Grief and loss are something all of us experience, and I think the way anime portrays it and especially the way it conveys it is very unique. it makes us feel those feelings because of how we build emotional attachments to characters over time, if you arent attached to a character you obviously wont feel about their loss the same way compared to if you did. and why it does it uniquely is due to the usage of how the character is shown before theyre lost, how they use clever camera positioning.. following different rules like the rule of empty space, and visuals to show us what grief looks like not just how it feels by telling it to us.

Original post made by Mafia, edited by me. lets get into it.

So, Ive noticed this in alot of animes,
The most visible it was in was obviously anohana.

Like the types of Anime which center around grief and loss are pretty well and great stuff.

First, the thing which I noticed about how it actually has been portrayed and is being portrayed is through visuals.

Anime has a specialty in showing viewers its story without the usage of words. .and one of those things which it masters is the conveyance of the concept of grief and loss.

Many people here Must've Seen Violet Evergarden. Im not confident enough to say that everyone mustve watched Cross game too but in both these animes There were alot of times when only the background music was enough to give me a surge of emotions.
Like it just is absolutely interesting how something can make me so emotional without a single word.

For a More detailed analysis of grief and loss shown in anime I will be moving towards some anime which has this Identity of grief And loss and make a detailed analysis on how this trope has impacted the space.

Moving on to Anohana, The flowers we saw that day. Well this anime which im talking about had been on my watchlist for a while before I watched it.
And lowk when I started it, it reminded me of alot of stuff I've seen at other times.
but there was one feeling which made it differ from the rest.
It was this feeling was feeling of sobriety it gave without doing anything.

Its probably true.. the saying that the atmosphere can effect a person so perfectly that they will laugh without hearing a joke. The same goes for this show. It has potential to make you cry without saying anything worth to cry for.

And main thing about grief and loss in anohana wasn't that it was limited to main character or one person. It was that it was between multiple people.
The side characters Including that fat ass (i forgot his name) ,that tsundere, the wanna be Ayanokoji etc all had Role in that grief and loss.
So it was way beyond just seeing one main character going through that phase of Grief.
It was between multiple characters,

And there was a certain factor of psychology in it too. There were multiple faces they took.. different ways they were tackling their own situations.. but at end of the day the melancholy was the same.
The girls were absolute dog shi in anohana btw there wasn't one bit of actual fanservice so I don't really rec it that much but wtvr.
Another example of grief and loss is Probably KakushiGoto which id love to talk about as how that certain trope affected this anime aswell and the way it did it was different than most.

Like yk most people including me image grief and loss as factor In anime as smtg which affects the anime as whole and make everything sad.
But this anime which Ima talk abt has Main genre as gag comedy where MC is onto some bs about making adult comedy comics and hiding that shi from his daughter... so, what exactly can be so sad about this bs?

Well there was something. The last 2.5 minutes of episodes which affected the entire episode. Eventually ts explained to me how one can laugh the •••Show outta their azz and also feel sadness In their azz at once, separately. their azz can be other parts too. But yeah somewhere.

There was one part which made me empty, seeing that the BS which doesn't make sense yet still makes me laugh will come to end one day.
Of course we are all meant to die one day but there is nothing to mourn about it, but thinking of "that day" alone can make you feel an emptiness in your chest nonetheless.

Next talking about my fav anime Gintama, YES im gonna talk about this even if it wasn't entirely about grief and loss. Gintama legit has everything so I can talk about it anywhere.

So let's talk about it. Without saying with spoilers I wouldn't be able to say anything so let's say nothing except of soul of a white knight dwelling to protect something. To protect something he is left with nothing. Yet suffering and growing from that suffering, still carrying his sins was all that samurai could do. To find a new home that samurai could be with,
To find a new memories to protect,

Somethings which could trample everything,

A path with nothing but corpse and grief, yet to protect what he wanted to protect He chose that grief of loss and grew through that.

Thats what I wanted to say about Gintama in this topic.

Next if I move towards how grief and loss has affected an anime called Cross game which many of you might have not watched but it really explore this trope well.

This example of grief and loss in an anime was very similar In a sense and also very different from what COULD be like it was Shown in anohana. If I have to say, There were quite a lot of differences between their tropes.

If im talking about cross game rn It really had a mastery in its atmosphere. It didn't purely rely on words or anything eventually to make someone feel bad or good.

It just had no mourning about anything, if something Any one in anime avoided Making a scene of what has happened or any loss. And what there was. was just Profound quietness.

Now I will be quiet too and make an end to this segment before the bs Gets way too long.
BUT how can i NOT talk about Violet evergarden in this topic 😂 there was Frieren Too but I DONT talk about trash 😹😹😹 (sorry).

Yk Ayanokoji (our goat 🤑) was emotionless Af too js Like me and made tools. The one who is reading ts is also my tool btw (p.s: no im not •••Show maria 😂👌 i am only a tool for jasonttttt 😍😍).

And Violet was also emotionless tool like that
..There were many times where she Couldn't Understand what was Grief or what was Loss.

And growing through that numbness, growing through that absence was the masterpiece this anime gave us.
Her realisation on what it feels to be human (can never be me, Ayanokoji and 9enos 😂😳)

There was her trauma which could've been shown to us and some point we became part of it.

Just like how we were being part of he Grief she also became part of Grief of someone else's. Essentially learning to Accepted herself.
And essentially learning to go through that phase Where she could learn to bond herself with purpose.

And With this post I hope i somewhat Made into light On this trope of grief and xLoss (not exactly xLoss its called loss but saying xLoss is better lol). (ps: what the ƒuck is maria on about here 🤨⁉️)

So im done with this segment. BYE! *(Dies out of cringe)*

that was what she wrote. As for the conclusion Id say, looking back at all of these different anime, anohana, cross game, violet evergarden, kakushigoto, gintama (especially this, gintama has like 367 (ebk) eps which get you attached to the characters and their daily routines) , they do what i said in my opening part, letting you build attachment and then let the music and visuals do the rest of the speaking, as i like to say, anime is art and art communicates, it also applies to music. showing is better than spelling it out for the viewer in these scenarios and thats exactly what the visual and music pieces do. and thats why we get the feeling of loss even after we finish it, the show fully trusts in us that we can get it without having to explain it to us.

Also for those who've read this post, there is a post a game based on grief and loss coming out tomorrow.. stay tuned. (get it? funkytown is music themed so I said stay tuned 😂😂😂😂 top 5 punny moment)