We all love anime spanning genres like romance and drama, but there is no sweet relationship without sad moments and adversity that leads to a happy ending. So, bring tissues to wipe your tears. 'Cause we're about to show you 18 Saddest Romantic Anime Seriesworth seeing.
18. Height
Our list starts with the anime Sky. The heartbreaking story is accompanied by various characters. This anime is a good choice for those who love drama and the supernatural. However, this story may be difficult for some to watch.
The plot is about Kunisaki and his adventure to find a girl with wings that flies in the sky. During this journey, he stops briefly in a small town to earn some money. There he meets a strange girl named Misuzu who invited him to stay and spend some time with her. The protagonist decides to settle in a small town, continuing the search for the girl of fate.
17. From tomorrow colorful world
A total of 13 episodes aired in the fall of 2018, covering genres such as drama, romance, and magic. This high school anime tells a sad and emotional story about a beautiful, colorblind girl from a family of magicians. On a night as black and white as any other, amid fireworks spilling across the sky, Hitomi Kohaku's grandmother invokes a spell for which she uses moonlight for 60 years to send Hitomi back in time to 2018, when Kohaku was a student at high school.
Hitomi's mission seems unclear, but her grandmother assures her that she will know when she gets there. After traveling back in time on a train driven by a strange yellow creature, Hitomi finds herself in the room of the artist Yuito Aoi, and his drawings fill her world with color. What is Hitomi's purpose and why does Yuito's drawings bring such breathtaking color back to her gray world?
16. This stupid pig does not understand the dream of a bunny girl.
Hey boy, don't let the name or visual of this anime fool you, it's not ecchi! There are no naked bunny girls here! So get ready to watch a sad romantic story that you will never forget.
Released in 2018, this dramatic anime follows the seemingly normal life of protagonist Sakuta Azusagawa. A high school student whose life is turned upside down when he meets a wild bunny girl who seems invisible to others.
15. Sakurasou Kitty
Also known as Sakurasou Animal Girl, this is a good romantic comedy anime that also has sad moments. The story takes place in Sakura's dorm, where the most obnoxious and naughty students gather.
Due to keeping a stray cat, Sorata Kanda was punished and also joined Sakura's dorm, where it's so hard to fit in with the quirky crowd of the dorm's residents. The story is a pleasure to watch as it tells of their daily lives, talents, hard work and friendship.
14. Friends for a week
Friends for the Week, produced by Brain's Base Studio, is a real-life romantic comedy that tells the story of protagonist Hase Yuuki, who is interested in his classmate Fujimiya Kaori. So, now that Hase Yuuki mustered up the courage, he decided to talk to her and ask her to become friends. Will they become friends?
13. It was us
This Was Us is an amazing anime with a genre of everyday life, romance, as well as sad moments that can even make you cry. The story is about Nanami Takahashi who wants to make many new friends. Yano Motoharu is a popular boy at school. Nanami soon develops a liking for Yano and takes a liking to him.
The two start dating, but the problem is that they end up living in the shadow of Yano's relationship with his dead ex-girlfriend. Consequently, Nanami and Yano struggle to keep their relationship afloat amid misunderstandings and heartache over their certainty of their love for each other.
12. White Album
Well, this is a good romantic anime that depicts the saddest and happiest moments of Touya Fujii, who is an ordinary student, along with his famous girlfriend.
So, while it may seem exciting to watch your girlfriend on TV, how does Touya actually feel about all this? Between Yuuki's career-related issues and the other people Touya meets at her university, their love story may not last long.
11. Cloudless tomorrow
This anime covers genres such as fantasy, romance, and drama. A Cloudless Tomorrow is a sad story that a long time ago, all people lived in the ocean. But some who yearned for the land left the ocean, throwing off the special clothes given to them by the god of the sea to adapt them to life underwater.
Although humanity was divided into sea dwellers and land dwellers, each with its own way of thinking, they all remained brothers and continued to maintain contact over time.
10. Restless hearts
Restless Hearts is probably one of the best drama anime mixed with romance and beautiful wild emotions, some of which are joyful and others sad.
This anime is really worth watching as it tells the daily life of four high school friends. A tragic turn in their lives that resulted in one of them falling into a coma, leading to a relationship between the girl's boyfriend and one of her friends. Therefore, for these four friends, things will never be the same again.
9. Ef - History of memories
This anime covers genres such as romance, supernatural and drama. This is not a regular anime, but rather a fictional art come to life that takes place several years ago. Himura Yuu is a diligent young man who focuses solely on his studies.
One day, he meets a mysterious girl named Yuuko Amamiya, who, to his surprise, recognizes him. Memories of distant childhood, memories that have been forgotten - meeting Yuuko will once again force Yuu to confront the regrets and sorrows of their past and future.
8. Golden time
Golden Time is a romantic comedy and at the same time sad anime that depicts the story of Banri Tada. Due to an accident, he suffers from severe memory loss. However, he befriended Mitsuo Yanagisawa and started a new life in jur. school in Tokyo.
Suddenly, Koko Kaga bursts into his life, leading to the start of an unforgettable year. The boy learns that a new life and a world where he can start from scratch, make new friends, fall in love and make mistakes. And in the end, this path will lead him to a dazzlingly bright life that he will never want to forget.
7 Plastic Memories
Another good anime that will teach you how to deal with the inevitable sad end that is getting closer every day. The story follows Tsukasa Mizugaki, who manages to get a job with an intelligence company and is responsible for creating technological varieties of Giftia that are borrowed from ordinary people. However, unlike humans, Giftias can live no more than nine years.
Tsukasa falls in love with a beautiful Giftia named Isla. Gradually, their relationship develops, and as both gradually fall in love, Isla is revealed to be nearing the end of her life.
6. Angelic rhythms!
This is a very sad romantic fantasy that will surely make you cry.What makes the anime more sad is the perfect music and amazing visuals that make the series one of the saddest anime ever.
The story takes place in a high school in the afterlife where people have experienced traumas or hardships in life and must overcome them before leaving and being resurrected. The main story centers on Yuzuru Otonashi, an amnesiac boy who ends up in the afterlife.
5. Sinner's Crown
You've missed out on so much in your life if you haven't seen The Sinner's Crown. Romantic and sad dramatic anime that tells about the main character Ouma Shu. He tries not to cause trouble to others.
However, his life is turned upside down after meeting a beautiful girl named Yuzuriha Inori, a key member of a guerrilla resistance group called the Burial Hall, whose members pilot mechanical weapons to fight the government.
4. Orange
Orange is one of the saddest romantic anime that will make you cry but in the end make you appreciate life more and give it more meaning. Naho listens to the warnings in the letter from her future self, so she wants to correct her mistakes by making sure Naho from the past can make the right decisions, especially regarding Kakeru.
More shockingly, she discovers that ten years later, Kakeru will no longer be with them. With the future letter in hand, Naho can now keep a close eye on Kakeru.
3. Unseen flower
Unseen Flower - tells of friends who parted ways after Menma's death. But the ghost of their long-lost friend might be enough to bring them back together.
The group gathers so that Menma can finally make her dream come true and move on while giving her friends the advice they need to continue without her.
Well, within the framework of this story, we will learn how Menma's death affected all of her friends as they resigned themselves to not being able to cope and overcome their guilt.
2. Clannad
Clannad is a romance anime that consists of two seasons.
Tomoya Okazaki is a high school student who finds life boring and believes he will never achieve anything. Along with his friend Yuuhei Sunohara, he skips school and plans to waste his school days.
One day, while walking to school, Tomoya passes a young girl muttering softly to herself. She exclaims without warning: "Anpan!" (a popular Japanese food) that gets Tomoya's attention. He soon discovers that the girl's name is Nagisa Furukawa and that she likes to motivate herself. Nagisa claims that they are now friends, but Tomoya leaves, deeming the meeting to be nothing.
However, Tomoya finds himself noticing Nagisa more and more at school. He eventually succumbs and befriends her. Tomoya learns that Nagisa has been delayed for a year due to a serious illness and that her dream is to revive the school's drama club. Claiming that he has nothing to do, he decides to help her achieve this goal along with four other girls. The more time Tomoya spends with the girls, the more he learns about them and their problems. As he tries to help each girl overcome their respective obstacle, he begins to realize that life is not as boring as he once thought.
1. Your lie in April
Music accompanies the path of the human metronome, the outstanding pianist Kusei Arima. But after the death of his mother, Saki Arima, Kousei falls down, causing him to be unable to hear the sound of his own playing. Two years later, Kousei still avoids playing the piano, leaving his fans and rivals behind, and lives a colorless life along with his friends Tsubaki Sawabe and Ryuta Watari.
However, everything changes when he meets the beautiful violinist Kaori Miyazono, who stirs up his world and helps him to face music again. Kousei discovers that music is more than just the perfect reproduction of every note, and one melody can bring in the fresh spring air of April. Unfortunately, like the anime's garish color palette, Kaori's cheerfulness merely masks the impending tragedy.
