• Saber@ani.social
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    16 hours ago

    Can’t name any anime genre in particular but two times i did cry was for Mitty in Made in Abyss and in Kotaro lives alone namely the park balloon scene.

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    22 hours ago

    Endings can kinda get to me. Not the end of a show necessarily, but the end of a story. It often happens at the end of a show, but not always. The best example that comes to mind is actually a video game called Season letters to Tomorrow (or something like that). Without spoilers you leave your home and it’s as sad as it is uplifting, and then you document the last day of a town before it’s destroyed. There are other endings that you get to document too, big and small, and all of them are framed as emotionally complex.

    I think I’m just a nostalgic person, because ancient ruins and stories in that context also get me. Girls front line was sad long before the ending! Maybe it’s because i was born in the late 90s and i saw the world getting better before it started getting worse.

  • 柊 つかさ@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Apart from anime with traditionally sad scenes like Violet Evergarden or Gintama, I have the strange ability to cry about cute girls doing cute things slice of life anime 😅. Like Non Non Biyori, K-ON, Gochiusa. I really like the tender and soft moments. For example that scene where Chino-chan decides to lean against Cocoa-chan and Mocha-chan. It’s a bit sad, but mostly it is just so sweet and pure and tender.

    To me one of the most precious effects an anime can have is when it makes me cry without the scene being sad. The queen of this has to be ARIA. Of course that one scene with Alice. But also just Alicia explaining why she doesn’t get angry to Alice. The iyashikei just hits so hard I start feeling that being alive is wonderful. Those are my favorite tears!

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      17 hours ago

      K-On was devastating tbh. CGDCT anime are typically very happy-go-lucky, so any emotional moment hits pretty hard.

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      12 hours ago

      That one episode broke me for days like no other show has ever done, its why Violet Evergarden is my #1 show… That I will never rewatch.

      For context, I was going through the same thing IRL as the characters in the episode were, so it hit all too close to home.

    • 柊 つかさ@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Ann 😭😭😭. Definitely my favorite episode. The letter to Gilbert did me in as well. When she looks at the camera I’m so done for…

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    1 day ago

    Stupid answer but: anything that moves me 😅

    The easiest way is through a mother’s death. The ones that come to mind are:

    meta spoiler; multiple anime titles
    • that one episode of DanDaDan
    • that one episode of Violet Evergarden
    • first episode of Oshi no Ko

    Others that I’ve found moving include:

    • Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
    • Umamusume season 2
    • Angel Beats
    • Belle
    • 86

    I guess a common theme is that these anime feature characters who persevered through hardships? Can’t remember the plot of Angel Beats since it’s been a while since I watched it.

    Edit: Incidentally, WfM, Uma S2 and 86 are my top 3 anime.

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      12 hours ago

      not the only thing, but one thing that reliably gets me to cry is someone making a sacrifice for someone else who doesn’t realize/comprehend what is happening, and lashing out at them (e.g. starving mother saves some extra food for her child, but the child is angry at her because it tastes bad)

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Movies: Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms, A Silent Voice

    Series: Your Lie in April, Angel Beats!, Sword Art Online: Mother’s Rosary (last 7 episodes of season 2), Clannad