Clannad (visual novel)/Tear Jerker: Difference between revisions

[[File:tomoya_tears.jpg|frame| CLANNAD. Where you can cry along with the characters.]]

 

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** 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*

* 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.

* 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.

*** It also comes back when {{spoiler|Tomoya invokes the [[Reset Button Ending]]. Cue to both Nagisa and Tomoya singing the ''Dango Daikazoku'' song to newborn Ushio}}. [[Mapi-chan|This Troper]] was crying tears of joy when that scene occurred.

**** Probably would have killed myself if he hadn't reset.

* Kappei's arc in the Visual Novel where Ryou and Tomoya {{spoiler|visit him in the hospital to convince him to have the operation on his leg. It goes as far as Ryou talking about marrying him and having a family. As touched as he is, when he mourns over the fact of losing it, what does Ryou say next?}}

** Awwwww ;_;...

* 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!}}

** 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...

** Remember Nagisa's parents? Yeah, those comic relief ones. Watch this episode.

 

'''Akio''': {{spoiler|Even with all hope gone, I'll still help you. I'll be here until you stop crying. [[Cry Into Chest|So it's all right now.]]}} }}

* The return of a certain song in Episode 20. {{spoiler|"Daddy, can you sing Mommy's song?"}}

** Which, like [[Final Fantasy XIII|another game]], is more sadder when you know what happens to {{spoiler|Nagisa}}

** For this troper, it was Tomoya finally snapping after {{spoiler|visiting his father in prison.}} His marriage proposal lightened the mood, but not before he bloodied his knuckles and Nagisa struggled to calm him down.

** I'll do you one better: the whole damn show.

*** Yes. ''The whole damn show.''

**** No. ''The game, the show, the manga and everything else in between.''

***** ''Everything'' related to Clannad (No matter how small) definitely counts.

** 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.}}

* Tomoyo's route in the game is unusual in that Tomoya and her hook up quick and you're lured into a sense of peace with Tomoyo waking Tomoya making him lunch and helping him study in between sessions of sweet nothings and kissing...then the game destroys this by apparently the entire student body working to break them up; and they do. The most painful part? Watching Tomoya return to his old ways punctuated with the heart-wrenching line "and now the last thing Tomoyo gave me...is gone." {{spoiler|When they get back together in the ending [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|this troper cried different tears]]}}

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB40_Vxd2Fw Kotomi's breakdown] upon seeing a bus accident. Serious props to the voice actor- this was the scene that made me realize that the series was worth watching.

** It's [[Less Disturbing in Context]], {{spoiler|Kotomi's parents died in a plane crash and the thought of another loved one dead freaked her out}}.

 

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