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
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
Vinland Saga Season 2
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Monster
A Lull in the Sea
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part 1: Beginnings
Apocalypse Hotel
86 Eighty-Six Part 2
Heavenly Delusion
Land of the Lustrous
From the New World
Attack on Titan: No Regrets
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya: Vow in the Snow
Jujutsu Kaisen
Vinland Saga
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel - I. Presage Flower
In This Corner of the World
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Grave of the Fireflies
Serial Experiments Lain
WorldEnd: What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us?
Pluto
Kanon
Mononoke
Sentenced to Be a Hero
Hell's Paradise
Fate/Zero
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2
Dororo
Girls' Last Tour
Darker than Black
Megalobox
Berserk
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
Fate/Grand Order: Divine Realm of the Round Table - Camelot Paladin; Agateram
Arknights: Perish in Frost
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
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!
TsumaSho
Ergo Proxy
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Season 2 - The Eve of Awakening
Mushi-shi: Next Passage Part 1
Overlord III
5 Centimeters per Second
Black Butler
Arknights Animation: Prelude to Dawn
Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld Part 2
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
Mieruko-chan
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
NieR:Automata Ver1.1a
The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom
Rainbow
Hellsing
Arknights: Rise from Ember
Gintama: The Movie: The Final Chapter: Be Forever Yorozuya
Mob Psycho 100 II
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
Vinland Saga Season 2
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Monster
A Lull in the Sea
Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part 1: Beginnings
Apocalypse Hotel
86 Eighty-Six Part 2
Heavenly Delusion
Land of the Lustrous
From the New World
Attack on Titan: No Regrets
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya: Vow in the Snow
Jujutsu Kaisen
Vinland Saga
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel - I. Presage Flower
In This Corner of the World
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Grave of the Fireflies
Serial Experiments Lain
WorldEnd: What do you do at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us?
Pluto
Kanon
Mononoke
Sentenced to Be a Hero
Hell's Paradise
Fate/Zero
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2
Dororo
Girls' Last Tour
Darker than Black
Megalobox
Berserk
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
Fate/Grand Order: Divine Realm of the Round Table - Camelot Paladin; Agateram
Arknights: Perish in Frost
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
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!
TsumaSho
Ergo Proxy
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Season 2 - The Eve of Awakening
Mushi-shi: Next Passage Part 1
Overlord III
5 Centimeters per Second
Black Butler
Arknights Animation: Prelude to Dawn
Sword Art Online: Alicization - War of Underworld Part 2
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
Mieruko-chan
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
NieR:Automata Ver1.1a
The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom
Rainbow
Hellsing
Arknights: Rise from Ember
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