Anna LindwasserList RulesVote up the series that lived unhappily ever after.
While plenty of anime ends on a happy note, sometimes a series takes your heart and Gundam-blasts it into a million little pieces. A dark ending sometimes works best, especially for a darker show like Berserk, but watching one can still make you cry. Some anime concludes in a way that you never fully recover from it—spoilers ahead, by the way!
Be honest: there's a little part of your soul that's still crying (or laughing, we won’t judge) about Light Yagami crawling around on the floor screaming and begging for his life. Nobody’s getting over the end of School Days—that head is going to haunt your dreams forever.
Vote up the anime with the darkest, most shocking, most miserably messed-up finales that left you running for your copy of My Neighbor Totoro.
If you want to know what led up to the endings check out the best Puella Magi Madoka Magica quotes and the best Griffith quotes.
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1,408265Your Lie in April
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Berserk
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Neon Genesis Evangelion
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Cowboy Bebop
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Code Geass
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Angel Beats!
Action, ComedyAngel Beats! (P.A. Works, 2010) is a Japanese supernatural anime series. In a realm within the... more - 93,032794
Death Note
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Another
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Fate/Zero
Action, SupernaturalFate/Zero (ufotable, 2011) is a Japanese fantasy anime series based on the light novel by Gen... more - 121,509371Watch the latest episodes of School Days on Crunchyroll now. YOUR ROMANCE WILL COME TRUE IF... more
- 131,423383Guilty Crown is a 2011 Japanese anime television series produced by Production I.G which aired... more
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Psycho-Pass
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Clannad
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Fullmetal Alchemist
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- 18918279Akira is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk action film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, written... more
- 19828263Shiki is a horror novel by Japanese novelist Fuyumi Ono.An anime adaptation of the manga by... more
- 20Higurashi no Naku Koro ni kai is a TV Program based on the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni video... more
- 21577234Chrono Crusade, originally released as Chrno Crusade due to a typo in the original logo, is a... more
- 22628267Gantz is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroya Oku. Gantz tells the story... more
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Gurren Lagann
Action, AdventureGurren Lagann (Gainax, 2007), also known as Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, is a Japanese mecha... more - 2422686Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 is a Japanese anime television series that premiered on Fuji TV's... more
- 2511688Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam is a television anime, part of the Gundam series and a sequel to the... more
