Angel Beats if you want to cry while watching highschoolers blow each other away with assault rifles.
If I wanted to do that I could just watch the news
Is this some USA/Brazil joke I'm too European to understand?
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.
Not the creator of the meme but I assumed that it wasn't about those animes being sad but them making you cry.
Plus let’s not forget that many talented individuals who worked on Violet Evergarden we’re fucking killled by the KyoAni Fire attack
Violet Evergarden could have been subbed for Grave of the Fireflies.
any good recs?
I'm noticing a lack of Plastic memories in this meme.
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.
Just made an edit for you.
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.
Clannad wasn't bad.... After Story on the other hand, talk about ripping your heart out and stomping on it.
How does happy sugar life stack up with these other ones?
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.
That makes sense. Happy sugar life is depression all around lol
