The First Anime To Make Me Cry - Angel Beats!

[@amyrose9889nenasonic]

This anime to me is simply a treasure.. it litterally tramatized me in the best way I don't think I've ever cried in my entire life as much as I did watching this anime I litterally cannot watch It ever again like it litterally broke me yet I still put it as one of my top all time animes of all time! It's so refreshing to hear someone speak so highly of such an anime that I've treasured for years

[@AxelBeats]

All time favorite

[@reggiejaviar1367]

That’s why I love key works studio all shows like Kanon ,clannad, air and little busters and angels bests and few others were so dope to me and they all are connected in a way in terms of having small things or characters in other shows in ep 10 in yui room u can see stuff animals and toys from the anime I just named up there and also some main characters were in other shows like ppl from Kanon was in air on ep 2 , it was all great shows to me and beside key works casshern sins 2000s version really was something to that gave me great vibes

[@neiljohnvillanueva2803]

Up to this day 12 years later, I refuse to watch this anime again, just the mere mention of the anime just make me shed tears. this anime left a hole in my heart longing for someone I never even met. sobbing for a best friend that doesn't exist. it's that powerful. The story has holes but that doesn't matter because the way they strung your heart makes up for it in spades!

[@whitewolf3051]

One) It’s easy to see the inspiration of your channel’s name. Two) Otonashi’s background was just as heartbreaking. While was selfish, he cared for his sister, and when she died, he decided to be a doctor. But then train crash happened, and he severely injured. He tried put his medical training to use, managed to save all but one of the survivors, inspired the others to be an organ donor. Most devastatingly though, he died moments before the others were rescued. Three) That last scene with him and Kanade almost had a happy ending in the post credit scene. We see him walking along while she stands humming a song that’s familiar to him, and he reaches out to her as she leaves. Beyond that, we have no idea what happened afterwards. Leaving it up for fan fictions.

[@sophialillian8508]

I feel like the reason why this got so popular is because it felt so “human”. It’s a reminder that everything has to end eventually and that life has plenty of ups and downs. Remember those good memories, because those memories will always be light in your darkest moments. “Even if those memories make me sad, I’ve got to go forward, believing in the future. Even when I realize my loneliness, and I'm about to lose all hope, those memories make me stronger.”

[@silvers6793]

You have earned my respect, even used the theme of the SSS in the background SHUT UP IM NOT CRYING

[@AxelBeats]

You can cry 😭

[@Trinidad413]

It was the first anime ever that made me cry. I did cry my eyes out during the last episode, especially the final one. And that heartbreaking song in the background... I watched it four more times and I again cried every time. I love this anime and its music.

[@AxelBeats]

✊😭

[@scarlet7960]

It's when he goes for the clap but gets left hanging that got me

[@jooei2810]

Absolutely true!

[@SilverWolfie01]

Watch Cyberpunk Edgerunners then lol

[@ShonenOuji]

My only real complaint is the plot holes, but even then I don’t think they take away from the story. The characters we do get a look at all have such moving stories. As great as the ending is, Iwasawa’s story is still my favorite. Thanks again for the recommendation. This is a touching story that everyone should take the time to enjoy.

[@parkeraguirre]

I think part of the reason that those plot holes exist is due to the fact that their run time was originally 29 episodes, then 23, then 19 and then 13. Originally they wanted to touch on the Programmer but couldn’t literally due to run time constraints

[@Shugo1001]

Yeah, Angel Beats! made me cry too. That ending sequence is kinda powerful and still makes me tear up.

[@AxelBeats]

Gets me every time :(

[@patluvsvettes]

I became an organ donor after watching "Angel Beats". Don't let anyone tell you that anime is "just a cartoon" or that it doesn't have the ability to impact you!

[@wezletbullock7424]

Yeah I cried. And I’m proud of it. Great anime with great characters and it tugs on all the right feels. Each episode you like the characters more and more until Bam! They’ve all moved on and are gone.. I also saw this anime when I was a lot younger and I still don’t know if it took something from me or gave something to me

[@thomaswrappe7234]

I have always considered Angel Beats as my motivation to break through moments where I felt like a loss something important in my life. I want to continue to live my life so that those who live with regrets can realize that they can find the will to live on and find redemption based on the example of the life that they love for themselves. Thank you for sharing your experience with Angel Beats because it was similar to mine.

[@g.bloomy]

I legit couldn’t agree more with this video, it was the very first anime i’ve ever watched, yet i couldn’t bare but shed a couple of years during the last moments. This anime is truly a hidden gem, and highly underrated.

[@g.bloomy]

side note: although i’ve only watched it around may 2024, i still can’t get enough of it, and even downloaded some soundtracks that i’m addicted to

[@slickyami1877]

this is why anime is very important too me because its anime like this FMAB and many others that really hit u with emotions :'(

[@kuno3473]

I remember when I was in secondary school (similar to high school) after watching angel beats I was listening to a KZbin playlist and I herd a brave song in a car with my head phones in and I just started crying in front of my family happens every time I hear it

[@jooei2810]

I can relate.

[@sahrudh]

Angel Beats never aired in my country, but after you describe this anime in such a vivid way, I will try to watch it. #StayAxellent

[@Milty2001]

I recently started watching angel beats and finished it within two days, and im glad that i stumbled into it, at first I thought it was gonna be a normal fantasy but towards episode 7 and 12 my view changed completely, watching the characters share their favorite things they wish they did before they died and were taken to the afterlife only to get reincarnated after helping each other come to terms with their past life and moving on made me cry out of nowhere, sure the story was only 12 episodes short but it was definitely worth watching.

[@JohnSmith-dz2dc]

I identify with you so much with how this show impacts your anime picks. It was this show that made me fall in love with anime that tug at your heart strings. I watched anohana and am currently watching your lie in April but I need more. I need more animes that make you cry!

[@DJMichaelMcClain]

You know first I did not know you made a video for this awesome. second you're a lucky man to find someone else a girl even that likes anime like you do. I have never found someone that does even in high school. 💛🧡💛🧡💛 Very cool video friend 💙💙 This was my first anime series I have ever watched. and it's still hits my heart good every time I still have never forgot about it. It's just that memorable.

[@Pantalaimon91]

Not gonna lie, remembering the show while watching your video had me tearing up. I got into it after Clannad and Kanon (also by Key for those that don't know) and was prepared for the pain that would inevitably come with one of their products but it really didn't matter, it still messed me up in the best possible way. Angel Beats is one of my all time favorites and has some of the best character writing I've ever seen. Violet Evergarden is just about the only show I can think of that messed me up more emotionally that you didn't mention.

[@AxelBeats]

I haven't seen VE but it's on my list. Worth watching then?

[@Pantalaimon91]

Most definitely. It's a little slow for some people's taste but the emotional storytelling and character development are phenomenal.

[@mangantasy289]

I definitely have to thank you because this video of yours made me curious enough to watch Angel Beats. And I'm glad that I did so because I really liked it. It is rather unique (and I agree upon its weaknesses) but the theme of these teens with so bad luck in life ending up in this world to get a chance to feel happy - wow. Touches me personally and very deeply . Quite thought-provoking. And of course it made me cry, but that's perfectly okay.

[@ollienotolive8165]

Honestly one of the most underrated anime’s ever. It was a gateway to physiological anime. It was also the first anime to make me cry, and I still get pretty sad thinking about Yuri’s backstory-

[@kankanfr]

There's a reason this is my favorite anime of all time and I try to watch it at least once maybe twice a year.

[@kankanfr]

Yo I didn't expect to get a heart on a 3 year old vid.

[@ryanmaris1917]

The tears didn't come the first time watching it but, every time I've watched the tunnel scene or the ending the tears have flowed.

[@craftguy1154]

I've watched this anime before but everytime I rewatch the last episode it always make me cry...this is the first anime ever that make me cry 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺😭

[@R1le06]

Cried a few times while watching, but then i wanted a trully happy ending, so i searched for fanfic's. Found a one with a realy realy realy happy ending, then i cried a bit, but, they were not tears of saddnes, thoes were tears of happiness. Angel Beats! is the anime that made me start watcing these, sad anime. Before, i watched a bit of romace a bit of action amd stuff, but this made me cry, and, for some weird reason, i liked it, the crying. They say crying over an anime is ok, cuz that means that the anime was so well done, that you connected with the characters and the story, that it fealt soo real, in some way, that you got a need to cry, over their struggles, but also, to be happy about their "moments", and, sometimes, even be embarassed when "confesions" are happening. I think that, with every next sad anime i watched, i cried a bit more. Fun fact: I stubled across this anime by chanse, i watched a anime, searcher similars to that anime, then choose "Skilled teaser Takagi-san", then again searched similars, then watched a few more animes, like Toradora, Shakugan no Shana, Tsuredure Children and i found this anime, #I Cried, Cried my lungs out# (who gets this is a legend and please comment if you know from where this is), at the time, i didnt know that it is the 5th saddest anime in the world. Every anime after was realy sad, and made me cry. I started questioning myself. "Why is every anime i watch sad?". A few days ago, i watched Plastic Memories and i still cant get over it, *sniff*. Well, it seems like i got carried away writing this.

[@thstan4062]

I am glad to say, this anime was the 1st ever anime I watched fully, I watched an ep or 2 of a.o.t but no anime has ever got to me like angelbeats, I think I was 15 and it made me cry and it will always have that affect on me, the characters backstories and the ending are just perfect at making you tear up, kanade is and will always be my favourite character in anime.

[@japonieczpolski2903]

And imagine now probably its just infinite loop.

[@ShadowCritias]

That was a filter on Instagram but guessing emoji base of anime one of my followers on TikTok told me I should watch this is & he said it's really good so I watched it & I cried alot it's so good & I wasn't ready for any of that lol

[@jooei2810]

Even the few opening notes of the theme gets me crying.

[@thenarrachild]

This was a really good review. I remember watching Angel Beats a while back and it had me SOBBING. For me, it was one of those series I couldn’t watch again bc I wouldn’t know how to handle those feels again LOL

[@SephTheSin]

I don’t have as strong a connection to this show as you obviously do but it is still a favourite of mine, and of course I cried though the number of anime’s I have cried while watching is way too many to count, a great and heartfelt video

[@AxelBeats]

Thanks so much seph

[@mrprotoman154]

Yeah the characters, music and atmosphere in this show are still unmatched for me to this day. The ending didn't make me cry at all but it did shatter my heart into a million pieces. It's a weird thing with this show how it can move me more than any other piece of fiction i've experienced and not even make me tear up once.

[@DanielAspajo9930]

I love Angel Beats everything of it, it's so amazing, characters, music, world Everything

[@letramy1310]

I really like your channel! I've just finished watching all of your Inuyasha videos. Can you also do Tokyo Ghoul please?

[@allenharper2928]

Otonashi didnt do bad in life. He wentbto med school to help others, but was stopped by the train wreck, so he became an organ donor as a way to help others.

[@Nousxgi]

The last scene is just perfect

[@hanare]

Found this a year later, and it made me cry for the first time and hearing an ost hurts in my chest

[@Brooke-dy7gx]

Glad I found you randomly on youtube!

[@Seminooos]

I’m pretty sure I’ve cried more times watching anime than I ever have watching a show or movie made by Hollywood.

[@melissanatashah7966]

I actually thought that all those were boring because therez no fighting and swords n demons and all that like full metal alchemist, seven deadly sins, sword art online, inu yasha, etc ...but when you tlked about them ...i actually began with Anohana which made me cry like it was something real, so i watched it all in one night and then today i am gonna watch others too because they are nice in their own way too!! Thank you for making my anime tastes diverse!!!💜💜💜....Thank you for the video!!!

[@Seminooos]

I just finished watching angel beats and it was truly amazing. I really wish it could’ve gotten it’s original 23 to 26 episode runtime.

[@Ros13_Pos13]

I've watched this series a few times and I can't listed to the op without crying 😭

[@shadaciaball3851]

I stumbled upon this anime looking for some romance comedy. I just wanted to laugh and enjoy a good anime, I did get what I want, but I didn't expect to cry this much over an anime. I am so touched and shaken by this anime. I will never watch it again but I love it soooo much. I wanted it to end differently but I do understand and respect this ending. I thank this writer that gave me a different perception of animes.

[@jpcyberdude7777]

Angel beats was one of the first anime I watched goddamn what an opening to my soon to be anime addiction lol

[@allencrx._6071]

Bruh i litterally finished it today and i was crying so much it got me so emotional😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@rina123456]

Oh! I like this avatar so much better than the one you use for your YashaHime content! I hope you switch it up between the two :DDD EDIT: Oh, I caught that YTV logo. Are you a fellow Canadian? :DDD

[@JabamiLain]

When I tried to watch this a few months earlier, my level of empathy was like Angel's, which means, almost non-existent if it meant the fulfillment of duty and purpose: -I saw Yuri as a mere warmonger, as she would risk the universe's integrity by facing God, even though it could have been the Devil who arranged for the unfairness that befell her life and family; -I did not judge Angel's attack on the Ootanashi. He was dead and he asked for proof of it. She delivered, because that's her job; -I'm not sure I can be so forgiving towards the hypnotist. He was neglected, I get it. But steal someone's identity like that just to get the love of someone who probably doesn't even deserve it... This one I'll admit I refrain from passing on active judgement. It feels too unfair for me to do it, given I do not know that kind of neglect; -And, I saw the humans' actions in resisting erasure as futile. That was the purgatory. They would either be reincarnated or ascend. That's how it works both in the East and West. All they had to do was to either follow rules or fulfill their final wish. Yuri I might even understand why she couldn't do neither, because even in my scenario, I imagine she would need not to be at peace if she hoped to one day face the Devil. My final veredict... This show was perfect. And I, am an idiot who could never deserve to have my sinful eyes gaze upon this wholesome beauty. Because, I spent too much time with my routine of overseeing. My level of human concern and care is very minimal at worst and lowly average at best. I do have one complaint though. It should have been longer. Seriously ? 12 episodes ? For a show this complex with such 3 dimensional characters ?

[@FifthRobin]

This was also the first anime that made me cry!

[@Dia-Sabah]

Hi, I recently watched Angel Beats and I couldn't believe this anime came almost a decade ago. Even if the anime feels like it was rushed and should have had 20-something episodes, it was still a fantastic story that almost would have been perfect if it wasn't for a couple of elements.

[@japonieczpolski2903]

I'll make you more depressed. Main character is probably programmer and that anime is infinite loop.

[@mundomundovich2265]

This might yet be msot beautiful anime I ever watched. I usually more into cyberpunk , thriller or comedy stuff, or something shounen like Fullmetall. But this, this was something else entirely. This was something that reminded me about who we are and what purpose we have on earth. This was something from other world completely.

[@AxelBeats]

I'm glad you feel the same way I do aha

[@hardcorespence]

That last episode broke me

[@AxelBeats]

Saaame

[@codyshi4743]

The very first anime that got me crying is the anime movie, “The Grave of the Fireflies”.

[@mangantasy289]

"The Grave of the Firelflies" is really hard. Not the first anime I cried for but it hit me REALLY hard. It left me badly sobbing. But there too, mission accomplished. A masterpiece. Another Anime movie that made me cry was "A silent voice".

[@zero1188]

The story that did it for me was elfin lied. Prior to that anime i was all about action

[@starrynight1165]

finished it today and omg its so bittersweet i cried so hard

[@dante22723]

Just finished it. Ending made me cry way too hard damn. I recommend little busters anime or visual novel, very similar and emotional

[@ShiroyashaVince]

i really do respect and love this anime and how it kinda changed my thing with life with like evem tho u have an shit life u still had an good life and u still gotta rember these characters were dead soo yeah it kinda changed my point of view in life

[@joeycates7060]

I liked your video, and your explanations, I have never watched never will you lie in April, however I do have some recommendations, if you haven't watched them yet, Charlotte, and death Note. (Do not watch kanon unless you want to cry)

[@giotatzanneti8771]

This anime will probably be the first to make my ugly cry

[@AxelBeats]

I hope you enjoy lol

[@chasethegamer6491]

Oh wow...That’s deep.

[@JabamiLain]

I saw a video analysing this show... It's official. I'm a worthless piece of garbage who couldn't appreciate beauty, even if it donated its heart to my undeserving body ! Best case scenario, I'm gonna end up in a purgatory similar to the anime's. Worst case... I'm gonna end up either in Hell or erased without ever ascending to a higher form.

[@mardhiahmokhtar9865]

The catalyst for my anime obsession. Growing up i watched few anime and that its. Then one day i want to try watching some popular anime. I see many recommended Angel Beats. After finished it, i amazed with the plot. At first it looks like the typical sci-fi high schoolers stories then it escalated unexpectedly. It just too short and left many mystery. It had many heartbroken past. I crying like river on the last episode. I then watch other anime that got sad storyline like Plastic Memory, Charlotte, Your Lie In April and so on. My all time favourite till today is Natsume Yuujinchou. By the way i also loved to watch Inuyasha back then too. Old anime is better than today anime. Even ancient anime like Sailor Moon is enjoyable for me. Too much ecchi, harem trash anime nowadays.

[@LucasSouza-jf1sm]

About the plot holes, I think that Otonashi one isn't a plot hole, there are 2 theories that seems to make sense 1 is actually a real theory and the other is a theory about the anime, there's either the theory that Otonashi is actually the programmer, but what I really think happens is that the anime approaches time as a non linear thing, and is hinted at by yuri actually being the founder of the group and the oldest person in that world (length wise) when Shina is from Feudal Japan Edit: Also, what type of monster are you that didn't cry when Yui vanished, when Hinata showed up I was a mess of tears in a corner balling like a toddler

[@keerthi155]

I did not cry once and I cry very easily. maybe I just expected too much idk

[@dany27P]

Jun Maeda is amazing

[@jojoirl]

This was the first anime I watched

[@AxelBeats]

It's a classic

[@ErrorM3]

Me too!!

[@leonardlayten4464]

first anime i watched was iuyasha then it got me into a crap ton of anime watched this it was awesome i cant get into the high action anime like dbz as much takes 4eps just to cast one power move had a friend get me into other stuff like lucy star and other non action anime

[@DJAMTAB]

Well, dou you play the vn though?

[@AxelBeats]

No

[@DJAMTAB]

@@AxelBeats i recommend you play it if you have time its good👍

[@ericneo2]

If you are looking for other good heart breaking anime you should try watching: Black Jack (2004), Natsume Yuujinchou & Letter Bee.

[@K_0lemonade]

if you love angel beats watch madoka magica it is my first tears in an anime were for madoka magi

[@ravendark9560]

I love Angel beats but it did not make me cry . Clannad after story made me cry hard though . I never felt that way over an anime but Clannad . Just thinking about it makes me tear up . Oh and you should watch the remake of Fruits basket that is a beautiful anime .

[@joshualabadie6914]

Ano hana and your lie in april as well as i want to eat your pancreas.... Those animes are not welcomed, crying like a b**ch is not for *me*, i cried for "your lie in april" so hard i couldn't watch "ano hana" and "I want to eat your pancreass". The first ever anime that made me cry was assassination classroom when they killed koro sensei, it hit differently.

[@kagomerosemary4773]

Try assassination classroom

[@sincerely_brii8951]

Yooooo . I just showed my boyfriend this video and he cried 🤣. He said he doesn’t wanna watch it now lol

[@AxelBeats]

Mission accomplished 😂