A happy ending would feel unreal or even tacked. When everything has been tragic, even if we wanted it to be the author’s choice. And so, despite their cruelty, we the readers also love those tragic endings. Check these top 10 manga listed here, and each one is sadder than the last. Vote up your favorites in the comments, if you can stop crying long enough from all the feels.
10. Magic Knight Rayearth
Hikaru, Fuu, and Umi are three high school students from three different schools. They went on a school trip to Tokyo Tower and met for the first time. They were teleported to the magical world of Cephiro.
There, they met the wizard Guruclef and a strange creature he called Mokona. Guruclef explained that Princess Emeraude, the ruler of their world, was kidnapped by her evil high priest Zagato. He went on to say that they were summoned by the princess to save her and Cephiro, because without her as the pillar of the world. This magical place was collapsing, full of monsters attacking everyone. This is one of the top manga with tragic endings.
9. Socrates in Love
Sakutaro Matsumoto (aka Saku) and Aki Hirose have been friends since junior high school, and now they are dating.
Aki likes to look outside, so they tend to travel to different places together when dating. But their relationship was short-lived because Aki discovered that she had leukemia.
Jiu didn’t want to give up her and bought a ticket to go to Australia together. This is the place Aki wanted to go to very much. Unfortunately, Saku died before he could get on the plane. At the end of the manga, Saku scattered her ashes on Ayers Rock in Australia. She took her there even after her death.
8. Deep Love: Pao no Monogatari
Pao lives a difficult life, even though he is still young for a dog. His mother’s owner ignored her and abandoned her and the puppies, which separated him from his siblings, wandering around and trying to find food after seeing his mother starve to death so that they could eat.
Although most of the people he met verbally abused and kicked him, there was a young woman who didn’t seem to hate him.
One day, she adopted him and finally gave him a home. Unfortunately, his new owner, Ayu, also has his own problems. Pao is a small dog and cannot help her too much.
However, it ends when the loyal dog chooses to stay in the arms of his dead owner and takes him away from sleep until death. This is one of the top manga with tragic endings.
7. Koizora: Setsunai Koimonogatari
Mika Tahara hopes to find true love. She is really romantic and hopes to have her own love story and a happy ending.
Due to a random call, she eventually met the villain Hiroki Sakurai “Hiro” who was a little older than her. Although he was afraid of her at first, they eventually fell in love due to his bad-boy looks and his gang.
Unfortunately, there are many obstacles to their path to happiness; from his ex-girlfriend’s determination to ensure that Hiro returns to her, to the point where she arranges for Mika to be raped, to the unexpected pregnancy. Nevertheless, Mika did not leave Hiro and believes that as long as they are together, they can overcome any challenges. This is one of the top manga with tragic endings.
6. Kokou no Hito
Mori Burato admires mountain climbing. Therefore, he has only one goal in life: he wants to climb to the top of the K2 eastern wall, which is one of the most dangerous peaks in the world and has never been climbed due to the instability of the ice.
Of course, it is not always like this. When he returned to high school, Mori was aimless, introverted, and lonely. Things changed when he transferred schools and had a dispute with the climbing club that he discovered his love for climbing high places, preferably alone. So we follow him as he grows and trains, preparing to conquer the mountain road that no one can conquer.
5. Bokurano
Imagine that during a summer camp, you and your friends discovered a secret cave by the sea, filled with computers. There, a person who owns this place finds you and claims that everything there can help him write a new game in which a huge robot must protect the earth from many alien invasions, and in order to make sure it works, he needs exactly 15 beta testers. Would you want to sign a contract to test his game? Well, the main characters of Bokurano decide they want to do this, and soon they will fight for the survival of the earth, and the result is very deadly. This is one of the top manga with tragic endings.
4. Jungle Taitei
The king of the jungle is the white lion Panja. He rules as a gentle king and attacks all humans who try to hunt him or other animals.
But when a foreign hunter found out that he had a beloved person, he used her as bait and finally managed to kill him. When they took the lioness to a zoo in London, she gave birth to a white cub and named it Kimba.
Soon, she let him escape from the cage and asked him to guarantee that he would reach Africa and become the new king.
However, although this saved him from the ship that sank in the storm, Kimba ended up in London anyway and was adopted by humans, learning about their society before he finally reached Africa again.
3. Saishuu Heiki Kanojo
Shuuji is a very smart high school student and sometimes has social problems. This is why the relationship between him and his girlfriend Chise seems strange to everyone who knows them, especially because Shuuji can sometimes be a little insensitive, making Chise feel sad and even apologize for things that are not her fault.
Despite this, Chise still loves Shuuji deeply, and Shuuji is not sure whether he loves her at first, but gradually he learns to care about her and enjoy their time together.
However, things are not so easy: Japan is at war with another country and must constantly deploy special weapons to help the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.
2. Dear Friends: Rina & Maki
For Rina, friends are completely unnecessary, just people who use them at the right time. This made her very anti-social and lonely in school, even though it was not her fault.
Her father is seldom around, and her mother tends to protect herself too much, so she doesn’t have much social education.
So when she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, she had no visitors to cheer her up. Maki, a classmate of her school, almost volunteered to become her nurse, and even managed to rescue Rina from the roof of the hospital when Rina tried to commit suicide after a mastectomy.
1.. Koukyou Shihen Eureka Seven
Renton Thurston is only 14 years old, but he is a little bored with his life. He lost his father, and he participated in avoiding a global disaster. Then he lost his sister who tried to save his father.
And now, with such an uneventful life with his grandfather, Renton can’t help but hope for more excitement. He likes to lift weights a kind of surfing, but in the sky, his personal goal is to become good enough to join Gekkostate, a traitor group dedicated to lifting weights in dangerous and forbidden places.
But when he met the mysterious pilot Eureka, he took her giant robot into his room and finally had the opportunity to join Gekkostate, he was shocked to discover that they were actually an anti-government guerrilla.
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