Goodbye, Doraemon
Main series:
- Doraemon's reaction to losing his ears to mice. He cried so hard, the yellow paint washed off. The fact that he's permanently blue because he's in BSOD mode makes him even more of a Woobie. His voice also went hoarse because of crying so hard, which is why his voice sounds a bit odd.
- Nobita's Bad Future: While not as extreme as some examples of this trope, Nobita's original future consists of him failing to pass the entrance exam of an elite university, completing his college education with slightly below average GPA in a local university, accidentally burning up his own company and crippling his family in debt for generations after his business is declared bankrupt. It affects Jaiko as well, as she lives an unsuccessful married life with him and affects her manga's career, ending up resenting Nobita for crippling them and being forced to take care of Nobita's offsprings.
- Any episode/chapter with Nobita's grandma in it is either heartwarming or this.
- The first time Nobita goes back in time to see his grandma, it's emotive on its own. The reason behind this? Nobita felt guilty about being too selfish with her (and just to fix his teddy bear) when he was a small kid, and now that she was long gone, he wanted her to forgive him about that, because he couldn't do so in the past. And when she finally recognizes him, the moment brought them to tears, because she knew that she didn't have too much time left to see her grandson to grow up.
- There's one manga chapter with a gadget that can bring back lost items based on the user's memories. Nobita who goes overboard with it brings stuff back from his childhood and play with them, saying that he wants to drown in a nostalgia and giving up on his life. Then he finds a daruma doll and he instantly remembers one memory with her grandma. Nobita was crying on the ground after falling down on the houseyard. Nobita's grandma (who was implied to be sick that time) woke up from her futon, rolled said daruma and showed Nobita that daruma was strong because it could go back up after falling down. Nobita swore to her grandma, now lying in futon, to become strong like daruma. She then passed away right after that. The sadness after that flashback is enough to give Nobita the determination to go back to studying.
- In "Doraemon and the Star Shooters", Doraemon's ship ends up getting shot down in battle, leaving Noby to fight an army of alien invaders by himself. Noby is visibly distraught at this. Literally all the invaders are destroyed when their bullets and Noby's collide. The real kicker is when Noby, wondering how he got out completely unscathed, finds a wish that Doraemon made earlier, requesting that Noby would be okay no matter what would happen to him. Noby comes back and is given a wish by the wish-granting people he saved as a token of gratitude.Cosmo: There's no wish too big or too small! How about some more pizza? Or maybe a new video game? A bike? Or maybe—Noby: I DON'T WANT ANY OF THAT! Look, the only thing I want... is my friend. I'll never be the same without him. Please... help me find Doraemon...
- At least until the whole thing turns out to be a virtual reality game, and Doraemon is none the wiser as to the shit that Noby just went through.
- The episode where Shizuka adopts a doll and asks Doraemon to make her sentient so they can find its owner.
- A similar episode where Dorami finds an abandoned doll on Christmas Eve, and when they take it to its owner, she reveals that she intentionally threw it out and asked Santa for a replacement.
- Every time Nobita befriends something that he loathes at first, but comes to miss after it's gone.
- There is the time when Nobita accidentally called a Snow Spirit. They started as friends until the spirit became a Clingy Jealous Girl towards Nobita and forced him to play outside for hours during a snow storm. Nobita caught a very bad fever as a result. Knowing she really liked Nobita and felt bad that Nobita got sick because of her, she sacrificed herself to heal Nobita's fever and in exchange she had to vanish with the winter and spring came early instead.
- The episode where Nobita adopts a sentient whirlwind named Fuuko. Although having a pet whirlwind is awesome at first, Fuuko is very clingy to Nobita and begins hindering his life, nearly forcing him to release it to the wild. One day, a typhoon barrels in towards Japan and threatens to destroy the Nobi's house (Nobisuke forgot to replace the rusty rooftops). Fuuko escapes and battles the typhoon until both disappear. Nobita is left to grieve over Fuuko, but is always reminded of it every time he sees a whirlwind.
- The final chapter of Volume 6 of the manga, as well as the first chapter of Volume 7. Which was adapted into a half-hour long TV special in two parts.
- There is one manga story where Nobita brings a past version of himself to the present to experience having a younger brother. Then, Nobita's mother sees this and starts to question whether she had another son. After the two Nobitas have an argument and the younger self runs off to his/their mother, she breaks down crying and calls herself a terrible mother, for apparently forgetting the "younger brother." As strict as she can be, it's heartbreaking to see Tamako suffer such anguish over a matter that wasn't even her fault.
- Some of the fan-written endings mentioned in the main entry fit as well. Especially the infamous "happy ending", when the newly-repaired Doraemon wakes up for the first time in 35 years, and Nobita and Shizuka both switch to looking just like they did when he was last awake and Group Hug the confused cat. The fanbase was so convinced it was canon that they were emailing the publisher asking them to verify and/or animate it.
- The song "Melancholy of Doraemon" can make you feel pretty bad for Doraemon.
- For Doraemon's Cantonese fans, this song
gets even more sad after Doraemon's Cantonese voice actor passed away on January 2, 2015. - If you are the parent of a spoiled child, Nobita might be this since he didn't care about his mom's instructions. It makes you feel bad for her since she cared about her son so much.
- Lulili's sacrifice at the end of “A Beautiful Girl that Nobita Loved.”
- "Goodbye Shizuka" can also count as this. It has Nobita deciding to cut all ties with Shizuka using whatever means necessary so that she'll have a good future, culiminating in Shizuka rescuing Nobita after he takes too many "Repellent Pills" that Doraemon gave him.
- Shizuka's speech to Nobita near the end of the story can count as both this and a Heartwarming Moment, as it shows how much she cared for Nobita and how worried she was for him.
Movies:
- In the original Doraemon: The Record of Nobita : Spaceblazer, where a portal to another dimension forms under a floor tile in Nobita's room. Doraemon finds a love interest there, and said portal gets destroyed at the end of the movie, severing Doraemon from ever being able to visit his love interest ever again. The movie's Award Bait tear jerker of a theme song (played as the portal vanishes) brings on the full effect.note
- Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops and its remake Nobita and the New Steel Troops ~Angel Wings~ have several tearjerking moments.
- The climax scene. The remakes gives more impact because of one character's screentime increase in the story. Riruru had performed a Heroic Sacrifice by rewriting Amu and Emu's programming after going back in time to 30,000 years ago, thereby rewriting Mechatopia's history. As a result, she and Pippo, beings from the present, fade due to the changes. During their final scene, they are exchanging lines. It's heartwarming to see how far they've come from hating humans; and heartbreaking, with Shizuka desperately begging for Riruru to not disappear and Nobita helplessly holding Pippo.
Riruru: Shizuka... I'm glad-
Pippo: -to have met all of you.
Riruru and Pippo: If I am reborn...
Riruru: ...as a robot angel...
Nobita: Pippo!
Pippo: *happy laugh* That name... I like it very much...
Riruru: ...let's be friends, okay?- Also in "Nobita and the New Steel Troops", when Riruru declares she's going to inform her commander about the gang's trickery, Nobita threatens to shoot her but can't bring himself to do it because of Pippo begging not to shoot her (as well as because of what Nobita and Pippo talked about earlier). This causes Riruru to shoot Nobita, only for Pippo to suddenly leap in front of Nobita and take the shot himself. Nobita is then left holding an injured and unconscious Pippo in his arms begging for him to wake up, but Riruru’s reaction to this is more heartbreaking.
- Before Mechatopia army's arrival on Earth, Nobita and Pippo spend their afternoon time together near a big lake. This scene arquably manages to be funny, heartwarming, and tearjerking.
Pippo: *angry after having been made fun of by Nobita* You take that back! Soon you're not gonna be laughing anymore! When the Steel Army comes, you'll be surprised in the blink of an eye! Even if I'm in my original body, they can't be beaten! Then you'll be crying! After that I won't show any mercy! pant
Nobita: I... don't want to fight you, Pippo...
Pippo: *uncontrollable cry* - In Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds: When Doraemon and Nobita returned to Earth with a Anywhere Door (which an outraged Tamako had turned the dial with), only to find out that the Kingdom of Clouds already launched the flood several days afterwards. Once they had returned to the present time while still in the Kingdom of Clouds, Nobita then develops a dream on him finally getting a slightly lower score on his exam other than zero...while running to show the score to his parents and his teacher on a flying boat that carries them to the sunset.
- The ending scene of Doraemon: Nobita and the Windmasters. Fuuko decides to stop a violent storm from destroying Earth by using its heated wind body at the expense of destroying itself. After the storm dies down, Nobita catches Fuuko's plush body when it falls down from the sky, crying while a montage of how they first met plays with sad music playing in the background.
- The ending scene of Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur (at least its 2006 version) is both this and Heartwarming. Despite using the scene concept two times through the movie, Nobita having to say goodbye to Piisuke during the emotional climax gains a different meaning than when he first did the same earlier in the movie. Before, he did so because he was forced to by the circumstances and attention attracted by the dinosaur: more for his own sake than for his unusual pet, telling it not to follow him despite just blindly despatching it in the past. After his long journey through the prehistoric times, reaffirming bonds with his friends and to help Piisuke get to the part of the planet it should have been in, Nobita ends up telling the animal not to follow him, but now for its own sake: it can now live the normal life surrounded by its own kind he would otherwise have had were he to be born so long ago.
- The begining of "Stand by Me Doraemon 2", after Future Noby's single party (In the night before the wedding), Noby drives to his house. He at first smiles for marrying the woman of her dreams, but then, slowly, becomes depressed. He looks at the window and remembers his old childhood friend.Future Noby: Doraemon...
- In the same movie, after Future Noby gets stuck in Present Noby's body (They use Substitution Rope), he gets unconscious. Noby's friends tries to wake him up, but nothing works. Doraemon gets in time with Future Noby's body (whom is actually Present Noby and is also unconscious), and tries to use the Substitution Rope to return to their bodies, but because it's been an hour since they use it, they can't switch them back and their memories starts to erase. Doraemon begs Noby to not forget about him or his friends.
- Stand by Me Doraemon is probably the ultimate Doraemon tear jerker. So much, in fact, that a poll done after its release showed that nearly 90% of those who watched it cried. Seeing as it adapts Noby's first meeting with Doraemon and (theoretical) farewell, why shouldn't it?
- The movie also adapts the moment where Noby and Doraemon go to see the night before his wedding. Sue's heart-to-heart conversation with her father about her wanting to cancel the marriage can make some cry since it portrays familial love well.
- Noby is so happy after his future with Sue is ensured. After coming back to the present era, he says to Doraemon that he's happy and flies with the Hopter. However, Doraemon is programmed to stay with Noby until he's happy. When that happens, Doraemon has to go back to the future, unable to go to Noby's time anymore. This kickstarts the "Farewell Doraemon" part of the movie. During Noby's time in the sky, Doraemon sits in the grass after knowing his time is over. He is relieved that he finally can go back, but then he cries.
- This is the last work of Lam Pou-chuen (voice actor of Doraemon in Hong Kong) before his death. This makes the following line really heartbreaking for many Chinese fans:Doraemon: I can't stay here anymore. I really have to leave.
