History TearJerker / Air

* As if that wasn't enough, the penultimate episode had the scene on the beach where [[spoiler: Misuzu, about to be taken away from Haruko by her father, cries out for her Mama and runs back to her newly-acknowledged mother.]] The shift to complete silence instead of screams and tears in the audio only intensified the effect.
* Same with [[spoiler: Michiru's "death" (or disappearance)]].

* ''VisualNovel/{{Air}}''. Just ''Air''. Especially the "Goal" part, which gets many people every time. Even just showing the ''video'' of that scene in an [[AnimatedMusicVideo AMV]] has managed to make them cry. The scene is even more depressing now, when you consider what happened to Misuzu's [[Creator/TomokoKawakami voice actress]] [[HarsherInHindsight a few years later]].

* As if that weren't enough, the penultimate episode had the scene on the beach where [[spoiler: Misuzu, about to be taken away from Haruko by her father, cries out for her Mama and runs back to her newly-acknowledged mother.]] The shift to complete silence instead of screams and tears in the audio only intensified the effect.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Air}}''. Just ''VisualNovel/{{Air}}''. Especially the "Goal" part, which gets many people every time. Even just showing the ''video'' of that scene in an [[AnimatedMusicVideo AMV]] has managed to make them cry. The scene is even more depressing now, when you consider what happened to Misuzu's [[Creator/TomokoKawakami voice actress]] [[HarsherInHindsight a few years later]].

* Minagi's mother was so distraught about the loss of her unborn daughter that she began to delude herself to believe that Minagi was her younger sister. When she accepted the sister's death, it also effectively wiped Minagi out of her mind for a time as she had connected Minagi to her deceased sister to her mind so when she accepted that death Minagi doesn't exist at all in her mind. While Minagi's mother eventually accepted Minagi back in her life for a time Minagi basically had no home for a time.

* Minagi's mother was so distraught about Minagi's younger sister's death that she began to delude herself to believe that Minagi was her younger sister. When she accepted the sister's death, it also effectively wiped Minagi out of her mind for a time as she had connected Minagi to her deceased sister to her mind so when she accepted that death Minagi doesn't exist at all in her mind. While Minagi's mother eventually accepted Minagi back in her life for a time Minagi basically had no home for a time.

* The curse basically make Misuzu feel pain whenever she becomes close to someone she loves or befriends and if she keeps pushing through that pain it will eventually kill her. Imagine unable to form any close bonds because the curse will cause you pain and can kill you if you persist. Not only that if the person becomes too close to you the curse could potentially end up causing their deaths also. That would include your own family and would be a very lonely and sad life.

* The curse basically make Misuzu feel pain whenever she becomes close to someone she loves or befriends and if she keeps pushing through that pain it will eventually kill her. Imagine unable to form any close bonds because the curse will cause you pain and can kill you if you persist. Not only that if the person becomes to close to you the curse could potentially end up causing their deaths also. That would include your own family and would be a very lonely and sad life.

* The curse basically make Misuzu feel pain whenever she becomes close to someone she loves or befriends and if she keeps pushing through that pain it will eventually kill her. Imagine unable to form any close bonds because the curse will cause you pain and can kill you if you persist. That would include your own family and would be a very lonely and sad life.

* The curse basically make Misuzu feel pain whenever she becomes close to someone she loves or befriends and if she keeps pushing through that pain it will eventually kill her. Imagine unable to form any close bonds because the curse will cause you pain and can kill you if you persist. That would include your own family and would be a very lonely and sad life.

* From the movie, where there isn't a rift between Misuzu and Haruko, you have Haruko trying to convince herself that giving Misuzu back to her father was the right thing to do.