Anime that leaves you feeling somber, tagged by the fans who watched rather than an algorithm. In a different mood? Try melancholic picks or reflective watches.
Gintama: The Movie: The Final Chapter: Be Forever Yorozuya
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Mob Psycho 100 II
Vinland Saga Season 2
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel - III. Spring Song
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Separation
Ping Pong the Animation
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Monster
A Lull in the Sea
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part 1: Beginnings
Apocalypse Hotel
Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic
86 Eighty-Six Part 2
Heavenly Delusion
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel - I. Presage Flower
Land of the Lustrous
From the New World
Attack on Titan: No Regrets
Jujutsu Kaisen
Vinland Saga
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya: Vow in the Snow
In This Corner of the World
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Grave of the Fireflies
WorldEnd: What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us?
Pluto
Fate/Grand Order: Divine Realm of the Round Table - Camelot Paladin; Agateram
Mononoke
Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain
Black Butler: Book of Murder
Kingdom: Season 2
Monsters: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation
Sentenced to Be a Hero
Hell's Paradise
Fate/Zero
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2
Dororo
Girls' Last Tour
Serial Experiments Lain
Darker than Black
Megalobox
Berserk
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
Kanon
Arknights: Perish in Frost
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
Hell's Paradise Season 2
Plastic Memories
91 Days
Fate/Grand Order: Absolute Demonic Front - Babylonia
Mushi-Shi
D.Gray-man
Taisho Otome Fairy Tale
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
Megalobox 2: Nomad
Mushi-shi: Next Passage Part 2
Steins;Gate 0
To Your Eternity
The Case Study of Vanitas
Clevatess
No Longer Allowed in Another World
Kaiji: Against All Rules
Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom
Cells at Work! CODE BLACK!
Ergo Proxy
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Season 2 - The Eve of Awakening
TsumaSho
Mushi-shi: Next Passage Part 1
Overlord III
5 Centimeters per Second
Arknights Animation: Prelude to Dawn
Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld Part 2
Black Butler
The Garden of Sinners Chapter 1: Overlooking View
The Garden of Sinners Chapter 5: Paradox Spiral
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day The Movie
Hellsing
Claymore
Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody
NieR:Automata Ver1.1a
Life Lessons with Uramichi-Oniisan
The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom
Gangsta.
Rainbow
Arknights: Rise from Ember
Black Bullet
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
Mieruko-chan
The Boy and the Heron
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Another
Inuyashiki: Last Hero
GOBLIN SLAYER II
Let This Grieving Soul Retire Cour 2
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: The Battle of Unato
Sunday Without God
Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai
Takt Op. Destiny
Sabikui Bisco
Children of the Whales
Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!
Hell Girl
Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School - Despair Arc
I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day
Kokkoku
ef - a tale of melodies.
Japan Sinks: 2020
Aldnoah.Zero Part 2
The Garden of Sinners Chapter 3: Remaining Sense of Pain
Champignon Witch
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works
The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 3
The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior Season 2
Somali and the Forest Spirit
Snowball Earth
Dark Gathering
Revenger
Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace
LAZARUS
Darker than Black: Gemini of the Meteor
Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet
The Case Book of Arne
The Garden of Sinners Chapter 2: A Study in Murder - Part 1
The Labyrinth of Grisaia: The Cocoon of Caprice 0
Beyond the Boundary: I'll Be Here - Past
Summer Ghost
Boogiepop and Others
The Fruit of Grisaia
Roll Over and Die
Platinum End
Maboroshi
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System Case.1 - Crime and Punishment
Angel Beats! Another Epilogue
Angel's Egg
Record of Grancrest War
The Detective Is Already Dead
Higurashi: When They Cry - Outbreak
True Tears
Code Geass: Akito the Exiled - The Wyvern Arrives
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Berserk (2016)
Gantz
Voices of a Distant Star
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 3rei!!
Angels of Death
Dusk Beyond the End of the World
Pupa
Element Hunters
The Orphans of Simitra
Shin Otokogi
Mushrambo (2008)
Kuroi Ame ni Utarete
0-sen Hayato
Wanderings of Sanmao
Chibikko Remi to Meiken Kapi
Little Wansa
Fights Break Sphere Specials
Armored Trooper Votoms: Pailsen Files
Hi no Ame ga Furu
Makkuro na Obentou
Anne no Nikki: Anne Frank Monogatari
Eagle Riders (2)
A Spirit of the Sun
Onimaru: Senjou ni Kakeru Itsutsu no Seishun
Konchuu Monogatari Minashigo Hutch (1989)
Gandalla: The King of Burning Desert
10000 Years Later
Gakkou no Yuurei
Jungle Taitei: Susume Leo!
Ippatsu Kanta-kun
Watashitachi no Mirai
Raiyantsuuri no Uta
The Soul of Soldier Master
Call of the wild
Cosmo Warrior Zero - Hunt for Young Harlock
Condom Battler Gorou: Revive
Great Yamato No. 0
Gaza: Changing the World
Wings of the World
Planzet
The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee
Microid S
Legend of the Forest
Honkai: Star Rail - The Embers of Glamoth
Gad Guard
Spaceketeers
Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE: Tokyo Revelations
Fafner THE BEYOND Part 2
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199
Ling Cage
Black Butler: Emerald Witch Arc
Magic Adventures: The Crystal of Dark
Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal
Fist of the Blue Sky: Regenesis 2nd Season
Fafner The Beyond
Soul Hunter
NieR:Automata Ver1.1a (Cour 2): Investigation Report
The Last Blossom
Dame Oyaji
Zombie Brother
Future Robo Daltanius
Monarch: The Big Bear of Tallac
Yomawari Neko
Katri, Girl of the Meadows
Great King of the Grave: Cold Iron Fight
Hakuouki: Hekketsuroku - Kyoto Kaisouroku
Reign: The Conqueror Movie
Peleliu: Rakuen no Guernica
The Hen Begins to Lay Eggs in the Spring
Shin's Tricycle
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion I - Initiation
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - The Advent
Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru: Washio Sumi no Shou 2 - Tamashii
∀ Gundam
Attack on Titan: The Last Attack
Vinland Saga Season 2: Drowning in the Shadow
Vatican Miracle Examiner OVA
Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks
D.Gray-man HALLOW
Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru: Washio Sumi no Shou 3 - Yakusoku
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: Life The Burns
Shiki
Alps Stories: My Annette
In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World
Ringing Fate
Sangokushi (1985)
FINAL FANTASY VII: ADVENT CHILDREN COMPLETE
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Collision
Samurai X: Reflection
Ajin: Demi-Human Movie 1: Compel
Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino OVA
Saiyuki Reload Blast
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Recaps
Additional Memory
The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún
Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - Memorial Edition
Kanon
A Little Princess Sara
Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway - The Sorcery of Nymph Circe
Fantastic Children
The Ideon: Be Invoked
Tetsujin 28
Wu Geng Ji Zhi Tianqi
Gegege no Kitarou: Jigoku-hen
Kiku-chan to Ookami
Kashi no Ki Mokku
Armored Trooper Votoms: Pailsen Files
Tide-Line Blue
Armored Trooper Votoms: Phantom Arc
A Dog of Flanders: My Patrasche
The Master of Diabolism
Kaiba
Mushi-shi Path of Thorns
Orange: Future
Now and Then, Here and There
The Rose of Versailles
She, The Ultimate Weapon
Beyond Time's Gaze
Shoubushi Densetsu Tetsuya
Digimon X-Evolution
Fafner Exodus
Fist of the Blue Sky: Regenesis
Donten: Laughing Under the Clouds - Gaiden: Chapter 2 - The Tragedy of Fuuma Ninja Tribe
Argevollen
Entotsu Machi no Poupelle: Yakusoku no Tokei-dai
Saiyuuki Reload: Burial
Hal
The Big O
Angolmois: Record of Mongol Invasion
Blade Runner: Black Out 2022
Barefoot Gen
Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain
Space Battleship Yamato - Final Chapter
A Dog of Flanders
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Gintama: The Movie: The Final Chapter: Be Forever Yorozuya
Mob Psycho 100 II
Vinland Saga Season 2
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel - III. Spring Song
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Separation
Ping Pong the Animation
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Monster
A Lull in the Sea
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part 1: Beginnings
Apocalypse Hotel
Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic
86 Eighty-Six Part 2
Heavenly Delusion
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel - I. Presage Flower
Land of the Lustrous
From the New World
Attack on Titan: No Regrets
Jujutsu Kaisen
Vinland Saga
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya: Vow in the Snow
In This Corner of the World
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Grave of the Fireflies
WorldEnd: What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us?
Pluto
Fate/Grand Order: Divine Realm of the Round Table - Camelot Paladin; Agateram
Mononoke
Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain
Black Butler: Book of Murder
Kingdom: Season 2
Monsters: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation
Sentenced to Be a Hero
Hell's Paradise
Fate/Zero
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2
Dororo
Girls' Last Tour
Serial Experiments Lain
Darker than Black
Megalobox
Berserk
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
Kanon
Arknights: Perish in Frost
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
Hell's Paradise Season 2
Plastic Memories
91 Days
Fate/Grand Order: Absolute Demonic Front - Babylonia
Mushi-Shi
D.Gray-man
Taisho Otome Fairy Tale
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
Megalobox 2: Nomad
Mushi-shi: Next Passage Part 2
Steins;Gate 0
To Your Eternity
The Case Study of Vanitas
Clevatess
No Longer Allowed in Another World
Kaiji: Against All Rules
Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom
Cells at Work! CODE BLACK!
Ergo Proxy
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Season 2 - The Eve of Awakening
TsumaSho
Mushi-shi: Next Passage Part 1
Overlord III
5 Centimeters per Second
Arknights Animation: Prelude to Dawn
Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld Part 2
Black Butler
The Garden of Sinners Chapter 1: Overlooking View
The Garden of Sinners Chapter 5: Paradox Spiral
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day The Movie
Hellsing
Claymore
Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody
NieR:Automata Ver1.1a
Life Lessons with Uramichi-Oniisan
The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom
Gangsta.
Rainbow
Arknights: Rise from Ember
Black Bullet
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
Mieruko-chan
The Boy and the Heron
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Another
Inuyashiki: Last Hero
GOBLIN SLAYER II
Let This Grieving Soul Retire Cour 2
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: The Battle of Unato
Sunday Without God
Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai
Takt Op. Destiny
Sabikui Bisco
Children of the Whales
Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!
Hell Girl
Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School - Despair Arc
I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day
Kokkoku
ef - a tale of melodies.
Japan Sinks: 2020
Aldnoah.Zero Part 2
The Garden of Sinners Chapter 3: Remaining Sense of Pain
Champignon Witch
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works
The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 3
The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior Season 2
Somali and the Forest Spirit
Snowball Earth
Dark Gathering
Revenger
Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace
LAZARUS
Darker than Black: Gemini of the Meteor
Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet
The Case Book of Arne
The Garden of Sinners Chapter 2: A Study in Murder - Part 1
The Labyrinth of Grisaia: The Cocoon of Caprice 0
Beyond the Boundary: I'll Be Here - Past
Summer Ghost
Boogiepop and Others
The Fruit of Grisaia
Roll Over and Die
Platinum End
Maboroshi
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System Case.1 - Crime and Punishment
Angel Beats! Another Epilogue
Angel's Egg
Record of Grancrest War
The Detective Is Already Dead
Higurashi: When They Cry - Outbreak
True Tears
Code Geass: Akito the Exiled - The Wyvern Arrives
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Berserk (2016)
Gantz
Voices of a Distant Star
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 3rei!!
Angels of Death
Dusk Beyond the End of the World
Pupa
Element Hunters
The Orphans of Simitra
Shin Otokogi
Mushrambo (2008)
Kuroi Ame ni Utarete
0-sen Hayato
Wanderings of Sanmao
Chibikko Remi to Meiken Kapi
Little Wansa
Fights Break Sphere Specials
Armored Trooper Votoms: Pailsen Files
Hi no Ame ga Furu
Makkuro na Obentou
Anne no Nikki: Anne Frank Monogatari
Eagle Riders (2)
A Spirit of the Sun
Onimaru: Senjou ni Kakeru Itsutsu no Seishun
Konchuu Monogatari Minashigo Hutch (1989)
Gandalla: The King of Burning Desert
10000 Years Later
Gakkou no Yuurei
Jungle Taitei: Susume Leo!
Ippatsu Kanta-kun
Watashitachi no Mirai
Raiyantsuuri no Uta
The Soul of Soldier Master
Call of the wild
Cosmo Warrior Zero - Hunt for Young Harlock
Condom Battler Gorou: Revive
Great Yamato No. 0
Gaza: Changing the World
Wings of the World
Planzet
The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee
Microid S
Legend of the Forest
Honkai: Star Rail - The Embers of Glamoth
Gad Guard
Spaceketeers
Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE: Tokyo Revelations
Fafner THE BEYOND Part 2
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199
Ling Cage
Black Butler: Emerald Witch Arc
Magic Adventures: The Crystal of Dark
Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal
Fist of the Blue Sky: Regenesis 2nd Season
Fafner The Beyond
Soul Hunter
NieR:Automata Ver1.1a (Cour 2): Investigation Report
The Last Blossom
Dame Oyaji
Zombie Brother
Future Robo Daltanius
Monarch: The Big Bear of Tallac
Yomawari Neko
Katri, Girl of the Meadows
Great King of the Grave: Cold Iron Fight
Hakuouki: Hekketsuroku - Kyoto Kaisouroku
Reign: The Conqueror Movie
Peleliu: Rakuen no Guernica
The Hen Begins to Lay Eggs in the Spring
Shin's Tricycle
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion I - Initiation
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - The Advent
Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru: Washio Sumi no Shou 2 - Tamashii
∀ Gundam
Attack on Titan: The Last Attack
Vinland Saga Season 2: Drowning in the Shadow
Vatican Miracle Examiner OVA
Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks
D.Gray-man HALLOW
Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru: Washio Sumi no Shou 3 - Yakusoku
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: Life The Burns
Shiki
Alps Stories: My Annette
In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World
Ringing Fate
Sangokushi (1985)
FINAL FANTASY VII: ADVENT CHILDREN COMPLETE
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Collision
Samurai X: Reflection
Ajin: Demi-Human Movie 1: Compel
Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino OVA
Saiyuki Reload Blast
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Recaps
Additional Memory
The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún
Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - Memorial Edition
Kanon
A Little Princess Sara
Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway - The Sorcery of Nymph Circe
Fantastic Children
The Ideon: Be Invoked
Tetsujin 28
Wu Geng Ji Zhi Tianqi
Gegege no Kitarou: Jigoku-hen
Kiku-chan to Ookami
Kashi no Ki Mokku
Armored Trooper Votoms: Pailsen Files
Tide-Line Blue
Armored Trooper Votoms: Phantom Arc
A Dog of Flanders: My Patrasche
The Master of Diabolism
Kaiba
Mushi-shi Path of Thorns
Orange: Future
Now and Then, Here and There
The Rose of Versailles
She, The Ultimate Weapon
Beyond Time's Gaze
Shoubushi Densetsu Tetsuya
Digimon X-Evolution
Fafner Exodus
Fist of the Blue Sky: Regenesis
Donten: Laughing Under the Clouds - Gaiden: Chapter 2 - The Tragedy of Fuuma Ninja Tribe
Argevollen
Entotsu Machi no Poupelle: Yakusoku no Tokei-dai
Saiyuuki Reload: Burial
Hal
The Big O
Angolmois: Record of Mongol Invasion
Blade Runner: Black Out 2022
Barefoot Gen
Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain
Space Battleship Yamato - Final Chapter
A Dog of Flanders
Frequently asked questions
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