In 7 Seeds, Ryo saves Semimaru from death and delivers an uncharacteristic speech to him, yelling at him for his carelessness in even dangerous situations. The shock from what happened and realization of the consequences his attitude can have, Semimaru is curled up on the floor, hiding his face and obviously crying like a baby (though he tries to do it quietly) and the only audible thing to hear is repeated apologies.
The finale of Angel Beats! has Otonashi breaking into heavy sobbing as Kanade disappears.
This happens often to several characters in Attack on Titan, especially Armin and Eren, and civilians and soldiers alike have crying breakdowns when they see they're doomed to be eaten by Titans. Deaths are rarely dignified.
Whenever Miyoshi cries in Bakuman。, it starts with cute crying and devolves into this — for example, when Mashiro and Takagi get their first serialized manga.
Bleach, anime Episode 21. After Ichigo defeats the giant Soul Reaper gate guard Jidanbō by destroying his axes, Jidanbō starts crying uncontrollably and lamenting their loss.
A plot point in a Case Closed case. Two years before the Tottori Spider Mansion case took place, a girl named Misa Takeda and later her mother Kikuko committed suicide; while Misa's father/Kikuko's husband Nobukazu barely showed any emotions, Nobukazu's younger brother Ryuuji wept so intensely for their deaths that the neighbors and family members were shocked. This was actually the first hint that Misa was Kikuno and Ryuuji's love child and Nobukazu was aware of it; when Conan heard about this detail he began to decipher the Takedas' verydark family dynamics...
Played for laughs in Chibi Vampire Karin. Karin is not attractive when she cries. Most characters tend to look pointedly away when she does.
Chrono Crusade: Rosette has a full-blown snot-dripping sob fest towards the end of the manga in the afterlife when she realizes that she's dead and admits "Chrono! I don't want to leave you!"
Literature Girl in Daily Lives of High School Boys had one in the skit High School Boys and the Way We Are, breaking down crying like a little child after a humiliating string of Epic Fails.
In the Amon: The Apocalypse of Devilman OVA, upon finding Miki's severed head on a pike held by a mob, Akira kills those responsible. He then clutches her head to his chest and begins to cry. Akira then falls to his knees, sobbing and screaming as Satan and Psycho Jenny watch from a distance.
In the 2018 adaptation, DEVILMAN crybaby, Akira has to break the news to Miki that her entire family has died. As Miki wordlessly retreats to her room, a close-up shows Akira's face contorting as tears begin streaming from his eyes. Akira tilts his head back and sobs loudly in an almost childlike manner. Miki, alone in her room, hears Akira crying and is finally hit by what has happened. Soon both Miki and Akira are heard wailing.
In episode 9 of Digimon Tamers, after the rain washes Growlmon's camouflage paint away, Takato becomes so upset (possibly overwhelmed with stress) that he starts sobbing in this manner for almost a minute straight.
Dr. STONE: Taiju is prone to this at emotional moments. When he and Yuzuriha finally speak to Senku over the cell phone 50 chapters and one year after parting ways, he's only able to get out an incoherent "SENKU! I... I'm... SENKUUU!", to which Senku responds, "You're not Senku. I'm Senku, dammit."
Natsu. After witnessing Igneel getting killed by Acnologia, Natsu is reduced to tears, unable to tell Igneel all the things he wanted to tell him.
Lucy also does this when she sacrifices Aquarius to summon the Celestial Spirit King.
In the Fluffy Fluffy Cinnamoroll comics from Sanrio. Mocha does this a lot when she's seen bawling her eyes out, one chapter has her frustrated about how her fortune was horrible that month (her luck is usually bad to begin with), Cinnamoroll pretended to be a fortune teller and her friends tried to cheer her up with a parfait with a chocolate heart but Espresso (who's usually The Smart Guy) foolishly thought it was a good idea to use Milk's head as a table which leads the parfait to fall on the ground with the chocolate heart breaking in half which causes Mocha to cry loudly like a baby.
Gakuen Babysitters makes it clear in the first few chapters that crying, especially from very young children, is loud, undignified, and very annoying to most people who are around and don't know what's wrong. Save for a few important moments, it's almost never portrayed as cute whenever the children cry en masse.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time: When Makoto cries, it is full-force waterworks and wailing. She most notably does this on the school roof when she believes that she's screwed everything up and can do nothing to fix it.
In Mobile Suit Gundam, the White Base crew do this after the death of Guntank co-pilot Ryu Jose, complete with Bright Noah collapsing on all fours and sobbing "It's All My Fault!". It was considered such Narm, especially in light of the much more restrained and touching salute they gave the late Matlida Adjan, that the compilation movie version completely redid the scene.
SD Gundam Force's Bakunetsumaru is prone to doing this, usually for comic effect. At the end of the series, Zero calls him a "Crybaby Samurai"
Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE has a painfully realistic portrayal of this in Episode 20 as two years of trauma come crashing down on Hiroto after he had to kill the artificial intelligence girl he'd fallen in love with to save GBN from falling apart. There is nothing dignified about the grief in this episode — it is an obvious and still-raw emotional wound.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency: This is how Esidisi reacts after his arm is chopped off by Joseph, turns out it is to catch him off-guard as well as a stress-relieving technique. This is even translated to the fighting game as a counter that causes the opponent's Heat Heart Gauge to go down if they attack him while crying.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable: Okuyasu does this twice when the topic of Koichi's relationship with Yukako comes up. Also drinking the water in Antonio's restaurant, he starts crying momentarily as a side effect of his eyes being shriveled up and relieved of insomnia.
Jojos Bizarre Adventure Golden Wind: Narancia cries as he begs Bucciarati not to leave Abbacchio's body behind after his death. In the anime he even trips and falls, proceeding to lay on the ground while sobbing and wailing loudly.
In the anime Mista, while in Trish's body, lets out a Skyward Scream through streams of tears when Narancia is killed.
Itsuki Sumeragi, the first Student Council member that the main character Yumeko Jabami faces off against, turns into an utter crying wreck when her cheating at Double Concentration is not only exposed after Jabami easily beats her in a round but now she's being challenged to put up HER OWN fingernails as collateral!
Narrowly avoided when Sawako was about to cry because her best friends helped her get ready for a New Year's date with love interest Kazehaya. Ayane and Chizu realized the ultra-sensitive Sawako was about to cry because she was so happy to have such great friends, and quickly pleaded with Sawako to hold it in. Sawako stopped herself from turning on the waterworks just in time to save her makeup from becoming a godawful mess.
All 9 members of µ's break down sobbing like this in the 11th episode of season 2 of Love Live! during the episode's climactic scene. Not even Nico could hold back for long.
In The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Mikuru engages in this in the last episode of "Endless Eight." It's one of the few times she's not very cute-looking in the series as she has twin trails of snot running down her face.
In My-HiME, Aoi's crying is apparently quite dreadful to hear, and when she pretends to be on the verge of tears, her roommate Nao and Nao's Arch-Enemy Natsuki actually put aside their differences as she demands.
The series plays this straight with several characters, both in the manga and the anime. For instance, the scene where Naruto cries over Gaara's death in Shippuuden is very well done.
Eiichiro Oda took this trope to a whole new level with the series. Everyone has done this, though male characters more often than female ones. The artist just loves drawing rivers of tears mixed with rivers of overly detailed snot and saliva, apparently. It's Oda's signature move really.
The most extreme examples (with the above snot and saliva) only happen with males. Females only show mucus in the face of emotional trauma. At most, Robin as a child had mucus running down to her mouth in the flashback of her Dark and Troubled Past while trying to get her mother to acknowledge herself as such, but females' snot is generally kept to realistic levels.
Pictured on the main trope page is Luffy at the end of the Water Seven arc. As the crew is about to leave the island, the earlier issue of Usopp leaving the crew over Luffy's decision to abandon the crew's ship is unresolved, and Luffy, at Zoro's insistence, refuses to readmit Usopp unless Usopp apologizes. When Usopp finally makes a tearful apology and begs to be let back in, Luffy pulls him aboard the Straw Hats' new ship, with both of them crying profusely with snot coming out of their noses. Zoro and Nami are simultaneously annoyed with their crying crewmates and glad that Usopp's back.
However, Oda seemed to go further into this trope with Rebecca than most other females. For example, her crying in Chapter 789 as she is nearly forced into killing her aunt Viola is the first instance of a female actually crying to the extent of drool, and her Tears of Joy two chapters later completely cover Luffy's face as he was resting on her Lap Pillow.
Chapter 791, in particular, is loaded with the trope. Not just Rebecca, but the entire town and even Kyros let out understandably huge amounts of Tears of Joy following Doflamingo's defeat. That bit wasn't played for comedy, and in the case of Kyros specifically, it's even more justified as he couldn't cry at all when he was a toy, so he's making up for all the time he spent Unable to Cry in one moment.
Franky and Chopper are especially prone to this; Franky especially, as it's a Running Gag for him. Luffy's had his moments too, both sad (Ace's death) and happy (reuniting with Usopp after Enies Lobby, the picture up top).
Chapter 785 has a minor example, with a little girl crying such inelegant tears of relief after her grandmother regains the will to live. It's a welcome tension reliever, considering the rest of the chapter is serious.
Yamato briefly breaks into this when he realizes that, yes, his cuffs were rigged by Kaido to explode should he ever try to remove them or set one foot outside Onigashima. He quickly snaps out of it and disowns Kaido on the spot, resolving to fight against him.
At the end of the Wano arc, Momonosuke, who, despite having aged into an adult, is mentally eight years old, tearfully begs Luffy not to leave, crying so hard that snot comes out of his nose and he can barely get his words out.
Bartolomeo is almost constantly in this state around the Straw Hats during the Dressrossa arc, from sheer happiness. He's a huge, borderline fanatical admirer of Luffy and his crew, and seeing them in action - and even the prospect of being part of their antics - makes him more excited than he can handle.
Osomatsu-san: In “Jyushimatsu Falls in Love” (season 1 episode 9), the normally cheery Jyushimatsu breaks down bawling after he gets rejected by a girl he had fallen in love with.
Futari wa Pretty Cure: Ryouta ugly-cries (emphasis on "ugly") while reading a manga.
Fresh Pretty Cure!: Love is introduced bawling loudly over failing to help her friend land a date.
HeartCatch Pretty Cure!: This is pretty much standard for Tsubomi when she gets really emotional.
Smile PreCure!: The Precures along with Candy sob themselves ragged in the final episode upon finding out that they have to say goodbye to Candy because the Miracle Jewel doesn't allow traveling between worlds.
Rave Master: Often used for scenes more intended to be silly. When the mood is meant to be serious, Manly Tears are used instead.
Rebuild of Evangelion, in the third film, Shinji bursts into a bout of this, letting loose a flood of tears along with the remainder of his sanity, when he realizes that Kaworu is about to kill himself to stop Fourth Impact.
In the 1978 film adaptation of Chirin No Suzu (known as Ringing Bell in the West) by Takashi Yanase. After Chirin quickly realizes his mother's dead, he starts crying in a surprisingly realistic manner (especially in the Japanese version). He also starts crying loudly after he accidentally breaks all the mother bird's eggs. While we don't see any saliva or snot, Chirin's face is very wrinkly◊ and actually resembles the way an infant or toddler would cry in real life.
In Saint Beast, Maya's tears tend to go along with full-on tantrums, which work really well on his brother.
Deconstructed in Soul Eater when, during a very serious fight, Medusa going on about parental abandonment/abuse prompts Deathscythe to exit weapon mode and personally threaten his opponent. However, even as he grabs her by the scruff, he chokes on his words and can't get anything out other than "Why you...!" and "You little..." Medusa calls him pathetic for not preparing his words properly and throws him away.
In Tamagotchi: The Movie, Chamametchi blubbers after Mametchi gets angry at her, thinking she's the whole reason he and his gang are in the situation they're in with Tamagotchi Planet having gotten sick from a lack of sunlight.
Rossiu gets a moment like this in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. He's got a stoic face for the crowds the whole time he's planning to sacrifice some of them to save all of them. But in private (as revealed by someone close to him), he was crying his heart out into his bed. It may have been the hardest thing he ever had to do, but he was going to do it.
TerraforMARS: Akari has himself a good cry when he admits he loved his childhood friend after her death. While it's a little more subdued in the manga, the anime has his face covered in streams of tears, mucus, and saliva. Akari even sniffles and snorts back snot.
Tiger & Bunny: In season 2, Subaru does this in episode 16 out of joy from seeing his partner Thomas's heartfelt reunion with his long-lost sister Ruby.
Tokyo Ghoul: Kaneki is reduced to this at the end of the first episode, tears and snot running down his face even as he refuses to take human flesh from Touka, screaming that he's still human, not a Ghoul. Touka, who is less than sympathetic, eventually loses her patience and literally shoves a piece of human meat down his throat.
Tokyo Godfathers: Pretty much Hana's default method of crying, especially when she is reunited with her foster mother. Also Miyuki and Sachiko. Seriously, nobody cries pretty in this movie.
In the Trigun anime, when Vash wakes up after being forced to kill Legato after a series-long vow of pacifism, the audience doesn't get to see much of him actually crying, but they do get to hear some uncomfortably anguished wailing.
In Welcome to the NHK, Sato bursts out into screaming, tortured wails at the end of episode 13. Although mostly off-screen, what we see is not at all pretty.
In Yuri is My Job!, Mitsuki Yano does this at the end of Volume 7. At the end of the previous volume, she'd made a Love Confession to her best friend Hime, who not only turns it down, but resigns from the salon where they both work to avoid hurting Mitsuki, which would almost certainly result in them never seeing each other again. Mitsuki pleads with Hime to reconsider, even offering to retract her confession, but Hime sadly says they can't go back to the way they used to be. Mitsuki starts loudly sobbing and buries her head in Hime's chest, who mentally apologizes to Mitsuki before leaving the room, sitting on the stairs and crying herself.
Yuri Katsuki from Yuri!!! on Ice does this while calling out Victor, who told Yuri he would resign from being his coach if he didn't place on the podium for his lack of faith in him.
Nearly every book owner or mamono/mamodo (save resident badass Brago) breaks out into these in Konjiki no Gash Bell / Zatch Bell!, mostly whenever a mamodo’s book gets burnt, meaning they have to leave their partner and return to the mamodo world.
After a highly successful relief concert to help Saga after a flood, Kotaro is so proud of the girls that he goes into the Pose of Supplication and cries messily.
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