Akira/Tear Jerker


 * There's the death of poor, which happens right when it seems things may start getting better and as he happily goes towards , calling out to him and asking if he remembers him from the past. And right when he's extending his hands to touch the kid he's so happy to see again... . No wonder  and, in few words, It Gets Worse.
 * Then there is the . She had zero to do with his condition. On the contrary, she loves him and genuinely cares for him despite him being a royal prick..
 * Made even worse in the manga, where.
 * When the Colonel is reintroduced in the second half of the story, one of his former soldiers recognizes him and salutes to him. The Colonel dismisses him, as he cannot help anymore. Later on, when the Colonel is battling Tetsuo's troops, one of them recognizes the Colonel as his former superior. When the other Empire soldier tells him to shoot the injured Colonel, he shoots him instead. As he's helping the Colonel escape, the latter asks him why he stayed after the disaster, instead of fleeing. The soldier's answer? Because his wife died in Neo-Tokyo. Right after that, he is shot and killed from afar by more Empire troops.