I'm not sure which one to buy. I got a 50 dollar gift card to best buy and I don't know which series I'll like better. I usually watch the first two episodes of a series before I buy it. But what I'm looking for is an anime that's gonna make me cry more, and I don't know which one of the two will. Also if you think there's another series I should get in English Dub (my eyes can never keep up with subtitles) then reccommend me to them. I love tear-jerker anime, and I just started getting into some of it, and romance is usually better but I can do regular drama too... But out of those two which would be better?
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For tearjerkers... I'd go with Fruits Basket. Has some seriously tragic romances (especially the one between Hatori and Kana), even in the anime version which doesn't cover all that the manga does in terms of relationships. I can't think of any real "tragedy" in His or Her Circumstances, except for the fact that Souichirou's "real" parents sort of suck... (Keep in mind though, I'm going off the manga version.) Neither anime series though, ends "tragically", as far as their respective anime series are concerned though, I believe... As for general tear jerker anime... --The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, also known as Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo, is great. It's technically a movie, but there is an English dub, and it's pretty darned good. The story itself is very very bittersweet and somewhat based on a novel of the same name, in that it takes place in the same world as the novel, and the main heroine of the novel happens to be Makoto's aunt. Makoto is the main heroine, and is scared of changes in her relationship to Chiaki, so when she finds the ability to "Time Leap", she uses it to avoid all the bad things, and to attempt to keep things unchanging. When it backfires on her, she finds it in herself to accept that things change, and that Chiaki isn't exactly who she thought he was... Definitely made me cry at the ending. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclop… --AIR TV About a "Girl in the Sky" and a group of very fun characters, all with especially tragic pasts, and tragic futures awaiting them. You have a heart of stone if you don't feel sad at the ending. I broke down crying. Definitely romantic, based on a dating sim, and available with an English dub. Includes fantasy elements, and a story that's deeper than the first few episodes lets on. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclop… --Gunslinger Girl About young girls who are turned into weapon wielding cyborgs, and work for a secret organization. Not "tragic" in the lost romance sense, but "tragic" in the sense that these young girls will never be able to experience lives as normal children. There's several sad moments that aren't explicitly sad, but are inherently very very tragic. English dub is available. There is a second season and OVA finale to the second season, but it loses some of its... dignity in switching to the new character designs, I think. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclop… 5cm per Second -a chain of short stories about their distance- --This is going to be harder to find on English dub of, since English production of this has stopped, but it's worth it if you do. A collection of stories following a man and woman, and the lost loves they share. The song "One More Time, One More Chance" perfectly describes the show. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclop… English Translation of Lyrics for One More Time, One More Chance http://gendou.com/amusic/lyrics.php?id=7… Hope you find something good here =3 All of these are complete, have an English dub, and are available in the US... Except for 5cm per Second. It was being distributed, but the licensor dropped it... So now it's fairly hard to obtain a copy, but if you can, it's worth it.
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