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Tear Jerkers in Hell Girl include:
"Even after all I've done, you'd still weep for me...."
Season 1[]
- First Season Episode 17, there was once a girl who was fatally ill in a sanitorium, abandoned by her father to die. Her memories and her desperate longing for her father who never came back for her turned her doll into a youkai, who, even after her master's death, continues to wait for her "father"'s return. In the end, Ai helps the doll discover the truth, and as her memories return and her illusions faded, the doll perished away into dust in Tsugumi's arms.
- A minor example, but damn did the show hammer home the "pets are family too" theme in episode 4 of the first season. Watching a dog die on camera right off the bat is hard, but then comes the Happier Times Montage...
- Even sadder is at the very end of the episode when Junko, the dog's owner, prays to her family and basically tells them not to wait up for in Heaven . . .
In Episode 13: Purgatory Girl (pictured above), we come across an elderly man by the name of Fukumoto, who, by all means, was a pretty decent guy in his youth, had a rather nice occupation writing and illustrating stories, and very much loved his wife but that all changed when his friend and colleague, Okuchi, raped his wife, the incident leading to her suicide. The incident sent him so far over the edge that he decided to use the Hell Correspondence and took his revenge, leaving him regretful ever since. He then goes on to tell how he tried his hardest to take his mind off of what was to come and he's just so resigned. Typically, Ai doesn't display emotions, no matter how one would slice it but, in this case, once could say that she does, as, through the paintings, she cries for Fukumoto.
Season 2 (Futakamori)[]
Hell Girl shows us many sad situations, but the end of the 2nd season takes the crown; the last episodes are a real avalanche of Tear Jerkers.
- Episode 13 of Futakomori ends with one. The man who contracted them was a serial killer who wanted revenge on some guys who just wanted to appear on camera when TV crews were reporting on the accident that resulted on the death of his wife and son, and his daughter entering a coma. Pretty petty, huh? But wait for it. He's the only one who still has hopes that his daughter will awaken someday (she's been for five years in the coma), but having contracted the Hell Correspondence to take out the last guy, he was resigned to go to hell and atone for his sins. But the catch is: when you go to hell due to using Hell Correspondence, the only thing that grants you access there is having sent your foe there. And nothing else. The murders he committed will be paid another way. And this way is: he's going to jail, with what little life is left on him, while his daughter was awakened from the coma at the same time. So, even if he lives longer than his cancer would let him, he'll never see his daughter again. What the old man did is indellible, but still, damn did it touch some heart strings.
Season 3 (Mistuganae)[]
- And then there is the very subtle instance at the end of the third season. One hopes that somehow, somehow, Tsugumi learns Fate can indeed be denied and that Yuzuki was, in the end, saved ... otherwise her walking away, her last shreds of hope in this bittersweet world finally battered into the dirt and ground away is heartbreaking
- Mitsuganae Ep 25, Yuzuki's life, the entire thing.
- Hone-Onna's backstory, and just about everything about the episode where it's revealed.
Season 4 (Yoi no Tori)[]
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