History TearJerker / LoveMode

** Haruomi, aka Tien Shu, grew up in poverty with his identical twin brother Tien Lee after they were abandoned by their mother. They were forced to commit crimes (primarily theft) as teenagers just to survive. When Tien Lee runs afoul of a gangster and gets shot, Haruomi essentially sells himself into servitude to Aoe Shougo to pay for his medical care. The pair would not be reunited for years, by which point Tien Lee is nursing one ''hell'' of a grudge against Haruomi under the mistaken belief that Haruomi abandoned him for greener pastures.

* Takamiya briefly falls into a depression, and Izumi doesn’t know how to help him. Izumi goes as far as to ask [[SitcomArchNemesis Reiji]] for help, but the latter is not helpful. While ultimately it turns out to mostly be a misunderstanding, it was sad to see the mostly jovial Takamiya be sad for a period of time, and Izumi be helpless to help him.

** Izumi Yanase was essentially trafficked by his parents to pay off their debts [[RapeAsDrama and the horrors he experienced by his kidnappers]] had a lasting impact on his whole life for years.

* Takamiya briefly falls into a depression, and Izumi doesn’t know how to help him. Izumi goes as far as to ask Reiji for help but the latter is not helpful. While ultimately it turns out to mostly be a misunderstanding, it was sad to see the mostly jovial Takamiya be sad for a period of time, and Izumi be helpless to help him.

* The day that Reiji and Naoya first meet is ''anything'' but a good day for either gentlemen. While Reiji has the displeasure of walking in on his girlfriend cheating on him, Naoya’s luck is far worse; being abandoned by his legal guardians, physically assaulted by Reiji’s now-ex girlfriend by mistake, losing his job, and then his dilapidated apartment building burns down and he loses everything. Though the crowd sympathizes with Naoya after his landlord tries to blame him, [[ApatheticCitizens they still walk away and do nothing to help him]]. [[CueTheRain Then it starts to rain]]. Fate had already dealt Naoya a terrible hand, and this day is the breaking point of his awful existence. Had Reiji not stayed by his side and had walked away like everyone else, who knows what would have happened to Naoya.

* The day that Reiji and Naoya first meet is ''anything'' but a good day for either gentlemen. While Reiji has the displeasure of walking in on his girlfriend cheating on him, Naoya’s luck is far worse; being physically assaulted by Reiji’s now-ex girlfriend by mistake, losing his job, and then his dilapidated apartment building burns down and he loses everything. Though the crowd sympathizes with Naoya after his landlord tries to blame him, [[ApatheticCitizens they still walk away and do nothing to help him]]. [[CueTheRain Then it starts to rain]]. Fate had already dealt Naoya a terrible hand, and this day is the breaking point of his awful existence. Had Reiji not stayed by his side and had walked away like everyone else, who knows what would have happened to Naoya.

** Reiji and Kiichi’s childhoods with [[TheSociopath Aoe Shougo]] as a father.

** Tomoki was abandoned by his mother for her acting career, after his grandmother died he had to come to terms with the fact that ''he was going to die'' with almost no support. And when he ''finally'' finds Seiichi, someone who will love him and stay by his side, he dies before he can fully enjoy his newfound happiness.

** Tomoki was abandoned by his mother for her acting career, after his grandmother died he had to come to terms with the fact that ''he was going to die'' with almost no support.