[Top 10] Tragic Anime Recommendations

A group of teenagers is learning how to cope without their friend, Meiko Honma – though they called her Menma. She died after a tragic accident when they were kids, and no one has really moved on since then.

One day, though, Jinta Yadomi is peacefully playing video games at home, when Menma suddenly appears in front of him. She’s pestering him to grant a forgotten wish, and at first he thinks it’s just the summer heat. But as it turns out, it’s really Menma’s ghost.

Now, they need to relive through the grief of Menma’s death, while still learning to move on themselves.

Satoru Fujinuma realizes he has a gift – whenever something terrible is about to happen, he’s sent back several minutes in time before the accident. Using this newfound ability, which he calls a Revival, the 29 year old manga artist is able to save several lives.

However, the day he’s accused (wrongfully, mind you) of murdering someone close to him, Satoru is sent back in time again. This time, though, he’s sent 18 years into the past. As he realizes, though, the murder of his friend may also be connected to the kidnapping of one of his classmates in the past!

Living in the same house as his crush should’ve been a dream come true for Shinichirou Nakagami, but the reality is anything but. At school, Hiromi is bright and outgoing; at home, she’s distant and encased in the shell she made for herself after an abusive childhood.

But at the same time, a girl at school named Isurugi Noe has taken an interest in Shinichirou too. So now, Shinichirou has to understand his feelings for Noe and Hiromi at the same time, all while trying to finish the children’s picture book that he’s writing at the same time.

Yep. We’re talking about this one.

Kousei Arima is a total prodigy of a pianist. However, after the death of his mother, he becomes closed off and goes on a downward spiral, leaving him unable to hear the sound of his own piano. Two years later, though, the gorgeous violinist girl Ryuota Watari barges into his life.

One thing he knows for certain is that never going to be the same again, that much Arima knows. However, little does Arima know that soon enough, he’ll be able to find his love for the piano once again in the dawn of April.

After he contracts Hepatitis A, Ezaki Yuuchi is locked away in a hospital. Unfortunately, he’s kept away from his friends and family, so now he has to get his entertainment by sneaking out of the hospital and causing chaos. This… usually results in his nurse getting mad at him.

One day, though, he met a girl in the same hospital, her name Akiba Rika. As the two grow closer, a love between them forms – a tragic love, because Rika doesn’t have much longer to live.

The middle-schooler Mirai Onozawa hates her family. Eventually, she gets so frustrated, she just wishes she could tear everything apart. Unfortunately for her, though, it seems like these destructive thoughts have finally come true, in the form of a magnitude 8.0 earthquake.

Suddenly she realizes that she didn’t want this. But it’s too late, she’s already separated from her family, and now it’s a fight to find them and see for herself that her family really is alive. It’s a story about how you should always be careful of what you wish for – because you just might get it.

In a small town, a group of friends are about to bid farewell to Sana Hidaka, who has to move away due to his father’s business. He has to say goodbye to his friends, though it’s extremely difficult and painful for him. Despite that, though, he believes that fate will bring them back together again.

Now, five years later, Sana returns home to his old town. However, he quickly realizes that not everything is as it was when he left it. His friends have changed, and these changes threaten to break the bonds that he once held so dearly.

Well, Tsukasa Mizugaki failed his college entrance exams. After pulling some strings, he does manage to land a job at the Sion Artificial Intelligence Corporations, where they make Giftias – androids that are indiscernible from normal humans. However, there’s only one problem:

The Giftias have a lifespan of nine years and four months.

The high schooler Haruka Suzumiya confesses to Takayuki Narumi – the boy she’s in love with. Surprisingly, he accepts her confession, and the two of them become a couple together. Everything’s sweet and perfect, until tragedy strikes, leaving one of them in a coma.

Three years later, they awaken, but… something is wrong.

Okay, listen, I’ve never seen this movie before, but even I know damn well that this one belonged at the top of the list.

Grave of the Fireflies is about two siblings – Seita and Setsuko. Their lives have been ravaged by World War II, and as the war comes to a close, they have nothing left. Now, they have to try and live their lives, knowing that their parents and homes are gone.

I hope you all enjoyed this article! Have you seen any of these anime/cried at them? Let me know in the comments down below! And in the meantime, I’m Sara Ann, and I’ll see you in the next article!