Princess Tutu (anime)/Tear Jerker

"Mytho: I never doubted you would come for me. The feelings you returned to me...The feelings of love, affection, sorrow, loneliness...All of my feelings told me that Tutu was sure to come for me. Fakir: Tutu quietly gazed into the prince's eyes, then . The final heart shard was shaped like a pair of fluttering wings. Wings for the people who had spent a comfortable time inside the story to leave the nest with... Fakir and Tutu: Wings for the prince to return to himself with."
 * Episode 3 has Ebine's backstory and her weeping over her lost husband.
 * The last few episodes of the second season will bring anyone to tears.
 * Not to mention in episode 25. This troper cries just hearing the music featured during that scene.
 * It's worse when you realize it's The Last Farewell from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. The last scene between Romeo and Juliet before their deaths.
 * Don't forget about  in the first season finale. The fact that as she   does not make it any happier.
 * In episode 6, when Mytho gets the heartshard of fear and becomes terrified of Princess Tutu, Ahiru's breakdown is very upsetting and really marks a turning point in the series. It's not her fault the shards she returns to him are negative emotions, and seeing her pure intentions cause the boy she's trying to make happy whole gallons of pain, it's hard to blame her for sobbing her eyes out. "I just wanted to make him smile!"
 * Rue's dance with !Mytho is absolutely heartbreaking. He's, she , and she dances with him and remembers . It's beautiful and scary and tragic all at the same time.
 * In episode 26 when
 * Am I the only one that felt really bad for the lamp in episode 5?
 * No. Very, very much no.
 * Fakir GAL! CURSE YOU DROSSELMEYER!
 * Episode 25 has.
 * The scene in episode 25 where the final heart shard is restored, especially Fakir's narration as it happens. And the music.

"Mytho: You were... That something so small and fragile accomplished this...Thank you, Princess Tutu."
 * In episode 25 when, Mytho bows to her in awe.


 * Rue's dance in the Depths of Despair, set to The Dying Swan.
 * The last minutes of the final "In The Studio" segment accompanying the ADV Films dub, in which Duck's voice actress Luci Christian, after completing her performance, gets to see the ending of the series for the very first time and begins to cry.