Monster (manga)/Tear Jerker

The death of Wolfgang Grimmer in Monster. This troper cried every damn time she sees it.
- "So the Magnificent Stiener appeared." "No, he didn't. I did it on my own."
  - "I'm sad. I'm not sad that I'm dying. I'm finally sad that my child died." This. Troper. BAWLED.
  - For me, it was when Franz Bonaparta (freakin' FRANZ BONAPARTA!) breaks down in tears, muttering "What have I done...what have I done?"
- Tenma pleading to a BSOD-ing Nina to not kill herself.
- Additionally, Eva's Doomed Appointment with Martin. That one second of pure joy she experiences when she thinks that he actually did come only serves to make the scene that much more painful when she realizes the truth. Naoki Urasawa apparently feeds off of crushed hopes and dreams.
- Now, let's sit down and think--which twin did Johan's mother not want?
- Once upon a time, there was a detective (Richard Braun). We saw him for just, like, three episode, but we grew fond of him, after all. He had a lovely daughter that he was finally going to meet. He didn't drink anymore, and had finally found peace. Then Johan happens, and something inside us dies.
  - If you didn't believe Johan was a Complete Monster before that, you would after that moment.
  - In the manga, they even name the 7th book after the guy and make him the main character in it... adding to the attachment and subsequent sadness. This MAY have been more bearable if Johan had been gruesomely killed at the end of the series, but...
- "Say my name." "We don't have names."
- Nina... you bastard... why didn't ya just... forgive... him?
- All right, let's say that the second part of the anime is a big, giant tear.
- Karl emotionally reading to Schuwald on the phone for what he thinks is the final time, which is quickly seamlessly married to a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming as Schuwald arrives and reveals that he knows Karl is his son.
- Karl, Lotte, and Johan take Schuwald to his "special place"; a beatiful forested lake. Karl and Lotte try to disguise the fact that it's now a construction site, but Schuwald, despite being blind, still knows, as he can no longer hear the calling of the wrens. Johan, however, describes the spot so vividly that Schuwald is able to recall it in his mind. With tears streaming down his face, he says simply, "I can see it well."
- Probably very subjective, but this troper shed a few tears for Roberto when it's revealed shortly before his death that he was the boy Grimmer befriended in 511 Kinderheim. Made even worse when one realizes that since the children there decided to remember details about each other rather than themselves, it was very likely that Roberto knew Grimmer's real name.
- Speaking of Grimmer: "Doctor Tenma... What does my face look like right now?"
- The entire Ruhenheim arc for this troper, because she knew what was coming. Ditto the elderly couple shown previously who show brief kindness and warmth to two lost, wandering children, and are killed for it.
- This troper actually got a little misty-eyed (out of joy) in the last episode, when Nina finds out she aced her thesis. After all that she had to endure, it was such a relief to see that her life was back on track, and that regardless of everything she'd lost, she would have a future.
The story about Bernard, the soldier who taught Tenma how to shoot. He'd adopted a girl whose mother he'd shot, and told Tenma that she'd never smiled since that day and that she'd hate him for the rest of his life. Thanks to Tenma, she seems to recover. The last shot we see of them is the two holding hands, walking home in the rain. The girls looks up to him and smiles.
This Troper felt like crying when Nina was going through a major Freak-Out and Dieter quickly snaps her out of it and starts to remind her that they should make happy memories for themselves, like Tenma told him. Dieter starts crying in the middle of all this and... well... just the beautiful amount of emotion in his voice... just *sniff*. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.