Sailor Moon/Tear Jerker



"Uranus: Neptune: Uranus:  Neptune:"
 * The second-to-last and last episodes of the first season of Sailor Moon unedited.
 * Especially Jupiter's and Venus'.
 * The  made me cry more than
 * "That's right... I'm not alone! Never alone!" * sniff*
 * Episode 24.
 * Surprisingly, this scene is just as good in the dubbed version. As one MiSTing put it, "not even Mary Long's terrible voicing of Molly could ruin that scene".
 * The Latin-American VA's made it just as heartwretching. Cristina Camargo's " ... no... don't leave me, no! Don't die,, please don't..." * sob* " "
 * The Italian voice for Naru is very soft, but for some reason this makes her screams even sadder.
 * Episode 47 (
 * Episode 69
 * Episode 87 (
 * Episode 110
 * Episode 194 with Usagi  Made all the better by   It's hard to make words do justice-- Kotono Mitsuishi's performance is just gut-wrenching.
 * And many, many moments in episodes 195-200.
 * And let's not forget
 * On the subject of the revelation of Mamoru's, what's the very last thing  says to Usagi?  She says it before the reveal.
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 * Let's not forget the heartwretching scene in the R movie where
 * And then just minutes later, we get
 * Just before that when
 * Who could forget the scene where Fiore sees, in flashback, the origin of the flower that Mamoru gave him on the roof? Hell, even Fiore's moved to Manly Tears at this.
 * The whole finale of the Nehelenia arc, but especially Hotaru's battle. "Those eyes again... DON'T LOOK AT ME WITH SUCH EYES!" And Chibiusa  As well as
 * Lest we forget
 * One from the R manga: . Especially when  }
 * The secene is pretty much repeated the same way in the Sera Myu (Specificly the Black Lady Musicals.) The other Outer Senshi (Who are from Crystal Tokyo like Pluto in this version) try to soften the blow  The fact Chibi-Usa and Black Lady have a duet shortly after   that is just as sad makes the scene worse.
 * Also, from the first season: you had . The moment it's clear that   is going to die, you can almost see tears start to form in  's eyes. And it's repeated when.
 * The dub actually makes it more heartbreaking, as.
 * Third season, Episode 99.  And then there's that goddamned song played in the background... * weeps*
 * 's Villainous Breakdown in R. Seeing her completely break after, only for the poor girl to start attacking them in tears since she has lost everything, until   - all of this, until the last actions by   is horrible to watch.
 * To twist the knife even more, 's own VB is a bit more restrained, but it's still very depressing to   Fortunately,   Aw, so good.
 * Third season finale: Hotaru's just overcome Mistress' Nine and tranforms into Sailor Saturn. She explains to Sailor Moon that she is, indeed, the "Soldier of Destruction" that Uranus and Neptune feared, and calmy states that when she use her power, she will be destroyed. She then goes off to battle Pharaoh 90. Sailor Moon is aghast, tries to power up into Super Sailor Moon--and her transformation fails because the Grail was Destoryed. She keeps trying, and each time she shouts "CRISIS MAKE-UP!" she sounds more and more desprate. Just thinking about Sailor Moon on all fours, sobbing "Why?"... At the brink of hysterics she tries one last time and the powers of the Other Senshi combine and her pure heart crystal forces hitself out of her body to allow her to transform. When finished her eyes are blank with tears streaming down her face and goes to join Sailor Saturn in battle.
 * As Mistress 9/Hotaru becomes more schizophrenic, Dr. Tomoe thinking back to Hotaru as a child with him. He cries at the memory and apologizes profusely.
 * Don't forget the scene in which we learn why is this happening.
 * Episode 42: Minako's backstory... Nuff Said.
 * Episode 49 had Makoto's backstory of her sempai that she had remained brokenhearted over for the longest time. The hurt look on her face and that song can be seen in this scene. The English dub did a surprisingly good job with an English song. In fact, the whole episode
 * Although  also could pull that off in episode 90. Which is tied with another Tear Jerker:   Then came , but the Tear Jerker remained here and there.
 * Super S might have unpopular, but episode 152 had a surprisingly powerful one. A girl named Nanako is pretty much infatuated with Rei and follows her around, wanting to become a Miko like her. Rei at first thinks it's funny, but later she snaps and says she wants Nanako to go get a life...  Rei is so pissed off at the enemy when she finds out that she suits up into Mars and pulls her Mid-Season Upgrade, the Mars Flame Sniper, alongside a Crowning Moment of Awesome that lets her beat the monster enough to have Moon and Chibi-Moon kill it.
 * Nehellenia throws Chibi-Usa off the cliff and Usagi dives after her, first desperate but calm, until she's in her arms and falling past skyscrapers and Usagi begs, "Please, Chibi-Usa! I want us to become adults together..." The scene was animated just beautifully and really expressed the mother/daughter love between the two.
 * Saphir's And to drive it further,   Damn, it's just heartbreaking.
 * There's a scene in what I believe is the SuperS movie (it's the one where the Big Bad sending her henchmen to hypnotize children into following them to these giant gondolas and then taking them away to be put into eternal sleep or something) where Chibiusa has been captured by the villain and placed on a slowly ascending gondola. The senshi can't save her and can only watch as Chibiusa is carried away. The tearjerker comes when you see Sailor Moon's face. She is clearly horrified and trying her hardest (and failing) not to cry.
 * Episode 164 -  and Chibi-Moon says "That's the first time you've said my name .." And her desperate screams when.
 * Usagi's dream in episode 62: The friendship of the Sailor Warriors, goodbye Ami!
 * Most of the episode as well. Especially Ami's image song.
 * Episode 69, where Usagi/Serena thinks Mamoru/Darien dumped her for another girl (this was around the time that Mamoru/Darien had recurring nightmares of marrying Serena and a voice telling Mamuro/Darien to stay away from her or the universe would be destroyed), there's a part where Usagi/Serena is in front of the refrigerator, stuffing her face out of depression, though that's nothing compared to the scene in episode 61 where after Usagi/Serena fails at getting back together with Mamoru/Darien, she then walks down the street, stops at a phone booth, locks herself in it, and breaks down crying.
 * Also in Episode 69, the Monster of the Week puts Sailor Moon in a sort of trance that starts to drain her life away. The scouts can't get her to wake up. Luna leaves the scene as she has flashbacks of Usagi/Serena stuffing her face from earlier that night. Luna gets to Mamoru/Darien's place and pleads with him to come save her. At first he's reluctant (because he still believes he's trying to protect her) but eventually goes and saves her. This is a Hope Spot for Sailor Moon, but he just turns a cold shoulder to her again after she wakes up.
 * Episode 106, where Haruka and Michiru's backstory is told. There was something incredibly depressing about Michiru sacrifising her career as a violinist just to save Haruka from becoming a senshi. Not to mention that it becomes even more depressing when Michiru confesses that she was the girl who wanted nothing more than being with Haruka. (She'd mentioned "that girl" when she first met Haruka.)
 * Episode 109. There's something utterly depressing about Minako thinking she's not "pure" enough. And then that scene, where Eugeal shoots her... and instead of losing consciousness, she runs off with the crystal.
 * Episode 110. The Death of Neptune. Crowning Music of Awesome.
 * Episode 132. I always tear up when Usagi covers Mamoru which results in her almost suffocating.
 * That was such a Tear Jerker that the Monster of the Week tears up.
 * The death of the Amazon Trio.
 * Oh, it's more than that. Much more. ; later, , and then we hsve the worst/best part:  . This is followed by   Really, that two-parter was MADE of this trope, and it was one of the best parts of the Super S season.
 * The end of SuperS Anime. Chibiusa and Helios promising to meet each other again, all very cute. From Helios' point of view, though, Chibiusa travelled from the 30th Century to the 20th Century .. and you realize he has to wait a century or longer to see her again. That last hug and the strings version of "Watashi-tachi Ni Naritakute" was just very emotional.
 * Kaorinite's Death in the Sailor Moon S series is always saddening. She did everything for that Tomoe, or at least she thought she did. Getting thrown back into an electric barrier would also probably hurt very much. It doesn't make it any better when you realize that Kaorinite even sacrificed herself attempting to defeat the senshi, only to be ressurected, only to be disposed of by Mistress Nine simply because "her job was now over."
 * The deaths of a few of the Witches Five also qualify as well., simply because she was  's butt monkey and was the victim of many a prank.  , because she devoted her life to her machines, even as she vanishes, Mercury says "Poor girl..." and lastly,  , who even had a brief Heel Face Turn when thinking of not being a bad person anymore. Although she technically didn't die, she's simply stuck inside a giant tv when   pulls the plug with her inside... which is a Fate Worse Than Death.
 * The deaths of both  in Stars.
 * Episode 80, Ami was being accused of cheating on an exam and the way she's just looked down by the other students is heartbreaking. Later in the episode,the Monster Of the Day shoots a beam at her to make her have illusions that her friends are against her. While "they" are all saying that, there are clips of the other Senshi happy, making the scene all the more sad. The scene is just as sad in the English dub.
 * In episode 97, Ami has severe self-doubts. After a pep-talk from Mamoru and regaining her self-esteem after a swimming race with Michiru, she is attacked by a daimon. Sailor Moon tries to save her, but is incapacitated, and has to watch helplessly while the daimon takes out Ami's heart. She begs it to leave Ami alone, because she has beautiful dreams and because she's her dear friend. Ami hears it and starts crying.
 * How can this not be mentioned here? The sad theme of Sailor Saturn playing while appearing to Sailor Moon and just as she plans to sacrifice herself? Just listening to the music in this is extremely saddening, especially the violin.
 * Toward the end of the manga, when Usagi introduces Artemis and Diana to her mother, and tells her to take care of them before she goes off to fight Galaxia. Ikuko stares in fear as she tells her husband she gets the feeling she's never going to see Usagi again, while Luna, Artemis, and Diana  mew pitifully as they know Usagi's walking to her doom.
 * Galaxia's

""If I could be at his side as a human... I would at least be able to tell him how I feel!""
 * In the English soundtrack, just the song, "My Only Love" brings this troper to tears, especially when it played in the English version.
 * In fact, most people who favor the uncut Japanese version of Sailor Moon over the edited, American version from DiC (and later Cloverway) do admit that "My Only Love" (from the episode where ) is a better song to play over the last part of the episode than what the Japanese version had (though the Japanese version is heartbreaking in its own right).
 * In the Latin-American dub, we had a Spanish-translated version of the Japanese song. It was very sad too.
 * Though Your Mileage May Vary depending on your Shipping preferences, anything related to Seiya's Hopeless Suitor status. That includes the "Am I not good enough?" scene above, as well as "If only I'd have met you sooner." Note how in Episode 188, where everyone is forced to reveal their identities to each other, a bittersweet Starlights song with exactly that content starts playing in the background as if to emphasize that it just can't work anymore. And arguably, it may be even more sad that Seiya seems to take it all in good spirit rather than getting depressed.
 * Shipping preferences nothing! I prefer Mamoru/Usagi and Seiya/Princess Kakyuu over Seiya/Usagi and I still felt like shit for poor Seiya. The poor kid truly needed a hug.
 * When being brainwashed into Black Lady in season two, Chibi-usa has a dream about being abandoned on her birthday. The background music playing while she cries just makes it a thousand times worse.
 * The other dream/flashback could count too. Chibiusa runs after a frog and slips in the rain when she ignores her mother's warning not to run. Her parents, because she didn't listen, refuse to help. The way Chibiusa views this is indeed heartbreaking, as she sees it as her parents wanting her to be hurt rather than wanting her to learn to be self-sufficient (as we learn a few episodes down the road).
 * The S movie was so-so, but the scene where Luna explains to Usagi how she feels about Kakeru and ends up crying in an also sobbing Usagi's arms? Holy shit, that was so sad.


 * The episode where Ami feels like she is only valued for her intelligence. That on its own is depressing, but the big tear jerker comes when when Ami, as Sailor Mercury, gets her pure heart crystal shot out. Sailor Moon tearfully pleads with the Monster of the Week to return it, explaining how important Ami is to her and everyone else. Becomes a bit heartwarming because Ami hears every word she says.
 * The episode where Sailor Moon purifies Koan/Catsy. Koan is madly in love with Rubeus, but he doesn't give two squats about her. So when she fails him again while fighting Sailor Mars, he gives her a ball of destruction that will kill everything in the area, including her. Koan starts crying and is seriously considering using it. The other scouts arrive and thwart her plan but Koan starts attacking the other scouts out of anger and sadness, saying she's useless. Just as Sailor Jupiter is about to lay one on her, Mars takes the hit for her and says Koan doesn't have to be evil anymore and they can purify her.
 * Due to Rubeus generally being a Jerkass to the Weird Sisters, they all have a turning point that involves them reaching a Despair Event Horizon. Berthier/Birdie's moment had Koan coming after her as she tried to freeze herself to death.