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
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Separation
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel - III. Spring Song
Ping Pong the Animation
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
Monster
Vinland Saga Season 2
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Apocalypse Hotel
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part 1: Beginnings
Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic
Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal
86 Eighty-Six Part 2
Heavenly Delusion
A Lull in the Sea
Attack on Titan: No Regrets
Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks
Black Butler: Emerald Witch Arc
Jujutsu Kaisen
Vinland Saga
Pluto
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel - I. Presage Flower
Land of the Lustrous
From the New World
Grave of the Fireflies
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
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - The Advent
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Hell's Paradise
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2
Darker than Black
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
Kingdom: Season 2
Arknights: Perish in Frost
Black Butler: Book of Murder
Monsters: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation
Sentenced to Be a Hero
D.Gray-man
Hell's Paradise Season 2
Fate/Zero
Dororo
Berserk
Serial Experiments Lain
Girls' Last Tour
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
Megalobox
Kanon
Taisho Otome Fairy Tale
Mononoke
Megalobox 2: Nomad
Record of Lodoss War
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion I - Initiation
To Your Eternity
Plastic Memories
Fate/Grand Order: Absolute Demonic Front - Babylonia
Mushi-Shi
Kaiji: Against All Rules
Ergo Proxy
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
Mushi-shi: Next Passage Part 2
A Dog of Flanders
Steins;Gate 0
The Case Study of Vanitas
Clevatess
No Longer Allowed in Another World
Arknights Animation: Prelude to Dawn
Cells at Work! CODE BLACK!
TsumaSho
Mushi-shi: Next Passage Part 1
Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody
Le Chevalier D'Eon
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - Memorial Edition
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199
The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún
Overlord III
5 Centimeters per Second
91 Days
Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom
ef - a tale of melodies.
Hal
The Master of Diabolism
Mushi-shi Path of Thorns
Dragon Ball Z: Bardock, The Father of Goku
Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld Part 2
Black Butler
The Garden of Sinners Chapter 1: Overlooking View
Claymore
The Garden of Sinners Chapter 5: Paradox Spiral
The Big O
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day The Movie
Arknights: Rise from Ember
Kaiba
Now and Then, Here and There
Shoubushi Densetsu Tetsuya
NieR:Automata Ver1.1a
Life Lessons with Uramichi-Oniisan
Rainbow
The Boy and the Heron
Gangsta.
Bokurano
Gunslinger Girl
Mushi-shi: The Shadow that Devours the Sun
Angolmois: Record of Mongol Invasion
Black Bullet
Mieruko-chan
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
The Fruit of Grisaia
Dark Gathering
GOBLIN SLAYER II
Hellsing
The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom
Wolf's Rain
Let This Grieving Soul Retire Cour 2
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: The Battle of Unato
Tetsujin 28
Ever Night
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Top Secret: The Revelation
Shiki
Coppelion
D.Gray-man HALLOW
The Rose of Versailles
Vatican Miracle Examiner
Inuyashiki: Last Hero
Sunday Without God
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar
Un-Go
Schwarzes Marken
Takt Op. Destiny
Sabikui Bisco
Darker than Black: Gemini of the Meteor
Children of the Whales
Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!
Flowers of Evil
Babylon
Infinite Ryvius
Katsugeki Touken Ranbu
Young Black Jack
Another
Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School - Despair Arc
Kokkoku
Hell Girl
Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai
Japan Sinks: 2020
Night Head 2041
Aldnoah.Zero Part 2
I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day
Blue Gender
Ga-Rei-Zero
Shigofumi: Letters from the Departed
The Tale of Outcasts
Knights of Sidonia: Battle for Planet Nine
Bleach the Movie: Hell Verse
Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales
Fantastic Children
The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 3
The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior Season 2
Snowball Earth
Somali and the Forest Spirit
The Garden of Sinners Chapter 3: Remaining Sense of Pain
Boogiepop and Others
Champignon Witch
Chrono Crusade
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works
Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka
Twin Spica
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System Case.3 - On the Other Side of Love and Hate
kemurikusa.
LAZARUS
Casshern Sins
Revenger
Onihei
Record of Grancrest War
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Season 2 - The Eve of Awakening
Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre
Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace
To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts
PSYCHO-PASS Sinners of the System: Case.2 First Guardian
The Ancient Magus' Bride: The Boy from the West and the Knight of the Blue Storm
SWORDGAI The Animation
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
Witch Hunter Robin
Muv-Luv Alternative
X
Summer Ghost
Gantz: Second Stage
Ubel Blatt
Kurogane Communication
Kaina of the Great Snow Sea
Red Garden
Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet
Beyond the Boundary: I'll Be Here - Past
Crest of the Stars
BEM
Getter Robo Arc
Expelled from Paradise
Sands of Destruction
Corpse Princess: Aka
The Skull Man
Roll Over and Die
Platinum End
Maboroshi
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System Case.1 - Crime and Punishment
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
The Garden of Sinners: Future Gospel - Extra Chorus
Genesis Climber Mospeada
Angel Beats! Another Epilogue
7 Seeds
Angel's Egg
Higurashi: When They Cry - Outbreak
Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow
Alien Nine
The Detective Is Already Dead
Berserk (2016)
Code Geass: Akito the Exiled - The Wyvern Arrives
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Mars Red
Elfen Lied: In the Passing Rain, or, How Can a Girl Have Reached Such Feelings?
True Tears
Gantz
Dusk Beyond the End of the World
Texhnolyze
Voices of a Distant Star
Angels of Death
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 3rei!!
Junji Ito Collection
Tales from Earthsea
RErideD: Derrida, who leaps through time
Bastard‼ Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy
Pupa
Planzet
Call of the wild
Watashitachi no Mirai
Ippatsu Kanta-kun
Jungle Taitei: Susume Leo!
Gakkou no Yuurei
Onimaru: Senjou ni Kakeru Itsutsu no Seishun
A Spirit of the Sun
Anne no Nikki: Anne Frank Monogatari
Makkuro na Obentou
Hi no Ame ga Furu
Armored Trooper Votoms: Pailsen Files
Little Wansa
Kuroi Ame ni Utarete
Wings of the World
Gaza: Changing the World
Condom Battler Gorou: Revive
The Soul of Soldier Master
10000 Years Later
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Gintama: The Movie: The Final Chapter: Be Forever Yorozuya
Mob Psycho 100 II
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Separation
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel - III. Spring Song
Ping Pong the Animation
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
Monster
Vinland Saga Season 2
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Apocalypse Hotel
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part 1: Beginnings
Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic
Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal
86 Eighty-Six Part 2
Heavenly Delusion
A Lull in the Sea
Attack on Titan: No Regrets
Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks
Black Butler: Emerald Witch Arc
Jujutsu Kaisen
Vinland Saga
Pluto
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel - I. Presage Flower
Land of the Lustrous
From the New World
Grave of the Fireflies
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
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - The Advent
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Hell's Paradise
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2
Darker than Black
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
Kingdom: Season 2
Arknights: Perish in Frost
Black Butler: Book of Murder
Monsters: 103 Mercies Dragon Damnation
Sentenced to Be a Hero
D.Gray-man
Hell's Paradise Season 2
Fate/Zero
Dororo
Berserk
Serial Experiments Lain
Girls' Last Tour
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
Megalobox
Kanon
Taisho Otome Fairy Tale
Mononoke
Megalobox 2: Nomad
Record of Lodoss War
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion I - Initiation
To Your Eternity
Plastic Memories
Fate/Grand Order: Absolute Demonic Front - Babylonia
Mushi-Shi
Kaiji: Against All Rules
Ergo Proxy
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
Mushi-shi: Next Passage Part 2
A Dog of Flanders
Steins;Gate 0
The Case Study of Vanitas
Clevatess
No Longer Allowed in Another World
Arknights Animation: Prelude to Dawn
Cells at Work! CODE BLACK!
TsumaSho
Mushi-shi: Next Passage Part 1
Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody
Le Chevalier D'Eon
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - Memorial Edition
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199
The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún
Overlord III
5 Centimeters per Second
91 Days
Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom
ef - a tale of melodies.
Hal
The Master of Diabolism
Mushi-shi Path of Thorns
Dragon Ball Z: Bardock, The Father of Goku
Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld Part 2
Black Butler
The Garden of Sinners Chapter 1: Overlooking View
Claymore
The Garden of Sinners Chapter 5: Paradox Spiral
The Big O
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day The Movie
Arknights: Rise from Ember
Kaiba
Now and Then, Here and There
Shoubushi Densetsu Tetsuya
NieR:Automata Ver1.1a
Life Lessons with Uramichi-Oniisan
Rainbow
The Boy and the Heron
Gangsta.
Bokurano
Gunslinger Girl
Mushi-shi: The Shadow that Devours the Sun
Angolmois: Record of Mongol Invasion
Black Bullet
Mieruko-chan
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
The Fruit of Grisaia
Dark Gathering
GOBLIN SLAYER II
Hellsing
The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom
Wolf's Rain
Let This Grieving Soul Retire Cour 2
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: The Battle of Unato
Tetsujin 28
Ever Night
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Top Secret: The Revelation
Shiki
Coppelion
D.Gray-man HALLOW
The Rose of Versailles
Vatican Miracle Examiner
Inuyashiki: Last Hero
Sunday Without God
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar
Un-Go
Schwarzes Marken
Takt Op. Destiny
Sabikui Bisco
Darker than Black: Gemini of the Meteor
Children of the Whales
Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!
Flowers of Evil
Babylon
Infinite Ryvius
Katsugeki Touken Ranbu
Young Black Jack
Another
Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School - Despair Arc
Kokkoku
Hell Girl
Theatre of Darkness: Yamishibai
Japan Sinks: 2020
Night Head 2041
Aldnoah.Zero Part 2
I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day
Blue Gender
Ga-Rei-Zero
Shigofumi: Letters from the Departed
The Tale of Outcasts
Knights of Sidonia: Battle for Planet Nine
Bleach the Movie: Hell Verse
Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales
Fantastic Children
The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 3
The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior Season 2
Snowball Earth
Somali and the Forest Spirit
The Garden of Sinners Chapter 3: Remaining Sense of Pain
Boogiepop and Others
Champignon Witch
Chrono Crusade
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works
Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka
Twin Spica
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System Case.3 - On the Other Side of Love and Hate
kemurikusa.
LAZARUS
Casshern Sins
Revenger
Onihei
Record of Grancrest War
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Season 2 - The Eve of Awakening
Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre
Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace
To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts
PSYCHO-PASS Sinners of the System: Case.2 First Guardian
The Ancient Magus' Bride: The Boy from the West and the Knight of the Blue Storm
SWORDGAI The Animation
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
Witch Hunter Robin
Muv-Luv Alternative
X
Summer Ghost
Gantz: Second Stage
Ubel Blatt
Kurogane Communication
Kaina of the Great Snow Sea
Red Garden
Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet
Beyond the Boundary: I'll Be Here - Past
Crest of the Stars
BEM
Getter Robo Arc
Expelled from Paradise
Sands of Destruction
Corpse Princess: Aka
The Skull Man
Roll Over and Die
Platinum End
Maboroshi
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System Case.1 - Crime and Punishment
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
The Garden of Sinners: Future Gospel - Extra Chorus
Genesis Climber Mospeada
Angel Beats! Another Epilogue
7 Seeds
Angel's Egg
Higurashi: When They Cry - Outbreak
Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow
Alien Nine
The Detective Is Already Dead
Berserk (2016)
Code Geass: Akito the Exiled - The Wyvern Arrives
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Mars Red
Elfen Lied: In the Passing Rain, or, How Can a Girl Have Reached Such Feelings?
True Tears
Gantz
Dusk Beyond the End of the World
Texhnolyze
Voices of a Distant Star
Angels of Death
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 3rei!!
Junji Ito Collection
Tales from Earthsea
RErideD: Derrida, who leaps through time
Bastard‼ Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy
Pupa
Planzet
Call of the wild
Watashitachi no Mirai
Ippatsu Kanta-kun
Jungle Taitei: Susume Leo!
Gakkou no Yuurei
Onimaru: Senjou ni Kakeru Itsutsu no Seishun
A Spirit of the Sun
Anne no Nikki: Anne Frank Monogatari
Makkuro na Obentou
Hi no Ame ga Furu
Armored Trooper Votoms: Pailsen Files
Little Wansa
Kuroi Ame ni Utarete
Wings of the World
Gaza: Changing the World
Condom Battler Gorou: Revive
The Soul of Soldier Master
10000 Years Later
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