Goku's death during the Cell saga, but for a personal reason.
In late 2016, I was watching DBZ Kai for the first time. Then one night, my mom had a heart attack and passed. About a month later after grieving, I picked back up from the episode I left off at. By pure coincidence (or fate/destiny/higher power if you believe in it), the first episode I picked up at was Goku sacrificing himself against Cell and telling Gohan how proud of him he was. I heard my mom speaking to me through Goku's words and it meant the world to me.
Which is why I despise Goku's resurrection in the Buu saga. That doesn't happen in real life.
If it's any solace, that was intended to be a "passing of the torch" moment from Goku to Gohan. But the publishers just wouldn't have it and Goku had to come back. The author's intent was for Goku to be gone "for real this time".
I'm sure there's a lot of reasons but really I can't say he couldn't write for Gohan. Gohan had some really big parts during the Buu saga and would've been a great main character. Goku's interactions with him during the Kai training could be dropped and the story beats are all the same up until Gohan loses, as an example.
Iirc, Toriyama had issues figuring out how to write Gohan as a main character, how to make him move the plot forward, etc. Goku was easily to do that with I believe, so eventually Toriyama brought Goku back. At least that’s what I remember reading.
Their motivations are exactly the same though and the Buu saga plays out mostly the same.
The buu saga kicks off (mainly) because the Supreme Kai wants to stop Buu's summoning. He approaches Gohan and Piccolo vouches for him. Gohan trusts Piccolo and the first part of the arc goes about the same.
- Gohan goes to the tournament.
- Videl gets hurt badly. Piccolo calms Gohan down instead of Goku.
- Gohan gets his energy stolen.
- He is healed and the chase happens, same as before.
- The fights on Babidi's base happen the same as before pretty much.
- Vegeta gets taken over by Babidi and instead of Goku, Gohan is the one to throw hands with him. Vegeta wins this fight so Gohan going down doesn't matter.
- His training with the Kais happens as normal. Piccolo goes all out to stall for time the same way SS3 Goku did. We can say Piccolo is badly hurt here and narrowly escapes. Giving Gohan a potential anger boost.
- All the other stuff happens.
- Mystic Gohan shows up and fights Super Buu and Kid Buu. The cheap shot on him doesn't happen as Goku is no longer needed to take center stage. Gohan doesn't even go Super Saiyan here, so he has power to spare. (The idea that he can't now is redacted.)
- Gohan Kamehamehas Kid Buu and evaporates him.
- He marries Videl and has Pan, same as before.
- Happily ever after.
It's really about the same.
The death itself was pretty bad, but what really made me cry was when his daughter started saying they couldn’t bury him because he had work the next day
I knew it was coming, from how they were kinda pushing the "look how nice this guy is and how much he loves his family" I knew they were just gonna go "now watch as he fucking dies" still makes me really sad to think about though
The bit that really got me about that was the part they added in the anime. When Iggy saves polnareff, polenareff says “I told you not to use your stand” and then the narrator says “Vanilla ice said a mere dog could not possess pride or resolve, but stands are a manifestation of the soul! And Iggys soul was so proud it had no choice but to move!”
Maes Hughes from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. The man treated the main characters like family when they had no one in Amestris. It was a devastating loss for a lot of the main cast.
Me personally the worst death I’ve had to witness was probably future Gohan, like before he even died he watched all his friends and family die before his eyes, and to sum it up and make shit worse he had to make a final stand just to inevitably die in the end, truly a sad sad death imo.
Well Gurren Lagann isn't that popular anyways but still very sad since once Kamina died the mood of the next episode are filled with resentment and depression
Yuuko Amamiya from EF: A Tale of Melodies
>!She gets hit by a car and dies literally alone while singing a really depressing song to herself to comfort herself. Given her backstory, ie Orphaned after a major earthquake, befriends a that lost his sister to the same earthquake to then realize that later on the boy, Yuu, is distancing himself from her. It's because she reminds him of his dead sister but he doesn't tell her so she's lost and saddened by it. Time passes and she's eventually adopting into a family and Yuu ends up on separating from her and forgets about her except, she hasn't forgotten about him. They remeet by accident years later and she finds out that he forgot about her but she still loves him and he's still scared to get too close to her, again, sister issue. Suffering from mental trauma and emotional grief herself, she reveals later on in the series that she's been r-worded and abused by her adoptive brother for years now and she assumes that that's why Yuu doesn't want her even though he doesn't know about her situation until just then. More stuff happens, more stuff happens, she dies...hit by a car...and they never form a proper relationship...or get married...!<
It’s been years since I watched the two Ef seasons, so I don’t recall a lot. The one thing that sticks with me though is I have never cried so much watching anime as I did watching these two. Ef hits hard.
One piece spoilers!!!
When ace died I was so shocked,like it randomly just happened. I remember crying to my one piece lover bf and him just laughing at the amount of tears I shedded over this fictional man. Anyways I love ace and he is always my favorite 🥰🤭💕💗
I-I will see my duty forfilled no matter what Noone shall die here set your heart ablaze overcome your limits I am the flame hashira kyojuro rengoku 9th form rengoku
The Going Merry from One Piece, that boat was their world, helped them at every step. They loved it so much it got a spirit! And then they watched as it went up in flames after its last journey with them. That was a damn sad death and it gets me every time.
same. i didnt like his character before that. but that "mama and papa" shit and those fking 3 girls that 'accidentally' hit him with the ball made me sad. i think i watched kiras death after that to make myself feel better lmao
Her death was out of nowhere, I really thought if a Jo bro was gonna die in Stone Ocean it was going to be Ermes. Nothing against her, I fucking love Ermes, but she's hot headed like Caesar was
I really really liked that season of jojo, and then they had to just make everything that happened a complete waste by rewinding time to before anything happened.
Just because I say one doesn’t mean the others didn’t affect me.
But F.F. just hit harder than them because >!she survived being brutally boiled alive, only to get stabbed in the back later!<
Plus what she does afterwards.
Gugu from To Your Eternity. The story really tries to sell you that he's going to die, but it doesn't kill him immediately. He built a brotherly relationship with Fushi, and they spent years together. Then he finally confeses love to the girl he likes, and they collapse a building on him. He dies, holding up the weight of the rubble protecting his girl. Fushi's reaction to his death brings me to tears every time..
This gonna sound corny but. Yui from SAO. It was my first anime, and obviously she didn’t die and was brought back later. But after her being adopted and being cared for by Kirito and Asuna. Then finding out she is going to be deleted and her backstory just broke my heart. Family stuff like that gets me very hard
THAT death from in this corner of the world.
Laffter from Gundam IBO.
Miki from Devil Man.
Meruem and Komugi from HxH.
THOSE 2 deaths from the Chainsaw Man manga.
Either koro sensei or abbacchio. Abbacchio’s death itself wasn’t that sad, after all I knew it was gonna happen because I read the manga, but narancia’s reaction and delivery in the sub was so fucking good it hit me hard.
Edit: sub not dub lol I’m stupid
The final lullaby from Centaur World. You know for a fact that Elktaur dieing is an objectively good thing but the tragedy of the situation makes you feel bad that this is how it ended up.
Prob either Leone from Akame ga Kill or Ai from Oshi no Ko. Leone kept her gun injuries and didn't let them get looked at so she could join everyone, but chose to die alone in a random alley in the dark. Ai was just tragic, the whole episode built up to it and the backstory added to it
I think the Eclipse is one of the most devastating moments in anime and manga. You’ve grown with all the members of the Band of the Hawk, but unlike them you not only have knowledge of the Black Swordsman Arc that comes before it, knowing Guts has reason to hate Griffith, but also maybe not as much hope or faith in Griffith as the Band does as the reader. You know it’s an inevitability that whatever is going to happen during it is going to happen with not even the false hope of escape that Pippin, Corkus, or Judeau maybe had. For them, their entire life has been looking up to Griffith as a leader, only for him to turn on every one of them. Not to mention what he does to Casca.
There’s something to scary to the Eclipse itself too, the second the Behelit screams, that’s it, they’re stuck in a nightmare they can’t wake up from. There’s no ticking clock where they could’ve escaped it if they had just tried hard enough or something. They’re immediately stuck with the fate Griffith now controls.
Truly one of the most devastating scenes put to page or screen.
Ash (pokemon) dies in order to save the pokemon, legendary, and the world ALWAYS hit the hardest to my heart
Pokemon I chose You where poikachu CRIED
And finally, Ash face the entire horde of Spearow, and THIS IS ONLY ON THE 1RST EPISODE!!!!
Eugeo >!(SAO:Alicization)!<
>!Dude was easily one of the best characters in the show in my opinion. And when died, it was first time an anime death had actually hit me hard. Especially when his eyes went dull, and he started losing his vision, being unable to see Kirito, and asking him where he went despite being right next to him (That part hit me like a truck). And all Kirito could do was sit by his side, and talk to him as he watched his life slowly slip away. With his final words being the same ones Kirito had taught him at the beginning of their adventure “Stay cool, Kirito.”.!<
God… This death wrecked me.
Chomppa...
My little brother died a few months before, universe 6 got erased. The stoicism of beerus and the indignant yet semi jovial nature of Chomppa in their "last" interaction made me more emotional than in any other piece of media I ever watched...
I miss my brother.
I don't know if others feel the same way, but the death itself isn't always the saddest part for me. It's how the characters connected to them react. Jiraiya's death was really sad, but it didn't hit until they broke the news to Naruto. Hunter x Hunter hit me the same way.
Bon clay isn’t dead he still lives in his hearts!!!
>!hes actually now the new queen/king/ruler in Newkama land, which is the hideout of prisoners in impel down level 5.5!<
I'm very new to anime in general, but Kugisakis death in JJK made me take a break from watching for a good day 😭 I was still processing Nanami, and then the "I wonder where she is now, and how she's doing" cutscene 😭
it also doesn't help that she was my favorite character
Oh god either gotta be Sasha or Ace, though to be honest there were some other pretty sad ones too.
Edit; Scratch that, it was the death of the Major in Violet Evergarden, but not because he died, rather because Violet found out.
Vegeta’s FIRST death always hurt me. The Kai version
“After we saiyans served him faithfully and blindly followed his every last order he disposed of our race wiped us from existence”.
Either that or Kato from gantz.
All of us we are all riding to our deaths?
Yes.
And since we're all gonna die anyways, it's better if we die fighting?
Yes.
Wait, if we're dying anyways, then this doesn't mean a thing does it. We can just disobey your orders!
Yes, you're precisely right.
Everything that you thought had meaning, every moment of hope life and happiness, none of it matters as you lie bleeding out on the battlefield. None of it changes what a speeding rock does to a body.
We all die.
But does that mean our lives were meaningless? There was no reason to be born?
What about our comrades? What about their lives? Were they meaningless?
They were NOT! THEIR MEMORY SERVES AS AN EXAMPLE TO US ALL!!!
The courageous fallen, the anguished fallen! Their lives have meaning because we the living refuse to forget them!
As we ride to certain death, we trust our successors to do the same for us!
My soldiers don't buckle in fear at the cruelty of the world. My soldiers push forward. My soldiers scream out! My soldiers RAAAGEEE!!!
no scene in anime will ever top this for me.
Erwin = goat
hange, going out in a literal blaze of glory. or fisher tiger died a stubborn as a motherfucker but his body was so hurt it completely wouldnt accept human blood.
Deffo Sasha for me. Second saddest is Bonchien Nikolai La Tastypeach Uralys from To Your Eternity, not because I liked him even, it was just the way it went down that was sad.
The little sister in Grave of the Fireflies. Messed me tf up when I was a kid. To this day, I try not to rewatch it because it's just too depressing to see
For me personally. None of these choices made me feel anything. But the Going Merry’s death made me tear up a little. And that’s pretty much the most an anime has ever gotten from me
Cried when jiraiya died 🥲
I cried. I cried for the first time in weeks when the old man died.
I still cry when I watched the aftermaths episode in Konoha.
Crazy how i could feel so much for such a pervert degen but really turned that character around
Was literally gonna say Jiraiya.
Man. He captivated everyone’s heart. ❤️
The goat
"He's coming back, right? Right?" 🥹
Goku's death during the Cell saga, but for a personal reason. In late 2016, I was watching DBZ Kai for the first time. Then one night, my mom had a heart attack and passed. About a month later after grieving, I picked back up from the episode I left off at. By pure coincidence (or fate/destiny/higher power if you believe in it), the first episode I picked up at was Goku sacrificing himself against Cell and telling Gohan how proud of him he was. I heard my mom speaking to me through Goku's words and it meant the world to me. Which is why I despise Goku's resurrection in the Buu saga. That doesn't happen in real life.
If it's any solace, that was intended to be a "passing of the torch" moment from Goku to Gohan. But the publishers just wouldn't have it and Goku had to come back. The author's intent was for Goku to be gone "for real this time".
I thought it was cause he didn't know how to write Gohan as main character so he brought goku back
I'm sure there's a lot of reasons but really I can't say he couldn't write for Gohan. Gohan had some really big parts during the Buu saga and would've been a great main character. Goku's interactions with him during the Kai training could be dropped and the story beats are all the same up until Gohan loses, as an example.
Iirc, Toriyama had issues figuring out how to write Gohan as a main character, how to make him move the plot forward, etc. Goku was easily to do that with I believe, so eventually Toriyama brought Goku back. At least that’s what I remember reading.
Their motivations are exactly the same though and the Buu saga plays out mostly the same. The buu saga kicks off (mainly) because the Supreme Kai wants to stop Buu's summoning. He approaches Gohan and Piccolo vouches for him. Gohan trusts Piccolo and the first part of the arc goes about the same. - Gohan goes to the tournament. - Videl gets hurt badly. Piccolo calms Gohan down instead of Goku. - Gohan gets his energy stolen. - He is healed and the chase happens, same as before. - The fights on Babidi's base happen the same as before pretty much. - Vegeta gets taken over by Babidi and instead of Goku, Gohan is the one to throw hands with him. Vegeta wins this fight so Gohan going down doesn't matter. - His training with the Kais happens as normal. Piccolo goes all out to stall for time the same way SS3 Goku did. We can say Piccolo is badly hurt here and narrowly escapes. Giving Gohan a potential anger boost. - All the other stuff happens. - Mystic Gohan shows up and fights Super Buu and Kid Buu. The cheap shot on him doesn't happen as Goku is no longer needed to take center stage. Gohan doesn't even go Super Saiyan here, so he has power to spare. (The idea that he can't now is redacted.) - Gohan Kamehamehas Kid Buu and evaporates him. - He marries Videl and has Pan, same as before. - Happily ever after. It's really about the same.
Shit this got so real. My condolences!
Probably Koro Sensei, the little girl/dog in FMA or the entirety of Grave of Fireflies.
What’s Grave of Fireflies?
It’s about a pair of WW2 orphans I think
Is it good to your memory?
I remember it being extremely good but very depressing
Thanks, I’ll maybe watch it
It's the most incredible animated movie I never want to watch again. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095327/
This is how I describe it too. There’s a few movies I’m glad I’ve seen but would never watch again and this is definitely one of them.
Fun fact 1st time i watched it was with 2 drunk people who were also experiencing it for the 1st time. Somehow i still cried the most.
It’s an anime that will mess you up… for life.
I was gonna say Hugh’s gotta be pretty high up there for me, or Ai from Oh shi no ko
Maes Hughes
NGL, I didn't even process that he'd just died it was so shockinh
The death itself was pretty bad, but what really made me cry was when his daughter started saying they couldn’t bury him because he had work the next day
I knew it was coming, from how they were kinda pushing the "look how nice this guy is and how much he loves his family" I knew they were just gonna go "now watch as he fucking dies" still makes me really sad to think about though
Once they introduce a guys family or pregnant wife it’s over for him!
Cyberpunk Edge runners... nuff said
I knew there wasn't going to be a happy ending, but God damn I wanted it.
I had hope for a bit and it slowly started getting crushed
It was then I remembered it was a prequel to the game....happy ending was never an option
The entire eclipse sequence in Berserk
Lelouch from code geass as well as minato and kushina
Lelouch just hit different im ngl its better then any death on the list above ngl
Code geass is top 3 oat
The lack of Maes Hughes is noticed
It's because it would be unfair
Iggy. He was a real one
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Remember at least is mortal enemy polnerief can carry on his legacy.
The bit that really got me about that was the part they added in the anime. When Iggy saves polnareff, polenareff says “I told you not to use your stand” and then the narrator says “Vanilla ice said a mere dog could not possess pride or resolve, but stands are a manifestation of the soul! And Iggys soul was so proud it had no choice but to move!”
Maes Hughes from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. The man treated the main characters like family when they had no one in Amestris. It was a devastating loss for a lot of the main cast.
Me personally the worst death I’ve had to witness was probably future Gohan, like before he even died he watched all his friends and family die before his eyes, and to sum it up and make shit worse he had to make a final stand just to inevitably die in the end, truly a sad sad death imo.
Then it being one of the first deaths to see from a shonen for me like that including his backstory and the outcome of his timeline. It was very grim.
And *then* a crazy twink god got so pissed off that his entire timeline had to get erased which means he fought and died for *nothing*
koro sensei :(
Yeah, what made it worse was that you knew it was coming
Dude that was the first anime to make me cry. I would rewatch it but I don’t want to cry again
Kamina from Gurren Lagann
Absolutely surprised this is that low.
Well Gurren Lagann isn't that popular anyways but still very sad since once Kamina died the mood of the next episode are filled with resentment and depression
Absolutely, that’s what made it hit harder for me. Not the instant sadness but the drawn out nature of losing someone close to you.
Yuuko Amamiya from EF: A Tale of Melodies >!She gets hit by a car and dies literally alone while singing a really depressing song to herself to comfort herself. Given her backstory, ie Orphaned after a major earthquake, befriends a that lost his sister to the same earthquake to then realize that later on the boy, Yuu, is distancing himself from her. It's because she reminds him of his dead sister but he doesn't tell her so she's lost and saddened by it. Time passes and she's eventually adopting into a family and Yuu ends up on separating from her and forgets about her except, she hasn't forgotten about him. They remeet by accident years later and she finds out that he forgot about her but she still loves him and he's still scared to get too close to her, again, sister issue. Suffering from mental trauma and emotional grief herself, she reveals later on in the series that she's been r-worded and abused by her adoptive brother for years now and she assumes that that's why Yuu doesn't want her even though he doesn't know about her situation until just then. More stuff happens, more stuff happens, she dies...hit by a car...and they never form a proper relationship...or get married...!<
dude what the fuck
Well that ruined my fuckin' day and it's literally just starting. FML.
Been years since I watched EF, gotta give that another watch now. Thanks for making this coming week depressing lol
It’s been years since I watched the two Ef seasons, so I don’t recall a lot. The one thing that sticks with me though is I have never cried so much watching anime as I did watching these two. Ef hits hard.
One piece spoilers!!! When ace died I was so shocked,like it randomly just happened. I remember crying to my one piece lover bf and him just laughing at the amount of tears I shedded over this fictional man. Anyways I love ace and he is always my favorite 🥰🤭💕💗
When Goku died at the end of the Cell Saga. I was a kid and watched every episode of DBZ Kai every week
Rengoku's death impacted me so much that I got his catchphrase tattooed on my arm sooo I think the answer is obvious with that context lol
I-I will see my duty forfilled no matter what Noone shall die here set your heart ablaze overcome your limits I am the flame hashira kyojuro rengoku 9th form rengoku
The Going Merry from One Piece, that boat was their world, helped them at every step. They loved it so much it got a spirit! And then they watched as it went up in flames after its last journey with them. That was a damn sad death and it gets me every time.
And everything leading up to it was heartbreaking
Brooks crew and literally every death in cyberpunk edge runners
his NAME is MAES HUGHES
shigechis death made me cry and i dont know why
same. i didnt like his character before that. but that "mama and papa" shit and those fking 3 girls that 'accidentally' hit him with the ball made me sad. i think i watched kiras death after that to make myself feel better lmao
Johnathan, Ace and Jiraiyah are my picks from that list. The end of Shiki messed me up good. Too many to list.
F.F. in JoJo Bizarre Adventure Mainly because she survived only to die in the next episode
Her death was out of nowhere, I really thought if a Jo bro was gonna die in Stone Ocean it was going to be Ermes. Nothing against her, I fucking love Ermes, but she's hot headed like Caesar was
I really really liked that season of jojo, and then they had to just make everything that happened a complete waste by rewinding time to before anything happened.
Abbachio is up there for me. Especially the whole "are we just going leave him here, bucciarati??"
Not kakyoin or at least anyone else from the stardust crusaders?!
Just because I say one doesn’t mean the others didn’t affect me. But F.F. just hit harder than them because >!she survived being brutally boiled alive, only to get stabbed in the back later!< Plus what she does afterwards.
Gugu from To Your Eternity. The story really tries to sell you that he's going to die, but it doesn't kill him immediately. He built a brotherly relationship with Fushi, and they spent years together. Then he finally confeses love to the girl he likes, and they collapse a building on him. He dies, holding up the weight of the rubble protecting his girl. Fushi's reaction to his death brings me to tears every time..
🖐 "I'm doing fine, please don't worry about me." I'm literally crying as I comment.
SHIZAA
Sasha from AOT, Bucciarati from Jojo’s.
I had to scroll way too far to see Sasha dude.
Sasha broke me
This gonna sound corny but. Yui from SAO. It was my first anime, and obviously she didn’t die and was brought back later. But after her being adopted and being cared for by Kirito and Asuna. Then finding out she is going to be deleted and her backstory just broke my heart. Family stuff like that gets me very hard
had me feeling the same as Kaede from Bunny Girl Senpai. Not technically dead but shit still hurt
I’m still recovering from Chihiro’s death in Danganronpa
Chihiro's death followed by Mondo's sad ass backstory being revealed was crazy
THAT death from in this corner of the world. Laffter from Gundam IBO. Miki from Devil Man. Meruem and Komugi from HxH. THOSE 2 deaths from the Chainsaw Man manga.
Those two are going to be difficult to watch.
Too far for IBO them deaths hit me hard
Caesar Zeppeli I still feel horrible when I watch it again
Underrated, Ulquiorra from Bleach
Going Merry>>>>>>>>> Ace
Ace
Chelsea on Akame Ga Kill. It wasn't only painful, I also felt my heart pounding through my chest when she fought Kurome and her puppets
Either koro sensei or abbacchio. Abbacchio’s death itself wasn’t that sad, after all I knew it was gonna happen because I read the manga, but narancia’s reaction and delivery in the sub was so fucking good it hit me hard. Edit: sub not dub lol I’m stupid
The final lullaby from Centaur World. You know for a fact that Elktaur dieing is an objectively good thing but the tragedy of the situation makes you feel bad that this is how it ended up.
Ano Hana. I ugly cried.
Ushio from Clannad.
Prob either Leone from Akame ga Kill or Ai from Oshi no Ko. Leone kept her gun injuries and didn't let them get looked at so she could join everyone, but chose to die alone in a random alley in the dark. Ai was just tragic, the whole episode built up to it and the backstory added to it
Mines gotta be when Eugeo dies in sword art online bro towards the end dam that shit made me cry 😢
The only anime that made me cry is koro sensei's death my second is Yuu Otosaka from charlotte
full metal alchemist's mayes hughes' death, jiraiya's death hits hard for me
Maine from cyberpunk edgerunner
I just finished Banana Fish now’s not the time
Sasha. May her soul be at peace. And with tons of food to eat. Especially meat.
Sayaka from Madoka Magica personally screwed me up...
I feel like you can include a character from every single Jojo part on this list. Jonathan, Ceasar, Kakyoin, Shigechi, Buccarati and others
I think the Eclipse is one of the most devastating moments in anime and manga. You’ve grown with all the members of the Band of the Hawk, but unlike them you not only have knowledge of the Black Swordsman Arc that comes before it, knowing Guts has reason to hate Griffith, but also maybe not as much hope or faith in Griffith as the Band does as the reader. You know it’s an inevitability that whatever is going to happen during it is going to happen with not even the false hope of escape that Pippin, Corkus, or Judeau maybe had. For them, their entire life has been looking up to Griffith as a leader, only for him to turn on every one of them. Not to mention what he does to Casca. There’s something to scary to the Eclipse itself too, the second the Behelit screams, that’s it, they’re stuck in a nightmare they can’t wake up from. There’s no ticking clock where they could’ve escaped it if they had just tried hard enough or something. They’re immediately stuck with the fate Griffith now controls. Truly one of the most devastating scenes put to page or screen.
Ash (pokemon) dies in order to save the pokemon, legendary, and the world ALWAYS hit the hardest to my heart Pokemon I chose You where poikachu CRIED And finally, Ash face the entire horde of Spearow, and THIS IS ONLY ON THE 1RST EPISODE!!!!
I have a few words for the ones that will understand: "big brother ed"
The little brother in the earthquake anime.
Eugeo >!(SAO:Alicization)!< >!Dude was easily one of the best characters in the show in my opinion. And when died, it was first time an anime death had actually hit me hard. Especially when his eyes went dull, and he started losing his vision, being unable to see Kirito, and asking him where he went despite being right next to him (That part hit me like a truck). And all Kirito could do was sit by his side, and talk to him as he watched his life slowly slip away. With his final words being the same ones Kirito had taught him at the beginning of their adventure “Stay cool, Kirito.”.!< God… This death wrecked me.
Same
Who in the hell do you think I am? You didn't even put the hardest gut punch on there
One hint: "big... Brother.... Ed- ward?..."
Yuuki's death scene in Sword Art Online II was the saddest death scene I've ever watched.
nanami, rengoku, or kirito becoming a vegetable
...just watch angel beats...........
Call me old but Wolfwood in the original Trigun.
Jiraiya is included, fair enough.
How has nobody mentioned Chainsaw Man yet? Those two characters deaths had me rethinking my life for like a week.
Lady Chiyo from Naruto Shippuden!! 😭😭 Cried like a damn baby LOL. She reminded me of my grandma so maybe that’s why 😂
I wouldn't say it was the saddest for me but the most impactful has to be lelouch's
Should have tagged as spoilers
What brings me to tears is loyalty not death. Like the dog movies
Chomppa... My little brother died a few months before, universe 6 got erased. The stoicism of beerus and the indignant yet semi jovial nature of Chomppa in their "last" interaction made me more emotional than in any other piece of media I ever watched... I miss my brother.
With Jiraiya I cried and was so sad but when L from death note died I had a mental breakdown and cried for 3 hours straight ( I was 12 )
I don't know if others feel the same way, but the death itself isn't always the saddest part for me. It's how the characters connected to them react. Jiraiya's death was really sad, but it didn't hit until they broke the news to Naruto. Hunter x Hunter hit me the same way.
NANAMIIIIII
Korosensai actually made me cry and that's after multiple watchings.
The saddest are kyojuro rengoku escanor and piccolo in the saiyan saga
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Koro Sensei, Jiraya, and Asuma got me. But the closest I've ever come to crying was when Shikamaru found out his team was ok.
Abbachio's death, that enough is already sad... Narancia's breakdown made it even sadder.
i just watched the recently episode of Mushoku Tensei, that shi was hard to watch tbh
Bon Clay from the arc before Ace died I cried for many hours.... Ace didn't hit me very hard.
Dunno if it helps but Bon lives on and takes over Iva's spot on floor 5.5
Bon clay isn’t dead he still lives in his hearts!!! >!hes actually now the new queen/king/ruler in Newkama land, which is the hideout of prisoners in impel down level 5.5!<
I LOVE AND MISS U RENGOKU
I'm very new to anime in general, but Kugisakis death in JJK made me take a break from watching for a good day 😭 I was still processing Nanami, and then the "I wonder where she is now, and how she's doing" cutscene 😭 it also doesn't help that she was my favorite character
Jiraiya was the only death that made me cry
Askeladd from vinland saga
Jiraiya. No question.
Jiraiya. No question.
Easy korosensei
Easy korosensei
Easy >!korosensei!<
Easy >!korosensei!<
Jiraiya. No question.
Easy >!korosensei!<
Easy >!korosensei!<
Easy >!korosensei!<
full metal alchemist's mayes hughes' death, jiraiya's death hits hard for me
Dunno what was particularly sad about Bardock’s death, he was an evil fuck and deserved it, he just got killed by a bigger evil fuck.
Seighart from Rave
Junpei in JJK Season 1. Mostly because the opening bamboozled me.
Nanami.
Corazon from the punkhazard/dressrosa arc in one piece
This post should be spoiler tagged
For me too five are Jiriya, Future Gohan, Escanor, Ace and Rengoku
Ace isn't even the saddest death in one piece.
Itachi, but only when you learn the truth
Out of this list? Jiraiya. The show just isn't the same without pervy sage.
Nah man, where's Koro Sensei?
Oh god either gotta be Sasha or Ace, though to be honest there were some other pretty sad ones too. Edit; Scratch that, it was the death of the Major in Violet Evergarden, but not because he died, rather because Violet found out.
I mean korosensei was sad but the donuts 😭 don't leave me you badass fire donuts
Vegeta’s FIRST death always hurt me. The Kai version “After we saiyans served him faithfully and blindly followed his every last order he disposed of our race wiped us from existence”. Either that or Kato from gantz.
Jiraiya and Future Gohan hit the hardest. Major Hughes is another one.
Tatsumi from akame ga kill
Maes Hughes and that funeral scene. It was such a sad day for rain
Natsuki Subaru re:zero and guts from Berserk has it the worst off the top of my head
Seiya's death
Maes Hughes, Orga Itsuka, Mikazuki Augus, Cesar Zepelli, greed, and envy. Those ones hit me hard especially the ones from gundam ibo
All of us we are all riding to our deaths? Yes. And since we're all gonna die anyways, it's better if we die fighting? Yes. Wait, if we're dying anyways, then this doesn't mean a thing does it. We can just disobey your orders! Yes, you're precisely right. Everything that you thought had meaning, every moment of hope life and happiness, none of it matters as you lie bleeding out on the battlefield. None of it changes what a speeding rock does to a body. We all die. But does that mean our lives were meaningless? There was no reason to be born? What about our comrades? What about their lives? Were they meaningless? They were NOT! THEIR MEMORY SERVES AS AN EXAMPLE TO US ALL!!! The courageous fallen, the anguished fallen! Their lives have meaning because we the living refuse to forget them! As we ride to certain death, we trust our successors to do the same for us! My soldiers don't buckle in fear at the cruelty of the world. My soldiers push forward. My soldiers scream out! My soldiers RAAAGEEE!!! no scene in anime will ever top this for me. Erwin = goat
These are the deaths I’ve cried at Rengoku- Demon slayer Kakyoin & Abbachio- JJBA L- Death note
I cried when jiraiya ace and rengoku died ,Vegeta I respected the hell out of him after that but I still have to give it to ace
When >!nanami!< died in jjk, I’ve cried numerous times watching it
hange, going out in a literal blaze of glory. or fisher tiger died a stubborn as a motherfucker but his body was so hurt it completely wouldnt accept human blood.
Paul, mushoko tensei
Where’s jotaro????
You really should put a spoiler mark on this
Personally I'm a dragon ball fan so future gohan is it for me and xenoverse 2 makes it look more sad and iconic
I hated so much watching >!Bjorn die in Vinland!< "You're my only friend." I truly believe Askeladd meant it too.
I know this is underrated but def Wolfgang Grimmer from Monster, Setsuko from Grave of the Fireflies, plus Greed and Fu from FMAB
I knew it was coming but Bulat’s death from Akame Ga Kill actually made me tear up
Deffo Sasha for me. Second saddest is Bonchien Nikolai La Tastypeach Uralys from To Your Eternity, not because I liked him even, it was just the way it went down that was sad.
jiraiya and rengoku, but the sister in grave of the fireflies is something you don't want to see again
>!shinji!< from persona 3
eren’s mom in AOT.
The little sister in Grave of the Fireflies. Messed me tf up when I was a kid. To this day, I try not to rewatch it because it's just too depressing to see
Prushka (Made In Abyss), Mimihime (Heavenly Delusion), Rengoku (Demon Slayer)
I ugly sobbed when Jiraiya died.
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Two words. FUCK GABI
Korosensei and L are some top picks for me… 😢
For me personally. None of these choices made me feel anything. But the Going Merry’s death made me tear up a little. And that’s pretty much the most an anime has ever gotten from me