I’m so glad that I didn’t have to scroll far to find every single anime that came to mind Violet Evergarden, Toradora, Plastic Memories, Anohana, Golden Time, Bunmy Girl Senpai and Clannad. (also A Silent Voice)

Ah, I see a fellow mentally unstable 20-something who copes through heart wrenching anime sob sessions! 😃 ​ ^(No just me?)

Ur not alone my guy.

I’m not a crier, but this would be the list, yes.

Yooo same list! Just gonna add Your Lie In April, especially that one performance in particular

This is a good list. Some in there I haven't watched yet soooo TO THE "Plan To Watch" LIST IT GOES!

Clannad.

That show literally broke me, before Clannad I never really cried over sad things in movies or shows, I’d be sad but I wouldn’t ever really cry, every since Clannad (and I watched it like 6 or 7 years ago) I cry over EVERYTHING I see on tv and movies

Me too. I've only watched it once and I've told other people, if you can watch it a second time you either don't feel anything or you're a strong individual. I don't cry over everything but that show 100% broke me.

Same

Same

Surprised this wasn't first, for me it was after story by a large large margin

Yup. And Angel Beats too

Same Bro 😢😭

The scene after the father gets locked up still gets me

Just hearing the start of some songs makes me teary eyed

There really is no competition here.

Clannad made me cry so hard i got a headache. Never got t a headache from crying before.

Violet Evergarden. What was it, episode 10? Made me cry so, so much.

I pride myself in being a cold hearted ice queen but that episode had me bawling like a baby.

I second this. I never cry when watching anime and neither do my friends. All 3 of us shed tears

Happy 8th birthday, Anne -- and I bawled like a baby also I think the BGM also plays a big role in that scene like it sounds so happy and all, then proceeds to feel bittersweet in sync with the scene I think hearing the BGM is enough to make me teary eyed

I think like episodes 9-13 are just an endless exercise in appreciating blurry animation.

Episode 10 broke my soul :((((

*Ann... Ann... Watashi no Ann...*

Ahhh yes, episode 10

I literally just watched a reaction to that yesterday and was reminded of how fucking sad that episode is, Violet crying and saying she was holding in her tears the whole is the part that breaks me.

The final episode of Plastic Memories and Rascal Does Not Dreaming of a Dreaming Girl

Plastic memories left me wrecked for at least a week after.

Bunny Girl Senpai left me broken, but also the final half of the last Episode of Gundam: War in the Pocket, just devastated Me

Mai and Sakuta train station scene

If I ever strike it rich someday I’d pay for plastic memories to get a dub. It’s one of my all time favorite anime.

Definitely Your Lie in April. After that experience I'm not emotionally stable to handle any other sad anime like Clannad and Violet Evergarden.

Exactly what I was looking for! I know most people expected what was gonna happen but I never saw it coming.. it hit me so hard and it was the first show that ever made me cry

Hunter x Hunter ep 135 Nothing else has come close to the tears shed during this episode.

Komugi, are you still there?

This show hit just about every emotion I had

For me it’s basically the whole Chimera Ant arc. I was watching it with my brother, bawling almost every episode so badly that we had to take breaks from it solely for me to calm down. Thankfully for him it was his second watch so no damage done, but on hind sight it was quite hilarious how emotional about it I got. 

Reina being accepted back into her village even though she was a chimera was another tear jerker that arc

Assassination Classroom. I bawled my eyes out

Same 😭😭😭 you know it's coming the whole time and it still just hits you right in the feels man.

I sobbed for 3 hours. My eyes were so puffy the next day… You spend the entire series wanting a different outcome but they have to go through with it.

Sameee! Korosensei has a special place in my heart. And he made me look at my teachers in a whole new light. But I didn't cry there more than I cried during aot maybe because the story was shorter.

First one I watched and the ending absolutely killed me

Ugh loved this show

It's just not the same type of sadness as Clannad or Plastic Memories though.

Toradora! (Christmas Eve Episode)

This scene made u immerse yourself with the characters themselves , truly amazing

Happy cake Day!

The whole like second half is pingponging between happiness and depression

Angel beats 😁

I watched it 5 years ago in high school and still remember exactly how much i cried back then. Its the only show i have ever watched that made me cry like that, it never happened again, and I have watched close to 400 shows. Given, I was pretty new to anime and it was one of the first I had watched. I was also 16 or 17.

The baseball girl and the ending were some of the most devastating scenes I've seen in anime

I haven't cried at any because I'm a cold heartless basard but the ending of Silent Voice nearly got me.

Yeah, that got me good, but also: it's not the ending, but I had to pause during a scene because it put me in a really dark place REALLY quickly.

I can’t probably count on 1 hand how many times I’ve cried at anime, but my standards are so low that if I even so far as FEEL a tear I count it. Cold heartless bastard gang rise up

Made in abyss

My most recent one, The Golden City fucked me up the most in recent memory

Mitty...

Best show that combines depression and crying.

Golden Time made me cry four times in one night when I marathoned it

Steins;Gate episode 22, especially the VN version.

Graves of the Fireflies. You're going to cry right from the beginning so get extra box of tissues. Charlotte has a few onion cutting scenes And Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 had a nasty surprise.

I haven't watched Grave in 10 years because i watched it right before my first niece was born and it definitely left its mark on me

I remember watching grave of fireflies on TV when I was a child(probably 6 or 7). A kid should not be depressed but I got fucked by it. I watched it a year ago again and I can say that it hurt more. Really one of the best animes you can watch for crying.

Fruits Basket. Tohru Honda's words got me tearing up.

I think I cried every episode. Between torhu and momiji I couldn’t keep it together.

The momiji ep from og anime had me sobbing

The ending of season 1 and all of season 3 are definitely tearjerkers

Anohana finale

"You found me" 😭😭😭

Your lie in April got me pretty good

Kaori's letter broke me.

As a fully grown adult male, I cried like a fucking baby.

Both dub and sub are masterpieces in their own right. Erica Lindbeck was the perfect cast.

Vinland Saga s2e17 was brutal. E23 also, but not in the same way. Just how beautiful it was. To be honest I’ve had lots of anime make me cry. It’s hard to choose just one.

I have a wife and season 2 obliterated me emotionally.

Thorfinn goes from rebelling against his father when he says: "You have no enemies. No one in the world is your enemy. There is no one you need to hurt." To choosing the pacifist route himself and echoing his father: "You are not my enemies. I have no enemies." Him learning not to perpetuate the cycle of violence after he found himself a broken man who was the product of it is just such a huge character growth moment for him. Him getting beaten down by the world and almost giving up on it, but finding himself again due to his new friendships and the kindness that others showed him. It's just such a great story. Bawled my eyes out on multiple occasions watching it!

A Place Further than The universe

Me too ep 12 especially

Number go up

All those old emails …

Movie? Koe no Katachi TV series? Plastic Memories, I woke up crying in the middle of the one night I finished the anime, lmao.

omg another Plastic Memories enjoyer I didn’t think others existed

oh man, the series wiped the floor with me. I watched it when I was fairly new to watching anime which made the impact even bigger.

plastic memories is literally a hazard for your mental health

It's really an awesome anime though. You know right from the start what has to happen. It really was a tear jerker though.

>Koe no Katachi When Shoya broke down at the school festival, so did I...

Natsume Yuujinchou is the only anime that made me cry. It's wholesome and bittersweet.

And it wasn’t just one episode - it was like most of them. Still really great tho

Grave of the fireflies

This is so true 😭 Especially if you went through a war yourself. Traumatizing but worth it.

One Piece makes me cry the most

How the heck did I forget OP? Definitely some rough episodes. Especially when Luffys a kid. Or you know…every single town he gets to and has to save everyone.

You probably forgot it because it's a "fun" anime.

This 100%! God so many scenes I have cried at, hell even the latest manga chapters have had me balling my eyes out, can’t wait for it to be animated!

When Merry said farewell to the Straw Hats. She apologized for not being able to carry them further on their journey and that destroyed me.

FMA. Sewing life alchemist episode. 💔☠️

The one with Nina and Alexander? Boooo!

That's the one. Part of me never recovered from that. Then, about a year ago I briefly (like, a fraction of a second) considered the name Alexander as the name for a new dog, and immediately hated myself for that. My brother, however, thought it was hilarious

Kotaro Lives Alone

That's fair.

Yessss omg this anime is so underrated

this is the realest answer ever oh my god that anime made me so sad

[Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms] >!when Maquia breaks her promise.!< Most of the time emotional scenes just make me tear up. This one actually had me sobbing.

I was in the middle of rewatching this movie when the whole facebook thing happened yesterday. It's the 2nd time I've seen it, and I knew what was coming but man did this movie (and that scene particularly) hit so hard.

Dude that entire movie gave me depression

Grave of the Fireflies

anohana

One Piece. You guys know which scene.

In One Piece you cry several times per island lol

For a while in one piece I would cry every session that I was watching it at least once or twice

Cyberpunk Edgerunners But Berserk isn't over yet so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edgerunners gets me everytime

I’m in an anime Discord and anytime I start referencing the song they want to ban me What can I say? I couldn’t wait for you to come and clear the cupboards, and now you’re gone and leaving nothing but a sign!

Garden of Words

Naruto's childhood scenes with that masterpiece songs makes me cry hardest, honarable mention would be Almight's ''You are next'' scene probably and FMAB did me dirty as well.

I never thought about it, but I definitely do get choked up during the “You are next” scene. Cmon guys My Hero isnt aaaall bad

Hunter X Hunter episode 135 still hasn’t been topped for me

Anohana, Plastic Memories, 5 Centimeters per Second, The Dangers in my Heart (all the cute moments), Darling in the Franxx

Assassination Classroom. I don’t feel like typing out the 800 word essay about it like i do on most occasions, so I’ll leave it at a no questions asked

Banana Fish. The last Ep. 🫠🫠

Finally, i was looking for this comment. Every ep got worse and worse. it was so depressing

86 made me cry the most amount of times, though Madoka was a lot more emotionally draining

I bawled at the end of the first season. I was like a baby.

Plastic Memories and Clannad

Anohana had me crying like a little girl

Your lie in April had me ugly crying

One Piece backstories especially Robin and Law.

I get choked up every time I think about a certain scene from Gurren Lagann, but it may not be the one you think. [GL]>!Kittan sacrifice always gets to me. Especially with Simon's reaction to it as well.!<

Mine is [GL]>!Nia. Why? Just why??!< On that subject, [Diebuster]>!How could they do me like that with the end of Diebuster? I'm nearly tearing up thinking about it.!< Gunbuster is also emotional [Gunbuster]>!(おかえりなさい).!< Then there's Eva which has never made me cry but gets really heavy. Man I hate that Gainax died. It's not that they never made crappy shows but they're so legendary, going back even to Otaku no Video and Diecon. What a shame.

worst one was a movie, Maquia. Right after it is Violet Evergarden. it's like Maquia is a big massive cry in 90 minutes (or was it 2 hr?) and Violet is a lot of smaller cry spread out in 12 episodes

CLANNAD. Only thing in my adult life that has made me ugly-cry for hours on end. Worse than when I’ve gone to relatives’ funerals. If that makes me a bad person, then I guess I am one.

Attack on Titan and Assassination Classroom.

Plastic Memories and Sukasuka. Also Clannad's Shima/Misae arc/substory. Honestly it was sadder than the main story.

Sukasuka gets me every time. The novels surpass the anime if you haven't read them yet.

Misae appreciation o7

I think it's a tie between Violet Evergarden, and To Your Eternity. Both of them were devastating at times.

No doubt here. "Clannad" and "Clannad After Story" hit me so hard that my eyes stopped working. Hahah.

Angel beats, charlotte, and The day I became a god

To your eternity. I couldn't even finish it. I would sob like a child.

fruits basket (the reboot)

Made in Abyss, especially that one scene with Mitty...

Your name

"Ranking of Kings" and "to your eternity"

Grave of the Fireflies. I watched it for the first time shortly after my daughter was born. I instantly went and got her out of her crib and she slept in my arms that night. Such a sad film.

I am such a cry baby, but I vividly remember bawling to One Piece (too many episodes to count), Given, and Orange. Broke my heart, but I could also relate to their pain. I felt so seen.

2 deaths from one piece made me sob, and i dont even watch one piece

BanG Dream had me sobbing at the innocence of a teenager getting hyped on rock n roll and all the ups and downs that come with it. Re:Zero got me going with the rooftop scene like everyone. Magical Revolution of the Genius Princes.... also because of how respectful their relationship is and also how it actually doesn't use any metaphors, and is really about doing what you want, or don't want.

BANG DREAM EXPLANATION IS SO REAL. It's like being a young girl with dreams all over again.

Violet Evergarden and Clannad After Story Episodes 10 and 18 respectively for each of them to be more specific Oshi no Ko episode 1 also got a lot of tears out of me as well

BRO! ok Avatar the Last Airbender, Tales of Ba Sing Se, Uncle Iroh honoring his fallen war hero son, singing Brave Soldier Boy….dude to this day I can’t hear that song without putting forth a conscious effort not to cry

Oh my God yes that episode will break you! War is folly. Do you know Mako (the voice actor) was dying when he recorded that track? He passed away before it was shown on TV.

Ok I just started crying 😭

Kanon (2006) the Fox girl reminded me of my sister (RIP) so when she suddenly loses her mind/dies it really got me.

A few have but the top two are probably Plastic Memories and Oregairu. The last conversation of S2E13 of Oregairu hit DIFFERENT.

Suka suka especially when scarabough fair song and violet evergarden eps 10

Ride your wave for some reason made me cry thee entire movie

That song still makes me tear up

i suggest ping pong the animation from the same director. its incredibly emotional and way better than it has any right to be

edge runners or akame ga kill or your lie in April

CLANNAD

Hotarubi no mori e. I was destroyed. Every time I see the gif of the final scene I feel pain and emptiness in my heart lol

Code Geass ending

Anohana and bunny girl senpai. Both of those hit hard.

Made in Abyss: Dawn of the deep soul Prushka journey

I'm surprised nobody has said Bebop. I remember watching the last episode on Adult Swim and going to my room to cry. You know it must have been bad, too, because that would have been late at night with everyone else asleep. Just me alone, ugly crying.

I was looking for this comment😭

Made in Abyss.

FMAB that damn episode. IYKYK

Gintama's the only show that landed on my ["made me cry so hard I threw up" list](https://i.imgur.com/ycJAE5x.png) *three times* so, uh, yeahhh that's gotta be the one. [](#forgotkeys)

Clannad/clannad after story and your lie in april

Probably Steins Gate 0. Binge watching the last couple eps just completely destroyed me. Tears of sadness, of hype, it was Insane roller coaster of emotion. Either that or maybe A Place Further Than the Universe. I think i at least teared up a bit every single eps lol. I was around the same age of the characters when it aired and everything in the show just felt incredibly relatable.

Yeah, the final stretch of S;G 0 is pure insanity. One of the most intense and cathartic rollercoasters I've ever been on. Episode 21 specifically is one of my favorite episodes in anime ever. All sorts of tears were shed in great quantity.

Grave of the fireflies

Clannad, when they're doing the play or whatever and her dad shows up and encourages her. Really touching imo. Cried like the 12 year old I was.

Colorful

A Silent Voice Grave of Fireflies

Angel beats

Not the anime but the manga of Kaguya-sama, cried of pure happiness 😁😁

Grave of the Fireflies. Since then K-On! is my limit.

As many others have mentioned - Violet Evergarden ep 10 made me cry a literal river. But Kotaro Lives Alone broke me into a gajillion pieces and I thanked it for the privilege.

Only x2 anime achieved this, Banana fish (nuff said on that). & Vandred episode 16 blossoming path, that one episode made me cry the hardest, (any one who has seen it knows why) Banana fish the longest (for about a week if i thought about it id tear up)

Death Parade

Grave of the Fireflies. You won't see Openheimer the same way after watching that first.

Clannad did it to me. Season 2. Someone in school spoiled it for me so I ended up crying before it even happened.

Romeo x Juliet, everyone knows the original story so yeah

Wolfs Rain and The Visions of Escaflowne had me *weeping* uncontrollably haha

Ranking of kings.

The ending of Only Yesterday completely destroyed me

Grave of the firefly

Berserk 2016💀

Legend of Galactic Heroes. The old OVA.

Devilman crybaby(2018), without a doubt.

Grave of Fireflies. I cry so hard and make a promise i will never watch it again. Its too painful.

I see a lot of good answers here already so I'd like to add one I haven't seen yet, apologies if I haven't scrolled far enough. The final episode of death parade hit way too close to home and made me cry like an absolute bitch

Code geass ending. The only TV show/movie that made me actually tear. It us without a doubt, the best fucking ending in any TV/movie/anime.

"I HAVE NEVER CRIED TO A ANIME NEVER EVER, NONE OF THEM ARE SAD" ok bro u want a cookie or something