Saddest anime deaths?

[Rha'az]

Well, what's your saddest anime death? Also, spoilers inbound in this thread.

If you watch Fate/Zero then proceed to Fate/stay night, Ilyasviel's death is the saddest for me.

[Splat]

Hughes, man. He obssesed over his beautiful wife and little girl and then he got murdered by a demon DISGUISED AS HIS WIFE. Then they had a frickin sad funeral. Also, Nina as well. She was used by her father to perform a deadly experiment that combined her and her dog into a chimera. Then she was killed. GAH. This show is sad. But also amazing.

[Kris]

Mai Hime/Mai Otome Death scenes were really sad to watch.

Bokurano was also terrible at that.

[Echo]

Although I'm not sure whether this is the saddest death I've seen, it's up there, and certainly one of my favourite because I love the series so much. Ace D. Portgas from One Piece :(((

[Icedream]

Aww that one's terrible. T_T

Kirito's former guild caught in dungeon room

[Vanity&Ecstasy]

Not really deaths per say since these characters were already dead, but if you've seen Angel Beats the "Graduation Ceremony" had me bawling.

In that same vein Menma's passing at the end of Ano Hana.

[Griff]

To me the Angel Beats one wasn't as sad, because they were technically already dead.

That and I have no soul.

[Rha'az]

Another one. Stardust Crusaders.
Iggy's death. The dog was kicked until near death. He died saving Polnareff.

[Squeaky91]

It was really said in DBZ when Vegeta died to Buu. Not so much because he died, cause no one really stays dead in that show, but because of how he died, going out to protect someone other than himself. That was the first time I really understood character development.

[AngelFire]

The saddest anime death I still tear up with, is Legato Bluesummers in Trigun. I feel for both Vash and Legato, I wont say anything else, just in case you want to watch it yourself.... but I tear up every time I watch it still, and it's been years since I saw it first.

[Holeypaladin]

Clannad: After Story has some of the saddest death scenes of all time.

[Snotgirl]

The part where Han Solo died.

i cri evrytim

[Miss Devil]

Any thing from the anime Another. I hated seeing certain characters die in such a gruesome manner.


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[Melanite]

This is the most recent one I saw that shattered my heart.

Hide, when Ken carried him and the music was playing, that really got to me. I've heard the death is not confirmed but still, what a way to end it!

[Dancraft41]

This was mine:
I hated and loved the episode of Assassination Classroom where Korosensei was killed after calling roll. I was crying like a baby, to say the least

[Evening Rain]

I think the original mention of Ilya's death is very true. That really hit home for me.

Basically, Gilgamesh is responsible for my top 2 saddest anime deaths, Ilya and F/Z Rider. :'/

[Cfavano]

isn't Ilya not an actual person in the anime so she can't really die?

[Imperial1917]

To me the Angel Beats one wasn't as sad, because they were technically already dead.
That and I have no soul.
Try asking what death is in a philosophical sense rather than a biological one. Biologically, death is usually defined as a cessation of brain activity. Philosophically, socially, death is the cessation of the ability to interact with someone; the point at which no further back-and-forth interaction can be obtained within the natural spectrum. While the characters of Angel Beats were within the school they could experience a type of interaction indistinguishable from real interaction. At the end of the series they passed from that world and into another where, as far as they knew, they would never meet again. It is a sense of loss, the same one that would cause an orphan to describe the death of its parents as never being able to talk to them again. In that sense, they were alive and, at the end of the series, died.


isn't Ilya not an actual person in the anime so she can't really die?
This is why we can't have AI. Or clones. Or children, for that matter. -_-

There's a philosophical issue here where treating someone as a non-human/non-sentient being rolls into a deep, dark place pretty fast. Ilya may have been a homunculus, but aside from being born in a vat, there is little to distinguish her from an actual human. Or to be more precise, she easily fell within the considerably wide spectrum of what we would consider human. Because of this, we can consider her death sad.

Besides, the argument is neither quite here nor there. If a puppy died, we wouldn't mourn it as a human, but we would mourn it all the same. It is a matter of empathy and loss, not merely whether the thing was human.

[XanesFox]

Well.... saddest death I have seen in Anime is a tie between Nina Tucker, and Ushio from Clannad.

As for an actual animation based off a spin off of Undertale was Flowerfell's Frisk in the song Secret Garden. It pretty much tells how the girl tries to make friends in the underground when all they do is kill her over and over again but each time she dies a flowers added to her body. Eventually she goes blind and Sans starts to help her and grow close. By the end of their journey shes covered in so many flowers that she cant move. So Frisk asks Sans to take their soul to set them all free. Sans tries to convince her to live and stay with him. But her body gives out and she dies in his arms.

Heres the video link to it

https://youtu.be/SFXAbpj34ZI

[LastExile]

MAES HUGHES!! That one tore my heart out.

[Kiro Akira]

Hughes, man. He obssesed over his beautiful wife and little girl and then he got murdered by a demon DISGUISED AS HIS WIFE. Then they had a frickin sad funeral. Also, Nina as well. She was used by her father to perform a deadly experiment that combined her and her dog into a chimera. Then she was killed. GAH. This show is sad. But also amazing.

Ed-Ward?
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Fucking jiraiya dude. That shit was so sad. x.x

And Itachi



Euphemia li Britannia<-----She didn't have to die like seriously D: What the fuck show.

[Enigma]

Graveyard of the Fireflies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vPeTSRd580). I watched it once, absolutely dry eyed when little Setsuko died, followed eventually by her brother, Seita Yokokawa. Tears started when the spirits reunited afterward.

Someone wanted to watch it two years after, and I burst into tears the moment it started, thoroughly trashing my reputation of being entirely cold-hearted. I'm crying now just thinking about them. This is not an anime I think I can ever watch again.

Don't get me wrong, it is a beautiful anime from Studio Ghibli, semi-autobiographical, with a very strong anti-war message. But it was released as a double-billing with My Neighbor Totoro, because you needed something happy after it. It is such a sad and powerful anime.

[kib5553]

L's death was so, so sad for me. It just... no. At least, every time I watch the anime or read the manga, I see him alive again. And then, he dies, all over again... Rest in peace you diabetic potato. My avatar will forever pay tribute to poor L...

[Jarms48]

Graveyard of the Fireflies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vPeTSRd580). I watched it once, absolutely dry eyed when little Setsuko died, followed eventually by her brother, Seita Yokokawa. Tears started when the spirits reunited afterward.

Someone wanted to watch it two years after, and I burst into tears the moment it started, thoroughly trashing my reputation of being entirely cold-hearted. I'm crying now just thinking about them. This is not an anime I think I can ever watch again.

Don't get me wrong, it is a beautiful anime from Studio Ghibli, semi-autobiographical, with a very strong anti-war message. But it was released as a double-billing with My Neighbor Totoro, because you needed something happy after it. It is such a sad and powerful anime.

I know this comment is over 2 years old but I was just about to mention the same movie.

I just recently watched Grave of the Firefly's with my partner during a Studio Ghibli binge. It was one of the saddest and shocking animated films I've ever seen.

[Enigma]

I suggest My Neighbor Totoro to follow. Or Porco Russo, The Cat Comes Back, or any other happy anime. Pom Poko is weird fun (Leave the tempura...!) but has some less powerful sad moments towards the end.

[Jarms48]

I suggest My Neighbor Totoro to follow. Or Porco Russo, The Cat Comes Back, or any other happy anime. Pom Poko is weird fun (Leave the tempura...!) but has some less powerful sad moments towards the end.

I do remember my partner saying My Neighbour Totoro was released as a double feature with Fireflies. The unfortunate thing was that we had already watched most of these a few days before hand, and she only found out about the double-billing after we had watched Totoro. So we went to bed with Fireflies fresh in our minds.