And finally, let's get to the number one saddest death in the franchise, and of course, that's the death of the brightly burning Flame-Breathing user that is Kyojuro Rengoku.
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Neon Genesis Evangelion's Shinji is one of the most notable crybabies across anime. He gets overwhelmed often and has a lot of issues coping with social situations. Of course, Shinji has many reasons for expressing his melancholy so frequently.
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1 Demon King Tanjiro. In an unprecedented turn of events during the final arc of the series, Tanjiro was transformed into a demon by the defeated Kibutsuji Muzan, determined to pass on his legacy to future generations.
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Really, all you can do is take comfort in the fact that a work of fiction moved you. When an anime makes you cry, it means someone's art resonated with you — the characters and their struggles and deaths were so realistic that you felt they were real, and you felt the loss of a non-existent person.
