Death Note/Tear Jerker



"Light (on the phone): Sorry mom, I can't come home again this year. Tell Sayu that I promise I'll find time to come back home next year so we can spend some real family time together."
 * Death Note, of course, had . (If this becomes It Was His Sled before it airs on Adult Swim, I will break you.)
 * And don't forget . That is why this editor much prefers the Movie's version of this where
 * This editor still prefers the original version, because
 * And then the third movie L: change the world has I'll be waiting as it's end theme. If you've seen it or the second film you will know why this is a tearjearker.
 * Speaking of Change the WorLd (that was not a typo, by the way), the scene where Maki, one the kids L has to protect And there's the bit at the end:  Several moments later, as L leaves, his voice-over reveals that  * sob*
 * Despite never having seen L: Change the WorLd or any of the live-action movies but was spoiled long ago, I teared up just from reading that.
 * As for the cutscene of   goes from Tear Jerker with Soichiro promising to him that he'd make his death worth it and Matsuda crying, to rage-inducing with Light making up lies about how he'll avenge  by killing Kira himself. It quickly turns to Nightmare Fuel with Light going absolutely berserk with his laugh and screaming at  that he has won.
 * What about
 * I find the very concept of Yagami a Tear Jerker. A dedicated policeman whose son is the criminal he's been hunting...
 * When I leave here, it will be with my son! Horrible.
 * And the moment in the hospital just after his, when, in full knowledge that Light is a suspect, he quietly explains to him that it isn't Kira himself who's evil, but the power he's using. Utterly tragic - especially since Light, while briefly affected, is a brick wall, and because that distinction between people and their acts is something Light will never grasp.
 * The shot of Light's mother Sachiko slumped at her table really tugged at my heartstrings.
 * And are on the table in front of her. That's what that neatly wrapped box she's contemplating is.
 * Really?
 * No. I thought so too at first, but it turns out bentos aren't the only things that get wrapped in furoshiki. And when you think about it,
 * Also the entirety of the finale of The Last Name, from Just... ouch.
 * There's also Misa Amane's (in my opinion) strongest scene., but it was a real turning point for her character.
 * I found
 * I just found it an egregious case of Draco in Leather Pants.
 * That's the definition of subjective, I guess. I loved the symbolism, especially when
 * Even Ohba said that Light was, in many ways, . Given that the Draco in Leather Pants trope is about fan misinterpretation of canon, is it even possible to present one within canon? This case seems more like Alas Poor Villain or a Broken Aesop.
 * I actually felt a cathartic release at that moment; in a story of the combat between potential gods, it was a human that struck the decisive blow. She may or may not have read too much Hellsing to be entirely sane about that kind of scene, though.
 * And this one felt great joy in . I actually made a cell phone wallpaper celebrating
 * I disagree with the anime version, cause it made him look like a wuss, but
 * For me, the only real sad part of
 * This- especially in the anime where  Gets this Troper every time.
 * This troper really hated Light, so when I watched the scenes where, it surprised me when I began to tear up. I thought it was just the fact that he sounded like a lost child, so I brushed it off. But when  , I burst into tears. I don't usually cry, and to this day, I can't figure out what was so saddening that I had to cry for who is possibly the character I hate most of all.
 * Mikami's horribly depressing backstory made me tear up a little. Especially when the boy he protected thanks him and adult Mikami says 'as long as I heard that word, it made me want to help them every time'. The contrast between what a sweet kid he was and the way he is now is just so stark.
 * Seven words: "Matt...  I'm sorry." Not just for Matt, but because it's the one time in the series that we see Mello as something other than a Hot Blooded, Can't Catch Up Insufferable Genius.
 * worse with Fridge Horror when you relise like L, Mello only had one friend.
 * L calling Light his only friend.
 * This one has been undone by Word of God. How To Read 13 says L has no friends at all and that it was just a lie he told Light, even though he knew he'd hardly believe it.
 * That Word of God statement is a personal Fanon Discontinuity for this troper, his friends and he suspects many others. It's just too sad....
 * Agreed. As awful as it is for L's only friend to be Light of all people, the idea of L never considering anyone a friend ever is even worse. L gets one friend, no matter how much it sucks.
 * This troper has their own interpretation. The How To Read profiles were listed somewhat like interviews, meaning some of the definitions were altered somewhat to match the characters. So Light being L's only friend was true, and L was lying, to the audience and himself, so that he wouldn't grow attached to his only true friend. This only makes  all the more heart wrenching.
 * L and Watari looking at one another through the computer monitors and L calling Watari's name, first quietly, and then loudly . Particularly sad since that episode implied that Watari was the closest thing L had to a father, and the angle and wide-eyed look he has in the monitor Watari looks at makes him look particulalry childlike. Its also the first time L's voice seems to have tender emotion and vulnerability in it.
 * It's even more depressing since most people are so upset by that they completely forget the fact that .  wasn't as bad (though still was terribly horrible) since, but  wasn't necessary at all in my eyes, and that just makes it all the more heartbreaking.
 * This troper, when she saw in the anime (because it's so much WORSE when the pictures are MOVING), she screamed at the television for a straight ten minutes, then burst into tears after realizing it had actually happened. (Yes,  is this troper's hero.) On top of that, this troper is also a Bleach fan. Two Freaking Words: Ulquiorra's . Um. Ouch. It doesn't help that the anime version has
 * How could anyone have forgotten the death of Naomi Misora?
 * Naomi was this troper's favorite character, so seeing her die, especially after  made this troper die a little inside.
 * Lightly tied to Misora,  Yeah, I know, he   but this B fangirl got very attached to him.
 * I had gotten through most of the tear jerkers on this page ( were among the only ones that hit me) and was half-hoping throughout the first 35 episodes of the show. Then   happened. If you don't think that her death scene is a tear jerker, perhaps you haven't thought about it enough. To review:   With that, my previous unwillingness to take a side in Death Note vanished. After that, the bastard had to die.
 * I never teared up watching or reading anything, until  and teared up during almost every episode after it.
 * Nobody else seems to care that  bit the bullet, but I found her death paticularly heartbreaking in that NOBODY CARED. Nobody. To Light, she was just an expendable pawn, Ryuk predictably didn't give a crap, , the very person she died to save, displayed minimal, if NO reaction, and as for L,  .   death went unmourned, her dissolved corpse swept away by some oblivious cleaning staff. Nobody sheds a tear.
 * Thank you. I was barely affected by  and teared up over Watari, but Rem made me break down sobbing.
 * Misa Amane's last scene in the anime, where  Misa was my favorite character, and seeing her just... there after   just broke my heart.
 * Seconded. Out of all of the Tear-Jerkery moments in the whole series, that's what got me. Especially with this incredibly sad music playing in place of the normal heavy-metal ending, the credits rolling over,  Worst part? How To Read cites   as Valentine's Day.
 * Consider also that this is not that dies. It's an innocent woman who has been jerked around all her life without her knowledge by the power of the Death Note. Rather than  being the one that died,  after she'd gotten her life as a normal human back. Even without, she just couldn't win.
 * To me, Misa is the most tear-inducing character in the whole series for all the above reasons, and knowing that she  after finally being relieved from all her use and abuse just makes it all that much sadder. There's some Fridge Horror at work too: consider that she   and she   after the main story -- that means she   The poor girl never had even half a shot at a normal life.
 * That's ... not exactly true. Remembder that . I find it hard to believe that , but for me that makes it sadder because
 * In a sad version of Fridge Horror, the Yagami family. And if thinking about it wasn't bad enough, then some really good fanfic writers got ahold of it... Not. Fair. That's what really gets me. Light ruined the lives of the people he should have loved most in the world and they did nothing wrong. And the bastard STILL didn't realize what he was doing!
 * ...and the manga:
 * In a sad version of Fridge Horror, the Yagami family. And if thinking about it wasn't bad enough, then some really good fanfic writers got ahold of it... Not. Fair. That's what really gets me. Light ruined the lives of the people he should have loved most in the world and they did nothing wrong. And the bastard STILL didn't realize what he was doing!
 * ...and the manga:


 * (Knowing that )
 * It's not exactly a tearjerker, but I thought one of the most tense, heartbreaking moments in the series was the closeup on
 * YES. He had so much potential in that Arc, and he was just so goddamn decent, that the knowledge that it was all gone for good broke this editor's heart.
 * This troper has JUST gotten to this part, and can't watch anymore tonight.
 * There is one part, and one part alone, that I got teary-eyed about, and it's at the very end.
 * The birthday cake in The Last Name. Just... gah.
 * Would it be fair to argue the whole SERIES is nothing but a Tear Jerker? Seriously, it's been ages since I've seen the Anime, and my allegiances to the characters probably changed with every episode, but reading any of these moments makes my eye water--even if I HATED the character CONSISTENTLY.
 * What got me was the moment when
 * ... Is this troper really the only one who sadfaces when Light sees the notebook fall, right at the start?
 * Watching the entire series, and then watching the first episode again. Light has no idea what he's getting into. Just imagining what his life would have been like had he not been staring out the window gets me.
 * That's one of the saddest things about Death Note for me. Light was so smart and could have done anything he wanted, but when he found the Death Note it basically ruined his life. He was never a bad person when he didn't have the Death Note, and I think it really screwed with his morals.
 * I know Mello was a bastard but I can't help myself, he is one of my darlings.
 * No mention of yet? He's just so sad-looking and his  was pretty heartwrenching. Especially for poor.
 * I'm probably the only one, but  in the anime. Face Heel Door Slam, anyone?
 * I've only read the manga version, but I'd agree with you.
 * Seconded; even with all things considered.
 * The final music that plays in the anime version during gets this troper every time.
 * For me, Light's last conversation with Misa in the manga is just ... heartbreaking. Misa is cheerful and glad that she's gotten a chance to talk to Light, telling him happily about the hotel room. And Light is completely "Yeah, good, she's not something I need to worry about at the moment." And he hangs up -- if he even bothered to say goodbye to her, the reader doesn't see it. And that's their last. Conversation. Ever. After Misa gave her life and soul to Light, suffered L's torture for him,, and let his control dominate her life completely -- that was their last conversation. They were engaged to be married, for the love of God; yes, it was only a pretense on Light's part, but they had been together for years, and Misa finally had the family that she had lost when her parents died. And   AND THAT WAS THEIR LAST CONVERSATION.
 * Maybe it's just me, but the really simple scene added in episode 25 of the anime where really got to me. Not just the way the scene was shot, and the haunting music playing, but the fact that it shows that L was just as human as anyone and how Watari was probably the only person who really cared about him.