Top 10 Anime that will make you cry ranked by Japenese Otaku

This is the story of six good friends who have always been together since they were in elementary school. Menma dies due to a sudden and unexpected accident. They gradually become distant from each other because of the accident. By the time they reach high school age, they hardly see each other anymore. One day, just as they were beginning to drift apart, the supposedly dead Menma appears in front of Jintan's eyes. Menma asks Jintan a wish, then the time that had stopped for the childhood friends begins to move again.

Kousei, a genius pianist, is so shocked by the loss of his mother that he cannot hear the sound of the piano when he plays. Having lost his piano and his mother, he is unable to enjoy his daily life. One day, he meets Kaori, a violinist competing in a competition, who is playing the assigned piece in her own style, beyond the score. Seeing her unrestrained performance, Kousei's monotone world begins to turn colorful.

Shōya Ishida is a boy who hates "boredom" more than anything else. As a mischievous elementary school student, he becomes innocently curious about Shōko Nishimiya, a girl who has transferred to his new school. When she arrives, Shōya finds his days free from boredom. However, one incident with Shōko leads to Shōya's isolation from the people around him. Five years pass, and the two grow up to be high school students in different places." Shōya visits Shōko, who has closed her heart tightly since the "incident. This is the story of a boy trying to accept a girl, the people around him, and himself.

The protagonist, Violet Evergarden, is a highly skilled fighter who only knows how to fight as a human weapon. However, she loses both her arms in the war. After the war, Violet begins to work as an Auto memories doll with artificial arms. Through her work, she learns about love from the people she meets.

Mitsuha Miyamizu, a high school girl living in the countryside, is bored with her unchanging life. She yearns to live in the city. One day, Mitsuha dreams that she is a boy living in the city. Similarly, Taki Tachibana, a high school boy living in Tokyo, has a strange dream in which he becomes a girl living deep in the mountains. As the two have the same experience over and over again, they realize that they have been switched. Taki realizes her true feelings and decides to go see Mitsuha. What is the truth that awaits him in his search for Mitsuha?

CLANNAD ~AFTER STORY~ is an anime based on the romantic adventure game "CLANNAD". This anime tells the story of Tomoya Okazaki and Nagisa Furukawa, the two main characters who got together in the previous game. In this story, Tomoya Okazaki is in his third year of high school and is worried about his future, and his relationship with Nagisa changes after graduation.

The protagonist, Mari Tamaki, had set a goal to "enjoy her youth" when she entered high school. However, in her second year of high school, she realizes that she has done nothing of the sort. Then one day, a classmate named Shirase Kobuchizawa confides in Mari about her goal of going to Antarctica to search for her mother's belongings. When she is asked to accompany her, Mari decides to set out with Shirase. The girls grow through various experiences during their journey.

Angel Beats!" is a high school story set in a school created in the world after death. The main character, Yuzuru Otonashi, and the members of the "Afterlife Battlefront" confronts the angels, messengers of God, belongs. Otonashi tries to erase the regrets of his friends so that they can die with satisfaction. There are sad episodes of characters who died with their regrets even in the afterlife.

It is the summer of 2010 in Akihabara. The protagonist, Rintaro Okabe, spends his days creating inventions that he has no idea what they will be useful for in his club, "Future Gadget Laboratory. One day, he succeeds in inventing a "time machine" that can send messages to the past. However, Okabe's excitement at having the time machine and his curiosity about the past lead him to become involved in a huge tragedy. As he travels back and forth between the past and the present to avert the tragedy, the wheel of fate begins to tick!

Tomoya Okazaki, a high school senior at a progressive school, is living a lethargic life. Tomoya could not enjoy school life as much as everyone else around him, which made it difficult for him to fit in at school. One day, Tomoya met a girl at the bottom of the slope leading to the school.