Whether immediately, or you didn’t notice at first until you went “oh… crap 😭”.
Of course Grave of the Fireflies. Kiki’s Delivery Service gets to me in a very different way.
As for series, Trigun (old one), end of episode 23.
Violet Evergarden, episode 10.
To Your Eternity and Ranking of Kings immediately come to mind but I think the hardest I’ve been gut-punched in the feels is Dan Da Dan
A place further than the universe
For me it has to be LOOK BACK. What a great movie.
Mushoku Tensei, couldn’t watch the diary episode fully. Watchers do know what has been through from the previous episode but fucking hell man that was too sad.
most recently–Love Unseen, halfway through the season (no spoilers)
Angel Beats
I barely remember anything about it because I watched it like 15 years ago. But I remember sobbing





