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This is for anime I found to be pretty big downers.

Depressing Rating
5 Centimeters Per Second (movie) Not really good
7SEEDS (ONA 2) Very good
86 (TV) Good
Air (movie) So-so
Akame ga KILL! (TV) Weak
Akiba Maid War (TV) Decent
Akira (movie) Very good
Angel Beats! (TV) Excellent
anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day (TV) Excellent
anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day (movie) Very good
Another (TV) Excellent
Arjuna (TV) Not really good
Armored Trooper Votoms: The Heretic Saint (OAV) Not really good
Asura (movie) Weak
Attack on Titan (TV 2/2017) Very good
Attack on Titan (TV 4/2019) Very good
Attack on Titan Final Season THE FINAL CHAPTERS (TV) Very good
Attack on Titan The Final Season (TV) Very good
Baldr Force EXE (OAV) Good
Basilisk (TV) Good
Battle Angel (OAV) Good
Berserk (TV 1997) Good
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - The Advent (movie) Good
Black Butler (TV) Very good
Black Butler II (TV) Good
Black Butler: Book of Circus (TV) Very good
Blade of the Immortal (TV) Good
Blassreiter (TV) Good
Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody Excellent
Blood Blockade Battlefront (TV) Decent
Blood Reign: Curse of the Yoma (OAV) Not really good
Blood+ (TV) Very good
Blue Drop (TV) Decent
Blue Gender: The Warrior (movie) Decent
Bokura ga Ita (TV) Very good
Btooom! (TV) Good
Casshern Sins (TV) Not really good
(Le) Chevalier D'Eon (TV) Very good
Chrono Crusade (TV) Decent
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (TV) Excellent
Corpse Princess: Aka (TV) Good
Corpse Princess: Kuro (TV) Good
Cowboy Bebop (TV) Excellent
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (ONA) Good
D.Gray-man Hallow (TV) Very good
Dark Sea, Moon Shadow (OAV) Good
(The) Day I Became a God (TV) Decent
Death Parade (TV) Masterpiece
Destiny of the Shrine Maiden (TV) Masterpiece
Domestic Girlfriend (TV) Very good
Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father of Goku (special) Very good
Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks (special) Very good
E.Y.E.S. of Mars (movie) Decent
ef: a tale of melodies (TV) Excellent
Elfen Lied (TV) Excellent
Elfen Lied (OAV) Very good
(The) Empire of Corpses (movie) Decent
Fafner (TV) Very good
Fafner EXODUS (TV) Good
Fafner EXODUS (TV 2) Good
Fafner in the Azure - Right of Left (special) Weak
Fafner: Heaven and Earth (movie) Very good
Fairy Tail the Movie: Phoenix Priestess Very good
Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture Very good
Fate/stay night (TV) Excellent
Fate/Zero (TV 2) Excellent
Figure 17 (TV) Excellent
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (US CG movie) Decent
Flag (ONA) Good
Fullmetal Alchemist (TV) Excellent
Fushigi Yugi (TV) Good
Ga-Rei-Zero (TV) Very good
Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy (movie) Decent
Gantz (TV) Bad
Geneshaft (TV) Decent
Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 (ONA 2) Good
Gilgamesh (TV) Not really good
Glass Fleet (TV) Good
(The) Glass Rabbit (movie) Very good
God Eater (TV) Good
Green Green (TV) Not really good
Guilty Crown (TV) Decent
Guilty Crown: Lost Christmas (OAV) Weak
Gunslinger Girl (TV) Masterpiece
Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino (TV) Excellent
Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino (OAV) Excellent
Gurren Lagann (TV) Very good
Haibane Renmei (TV) Masterpiece
Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom (TV) Good
Hakuōki: Record of the Jade Blood (TV) Good
Harmony (movie) Decent
Hell Girl (TV) Very good
Hell Girl: Fourth Twilight (TV) Very good
Hell Girl: Three Vessels (TV) Excellent
Hell Girl: Two Mirrors (TV) Excellent
Higurashi: When They Cry – GOU (TV) Very good
Hortensia Saga (TV) Weak
ICE (OAV) Good
Inuyashiki Last Hero (TV) Masterpiece
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion (movie) Very good
Izetta: The Last Witch (TV) Very good
Jin-Roh - The Wolf Brigade (movie) Bad
Jyu-Oh-Sei (TV) Decent
K (TV) Masterpiece
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress (TV) Very good
Kai Doh Maru (OAV) Weak
Katanagatari (TV) Very good
Kimagure Orange Road: The Movie Masterpiece
King of Thorn (movie) Excellent
Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World (movie) Very good
Kino's Travels: Life Goes On (movie) Very good
Knights of Sidonia (TV) Very good
Kurokami The Animation (TV) Masterpiece
Kurozuka (TV) Good
Last Exile (TV) Excellent
Lunar Legend Tsukihime (TV) Excellent
Macross Plus (OAV) Very good
Macross Zero (OAV) Very good
Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka (TV) Good
Magnetic Rose (movie) Decent
Mahoromatic: Something More Beautiful (TV) Good
Mass Effect: Paragon Lost (movie) Good
Master of Martial Hearts (OAV) Excellent
Megazone 23 Part III (OAV) Good
Memories (movie) Decent
Mermaid Forest (TV) Excellent
Metropolis (movie) Not really good
Midnight Occult Civil Servants (OAV) Good
Millennium Actress (movie) Excellent
Miss Hokusai (movie) Good
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (OAV) Good
Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO 2: Gravity Front (OAV) Very good
Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: Apocalypse 0079 (OAV) Very good
Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: The Hidden One Year War (movies) Very good
Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt (ONA) Very good
Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: December Sky (movie) Very good
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (movie) Excellent
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (TV) Excellent
Mushi-Shi (TV) Very good
Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV) Good
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth (movie) Decent
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (movie) Very good
Neppu Kairiku Bushi Road (special) Good
Ninja Resurrection (OAV) Awful
Ninja Scroll (movie) Very good
Now and Then, Here and There (TV) So-so
Penguindrum (TV) Not really good
PERSONA 5 the Animation (TV) Good
Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~ (TV) Good
(The) Pilot's Love Song (TV) Good
planetarian (ONA) Masterpiece
planetarian: Hoshi no Hito (movie) Masterpiece
Planzet (movie) Decent
Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie Part 3: Rebellion Excellent
Ray (TV) Very good
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- (TV 2) Very good
(The) Rose of Versailles (TV) Very good
Rurouni Kenshin: Reflection (OAV) Awful
Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) Excellent
Samurai 7 (TV) Excellent
School Days (TV) Excellent
Serial Experiments Lain (TV) Excellent
Shiki (TV) Excellent
Short Peace (movie) Very good
(The) Skull Man (TV) Good
(The) Sky Crawlers (movie) Good
Sola (TV) Excellent
Space Symphony Maetel ~Ginga Tetsudō 999 Gaiden~ (TV) Very good
Starship Troopers: Invasion (movie) Decent
Sword Gai: The Animation (ONA) Decent
Sword Gai: The Animation Part II (ONA) Decent
Taboo Tattoo (TV) So-so
Texhnolyze (TV) Decent
This Ugly Yet Beautiful World (TV) Excellent
Tokko (TV) Good
Tokyo Ghoul:re (TV) Good
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (TV) Masterpiece
Tokyo Revengers (TV) Good
Top Secret ~The Revelation~ (TV) Very good
Toward the Terra (movie) Good
Toward the Terra (TV) Very good
Ultraviolet: Code 044 (TV) Weak
Umineko - When They Cry (TV) Excellent
Un-Go episode:0 Inga-ron (movie) Excellent
Under Ninja (TV) Good
Under the Dog (OAV) Decent
Utawarerumono (TV) Excellent
Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth (TV) Good
Utawarerumono: The False Faces (TV) Not really good
Valvrave the Liberator (TV 2) Good
Voices of a Distant Star (OAV) Decent
White Album 2 (TV) Excellent
Witchblade (TV) Excellent
Wolf's Rain (OAV) Weak
X (movie) Awful
X (TV) Excellent
Yosuga no Sora - In solitude where we are least alone (TV) Excellent
Your Lie in April (TV) Decent
Zetman (TV) Decent
Zone of the Enders: Idolo (OAV) Good