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.
Mob Psycho 100 II
Gintama: The Movie: The Final Chapter: Be Forever Yorozuya
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
Land of the Lustrous
From the New World
Attack on Titan: No Regrets
Jujutsu Kaisen
Vinland Saga
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel - I. Presage Flower
Pluto
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
Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain
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?
Fate/Grand Order: Divine Realm of the Round Table - Camelot Paladin; Agateram
Mononoke
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
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
TsumaSho
Mushi-shi: Next Passage Part 1
Overlord III
5 Centimeters per Second
Arknights Animation: Prelude to Dawn
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Season 2 - The Eve of Awakening
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
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
Rainbow
Hellsing
Arknights: Rise from Ember
Black Bullet
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
Mieruko-chan
The Boy and the Heron
Gangsta.
Another
Inuyashiki: Last Hero
GOBLIN SLAYER II
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: The Battle of Unato
Sunday Without God
Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Takt Op. Destiny
Sabikui Bisco
Let This Grieving Soul Retire Cour 2
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.
Aldnoah.Zero Part 2
The Garden of Sinners Chapter 3: Remaining Sense of Pain
Somali and the Forest Spirit
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
Champignon Witch
Snowball Earth
Revenger
LAZARUS
Dark Gathering
Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet
The Garden of Sinners Chapter 2: A Study in Murder - Part 1
The Labyrinth of Grisaia: The Cocoon of Caprice 0
Darker than Black: Gemini of the Meteor
Beyond the Boundary: I'll Be Here - Past
The Case Book of Arne
Summer Ghost
Boogiepop and Others
The Fruit of Grisaia
Roll Over and Die
Maboroshi
Platinum End
Angel Beats! Another Epilogue
Angel's Egg
Record of Grancrest War
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System Case.1 - Crime and Punishment
The Detective Is Already Dead
Higurashi: When They Cry - Outbreak
True Tears
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Code Geass: Akito the Exiled - The Wyvern Arrives
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
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
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
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
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
Land of the Lustrous
From the New World
Attack on Titan: No Regrets
Jujutsu Kaisen
Vinland Saga
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel - I. Presage Flower
Pluto
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
Mononoke the Movie: Phantom in the Rain
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?
Fate/Grand Order: Divine Realm of the Round Table - Camelot Paladin; Agateram
Mononoke
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
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
TsumaSho
Mushi-shi: Next Passage Part 1
Overlord III
5 Centimeters per Second
Arknights Animation: Prelude to Dawn
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Season 2 - The Eve of Awakening
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
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
Rainbow
Hellsing
Arknights: Rise from Ember
Black Bullet
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
Mieruko-chan
The Boy and the Heron
Gangsta.
Another
Inuyashiki: Last Hero
GOBLIN SLAYER II
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: The Battle of Unato
Sunday Without God
Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Takt Op. Destiny
Sabikui Bisco
Let This Grieving Soul Retire Cour 2
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.
Aldnoah.Zero Part 2
The Garden of Sinners Chapter 3: Remaining Sense of Pain
Somali and the Forest Spirit
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
Champignon Witch
Snowball Earth
Revenger
LAZARUS
Dark Gathering
Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet
The Garden of Sinners Chapter 2: A Study in Murder - Part 1
The Labyrinth of Grisaia: The Cocoon of Caprice 0
Darker than Black: Gemini of the Meteor
Beyond the Boundary: I'll Be Here - Past
The Case Book of Arne
Summer Ghost
Boogiepop and Others
The Fruit of Grisaia
Roll Over and Die
Maboroshi
Platinum End
Angel Beats! Another Epilogue
Angel's Egg
Record of Grancrest War
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System Case.1 - Crime and Punishment
The Detective Is Already Dead
Higurashi: When They Cry - Outbreak
True Tears
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Code Geass: Akito the Exiled - The Wyvern Arrives
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
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
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
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
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