Sad Endings in anime.

So I was just recapping on FMA and I thought to myself wow this is depressing. Anyone else feel this not just with FMA but other anime?

Grave of the Fireflies.

The only movie where I cried, because of the storyline and not the characters.

Originally Posted by VIΠDICΔTΩR

Grave of the Fireflies.

The only movie where I cried, because of the storyline and not the characters.

this definitely,

but I'd also have to add 5 Centimeters per Second onto the list.

Yeah that's sad.

Jin-Roh

Originally Posted by Centurion-Lucius-Vorenus

Jin-Roh

Na, it is hardly sad, since traitor must die, no matter what. The only silly thing is he does not have the courage to leave Capital Police.

Either way, my choice would be Grave of Firefly, although Battle Royal is quite brutal too (stuck in one island and force to kill all your classmates).

Gundam 0080
Gundam 0083
Gundam Seed
Gundam Zeta (everyone dies...... pretty much)
Turn A Gundam (epic ending, some moments are sad )
Gundam Char's Counter Attack
Gundam MS Igloo 2

Code Geass R2
Cowboy Beebop
Rih-Roh
Voices of a Distant Star
Grave of the Fireflies
Read or Die OVA (poor Nancy)

Hmm I need to go through my DVD collection to find more which I havn't watched in so long I forgot they existed....

Originally Posted by Lumina

Gundam 0080
Gundam 0083
Gundam Seed
Gundam Zeta (everyone dies...... pretty much)
Turn A Gundam (epic ending, some moments are sad )
Gundam Char's Counter Attack
Gundam MS Igloo 2

Code Geass R2
Cowboy Beebop
Rih-Roh
Voices of a Distant Star
Grave of the Fireflies
Read or Die OVA (poor Nancy)

Hmm I need to go through my DVD collection to find more which I havn't watched in so long I forgot they existed....

Gundam Seed is not sad, and I need to watch Turn A Gundam.

Hokuto no Ken. When Kenshiro leaves

evangelion it has the saddest ending ever
or Neon genesis Evanglion it's even sadder you should really watch those two they are really dark and so sad

Cowboy Bebop

My first time smuggling alcohol into my house I watched "Ninja Scroll", the dude I worked with bought me a six back of Zima's ( lame ) and I remember yelling "NO!" when the girl was killed at the end; it woke my mom up.

Idk if its sad but I REALLY do not like the ending(s) for EVA. Its like they ran out of ideas and thought, hey lets trip on acid and smoke PCP laced weed while shooting eachother with heroin while listening to Dark Side of the Moon and Crimson King for 14 hours straight to see what we can come up with.

Eva is a weird example (not just of this, but pretty much everything about it is weird). The ending seems sad at first, if only because it's really off the wall and makes almost no sense. But then it kicks in that, hey, Shinji just dealt with his own problems and has finally gotten over them, and wants to live in the real world with real people. His loved ones stand around him and congratulate him on his decision to pull mankind and himself out of the darkness and into a new day. It's almost sickeningly sweet compared to the bleak turn the show took about halfway through.

Even the concluding film is like that. In a different way, though, because by any other definition, it was a downer ending. Everyone explicitly is destroyed, and after Shinji's Trip Through the Subconscious, only he and Asuka come out whole. But it's strongly implied that instrumentality isn't permanent, specifically because Shinji made a stand and decided that reality is better, despite the pain. And, he awakes next to Asuka, implying that if he was the only man left in the world, he'd want her to be there beside him.
It is, again, almost diabetes-causingly sweet compared to what happened before.

In fact, Neon Genesis Evangelion has perhaps the happiest and most optimistic ending in a show of its kind. It portrays the grand triumph of the human spirit at its best and worst, distilled in a warrior boy forged in the fires of the greatest threat ever to face mankind. Humanity, through Shinji, takes their final stand at the edge of oblivion and decisively says, "No. I will not yield. I will not break. I will live on."

although it isn't an ending per se, but Clannad?

and another pick would be Bokurano

Originally Posted by Eien

although it isn't an ending per se, but Clannad?

I thought the story has somesore of time traveling nonsense and has a happy ending??

Originally Posted by hellheaven1987

I thought the story has somesore of time traveling nonsense and has a happy ending??

it does, that's why i said it's not an ending per se, but it has some very emotional highpoints XD, but game wise, the normal end is well, bad end.

5cm/s is very good indeed, damn i cried buckets

I thought the ending in Death note was sad. Not like cry-your-eyes-out. But in sad in a kind of nostalgic, the end kind of way.

If you include the unaired episode, it turns into "sad in a WTF way". Because it's more or less made clear that

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Light became a Shinigami and is Ryuk's BFF in the Shinigami Realm.

Which is, arguably, worse than him still being Kira.

Well...Clannad is pretty bad. Well, actually pretty good, but not if you include the deus ex machina.