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{{quote|"''What's this? Those sparkles... they're my tears.''"|'''Trowa Barton''', after destroying Duo Maxwell's Gundam Deathscythe, episode 20, ''[[Gundam Wing]]''}}
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When a [[Men Don't Cry|girl]] (or, occasionally, a sufficiently [[Bishonen]] boy) has been upset and runs off while crying, the same mechanism responsible for [[Ocular Gushers]] ejects her tears with sufficient force that they become a visible trail in the air behind her, each one sparkling like a gem.
A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Everything's Better
Compare [[Tender Tears]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Played for laughs in ''[[Metal Fight Beyblade]]''. Tetsuya is locked up by [[Magnificent Bastard|Daidoji]] because he thinks that Tetsuya {{spoiler|crushed Ginga's bey point counter}}, and he cries sparkling tears which he uses to draw a crab on the wall of his cell.
* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]''
** Kaname Chidori in one of the later episodes. On seeing this, even [[Handsome Lech]] Kurz Weber is angry at the person responsible.
** Tessa in one of the biggest [[Tear Jerker]] scenes in ''The Second Raid'', though she's actually sitting still.
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* Eve in the "Give Me Secret" music video sequence during the climax of part 2 of ''[[Megazone 23]]''.
* Mai in the [[media:
* Hitomi from ''[[Vision of Escaflowne]]''.
* Alice from ''[[Please Save My Earth]]''.
* Another opening credits example: Mikuru in ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]''. At least she has a reason, given what she's subjected to by Haruhi.
* Meru does this in ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
* ''[[Pokémon (
** Seen in episode 12, ''Here Comes the Squirtle Squad'', when Ash tries to get the Squirtle Squad to untie him so he can go to a nearby store to buy a Super Potion for his injured Pikachu.
*** Occurs rampantly in the first movie. If anything gets mention for sparkling streams of tears, the climax of that movie gets it. Not only are there a few '''dozen''' sparkling streams of tears, they are ''magical, moving'' sparkling streams of tears!
* In the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' Toei anime, Yugi cries sparkly tears when Jonouchi reminds Yugi that he and the others are going through Kaiba's theme park of [[Death Trap
* In episode 12 of ''[[Mahoromatic]]'', Mahoro leaves a
* Haruhi in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' gets one of these in one of her dreams.
* Rena in the opening of the second season of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
** Also Satoko, to a point, in the first season's opening. {{spoiler|And tons of times within the actual show}}
** And Keiichi in the very first arc, combining this with [[Berserker Tears]].
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** In the OVA, Ryoko's double, Zero, sheds a few of these too right after {{spoiler|she fails to kill Tenchi.}}
* Trowa (after destroying Duo's Gundam Deathscythe) and Quatre (after destroying a colony with Wing Zero) in ''[[Gundam Wing]]''. Somewhat more plausible here, as they take place in zero-G.
** Relena does this in two instances: in episode 48, after [[Say My Name|crying out Heero's name]] after he takes off in Wing Zero to fight Zechs, and in the [[No Export for You|Japan-only]] OAV, ''Operation Meteor II: Odd Numbers'', as [https://web.archive.org/web/20130528074607/http://aboutgundamwing.com/SC/OM2Odd.htm shown here].
** Catherine demonstrates this in in episode 13 (the aptly-titled "Catherine's Tears"), after she punches Trowa in the face, preventing his self-destruction attempt. She does this again in episode 38, "The Birth of Queen Relena", when Quatre confronts her.
** Wufei does this {{spoiler|after killing Treize}}.
* Not really tears (or even water, for that matter), but the Exia is shown with one of these in the opening sequence of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]''.
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]''. For example at the end of season S after {{spoiler|triggering her emergency transformation to save Sailor Saturn}}.
* ''[[Bleach]]''
** Rukia gets one of these during a flashback in the Soul Society arc, when Renji pretends to be happy that she's being adopted by the Kuchiki clan. She thanks him for letting her go, and then...[[Everything's Better
** Orihime has this as well: {{spoiler|her tears sparkle as they fall while she's crying over the [[Dude, She's Like, in
** The Arrancar Dondochakka Bilstin does this whenever he's upset.
** Keigo Asano has been known to do this, such as in anime episode #229 when Ikkaku and Yumichika arrive to stay with him.
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* As of the fifth opening in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]:Brotherhood'', Winry and Riza are shown doing this while set to the theme, ''Rain''.
* Variation: at one point in the opening of ''[[Heartcatch Pretty Cure]]'', Yuri displays a stream of tears going forward rather than behind her.
* Done hilariously in the ''[[
* Cue N's first appearance in the BW arc of ''[[Pokémon Special]]''. And he does it again during his battle with Black.
* Mew Lettuce (Lettuce Midorikawa) does this in at least one episode of ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]''.
* In ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'', Lum does this when she catches Ataru in her arms and flies away with him.
* The characters of ''[[The Rows of Cherry Trees]]'' have ''very'' sparkly tears, to the point where they're more sparkle than tear.
* ''[[Ranma
** Akane gets this after she becomes
** Happens in one of Ranma's dreams. Ranma turns into a frog and Akane runs away with a sparkling stream of tears.
* ''[[The Idolmaster (
* [[The Hero]] Arrietty Clock in ''[[The Borrower Arrietty]]'' cries them near the end of the film. Since she's a [[Lilliputians|lilliputian]], rapidly moving down from a high area, we get a ''falling'' sparkling stream of tears.
* In the 2017 ''[[Little Witch Academia (2017 series)|Little Witch Academia]]'', the [[Teen Genius]] Diana Cavendish cries them after leaving the [[Wizarding School]] Luna Nova.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Sakura and Rin in the second opening of ''[[Fate/stay
* ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' example. If you fail to nurse Cid back to health and he dies, Celes cries a
* This happens to Haruko in one of the last episodes of ''[[
* For certain reason, in ''[[Super Robot Wars]] Z'',
* At the end of case 4 of ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' this happens when {{spoiler|Maya Fey}} [[Put
* A non-human one now: In ''[[
* In the opening to ''Namco x Capcom'', Valkyrie is standing on a windswept cliff with tears welling in her eyes. When the wind picks up and she suddenly turns her head, the tears fly into the air, producing the glittering trail.
* Zelda in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks|Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks]]'' does this after {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice|Byrne sacrifices himself]] to save her life.}}
* In ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Fighter in ''[[8-
* Tedd in ''[[
== [[Web Original]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Bubbles Utonium exhibits this behavior after a [[Traumatic Haircut]] in the [[Animesque|anime-influenced ''PowerpuffGirls''.]]
* The ''[[My Little Pony:
* Parodied on ''[[The Simpsons (
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'''Lady Gaga:''' Tiny diamonds. Hurts like hell. }}
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