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  • Near the end of episode 6 of the anime. When it's revealed that Jun's guardian is Lee Pai Long. The famous Kung Fu movie star. Then we learn the poor man was murdered specifically by the Tao family just to become Jun's puppet.
    • Watching Pai Long go berserk once he's freed from the Mind Control spell, thankfully, he gets over it.
  • Episode 17 starts rather dim. After Faust's match, Manta/Morty wakes up in the Hospital to Silva who fills him in on the end of the match. He rushes to Yoh's room to be met with Amidamaru, Anna, and Yoh sitting and coldly staring at him. As Yoh explains he lost, and Manta apologizes for being partially responsible Yoh quickly snaps at him telling him he's right to blame himself. He then scares him off telling Manta they are no longer friends. The poor kid runs crying but after he leaves Yoh's called out by Anna, and it's shown he's actually blaming himself completely for almost getting him killed and almost screwing his own goals at the same time.
  • Tokageroh's backstory. He was born into poverty, and his situation was so severe that his mother killed herself so he could survive by eating her flesh. And after everything he went through, he was unceremoniously killed off by Amidamaru, who doesn't even recall having killed him because Tokageroh was just one bandit among many to be felled by his sword. No wonder the guy had issues.
  • The ending of episode 36 "Winged Destroyers". When Lyserg decides to leave the gang and join the X-Laws. Worse, he still joins them willingly after seeing what they did to Boris, Millie and The Lily's Five.
    • Seeing what happened to the Lily's after they'd tried to help Millie protect Yoh and the others.
  • The flashback in the anime episode "The Double Medium". It shows how Mikihisa got his scars, not so much because of that but because of his wife Keiko. She'd just given birth to two baby boys and has been told that they both must die in order to protect the planet. That can't be easy for any mother to hear, poor thing.
    • Not to mention Yohmei's reluctance to kill one of the baby boys, which even brings him to tears. Made worse because a single moment of hesitation is enough for the Spirit of Fire to take a hold of Hao.
  • Poor Fudou from episode 51. His past consisted of him being possessed many times by spirits (no doubt he misinterpreted their actions, since most spirits are not very hostile). Which led to his hatred of them. Then after Fudou and his allies manage to find their way into Doby Village seeking to destroy Amidamaru since he escaped sealing before. Despite everything Yoh and his friends reach out to the boy, and he eventually has a change of heart... only to run smack into Zeke/Hao a short while later. In the end Fudou and his allies are killed. Poor Fudou's spirit isn't even aloud to move on; Zeke/Hao just captured him and had his Spirit of Fire devour and absorb him. That just isn't fair man.
    • At least his spirit was likely freed along with all the others that had been devoured when Zeke/Hao was beaten.
  • The flashbacks of Sharona and her girls as they fight Yoh in episode 53. Showing how each of the girls were rejected by their loved ones (Sharona, by the kid she babysat; Sally, by her workmates; Elly, by her boyfriend; Lilly, by her classmates (including a subtle yet very cruel flashback where she finds bullying message on her class's chalkboard), and specially Milly, who was deserted by her mother. From Plucky Comic Reliefs to massive Woobies in one, two, three...
  • In episode 58 of the anime, the deaths of the remaining X-Laws. Miina's was probably the most heart-wrenching of all.
    Miina: (icicle spears rain down but Miina calmly turns to face Lyserg) "You are so kind Lyserg. We have always viewed compassion as a weakness, but perhaps through your kindness you will find a way to achieve what we X-Laws could not. Stop looking for people to follow Lyserg and learn to trust your own heart." (she's then skewered by the icicle spears)
  • After Hao has removed and devoured Yoh's soul in episode 61, the rest of the gang suffer a Heroic BSoD while remembering particular moments when Yoh was kind to them. Then all of them try to kill him in a blind rage.
  • Matamune's Heroic Sacrifice in the manga and 2021 anime. Made worse by Yoh staring at empty seat in the train during his return where Matamune was sitting during their travel to Mt. Osore.
  • Despite everything they did in manga and 2021 anime, one cannot but feel sorry for team Hana-Gumi after Peyote kills them and all Hao's allies minus Luchist and Opacho, but not before revealing that Hao can reads mind and doesn't really care about them. Their souls dash crying to Hao to find out the truth ... only for Hao to try to consume them since his fight with Anna has consumed a lot of his reiryoku. Thankfully Anna saves them, prompting their Heel–Face Turn.
  • Horohoro's backstory in the manga, involving his former crush. dear God. It gets worse when Kororo reveals that she was Damuko the whole time!
  • During Yoh's group invasion of the plants, Faust is killed...only this time there's no one left to revive him...poor Ryu gets incredibly upset that his teammate and friend is dead, and even cheery Yoh seems to be affected. Of course it's a bit bittersweet, since he can finally be together with Eliza completely now that both are dead.
  • The last few chapters in the manga, when virtually every character ever, living or dead returns on a train, Chocolove and Lyserg get to reunite with their dead parents, and everyone else with their loved ones. Hao even gets to meet Ohachiyo and his mother again!


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