Saddest anime deaths?

[Kiro Akira]

Spoiler: Spoiler for FMA: Brotherhood 

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.

Spoiler: Spoiler with above 

Ed-Ward?

Spoiler: Naruto Spoiler 

Fucking jiraiya dude. That shit was so sad. x.x

And Itachi

Spoiler: Code Geass Spoiler 

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

[Enigma]

Graveyard of the Fireflies. 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]

Spoiler: Death Note 

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. 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.