Anime that leaves you feeling melancholic, tagged by the fans who watched rather than an algorithm. In a different mood? Try bittersweet picks or somber watches.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
A Silent Voice
Medalist
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2
A Place Further Than The Universe
Wolf Children
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 4
Violet Evergarden
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2 Part 2
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl
I Want To Eat Your Pancreas
Vinland Saga Season 2
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax!
LOOK BACK
Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll
Steins;Gate: The Movie - Load Region of Déjà Vu
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Fruits Basket: The Final Season
Liz and the Blue Bird
A Lull in the Sea
Apocalypse Hotel
Steins;Gate: Open the Missing Link - Divide By Zero
Steins;Gate
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2 Part 2
86 Eighty-Six Part 2
Howl's Moving Castle
Heavenly Delusion
Ranking of Kings
Fruits Basket 1st Season
Journal with Witch
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
March Comes In Like a Lion
Insomniacs After School
given
The Tatami Galaxy
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju
Gintama: Enchousen
given The Movie
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc
Your Lie in April
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
Vinland Saga
![[Oshi No Ko] Season 2](https://media.animeoshi.com/anime/images/tmdb/160/817789402.jpg)
[Oshi No Ko] Season 2
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU TOO!
Clannad: After Story
Cowboy Bebop
Bungo Stray Dogs 2
The Summer Hikaru Died
Welcome to the N.H.K.
Gosick
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya: Vow in the Snow
Millennium Actress
Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction
The Ancient Magus' Bride Season 2 Part 2
Persona 3 the Movie: #4 Winter of Rebirth
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina
ReLIFE
Violet Evergarden: The Movie
Shadows House
Grave of the Fireflies
Fruits Basket 2nd Season
Pluto
WorldEnd: What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us?
BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!
Serial Experiments Lain
March Comes In Like a Lion 2nd Season
Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing
Bloom Into You
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
Natsume's Book of Friends
Trigun
Detectives These Days Are Crazy!
Kids on the Slope
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2
86 Eighty-Six
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2
Weathering with You
Call of the Night
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel - II. Lost Butterfly
Dororo
Girls' Last Tour
Undead Unluck
Yona of the Dawn
The Elusive Samurai
To Your Eternity Season 2
The Boy and the Beast
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
The Irregular at Magic High School: Reminiscence Arc
Clannad
My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999
Wind Breaker
Wistoria: Wand and Sword
Plastic Memories
Beyond the Boundary
To Your Eternity
Kokoro Connect
Yuri!!! On Ice
The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash
Reborn as a Cat
Nana
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
Mushi-Shi
The Duke of Death and His Maid
Attack on Titan Final Season THE FINAL CHAPTERS Special 2
The Aquatope on White Sand
Summer Pockets
D.Gray-man
Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom
Porco Rosso
When Marnie Was There
Taisho Otome Fairy Tale
Ghost Stories
Kanon
Persona 3 the Movie: #3 Falling Down
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Angel Beats!
The Rising of the Shield Hero
Tamon's B-Side
Steins;Gate 0
My Happy Marriage
Grimgar: Ashes and Illusions
The Garden of Words
The Case Study of Vanitas
ReLIFE: Final Arc
Zombie Land Saga Revenge
No Longer Allowed in Another World
This Monster Wants to Eat Me
The Wind Rises
The Ancient Magus' Bride Season 2
Negative Positive Angler
TsumaSho
Deaimon: Recipe for Happiness
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Season 2 - The Eve of Awakening
Ahiru no Sora
Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki
Black Butler
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part 2: Eternal
Magi: Adventure of Sinbad
Atri -My Dear Moments-
Ride Your Wave
Attack on Titan: Lost Girls
Akame ga Kill!
5 Centimeters per Second
Into the Forest of Fireflies' Light
Blue Spring Ride
Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus
White Album 2
Chaika -The Coffin Princess-
The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today
Kino's Journey
Those Snow White Notes
Humanity Has Declined
Kotaro Lives Alone
Pokémon 3: The Movie
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day The Movie
Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2
Her Blue Sky
Sarazanmai
Tokyo Ghoul
Noragami
Wonder Egg Priority
Golden Time
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid
Yuki Yuna is a Hero
Iroduku: The World in Colors
Blast of Tempest
The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom
Fate/Grand Order: Divine Realm of the Round Table - Camelot Wandering; Agateram
Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
My Clueless First Friend
Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld
Fullmetal Alchemist
To Your Eternity Season 3
A Certain Scientific Railgun S
Haganai: I don't have many friends NEXT
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
A Silent Voice
Medalist
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Season 2
A Place Further Than The Universe
Wolf Children
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 4
Violet Evergarden
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2 Part 2
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl
I Want To Eat Your Pancreas
Vinland Saga Season 2
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax!
LOOK BACK
Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll
Steins;Gate: The Movie - Load Region of Déjà Vu
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Fruits Basket: The Final Season
Liz and the Blue Bird
A Lull in the Sea
Apocalypse Hotel
Steins;Gate: Open the Missing Link - Divide By Zero
Steins;Gate
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2 Part 2
86 Eighty-Six Part 2
Howl's Moving Castle
Heavenly Delusion
Ranking of Kings
Fruits Basket 1st Season
Journal with Witch
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
March Comes In Like a Lion
Insomniacs After School
given
The Tatami Galaxy
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju
Gintama: Enchousen
given The Movie
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Entertainment District Arc
Your Lie in April
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
Vinland Saga
![[Oshi No Ko] Season 2](https://media.animeoshi.com/anime/images/tmdb/480/817789402.jpg)
[Oshi No Ko] Season 2
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU TOO!
Clannad: After Story
Cowboy Bebop
Bungo Stray Dogs 2
The Summer Hikaru Died
Welcome to the N.H.K.
Gosick
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya: Vow in the Snow
Millennium Actress
Dead Dead Demons Dededede Destruction
The Ancient Magus' Bride Season 2 Part 2
Persona 3 the Movie: #4 Winter of Rebirth
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina
ReLIFE
Violet Evergarden: The Movie
Shadows House
Grave of the Fireflies
Fruits Basket 2nd Season
Pluto
WorldEnd: What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us?
BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!
Serial Experiments Lain
March Comes In Like a Lion 2nd Season
Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing
Bloom Into You
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone
Natsume's Book of Friends
Trigun
Detectives These Days Are Crazy!
Kids on the Slope
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2
86 Eighty-Six
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2
Weathering with You
Call of the Night
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel - II. Lost Butterfly
Dororo
Girls' Last Tour
Undead Unluck
Yona of the Dawn
The Elusive Samurai
To Your Eternity Season 2
The Boy and the Beast
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
The Irregular at Magic High School: Reminiscence Arc
Clannad
My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999
Wind Breaker
Wistoria: Wand and Sword
Plastic Memories
Beyond the Boundary
To Your Eternity
Kokoro Connect
Yuri!!! On Ice
The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash
Reborn as a Cat
Nana
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
Mushi-Shi
The Duke of Death and His Maid
Attack on Titan Final Season THE FINAL CHAPTERS Special 2
The Aquatope on White Sand
Summer Pockets
D.Gray-man
Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom
Porco Rosso
When Marnie Was There
Taisho Otome Fairy Tale
Ghost Stories
Kanon
Persona 3 the Movie: #3 Falling Down
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Angel Beats!
The Rising of the Shield Hero
Tamon's B-Side
Steins;Gate 0
My Happy Marriage
Grimgar: Ashes and Illusions
The Garden of Words
The Case Study of Vanitas
ReLIFE: Final Arc
Zombie Land Saga Revenge
No Longer Allowed in Another World
This Monster Wants to Eat Me
The Wind Rises
The Ancient Magus' Bride Season 2
Negative Positive Angler
TsumaSho
Deaimon: Recipe for Happiness
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Season 2 - The Eve of Awakening
Ahiru no Sora
Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki
Black Butler
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part 2: Eternal
Magi: Adventure of Sinbad
Atri -My Dear Moments-
Ride Your Wave
Attack on Titan: Lost Girls
Akame ga Kill!
5 Centimeters per Second
Into the Forest of Fireflies' Light
Blue Spring Ride
Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus
White Album 2
Chaika -The Coffin Princess-
The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today
Kino's Journey
Those Snow White Notes
Humanity Has Declined
Kotaro Lives Alone
Pokémon 3: The Movie
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day The Movie
Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2
Her Blue Sky
Sarazanmai
Tokyo Ghoul
Noragami
Wonder Egg Priority
Golden Time
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid
Yuki Yuna is a Hero
Iroduku: The World in Colors
Blast of Tempest
The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom
Fate/Grand Order: Divine Realm of the Round Table - Camelot Wandering; Agateram
Dusk Maiden of Amnesia
My Clueless First Friend
Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld
Fullmetal Alchemist
To Your Eternity Season 3
A Certain Scientific Railgun S
Haganai: I don't have many friends NEXT
Frequently asked questions
- What anime should I watch when I want something melancholic?
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