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* [[spoiler: In Inazuma Eleven Ares no Tenbin, the fact that some time after the Football Frontier, Raimon split up (The preview showing that Someoka joined Hakuren after that). While there maybe some members that fans don't really like, 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.]]

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* Ares Episode 3: We get the source of Kozoumaru's preference of offense. When he was younger, he was a defender who wasn't good despite all of his training. He attempted to stop a robber thanks to his improved speed, but couldn't catch up. However, Gouenji arrives and not only saves the day, but advises Kozoumaru to become a forward instead. In hindsight, him learning Fire Tornado like Gouenji did makes sense.

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* Ares Episode 3: We get the source of Kozoumaru's preference of offense. When he was younger, he was a defender who wasn't good despite all of his training. He attempted to stop a robber thanks to his improved speed, but couldn't catch up. However, Gouenji arrives and not only saves the day, but advises Kozoumaru to become a forward instead. In hindsight, him learning Fire Tornado like Gouenji did makes sense.sense.

* [[http://imgur.com/a/TsAK1 This comic which explains why Kirino looks like a girl.]]

* Kogure's backstory. [[spoiler:When he was a kid his mother abandonned 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.

* Episode 01 of Ares nothing more than a TragicCongaLine 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.

** For starters, after seeing some kids playing soccer, Aki and Domon remember the times when they were young and used to play with Ichinose, who was a ChildProdigy. After making a promise to always play soccer together, Ichinose jumps on the road to save a puppy that was going to be crushed by a car, but gets crushed himself in the process. The fact that Aki confirmed he died afterwards doesn't help.
** [[spoiler:Except he actually didn't die, but his reason for FakingTheDead is still pretty sad itself. After said accident, he had to move away for medical treatment and the doctors told him that he wouldn't be able to play football ever again, which weren't good news at all for soccer freak like him and didn't want his friends to see him like that, so he requested his father to tell them that he had died. Fortunately, his medical treatment, love for soccer and the promise he made with his friends help him overcome this problem and he visits Aki in Japan to tell her the good news. He decides to stay there for a while and become part of Endou's team. It looks like he earned his happy ending, right?]]
*** [[spoiler:Not really. In the FFI arc, he discovers that the injuries from his accident didn't heal completely and he needs another operation, with little chance that he'd be able to play football ever again. It looks like the game he loves is going to be taken away from him again and this time for real and he's visibly upset about it. He didn't even talk to Aki anymore because he didn't want her to worry about him and before Inazuma Japan was going to have a match against Unicorn, he tried to tell her about his condition, but he just couldn't. During the match, he tried to hide his sadness from everyone and do his best, inspite of his medical condition. Fortunately, the operation is a success and he doesn't lose the game he loves in the end. Now, that's ''when'' he earns his happy ending.]]

* Episode 45, full stop. Not only does Raimon [[spoiler:lose horribly to Genesis with a score of 20-0, but Fubuki gets badly injured in the match and Hitomiko reveals his entire backstory and mental condition. And at the end of the episode, Kazemaru leaves the team.]] The episode is easily [[WhamEpisode one of the most shocking ones]].
** On that subject Fubuki's whole backstory must be one of the most depressing one in the entire series. [[spoiler:After the Fubuki brothers won a soccer tournament, an avalanche killed Shirou's entire family except him. Because of that, he developed a SplitPersonality of his twin and spends the entire arc struggling to get over it.]]

* In episode 64, the current Raimon members discover that even after defeating all the Aliea Gakuen teams and after everyone from Aliea pulls a HeelFaceTurn, they still have one more team and their final opponents, The Dark Emperors, are none other than ''[[TrueCompanions their friends]]'', their former teammates who left the team throughout the season and who are now evil after being given the remaining fragments of the Aliea Meteorite!

* After Endou and Fuyuka witness a car accident, he brings her to the hospital after she faints. There, Coach Kudou reveals [[spoiler:that he isn't her real father and that her real parents died in an accident similar to the one she has witnessed before. After the death of her parents, she refused to eat and was in the danger of dying, so the doctors decided to erase all her previous memories through hypnptherapy. Coach Kudou adopted Fuyuka as his daughter, but even after all these years, he still wonders if erasing her memories was the right thing to do.]]
** Then comes episode 102, in which [[spoiler: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 first half of episode 63 is an emotional rollercoaster. [[spoiler: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. He 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. He then reveals that Seijirou was not his real father, and that he's actually an orphan who took the name Hiroto after Seijirou's real son, who died several years ago. He then has flashbacks about his childhood, which show The Genesis team as kids in the orphanage, revealing that the whole team are orphans. He was shown to be half the time, lonely and was always smiling when Seijirou visited them at the orphanage. Seijirou is touched by Hiroto's speech, but says he cannot be called their father anymore and throws the soccer ball back at Ulvida, prompting her to kick it at him again. She begins to, but starts to break down and cry, saying that she couldn't in the end because he was the only father she ever had.]]
** Then there's the reason why Seijirou made The Genesis project in the first place. [[spoiler:After his son's death, he was heartbroken, but had his heart revived after Hitomiko's offer to start the Sun Garden orphanage. At first he only started it to please Hitomiko, but the smiling faces of the orphans made him actually enjoy it. But then, when the Aliea meteorite had crashed on to Earth, Seijirou's company began to take analysis on the meteorite and that's when he got the idea about his project. Seeing how the meteorite turned such a nice man into a monster is rather heartbreaking.]]
** [[spoiler:When Aliea's structure starts to collapse, everybody is trying to evacuate the building, except Seijirou, who wants to be crushed by the building to atone for his mistakes. Basically, he tries to commit ''suicide''. But Endou and Hiroto save him, saying that he has to live for the orphans.]]

* 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; he wouldn't be able to have her 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 abandonned 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.
* Episode 45, full stop. Not only does Raimon [[spoiler: lose horribly to Genesis with a score of 20-0, but you get the entirety of Fubuki's backstory and at the end of the episode, Kazemaru leaves the team.]] The episode is easily one of the most shocking ones.
** On that subject Fubuki's whole backstory must be one of the most depressing one in the entire series. [[spoiler: After the Fubuki brothers won a soccer tournament, an avalanche kills their family; except for Shirou.]]
** Raimon first met Fubuki on Northern Ridge. How is this relevant? Furukabu implies that many avalanches takes place there. [[spoiler: Even after years, Fubuki still can't let go of the death of his parents.]]

* The first half of episode 63 is an emotional rollercoaster. [[spoiler: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. He 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 jumped in front of his father to take the hit instead. Ulvida starts question Hiroto for jumping in to save the man who believes they're a mistake, to which Hiroto answers that Seijirou was still his father and he still loved him no matter what. He then reveals that Seijirou was actually not his real father, and that he's actually an orphan who took the name Hiroto after Seijirou's real son who had died several years ago. He then has flashbacks about his childhood in the orphanage, which show The Genesis team as kids in the flashback, revealing that the whole team are orphans. He was shown to be half the time, lonely and was always smiling when Seijirou had come to visit them at the orphanage. Seijirou is touched by Hiroto's speech, but says he cannot be called their father anymore and throws the soccer ball back at Ulvida, prompting her to kick it at him again. Ulvida begins to, but starts to break down and cry, saying that she couldn't in the end because he was the only father she ever had.]]
** Then there's the reason why Seijirou made The Genesis project in the first place. [[spoiler:After his son's death, he was heartbroken, but had his heart revived after Hitomiko's offer to start the Sun Garden orphanage. At first he only started it to please Hitomiko, but the smiling faces of the orphans made him actually enjoy it. But then, when the Aliea meteorite had crashed on to Earth, Seijirou's company began to take analysis on the meteorite and he came to the conclusion that he'll use it for his project. Seeing how such a nice man became a monster is rather heartbreaking.]]
* [[spoiler:''Chrono Stone'''s final cutscene certainly qualifies. 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:Except he actually didn't die, but his reason for FakingTheDead is still pretty sad itself. After said accident, he had to move away for medical treatment and the doctors told him that he wouldn't be able to play football ever again, which weren't good news at all for soccer freak like him and didn't want his friends to see him like that, so he requested his father to tell them that he had died. Fortunately, his medical treatment, love for soccer and the promise he made with his friends help him overcome this problem and he visits Aki in Japan to tell her the good news. He decides to stay there for a while and become part of Endou's team. It looks like he earned his happy ending, right?

* Usually combined with CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.
* One notable moment includes anything involving [[spoiler:Ichinose.]]

* [[spoiler: In Inazuma Eleven Ares no Tenbin, the fact that some time after the Football Frontier, Raimon split up (The preview showing that Someoka joined Hakuren after that). While there maybe some members that fans don't really like, 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.]]

* [[http://imgur.com/a/TsAK1 comic which explains why Kirino looks like a girl.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[BreakTheCutie Not]] [[DespairEventHorizon even]] [[HotBlooded Endou's]] optimism can save him.]]

** [[spoiler: In Inazuma Eleven Ares no Tenbin, the fact that some time after the Football Frontier, Raimon split up (The preview showing that Someoka joined Hakuren after that). While there maybe some members that fans don't really like, 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.]]

** [[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.]]

** [[spoilers: 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.]]

* [[spoiler:''Chrono Stone'''s final cutscene certainly qualifies. 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.]]

** Usually combined with CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.
** One notable moment includes anything involving [[spoiler:Ichinose.]]
** Kogure's backstory. [[spoiler: When he was a kid his mother abandonned 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.
** Episode 45, full stop. Not only does Raimon [[spoiler: lose horribly to Genesis with a score of 20-0, but you get the entirety of Fubuki's backstory and at the end of the episode, Kazemaru leaves the team.]] The episode is easily one of the most shocking ones.
*** On that subject Fubuki's whole backstory must be one of the most depressing one in the entire series. [[spoiler: After the Fubuki brothers won a soccer tournament, an avalanche kills their family; except for Shirou.]]
**** Raimon first met Fubuki on Northern Ridge. How is this relevant? Furukabu implies that many avalanches takes place there. [[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:''Chrono Stone'''s final cutscene certainly qualifies. 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.]]