History TearJerker / Vocaloid

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** If you want more tears to flow go listen to the true answer song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEQF7-B9mKw "Goodbye, Thank You"]]. All the melancholy of "Kokoro -Kiseki-", but with none of the upbeat music behind it. It truly captures the loneliness of the situation.

** He also made [[https://vocadb.net/S/1830 Astronauts]], which is about all the regrets someone has with his loved one, thinking about what could've been and what he could've done right, but didn't. His commentary on Website/NicoNicoDouga confirms that this was a ''personal'' song, making it all the more heartbreaking.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csLqT7uQ5g0 "Summertime Record"]], which is the final song of the original run ofKagerou Project, is this as well, being a very melancholic song of someone remembering the past happy and horrible days, wishing to meet everyone again, but realizing that they have to say goodbye.

%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GR5WV87tsk "Can't I Even Dream?"]] using Hatsune Miku.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HinT8DXYdDk "You're a Useless Child"]] may hit home for people who were abused by their parents. Told in the perspective of the mother, her son grows up his whole life while she grasps him tightly through the usage of crushing verbal abuse, making him feel more and more worthless. She tells him that she will take care of him and that only by staying with her will he ever have any chance in life. Growing up to believe this, he stays even though he feels depressed about it. This continues on and on, with the abuse getting worse and worse until he finally commits suicide, feeling that he has no purpose in life. Only after he kills himself does the mother realize what she has done wrong, and the lyrics change from "You're a useless child" to "''I'm'' a useless child". Even worse, a common fan theory regarding the song is that [[TheChainOfHarm the mother was abused as a child by her own parents,]] and treats her son horribly because it's the only way she understands how to show "love".

* Given that it's a song about the pain of separation, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXvdjszEAVc "Time Machine"]] by Hatsune Miku is automatically this.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUzLciZiLVY Kept Waiting for a Response]]'', WhatCouldHaveBeen the finale to ''Story of Evil''. And a touchingly beautiful finale it is.

* By Gumi, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcaO0yaTI2I&list=UUIdt_eG9X8lptbfrVL3DF-Q&index=30&feature=plcp Gensou Uta]]'' a ''Illusionary Song'', a rather [[MindScrew ambiguous song]] with a proper dose of [[StarCrossedLovers sadness]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0ceA2XZqDA&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active Rin's "Flames of Yellow Phosphorous"]] is not happy. Of course, it's by Mothy. Mothy also wrote [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJny2S00dOA moonlit bear]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xuun25DHVM&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active Miniature Garden Girl]], The Daughter of Evil Series, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCGTuXtuLIM&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active Desert Bluebird]]. All of which are tear jerkers. Another tipoff about this song? 1, the first few pictures are Rin burnt at the stake, 2, it's based off ''Literature/TheLittleMatchGirl''.

* The Kagamine twins seem to be the masters of this, with songs like the aforementioned "Kokoro", the follow-up, "Kokoro[=/=]Kiseki", and things like "Servant of Evil", "Recycle Bin" and the sequel, "Salvage".
** You think Servant of Evil is sad? Try [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csUVG6NrrTA&feature=related the Classical version.]] And after you're done crying, listen to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSZeKWRFyFg&feature=youtu.be Nico Nico Chorus Classical version.]] * sniff*
%%** "Regret Message" (and "Daughter of White" makes it worse) But "[[{{Reincarnation}} Re_birthday]]" is there to make everything better!...assuming you actually interpret it to mean he DOES get better.
%%** "Servant of Evil" is bad enough, but then check out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPj-AVXNCVI this one fandub video for "Regret Message."]] Listening to Rin sobbing helplessly as she begs God to give her and her brother one more chance to be happy together in another life, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone now that she's finally realized what a horrible monster she's been]], just... Gah.

*** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDeIgO06eo4 *Sayonara, World's End]]" is a much more melancholy retelling of *"Hello, Planet." as the robot begins to break down. Even the cover art of the album that features this song isn't immune, as it simply shows the robot as she actually is: rather than achipper teenage girl, it's a decrepid, rusting little robot. ''Goodbye... goodbye...''

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GR5WV87tsk Can't I Even Dream?]] by Hatsune Miku.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DelhT94I1w0&playnext_from=TL&videos=4-J0Cuty3mw Dolls]] by Kagamine Rin. Rin is a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin doll]] who is left behind after her master is killed. She sings alone and hopes to go to where he has gone. She eventually falls apart and [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments finds him in Heaven, claiming "I can smile now."]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt5OdPmVfFA Secret Crush]] by Rin is about a girl that loves a boy and cannot ever tell him how she feels because he may be involved with another woman.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7QxAnAZSrg 69]] by Rin and Len. Rin is some form of doll that has lived for 69 years and is beginning to break down and die. Len realizes she is going to be gone soon and tells her that she's still beautiful even though she's falling apart and they both express their love for one another as the song goes on. Rin has an [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy I Want My Beloved To Be Happy]] moment as she dies, thanking him for caring about her and telling him that even though she's gone, she wants him to continue to be happy and love again. The end of the PV implies that Len is about to suffer the same fate, so she won't be without him for too long.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPyHl33snr8 Eight Hundred]] by Hatsune Miku talks about [[SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel 6.5 billion dreams coming true and World Peace]]... [[LyricalDissonance Until you fully listen to the song...]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G_DOlHuNS0 The Beast. by Hatsune Miku.]] It tells the story of a girl who trades away her mortality for a beautiful, ageless body. Make sure you have tissues handy.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN1rJUKrdVI&list=PL530A04979335B98C&index=107&feature=plpp_video Child of Destiny]] by Gumi and Miku... It draws inspiration from Momotaro's fairytale, and it's [[MeetCute beautiful]] and [[StarCrossedLovers tragic]].

* Jin's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMWn6wBhaEA Imagination Forest]]" covers a shy girl who's afraid of venturing out of her large and lonely home because of the death of her mother. However, the tears turn happy because she finally made a friend, and as we learn in her home series, she's about to make many more.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-ojjyb5fnw Cinderella ~another story~]] is pretty touching as well. It puts a tragic twist to the classic fairytale in that Cinderella (Rin) has been transformed into a white cat for not returning from the ball at midnight, rendering her forever separated with the prince (Len). This is sung as they both remember the instant they had together, fully aware of this fact.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUzLciZiLVY Kept Waiting for a Response]]'', WhatCouldHaveBeen the finale to ''Story of Evil''. And a touchingly beautiful finale it is.
-->''If my wish really does come true''
-->''If my sins have really been forgiven''
-->''I want the response to my letter''
-->''And will keep waiting for it''

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcGD1-OvVHs Ayano's Theory of Happiness]] takes the pain of Transparent Answer and multiplies it by about a hundred. For anybody who's listened to other songs in the Kagerou Project and know a bit about the characters, it will be an absolute heartbreaker, but even without knowing anything about the project, it's still a very sweet, sorrowful song.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csLqT7uQ5g0 Summertime Record]], which is the final song of the Kagerou Project, is this as well, being a very melancholic song of someone remembering the past happy and horrible days, wishing to meet everyone again, but realizing that they have to say goodbye.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl_QbG5RTPg Eight Hundred]] by Hatsune Miku talks about [[SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel 6.5 billion dreams coming true and World Peace]]... [[LyricalDissonance Until you fully listen to the song...]]

* In the otherwise scare-filled song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0uU2PZVfM8 Kaito Ga Uninstall]], we have a tear jerker when Kaito is about to kill Rin and Len. If you pause at just the right moment, you can see [[BigBrotherInstinct Len shielding Rin]] [[HeroicSacrifice with his own body]] to protect her.

The dead young warrior, unknown of, still becomes a bird and flies across the sky

* He also made [[https://vocadb.net/S/1830 Astronauts]], which is about all the regrets someone has with his loved one, thinking about what could've been and what he could've done right, but didn't. His commentary on Website/NicoNicoDouga confirms that this was a ''personal'' song, making it all the more heartbreaking.

* Powapowa P's "Please Give Me a Red Pen" is a pretty sad song, especially with how abruptly it ends. [[FridgeHorror The fact that this was the last song Powapowa P made before his untimely death doesn't help.]]
** From the same producer, his second-to-last song [[http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm25705512 "Goodbye, Everyone"]] qualifies as tearjerking, as well. It shows a girl growing up from childhood to adulthood, not quite excited for the future and questioning if she really "grew up" at all. Before she says goodbye, she muses that she had acknowledged all the good times she had. And all of this is impacted by the fact that Powapowa P himself is singing the verses along with Gumi.

* Powapowa-P's [[https://vocadb.net/S/1830 Astronauts]], which is about all the regrets someone has with his loved one, thinking about what could've been and what he could've done right, but didn't. The producer's commentary on Website/NicoNicoDouga confirms that this was a ''personal'' song, making it all the more heartbreaking.

** [[https://youtu.be/yduFuBC4whg "404"]] is about an alien who tries to fit in with humans, but no one ever accepts him for who he is. [[spoiler: In the end, he destroys the planet and goes back home to outer space.]]

-->I loved you but I was too sad, [[spoiler: I wiped out the entire planet]]

** If you want more tears to flow go listen to the true answer song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEQF7-B9mKw "Goodbye, Thank You"]]. All the melancholy of "Kokoro -Kiseki-", but with none of the upbeat music behind it. It trule captures the lonliness of the situation.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC-zPJAFfXY Disappearance of Hatsune Miku]], which is a [[BlatantLies happy, cheery song]] in a major key...about Miku suffering while being uninstalled. [[EpilepticTrees Or getting a virus. Or being unable to sing well anymore. Or losing all her memory.]]
** The song in itself is super depressing, but the official videos don't help at all. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvnIFo3xMfY This one]] shows Miku lost in a labyrinthine version of the computer's internal system, trying desperately to find her way out to stop her owner from deleting her. Various scenes show her breaking down in tears when she sees musical notes disintegrating, and towards the end, after flashbacks of her times with the other Vocaloids, she tearfully [[GoOutWithASmile smiles and accepts her fate.]]

** If you want more tears to flow go listen to the true answer song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEQF7-B9mKw Goodbye, Thank You]]

* The ''Star Girl and The Illusionary Paradise'' saga... Not all the songs [[LyricalDissonance sound depressing]] yet given the context you can't deny the tragicness behind each song...
** Special mention goes to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov8W-5r1po0&feature=related Runaway Boy and Lost Girl]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUiTtAad_cPHVeij3BrvRZsw&v=7AblJsys3m4&NR=1&feature=endscreen Reincarnated Girl and Reincarnated Boy]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbfBjZyVsJM Why Don't You Call Me Yet?]] is about the singer wanting the person she is in love with to call her, while being too afraid that he has forgotten who she is to call him herself. In the end of one of the [=PVs=], Rin kneels on the floor, looking as if she has given up hope as the song ends. After a moment of silence, her phone goes off, to her disbelief. She answers it with a cheerful greeting, only for a final shot of her crying tears of joy to show up, leaving the viewer to assume that the man she loves has indeed called her.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC-zPJAFfXY Disappearance of Hatsune Miku]], which is a [[BlatantLies happy, cheery song]] in a major key...about Miku suffering while being uninstalled. [[EpilepticTrees Or getting a virus. Or being unable to sing well anymore. Or losing all her memory.]]
** The song in itself is super depressing, but the official videos don't help at all. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvnIFo3xMfY This one]] shows Miku lost in a labyrinthine version of the computer's internal system, trying desperately to find her way out to stop her owner from deleting her. Various scenes show her breaking down in tears when she sees musical notes disintegrating, and towards the end, after flashbacks of her times with the other Vocaloids, she tearfully [[GoOutWithASmile smiles and accepts her fate.]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lax2sh2N0Q&t=2s This one]] is a montage of Miku living out her last moments with her creator, all done in a minimalist, [[DarkerAndEdgier monochrome]], painterly, yet cutesy art style. If that wasn't depressing enough, this one really hammers it home with the sad and slightly Nightmare Fuel-ish imagery: tear-stained, decomposing music scores, Miku discarded like a toy among piles of said scores, her motifs vanishing, the progressing countdown to her deletion, which eventually leaves Miku staring depressingly at her owner through the screen as she turns black and fades.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra6_6gOGK6E This cleverly-made PV]] shows an MMD Miku not only singing, but also signing the entire song. It's impressive, but also very depressing when you consider that she's signing the song because the parts where she's singing too fast can't be understood. In her own words, she's "sacrificing sound quality so that she can communicate". If her voice can't speak, at least her hands can.
** For everyone who thought that the original was bad, try [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paJXhovXoow Teto's version]]. There are a few lyrical changes, but they make all the difference.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UfytTsLpFM Gackpo's slow version]] is just as sad. Unlike most other versions of the song, Gackpo sounds so...[[FaceDeathWithDignity accepting]] of his impending death.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-1iSGiOVas Hello How Are You]] is a song about insecurity. Warning: This one has a high probability of [[TruthInTelevision hitting close to home.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIwpPMNw07I Mukashi Mukashi No Kyou No Boku, or "Once Upon A Me"]] is more of a happy tears kind of song, but it might hit too close to home.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXdYPWUF7-0 Your Sky is Sorrowful. ]] You can see the ending coming even from a mile away, especially with the monologue at the beginning by the boy's now-grown-up little brother. But it still hits HARD. Especially when you realize that the boy is a kamikaze pilot and has no chance of surviving the song.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocRpmd8SJ_A Steel Bird ]]follows the same vein as a song about war. The ending can be quite heartbreaking....
-->The [[TitleDrop Steel Bird]] was released, his wings flying towards the eternal sky
-->The dead young warrior, unknown of, still becomes a bird and flies across the sky
-->Fly! Even through distant journeys, the wingless bird sings far away
-->Flutter the silver wings on your back, feelings disappearing into the morning sun's sky

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvG1NqgQ1zo A Teacher, Detained]] featuring flower. The TearJerker elements take a bit of time to sink in, but once you grasp the backstory and meaning of the lyrics it's a real gut punch.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HinT8DXYdDk You're a Useless Child]] may hit home for people who were abused by their parents. Told in the perspective of the mother, her son grows up his whole life while she grasps him tightly through the usage of crushing verbal abuse, making him feel more and more worthless. She tells him that she will take care of him and that only by staying with her will he ever have any chance in life. Growing up to believe this, he stays even though he feels depressed about it. This continues on and on, with the abuse getting worse and worse until he finally commits suicide, feeling that he has no purpose in life. Only after he kills himself does the mother realize what she has done wrong, and the lyrics change from "You're a useless child" to "''I'm'' a useless child". Even worse, a common fan theory regarding the song is that [[TheChainOfHarm the mother was abused as a child by her own parents,]] and treats her son horribly because it's the only way she understands how to show "love".

** It's even worse when you remember that in the first song (Bad End Night)they were willing to kill her to break the GroundhogDayLoop, but in this one, we see that they've grown so fond of her that they'd rather continue the GroundhogDayLoop than kill her, which in the end becomes useless as she overheard them and decides to do it herself. [[BrokenSmile She smiles]] [[BrokenTears while crying]]. Before doing the deed she even has a flashback of the manor's residents.

* [[https://youtu.be/peOdsZaFmHI First Experience]] talks about the declining popularity of Vocaloid in Japan.
* [[https://youtu.be/sHQhs5NJ_K8 Goodbye to Our Mutual Unrequited Love]] Tells the story of a graduating boy saying goodbye to his town and to his secret crush.

** "And Then You Became the Moon" is a sweet, charming song about two children dying of hypothermia in a frozen lake. The singer is sinking to the bottom, slowly dying, but the last thing they see is the girl who played with them slipping into the hole. She dies first, then they follow, and the singer tells the listener that nobody ever found their bodies.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHm6BjJqIsE Sayoko]] by [=MikitoP=] is sung from the point of view of somebody who has grown tired of their lonely, monotonous existence and has already [[BungledSuicide tried to end it.]] Thing is, it's lonely and monotonous partly because this someone is so convinced of their worthlessness to begin with, to the point where they're not even willing to call their friends because they're probably too busy to bother with them. They have sunken so deep into this depression that at the end of the song, they express their doubt that there is any way out of the slog except death.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6git_Z2qZao "Shutter Chance"]] by Mikito-P, despite the cute PV and refreshing music, is about a long-lasting relationship (whether a friendship or a romantic relationship) growing apart and subsequently ending, and the feeling of loss and guilt that comes from feeling that you let someone go.

* For another Mikito-P one, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW3N-HvU0MA Shoujo Rei]] tells the story of a girl mourning after of her best friend's suicide, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone which she feels she directly contributed to.]] To make it worse, the sound effect end of the song heavily implies the narrator girl was so struck with guilt she killed herself in the same manner, by jumping in front of a train. And all this to [[LyricalDissonance refreshing, summery music]].

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6elFMyYYiWA I'm Sorry I'm Sorry]]" by Kikuo is not only NightmareFuel and NauseaFuel, but it is incredibly sad as well. The cannibalism described in the song that [[AbusiveParents the father]] does to his daughter is a clear metaphor for rape/sexual abuse. She is found by a man who pities her promises to take care of her, and she, having fallen in love with him, runs away. But when he doesn't treat her the same way her father did, when he doesn't sexually abuse her, what her father has taught her is love her whole life, she runs back to her father, where she is presumably raped to death by her father and his friends. The amount of blaming the victim does to themselves, (hence the title "I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry") is expressed all too well in this song.
** Depending of how you choose to interpret what was really happening outside of [[UnreliableNarrator the girl's point of view]] or even how old she's supposed to be, it's even worse: The "Big Brother" whom she ran away with was '''not''' some DoggedNiceGuy like [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness the girl]] thought he was, or even a ManipulativeBastard stringing her along with promises of love, but rather a legitimately good-hearted man (whether he was a teacher, a social services worker or even just a horrified bystander) who was just trying his best to show her actual kindness and give her a normal life, [[HappilyAdopted maybe even gaining her custody]], but by that point [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad she had been so mentally warped]] by her monster of a father that she just ran away back to her abusive home. Cue the DownerEnding.

* Kikuo's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqaVWWMaRxY Hikari yo/Oh light]] includes a slightly unnerving PV, but the lyrics and general ambience of the song are both quite sad. Possible interpretations are depression or a person in a coma.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxhZgT_Hx2I Hanatan's cover]] is powerful and conveys more desperation than Miku's more calm voice.

* Kikuo's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pkwLVGWYzA Don't Look At Me in That Way,]] much like many of Kikuo's songs, is rather surreal and ambiguous in its meaning, but we can still make out that it's from the perspective of a child trying to console their parents over their death. [[FridgeHorror The sound of bombs falling in the background does not help...]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y808S-awM2E "Tengoku he Ikuo"/"Let's Go To Heaven"]] by Kikuo is a very bittersweet song about a couple who commit suicide together so they can be happy in the afterlife. The lyrics describe the body disappearing, as well as how happy it is to be together in heaven, just the two of them.

* Are you a dog lover? Listen to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZylEIgiOh4 Laika]], which tells the story of the first animal in space. Laika the dog knows that she is going to be involved in something very important. She wants her trainers to be proud of her, and is determined to do her best. As the big day gets closer, she notices that everyone is being nicer to her for some reason. She is put inside a rocket, and sent up into space. It's scary, but she resolves to endure it, and thinks of how everyone will praise her when she gets home...and that's where the song ends. In real life, Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union, ordered that the satellite ''Sputnik 2'' be designed, built and launched with Laika aboard in less than a month, which meant the scientists working on it only had time to build a satellite that was capable of going to space, but not coming back.

** The shot of the rising thermometer is even sadder if you are aware that Laika died less than four hours after launch because the satellite did not separate properly when it was taking off, causing the inner cabin to overheat.

* Are you a dog lover? Listen to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZylEIgiOh4 Laika]], which tells the story of the first animal in space. Laika the dog knows that she is going to be involved in something very important. She wants her trainers to be proud of her, and is determined to do her best. As the big day gets closer, she notices that everyone is being nicer to her for some reason. She is put inside a rocket, and sent up into space. It's scary, but she resolves to endure it, and thinks of how she will be praised when she gets home...and that's where the song ends. In real life, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, ordered that the satellite ''Sputnik 2'' be designed, built and launched with Laika aboard in less than a month, which meant the scientists working on it only had time to build a satellite that was capable of going to space, but not coming back.

*** ''Especially'' [[ItMakesSenseInContext if you know the context:]] To quote one Youtuber's comment, "I can only tell you that things like this has happened, and still does. Children are kidnapped, and deformed into freaks. For example, they could crush their bones so they grew together wrong, slice things of and more, and the children were also used for sexual services. And if they said no, or tried to escape, they got acid pour in their faces. That's what the flowers in the vid stands for." Now try watching that ending montage without crying.
* Are you a dog lover? Listen to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZylEIgiOh4 Laika]], which tells the story of the first animal in space. Laika the dog knows that she is going to be involved in something very important, though she doesn't know what it is. She wants her trainers to be proud of her, and is determined to do her best. Everyone is being nicer to her for some reason. She is put inside a rocket, and sent up into space. It's scary, but she resolves to endure it, and thinks of how she will be praised when she gets home..and that's where the song ends. In real life, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, ordered that the satellite ''Sputnik 2'' be designed, built and launched with Laika aboard in less than a month, which meant the scientists working on it only had time to build a satellite that was capable of going to space, but not coming back.

* Are you a dog lover? Listen to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZylEIgiOh4 Laika]], which tells the story of the first animal in space. It's from [[AndIMustScream Laika's]] point of view. The ending will shatter your heart.