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Tear Jerker / Kaleido Star

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  • Episode 26, when Sora finds out that performing the Great Legendary Maneuver with an almost broken shoulder injured Layla so badly that she won't be able to perform again on the Stage, she starts bawling. It's hard not to join in.
  • And what about Anna's Day in the Spotlight episode, 11 "Anna's Not so Amazing Father". involving her fight with her father? When Jack performs the little trick with the hankie that he invented so many years ago to make little Anna laugh, I cried.
  • Episode 30, poor Rossetta feeling so trapped by her agent (who also happens to be her own mother). That she believed the only way to follow her dreams, was to go and runaway to the Kaleido Stage.
    Rosetta: My agent is such a blockhead, that she refused to listen to what I had to say.
  • May Wong started as a pushy Spoiled Brat, but episode 36, featuring her fall from grace and subsequent Heroic BSoD is so well-done that you can't help feeling sorry for her. Then you actually grow to like her and are actually happy for her when she works to reclaim her glory.
    • Sora's outburst at Leon once he confesses to what he did, is rather understandable. Even though May had been nothing but horrible to her, Sora would never want someone to suffer in such a way.
    Sora: How, could you do that? YOUR TERRIBLE!
  • Same goes to Leon in episode 41, when he shows the first signs of his defrostment by panicking as he sees Sora almost being hit by a car just like it happened to his sister Sophie, pulling her away from danger in a Diving Save and, right after this, looking at her tenderly and asking "...Sophie, are you hurt? I'm so glad you're alive...", mistaking Sora for Sophie.
  • Episode 46, Yuri still feeling terrible guilt over what happened to Leon's sister tries to arrange things so that Leon has the chance to take his life. And he goes to great lengths to make sure that if Leon succeeds, he won't go to jail for it. The look of despair on Yuri's face when he believes he's about to get what he deserves is what solidifies his newfound status as The Woobie.

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