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The 20 Anime Guaranteed to Make You Cry
Loss, heartbreak, pain — a roundup for when the tears must flow.
It’s why Grave of the Fireflies author Akiyuki Nosaka only agreed to let his short story be adapted into an anime film by Isao Takahata’s team at Studio Ghibli: The form could capture the emotions of the source material without restrictions. Cyberpunk Edgerunners takes its best-selling video-game source material and tells a straightforward rise-and-fall story that works because of how psychologically raw it is, placing the characters in a no-win scenario and just having their every hope ripped apart by the cruel world they inhabit. Wolf Children uses the werewolf as an allegory for human evolution, illustrating the single mom’s struggles and joys doing whatever she has to to raise her kids, whether that means fielding complaints about their behavior, covering for them when they change into their wolfish forms, or chasing after them in a brutal storm.
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