recommendations for depressing anime?

[asian.neet]

getting bored of redpill content and can't seem to find blackpill on yt anyone got some anime you can recommend that's depressing?

 

[W3akCr3atur3]

Neon Genesis Evangelion if you haven't watched it. It's a masterpiece

 

[figcitylightscookie]

I second Evangelion! It's depressing yet beautiful in its own twisted way.

 

[CrazyDiamond04]

Happy shows are the most depressing.

 

[MelancholyMagic]

Don't watch anime, but have heard 'Welcome to the NHK' is decent.

 

[Blackpepperpancake]

Serial Experiment Lain
Texhnolyze
Monster
Perfect Blue
These are old and gold, as for manga I recommend Goodnight Punpun

 

[haibane]

Haibane renmei
Kuzu no honkai
Texhnolyze
A silent voice
And if u read manga :
My broken mariko
Nora to zassou
A lollypop or a bullet

 

[tiger b]

Aohana: The flower we saw that day

 

[Rapière]

Stroszek (1977)

 

[urwelcomelb]

serial experiments lain, devilman crybaby, and madoka magica are ones I enjoyed. if you wanna watch an anime movie, then Grave of the Fireflies is really good as well.

 

[Tobiichi]

Myhero academia

 

[carac]

Serial Experiment Lain
Texhnolyze
Monster
Perfect Blue
These are old and gold, as for manga I recommend Goodnight Punpun

Perfect Blue is such an underated masterpiece

Also Grave of the Fireflies, as mentioned in another post is a brilliant but depressing work of art.

 

[BlackMoon]

I would recommend NieA_7. Yes it's far from being the most depressing one, I know there's a lot of comedy in it. But for me it's one of the best animes about anxiety and depression so far.

Observing how slowly but surely the main character and some of her relatives fall into it, it looks so strangely realistic to me in a such fanciful story. And the comedy parts looks more and more like coping strategies from characters with poverty and discriminations struggles, episode by episode. It really looked like my life by moments (beside the Sci-Fi/Fantastic stuff), especially the parts about the social stigma against under-seven's, who are so much hated they are not even really considered as existing.

Maybe I'm partial because it's one of my favorite comedy anime. Also I still have to watch the second season.

 

[Slow_Farewell]

Orange.
Girl gets letters from future self asking her to prevent her "biggest" regret, which had something to go with a classmate that would CTB.
They do prevent classmate from CTB but it meant future her sacrificed her family of the future coz the timeline is changed.

 

[hexd]

evangelion, clannad / clannad after story

i haven't watched anything in awhile besides EVA, it hits so close to home i rewatch it all the time.
clannad is real dark, you don't really need to watch the first one but it helps develop some characters, i guess. but after story made me ugly cry like six times haha

 

[SCDLKD]

Welcome to the NHK it's a "depressive" one. No happy ending and that kind of bs in the plot. It also touches different types of mental illness, from depression and social anxiety to more complex ones like paranoid squizophrenia for example.

Death parade is also a good one too.

But if you wanna ctb after watching an anime I'd watch Your lie in April. It's a pretty emotional one but it will shred your heart into pieces and leave you devastated.