Chirin no Suzu/Tear Jerker

Tear Jerkers in  include:


 * Chirin's Mother's death. She's been eaten alive by Wor, but she managed to protect her son before dying. Chirin's utterly broken pleas for her to wake up complete with trembling jaw and blubbering mouth can almost be too much to bear. Anyone who has ever lost a parent will know his sorrow.
 * And what follows is the start of a heartbreaking Roaring Rampage of Revenge as Chirin begins slipping towards the dark side. And then, after Chirin finally kills Wor, he has a massive My God, What Have I Done? Heroic BSOD.
 * Chirin's theme song performed by the Brothers Four.
 * As Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent once said to her stepdaughter: "How can anyone love a pebble in their shoe?" That is what Chirin felt in the anime adaptation after the sheep bar him from the barn. He is a pebble and like all pebbles, he is an outcast. It doesn't help that the narrator even says that Chirin has no home at all.
 * It is implied in all versions of the story that Chirin died in the winter storm.