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A Silent Voice 2016
Anime
Shōko, una niña con discapacidad auditiva, es víctima de acoso en su escuela, siendo Shōya su principal agresor. Cuando ella se cambia de colegio, él sufre el rechazo de sus compañeros y queda aislado. Años después, intenta enmendar su error y hacer las paces con Shōko.
Las caras de A Silent Voice
- Un chico que acosaba a una niña sorda en la escuela
- Años después, su intento de reparar el daño
- Conversaciones en lengua de signos
Buena para ti si
- quieres una película que te rompa el corazón y lo recomponga.
- te gusta un chico culpable que no puede mirar a la gente a la cara.
- te gustan los adolescentes que aprenden a perdonarse.
Mala para ti si
- no puedes ver acoso ni intentos de suicidio en pantalla.
- no ves anime.
Temas: la culpa · el perdón · la discapacidad
Colorful 2010
Anime
Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is lucky and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Kobayashi Makoto, who has just committed suicide. Watched over by a neutral spirit named Purapura, the soul must figure out what his greatest sin and mistake in his former life was, before his time limit in Makoto's body runs out. He also has a number of other lesser duties he must complete, such as understanding what led Makoto to commit suicide in the first place and learning how to enjoy his second chance at life.
The sides of Colorful
- A soul given a second chance in a boy's body
- A 14-year-old who just took his own life
- A family he has to learn to live with
Good for you if
- you like a family that slowly turns out to be more than it seemed.
- you want a quiet film that moves you to tears.
- you like a story told through one lonely boy's days at school and home.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a story built on a teenager's suicide.
- you don't watch animated films.
- two hours of quiet everyday life is too much for you.
About: second chances · loneliness · family
Wonder Egg Priority 2021
Anime
Ai, a young girl with shut-in tendencies, who tries not to interact with others. She keeps one of her eyes hidden behind her hair. One day, she happens to stop by a deserted arcade, where she meets "Aka." Spinning the gacha at their urging, she acquires a "Wonder Egg," and from that moment, her fate begins to change...
The sides of Wonder Egg Priority
- A shut-in girl and eggs from a gacha machine
- Dream battles to save girls who died
- Four friends bound by grief
Good for you if
- you like vivid nightmare worlds and careful animation.
- you like Ai finding three friends who carry the same grief.
- you want to know why these girls died and who is behind the eggs.
Bad for you if
- you can't face suicide, self-harm and abuse on screen.
- you need a story that ties up all its questions.
- you don't watch anime.
About: grief · suicide · friendship · trauma
Night on the Galactic Railroad 1985
Anime
Lonely and awkward, Giovanni struggles with his sick mother, absent father, and an afterschool job that isolates him from his peers. But on the night of the Festival of Stars, he is magically transported onto a celestial train with his only friend, Campanella. Together, they embark on an extraordinary journey through the galaxy, encountering mysterious characters and grappling with life's deepest questions.
The sides of Night on the Galactic Railroad
- A lonely boy drawn as a cat
- A train through the stars
- A last journey with his only friend
Good for you if
- you like a quiet train ride through the Milky Way.
- you like a patient, dreamlike pace with long silences.
- you like a gentle story that leaves you crying over a friendship.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch animated films.
- you can't take a children's film about death and grief.
About: friendship · death · loneliness · sacrifice
When Marnie Was There 2014
Anime
Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.
The sides of When Marnie Was There
- A lonely girl sent to the seaside to recover
- An abandoned mansion across the marsh
- A blonde girl who may or may not be real
Good for you if
- you like the story of a girl who feels unloved, told gently enough to bring you to tears.
- you like long summer days of sketching, tides and rowing across the marsh.
- you like a friendship between two girls that heals one of them.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you need chases or fights to stay with a film. Here everything happens in two girls' hearts.
About: loneliness · belonging · memory
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day 2011
Anime
Jinta Yadomi and his group of childhood friends have become estranged after a tragic accident split them apart. Now in their high school years, a sudden surprise forces each of them to confront their guilt over what happened that day and come to terms with the ghosts of their past.
The sides of Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
- A childhood friend who returns as a ghost
- A group of friends split by a death
- Guilt that each of them hides
Good for you if
- you like being moved to tears by old friends confessing what they've hidden for years.
- you like a group of estranged friends finding each other again.
- you like teenagers facing what they could not face as children.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a story built on grief over a child's death.
- you don't watch anime.
About: grief · guilt · friendship
March Comes In Like a Lion 2016
Anime
This is a gentle tale about people trying to regain something. And it is a tale of battle. Rei Kiriyama had lost his family in an accident when he was young. Now he is a 17-year-old pro shogi player who is burdened with deep loneliness. Rei lives alone in an old town in Tokyo, but after becoming acquainted with three sisters, Akari, Hinata and Momo, he begins to change little by little...
The sides of March Comes In Like a Lion
- A teenage shogi pro living alone
- Three sisters who feed him dinner
- Matches played in an old Tokyo neighbourhood
Good for you if
- you like watching a lonely boy slowly let people in.
- you like a story that hurts and heals in the same episode.
- you like a found family around a kitchen table.
Bad for you if
- you can't take depression and bullying on screen.
- you don't watch anime.
- you need momentum and two quiet seasons feel slow to you.
About: loneliness · grief · belonging
Takopi's Original Sin 2025
Anime
A Happy alien, Takopi, lands on Earth with one mission: to spread happiness! When he meets Shizuka, a lonely fourth grader, he vows to bring back her smile using his magical Happy Gadgets. But as he uncovers the pain in her life, Takopi learns that true happiness may require more than gadgets.
The sides of Takopi's Original Sin
- A happy alien with magic gadgets
- A lonely, bullied fourth grader
- A small mistake with terrible consequences
Good for you if
- you want a short series that leaves you shaken and moved.
- you can take a cute alien story that turns very dark.
- you like a story that changes completely after the first episode.
Bad for you if
- you can't take bullying, neglect and suicide involving children.
- you don't watch anime.
About: loneliness · childhood · forgiveness
Welcome to the N-H-K 2006
Anime
Sato is a tangle of anxieties and conspiracy theories, believing that the nefarious N-H-K wants to turn society’s misfits into a mob of hopeless recluses. Mysterious Misaki might be able to help Sato overcome his phobias—if she can pull him out of his existential foxhole and get him to face the world.
The sides of Welcome to the N-H-K
- A recluse convinced of a conspiracy
- A strange girl who offers to cure him
- Online games, cults and pyramid schemes
Good for you if
- you can laugh at Sato's paranoia and his worst days.
- you like a raw portrait of a young man who can't leave his room.
- you like awkward young adults trying to grow up late.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch depression, addiction and suicide on screen.
- you don't watch anime.
About: isolation · depression · friendship
Haibane Renmei 2002
Anime
A dream of falling from the sky...and then birth. Rakka is born from a large cocoon into the Old Home, greeted by a group of female beings with small wings on their backs and shining halos above their heads. Soon Rakka’s own wings grow, a halo is placed on her head and she is told that she must work in the nearby town of Grie. She soon realizes that the town and the entire world they live in are confined behind the Wall, a tall, impenetrable wall that none except the mysterious Toga are allowed to exit.
The sides of Haibane Renmei
- A girl born from a cocoon with small wings
- A walled town nobody may leave
- A house of young winged women
Good for you if
- you like quiet days of odd jobs in a small walled town.
- you like the bond between Rakka and Reki, the older girl who looks after her.
- you like a mystery about the Wall that never fully answers itself.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you can't face a story that circles around guilt and suicide.
About: rebirth · guilt · forgiveness
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya 2010
Anime
A week before Christmas, Kyon wakes up in a world where the SOS Brigade doesn't exist. Mikuru and Yuki don't recognize him, and Haruhi and Itsuki seem to have vanished.
The sides of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
- Kyon waking up in a world without the SOS Brigade
- Yuki Nagato as a shy ordinary girl
- A school week before Christmas
Good for you if
- you like piecing together how the world was changed.
- you like long quiet scenes in a cold, empty winter school.
- you like Kyon forced to ask himself what he really wants.
Bad for you if
- two hours and forty minutes is too much for you.
- you don't watch anime.
About: choice · friendship · normal life
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas 2018
Anime
After his classmate and crush is diagnosed with a pancreatic disease, an average high schooler sets out to make the most of her final days.
The sides of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
- A diary found in a hospital waiting room
- A loner and the dying girl who picks him
- A trip together off her bucket list
Good for you if
- you want to cry over a shy boy and a girl living her last months to the full.
- you like a love that is never quite named between two opposite teenagers.
- you like a closed-off boy slowly opened up by a girl who laughs at her illness.
Bad for you if
- a teenager's terminal illness is too much for you.
- you don't watch anime.
About: death · living fully · connection
Puella Magi Madoka Magica 2011
Anime
She has a loving family and best friends, laughs and cries from time to time... Madoka Kaname, an eighth grader of Mitakihara middle school, is one of those who lives such a life. One day, she had a very magical encounter. She doesn't know if it happened by chance or by fate yet. This is a fateful encounter that can change her destiny. This is a beginning of the new story of the magical witch girls.
The sides of Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- A schoolgirl offered a wish
- A small white creature with a contract
- Witches hiding in strange labyrinths
Good for you if
- you like a cute magical girl story that turns dark.
- you can take a story where every wish has a price.
- you like witches' lairs drawn like surreal collages.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you want a light magical girl show to relax with.
About: sacrifice · hope · despair
My Happy Marriage 2023
Anime
Miyo's abusive family deems her worthless – but together with her powerful husband-to-be, her true self and hidden powers slowly begin to shine.
The sides of My Happy Marriage
- A daughter mistreated by her own family
- An arranged marriage to a feared commander
- Supernatural gifts in old Japan
Good for you if
- you like a slow, gentle love that grows from an arranged marriage.
- you like watching Miyo learn she is worth something.
- you like old Japan with spirits and hidden powers.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a young woman being abused by her family.
- you don't watch anime.
About: self-worth · healing · arranged marriage
Okko's Inn 2018
Anime
12-year-old Oriko Seki, who lost her parents in a car accident, ended up living in her grandmother's Onsen Ryokan "Haru no Ya." With the ghost "Uribou" cohabitating with her and all the other odds, she ended up training to be a young female innkeeper. At first, she didn't like the training, but gradually felt her admiration for her title and began to train seriously. Thus, the growth of the young warrior Oriko begins.
The sides of Okko's Inn
- A girl who lost her parents
- Her grandmother's hot spring inn
- Friendly ghosts helping her with the guests
Good for you if
- you like being moved by a child slowly facing her grief.
- you want a gentle film to watch with children.
- you like the warmth of a traditional inn and its guests.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you can't face a child mourning parents lost in a car crash.
About: grief · growing up · kindness
Your Name. 2016
Anime
Taki y Mitsuha descubren un día que durante el sueño sus cuerpos se intercambian, y comienzan a comunicarse por medio de notas. A medida que consiguen superar torpemente un reto tras otro, se va creando entre los dos un vínculo que poco a poco se convierte en algo más romántico.
Las caras de Your Name.
- Un chico y una chica que se cambian de cuerpo mientras duermen
- Tokio y un pueblo de montaña
- Un cometa en el cielo
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una película llevada por las canciones de RADWIMPS.
- te gustan dos personas que buscan a alguien a quien nunca han conocido.
- te gustan los cielos y la luz pintados con un detalle que quita el aliento.
Mala para ti si
- no ves películas de animación.
- no lees subtítulos. Está en japonés (existe un doblaje).
Temas: la conexión · la memoria · el destino
Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash 2016
Anime
When Haruhiro awakens, he’s in the dark surrounded by people who have no memory of where they came from or how they got there. As the darkness fades, a fantastic new world called “Grimgar” appears before them and their adventure begins—but first, they’ll have to choose their guild, class, and special abilities.
The sides of Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash
- Strangers waking up with no memory
- A party of weak beginners hunting goblins
- Grief after losing a friend
Good for you if
- you like beginners who struggle to kill even one goblin to pay for dinner.
- you like a fantasy that takes its time on daily life and quiet talks.
- you like a party of misfits slowly learning to trust each other.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you can't face grief and the death of a friend on screen.
- you won't read subtitles for a Japanese series.
About: grief · friendship · survival · responsibility
Kokoro Connect 2012
Anime
Five members of the school culture club—Taichi Yaegashi, Iori Nagase, Himeko Inaba, Yui Kiriyama, and Yoshifumi Aoki—encounter a bizarre phenomenon one day when Aoki and Yui switch personalities without warning. The same begins to happen to the other club members, throwing their daily lives into chaos. At first the five students find some amusement among the confusion, but this connection also exposes the painful scars hidden within their hearts... When their calm lives are shattered, the relationships between the five students also begin to change!
The sides of Kokoro Connect
- Five club members swapping bodies
- A strange force testing them
- Secrets each of them hides
Good for you if
- you like a small club whose bonds get tested.
- you like a premise where bodies switch without warning.
- you like each student's hidden wound coming out.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not see self-harm and trauma among teenagers.
- you don't watch anime.
About: identity · trust · first love
Orange: Future 2016
Anime
Twenty-six-year-old Hiroto Suwa; his wife, Naho; and their old high school classmates—Takako Chino, Azusa Murasaka, and Saku Hagita—visit Mt. Koubou to view the cherry blossoms together. While watching the setting sun, they reminisce about Kakeru Naruse, their friend who died 10 years ago. Mourning for him, they decide to visit Kakeru's old home, where they learn the secret of his death from his grandmother.
The sides of Orange: Future
- Friends mourning Kakeru ten years on
- Cherry blossoms on Mt. Koubou
- The secret of his death told by his grandmother
Good for you if
- you're ready to cry with friends who lost Kakeru.
- you like the quiet love between Naho and Suwa.
- you love a high school group that stays close for ten years.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a story about depression and suicide.
- you don't watch anime.
About: grief · regret · friendship
Serial Experiments Lain 1998
Anime
Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly loses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.
The sides of Serial Experiments Lain
- A shy schoolgirl who logs on to the Wired
- A classmate's suicide and the emails she sends afterwards
- A world where the network and real life blur
Good for you if
- you like a quiet, eerie anime where the internet starts to feel haunted.
- you like piecing together who Lain really is across thirteen strange episodes.
- you're happy to finish with questions and your own theory.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- a teenage suicide at the very start is too much for you.
About: identity · the internet · loneliness · reality