Anime/Manga That Make You Feel Empty

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Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou

Fuck that ending.

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Fairy Tail
It killed all of my brain cells

I'm still surprised punpun didn't make me kill myself.

>>119464772
I can't believe Oda is coping Ichigo and L like this

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NHK
Punpun
OMK
Revenge

reading punpun made me realize that even that which I loved, drew energy from, and hoped to be saved by, was just escapism in the end too

and that there's nothing wrong with that but there's time and place for escapism and by extension love

This realisation really helped me get my life fixed, you have no idea.
Anyway, Bokurano was much sadder.

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>>119464909
Add Ai-Ren to that and it's a good list.

>>119464571
Oh, So it finally ended?
Did he fuck everyone after destroying the world?

I cant believe no one mentioned Evangelion yet.

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Even though it's pretty entry-level, Ga-Rei Zero.

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>>119465229
I want to die.

Angel's egg.

Serial Experiments Lain made me think that human interaction was completely arbitrary after I finished it. Well, while I was watching it

>>119463643
>Recommendation threads
>2015

>>119465402
Eva doesnt end on an entirely hopeless note. nhk and punpun end on a note essentially stating that life is suffering, although nhk's is decidedly more bittersweet

>>119463643
My life.

>>119465442
What?

Dude did you read the manga? It literally has one of the happiest endings imaginable.

Literally everyone gets what they want in the end. And everyone that dies just comes back as a ghost and they go around solving mysteries now and shit.

>>119465927
Discussing anime and recommending it is not the same thing.

>>119465963
I tried reading the manga but it was meh, dropped it after a few chapters. I only watched the anime.

>>119465927
Not looking for recommendations, wanted to discuss depressing shit.

>>119465517
>>119465229
Easily the most heavy and depressing manga ive read to date, 800+ completed and nothing has made me want to kill myself more.

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>no Blade of the Immortal

How the fuck guys.

>mfw waited years for that ending.

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>>119466026
Asking people to post something about their favorite aspect of a certain genre of anime/manga is considered recommendations on /a/ now.

I felt pretty empty after White Album 2. Not because I was particularly awed by it, but because I really wanted more cute Touma and I know I won't get more because the VNs will never be translated and I won't know enough Japanese to read it untranslated at the rate that I'm learning until years from now, if I even manage to learn it.

Guilty Crown
I marathoned the entire thing, after I finished I just went to sleep without doing anything at all.
The day after I felt like an empty shell of myself and I didn't want to do anything anymore.

>>119466375
No, you are not the /a/ majority.
I'm here to discuss depressing manga, fuck off.

>>119465517
What is it from? Can't get a source with the other one either.

I just watched the final episode of Angel Beats... my feels..

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Pic related.

No one has ever had it as fucking bad as Killy.

>>119466386
Let's hope for S2 then. Everything's gonna be daijobu.

Punpun is the only manga to make me cry. I mean, I cried over Usagi Drop, but it was more while watching an AMV after I finished the manga. And that was only because it hurt me on an emotional level.

With Punpun, it was difficult to describe. It was like after all the horrible things that happened, after all the emptiness and pain of life, after all the loss, he could still live a life filled with people he loved. There was still all that beauty in the world. It really got to me. I don't care what Asano said. I think Punpun had a happy ending, and it just depends on what kind of person you currently are. For Asano and pre-ending Punpun, it would be a bad ending, but for post-ending Punpun, it would be a good ending.

>>119466504
Narutaru Shadow Star, literally full 1st page of the links after image search. Anon pls.

>>119465367
This. https://soundcloud.com/brandoid/blue-darkness-a-sleepless

>>119466489
I was just saying that that's the mindset you see a lot in threads like this these days.

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>>119466553

>>119466625
>best guess for this image: Alucard vs Lucy
Thank you for the name

>>119466897
>Literal meme
Fuck off.

>>119466897
Thanks QuickMeme!

>>119466927
Try not to kill yourself after getting to the ending.

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>>119465517
After going through that ending years ago, i pussy out midway every time i get the feeling that i need to re-read it.

I think it's that Punpun was so painfully relatable in his twisted thoughts about himself, the people around him and life. It's the kind of thing depression will whisper to you over and over, echoing the things you heard and learned as a kid. In the end, I think the hardest thing was feeling like that kind a "happy" ending was unrealistic, that there would always be a struggle for sanity, even if you dodged the worst ending a while ago. Like the window where you might've made a huge mistake (like murder) is passed.

>>119467479
I personally loved the ending, it didn't feel like an asspull and I could feel the manga slowly leading up to that point. It didnt take my off guard at all and was more like a gradual buildup and collapse of depressing nihilistism.

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>>119467527

I always assumed he hung himself after a year when he couldn't remember Aiko anymore

It's not like he learned to live for Sachi or anything, he just passively let's her point and steer him while he's still mourning

>>119465517
Thats by Bokurano's author, isn't it? Or the art is the same.

>>119468007
It is, I personally enjoyed NaruTaru a lot more though.

>>119468061
I'll find out soon. Would you recommend his other works as well? I might as well start a marathon, considering I had this urge to read Bokurano a few days ago.

Jun's battle is truly a piece of art.

>>119467877
Maybe that's what I find depressing, that even after clawing your way back up from all that, the best you get is having avoided disaster and you glide along letting the wind (and the people around you) carry you. There's something vaguely taoist about it, but I guess it's tougher to have that feel like a win.

>>119468144
Ive only read those two.

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>>119468144
All of kitoh's s stuff is emotionally deep. like wings of vendemiaire. Anything but sidonia from Nihei is good too. also pic related.

>>119466196
After the experiment ended, the manga started feeling a bit different. I think the cast got too big, so I started caring about them less.

Hope Manhwa counts.

Annarasumanara

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Early Clamp was brutal

>>119468393
Tsubasa chronicle ending

>>119468481
xxxHolic was way worse

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Devilman and Shadowstar Narutaru are tied as the most depressing.

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>>119468537
i wouldn't call first animu season sad. maybe it get's worse later.

Tsumi to Batsu (Crime and Punishment). I can't read it all in one shot. It takes me a couple days at least to build up enough tolerance to keep reading, and then I burn through 20+ chapters.

>>119468180

>the best you get is having avoided disaster and you glide along letting the wind (and the people around you) carry you

While dying with Aiko would have been the best ending for Punpun, what you described is being rescued by someone which is not for Punpun but most wouldn't consider it a bad thing after clawing themselves back up by themselves alone giving them purpose and validation
I disagree on it being Taoist, there's nothing serene about being hollowed out by loss and turning completely numb, I do see what you're getting at though it's not a win it's a consolation prize or participation trophy

>>119468896
Yeah, I think you're hitting at why it didn't feel quite right to see it as serene in any way. No one imagines you'll bounce back from all that to be the most successful man in history, I suppose, but I'd like to think you'd want more than what Punpun got and more importantly, that you might actually be able to get it.

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Texhnolyze is likely the bleakest show I've watched but in a brutal setting like that with no hope of a happy ending it also becomes a bit harder to care for the characters. Even without being spoiled you can already guess nothing good will happen to any of them, it's kind of too extreme.
Not to repeat what has already been said, but Punpun was the only /a/-related thing to have made me cry, even just rereading this part still does it.

>>119469056
>but I'd like to think you'd want more than what Punpun got and more importantly

But that's the thing, he no longer wants more or anything he's numb to his own feelings since he lost the only thing he ever wanted

>that you might actually be able to get it.

You mean happiness or ?

>>119469378
happiness, passion, fulfillment. Not that any of those things were especially good to him before.

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Here's a fucking good one. Literally the most downer ending possible. Thanks, Harold Sakuishi.

>>119466531
There is a happy ending to that though. Everyone finds peace and Otonashi even finds Kanade.

>>119466026
So why didn't you start a thread about that show or manga?

Shit thread

>>119463643
Boku no pico

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGQVX8iGbgk

I guess even Elfen Lied kinda

>>119469474

He never got any of those things before Anon

>>119468393
I feel it was a mistake in the time to have read X before Tokyo Babylon.

As for the topic at hand, I remember after a One Page thread in here reading a small thing, about some girl who was the memories of the world or something, and the guy she met on a boat.

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CLOSE YOUR EYES

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>>119468625
I feel like Devilman went by way too quickly for me to feel sad for what happened to most of the characters. The ending was still nice though.

>>119469867
emanon?

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>>119469867

>>119469981
>>119469946

Ah, yes, thank you.

I read it because the train station kinda looked like one near me.

>>119469893
ah shit, just finished it an hour ago

>>119469659
No, not dogs please, I always cry when dogs are involved.

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also, this scene

>>119470439
>>119469659
All dogs go to heaven.

By the way, do every fucking city in japan looks exactly the same?

Osana Reimu, I cry every time.

No, really, I do.

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>>119463643

Nothing can make me significantly sad. All of my hope and optimism was killed long ago.

>>119469712
This one got to me at times as well.

>>119466196
>>119468386
Its alot better if you read it all at once.

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>>119471138
Were you below 15 when you watched it?

>>119471365

They're probably below 15 now or at least somewhere around that age.

>>119471365
heh I was...

>>119470439
inb4 doggy style
But yeah fuck that scene.

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>>119463643

>>119471474
Fuck you, every time I get to that part again I cry for awhile

>>119471642
Meant>>119471601

>>119465442
>emotions can be "entry-level"

No. Stop.

>>119471916
How do you get that out the post?

>all this punpun
why?

>>119472183
baby's first sad manga, just like Berserk will get posted if you talk about good drawing in manga.

>>119468826
I never see this mentioned anywhere. I'm also following it but I think some similar manga like Punpun and Aku no Hana are a lot better.

>>119468826
>actually reading a fucking C&P manga instead of the novel
Jesus fucking Christ Anon, I hope you get visited by Raskolnikov.