Higurashi no Naku Koro ni/Tear Jerker



"Keiichi: Why didn't you ever talk to us about it? We're your friends right? We're supposed to be like family! If you had talked to us, we could have helped! We wouldn't have let you get your hands dirty! If we had worked together, we might have reached a better future than this one!
 * Plenty in Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, notably  Luckily, the scene that follows turns it right around into a massive Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.
 * The ending of Onikakushi is tragic enough in the game and the anime, but the manga pushes it right into Tear Jerker territory when and as if you aren't getting misty-eyed already, it finally ends with
 * This still-image video kicks the Tear Jerker factor up a notch. Or ten. It's Onikakushi from Rena's perspective, and shows just how saddening and confusing it was for her to see Keiichi look so scared and not be able to do a thing to help him.
 * The original scene of itself is pretty heartbreaking too. Especially for me, who went into the series not knowing about the series  with each new arc. Revisiting that scene, seeing Keiichi break down and apologize to Mion (who is unaware of what he is crying about), and especially witnessing  threatened to bring me to tears.
 * The entire Yakusamashi-hen made me cry, if only because nothing bad actually happened until, and especially the scenes with poor Satoko near the end when she sees  . Oh, and the first episode of the second season that shows the true ending of Tsumihoroboshi-hen. The flashback with that music playing in the background... * sniffle*
 * For me,  did it. It left me wondering, Why? Why would do such a thing to her?!''
 * The answer is that the scene is taken from Tsukiotoshi-hen and really... doesn't make much sense in the new context. Originally,.
 * The assumption for Yakusamashi-hen is likely that she happened to come upon the same thing Satoko did... just in progress.
 * The end of the Minagoroshi-hen.
 * It's more of a tear jerker in the sound novels, as this piece of music plays the moment
 * Towards the end of the Meakashi-hen arc when
 * This troper finds
 * The manga version of this is pretty tough to sit through.
 * Despite everything she did in this arc, this troper bawled at They somehow mangaged to make it worse in the manga, where
 * And of course
 * This troper still has of yet to get the visual novel for Meakashi-hen, so she doesn't know when it plays, but she wonders what the anime would have been like had this piece of music played during the last moments of the arc.
 * The ending theme of the anime always makes this troper shed a few tears, or at least sniffle a little, despite the fact that it seems the sort of thing he would be laughing at for the hilariously bad english. And this troper barely ever cries at anyting.
 * "I just want to live a happy life, that's all I want. I want to have fun, and laugh, and spend my days surrounded by all my friends. Nothing more than that. Am I asking for too much and I just don't know it? ...I don't want to have to die." Oh, Rika...
 * This troper gets misty whenever any character asks the question, "Why did it become like this?" In her opinion, this is the most tragic line in the entire series.
 * This one has wet teary eyes when thinking about the ending of Himatsubushi-hen.
 * This troper burst into tears upon seeing, because of attitude towards the whole thing. "Nii-nii! I'm strong now!"
 * In episode 13 of Kai,
 * The VN and Manga version is worse..
 * past in a game-exclusive arc,
 * FINGERNAIL. PUNISHMENT. That is all.
 * It Gets Worse:
 * That last one is confirmed, when
 * Heck, almost every time a character's Dark and Troubled Past is revealed, it's a Tear Jerker if you like the character enough, the strongest ones being
 * The ending of Watanagashi-hen in the manga was absolutely heartbreaking to this troper.
 * Likewise with the sound novels. Not so much with the anime though...
 * While this troper considers himself a jaded stoic who didn't break down during the series (plenty of Heartwarming Moments, but not Tear Jerkers) the song "You" and its lyrics did the work instead, and now becomes teary-eyed whenever hearing it, recalling the Good End they finally earned.
 * Miyo's arc in itself is a Tear Jerker. Also in this arc we see parents, and  in an almost-flashback.
 * The manga version of is honestly one of the most heartwrenching things this Troper has ever read. The punches start when the recently orphaned  is dropped off at her new orphange. The anime plays this fairly ominously with the orphanage worker glaring at her as soon as the social workers leave, but the manga version decides to have a brief Hope Spot to make things worse. "Oh, oh look! He's patting her head, just like her dad used to do to! Surely this guy can't-"
 * But what's truely the saddest thing in this arc is seeing  trying to adjust to life with her "grandfather". After   there's a scene showing the two eating, and remembering her punishment, the girl vomits. She then freaks out and tries to clean it up, thinking he won't want her if she's "dirty". And when the man tries to comfort her like her dad did,   can only remember the jackass from the orphange, and recoils in fear. This shouldn't happen to a little kid.
 * Tatarigoroshi-hen's ending in the manga. Keiichi and Satoko find half eaten open corpse. After a few moments of crying, Satoko notices Keiichi is holding a hooked machete (Rena's too). Enter more crying and pleading here.  To make matters worse, a few hours later a battered Keiichi wakes up and walks to town. He sees the  and after a bit comes to notion that . His life can never go back to normal. The arc ends with Keiichi saying he wants everyone to die.
 * How about most of Meakashi, mixed with Nightmare Fuel?
 * This Troper may be alone on this, but she cried when,in the Tsumihoroboshi manga and VN, This made this Troper bawl her eyes out.
 * Okay, final arc of Kai, the nakama is in the Sonozaki basement, and Kasai and Shion are buying them time to escape. Mion starts yelling for Shion to come down already. Gunshots. LOTS of gunshots. Rika, on the verge of tears, says "No, no, I don't want to give up anyone! ...This is the final world. I don't want this! I don't want a future in which Shion or Kasai die!" and starts bawling. That's bad enough, right? But it gets worse. When Irie is about to give himself up so everyone else can escape, Rena says, "If you go, then what did they (Kasai and Shion) fight so hard for?" and Mion shouts back, "Then what? Are you saying Shion should die?", Satoko delivers this tear-jerking masterpiece: "Please, stop it, Mion! My heart is about to burst as well. After all, Shion is my Nee-Nee." Mion, and this troper, BURST into tears.
 * I was pretty much used to the violence and death at this point, and didn't care much that Shion and Kasai might be dead. After all, everyone is always okay again in the next world, right? Right? Then I remembered that this was the final world, and started being terrified.
 * Episode 4 of Rei when Rika wakes up in the hospital to see Irie there. I started shedding tears believing Rika had actually done the action. The rest of that scene was so heartwarming though.
 * There's still a chance that she actually did it though.
 * A bit of Fridge Horror for you: In Watanagashi/Meakashi, This Troper just didn't forgive because of two characters that suffered a bit too much:  Nice job there,.
 * Let's not demonize . That's the tragedy of this series. If there's a series that personifies Poor Communication Kills, it's Higurashi. Also, how is that Fridge Horror?
 * Not demonizing, just not completely justifying.She does learn from her mistakes and helps the cast in later arcs.And this Troper think the person above tried to do a failed Take That to the aforementioned Fan Dumb.
 * I actually believe that most of the deaths, save the last two caused by were somewhat justified. We have a Yandere who just lost their love. I would have been surprised if they weren't dying if  thought they caused it.   but just because It can be explained doesn't mean I think the last two were justified.
 * There were a few fanfics that won a contest and were officially made into non-canon manga. "Limit" mixed Nightmare Fuel with Tear Jerker, however Hinageshi-hen and Nienagashi are this. In the former Mion is off at college and comes home for a festival. A myth is that if a doll is not set, then the person will die. Mion returns, but her friends are avoiding her. She finds where the dolls are one day, and finds hers is missing. She becomes paranoid. For the latter, the Tear Jerker comes when Satoko almost drowns in a river. Keiichi comes to get her, but due to the rapids and the fact he can't swim he isn't much help. Keiichi remembers a story he heard on how a boy let go his friend to save himself in that river some time ago, and he begins to think of that.
 * I, truly, almost never cry. But this song, I feel, could very well be a Tear Jerker or a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming for some people.
 * In the penultimate episode of Kai, Satoshi
 * If the lyrics in the series of songs in the Yours album (Sorayume, Sora no Mukou, Confession, Thanks) are to be believed, and if they're canon, then Satoshi does indeed recover.
 * YMMV, but this troper always feels a little sad when Shion beats Satoko in episode 16. I mean, Satoko annoys the hell out of me, but SHE'S A LITTLE KID. She and her family have been shunned by all the people in the village except for a few people, and now one of her friends (Shion disguised as Mion) is beating her up and telling her to suffer and die alone.
 * She tried to kill her, so she does deserve sympathy.
 * Most of the versions of Dear You are this, but hope, Rika's version, is the worst.
 * And then we have her first Image song, Mugen Kairou.
 * Kokoro Musubi. Now the song itself is heartwarming, but then there's that very last verse that represents Shion telling Satoshi that everyone is waiting for him to wake up. Cue the escaped tears.
 * Rena's confession about the murders of Rina and Teppei Houjou to her friends in Tsumihoroboshi arc. When Keiichi asks her why she did not tell her friends about her struggles, her response is especially heart-rending.
 * Kokoro Musubi. Now the song itself is heartwarming, but then there's that very last verse that represents Shion telling Satoshi that everyone is waiting for him to wake up. Cue the escaped tears.
 * Rena's confession about the murders of Rina and Teppei Houjou to her friends in Tsumihoroboshi arc. When Keiichi asks her why she did not tell her friends about her struggles, her response is especially heart-rending.

Rena: A future better than now? There's no such thing. This is the best future."


 * Also, her belief that you can't rely on your friends for help; that you have to suffer alone and solve your problems by yourself. Who knew that under her cheerful facade; Rena was feeling so much sorrow and bitterness?
 * It was only a brief moment, but this troper found  death at the end of Minagoroshi-hen, which was as if she was following   at that. But what really got me was when
 * What really got this troper was when
 * I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet but  definitely counts. Expecially heartwrenching for this tropette because she'd just started liking   in this arc.
 * "Which is green? Broccoli or cauliflower?" "Broccoli." "Correct."
 * For some reason, the ending song of the first season (Why, or Why Not?) always makes me feel sentimental and depressed, especially when I realized that the lyrics sounded like they were describing Hinamizawa Syndrome. "The sound of footsteps became louder every day, then I realized the fact that there was no time."
 * Shion's breakdown while  is one of only two things in this show that made me cry.
 * Any time Keiichi brings up  in Tsumihoroboshi-hen is this
 * Any time Keiichi brings up  in Tsumihoroboshi-hen is this