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If we go to the controversial Tenchi in Tokyo, there are some moments that stand out:
- Sakuya's reaction when she sees Tenchi after she got Stood Up by him in episode 10 "Ryoko's Big Date", and she sheds tears despite trying not to:Sakuya: You know, you're really a lousy liar, Tenchi.
- Double when the camera pans to Yugi, who's watching over the scene... and she's crying too.
- Ryoko's heartbreak when she sees Tenchi and Sakuya kiss in episode 16 "Carnival". All the more tear-jerking when you see the devastated look on her face after she trusted Tenchi shortly following their date.
- Ayeka's heartbreak when Tenchi angrily tells her and the other girls to leave him alone. She just bows her head respectfully to Tenchi and leads the others away. All while she's trying to hold back tears.
- Episode 17 "Drifting Away", Ryoko deciding to leave earth with Hotsuma.
- Yugi's backstory in episode 21, specially as she's imprisoned inside a dark tomb after almost destroying Jurai, crying and screaming because she's scared of the dark. Made worse when Empress Hinase, the one sealing her away, is shown crying too and even apologizing as she seals her away. Since she hates the idea of doing this to Yugi but can't do anything else.
- Worse, just before she was defeated and sealed away. She and her "friends" looked like they were on a rampage of destruction. But what did Yugi think she was doing? Just playing with her friends... Worse still, when she sees Empress Hinase's forces attack, all she does is beg the Empress to stop hurting her friends.
- Episode 22, Sakuya's Heroic BSoD when she realizes that she's got no real memories of her own.Sakuya: (in a Troubled Fetal Position on the floor of her apartment) T-Tenchi-kun... help me... please...
- When Yugi confronts Sakuya and tells her who she really is. Not feeling at least minimally sorry for her (regardless of your side in the Ship-to-Ship Combat) when she looks at Yugi in tears and whispers "No, no... Tenchi-kun, help me... NOOOOO!" right before she's absorbed back into her, or with the Really Dead Montage in the end of the episode, full of happy Sakuya scenes... is, well, extremely hard.
- There's Sakuya's final message left on Tenchi's answering machine, shown in flashback, before he rushes to her apartment to try to save her.
- Sakuya's entire storyline. Rarely have the
Mary Sue and Relationship Sue concepts been so thoroughly deconstructed - Sakuya's not real, and only exists to tear Tenchi away from his True Companions, only to be thrown away when she's done just that. She even has to perform a Heroic Sacrifice to save the hero when he fails The Final Temptation. Yeesh.
- Episode 26 "Payback", Sasami visiting Yugi in the final scene.Sasami: (cheerful) Good night, Yugi. Sleep tight.
