Anime fans yield up a ranking of what they regard as the anime titles with most heartwarming atmospheres, perfect for those looking for the full Type B smothered-in-cotton-wool experience.
1. Tamayura ~hitotose~
2. Natsume’s Book of Friends
3. Usagi Drop
4. K-ON!
5. Ano Hi Mita Hana
6. Kamichu!
7. Minami-ke
8. Hidamari Sketch
9. Clannad ~After Story~
10. Kimi ni Todoke
With both K-ON! and Clannad forced from the top spots, this is probably not a result many would have predicted.
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3. Usagi Drop
Because a guy who adopts a girl and eventually goes from "dad" to "I wanna fuck her..." after a few years is heartwarming?
Shhhh don't tell them. They will look for doujins...
Felt like the mangaka tried going for a H&C-esque taboo type ending, but the build up was lacking and poorly executed.
Having read the manga to the end, I can state with confidence cats2's analysis of the plot is DEAD FUCKING WRONG.
Read it for yourself and see what really happens.
Oh shut up the the manga ending sucked ass and was rushed to try to make a edgy ending in attempt to save the manga after it degraded into a piece of crap once rin grew up.
What happened to Ikoku Meiro no Croisee, Gosick, Lucky Star, Hanasaku Iroha or Azumanga Daioh?
Why did you mention Lucky Star?
Now I'm filled with nostalgia and sadness.
Tell me about it. That sketch with Konata's Mom, most heartwarming thing I ever saw.
Kamichu was good.
I'd like to add ARIA and two of ABe's works, Haibane Renmei and Niea_7.
Where the f--k is Aria??? That whole anime is made to soothe you. Not to mention it is awesome...
Soranowoto?
I love how people forgot Aria series even existed. =(
Here's a video to greatly amp up that nostalgia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJJs-ELeshY
agreed D:
what is this lucky star you speak of?
some ancient and antiquated relic of days gone by?
@ravenlord
Gosick? It's all kinds of awesome, but certainly not heart-warming. I'm at ep 11 now, and themes covered already include ethnic discrimination, sexual child slavery, arbitrary rule and surprising amounts of blood all set in a generally unjust and rotten world. I hear there will be (implied) organized rape later too.
To be honest I was caught completely off-guard when I started watching it with my only knowledge of the show coming from coverage on this site...
I didn't think the anime was that special when watching it either but after finishing... umm its actually amazing and I really miss it, and its tragic/heartwarming near the last 1/4 episodes.
Watch it to the end then. Then you'll know why it is heartwarming. Some things take time to develop you know?
Uhmm... no? It was depressing till the last second. The dream-like end couldn't change that at all. In fact, having just finished it I'm seriously in need of strong happy-pill of a show right now.
It's completely beyond me how people can call continuously heaping suffering and misery on the characters "heart-warming".
It's already been five days since I wrote my comment but I had to say this.
You missed the point of the anime then. It is about two people being together, even when they are apart. Gosick was full of relationships that were against all the odds. That's the heartwarming part of it.
Ef - a Tale of Memories should also be on this list...
it's sad that it's so underrated... =(
Haibane Renmei and Aria, imo.
...where is Aria? This seems like a top10 to be dominated by Iyashi-kei slice-of-lifes, but the paragon of those was somehow omitted.
Lucky Star is placed #11
The rest:
12. Aria
13. Atashi no uchi
14. Azumanga Daioh
15. GA Arts (♥)
16. Kobato (♥)
17. Fruit basket (♥)
18. Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa nai
19. Ichigo Marshmallow
20. Hanamaru Youchien
21. Binchoutan
22. Uchi no 3 Kyoudai
23. Bonobono
24. Akachan to Boku
24. sketchbook full color's
26. Mahoraba Heartful Days
27. A little Snow Fairy Sugar
28. Nyankoi (s2 when?)
29. Esper Mami
30. UFO BAby
30. Jewel pet
35. Morita san wa Mukuchi
36. Mainichi Kaasan
41. Poor Sister Story
42. Aishiteru Baby
44. Nichijou
45. Kanamemo
What the fuck!! Kanon 2006 should be in the Top 3, and it isn't even in the Top 45. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE.
Great, great heartwarming Anime. Lucky Star, Ichigo Mashimaro... Brilliant stuff to watch when one is stressed. Like I am now.
Lucky Star is not heartwarming, otherwise Nichijou would end up in the same category
Did you just compare Nichijou to Lucky Star?
Heretic.
Nichijou > lucky star
well known fact
bro mad u?
(not same anon)
U mad, bro?
Just cuz they're both slice-of-life series doesn't mean they're the same show.
Nichijou ended just like that.
Lucky Star's ending was frickin feel-good.
not their not but both r four-panel comic strip
Nichijou isn't a 4 panel manga.
>Heartwarming
>Clannad
This is a troll post right? You want everyone to die of sadness, right?
Clannad isn't heartwarming? Have you actually watched until the very end? The journey is very depressing, but the destination is anything but.
Because they cheated and pressed the reset button. shit ending is shit.
Now that you said it, they kinda cheated...
Resetting and altering the past is too big of a miracle, sorcery, too sudden and too big of a jump; because 24+23 early episodes are pretty much normal. Yeah, there was a spirit stuff and all, but it's still acceptable.
Tomoya should just died together with her daughter.
Now that's a real tearjerker.
It has its heartwarming moments though.
it sure does
FU Vishy why did you had to make me cry?
Dango dango dango dango dango daikazoku~
Dangos are sure heartwarmers
Indeed. Clannad After Story was soulcrushing rather than heartwarming.
"Hey kids, hope you enjoyed high school, here's a life of drudgery, misery and fucked-up relationships!"
Wondering why they put After Story up instead of the first season. After Story taught me true pain...Not that this list would have been good even then.
My thought exactly.. Clannad doesn't fit there...
Kanon would fit more I think.
it ends happy? :D
exactly, heartwarming and dramatic is not the same.
I hate sad anime, but I love heartwarming anime.
If I read the ranking backwards it would make a little bit more sense.
hence why it's not number 1.
It had it's fair share of heart warming scenes, though later it just ends up kicking you in the balls.
They'll put K-ON on any list, won't they?
Hahaha Gay-on! isn't first
K-ON wasn't even heartwarming. Azusa cried the last episode, woot. Clannad was not only heartwarming but heartbreaking. I don't think K-ON even remotely deserves to be on this list, let along above Clannad
BLASPHEMY! K-On is as heartwarming as Clannad, just without people dying.
Before Azusa cried it was already a feel-good healing series.
you said clannad is the opposite, so why does K-ON need to be below it?
K-ON should be on this list, but lower. It is heart warming, but not intensely like some anime in the full list.
well i think heartwarming and tragic drama are 2 opposite things. the tragic element only brings down the overall heartwarming lvl. clannad first half was heartwarming. k-on well i'd say every ep aside from the last. aria definitely deserves to be much higher imo though aria the origination was kinda sad as it was building up to alicia's departure and their graduation.
WHERE THE HECK is Aria the Animation? It doesn't get more heartwarming than that.
More like they complement each other.
sad element> over come > heartwarming
don't really understand what you think is heartwarming.. "every ep beside last of k-on is heartwarming". so a normal slice of life or moeblob episode is heartwarming to you... just walk around outside and you find your neighbor heartwarming too? lol. you must be the most positive person ever -_-
clannad is both at once which only makes its heartwarming abilities more powerful ;D