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When you see it...you'll realize what's different here.note
Even though this is a retelling of one of the more lighthearted parts of the series, there's still plenty of emotional moments of varying degrees throughout the story. On top of that, the namesake of Fubuki's Stand is a pretty pensive song, and given his background, that also means moments like this are a given.- At the start of chapter 6, before Josuke's battle with Fubuki during the Nijimura Brothers arc begins, a series of flashbacks showing the events leading up to Fubuki moving away are shown, which starts with various moments of Josuke and Fubuki's childhood. They detail Josuke's Friendless Background after he tried using his Stand at school once, and some of the earliest moments of Setsuna's emotional abuse towards Fubuki. Then, when Josuke heals Fubuki's broken leg, Fubuki reacts with confusion and fear, breaking the promise he made to Josuke when he first brought up how his classmates were scared of his secret. Fubuki then acts avoidant and cold to Josuke. On the last day he ever spoke with him, he verbally shuts a crying Josuke aside again, except this time Fubuki realizes he was being mean, and right as he's about to apologize, his mother Setsuna talks him out of it with her disdain for Josuke despite his pleas outside his house. As a result, Fubuki moves away not saying goodbye to Josuke. This is followed in the present by the buried negative thoughts the two had for each other unleashing as they begin bickering before their fight begins. While Josuke would end the fight healing Fubuki despite what happened and they would ultimately reconcile over the course of the story after this, both characters had a pretty rough last interaction when they were kids.
- Chapter 18's flashback to Julia's youth is this on multiple fronts. While the moment between Mario Zeppeli and his children is heartwarming, it's also saddening when you know what's going to happen to them when Mario suddenly leaves them. Not to mention how here, we see how Caesar and his siblings react to it, and it's just as heartbreaking as the anime's stills implied. The kicker is that Caesar promises to not let them separate, but it's Doomed by Canon if his backstory is anything to go by. Then there's the final scene of the flashback where Julia helps Caesar escape an orphanage he got sent to, only for her to see how bitter Caesar had become from his fall to delinquency. This culminates in Julia slapping Caesar out of blind frustration from hearing him hatefully ramble about Mario, hoping this would knock sense into him. Instead, Caesar just runs away from her as the flashback ends with Julia futilely begging Caesar to come back. Oh, and this was the last time Julia ever saw Caesar.
- Chapter 27 has an example of this, and Adaptation Expansion. After Okuyasu returns home, he's recounting what occurred during his morning to his father, who not only now realizes Keicho is gone, he utters his first words since his transformation following Dio's death. As the narration puts it, Okuyasu couldn't feel happy about him speaking again because of his belated realization. He still tries to be strong as he tells his father Keicho's gone, but the scene ends with Okuyasu stepping out of the kitchen just so his dad wouldn't see him cry.
- Chapter 29's Troubled Backstory Flashback of Hitomi and her family's time in Italy has the death of Hitomi's father Sonny. While it was already a Foregone Conclusion since Hitomi first mentions it in chapter 21 (though it's stealthily mentioned in the very first chapter when Fubuki goes over Hitomi's letters), Vincent, the man who helped Hitomi's family, is killed too for turning traitor against Passione, and the conditions leading up to it are absolutely heart wrenching. While Sonny simply chooses to give himself up in exchange for sparing the rest of his family, it's not before Burro requires the others to verbally disown Sonny before they can go, also attempting to goad Hitomi into using her Stand. It no doubt pains all of Hitomi's family. When it's Hitomi's turn to disown her father, she initially refuses, prompting Burro's men to manhandle her to prepare to have her or a baby Joel shot, forcing her to relent. To top it all off, once the rest are driving away in the car, Hitomi looks back despite her mother's warnings not to and watches her father get gunned down, ending the flashback on a grim note. While Jotaro comforting her and their ensuing making out for comfort (which Joseph accidentally walks into before walking back out undetected) breaks the tension, There's still how Burro got away with all of this.*
- Onodera's death. Full stop. What really makes it hit so hard is the twist of her being the one to confront Kira instead of Shigechi. As mentioned on the main page, it indicates she's doomed the moment she confronts Kira, and a nice little Hope Spot is thrown into the mix before Kira kills her. It's made worse by how it happens so soon after she and Josuke hook up after so many Ship Teases and how happy they were. She even had a clue that would have led to the discovery of the werewolf, who got rid of the evidence after her death. According to the comments, readers found this to be one of the most bold and heartbreaking moments of the entire fanfic. It's little wonder why this moment sent Josuke into a big Heroic BSoD and then his Extreme Mêlée Revenge later on.
- Poor Ichikawa, who was a close friend of Onodera, also happens to get caught up in the fallout of this, as she's in just as much disbelief as Josuke and is crying not long after. Then comes Aya's death, which was expanded upon to reveal that in her last moments before being turned into a bomb, she had Ichikawa hide to make sure Kira wouldn't see her. Essentially, she loses two people she was close to in the span of a few days, which is an even shorter gap than Josuke losing Ryohei and Onodera. Despite that, she too picks herself backs up and even shares some advice to Josuke.
- The next day at school in the following chapter goes to show how Onodera's death affected the students of the main cast with a gloomy atmosphere during the school scenes, which excellently conveys the feeling of lingering devastation after a tragic event. Onodera's empty desk is seen covered in white flowers and goodbye notes from everyone else in class 1-A, and there's the Dramatic Irony that Miyazaki and the rest of the public thinks she's gone missing, which makes the plea for anyone who knows of her whereabouts to tell the police sickening to the Stand users of the class. Afterwards, Fubuki is made the new class representative despite only a day having passed, which he feels awful about. While it's said to be because of taking her old role so soon, this could also extend to how he used to despise Onodera.
- The entire When Doves Cry arc both invokes this in-universe and has its scenes come off as this, as the person that gets water clones made from their memories is prone to giving into the melancholy in their hearts from a dead loved one, which results in the person having tears in their eyes and/or hugging the water clone, which can potentially freeze them to death without them realizing it. One and/or both of these happen with Tomoko, Okuyasu, Jotaro, Hitomi, and Josuke, with the respective water clones of Ryohei, Keicho, Kakyoin, Sonny, and Onodera, though the very last one is played a lot more eerily than the others.
- Okuyasu's interactions with the Keicho water clone have a couple of the largest examples. One is when the Keicho clone hearing his father speak again stops his rage, which is followed by Okuyasu telling him about how he's been after the real Keicho's death. This even causes Koichi to sniffle for a bit. The other is when the Keicho clone choses to destroy himself after he randomly lashes out at the group again without warning due to the volatile nature of his memories and the constantly changing properties of water. Even though the group's aware of what he is, Okuyasu and his father are both very upset at the sight of what is basically seeing Keicho die a second time. Notably, the Keicho clone was the only water clone to have destroyed himself, as all the others that didn't disappear at the end of the arc were destroyed by an external force.
- Following Josuke snapping Fubuki out of When Doves Cry at the last second, The reveal of the ghost that followed Fubuki throughout the story and causing origami doves to appear being Shinichi's doubles as both this and heartwarming. At first Fubuki thinks that Shinichi's ghost resents him for all the times he was avoiding him out of fear and for being the one still alive, in which Shinichi's ghost wordlessly assures him he bears no ill will for it. Afterwards, Shinichi's ghost moves on in peace as Fubuki says what he wished he said to Shinichi beforehand.
Fubuki: Shinichi… have a nice day.- Also doubling as this and heartwarming is Kakyoin's water clone disappearing as he and Jotaro bid each other goodbye. While Jotaro is mentioned to have tears in his eyes for the first time in years, both were at least glad to see each other again. The clone of Kakyoin Going Out With A Smile and being the only water clone to be seen disappearing at the end of the arc adds to this.
Kakyoin: It's been a while since we fought together. I [wish] I could stay with you a little longer… I can't believe you're a father now. I guess I should be calling YOU "Mr. Joestar" instead.
Jotaro: ...It's a bit strange to hear that from you. I've missed you, Kakyoin. I'm glad I got to see you again.
Kakyoin: Tell Hitomi I said "hi", okay? - If you were attached to Miyazaki thanks to moments like him caring about Fubuki and vice versa, him being revealed as the werewolf can count as this along with it being a Wham Episode. One reader even stated that Reimi's reaction upon hearing the news essentially doubles as an Audience Surrogate.
- Yanagimoto and Tomoko's bitter falling out in chapter 70. As Tomoko checks up on him on her way to work after the events of the When Doves Cry arc and the bad press the Morioh police got after Miyazaki's presumed death, seeing Yanagimoto so disheveled and his apartment in ruin can be just as eerie as it is a saddening display of Not So Stoic. It then turns south when Yanagimoto flips just as Tomoko is on her way out, as he begins throwing furniture in blind rage. It reaches a breaking point when a table lamp that Tomoko dodges causes her to trip and knock over an ashtray, which presses Yanagimoto's Berserk Button in the worst way possible, causing him to try and throw his TV at Tomoko. At that point, Tomoko punches him in the face, and while it snapped him out of his blind rage, Tomoko angrily and tearfully chews him out while declaring she's through.Tomoko: You bastard! I can't believe you! I came all the way here because I felt sorry for you! If my father was still alive, he'd be disappointed in you! It's over between us! If you ever come near me again, I'll make you regret it!
- After Kira's death and Shinobu learning who "Kosaku" really was, we are treated to a short, yet heart-tugging scene as she puts together why she could not figure it out sooner, and why Hayato was acting strange. It's soon remedied by Norisuke coming by and the narration saying she'd recover in time, but it's still a genuinely poignant scene.Shinobu: I was so stupid… I wanted love so bad, I didn't realize the inconsistencies...
Hayato: Mom. [Hayato made his presence and walked over to hug her.] It's okay, Mom. He won't hurt us anymore.
Shinobu: Hayato...You knew something was off about him, so he threatened you to keep silent, did he?
[It was not the entire truth but Hayato nodded.]
Shinobu: I'm so sorry, honey. [Shinobu hugged him and wept.] - The final scene before the epilogue, which is Fubuki's personal Alas, Poor Villain moment, set off from seeing Miyazaki's corpse turn back to his human form for the first and last time since he confronted him about being the werewolf. He begins quietly crying. After maintaining his cold bitterness towards him as back as the aftermath of the Bad Moon Rising arc and then admitting to Josuke he missed him a bit, he fully admits to himself that he missed the person who was his former teacher, just like Josuke, Koichi, and Okuyasu did. It may be short, but it's a powerful scene that drives home that despite all of the atrocities Miyazaki did over the course of the story, even Fubuki could not forget that Miyazaki was someone who once cared about him and vice versa. This is a scene that can hit much harder if the reader had just gone back and read scenes before Miyazaki's reveal as the other Big Bad.
