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[[File:tomoya_tears.jpg|frame| CLANNAD. Where you can cry along with the characters.]]
[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]], Dear, GOD, CLANNAD....
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[[Kyoto Animation]] seems to enjoy making the first arc as tear-inducing as possible, [[Utsuge|which is simple enough for a]] [[Key Visual Arts]] game.
* Case in point: The ending of Fuuko's arc in ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]''. This troper was in tears upon hearing {{spoiler|Fuuko's sister explain that her condition had worsened and she might ''never'' wake up, almost guaranteeing that she would disappear from everyone's memories. The next episode managed to be even ''moreso''.}} Clannad may not have as many Tear Jerkers as other anime, but damm it has the most tear jerking ones.
** In Fuko's arc, there was one particular scene that got me; it was when ''Sanae'' started to {{spoiler|forget her after she'd visited Fuko's body in the hospital}}. What made it worse was that she knew it was happening, and was inconsolable, on the floor, asking through her tears {{spoiler|if Fuko was there and if Fuko knew that she'd always be welcome at the Furukawa house}}... It's ramped [[Up to Eleven]] when you notice that Sanae is basically acting like a newly-blind person reaching out to someone she knows is there, but of course can't see anymore before she breaks down. Dammit, TV shows shouldn't be able to do this to me.
*** Whenever Nasiga is reminded of how she may lose her memory of Fuuko eventually, she holds onto her like a teddy bear! *sniff*
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* Nagisa ''the character'' is basically a Tear Jerker with legs. She's a shy, timid, ill girl from a happy family who is gentle to a fault, gets emotional easily, has unclear ambitions, sings an old children's song that no one appreciates, and occasionally gets so sick that she has to skip a good chunk of school, which leads to her having to stay back a year. Twice. While seeing all her other friends graduate and leave her. It explains a lot when the whole show is about her. Poor thing...
* Not to mention Ichinose Kotomi. She's basically every element of Tear-Jerking Nagisa has Taken Up To Eleven. Let's see...she's about forty times as shy, timid to the point of being incapable to so much as hear anyone but Okazaki, {{spoiler|her first friend who's completely forgotten about her}}, much less speak with anyone. She's just as gentle, being the only female love interest who doesn't actively force anything on Okazaki. She also sings an old childhood song...in an attempt to have her {{spoiler|first friend and first love Okazaki who was Put On A Bus, remember their past time together-and he doesn't remember. Her parents are dead after breaking a birthday promise- YMMV leading to her attempting to burn down the house with her in it. AND she's been living alone since that, which is at least 5 years ago.}} And since she's so shy/smart no one's approached her in that time except Okazaki, she's been alone in her grief for all those years as well. To further twist the knife {{spoiler|Okazaki winds up choosing her newfound best friend Nagisa over her, even though she's been in love with Okazaki since she was a kid.}} Broken Bird indeed.
* Yusuke Yoshino's got a bit of Tear Jerker {{spoiler|combined with Fridge Horror. Pop star whose career dies after he takes to singing about the plight of the sick and dying? What does that say about us? It gets worse when you consider that he was driven to drugs specifically BECAUSE he cared.}}
* Oddly enough the ending song, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvzCmV3_12c Dango Daikazoku], while fairly happy in actual content, also evokes sadness for some reason.
** [[Foreshadowing|Just wait]] till you see [[Ironic Echo|who sings it to whom]] in ''[[After Story]]''.
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* The ending of Kotomi's arc also did it for others. "Father... Mother... Welcome home."
** The {{spoiler|Teddy Bear in the suitcase}} is a huge one. {{spoiler|Your plane is going to crash and you and your wife are going to die. You have a suitcase that will most likely make it through the crash in one piece and you can either save potentially world changing research or the gift you promised your daughter for her birthday; the last gift she would ever get from you. What do you do? You make sure that your baby girl gets her [[Precision F-Strike|goddamn]] gift no matter what!}}
* Misae's arc in ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]] [[After Story]]''. "I'm sorry I couldn't be with you until the end of the festival."
* Episode 16 of ''[[After Story]]'', namely, the part where {{spoiler|Nagisa dies.}}
** This troper was so heartbroken by the end of the episode, that he thought he was going to die from uncontrollably crying for five minutes straight.
** Heck, just watching {{spoiler|the OP with all the Nagisa images}} on the next episode is heartbreaking. Way to twist the knife there [[Kyo Ani]].
*** I'm not entirely sure that does it justice. This Troper still breaks down in tears over the OP, {{spoiler|even knowing how the series ends.}} God, that music...
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**** No. ''The game, the show, the manga and everything else in between.''
***** ''Everything'' related to Clannad (No matter how small) definitely counts.
* To show you just how tearjerking it is, it moved
** I agree with your friend. Tomoya's life is one massive [[Player Punch]]!
** {{spoiler|He did kill himself in a way. After his daughter died, he just laid there in the snow, holding her until he froze to death.}}
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[[Category:Clannad]]▼
[[Category:Tear Jerker]]
[[Category:Tear Jerker/Anime]]
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