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Some years ago I found this really great depressing anime and I cannot recall
it's name. It was built as a series of stories, with each being independent
from the rest. Not like arcs but actual independent stories. And one of those
stories has ever since stayed with me as the the most depressing thing that
I've ever saw.

It was a true story of a young Japanese novelist who won the newcomer award in
Japan (or something along those lines). It basically talked about his life's
ups and downs and ended in his suicide.

In general the theme there was very dark and well suicidal, but I loved it for
that. If I remember correctly it was set in the post WW2 era Japan.

One other thing I remember that the last story in the series was set in
medieval Japan, was quite colourful and seemed really out of place from the
rest of the stories. It was possibly even a fantasy story.

If I remember correctly it had only 3 stories and was 12ep max possible less.

Although the last one was simply weird in that line up, the previous two where
quite heavy dramas exploring how a person can fall into suicide.

I vaguely remember something like this happening in one of them: The main
character (young male early 20s or late teens) went to this bar where he met
another depressed women. They hooked up and I think they became a couple. They
then proceeded to commit double suicide, by throwing themselves of the cliffs.

When they got there they ate a lot of sleeping pills so they would drown in
the sea and they jumped off the cliff.

The woman did just that, but when the main character (do not remember the name
sorry) was about to jump he first started to puke from all the booze they
drank that night and puked out the sleeping pills.

At the time he did not think much of it and followed the women and jumped off
the cliffs. How ever because he failed to ingest the sleeping pills he did not
drown and later was saved from the sea or washed up on the shore. Anyway later
he had some serious regrets on puking and not managing to kill himself.

Later on there was this scene where I think it was the same character, but
possibly it was the other story, where the main male character was living with
his wife. Again only after going through some serious issues. And was living
in this big (relatively speaking) house and supporting the couple by creating
manga based on his life full of profanities I think we nowadays would say it
was seinen hentai... if that makes any sense.

Anyway the character had gone through some series of hardships and though that
he finally found if not a peaceful life than a livable life. I remember one
scene were his friend (or was it an acquaintance) came by to see how he was
doing and when he saw how he was making money was quite shocked by it.

One day when he came home his publisher was there "doing" his wife. When he
confronted him, the publisher told him that the manga that he was doing was
not actually selling and this is why he got the cheques, because his publisher
got to have sex his wife. Now his publisher proceeded to explain to the poor
guy how he must have known all that and he should not be so shocked.

One of the more memorable scene is were the wife told the guy "How could you
have done this to me" implyng that he basically pimped her to his publisher.
This of course lunged the main character into a suicidal fit where he tried to
kill himself.

Hopefully it ring some bells to someone, every time I hear that Clannad is a
sad anime I think "not really" and think back on this one. But I simply do not
remember the name, so I can't give them an example of a truly sad and
depressing anime.


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Need help on finding the most depressing anime I've ever seen


There's a good chance you're looking for [Aoi
Bungaku](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoi_Bungaku) (lit. "Blue Literature").
It's a collection of 6 classic Japanese novels adapted as an anime by Madhouse
in 2009. As the name suggests, the stories are mostly quite depressing, though
there is some variation between them.

Most of the events you mentioned occur in [No Longer
Human](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Longer_Human), the first novel adapted
(episodes 1-4), by Dazai Osamu, who later committed suicide. It's about a man
named Oba Yozo, who is incapable of interacting normally with other people and
always puts on a facade. Over the course of the novel (and the anime), he
lives several lives, moving from one position (and woman) to another fairly
quickly, and is never content with his life. Just this story was recompiled
into a [movie
release](http://myanimelist.net/anime/7651/Ningen_Shikkaku%3a_Directors_Cut_Ban),
though I guess from your description you probably saw the TV version.


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