Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added line(s) 5 (click to see context) :
!Per wiki policy, Administrivia/SpoilersOff applies here and all spoilers are unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.
Changed line(s) 5 (click to see context) from:
-->"Onee-chan was a bit air-headed, so maybe she hasn't even realized she died."\\
to:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 32 (click to see context) from:
** Anaru always had feelings for Jintan, but he's always been in love with Menma. Even after Menma died, the gap between the two only became wider. The return of Menma in ghost brings Jintan back into Anaru's life, but he's 'still' in love with her, much to Anaru's frustration.
to:
** Anaru always had feelings for Jintan, but he's always been in love with Menma. Even after Menma died, the gap between the two only became wider. The return of Menma in ghost brings Jintan back into Anaru's life, but he's 'still' ''still'' in love with her, much to Anaru's frustration.
Changed line(s) 34 (click to see context) from:
** Finally, Tsuruko has always been in love with Yukiatsu and has prided herself on knowing him better than anyone else. But not only is Yukiatsu stuck on Menma, he's also designated Anaru as his chosen rebound, leaving Tsuruko in a distant third place. And while she doesn't resent Menma, she 'does' resent Anaru.
to:
** Finally, Tsuruko has always been in love with Yukiatsu and has prided herself on knowing him better than anyone else. But not only is Yukiatsu stuck on Menma, he's also designated Anaru as his chosen rebound, leaving Tsuruko in a distant third place. And while she doesn't resent Menma, she 'does' ''does'' resent Anaru.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Up To Eleven is a defunct trope
Changed line(s) 17 (click to see context) from:
* Episode 11. Literally UpToEleven.
to:
* Episode 11. Literally UpToEleven.up to eleven.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* The Super Peace Busters are thick with all kinds of unrequited love, which played a role in the wedge that was driving the group apart even before Menma's death:
** Jintan's feelings for Menma were reciprocated, but he's been haunted for years that he cruelly called her "ugly" just before her death. And when she returns in ghost form, he finds himself falling back in love with her - all whilst knowing that she can't stay with him forever for obvious reasons.
** Anaru always had feelings for Jintan, but he's always been in love with Menma. Even after Menma died, the gap between the two only became wider. The return of Menma in ghost brings Jintan back into Anaru's life, but he's 'still' in love with her, much to Anaru's frustration.
** Yukiatsu is similarly in love with Menma, and like Jintan, he regrets that his final interactions with her were under tense circumstances. However, Yukiatsu has the extra pain of being directly rejected by Menma in favor of Jintan, deepening his existing jealousy of Jintan.
** Finally, Tsuruko has always been in love with Yukiatsu and has prided herself on knowing him better than anyone else. But not only is Yukiatsu stuck on Menma, he's also designated Anaru as his chosen rebound, leaving Tsuruko in a distant third place. And while she doesn't resent Menma, she 'does' resent Anaru.
** Jintan's feelings for Menma were reciprocated, but he's been haunted for years that he cruelly called her "ugly" just before her death. And when she returns in ghost form, he finds himself falling back in love with her - all whilst knowing that she can't stay with him forever for obvious reasons.
** Anaru always had feelings for Jintan, but he's always been in love with Menma. Even after Menma died, the gap between the two only became wider. The return of Menma in ghost brings Jintan back into Anaru's life, but he's 'still' in love with her, much to Anaru's frustration.
** Yukiatsu is similarly in love with Menma, and like Jintan, he regrets that his final interactions with her were under tense circumstances. However, Yukiatsu has the extra pain of being directly rejected by Menma in favor of Jintan, deepening his existing jealousy of Jintan.
** Finally, Tsuruko has always been in love with Yukiatsu and has prided herself on knowing him better than anyone else. But not only is Yukiatsu stuck on Menma, he's also designated Anaru as his chosen rebound, leaving Tsuruko in a distant third place. And while she doesn't resent Menma, she 'does' resent Anaru.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 22 (click to see context) from:
** FOUND YOU, MENMA!!!
to:
** MENMA, WE FOUND YOU, MENMA!!!YOU!!!
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 8 (click to see context) from:
* Episode 5, when [[StepfordSmiler Poppo]]'s request for Menma to come out and reveal her wish slowly leads to him pleading in desperation for her to appear...which causes Menma to cry, in turn. [[HarsherInHindsight It's harsher]] when you realize ''why'' Poppo is so desperate to help Menma out.
to:
* Episode 5, when [[StepfordSmiler Poppo]]'s request for Menma to come out and reveal her wish slowly leads to him pleading in desperation for her to appear...which causes Menma to cry, in turn. [[HarsherInHindsight It's harsher]] when you realize ''why'' ''[[ILetGwenStacyDie why]]'' [[ILetGwenStacyDie Poppo is so desperate to help Menma out.out]].
Changed line(s) 10 (click to see context) from:
-->"Do I look like her? Well, tell me? DO I?"
to:
-->"Do I look like her? Well, tell me? Well? ''Tell me! DO I?"I?!''"
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 1 (click to see context) from:
''Hoo'' boy. This show may as well be Tear Jerkers: The Series
to:
''Hoo'' boy. This show may as well be Tear ''Tear Jerkers: The SeriesSeries''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* In the live action drama, we actually see the young Peace Busters' reactions to Menma's death. All five of the children look down at the river that took their friend, tearfully crying out her name as if they're trying to call her back. It's one of the most heartbreaking flashbacks in the series.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 24 (click to see context) from:
** Let's just say the entire final episode, in which all the characters and most of the viewers spent most of it bawling their eyes out. Chances are your heart strings were twinged or a lump brought to your throat... or just full-on bawling.
to:
** Let's just say the entire final episode, in which [[EverybodyCries all the characters and most of the viewers spent most of it bawling their eyes out.out]]. Chances are your heart strings were twinged or a lump brought to your throat... or just full-on bawling.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** The song "I Left You", playing when Menma appears to be dying a second death due to her wish being granted, TheReveal that her wish began with a promise she'd made to Jintan's mother, and Jintan carrying Menma over his shoulders as he rushes back to the Secret Base.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 10 (click to see context) from:
-->"Do I look like her? Well, tell me? DO I?"\\
to:
-->"Do I look like her? Well, tell me? DO I?"\\I?"
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** At the start of that episode, Yukiatsu's total meltdown after he's found out to have been crossdressing as Menma and admits his guilt over what he believes was his part in killing Menma, and how he'd been expecting Menma to appear before him to haunt or curse him for that.
-->"Do I look like her? Well, tell me? DO I?"\\
-->"Do I look like her? Well, tell me? DO I?"\\
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 7 (click to see context) from:
** One of the worst instances of this is in Episode 10 when [[KickTheDog Yukiatsu calls for all the friends gathered at the Secret Base to reenact "the question" that had driven a wedge in the group and indirectly led to Menma's death. (The question being "Do you love Menma?", directed at Jintan.)
to:
** One of the worst instances of this is in Episode 10 when [[KickTheDog Yukiatsu calls for all the friends gathered at the Secret Base to reenact "the question" that had driven a wedge in the group and indirectly led to Menma's death. ]] (The question being "Do you love Menma?", directed at Jintan.)
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** One of the worst instances of this is in Episode 10 when [[KickTheDog Yukiatsu calls for all the friends gathered at the Secret Base to reenact "the question" that had driven a wedge in the group and indirectly led to Menma's death. (The question being "Do you love Menma?", directed at Jintan.)
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Changed line(s) 10,11 (click to see context) from:
* Anaru again during her [[spoiler:AnguishedDeclarationOfLove]].
* Irene Honma, Menma's mother, in Episode 8 [[spoiler:as she berates the group for growing up when Menma can't]].
* Irene Honma, Menma's mother, in Episode 8 [[spoiler:as she berates the group for growing up when Menma can't]].
to:
* Anaru again during her [[spoiler:AnguishedDeclarationOfLove]].
AnguishedDeclarationOfLove.
* Irene Honma, Menma's mother, in Episode 8[[spoiler:as as she berates the group for growing up when Menma can't]].can't.
* Irene Honma, Menma's mother, in Episode 8
Changed line(s) 13 (click to see context) from:
* Episode 10 [[spoiler: "Thank you for doing this for me today! I'm going to Heaven tomorrow. I want to be friends with everyone til the end. Thank you."]]
to:
* Episode 10 [[spoiler: "Thank you for doing this for me today! I'm going to Heaven tomorrow. I want to be friends with everyone til the end. Thank you."]]"
Changed line(s) 15,19 (click to see context) from:
** The main characters save Menma finally busting their big dam of feels to one another, revealing their deepest shames. [[spoiler: Poppo, who has been a StepfordSmiler for the full show, reveals he saw Menma die and ran away to escape the guilt of not saving her.]]
** [[spoiler:Menma's letters to her friends, telling them what she loves about them. Especially the one to Jintan - "I love you, Jintan. My love for you is the sort of love where I want to marry you."]]
** Jintan [[spoiler: losing his ability to see Menma, after being the only one who could for so long.]]
** [[spoiler: FOUND YOU, MENMA!!!]]
*** [[spoiler: ''You found me...'']]
** [[spoiler:Menma's letters to her friends, telling them what she loves about them. Especially the one to Jintan - "I love you, Jintan. My love for you is the sort of love where I want to marry you."]]
** Jintan [[spoiler: losing his ability to see Menma, after being the only one who could for so long.]]
** [[spoiler: FOUND YOU, MENMA!!!]]
*** [[spoiler: ''You found me...'']]
to:
** The main characters save Menma finally busting their big dam of feels to one another, revealing their deepest shames. [[spoiler: Poppo, who has been a StepfordSmiler for the full show, reveals he saw Menma die and ran away to escape the guilt of not saving her.]]
her.
**[[spoiler:Menma's Menma's letters to her friends, telling them what she loves about them. Especially the one to Jintan - "I love you, Jintan. My love for you is the sort of love where I want to marry you."]]
"
** Jintan[[spoiler: losing his ability to see Menma, after being the only one who could for so long.]]
long.
**[[spoiler: FOUND YOU, MENMA!!!]]
MENMA!!!
***[[spoiler: ''You found me...'']]''
**
** Jintan
**
***
Changed line(s) 24 (click to see context) from:
* [[ArmorPiercingQuestion "Mom...do you know how tall I am?"]]
to:
* [[ArmorPiercingQuestion "Mom...do you know how tall I am?"]]am?"]]
----
----
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 24 (click to see context) from:
* "Mom...do you know how tall I am?"
to:
* [[ArmorPiercingQuestion "Mom...do you know how tall I am?" am?"]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** The main characters save Menma finally busting their big dam of feels to one another, revealing their deepest shames. [[spoiler: Poppo, who has been a StepfordSmiler for the full show, reveals he saw Menma die and ran away to escape the guilt of not saving her.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Deleted line(s) 3 (click to see context) :
Changed line(s) 6,7 (click to see context) from:
-->"Onee-chan was a bit air-headed, so maybe she hasn't even realized she died."
-->''"I know."''
-->''"I know."''
to:
-->"Onee-chan was a bit air-headed, so maybe she hasn't even realized she died."
-->''"I"\\
''"I know."''
-->''"I
''"I know."''
Changed line(s) 12 (click to see context) from:
* Irene Honma aka Menma's mother in Episode 8 [[spoiler:as she berates the group for growing up when Menma can't]].
to:
* Irene Honma aka Honma, Menma's mother mother, in Episode 8 [[spoiler:as she berates the group for growing up when Menma can't]].
Changed line(s) 16,21 (click to see context) from:
* [[spoiler:Menma's letters to her friends, telling them what she loves about them. Especially the one to Jintan - "I love you, Jintan. My love for you is the sort of love where I want to marry you."]]
* Jintan [[spoiler: losing his ability to see Menma, after being the only one who could for so long.]]
* [[spoiler: FOUND YOU, MENMA!!!]]
** [[spoiler: ''You found me...'']]
*** Let's just say the entire final episode, in which all the characters and most of the viewers spent most of it bawling their eyes out. Chances are your heart strings were twinged or a lump brought to your throat... or just full-on bawling.
**** The Movie actually manages to make it worse, by showing what happens after Menma disappeared.
* Jintan [[spoiler: losing his ability to see Menma, after being the only one who could for so long.]]
* [[spoiler: FOUND YOU, MENMA!!!]]
** [[spoiler: ''You found me...'']]
*** Let's just say the entire final episode, in which all the characters and most of the viewers spent most of it bawling their eyes out. Chances are your heart strings were twinged or a lump brought to your throat... or just full-on bawling.
**** The Movie actually manages to make it worse, by showing what happens after Menma disappeared.
to:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Deleted line(s) 2 (click to see context) :
Added DiffLines:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
----
Changed line(s) 10,11 (click to see context) from:
* Anaru again during her [[spoiler:AnguishedDeclarationOfLove.]]
* Irene Honma aka Menma's mother in Episode 8 [[spoiler:as she berates the group for growing up when Menma can't.]]
* Irene Honma aka Menma's mother in Episode 8 [[spoiler:as she berates the group for growing up when Menma can't.]]
to:
* Anaru again during her [[spoiler:AnguishedDeclarationOfLove.]]
[[spoiler:AnguishedDeclarationOfLove]].
* Irene Honma aka Menma's mother in Episode 8 [[spoiler:as she berates the group for growing up when Menmacan't.]]can't]].
* Irene Honma aka Menma's mother in Episode 8 [[spoiler:as she berates the group for growing up when Menma
Changed line(s) 20 (click to see context) from:
**** The Movie actually manages to make it worse, by showing what happens after menma disappeared.
to:
**** The Movie actually manages to make it worse, by showing what happens after menma Menma disappeared.
Changed line(s) 22 (click to see context) from:
* How much of a tear jerker this anime is, [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2014/04/23-1/international-otaku-name-top-tearjerker-anime It's consistently listed as #1 in the list of tearjerking anime]].
to:
* How much of a tear jerker this anime is, [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2014/04/23-1/international-otaku-name-top-tearjerker-anime It's it's consistently listed as #1 in the list of tearjerking anime]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* How much of a tear jerker this anime is, [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2014/04/23-1/international-otaku-name-top-tearjerker-anime It's consistently listed as #1 in the list of tearjerking anime]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* Episode 10 [[spoiler: "Thank you for doing this for me today! I'm going to Heaven tomorrow. I want to be friends with everyone til the end. Thank you."]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
**** The Movie actually manages to make it worse, by showing what happens after menma disappeared.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
''Hoo'' boy. This show may as well be Tear Jerkers: The Series
* Menma is driven to tears more than once.
** From episode one, no less:
-->"Onee-chan was a bit air-headed, so maybe she hasn't even realized she died."
-->''"I know."''
* Episode 5, when [[StepfordSmiler Poppo]]'s request for Menma to come out and reveal her wish slowly leads to him pleading in desperation for her to appear...which causes Menma to cry, in turn. [[HarsherInHindsight It's harsher]] when you realize ''why'' Poppo is so desperate to help Menma out.
* Anaru is driven to tears by her classmates' rumormongering in Episode 6, then to happy tears by Jintan standing up for her. Mrs. Honma also tears up when Jintan, Poppo, and Anaru come to pay respects to Menma.
* Jinta, when he remembers that Menma will disappear forever if her wish is granted.
* Anaru again during her [[spoiler:AnguishedDeclarationOfLove.]]
* Irene Honma aka Menma's mother in Episode 8 [[spoiler:as she berates the group for growing up when Menma can't.]]
* Episode 9. Just Episode 9.
* Episode 11. Literally UpToEleven.
* [[spoiler:Menma's letters to her friends, telling them what she loves about them. Especially the one to Jintan - "I love you, Jintan. My love for you is the sort of love where I want to marry you."]]
* Jintan [[spoiler: losing his ability to see Menma, after being the only one who could for so long.]]
* [[spoiler: FOUND YOU, MENMA!!!]]
** [[spoiler: ''You found me...'']]
*** Let's just say the entire final episode, in which all the characters and most of the viewers spent most of it bawling their eyes out. Chances are your heart strings were twinged or a lump brought to your throat... or just full-on bawling.
* The thick air of nostalgia is enough to make for at least one per episode.
* Menma is driven to tears more than once.
** From episode one, no less:
-->"Onee-chan was a bit air-headed, so maybe she hasn't even realized she died."
-->''"I know."''
* Episode 5, when [[StepfordSmiler Poppo]]'s request for Menma to come out and reveal her wish slowly leads to him pleading in desperation for her to appear...which causes Menma to cry, in turn. [[HarsherInHindsight It's harsher]] when you realize ''why'' Poppo is so desperate to help Menma out.
* Anaru is driven to tears by her classmates' rumormongering in Episode 6, then to happy tears by Jintan standing up for her. Mrs. Honma also tears up when Jintan, Poppo, and Anaru come to pay respects to Menma.
* Jinta, when he remembers that Menma will disappear forever if her wish is granted.
* Anaru again during her [[spoiler:AnguishedDeclarationOfLove.]]
* Irene Honma aka Menma's mother in Episode 8 [[spoiler:as she berates the group for growing up when Menma can't.]]
* Episode 9. Just Episode 9.
* Episode 11. Literally UpToEleven.
* [[spoiler:Menma's letters to her friends, telling them what she loves about them. Especially the one to Jintan - "I love you, Jintan. My love for you is the sort of love where I want to marry you."]]
* Jintan [[spoiler: losing his ability to see Menma, after being the only one who could for so long.]]
* [[spoiler: FOUND YOU, MENMA!!!]]
** [[spoiler: ''You found me...'']]
*** Let's just say the entire final episode, in which all the characters and most of the viewers spent most of it bawling their eyes out. Chances are your heart strings were twinged or a lump brought to your throat... or just full-on bawling.
* The thick air of nostalgia is enough to make for at least one per episode.
