Gungrave/Tear Jerker

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 * During the last few episodes of Gungrave, :

""My name's Harry, Harry MacDowell! What's your name?" "Brandon... Heat.""
 * . This troper was sobbing heavily when she saw that scene, and is tearing up right now as she's typing this.
 * Gungrave in its entirety. The whole story's set up to have the watcher care about the characters in it, and one by one all of them are broken to pieces. Every character has a tearjerker towards their end, even those set up as enemies. And the final scene, as, had this troper inconsolable and in tears for an age. Even remembering it now brings tears, a true masterpiece, without one single happy ending.
 * The ending credits, which scroll over, not to mention the meeting between two little boys that started it all.

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 * There was a sinking feeling as soon as they panned across the abandoned diner (a lot of the series was kind of emotionally-draining), but the final scene really did it.

""Brandon! Brandon! ...I know now ...that we're a family ...and we always will be. Forever ...and ever.""
 * The montage after ... The background music (I think it's called "Pieta" on one of the OSTs) just adds to it. *sob*
 * I had played both of the video games first before watching the anime (the games follow a different continuity), but it didn't make the anime any less heartbreaking. This line gets me every time:

"Maria: (holding Mika's hands) Mika. Mika: No! I don't want to go by myself! Don't leave me, Mommy!
 * Was very teary-eyed watching poor Brandon/Grave.
 * death did it for me.
 * It's debatably worse in the game:.
 * In the second game, Grave is comatose for a period of time, and Mika refuses to leave his side but is unsure of how to treat his wounds (the Centerhead attack is nasty). She has a dream of the night prior to the original game when she had to leave her mother.

Maria: (looking sad and holding a gun) Mika. Go to see Dr. Tokioka. You must survive, Mika.

(Maria kisses her on the cheek, and lets go of her hands)

Mika: Mommy!!

(fade to black)

Maria: ...Never give up..."


 * The last scenes of, which really drove home the fact that our antiheroes aren't the only ones with a dream, going about it in similar ways. Theirs really is a Crapsack World.