Top Sad Anime Boy Who Will Make You Cry
Life is full of ups and downs, and certain events change everything in us. In such moments we feel completely lost, depressed, and helpless. Like us, our favorite anime characters also feel devastated and heartbroken when they face the biggest sorrows of life in their story. After watching various anime movies and series, we have made a list of sad anime boy characters whose stories may inspire you to stay motivated.
We can relate anime movies with us as anime characters also deal with absurd situations like being bullied, losing a loved one, a difficult family, or break up. Such incidents turn them into depressed characters. If you are a fan of sad anime movies, then here is a list of the best sad anime boy characters you should know about.
Best Sad Anime Boy
Anime characters also face tough times in life and deal with the changes. Despite bad times, they always find a way to get up again and move on in life with the hope that everything will get better. Below mentioned are the best sad anime boy characters of all time.
Eren Yeager (Attack on Titan)
If you like “Attack on Titan,” then you cannot ignore Eren Yeager. He is the sad anime boy of all time. The third season of the series shows the depressed side of this depressed anime character. It shows how messed up and broken is Eren Yeager. At a young age, his own mother was killed and eaten by titans, and his home was destroyed right before his eyes.
However, instead of crying into the confinements of civilization, he decides to seek freedom and fight back the titans. During his fight against Titans, he saves various people and encourages them to fight for freedom. He believed that one should never give up as it eventually pays off. Nevertheless, he realizes that he lives in a cruel world where it is essential to give up his own humanity to achieve freedom. Now the question is, if this sad anime character gives up his humanity, will he get the freedom he is looking for? Will he be finally happy? Watch the series to find out.
Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
You can find a lot of depressed anime characters in a post-apocalyptic anime world where humanity is on the edge of extinction. One of the best sad anime boy characters is Shinji Ikari from “Neon Genesis Evangelion.” He is our protagonist who follows a simple and boring life until one day when he is forced to become a member of Nerv. It is an organization that designs big robots called Evangelion.
These robots can kill Angels who are taking over the entire world slowly. Shinji becomes a promising pilot, and he is expected to face the Angels (dark creatures) at a young age. However, things get worse when he faces his father at the association. His father abandoned him as a kid, and even after all the years, he does not have any feeling for Shinji.
Abandonment at a young age leaves a deep impact on his life and keeps him from connecting with people. His life becomes more destroyed after the death of his best friend. However, later Shinji realizes that his own insecurities are stopping him from connecting with people. Will this sad anime boy be able to live his life happily?
Tomoyo Okazaki (Clannad After Story)
Clannad is not only a sad anime movie but also one of the best high school romance anime movies. Tomoyo Okazaki is also a sad anime boy who somehow stays strong after the death of his beloved wife, Nagisa, due to a fatal disease. He stays motivated and happy as he has to fulfill the responsibility to raise his daughter. Tomoyo finds happiness in his daughter but may that is not acceptable by his fate.
The life of this sad anime character becomes tragic again when his daughter gets diagnosed with the same disease as his wife. For some time, his whole world falls apart; however, he manages to keep himself strong for his daughter’s happiness.
There is always a limit to the amount of pain and sufferings a person can handle. This limit for Tomoya breaks when his daughter dies in front of his eyes and in his arms. He finally starts questioning that life would have been better if he never met his wife, Nagisa. Will Tomoya be happy again in his life?
Takashi Natsume (Natsume’s Book of Friends)
Takashi is one of the most sad anime characters. This sad anime boy has never been able to live a normal and easy life. Since childhood, he has had the special ability to see dead people’s spirits. He was an orphan, and every one of his relatives found it weird, so he could not live in one place.
Growing up with people who completely hate him transforms his personality. He starts making a shell around him. Natsume wants to make friends and be loved by his family, but he fails to do so. It leads him to have a cold demeanor that helps him to deal with his sadness and loneliness.
However, he never loses hope, and things start getting better for him when he finds out about his granny’s “Book of Friends.” With the help of Madara, who is a strong spirit trapped on the body of “Maneki Neko,” he marks a journey to free all the spirits mentioned in his grandmother’s diary. Finally, he realizes that a part of his mother and father will always remain in him, and he can always choose to live a happy life by not sticking to the sorrows of life.
Shinichi Izumi (Parasyte: The Maxim)
Parasyte: The Maxim is one of the best animes to watch on Netflix. Shinichi Izumi is a normal boy and lives an ordinary teenage life. However, one day a strange parasite (Migi) enters his body and gains control over his right hand. Shinichi and the parasite always try to manage equal control over his body.
Even after all these weird things, he tries to stay positive. He uses his advantage to fight the evil parasites trying to take control over the world. However, his life changes when a parasite takes over his mother. She tries to kill him, and at that time, Migi takes control and kills his mother. This even turns Shinichi’s life upside down. He decides to become a hero for the world. However, he is never actually able to get over the tragedy of his mother’s death, which makes him a sad anime boy.
Shion (No. 6)
Shion is one of the top sad anime characters with the guts to adapt to different situations. He lives a happy life with almost everything: a big house, a great IQ, and a comfortable life in a high-class society. Moreover, he is also a good human who is always ready to help people. One day he finds a blood-covered person Nezumi outside his balcony. So he decides to help him.
However, after helping Nezumi, his life changes completely. It leads to degrading his position in society, and he had to say goodbye to everything.
He starts living a new life, but everything changes when one of his colleagues loses his life, and Shion is suspected of murder. When he is about to be arrested by the police, Mezumi saves him. He takes Shion behind the walls of the big city No. 6. Shion discovers that people who are rejected by society are forced to live in poor cities, and they struggle to survive.
Shion gets a disease at that place, which leads to a long scar on his body, and all his hairs turn white. The thoughts of being separated from his family, getting a disease, and strange body changes make him sad. However, the way people outside the wall of No.6 are treated makes him sadder, and he becomes a depressed anime boy. Will he help people behind the wall of No. 6 and live a happy life?
Aoyagi Ritsuka (Loveless)
Aoyagi Ritsuka is also a sad anime boy who is tormented by a wide range of things. This sad anime character has a complicated family situation. His brother Seimei is murdered, and his mother is insane.
His fated meeting with Soubi helps him to see a completely new world, which is full of sacrifices and fighters. Soubi used to fight with his brother and knows a lot about him. Aoyagi joins with Soubi in the name of love but later starts having contrasting feelings towards Soubi. However, they both decide that they will help each other.
Final Words
We all face ups and downs in our life, and we all can relate the story of sad anime boy characters with ourselves at some point in time. However, one thing that we should learn from sad anime characters is to never give up. No matter how bad times we face, we should always stay motivated. Nothing is permanent, and the same goes with the bad times. So we should always try our best and stay strong.
