History TearJerker / Devilman

* Also, [[spoiler: Ryo/Satan is horribly aware that his MadLove for Akira will result in the doom of both humankind and demonkind. He's too far gone at this point to stop, to the point of deluding himself that if he wipes humankind, Akira will belong to him only.]]

* From the ''Amon'' manga there are [[spoiler: the deaths of two devilmen, male and female, who are burned alive by demon hunters and to the very end try to prove they're not demons. Finally they embrace each other and kiss before dying]].

* Dosu Roku's futile IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight battle against [[spoiler: Akira, after willingly becoming a Devilman to save Akira from his DespairEventHorizon. Just when Akira finally reacts to Dosu Roku's words and returns to his senses, Dosu Roku is unceremoniously decapitated by Zenon.]]
** [[spoiler: And poor Miko is forced to watch as he dies. The final nail in the coffin was that Dosu Roku had declared his love for her hours ago, saying that she was still beautiful even after being fused and horribly scared by the demon Tollg.]]

** [[spoiler: And poor Miko is forced to watch as he dies. The final nail in the coffin was that Dosu Roku had declared his live for her hours ago, saying that she was still beautiful even after being fused and horribly scared by the demon Tollg.]]

* Dosu Roku's futile IKnowYouAreThereSomewhereFight battle against [[spoiler: Akira, after willingly becoming a Devilman to save Akira from his DespairEventHorizon. Just when Akira finally reacts to Dosu Roku's words and returns to his senses, Dosu Roku is unceremoniously decapitated by Zenon.]]

[[folder: The manga]]

* In the original ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' manga, [[spoiler:Akira Fudo aka Devilman gets out of the Makimura's wrecked and burned house after killing the mob who [[StuffedIntoTheFridge brutally murdered]] ''[[{{Gorn}} and dismembered]]'' his {{Action Girl}}friend Miki Makimura (who [[PluckyGirl desperately fought for her life until the last moment]]) in his Devilman form, weeping softly as he returns to his human state and hugs Miki's severed head against his chest]]. Now you know where Creator/{{CLAMP}} got their ideas for [[spoiler: Kotori's death]] in ''Manga/{{X1999}}''.

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[[folder: The 2004 live-action]]
* When young Akira and Ryo make a sandcastle and protect it from the rain with their bodies, as they wish to be best friends forever. This can literally bring tears to your eyes knowing how strained they became thanks to [[spoiler:Ryo becoming Satan and being responsible for Miki's death]].
* The film follows the DownerEnding of the manga, but with a little twist. As [[spoiler:Ryo/Satan is crying next to Akira's mutilated corpse, he suffers an IncurableCoughOfDeath completed with BloodFromTheMouth. Ryo/Satan realizes that he is about to die, so Akira won't be without him for too long. As he says that, Akira smiles, having heard those words.]]

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* In the original ''{{Devilman}}'' manga, [[spoiler:Akira Fudo aka Devilman gets out of the Makimura's wrecked and burned house after killing the mob who [[StuffedIntoTheFridge brutally murdered]] ''[[{{Gorn}} and dismembered]]'' his {{Action Girl}}friend Miki Makimura (who [[PluckyGirl desperately fought for her life until the last moment]]) in his Devilman form, weeping softly as he returns to his human state and hugs Miki's severed head against his chest]]. Now you know where Creator/{{CLAMP}} got their ideas for [[spoiler: Kotori's death]] in ''Manga/{{X1999}}''.

* In the original ''{{Devilman}}'' manga, this editor was both {{Squicked}} and misty-eyed when [[spoiler:Akira Fudo aka Devilman gets out of the Makimura's wrecked and burned house after killing the mob who [[StuffedIntoTheFridge brutally murdered]] ''[[{{Gorn}} and dismembered]]'' his {{Action Girl}}friend Miki Makimura (who [[PluckyGirl desperately fought for her life until the last moment]]) in his Devilman form, weeping softly as he returns to his human state and hugs Miki's severed head against his chest]]. Now you know where Creator/{{CLAMP}} got their ideas for [[spoiler: Kotori's death]] in ''Manga/{{X1999}}''.

* When young Akira and Ryo make a sandcastle and protect it from the rain with their bodies, as they wish to be best friends forever. This can literally bring tears to your eyes knowing how they ended up in the end.

* [[spoiler: Death of Roku, followed by Saki's death, with his dead body in her arms]] and pretty much everything after that from 5th chapter of ''Strange Days''.

* Almost as intense is when Akira is visited by his cheeky little friend Sachiko from his old neighborhood. In an almost Manga/ElfenLied-like inversion to all the horror, they playfully flirt almost to the point of disturbance (heavily hitting that old cultural barrier), with maybe-tweener Sachiko taunting Miki that she and Akira are 'almost lovers', and it gets Miki's dander up. But all is innocent, and he sees her off to the train station. Then all goes to hell, though not as much as [[spoiler: in the series finale]] , like anything really could. Aboard the train, Sachiko and the other passengers [[spoiler: are set upon by demons, with the train tunnel itself being the mouth or orifice of something nasty.]] Akira then receives a phone call telling him [[spoiler: that his 'little friend tasted wonderful']]. Akira kills the demon [[spoiler: Jinmen]] responsible, but not before seeing [[spoiler: the faces of the monster's dead victims on the back of its tortoise-like shell, wailing about the horror of their fate. Sachiko is among them, painfully and tearfully describing her horrific death, and all she has lost as a result.]] At her urging, Akira recognizes their fate and sees past the demon's taunts [[spoiler: and plunges his hand through Sachiko's face, enabling him to tear off Jinmen's shell, leaving him vulnerable. As a final reminder of Akira's loss, the shell hardens with the faces still on it, including Sachiko's smashed visage.]] And for all this, it is only a light prelude or foreshadowing of horrors to come.
* The final battle of Siren, when Kaim comes to her aid is both touching and heart tearing. She may be the villain of the arc out to kill the hero, but she and Kaim are shown sympathetically. This is cemented when [[spoiler: Kaim sees Selene's mortal injury and suggests they merge. Selene says she can't, because if she leads the change, they'll die and if he leads the change, he only has a 50/50 chance of survival, not including the fight. Kaim can't bear to live in a world without her and offers his life for one last blaze of glory. To ensure she does this and doesn't run away, he ''rips off his own head''. It makes you question the very nature of the demons being faced.]]
** ''AMON'' renders the scene even more tearjerking/heartwarming by showing Kaim and Selene's backstories: The Selene shown in ''Devilman'' is actually [[spoiler: the daughter of the first Selene Kaim met, who he loved fruitlessly and who died in childbirth. He's implied to have raised the Selene we see in the main manga.]]
* Aside from being horrifying, the deaths of [[spoiler: Miki and her family at the hands of an angry mob of humans]] is more than worth mentioning. That [[spoiler: their heads, severed limbs and torso's all end up on pikes when Devilman finds them after resolving to protect them as his reason for continuing on--just makes it worse.]]

* In the original ''{{Devilman}}'' manga, this editor was both {{Squicked}} and misty-eyed when [[spoiler:Akira Fudo aka Devilman gets out of the Makimura's wrecked and burned house after killing the mob who [[StuffedIntoTheFridge brutally murdered]] ''[[{{Gorn}} and dismembered]]'' his {{Action Girl}}friend Miki Makimura (who [[PluckyGirl desperately fought for her life until the last moment]]) in his Devilman form, weeping softly as he returns to his human state and hugs Miki's severed head against his chest]]. Now you know where Creator/{{CLAMP}} got their ideas for [[spoiler: Kotori's death]] in ''{{X1999}}''.

* Almost as intense is when Akira is visited by his cheeky little friend Sachiko from his old neighborhood. In an almost ElfenLied -like inversion to all the horror, they playfully flirt almost to the point of disturbance (heavily hitting that old cultural barrier), with maybe-tweener Sachiko taunting Miki that she and Akira are 'almost lovers', and it gets Miki's dander up. But all is innocent, and he sees her off to the train station. Then all goes to hell, though not as much as [[spoiler: in the series finale]] , like anything really could. Aboard the train, Sachiko and the other passengers [[spoiler: are set upon by demons, with the train tunnel itself being the mouth or orifice of something nasty.]] Akira then receives a phone call telling him [[spoiler: that his 'little friend tasted wonderful']]. Akira kills the demon [[spoiler: Jinmen]] responsible, but not before seeing [[spoiler: the faces of the monster's dead victims on the back of its tortoise-like shell, wailing about the horror of their fate. Sachiko is among them, painfully and tearfully describing her horrific death, and all she has lost as a result.]] At her urging, Akira recognizes their fate and sees past the demon's taunts [[spoiler: and plunges his hand through Sachiko's face, enabling him to tear off Jinmen's shell, leaving him vulnerable. As a final reminder of Akira's loss, the shell hardens with the faces still on it, including Sachiko's smashed visage.]] And for all this, it is only a light prelude or foreshadowing of horrors to come.

* Aside from being NightmareFuel, the deaths of [[spoiler: Miki and her family at the hands of an angry mob of humans]] is more than worth mentioning. That [[spoiler: their heads, severed limbs and torso's all end up on pikes when Devilman finds them after resolving to protect them as his reason for continuing on--just makes it worse.]]

* From Amon manga there are [[spoiler: deaths of two devilmen, male and female, who are burned alive by demon hunters and to the very end try to prove they're not demons. Finally they embrace each other and kiss before dying]].

* The final battle of Siren, when Kaim comes to here aid is both touching and heart tearing. She may be the villain of the arc out to kill the hero, but she and Kaim are shown sympatheetically. This is cemented when [[spoiler: Kaim sees Selenes mortal injury, suggests they merge. Selene says she can't, because if she leads the change, they'll die and if he leads teh change, he onlyhas a 50/50 chance of survival, not including the fight. Kaim can't bear to live in a world without here and offers his life for one last blaze of glory. To ensure she does this and doesn't run away--he ''rips off his own head''. It makes you question the very nature of the demons being faced.]]

* Aside from being HighOctaneNightmareFuel, the deaths of [[spoiler: Miki and her family at the hands of an angry mob of humans]] is more than worth mentioning. That [[spoiler: their heads, severed limbs and torso's all end up on pikes when Devilman finds them after resolving to protect them as his reason for continuing on--just makes it worse.]]

* In the original ''{{Devilman}}'' manga, this editor was both {{Squicked}} and misty-eyed when [[spoiler:Akira Fudo aka Devilman gets out of the Makimura's wrecked and burned house after killing the mob who [[StuffedIntoTheFridge brutally murdered]] ''[[{{Gorn}} and dismembered]]'' his {{Action Girl}}friend Miki Makimura (who [[PluckyGirl desperately fought for her life until the last moment]]) in his Devilman form, weeping softly as he returns to his human state and hugs Miki's severed head against his chest]]. Now you know where {{CLAMP}} got their ideas for [[spoiler: Kotori's death]] in ''{{X1999}}''.

* From Amon manga there are [[spoiler: deaths of two devilmen, male and female, who are burned alive by demon hunters and to the very end try to prove they're not demons. Finally they embrace each other and kiss before dying]].

* Aside from being HighOctaneNightmareFuel, the deaths of [[spoiler: Miki and her family at the hands of an angry mob of humans]] is more than worth mentioning. That [[spoiler: their heads, severed limbs and torso's all end up on pikes when Devilman finds them after resolving to protect them as his reason for continuing on--just makes it worse.]]

* In the original ''{{Devilman}}'' manga, this editor was both {{Squicked}} and misty-eyed when [[spoiler:Akira Fudo aka Devilman gets out of the Makimura's wrecked and burned house after killing the mob who [[StuffedIntoTheFridge brutally murdered]] ''[[{{Gorn}} and dismembered]]'' his {{Action Girl}}friend Miki Makimura (who [[PluckyGirl desperately fought for her life until the last moment]]) in his Devilman form, weeping softly as he returns to his human state and hugs Miki's severed head against his chest]]. Now you know where {{CLAMP}} got their ideas for [[spoiler: Kotori's death]] in {{X}}.

* The final battle of Siren, when Kaim comes to here aid is both touching and heart tearing. She may be the villain of the arc out to kill the hero, but she and Kaim are shown sympatheetically. This is cemented when [[spoiler: Kaim sees Selenes mortal injury, suggests they merge. Selene says she can't, because if she leads the change, they'll die and if he leads teh change, he onlyhas a 50/50 chance of survival, not including the fight. Kaim can't bear to live in a world without here and offers his life for one last blaze of glory. To ensure she does this and doesn't run away--he ''rips off his own head''. It makes you question the very nature of the demons being faced.]]

* The final battle of Siren, when Kaim comes to here aid is both touching and heart tearing. She may be the villain of the arc out to kill the hero, but she and Kaim are shown sympatheetically. This is cemented when [[spoiler: Kaim sees Selenes mortal injury, suggests they merge. Selene says she can't, because if she leads the change, they'll die and if he leads teh change, he onlyhas a 50/50 chance of survival, not including the fight. Kaim can't bear to live in a world without here and offers his life for one last blaze of glory. To ensure she does this and doesn't run away--he ''rips off his own head''. It makes you question the very nature of the demons they face.]]

* The final battle of Siren, when Kaim comes to here aid is both touching and heart tearing. She may be the villain of the arc out to kill the hero, but she and Kaim are shown sympatheetically. This is cemented when [[spoiler: Kaim sees Selenes mortal injury, suggests they merge. Selene says she can't, because if she leads the change, they'll die and if he leads teh change, he onlyhas a 50/50 chance of survival, not including the fight. Kaim can't bear to live in a world without here and offers his life for one last blaze of glory. To ensure she does this and doesn't run away--he ''rips off his own head''. They merge, Selene roars: "Devilman! Selene's Determination, together with Kaim's life--WE WILL KILL YOU!"]]

* Almost as intense is when Akira is visited by his cheeky little friend Sachiko from his old neighborhood. In an almost ElfenLied -like inversion to all the horror, they playfully flirt almost to the point of disturbance (heavily hitting that old cultural barrier), with maybe-tweener Sachiko taunting Miki that she and Akira are 'almost lovers', and it gets Miki's dander up. But all is innocent, and he sees her off to the train station. Then all goes to hell, though not as much as [[spoiler: in the series finale]] , like anything really could. Aboard the train, Sachiko and the other passengers [[spoiler: are set upon by demons, with the train tunnel itself being the mouth or orifice of something nasty.]] Akira then receives a phone call telling him [[spoiler: that his 'little friend tasted wonderful']]. Akira kills the demon [[spoiler: Jinmen]] responsible, but not before seeing [[spoiler: the faces of the monster's dead victims on the back of its tortoise-like shell, wailing about the horror of their fate. Sachiko is among them, painfully and tearfully describing her horrific death, and all she has lost as a result.]] At her urging, Akira recognizes their fate and sees past the demon's taunts [[spoiler: and plunges his hand through Sachiko's face, enabling him to tear off Jinmen's shell, leaving him vulnerable. As a final reminder of Akira's loss, the shell hardens with the faces still on it, including Sachiko's smashed visage.]] And for all this, it is only a light prelude or foreshadowing of horrors to come.