History TearJerker / InazumaEleven

[[folder: Ares No Tenbin]]
* Some time after the Football Frontier, Raimon split up as part of the Soccer Reinforcement Program in order to make other teams stronger. (The preview showing that Someoka joined Hakuren after that.) While there maybe some members that fans don't really like and the split is only temporary, it's still sad to see, knowing that the members could have gotten more closer with each other in the original series instead of splitting up temporarily.
** It's also sad that in this series Raimon doesn't meet some characters they met in Season 2 aside from Fubuki Shirou and members of Aliea Academy such as Hiroto and Midorikawa, because since the attack never happened. They never had to make a journey through Japan and as a result never met their teammates in Season 2 such as Zaizen Touko, Kogure Yuuya, Urabe Rika, Tsunami Jousuke, Hijikata Raiden or Tachimukai Yuuki.
* In episode 4 of ''Code Breaker'', Aphrodi has a HeroicBSOD over the fact that Zeus lost due to his mistake to accept Kageyama's Aqua Of the Gods and believes he's a failure of a captain. The old woman he meets in the episode makes him feel better.
* Episode 01 of Ares nothing more than a TraumaCongaLine for poor Asuto and Inakuni Soccer Club. First, Inakuni loses it's practice field after promising to get the chance to play against someone from the mainland. Then principal Fuyukai shut down the soccer club. After that, Asuto goes to the hospital, where his sick mother dies in front of his eyes after she encourages him to take back soccer.
* Episode 005 starts delving into Haizaki's issues. He was shy and lonely as a child until he met his neighbor, Akane Miyano. However, an incident left Akane comatose and unable to walk. Every time he goes to see her, she can't even acknowledge his existence.
** He visits her again in episode 7, where she still doesn't respond to him and leaves the room sad as usual... but when Haizaki is gone, Nosaka enters Akane's room and she actually responds to him and discards the present from Haizaki and accepts the one from Nosaka. If Haizaki didn't have enough issues already, Akane is basically cheating on him.
** It's later revealed, however, that Akane is faking it since she is working with Nosaka to find out more about the Ares no Tenbin program, but it doesn't make this any less sad.
* At the end of episode 7, Anna discovers from a crying Tsukushi that Chou Kinun is arrested and Inakuni Raimon has to play without their coach.
* Asuto's letter from his mother is both heartwarming and tear-jerking. It shows her regrets about not being able to spend more time with Asuto because of her ilness and not being able to leave the country with his father, who left it to follow his soccer dreams overseas and Asuto thought for a long time that he died in an accident, but it also shows her supporting Asuto's dream, who becomes more determined to win the Football Frontier and hopes to see his father one day.
* Episode 15: It's revealed Nosaka has a brain tumor and has only three months left to live.
* Episode 18: How Ares's Kira Hiroto turned out the way he is. To be exact, he was on the receiving end of the case of ParentsAsPeople and ParentalNeglect by Kira Seijirou himself as he grew up. To anyone who had been on his position once, the situation would have hit close to home.
--> '''Hiroto''': A guy like you, with high expectations from the old man, would never understand me. Not a single part of me.
* Episode 21: Michinari starts to feel useless as a captain, not helped by the fact that he can't make his team work together.

[[folder: Orion no Kokuin]]
* The entire second half of episode 13, where Ichihoshi resolves his split personality and finds himself again. Realizing that even if Mitsuru is dead, they will always be together connected through their soccer. The other IJ members helping Ichihoshi through his crisis counts as a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} while the awakened Ichihoshi Hikaru immediately shows off his dribbling and analytical skills in a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome by bypassing all the opponents in his way.
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* In episode 12, Kageyama reveals Kidou's backstory: [[spoiler:when him and Haruna were young, they lost their parents in a plane crash and grew up in an orphanage until they were adopted by different families. In order to bring his sister back, Kidou made a deal with his father to win three consecutive national tournaments; they wouldn't be able to live together if he loses.]] Kageyama being the ManipulativeBastard he is, he tries to toy with Endou's emotions to lose on purpose so that Teikoku will win.

* Kogure's backstory. [[spoiler:When he was a kid his mother abandoned him, and Kogure was left waiting for her for hours.]] For all the dirty stunts he's pulled, you can't help but feel bad for him.

** Raimon first met Fubuki on Northern Ridge. How is this relevant? Furukabu implies that many avalanches takes place there. Doubles as HarsherInHindsight because [[spoiler:even after years, Fubuki still can't let go of the death of his parents.]]
* Episode 46 is no better, with [[spoiler:Endou having a massive HeroicBSOD over Kazemaru leaving the team, blaming himself for it and Fubuki's injuries and unstability, spending almost the entirety of the episode on the rooftop to the point ''he stops eating and won't move even if it's raining''. And then Kurimatsu leaves, too, as he can't take the situation any longer.]] The fact that the episode is called "The Captain's Trial" should've clued you in.

* [[spoiler: Kageyama's death. Made especially heartwrenching due to the fact we see him finally come to terms with the fact that he was chasing his father's soccer all along and that despite everything that happened, he still loved his father and soccer itself.]]
** [[spoiler: After Kageyama's death we are also treated to a scene where Rushe, the little girl Kageyama saved, opens a present from him that was a reward for completing her surgery. After she opens it she wonders when she will get to see Kageyama again and hopes that he will get to teach her lots of things about soccer. Poor thing doesn't know that the man she admires most is dead.]]

** Endou meets with [[spoiler: Gouenji, aka Ishido Shuiji, pissed that his best friend is the BigBad and changing the definition of soccer. Natsumi has to be the one to cheer him up afterwards]].

* Episode 4 results in [[spoiler: Alternative Yuuichi's death: he desperately wants to save the original Tsurugi's love for soccer even though fixing Protocol Omega's manipulations will eliminate him. Thanks to Tenma, he's able to win and bring back the original Tsurugi, but vanishes from existence as he gives a final goodbye and thanks to Tenma and Fei for helping him.]]

* ''Chrono Stone'''s final cutscene certainly qualifies. [[spoiler:On his way back to the future, Fey visits Kinako, who is pregnant with himself, knowing already that Kinako will die giving birth to him. However, Kinako tells him that history can always change, and is optimistic that maybe she'll survive to see him grow up. The music just adds to the feels in that cutscene.]]

** [[spoiler:It's later revealed, however, that Akane is faking it since she is working with Nosaka to find out more about the Ares no Tenbin program, but it doesn't make this any less sad]].

* Episode 18: How Ares's Kira Hiroto turned out the way he is. [[spoiler:To be exact, he was on the receiving end of the case of ParentsAsPeople and ParentalNeglect by Kira Seijirou himself as he grew up.]] To anyone who had been on his position once, the situation would have hit close to home.

* The entire second half of episode [[spoiler: 13, where Ichihoshi resolves his split personality and finds himself again. Realizing that even if Mitsuru is dead, they will always be together connected through their soccer. The other IJ members helping Ichihoshi through his crisis counts as a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} while the awakened Ichihoshi Hikaru immediately shows off his dribbling and analytical skills in a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome by bypassing all the opponents in his way.]]

* The fact that some time after the Football Frontier, Raimon split up as part of the Soccer Reinforcement Program in order to make other teams stronger. (The preview showing that Someoka joined Hakuren after that.) While there maybe some members that fans don't really like and the split is only temporary, it's still sad to see, knowing that the members could have gotten more closer with each other in the original series instead of splitting up temporarily.

Usually overlaps with or leads to a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. It can also overlap with TheWoobie.

* The first half of episode 63 is an emotional rollercoaster and overlaps ''a lot'' with CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. While Raimon were celebrating their long-earned victory over The Genesis and Aliea Gakuen as a whole, Seijirou joins them down on the football pitch and comments that "The Genesis project" was a mistake, which makes Ulvida angry due to misunderstanding they're a mistake and kicks a soccer ball at him, but Hiroto jumps in front of his father to take the hit instead and when Ulvida asks him why would he save the man who believes they're a mistake, Hiroto answers that Seijirou was still his father and he still loved him no matter what.

** Then comes episode 102, in which Fuyuka regains her childhood memories, including the traumatic accident, which shocks her so much she falls unconscious. Endou desperately trying to bring her back and Coach Kudou deciding that hypnotherapy is the only way to save her are rather heartbreaking to watch. But a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming occurs when Fuyuka wakes up and decides to keep all her memories, because she doesn't want to forget her friends.

* The entire second half of episode [[spoiler: 13, where Ichihoshi resolves his split personality and finds himself again. Realizing that even if Mitsuru is dead, they will always be together connected through their soccer. The other IJ members helping Ichihoshi through his crisis counts as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming while the awakened Ichihoshi Hikaru immediately shows off his dribbling and analytical skills in a CrowningMomentOfAwesome by bypassing all the opponents in his way.]]

* [[spoiler: In Inazuma Eleven Ares no Tenbin, the fact that some time after the Football Frontier, Raimon split up as part of the Soccer Reinforcement Program in order to make other teams stronger. (The preview showing that Someoka joined Hakuren after that.) While there maybe some members that fans don't really like and the split is only temporary, it's still sad to see, knowing that the members could have gotten more closer with each other in the original series instead of splitting up temporarily.]]

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The entire second half of episode [[spoiler: 13, where Ichihoshi resolves his split personality and finds himself again. Realizing that even if Mitsuru is dead, they will always be together connected through their soccer. The other IJ members helping Ichihoshi through his crisis counts as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming while the awakened Ichihoshi Hikaru immediately shows off his dribbling and analytical skills in a CrowningMomentOfAwesome by bypassing all the opponents in his way.]]
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[[AC: Football Frontier]]

[[AC: Alieas Academy]]

[[AC: Football Frontier International]]

[[AC: GO]]

[[AC: Chrono Stone]]

[[AC: Ares No Tenbin]]

--> Hiroto: A guy like you, with high expectations from the old man, would never understand me. Not a single part of me.

* Go Episode 24: Hitomiko explains Kariya’s backstory. He was eleven and was brought to Sun Garden after his father was tricked and pressured into bankruptcy. Seeing that caused him to stop trusting anyone, and only soccer became his passion.

* Go Episode 25 is just tragic for Fubuki. He became the trainer for Hakuren, taught his protege Yukimura his special hisstasu move Eternal Blizzard and he eventually succeeded. Then Fifth Sector arrived, kicked him out of Hakuren despite not being involved in the rebellion and in the present, he finds out his team became infected with Seeds, Yukimura became a Seed and now believes Fubuki betrayed. Even though he has hope that Raimon came beat Hakuren, the whole situation brings Fubuki back into hell after his troubled childhood.
* Go Episode 33: Amagi's best friend from childhood, Mahoro is now his opponent from Genei Academy. in the present, Mahoro dismisses him and flat out accuses him of deserving his bullying. Combined with the self-doubt he faced because of being demoted as a regular and being kicked out of pratice for his failures, Amagi's day keeps getting terrible. Thankfully, Hikaru comes to his rescue, but not before his backstory about losing friends for being a YesMan to everyone left him alienated for a while. The end of the episode implies there's a good reason why he and their female friend are keeping things a secret.
* Go Episode 39: Taiyou ends the battle still sick, but Tenma reassures him that everything will be okay. Unfornately, Shindou collapses from his injuries and won't be able to play in the finals.