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Tear Jerker / Zekkyou Gakkyuu

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Due to the nature of the tearjerkers in Zekkyou Gakkyuu chapters, spoilers will be unmarked.


  • The Ocean Is Calling
    • The twist ending. It appears that Natsumi is actually dead from an accident and has to leave her happy purgatory to move on — quite the opposite. She is merely in a coma and awakens, only to learn that the bus accident she and her class were in was real... but that she is the only survivor.
    • It's also revealed that she only survived because her crush helped her climb out of a window. She didn't want to leave without him, but he insists and promises that he'll be right behind her.
      Nakatani: Sorry, that I couldn't keep the promise I made at that time...
  • The Money Tree has Akane crying for her missing parents in front of the titular tree, saying that she doesn't need money anymore and all she wants is to see them again. Then the tree's roots grab hold of her and pull her under, where she joins her parents among the skeletal remains of those used to give the tree its nutrients.
  • The Slit-Mouthed Woman
    • Poor Akamiya, who is a genuinely sweet, kind and enthusiastic teacher, gets viciously attacked by her students, is driven insane by the resulting deformities and turns into the titular monster stalking the streets for children. All because Miya chose to purposefully make her out to be the monster and her prank went too far.
    • The epilogue added on later reveals that the slit-mouthed woman is scared off by groups of children. Given how she was turned into the monster, that is very understandable...
  • The Bus Bound for the Underworld has Miku talk to a handsome man called Hayato, who lends her an encouraging ear and seems happy with his life because his girlfriend is pregnant — but he reveals that death tore them apart. When the bus stops, he insists that Miku stay on because she has her whole life ahead of her. After Miku wakes up, she learns that she has been in a coma for three days... and that her grandmother died during that time. Then she notices a new picture has been put up and recognizes Hayato: he was her grandfather, who died at a young age and never even got to see his daughter being born. And he was only boarding the bus now, decades after his death, so he could head into the afterlife with his girlfriend.
  • Scarecrow Teacher has Kiyama being completely ignored and hated by her class, simply because she told one of the girls, who got a cold on purpose to lose weight, to not worry about how her figure looks to the boys. When she tries to tell them they've gone too far, they just coldly tell her to go away. She eventually apologizes to them, which they insist she do to Yuri, the student that she reprimanded. At this point, it's almost a relief that the scarecrow chose to punish the whole class.
  • Hell's Clock
    • Rui uses the titular item to go back in time and choose to not confess to her childhood friend. But when she accidentally makes things worse between them, she decides to go for it, after all, and runs across the street to tell Kei how she feels — just as a truck is coming towards her. Kei pushes her out of the way and dies.
    • A year after Kei's death, Rui learns that he had a clock, too, and uses it to go back to the original confession. She begins to cry when she sees her dead childhood friend again.
    • Rui confesses her feelings and learns that Kei likes her, too, but the price for this use of the clock has to be paid. She decides to have the ghost use her life as payment instead of Kei and jumps over a railing.
    • The two-parter ends on a happy tearjerker, when it reveals that Rui didn't die from the jump and has been in a coma for the past five years. And then she wakes up, with the ghost having merely taken five years of 'her future' as payment, and we last see Rui and Kei embracing.
  • Capsuled Personality Vending Machine has a plain girl named Kozue that comes across a capsule machine said to be filled with personality. Wanting to make more friends, she uses the capsule machine in order to have more attitude. Unfortunately she overhears a conversation by her classmates in which they say they don't like her because she switches personalities everyday. So she decides to take another capsule from the machine one last time. It causes her to fall into an unresponsive state, to the point her classmates bully her. Her only friend Mika can only look at her with pity.

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