What is the most tearjerking anime/animation ever?

I cried when I saw Brave.
The guy in front of me did as well.

I cried my eyes out watching Story of Saiunkoku

HunterxHunter made me cry, but you have to get to well over 100 episodes to get to the one specific part.

I used to watch The Last Unicorn with my daughter:)

Also watches The Iron Giant with her, that made me cry.

"SUUUUUUUPERMAAAAAAN" :,(

I'm going to throw these two out there just for scenes. When Wreck-It Ralph sacrifices himself:



And the death of Bing-Bong from Inside Out:



There are more, of course, but these stand out for me. I'm sappy like that.

Yeah that after credit scene with Meruem
and Komugi crushes me everytime.

It is great but weird. Having zero Hisoka and none of the Zodiacs turn up seems odd. I also thought they were gonna do more with Gyro, they built that guy up massively. Who knows, maybe he'll appear in the next arc...if it ever arrives.

Still, a phenomenal arc.

From tv series or episodes, I guess it is kind of hard to avoid or even choose out a few single moments from the great british Animals of the Farthing Wood (1993-1995), where you kind of never felt "safe", as in that show, it early on seemed like everyone of the main characters/animals, migth either die or disappear at some time or moment, and where each episode would leave the viewers off, with a dramatic cliffhanger. And boy, it was quite different to most of the other cute and cozy animal animated children shows back then, as a whole lot of animals got killed off, and I think a sequel, made in 1995 or 1996, continued on with this trend, writing out several of the main cast as well. But by then, the audience had kind of gotten used to the fact that their favorites, might not survive for very long. 

I guess more of a "shocking" than tearjerking effect is more like it, but I did feel often very sorry, even for some of the not so likeable figures in that show. But looking back, I really am glad there were a few different kind of children shows, that did not all come with the usual Disney fantasy routine, where if you are kind and good, you will be rewarded big time, but that is not how the animal life works out.

But, Disney and their impressive run of some absolute animated classic shows back in the 80s and early 90s, sure did provide with some very powerful and sad moments, where I believe that The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh would often deliver some of the funniest, yet also the saddest and most heartwarming ones, and often where Rabbit or Piglet were involved.

The first one, that even to this day, still manages to bring along with that classic combination of feel-good and sad atmosphere, is the great episode of Find Her, Keep Her, where Rabbit saves and helps out a little cute baby bird. But is to stubborn or just does not want to realize how things will be soon, when she gets big enough to fly for herself, and leave home, because of the cold weather, and leave him behind while flying to a more tropical and warm surroundings.

Even now, it has the great sad but also feel-good factor, going all the way, surely one of the finest moments in the Disney animated tv series era of that time: