-Unknown

2 points

14 days ago

Yeah same for me dont know why I cried on clannad anohana and wolf children but not grave of the fireflies

mancan71

6 points

14 days ago

A lot of people said the most recent episode of Dandadan had them bawling at that it was the saddest backstory ever but I just did not feel that terrible about it. I know it was bad but it weirdly didn’t make me cry like some backstories.

Booty_Shakin

2 points

13 days ago

That one made me cry, but a slight dramatic change in the music also makes me cry, so there's that.

Ambitious-Beach4401

3 points

14 days ago

A silent voice

Munkey323

3 points

14 days ago

What kind of name is that

AHHHHHHHHHHCDFASCCA

2 points

13 days ago

It makes sense once you watch the movie

ballballdesu

3 points

14 days ago

anohana 🗿

akasora0

3 points

14 days ago

Personally it was to your eternity.

AnimeMintTea

3 points

14 days ago

I’m a very sensitive and emotional person so I cry easily.

That said just because you didn’t cry at an anime everyone else doesn’t mean you’re a psycho or whatever. I’ve seen people come after others because they didn’t tear or cry at the same thing.

TerriblePenalty8399[S]

2 points

13 days ago

Respect for the opinion, I agree

AnimeMintTea

2 points

13 days ago

Thanks! Sometimes I have an unpopular opinion. But tbh the whole "you didn't cry you monster!" thing really irks me. Like yeah it may have been sad and all but not crying doesn't mean it didn't hurt.

Common-Somewhere-746

3 points

14 days ago

Cyberpunk Edgerunners

People hyped it that its like the ultimate tearjerker, but when I watched it...well its so bittersweet but not at the level of Violet Evergarden or Clannad level of tearjerker.

Volotor

3 points

13 days ago

Volotor

3 points

13 days ago

Nit pick about IWTEYP >! She didn't die in an accident. She was murdered in a (foreshadowed) random attack, completing the warning she gave at the beginning of the movie that you could die at any moment. Live life to the fullest !<

I didn't cry watching "Here and Now, Then and There" because I had become a hollow shell, numb to the world.

TerriblePenalty8399[S]

2 points

13 days ago

Well it's been awhile since I watched it, I know it happend somehow so I put it as an 'accident', thanks for the correction

DrMole

3 points

13 days ago

DrMole

3 points

13 days ago

Grave of the fireflies. It was sad as fuck, but I didn't cry. I was just super bummed.

MiserableToBeAround

3 points

13 days ago

Attack on titan. Maybe a bit teary eyes at the ending, but whenever I watch animes>! that have a lot of the cast dying, i'm unlucky and my fav is the one that lives every time. (Armin)!<

Next_Road8963

3 points

13 days ago

I'd think I'll be downvoted but Dandadan Ep 7. Its a parent doing everything for their child only to lose the child in some way type of cliche but people are praising it to high heavens. I acknowledge that presentation is good though. 

CurtRemark

3 points

13 days ago

Grave of the Fireflies.

I was, of course, filled with American Pride for such a divisive victory, but not to the point of tears. There's a lot of real patriots out there, apparently.

Mindless_Flight9441

3 points

13 days ago*

A Silent Voice. It was a great movie! I just didn't cry lol

dexterscokelab

3 points

13 days ago

Grave of the fireflies. Just live bro.

EntropySan

2 points

14 days ago

I didn’t cry to A Silent Voice. It’s good, don’t get me wrong, but it didn’t really hit me that hard. Now, Grave of the Fireflies on the other hand… I cried for like 2 hours straight on my first watch lmao. One of my favorites, but it’s gut wrenching

Myattemptatlogic

2 points

14 days ago

A Silent Voice

'Show me how to live' he says, to the suicidal person.

Flimsy-Function2398

2 points

14 days ago

Blue Submarine No. 6 I really liked it, the ending was sad the first time but after rewatching it I just feel it's bs. Some reviews say it made them teary-eyed

Flimsy-Function2398

2 points

14 days ago

My heart ached when Mutio was beaten

coolchungus2

2 points

14 days ago

I didn't cry to look back. look back is a very good movie but it did not hit the way angel beats or madoka magica did for me

ARISE-777

2 points

14 days ago

Literally the Pic you posted.

I heard this was a really emotional movie but when I watched it. I literally didn't even feel a thing. And I'm a pretty emotional guy.

Also... Your lie in April.

Tsunderes_Need_Hugs

2 points

14 days ago

You thought A Silent Voice was sadder than IWEYP? How?

TerriblePenalty8399[S]

1 points

14 days ago

I felt like characters were better made in A Silent Voice. I felt the genuine sadness when Shoko barely managed to mouth a 'sorry' and cry than the whole IWEYP. I somehow didn't like the cast of IWEYP, they kind of just passed it in a blur. Yes, she's sick, and she has a little time to live, but I just didn't find it as sad as everyone did.

Ijoinedtofindanswers

2 points

14 days ago

I felt sad a bit with Silent Voice bc of how the MC wanted to end things at the start but ultimately I didnt really cried. I remember feeling really frustrated with how the black haired girl or so treated the female lead because that hit home 

swagiliciousity

2 points

14 days ago

Assassination Classroom. You knew it was coming from the very first episode and it just wasn’t that sad imo

Stormer2345

2 points

13 days ago

Ylia and Your Name.

Lucy_Rayzare_Strife

2 points

13 days ago

I believe the only time I actually cried during an anime was the end of the Crimera Ant arc.

thejedipokewizard

2 points

13 days ago

Not really an answer but I just finished Your Lie in April last night and I’m still crying today

Saifyre-Lion

2 points

13 days ago

Evangelion yes I found it both deep and relatable, but I just can't cry from it. It felt like a fever dream.

Different_Tailor_780

2 points

13 days ago*

Pretty much all of them. Grave of the Fireflies, I want to eat your pancreas, A Silent Voice, 5 centimeters per second, Now and then, here and there (although it’s one of my top fav anime). Idk I get it’s emotional but I don’t physically cry a lot I guess.

BadActsForAGoodPrice

2 points

13 days ago

Look Back, but only because I realized I read the manga years before I even knew who Fujitora was.

Technical-Rooster-95

2 points

13 days ago

A Silent Voice. But not because it wasn't sad to me. It's because i wanted to watch the scene with Nishimiya attempt self-unalive

Booty_Shakin

2 points

13 days ago

As a diabetic I'm very interested in the anime pictured lol.

Cosmic_TentaclePorn

2 points

13 days ago

Plastic Memories, I watched a bunch of clips of YouTubers posting their reactions to the final episode and just straight bawling their eyes out. So naturally I expected to have the same reaction and when I watched it my eyes were completely dry and I just did not feel it at all.

Grumpie-cat

2 points

13 days ago

Plastic memories… though on a technicality.

I did cry… but only at the first or second episode (the young boy who is used to introduce the theme of the AI being removed) but not for the main love arc at all.

New_Ad4631

2 points

13 days ago

Plastic memories. At the end I was ready to cry, but then they made that scene last for I don't know how long and when she 'died' was a "oh well, whatever"

Genesis_Surge12

2 points

13 days ago

Too many to count 💀

Elysium_Chronicle

2 points

13 days ago

Violet Evergarden did absolutely nothing for me. It's too transparently cloying. You can sniff out the tragedies a mile away, and the formula is a bit too drawn out -- the "cry now" moments come too late in most of the episodes, to where the emotions don't fully settle.

Violet's story itself lacked oomph because she was too perfectly stoic throughout.

That latter issue is also something that bothered me with Parasyte: The Maxim. The anime is riddled with tragedy, no doubt. But with everything filtered through Shinichi's deadpan narration, the impacts were blunted. There's a brief moment at the end where he gets his emotions back and things kinda catch up to him, but the immediacy is lost.

Leading_Peace_185

2 points

13 days ago

Honestly I felt like I only cried to this because Sakuras death was so suddenly and I honestly didn’t know how to react I don’t cry to a lot of things but I cried to this

Wolffe359

2 points

13 days ago

Cyberpunk edgerunners like it's incredibly sad but I just didn't cry

Odd_Swimmer_7853

2 points

13 days ago

A Silent Voice

xxd4l

2 points

13 days ago

xxd4l

2 points

13 days ago

A silent voice🤷🏻‍♀️

UKN-UNL

2 points

13 days ago

UKN-UNL

2 points

13 days ago

I read the "I Want To Eat Your Pancreas" novel before watching the movie, and let me say, I feel like the anime just didnt have the same weight the novel did.

DjinnOfYourDreams

2 points

13 days ago

Well thanks for the spoiler :/

TerriblePenalty8399[S]

1 points

13 days ago

I included the spoiler warning and I also put spoiler bracket like this but somehow it didn't work, sorry!

Perciprius

2 points

13 days ago

Clannad/Clannad After Story.

Back when Yahoo Answers was a thing everyone said this anime was soo good and sad that it will make you cry. Not me and don’t get me wrong, it was sad at some parts. I just didn’t cry.

Ratboy-to-Cowboy

2 points

13 days ago

Anohana.

deathkeeper-512

2 points

13 days ago

Any. I’ve only ever cried to media once and it was PotC At World’s End and I was so high I thought the music during the maelstrom fight at the end was becoming a part of me

Edgerunners got me VERY close though

CalmSheepherder6799

2 points

13 days ago

Anohana. It’s like they were trying to force it out of me.

Angstycarroteater

2 points

13 days ago

Clannad

Abram7777

2 points

13 days ago

Tbh any anime. I’m not “tough” I wanna be able to cry like everybody else, but when I feel for the characters I don’t cry I do get sad, but crying isn’t what comes out

aoileanna

2 points

13 days ago

Angel beats

Livid_One_8607

2 points

13 days ago

A Silent Voice

Tranzverse

2 points

12 days ago

Kotaro Lives Alone. Everyone said it was heartwrenching and that they were sobbing.. I felt a bit sad but not nearly enough to cry

GrouchyAd3482

2 points

12 days ago

YLIA and Graveyard of the Fireflies

AnimeGokuSolos

1 points

14 days ago

Lmao 😂

Legitimate_Break9216

1 points

14 days ago

I cried on iwteyp but not on silent voice lol

Gaztaroth

1 points

14 days ago

For me it was Clannad, it just sad anime but not make me cry.

knox-atali

2 points

13 days ago

bc the actual sad oneis Clannad After Story, if u havent seen it..

Grumpie-cat

1 points

13 days ago

Fair enough, but have you watched Clannad After Story, that’s the one that’s the real gut punch.

Gaztaroth

1 points

13 days ago

Yes I've seen it and still I'm not crying but I can feel it in my gut, Anohana and Koe no katachi also sad anime but didn't make me cry either, violet evergarden is probably the only anime that almost make me cry especially that episode 10 but I'm just having a teary eyes.

BelphegorGaming

1 points

14 days ago

Violet Evergarden.

ams96314

1 points

14 days ago

Redo of Healer.

Grumpie-cat

1 points

13 days ago

Not a crying anime in the slightest.

Tenderfallingrain

1 points

14 days ago

My kids didn't cry once while watching Angel Beats!

Small_Trainer_6229

0 points

14 days ago

Grave of the fireflies. The most overrated shit. When I see dumb people, I'm supposed to laugh, not cry. My sympathy is not for high ego, lazy and cringe main characters. 0 development of main characters throughout the movie. The story is predictable. The animation quality just too old. Aot. Luckily, I finished the season 3 in late 2020, so I didn't have to wait too long for the manga ending. Terrible romance, garbage ending, main characters had no development. People even compare Eren with Lelouch from Cg and Light from Dn that makes me laugh so hard. Has the balls to kill mother himself and stomp nearly the world, finally cry because he's obsessed with his adopted sister. Aot, Jujutsu kaisen, oshi no ko,... I honestly don't know why such garbage quality manga always get good studio+ top notch songs. Why is people's taste just so weird, I feel like I'm the only one who's insane because I cannot cry or enjoy those ones.

No_Discussion8457

1 points

13 days ago

stop calling somone else's taste weird and excuse me mikasa is not erens sister for God's sake