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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Angel Beats if you want to cry while watching highschoolers blow each other away with assault rifles.

[–] Lost_and_confused 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I wanted to do that I could just watch the news

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Is this some USA/Brazil joke I'm too European to understand?

[–] Candelestine 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Violet Evergarden isn't sad enough. It highlights how sad things can and do happen, but it gets there by highlighting how happy they needed to be for that to even be troubling in the first place.

Given Violet's own arc through the entire thing, the show overall ends up as a celebration of things that are worth fighting for, and a discomfiting reminder that nobody is guaranteed anything. Much like Violet herself, the story fights to the very end and never gives up.

If it makes anyone want to kill themselves though, they really missed the core of the show. It can also make you want to fight.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Not the creator of the meme but I assumed that it wasn't about those animes being sad but them making you cry.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Plus let’s not forget that many talented individuals who worked on Violet Evergarden we’re fucking killled by the KyoAni Fire attack

[–] Lando_ 5 points 1 year ago

Violet Evergarden could have been subbed for Grave of the Fireflies.

[–] JonnyRobbie 1 points 1 year ago

any good recs?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm noticing a lack of Plastic memories in this meme.

[–] thedirtyknapkin 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

eh, plastic memories is to sad anime what Michael Bay is to explosions.

too on the nose, in your face, and not very clever with it. they beat you over the head with "look at how sad this is" the whole time and it loses its impact.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But I still cried at the end even though I knew what was going to happen.

It's like a slow motion trainwreck. You can see it happening but you can't stop it.

[–] thedirtyknapkin 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

to the problem was more that it was too fast. came on too strong and quickly with trying to make you sad without getting you into the world or characters first. like there was nothing to the show outside of it trying to bate you into feeling sad.

that said, I'm glad you liked it. not trying to shit on you. i like one piece and that anime is objectively yeah.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Just made an edit for you.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Grave of the Fireflies.

Holy fuck. I can't even look at small rocks without knocking back the handle.

The whole film, from start to end, it's all feels. Fuck I promised myself i wouldn't cry.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Clannad wasn't bad.... After Story on the other hand, talk about ripping your heart out and stomping on it.

[–] JigglySackles 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I do enjoy a good feels-anime. Your Lie and Violet are probably my top two for that.

Little Busters was one in that vein to a degree. Gotta get through the second season for the full story impact though.

Some others that aren't as sad but still feels heavy: I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, A Silent Voice, Garden of Words, Bubble, Belle, Weathering With You.

[–] thedirtyknapkin 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i haven't seen pancreas, belle, or little busters, but I differently like everything on that list. it's funny how these shows impact people differently.

to me your lie in April is one of the less sad ones on the list. to me that show is more about acceptance and moving on. maybe it's because I've never dealt with anyone with a terminal illness like that. my nurse friend adored violet evergarden, but didn't find your lie sad to AT ALL. she simply dissociated herself from the sadness of terminal illness so she can do her job. the show was just boring to her.

I personally find a silent voice to be the saddest of those. a big part of that for me is the voice acting and the way they convey emotion, but also the way the story slowly escalates the emotional scenes from a quiet admission to a shaky angry scream or whatever. i think I also find the characters to be more believable than many anime with that large of a cast. not so much in that they act more like real people, but i find their circumstances and the ways react to them to feel... almost insightful?

[–] JigglySackles 1 points 1 year ago

I liked Silent Voice a lot for that as well. The characters were grounded in reality instead of being melodramatic caricatures or trope types. It kept in a lot of humanity and introspection. People acted normal and for the most part mature or within the bounds one would expect for their age.

[–] WeebLife 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does happy sugar life stack up with these other ones?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Too different to compare. These are all tearjerkers for sure, but in sort of a happysad way, like "so sad that we lost it but so happy that we had it." There is something good and warm that you can identify with, and the hurt comes from it being taken away too soon.

Happy Sugar Life is obvious from the outset that there will be nothing good or warm, there is no hope or anything worth saving. The viewer knows this, but the characters don't. That's what makes it so painful (in a good way) to watch unfold.

[–] WeebLife 1 points 1 year ago

That makes sense. Happy sugar life is depression all around lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

violent murdergarden wasn't that bad compared to the first two

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's wrong with anohana? >:(

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By "bad" I mean "causing muchos feels"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting, I cried a lot when watching any of the violet evergarden entries. Way more than when watching literally anything else in my life.