This is far from being the only case of pathos in the pigeon dating games.
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- Ryouta's ending.
- Nageki's ending is both heartwarming and completely heartwrenching, as is his brother Kazuaki's/Hitori's.
- This exchange from BBL:"Go on, Sakuya... leave your liar brother, and go...""Yuuya! YUUYA!!"
- The final reveal of who killed Hiyoko and how she died serves quite effectively as the Despair Event Horizon for at least one in-game character.
- Hitori's change from being a friendly caretaker to an insane mess is absolutely heartwrenching, having everybody he loved and cared for violently ripped away until all he was left with was the hallucinated manifestation of his own survivor's guilt. The last flashback to him and Nageki in BBL is a massive tearjerker, in particular:"You were very young when you came here, so maybe you don't remember, but... losing family is hard. I want to stay like this, watching over the people I love, forever."
- The fourth chapter of Holiday Star has a lot of these too with one of the major ones coming from the reveal of who The King used to be and how he became what he is today. The page image is a snippet of The King's tragic backstory."I want to die. I want to die. I want to die. But I don't have enough courage to do it myself. I don't want to feel pain. I don't want to feel suffering. Please somebody help me...""No! Wait! I don't want to die! I never wanted to die in the first place! Society Is to Blame for making me feel this way! You said you would die together with me... Why did you betray me...?"
- In the First chapter of Holiday Star, it's revealed that Miru and Kaku were not supposed to exist at all, and were going to be killed if Ryuuji Kawara did not save them. After that, when he died, they were left abandoned again.
- The creator drew this
bit of art, showing Ryuuji playing with his son in an inflatable pool while Isa looks on. Fridge Sorrow kicks in when you recall that years later, Ryouta doesn't know how to swim - his father was never around to teach him, and then he died. In Holiday Star while he does seem to recognize Ryouta, the Migrant isn't interested and still favors "Isa". - The entirety of the 12th chapter of the manga. Aside from Hitori, who could arguably get a Fate Worse than Death, everyone in it is Doomed by Canon.
- The manga "Focus on the Hawks" is a largely silly manga about Hawk Party researchers Ryuuji, Tohri, and young Shuu ("Isa") getting by and having interpersonal conflicts. As anyone who's played through BBL knows, Ryuuji dies - and we get to see that Isa literally does not know how to deal with that, so he tries to keep working.
- It's implied that, if you're not on Sakuya, Yuuya, or Anghel's route, both Yuuya and Anghel die. It's even stated on Yuuya's ending card that he only lives twice.
