Anime creators love making their audience cry. From heartfelt dramas about young love, unrequited feelings, and relationship drama to the more serious stories that tackle issues like death, war, and illness, anime has found countless ways to break hearts and make viewers weep. Here is the heartbreaking Anime.

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Your Name

The idea of fate in anime is nothing new. However, Your Name tackles it from a new perspective, and that makes it one of the saddest anime movies. The movie follows Mitsuha and Taki, high school students who come from average, humble lives.

Mitsuha wants to live in Tokyo, but she can’t afford it. Taki struggles to maintain his studies while working a part-time job. These are two highly relatable characters brought together by fate when they suddenly switch bodies.

Plastic Memories

Plastic Memories is one of those shows that gives the audience a bracing dose of reality and the reminder that nothing lasts forever. The premise of this sad sci-fi anime revolves around the creation of androids that are almost impossible to discern from real human beings.

However, the main difference is that androids have a very short finite lifespan. They can only live for a maximum of about nine years. The protagonist falls in love with one of these androids. He realizes that his time with her is running out.

5 Centimeters Per Second

Makoto Shinkai’s films are known for their breathtakingly beautiful visuals. The one that hits fans hardest in the feels is still 5 Centimeters Per Second. Revolving around two close friends who are torn apart by life, the film is about growing up and growing apart.

Despite their efforts to stay in touch, the characters keep drifting further apart as they go through life. However, their memories of each other remain, and they keep hoping to meet once again despite the growing distance between them.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is a tale about two brothers who broke the laws of alchemy. They attempt human transmutation, in order to bring their deceased mother back to life. The brothers paid a high cost for their indiscretion.

These brave and tenacious brothers refused to resign themselves to their fates and set out to find a way to get their bodies back. They believed the Philosopher’s Stone to be the key, but, faced with the stone’s true nature.

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The Day I Became A God

The Day I Became a God is not the very best drama anime, it’s still worth a watch. The anime felt like reverse Isekai at first, with the oddly dressed girl Hina Sato claiming to be Odin, visiting Earth on an important mission.

Protagonist Yota Narukami eventually learns the heartbreaking truth about Hina, who is perfectly human and struggling with a difficult medical condition. In this sad anime series, Yota will return the favor and help the petite pink-haired girl who helped him so much with her “Odin” persona.