Your favourite fiction with sad/bittersweet ending

Syringe

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I have several with limited spoilers.

Girl's Last Tour (Adored their journey and their acceptance. Ending made me cry buckets).
Plastic Memories (Sapient AI with limited memories. You can guess what happens:blob_teary:)
Anohana (Always sad to say goodbye)
Angel Beats (The revelation at the end, and the goodbyes people made along the way when they achieved their dreams)
86 Eighty Six (Happy, but I found it bittersweet with everything they lost along the way. War is horrible.)
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Only for books or anything else plays too?

  • Because if its books:
    • maybe Bec from Darren Shan. At least that came to mind first. Very few pulled it off in a way that was satisfying. At least for me.
  • From anime:
    • Code Geass
    • Chrono Crusade
    • Hitsugi no Chaika
    • Kamisama ni Natta Hi
    • Your Lie in April, and I could list a ton more.
  • From visual novels:
    • Kira Kira
    • Swan Song
    • Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet
    • Utawarerumono, and once again, I could go on.
  • From manga:
    • Elfen Lied
    • Eureka 7, and many more that has anime adaptions too and I already mentioned.

From webnovels I have yet to experience something similiar. Most that tried to be bittersweet ended up empty instead. Especially chinese-type stuff where we jump millions of years forward just because. I'm looking at you Ergen... :blob_unsure:
 

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Only for books or anything else plays too?

  • Because if its books:
    • maybe Bec from Darren Shan. At least that came to mind first. Very few pulled it off in a way that was satisfying. At least for me.
  • From anime:
    • Code Geass
    • Chrono Crusade
    • Hitsugi no Chaika
    • Kamisama ni Natta Hi
    • Your Lie in April, and I could list a ton more.
  • From visual novels:
    • Kira Kira
    • Swan Song
    • Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet
    • Utawarerumono, and once again, I could go on.
  • From manga:
    • Elfen Lied
    • Eureka 7, and many more that has anime adaptions too and I already mentioned.

From webnovels I have yet to experience something similiar. Most that tried to be bittersweet ended up empty instead. Especially chinese-type stuff where we jump millions of years forward just because. I'm looking at you Ergen... :blob_unsure:

I was looking for novel but anything else is fine.

For me, I will put Banana Fish in there too and Nabari no Ou.
 

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if we talking about web novels, then a yuri in which the world will end in ten days.
If all fiction then movie her, novels a farewell to arms and the little prince.
 

Le_ther

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Metal Gear Solid 3, 4, Peace Walker
Gurren Laggan
That manga where boy and girl swap bodies after falling down from a tree
Kill la kill
Oh is it yamada kun and the 7 witches for the swap bodies?


As the title said. :3

I guess it would be:

3 days of happiness
Toki doki
Killing me/killing you
About the reckless girl who kept challenging a reborn man like me
 

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Only for books or anything else plays too?

  • Because if its books:
    • maybe Bec from Darren Shan. At least that came to mind first. Very few pulled it off in a way that was satisfying. At least for me.
  • From anime:
    • Code Geass
    • Chrono Crusade
    • Hitsugi no Chaika
    • Kamisama ni Natta Hi
    • Your Lie in April, and I could list a ton more.
  • From visual novels:
    • Kira Kira
    • Swan Song
    • Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet
    • Utawarerumono, and once again, I could go on.
  • From manga:
    • Elfen Lied
    • Eureka 7, and many more that has anime adaptions too and I already mentioned.

From webnovels I have yet to experience something similiar. Most that tried to be bittersweet ended up empty instead. Especially chinese-type stuff where we jump millions of years forward just because. I'm looking at you Ergen... :blob_unsure:
The ending of Code Geass isn't sad though.
 

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The ending of Code Geass isn't sad though.

Hearing Nunnally scream with grief that is drowned out by everyone chanting Zero with zeal begs to differ.

If this does not fulfill the bittersweet criteria, I think we watched two different shows, my man.
 

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Hearing Nunnally scream with grief that is drowned out by everyone chanting Zero with zeal begs to differ.

If this does not fulfill the bittersweet criteria, I think we watched two different shows, my man.
WHO THE HELL CARES ABOUT NUNNALLY?!?!!??
 

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WHO THE HELL CARES ABOUT NUNNALLY?!?!!??
I hope you are only trolling, or just watched it so long ago you forgot the plot, motivations of the characters and/or just watched it in passing.
 

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I was looking for novel but anything else is fine.

For me, I will put Banana Fish in there too and Nabari no Ou.

If you like BL, then Cold Sands fits that bill. Chinese historical novel, beautifully written with a very sad but somewhat bittersweet ending. Only read it if you enjoy crying.
 

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Jojo part 6
Coden geass
Gundam iron blood
Guilty crown(the the last part with the sister building out of nowhere made no sense)
Breaking bad
Saving private Ryan
Fury
The last samurai
The Pacific
Beasts of no nation especially.
 

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If you like BL, then Cold Sands fits that bill. Chinese historical novel, beautifully written with a very sad but somewhat bittersweet ending. Only read it if you enjoy crying.
Hopefully.

I tried many Chinese novels but none works out for me. There is this particular way they did in the novel that really turns it off for me. The goofy parts are just… mood ruining.
 

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I hope you are only trolling, or just watched it so long ago you forgot the plot, motivations of the characters and/or just watched it in passing.
Are you fucking stupid? Nunnally isn't even a character. She's a fucking plot device.
 
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