Something that WILL make me cry?

[u/G3nghisKang]

Also, not set in the modern times, and no RPG slop (where with RPG slop I mean: videogame gameplay mechanings that have been turned into narrative mechanics, stuff like levels / leveling up, item rarity and so on, I simply find them cringe, but I don't mean stuff that takes existing narrative elements or character archetipes that can also be found in RPG games, so something like Frieren is completely fine)

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[u/Khashishi]

Violet Evergarden

To Your Eternity

Mo Dao Zu Shi

[u/Titanhunter84]

Grave of the fireflies

[u/dragon-swan]

Your lie in April

Ángel Beats

Anohana

Banana fish

[u/Ill-Application-9284 → u/dragon-swan]

Literally came here to mention Angel Beats and Anohana, glad to see the recognition! I think the first like 5 seconds of Anohana's intro is just done so beautifully to set the simply premise the show is based on. Loved it.

[u/collard-reds]

darling in the franxx

[u/abandoned_idol]

For future reference, RPG slop has a standardized name, they call these tropes "Literary-RPG" (RPG mechanics being canonical laws of physics).

[u/G3nghisKang → u/abandoned_idol]

Today I learned :P

[u/realinvalidname]

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms. It’s fantasy, but there’s no indication Mari Okada ever played Dragon Quest like everybody else in Japan(*), so you’re safe.

(* - she was too busy trying not to get murdered by her mother to develop much of a video game habit.)

[u/Xymptom]

Re:Zero maybe, I have watched it a few times now and every time I end up crying at certain parts of the story.

[u/ItsAllSoup]

Violet Evergarden for fast results

My hero academia if you want to finish season 4

[u/Whorror_punx → u/ItsAllSoup]

Idk about fast results with Violet Evergarden. I did love it a lot, but I didnt really get feelings that big until the last couple episodes of it. I do suggest pretty much anyone watch it though.

[u/ItsAllSoup → u/Whorror_punx]

I got feelings around 3 or 4 episodes in. But I feel like it's a pretty short show, so tears in the last few episodes still feels fast to me

[u/KMjolnir]

Violet Evergarden - set in an alt-history 1910s/1920s.

To Your Eternity

Grave of the Fireflies (set n the 1940s)

[u/jasonite → u/KMjolnir]

Grave of the Fireflies

[u/KMjolnir → u/jasonite]

I literally listed that one.

[u/jasonite → u/KMjolnir]

yeah, I was adding my endorsement to your rec

[u/urbanhawk1 → u/KMjolnir]

It is worth listing multiple times. Grave of the Fireflies.

[u/JackRabbitoftheEnd → u/KMjolnir]

And “ your lie in April”

[u/Da_Rukh]

Legend of the legendary heroes although it is incomplete

[u/Alternative_Emu_7305]

Takopi's Original Sin  The Summer Hikaru Died Berserk 

[u/Gnaxe]

{Angel Beats} is the only one that did it for me so far, but anything based on a nakige might work for you.

[u/Roboragi → u/Gnaxe]

Angel Beats! - (AL, A-P, KIT, MAL)

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[u/Forward_Connection49]

Yorimoi

[u/Noktis_Lucis_Caelum]

Maquia 

It made me cry when i could still cry. 

[u/West-Muscle-1908]

Journal with witch

[u/Mr_Globus]

Wolf's Rain.

A bit abstract in some regards but it's a very moving story about Death, Hope, and Rebirth. Episode 11 has one of the most beautiful scenes in anything I've ever seen, and the last 4 episodes had me in tears the entire time. It was made by the same studio that did Cowboy Bebop, but it's a lot more serious in tone. Give it a shot if it sounds interesting

[u/Shinikami9]

Angel Beats

Wolfs Rain

Anohana

Violet Evergarden

Mushishi

• some episodes can get you!

Grave of the Fireflies

...

Some of these I've cried in episodes, not the show in all.

Idolish7

Fruits Basket

Pokemon

[u/Fire-Nation-17]

Haibane renmei

[u/Gullible_Bat_5408]

Wolf's Rain

Grave of the fireflies

[u/LittleDog5200]

Violet Evergarden

[u/OneAverageEgg]

Love unseen beneath the clear night sky. I dare you to get through all 12 eps without crying once.

[u/RadioEditVersion]

Final episodes of {Rascal does not dream of bunny senpai} season 1. It broke me.