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Since childhood I had come across an anime that had many bittersweet moments, epic fights, and has stuck with me to this day. That anime? Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin. It's been a few years since I last came across the anime on Youtube so some details may be mixed up and extra stuff may be involved but I just wanted to all let you know how heartbreaking this anime was to me.
To sum up the anime it's in some arctic setting with a wild pack of dogs led by pack leader Gin that team up to rid the local Japanese villagers of these ravenous wild bears that have been encroaching on human territory(subtle environmental message?) and as civilian casualties climb the humans are powerless despite their terrible guns that fire only one round before you have to spend a minute to reload them.
The head honcho of these bears Akakabuto can be identified by a large scar that runs across one of his eyes and manages to miraculously evade bullets evading any attempt at being killed and himself managing to kill off many a bear hunter.
Gin's grandfather, Shiro who pops up in the 1st episode gets killed off by Akakabuto, and then Shiro's son ,Riki, who is also Gin's father on a separate occasion is thrown off by a cliff by Akakabuto, the evil head honcho bear and gets amnesia. He ends up leading a wild pack of dogs determined to kill off Akakabuto and his bear minions but all is in vain as Riki ends up meeting the same fate as his father, Shiro. It's a long line of bear hunting dogs.
Then we arrive to Shiro's wife dog who births a beautiful litter of pups one of which is the main character Gin. Gin goes on to developing a friendship with a human boy who I forget the name of as they both learn the art of bear hunting and the young boy masters the bow and arrow successfully killing off a bear himself at a young age. The series develops their friendship for around 7 episodes and you might think this is a promising human dog relationship that with amazing teamwork will somehow save the people from these bears, but no.
The series does a complete 180 when Gin, the dog meets the wild pack of dogs who were previously led by Riki, Gin's father who got killed by Akakabuto. Gin ends up joining the dogs leaving his human owner as if he never existed. 7 episodes of friendship making forgotten. He ends up making a cameo scene 15 episodes later but it's just the young boy realizing Gin's probably run away for a good reason and it's for the best that he sticks with the pack of wild dogs. It's already so sad.
The rest of the series involves the dogs slowly encroaching on bear territory and through the fighting they eventually reach the main bear stronghold which is this mountain where Gin lands the killing blow on the luminous bear Akakabuto by striking his eye where his scar is!
The sequel to this series Ginga Dengetsu Weed featuring Gin's son, Weed is named after the word for wild plant. The opening episode is about this mutated dog who escapes a lab and the old pack of wild dogs from the original series manages to kill off the mutated dog but not before having half the original cast dying who I had watched in the previous series. What?! What anime would do this to you. Truly heartbreaking.
The series continues on as Weed being crowned the new pack of the dogs since he's the son of Gin and all goes on a mission to find his father who has mysteriously disappeared.
The rest of the series involves battling with this other pack of wild dogs who want to rule the world or something and the head honcho of that leader of dogs is some evil dalmatian who has a really dark back story being cooped up in some wooden shed along with 70 something dogs with no nourishment resort to cannibalizing each other.
When Gin does get found out by his son, Weed, he's being held hostage and blah blah blah he can't move any of his legs and he becomes irrelevant. It's been an emotional roller coaster but the original cast as we know it has been made irrelevant from the sequel.
As you can expect the dalmatian dog's pack ends up losing and peace is restored in the dog world. You know, I realize I probably do build up too much of an emotional attachment to animated characters but in the end....this anime is the saddest I've watched so far.
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The most saddest anime I have watched ever is Grave of the Fireflies.
If you haven't seen it, it's available in it's entirety on YouTube.
I was in early to mid elmentary school when I first saw it. I remember it clearly, there was a chanel that showed anime series and sometimes full length anime movies called Hyper (it exists to this day in some other iteration), but it started airing at 10 pm. My mom went to sleep and told me to go soon to and I started watching. I liked it very much although it was much later when I fully realised what the movie was about, and plainly what really happened in the screen. I did not finished it as my mother got angry and told me to turn down the light and go to sleep, but after watching it again some time later it was a very moving experience. I went back to it last year and watched in full, still brings all the feels. Some Japanese cinematography at its finest.
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On May 28 2014 08:06 McRatyn wrote:
The most saddest anime I have watched ever is Grave of the Fireflies.
If you haven't seen it, it's available in it's entirety on YouTube.
I was in early to mid elmentary school when I first saw it. I remember it clearly, there was a chanel that showed anime series and sometimes full length anime movies called Hyper (it exists to this day in some other iteration), but it started airing at 10 pm. My mom went to sleep and told me to go soon to and I started watching. I liked it very much alto t was much later when I fully realised what the movie was about, and plainly what really happened in the screen. I did not finished it as my mother got angry and told me to turn down the light and go to slep, but after watching it again some time later it was a very moving experience. I went back to it last year and watched in full, still brings all the feels. Some Japanese cinematography at its finest.
I got curious and just watched Grave of the Fireflies on Youtube, and I couldn't stop the tears. I never imagined animation could be used to deliver such a powerful message. Thanks for the recommendation man, I'll be sure to show this to other people.
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Grave of the fireflies didn't make me feel that sad. Maybe because I knew how the story would go?
I personally think AIR is very amazing at getting people to cry. So many manly tears were dropped, if you can get past the weird story and the drawings, you will cry.
But the best anime I have ever watched is cowboy bebop.
Best anime movie is either cowboy bebop movie or perfect blue.
Perfect blue is so intense, paprika is pretty solid too
I believe everyone should at least watch perfect blue because it shows how anime movie can work just as well if not better for such dark and atmospheric movie
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Recently I've been catching up on all the anime classics like Akira and Grave of the Fireflies. I'll be sure to watch Perfect Blue later this day. I'd also like to recommend the anime film 5 Centimeters Per Second which runs for one hour long which you should easily be able to find on Youtube.
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On May 28 2014 20:12 Ty2 wrote:
Recently I've been catching up on all the anime classics like Akira and Grave of the Fireflies. I'll be sure to watch Perfect Blue later this day. I'd also like to recommend the anime film 5 Centimeters Per Second which runs for one hour long which you should easily be able to find on Youtube.
I tried to tackle the written version of Akira severa times bt I aways give it up pretty fast for some reason. I'll give it another go later 
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Kaiba is sad.
but awesome too.
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Grave of the Fireflies is sad precisely because the ending is spoiled in the first minutes. It replace the tension normally seen in this genre with a sense of impending doom and hopelessness, like watching with a Damocles' sword hanging over your head.
5cm per Second is not quite as powerful, but in some sense just as poignant since the story is easily identifiable with most people's lives, whether their own experience or someone around them. I think anyone who's been through their teenage years can appreciate the movie.
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woah perfect blue was...a lot more than what I expected it to be just woah didn't know what I was getting into and then....woah....
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