Excel Saga (anime)/Tear Jerker


 * Excel Saga actually advertises episode 24 as a Tear Jerker. And as promised, not a single joke in the entire episode (except for one brief one where Kabapu is revealed to only be pretending to bleed). Still, for fans of this Gag Series it's usually rather uncomfortable to see Excel  The rest of the episode isn't much more cheerful, with most of the characters actually getting a bit of serious Character Development.
 * To specify, that was the following episode which was serious. But the real tearjerker occurs in the previous Wham Episode where, after an episode that was mostly a parody of Fist of the North Star, the last couple of minutes has . It was just so pathetic and sad.
 * There's also the episode 8 where Cossette is assigned to an assassination mission..
 * Oddly enough, this entire sob story was clearly meant to be a parody of a Tear Jerker.
 * This troper, who rarely cries, was in tears at the  in episode 10. The subsequent   And Menchi's sad song during the credits, after all that, had him full-out bawling. It always plays on the credits, but this time it was poignant.