One of the advantages that anime can have over western media is in its ability to express heightened emotion, making the audience empathize intensely with the characters. It provides some of the most powerful moments of catharsis in modern media. In a year like 2020, …Read more »
If you’re a lover of anime music, you know that it has the power to take you back to scenes in your favorite show. Maybe it’s the music itself, or maybe it’s because it makes you recall the specific scene from which it hails. Either …Read more »
Tearjerkers are the subject of the latest poll by Japanese site Anime Anime, which asked its readers to rank the anime that made them cry the most. Sure, we’ve seen ranking sites ask this question before, but it’s always interesting to read the answers. We …Read more »
Sniff sniff. It’s July 9, or 7/9—put the pronunciations of those two numbers together in Japanese and you get “naku,” which means “to cry,” making July 9 “Crying Day.” Not exactly a happy holiday, but a good excuse for anime news site Anime Anime to …Read more »
Of all the anime studios out there, Studio Ghibli seems to be the most adept at jerking those tears loose. Over its three decades of anime production, the studio has produced films that keep fans welling up—sometimes out of sadness, sometimes out of happiness, and …Read more »
Waterworks activated. Ranking site Goo, which seems to favor lists focused around Shonen Jump, is at it again with a simple yet enlightening question: which Jump series made you cry the hardest? Let’s find out which manga got the most dust into fans’ eyes. 10. …Read more »
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