Top 10 Sad Yet Beautiful Anime Endings
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jan 16, 2012 06:04 JST
- Tags: AIR, Ano Hana, Code Geass, Ga-rei Zero, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Rankings
Otaku have voted on the saddest yet most elegant anime endings, providing a list of anime sure to be forever engraved on the mind of any almost any viewer…
1. Code Geass R2
2. Puella Magi Madoka Magica
3. Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai
4. Ga-Rei Zero
5. Air
6. Ef – A Tale Of Melodies
7. Mawaru Penguindrum
8. Angel Beats!
9. Saikano
10. School Days
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I cried manly tears after Ga-Rei Zero
I am just so glad that one of my all time favorite supernatural action Anime is still being remembered. It really is a shame that it is so underrated. While it appears to have a pretty run of the mill premise, at its heart, it is a truly brilliant character drama.
Any "Sad Yet Beautiful Anime Endings List" in wich Chrno Crusade doesn't appear, shouldn't be taken seriously.
Where the heck is cowboy bebop on this list?!
They don't remember it. Japanese otaku don't exactly have the best taste.
It's way down at #39
Lol no Legend of Galactic Heroes really show how fail this list is.
What about Wolf's Rain?
Wolf's Rain is on the list with Big O for "ending that takes a little bit of thinking and digesting"
The 3rd season of Big O is the first season, and the 4th season is the 2nd season, ad infinitum. It's an infinite loop of reset and rewind. Did no-one else figure out that the whole city is one big stage and that every person is an actor playing out a role? That show has no 4th wall, they've completely smashed it.
@17:98 I don't doubt some people find it deep or meaningful somehow, but that's because they're impressed by anything that waves around a lot of cryptic nonsense in lieu of actual profundity.
There's nothing to "digest". Wolf's Rain is an empty shell of a story, a zero-sum game where even the supposedly tragic ending serves no one and nothing, except perhaps those who like to stroke it to raw nihilism.
it did not have a third season that was it that was the final ending to the show there was only supposed to be 2 seasons
in all fairness, Big O was supposed to have a third season. But something happened at Adult Swim and it was a no go. If I remember correctly, they actually paid for or helped pay for the second season. Probably didn't have the ratings they wanted or something. Shame.
Wolf's Rain is on the list with Big O for "endings that made no fucking sense whatsoever".
That only applies to the manga.
Good to see someone listing Chrno Crusade in their comment and also using the right name (hate when people say Chrono Crusade).
IT's simply a must since it's quite pale and sad even though you see action you know it's not something to stirred up about since the outcome usually end less happy.
Oh we beat a demon, oh well at least my chains of time doesn't burden me when I fight oh wait, it does... :(
Truly the most I ever cried was the ending of that anime.
Otaku are all Dora the fish
You sir, are full of win. My thought exactly.
I cried so much for Code Geass R2's ending because they left me hanging..
If Suzaku/Zero makes a cameo in the new Geass OVA/Series, the Internet would explode again. I don't care if people hate on Geass, but it makes for the most fun web discussions.
Grave of the Fireflies.
Most likely, Grave of the Fireflies did not get it because it's a "movie" and not a "series", judging from this list.
Too bad the author fucked up the manga's ending.
Chrono Crusade is missing, but School Days is bizarre, not beautiful.
It's no doubt one of the best anime out there.
Ga-rei zero was too cruel to possibly cry to.
school days?????? i was more disturbed more that anything with that kind of ending
I agree. There was nothing beatiful in its ending. Hell I was pretty depressed for few days thx to that last episode.
At least all the characters get a happy ending in the main story.
wtf, wait a second, these bastards from gonzo got me crying for something that didn't even happen in the original story? i don't read a lot of manga, but i guess i should get it after all in this case.
The Anime went with bad ending.. But at least The Manga storyline went with good ending for every characters :)
I did for Angel Beats!
But why is School Days in there!?
I salute for the Manly Tears!!!
I forgot how this ended. But I get the feeling either the girl with the sword who went psycho, or the other sister died.. or both.
could you kill the person you love out of love?
or something like that
yes. but it's much easier to kill those i don't love.
Reminds me of the heavy rain sub-text, "How far are you willing to go to save someone you love?"
Well, you are wrong sir. Btw it's zero aka prequel, it would be strange if one of main heroes died here
The irony, oh the irony...
Don't be a bastard and keep the spoilers for yourself.
SPOILER:
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It's not a spoiler. He's wrong.
yeah fuck you too
Code Geass #1 nuff said, epitome of sad yet beautiful ending.
How can it be sad if Lelouch didn't die? Search your hearts, you know he's alive... for a possible sequel.
$$$
Didn't the official staff explained that Lelouch did die? Well I also heartbroken when I see him die... I wish CC could transfer her Power to Lelouch so he could become immortal like his father..
money can make anyone come back to life when it come to anime
I'm sorry I can't see what you're getting at as my eyes have suddenly become $_$
i once seen a doujin that CC transfer her immortality to Lelouch and sacrifice herself in his place.
Then Lelouch locked himself in a capsule container that look like one that CC was found in leaving instruction that if his descendent is in need of help then open this capsule.
Few hunred years later, capsule was open by his descendent and the cycle repeat itself in a epic way.
First manly tear for a doujin ever!
I see that you sirs haven't seen the "clip" . There is a clip on the net that actually shows he's alive.
pfffftt yeah, that edit was disproved years ago... aaaaahahahaha
Very true.
Yea can't say i've seen it. I figured it'd be sad though.
NO DEATH NOTE? what is this i don't even...
Swimming lessons aren't sad...
The anime ending fails because, instead of Ryuk's crowning moment of bastard, we get something that feels like a mercy kill.
I certainly didn't feel sad after Death note's ending.
It's just weird.
I know, the part where someone stabs himself is just weird >.>
Death Note? Sad? Dont think so.
Only if you are a Light fan, if not, it's a happy ending... Never mind neither fanbase are happy
I' light's fan, but still not a sad ending.
I hated Light.
I laughed for three hours straight.
I Light fan (also an L fan, sad he SPOILERS died, but I wanted to see Light making the perfect world so :P).
And I guess it was kinda sad. The anime ending is a little weird though, I prefer the original manga one.
I think he's kidding.. but Death Note's ending being weird??
another fujoshi troll again very over rated :P
It may be overrated, but that sure as hell doesn't mean it's bad thing.
No Chrono Crusade?! List is bogus without it.
Ending was sad, beautiful and sweet!
It's a shame. Chrono Crusade is tied at #27 with Phantom with only 32 votes... I can't even remember how Phantom ended.
The problem with Chrno Crusade is that it was a shit series. The only reason people still talk about it is because it's one of the first anime they saw, so it's elevated beyond reason in their minds.
Get the fuck off your high horse, I'd seen dozens and dozens of series before I saw Chrno Crusade, and I still loved it.
the anime was a shit series, the manga was not. It was beautiful and tragic.
well, this list seems to dispute the common claim that otaku have a short memory span. Only three of the top 10 were airing in the past year, and the full list manages to include stuff like Mazinger Z and Tenshi no Tamago. I am rather saddened at the lack of Texhnolyze, though.
No, it actually reinforces that claim. Do any of these go back further than 5-6 years ago? This list is basically a "this is what's been popular for the last few years, don't expect them to remember back much further than this." I'm actually surprised SaiKano even managed to make it on there at all, it's too "old" for some of the short attentioned-span fans. XD
How the hell was school day's ending beautiful. it was the most disturbing thing ever!
I enjoyed code geass's ending it was... right.
school days was just messed.
No Cowboy Bebop, no Mahoromatic.
Who makes these lists?
"You're gonna carry that weight".
@ Anon 07:31:
Agreed, sir.
Also -- No "Kanon"?
>Sad yet BEAUTIFUL ending
>School Days
I don't want to live in this universe anymore
I cried at the end of Doraemon
Which ending?
Well, I think I know which one you mean, anyway...
I'm surprised K-ON didn't top this list too
Well, it will. Once all the girls got a boyfriend and getting married, that is.
I didn't think Anohana's ending was sad. It was very moving, but the end resolution was for the best.
SPOILER----
It was sad story from the beginning, but in the end, Menma fulfilled her wish and moved on (and hopefully, was reincarnated to be with her friends again). I would've been upset had she stayed as a wandering ghost instead.
School Days ending was fucking beautiful? The participants of this survey are vengeful motherfuckers.
school days >.> haha
Got into this list thinking, "CG R2 better fucking be first place." and was pleasantly surprised.
Of course, the presence of Madoka almost makes it impossible to take the rest of the list seriously.
No Hokuto no Ken?! That show had tons of sad yet beautiful moments.
>Angel Beats
. . .
List is BS and missing Chrono Crusade.
Chrono Crusade ranked #27 on the full list, tied with Phantom -Requiem for the phantom-.
where's soukyuu no fafner dead aggressor....
wow, I'm finding a lot of posts like this. Anyway, full list, #17.
The only reason you cried for Angel Beats, was it was in fact really sad.
The only reason you cried for Ga-Rei Zero, is the fact that it led into where the manga "started", and you know for a fact that it will never be animated AGAIN
The only reason you cried for Madoka, is the fact that she became Jesus (and who knows what they are going to pull off in the movie...)
The only reason you cried for Code Geass R2, is because the bull shit that happened in R2 finally ended. Seriously, i don't understand why R2 was so highly praised than the first season...
im sorry, but really sankaku?
where is gurren lagann?
oh! forgive me i didn't read the Sad, in the title. then you are totally right where is GL?
Really Sankaku what? They didn't make the winning choices...
Click on the damn source link marked in bloody CCS orange above like every other bleeding link on this site for sauce link.
Its not link SanCom has anything else better to do than make polls. Too busy with goddesses, jap police failures and bashing china posts...
gurren lagann's ending was awful!, i am a great fan of the series, but Simon's fate really
left me with a very sour taste. unless you like very sad endings i can hardly see the beauty in it's ending. again i am a fan, but it was a very sad ending.
True that. The GL ending was just... unnecessary.
Wish they include Fate/Stay Night in which Saber did die in the end and no romance for Shiro.
How the heck is School Days a sad yet beautiful ending? o.o
Aren't people happy that damn Makoto is dead? xD
Beautiful, Makoto's fate.
Sad, Kotonoha's fate.
Nice, the boat.
.. that's WHY its soo beautiful