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When you see this, you'll WEEP brix.
- The episode with the ghost girl Sayo. It gives a much better impression of Sayo and Kazumi, especially when Kazumi decides not to take the picture after Sayo breaks down crying. Up until now she had been shown to be just as mercenary as her manga side.
- Evangeline's Image Song "Re-Born" sounds somewhat like a rock ballad if you don't know Japanese. Then you read the English translation of the lyrics...
- Chapter 267: Zect dissolves right before Nagi's eyes literally moments after Lifemaker is defeated. Nagi breaks into a hysterical scream. And that was supposed to be their moment of triumph.
- In Chapter 268, the various images of Queen Arika suffering due to the machinations of the Evil Senate. Can also fill viewers with RAGE at said senate. Of course, things do get better.
- Chao's farewell scene.
- Such a kind-hearted yet strong willed woobie, admitting her feelings to all her dear friends, without even thinking twice about going back to the hell she calls future. The fact that she didn't even shed a tear or ever complain or tell anymore how much she suffered makes this tropper feel really sad that she didn't succeed. Misaimed Fandom maybe?
- Everyone (reader and character alike) wasn't sure if Chao was right or not. Besides, Negima's villains are made up mostly Anti Villains. And yeah. That WAS a Tear Jerker for me, too.
- And then Chapter 298 shows us what she was trying to stop: a hundred-year war between Earth and Mars. Think about it: she grew up in a world where fighting, bloodshed, and death is all that anyone has ever known. You HAVE to pity her, especially since she willingly returned to that Hell after Negi defeated her.
- Chapter 311. Just seeing the horrified look on the girls faces is enough to make you weep.
- Chapter 312, end text. "For the sake of her comrades, for the sake of the world, Kaede is broken—!!" The last expression she takes on in the chapter is a small smile.
- And it continues... Koutarou, Makie and Yue (after making a promise to hang out more) all fall.
- At this point, there's a tear jerker every few chapters, to the point you want to shake Akamatsu and tell him to stop killing all these minor characters in depressingly heroic ways.
- At first, Fate's consumption of ridiculous amounts of coffee seems like a mere joke, particularly given his extremely uncaffeinated personality. Then chapter 327 happens. While the first part of the chapter is a huge Heartwarming Moment with Luna and her sister treating Fate in their house and Fate being grateful for how delicious her coffee tastes, the last pages have him return to their village, only to find the two of them lying on the ground as their village burns. Luna's sister recognizes him and tells him she's sorry she won't be able to make him coffee today, and then Secundum rewrites her with the Code of the Lifemaker. Secundum gets what he deserves, but the chapter ends on a sad note with Fate remarking he won't be able to taste that delicious coffee ever again. And it only gets worse when one realizes that he's been drinking seven cups of coffee a day ever since then, in the hopes of finding just one that can bring him the same simple happiness that Luna's sister's coffee did. If that's not enough, it gets even worse when one realizes that, even with everything he went through, Fate may never have understood that it wasn't the coffee that mattered... but the person making it.
- Chapter 334 tops it all, Negi and Co. finally defeated the seemingly invincible Lifemaker, only that said villain happened to be Nagi, AKA: the father that Negi was always striving to find, and the only words he tells his son in six years, right before disappearing again to who-knows-where? "Come and kill me, Negi. With that, everything will be over." Here's hoping Negi finds a way to free him from the Lifemaker's possession without killing him.
- Considering things from a normal person's point of view: after all this crap... when you consider that she's been away from home for a long time, that she had at one point been a slave meant to work for several years, that she had seen friends die and come back to life, and that the stress she felt during the climax of the Magic World incident was such that she thought SHE was going to die, Natsumi is quite justified in crying at every normal, PRECIOUS meal she has had on Earth since returning to school. Only a few of us may know the overwhelming levels of relief she must feel about being home after experiencing these things firsthand.
- Because of Magia Erebea, Negi is Immortal, much like Eva. While this wouldn't normally bother most people at first, Setsuna pointed out He wouldn't age and therefore could not live a normal life or father any children, meaning that the bloodline stays with him. This also meant that being in a relationship with any of the girls next to him was near impossible as well, since they would age and die, leaving him alone and miserable no matter what. There's a very good chance he will live a life much like Eva and suffer for it.
- Chapter 343. While Negi is turned immortal, Asuna's fate is to sleep for a hundred years in the Gravekeeper's Palace, as a literal "cornerstone" for the plan to save the magical world. And they don't think her Kagurazaka personality will be able to hold up to it, and will fade away in the process.
- Continuing from the above, Asuna's early graduation and goodbyes with Takahata and Ayaka.
- Ayaka gives Asuna the time capsule they had buried earlier as a memento, considering by the time that Asuna awakens, Ayaka and the rest (except possibly Sayo, Eva, Chachamaru, Zazie and Negi) would probably no longer live in this world.
- Chapter 351. Asuna's Goodbye. The tears on Konoka's and Negi's faces say it all.
- Chapter 352 has an extremely heartbreaking scene. Asuna returns to see Negi's grave. She doesn't take it well. Relatedly, she overslept her hundred-year sleep by thirty years. Ayaka, who lived until 115 to see her again, died the year she was supposed to wake up.
Asuna: Everybody's gone. Class rep... and Negi... and Konoka... and Setsuna... and Kakizaki... and Misora... and Takahata-sensei... even stupid Chamo. I should have just disappeared, if it was going to end like this. I want to see everyone... I want to see you all, one more time... [She cries]
- At the epilogue we get small details of each character's future. Chisame's was heartbreaking, after being one of Negi's strongest and most loyal allies she ended up having a really pitiful life. Thankfully averted when the sequel reveals that afterwards she found happiness with Negi.