* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Matsukura locks up Kichou and a pregnant girl named Yone in a [[DrowningPit water prison]].]]
* NightmareFuel:
** Natsuki's ''bloody'' ImagineSpot [[spoiler: about the massacred Christians from Shimabara.]]
** The ColdBloodedTorture that several Christians were about to go through in Unzen before [[spoiler: Natsuki and Eiji's BigDamnHeroes]]. Being [[KillItWithWater scalded to death with sulphuric water]] not only sounds horrible, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs_of_Japan#Petrus_Kibe_Kasui_and_187_Companion_Martyrs_of_Japan but it was truly done in the Japanese anti-Christian persecution]].
* TearJerker:
** Natsuki staring at the devastation around her after the Kobe earthquake.
** Also, [[spoiler: the real Shirou's death at the hands of the mentally broken Naozumi]].