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[Recommendations] heartbreaking / sad / cry anime or manga
TheOrphy:
--- Quote from: ConsiderPhlebas on August 02, 2013, 08:33:41 PM ---Be careful about genres - don't trust them too much...
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Do be careful about genres! Some of the recommendations here are very much sad in only a childlike way (Now and Then, Here or There, Saikano).
Some are comedies 90% of the time and then have a sad 10% thrown in (Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon S), which I don't count as being a sad anime at all - but you might.
Some take a few episodes to get started: Steins Gate or Haibane Renmei. Anyway, echoing: Grave of The Fireflies, Wolf's Rain, Gilgamesh.
Fate/Zero
Serial Experiments Lain
Full Moon Wo Sagashite
Boogiepop Phantom
Al_Sleeper:
Since when genocide and using children as soldiers or comfort women for the army are sad only in a childlike way?
Triltaison:
--- Quote from: Al_Sleeper on August 08, 2013, 03:57:09 AM ---Since when genocide and using children as soldiers or comfort women for the army are sad only in a childlike way?
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Agreed. -And I didn't say Sailor Moon S (which has a couple sad moments but is not heartbreaking at all). I said Sailor Moon StarS, which is. Madoka wasn't the first mahou shoujo to do that hook. :P
cominus:
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--- Quote from: Triltaison on August 03, 2013, 12:03:05 AM ---
-Grave of the Fireflies
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I'll never watch it again, but I am glad now that I managed to finish it.
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Exactly. It's one of the those relate to type animes so if you don't have any younger siblings then it might not really resonate within you.
TheOrphy:
--- Quote from: Triltaison on August 09, 2013, 05:45:54 PM ---
--- Quote from: Al_Sleeper on August 08, 2013, 03:57:09 AM ---Since when genocide and using children as soldiers or comfort women for the army are sad only in a childlike way?
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Agreed. -And I didn't say Sailor Moon S (which has a couple sad moments but is not heartbreaking at all). I said Sailor Moon StarS, which is. Madoka wasn't the first mahou shoujo to do that hook. :P
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My mistake with Sailor Moon. But Now and Then, Here or There is - very kiddy on the front end. What those episodes showed are character interactions not far off from Disney fare, or Saturday morning cartoons with what happened to be a Sad Thing in the form of comfort women. Mostly it's a swashbuckling adventure.
The Last Love Song has a sad backdrop, but it's primarily a comedy of circumstance concerning the relationship between a man who is clearly in his 40's and a robot girl who is clearly a preteen, and how they negotiate their feelings through the Things That Happen. The child soldier issue, as presented here, is superficial; it might be sad to youngsters, but not to adults. If we're talking child soldiers, best to go Gunslinger Girl. Saikano does better under a "wistful" tag.
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