Best sad anime on Netflix, Crunchyroll, Hulu or Funimation, wherever you are! Take your seat and leave all your troubles aside, this list is enough to upset you.
We finish the anime-(s) that will make us deeply sad, sometimes we cry, like eating hot pickled rosemary, hot but good.. i like hot pickled rosemary, and sad anime more.
In general, I do not distract the readers with pre-content sentences, I think a little creativity and short sentences are enough, but, but I want to add something; ‘2023 sad anime’ You may have expected emotional something but this was for the search engine and search engines don’t have feelings! But you have feelings, so let me finish the opening well. I hope you feel a void after finishing the below anime, because in order to freshen up in the new era, it is necessary to fade first.
Sad Anime on Netflix
1- A Silent Voice
MAL Score: 8.95
Genres: Romantic Subtext
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A young boy, Shouya Ishida, leads the class by far in the bullying of the deaf Shouko. As a result, after Shoko has to leave school, he is the one being bullied. Since primary school, no one talks to him, he is the only culprit.
Years later, what keeps Shouya from committing suicide is the fact that with all his regret overtaking him, he sets out for Shouko. But this is not a journey of redemption, because he thinks his actions cannot be redeemed.. so is it?
2- Violet Evergarden
MAL Score: 8.67
Genres: Fantasy, Slice of Life
Raised after 4 years of long war to serve only as the perfect weapon of war, Violet Evergarden finds herself searching for meaning in the words of someone very important.
While trying to save Army Chief Gilbert, Violet had lost her hand, moreover, the person she fell in love with, Gilbert, but she cannot comprehend this feeling yet.
Another thing she cannot grasp the meaning of is the words, Gilbert’s last words to her; “I-Love-You”
Violet witnesses how the “Auto Memory Doll” works, which register everything said by a human voice, people’s feelings and thoughts. Hoping to understand her own past feelings, Violet begins a mutual trade as an Auto Memory Doll.
Sad Anime on Netflix
3- Toradora!
MAL Score: 8.11
Genres: Drama, Love Polygon, Romance, Comedy
The story revolves around Ryuuji Takasu, Ryuuji loves Minori and therefore makes a deal with Taiga, Minori’s best friend to help Ryuuji get Minori. In return, Ryuuji must bring his best friend Yuusaku Kitamura closer to Taiga. And things will get even more complex.
4- Erased
MAL Score: 8.32
Genres: Psychological, Seinen, Time Travel
Just when tragedy is about to happen, Satoru Fujinuma realizes that he has jumped back in time a few minutes. He saves many lives with this power, which he later calls “Revival”.
When Satoru is wrongfully accused of murdering someone close to him, this time he goes back further than ever before and jumps to 18 years ago. Satoru realizes that the kidnapping and murder of his classmate Kayo Hinazuki when he was a child is linked to future murder.
5- Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day (2011)
MAL Score: 8.33
Genres: Drama, Slice of Life, Supernatural
Among the five childhood friends, Menma dies and the other members of the group disperse.
One day, Menma’s ghost appears before Jinta, the leader of the group, and tells him that her final wish must come true for her to go to heaven. However, Menma’s ghost can’t remember her last wish, and Jinta reunites the group, thinking that Menma’s ghost maybe remember her final wish.
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Sad Anime on Funimation
1- Your Lie in April
MAL Score: 8.66
Genres: Music, Romance, School
2) Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
MAL Score: 8.33
Genres: Slice of Life, Supernatural, Drama
Among her five childhood friends, Menma dies and the other members of the group disperse. One day, Menma’s ghost appears before Jinta, the leader of the group, and tells him that her final wish must come true for her to go to heaven.
However, Menma’s ghost can’t remember her last wish, and Jinta reunites the group, thinking that Menma’s ghost maybe remember her final wish.
Sad Anime on Funimation
3) Terror in Resonance
MAL Score: 8.10
Genres: Mystery, Psychological, Drama
Two teenagers using the names Nine and Twelve steal a nuclear weapon prototype during a terrorist attack on a nuclear power plant. The public is unaware of it.
That is, until nine and twelve upload a video online calling themselves the Sphinx. The ‘Sphinx’ threatens to destroy the city of Tokyo if a cryptic riddle is not solved.
4- Plastic Memories
MAL Score: 7.92
Genres: Romance, Sci-Fi, Drama
Plastic Memories takes place in the near future where there are androids that look exactly like humans. SAI Corp android company has introduced a new android model called Giftia which is the most humanoid android ever. If Giftias expire at 9 years and 4 months, Giftias experience personality disintegration, memory loss, and bursts of violence. There is a team called Terminal Services to retrieve expired Giftias from their owners and erase their memories.
Working in Terminal Services, Tsukasa Mizugaki falls in love with a Giftia named Isla, and Isla’s life of 9 months and 4 months is about to come to an end.
5) Angel Beats
MAL Score: 8.08
Genres: Supernatural, School, Drama
Angel Beats! takes place in a world after death, a kind of purgatory where people learn to let go of a trauma, a challenge, or any obsession they have been unable to overcome, before reincarnating.
Those in purgatory may feel pain, eat, and even die, but then they are resurrected.
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Sad Anime on Crunchyroll
1- Your Lie in April
MAL Score: 8.66
Genres: Music, Romance, School
2- A Place Further Than The Universe
MAL Score: 8.53
Genres: Adventure, Comedy
Mari Tamaki wants to spend her youth to the fullest, but instead of achieving it, she succumbs to her fear. – Until she meets Shirase, who is saving up to go to Antarctica where her mother disappeared 3 years ago!
Shirase, Hinata, Yuzuki and Mari embark on a ‘discovery’ journey to Antarctica where they will find the value of their friendship and youth, and perhaps the missing mother.
3- Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
MAL Score: 8.33
Genres: Slice of Life, Supernatural
Among her five childhood friends, Menma dies and the other members of the group disperse. One day, Menma’s ghost appears before Jinta, the leader of the group, and tells him that her final wish must come true for her to go to heaven.
However, Menma’s ghost can’t remember her last wish, and Jinta reunites the group, thinking that Menma’s ghost maybe remember her final wish.
Sad Anime on Crunchyroll
#4 86 Eighty-Six
MAL Score: 8.24
Genres: Action, Mecha, Sci-Fi
The Republic of San Magnolia is waging a war against the machine drones known as the Legion. There is no need to worry about the 85 districts of the Republic that continue the war with their own unmanned combat vehicles without causing any casualties.
In precinct 86th district, young soldiers known as 86, who are not seen as human, fight head-to-head with the Legions.
5- To Your Eternity
MAL Score: 8.39
Genres: Adventure, Shounen, Supernatural
Capable of taking the form of reflected entities, ‘It’ years after turning into rock, takes the form of a dying wolf wandering through the snowy climate of North America. That’s how it tastes consciousness for the first time.
Then meets the lone boy, the wolf’s master, who hopes to see his tribe again in a distant land full of fruit and fish. The boy decides to set out to find his tribe, but the road is long and his body is injured.
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Sad Anime on Hulu
1- Your Lie in April
MAL Score: 8.66
Genres: Music, Romance, School
2- Akame Ga Kill!
MAL Score: 7.47
Genres: Action, Gore, Super Power, Shounen
Tatsumi is a brave warrior who migrates to the center to save his village, which is ravaged by hunger, misery and disease. In the early days of his arrival in Central City, Tatsumi learns something sickening.
The central government is in the hands of corrupt scumbags and this mess definitely needs to be cleaned up… Thus, Tatsumi joins the team of assassins called Night Raid.
Sad Anime on Hulu
#3 Plastic Memories
MAL Score: 7.92
Genres: Sci-Fi, Drama
Plastic Memories takes place in the near future where there are androids that look exactly like humans. SAI Corp android company has introduced a new android model called Giftia which is the most humanoid android ever.
If Giftias expire at 9 years and 4 months, Giftias experience personality disintegration, memory loss, and bursts of violence. There is a team called Terminal Services to retrieve expired Giftias from their owners and erase their memories.
Working in Terminal Services, Tsukasa Mizugaki falls in love with a Giftia named Isla, and Isla’s life of 9 months and 4 months is about to come to an end.
4- Fruits Basket
MAL Score: 8.22
Genres: Fantasy, Love Polygon, Drama
After her mother dies, 15-year-old Tohru Honda finds herself living with the Sohma family of 3 cousins: Tohru later learns that the Sohma family has a secret, when an opposite sex hugs a member of the Sohma family or gets tired, they turn into the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac.
#5 Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (2015)
MAL Score: 8.04
Genres: Drama, Mecha, Action, Space Year: 2015 Studio: Sunrise
Iron-Blooded Orphans is about a group of teenagers who oppose the world government that rules Mars because of the horrendous living conditions of Mars.
A group of young adults living on Mars rebel against them and start their own security company for freedom.
