yeah I have over a few, but I can't really recall which ones. it's definitely been tears of happiness *and* sadness when I've really opened myself up to the frequencies that the movies I watched were putting out
oh come on, that movie *really* wasn't that sad. there was *no* music. that's a big deal at least in my opinion. there was nothing that added the emotional colour to the sad story to trigger intense enough emotion to really make it reactive. I thought "whisper of the heart" was a more "criable" watch, although not for the sadness. in terms of other animes, the ending of cowboy bebop is worse in my opinion in terms of "sad" scenes/stories. I mean, (spoiler alert for those that haven't seen GOTF) the child in that movie doesn't express very much pain or sufferng - sure we know she's relatively starving to death, but her determination to keep a happy face throughout most of it really deadens the sadness. it wasn't even a sympathetic "happy-face" - it was a "what are you doing? you're dying and you're merely becoming weak, as opposed to crying over things such as your mother's death (which is barely seen.)" situation... and things aren't getting worse and worse - merely the same, and death being an inevitability from the beginning. so in terms of what the audience is given to relate to her experience, they *sure* make it harder with no music and an absence of the reflection of the mother's death. if her older brother died first and she was left by herself, that, again ,would have made it MUCH more sad. the fact that, in my opinion, she's a bit of an annoying kid all along, whether she's suffering or not, makes it even less relatable. the voice actress for her in the english version at least (and knowing that japanese voice actors are higher-pitched would make it worse in the original japanese dub) doesn't have very much pain in her voice, but more "laughter", I should say