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.
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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.
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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.
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