History TearJerker / TokimekiMemorial

* The scene in ''Irodori no Love Song'', where [[spoiler: Suzune is no longer able to hold out her sadness at seeing her love for the protagonist unnoticed by him, culminating with an ArmorPiercingSlap]]. Seeing her in such an emotional turmoil, you can't help but hate both the protagonist for [[spoiler: his obliviousness]], and the game's developpers for not offering a [[spoiler: Suzune]] Route possibility to the players!

* Kotoko's "Big Reconciliation" Event. After a messy quarrel between her and the protagonist when he [[spoiler: instinctively rushed to the hospital after getting news of her having suffered an accident from a panicked Bakuretsuzan, leaving out a date with Hikari, which Kotoko, as TheMatchmaker between him and Hikari, [[ArmorPiercingSlap didn't approve at all]]]], she avoided him for a whole month, part out of resentment, part out of pride and shyness of reconcilating with him. No longer able to hold out her feelings after that, she isolates herself in the Tea Club Room, and breaks in tears. The sight of that prideful and strong girl cracking down like that is ''poignant''.

The ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial'' series is a franchise where romance and comedy dominates the scene, but several TearJerker scenes are strategically sprinkled in to magnify the SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments that'll ultimately come in the end. Here is a list of those sadness-inducing scenes, sorted by flagship game of the franchise:

The ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial'' series is a franchise where romance and comedy dominates the scene, but several TearJerker scenes are strategically sprinkled in to magnify the [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heartwarming moments]] that'll ultimately come in the end. Here is a list of those sadness-inducing scenes, sorted by flagship game of the franchise:

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The ''TokimekiMemorial'' series is a franchise where romance and comedy dominates the scene, but several TearJerker scenes are strategically sprinkled in to magnify the [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heartwarming moments]] that'll ultimately come in the end. Here is a list of those sadness-inducing scenes, sorted by flagship game of the franchise:

* Kaori's "Farewell" Event, where she suddenly tries to break ties with the protagonist, fearing to trust in him and consequently be hurt by him. The brutality of the Event, coupled with the heartwrenching variation of the game's {{Leitmotif}} played in the background, makes the scene powerful.
** Similary, when [[spoiler: she isn't enough in love in you, and quits school at the beginning of the school year out of depression]]. Made even more painful if you try to phone Kaori after [[spoiler: getting the news of her resignation from Takumi: you'll only get an automatic answer telling the phone number doesn't exist anymore, meaning she has moved away, and cementing the fact she's now LostForever]].

* Yukiko's storyline has one of the most poignant Tear Jearkers in the entire franchise. In this storyline, you get to know the owner of the Candy Shop, an old lady Yukiko adores. [[spoiler: This old lady will fall ill during the course of the game, and you will see, together with a worried Yukiko, her health degrading until she dies. Later in the story, Yukiko will discover a letter the old lady left for Yukiko and the protagonist; they read it together, and will discover through it the sad story of the old lady and the man she loved, who got separated [[WorldWar2 by the war in which he died]]. As such, the old lady exhorts Yukiko and the protagonist to fully live their romance while they can, in the final lines of the letter. Yukiko is ''very'' moved after reading the letter, and it shows.]]

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* Most of the end-of-game {{Love Confession}}s are normally pure heartwarming, but Shiki Mihara's has more of the flavor of an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, as he miserably confesses to the heroine that he hasn't been able to paint and can't bear the thought of losing her. [[VideogameCrueltyPotential To make matters worse]], it's possible for the heroine to tell him she doesn't think she's good enough for him, causing him to plead desperately with her to believe that he loves her.
* When riding the ferris wheel with Kijyou Madoka in winter, there's a scene where he tells you of a good memory he has of his parents, riding a ferris wheel years ago. Since his mother is dead and it's revealed that he is on pretty shakey grounds with his father and living on his own due to that... hearing of one good memory, one that sounds like it's a pretty old one, tugs at your heartstrings.

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* In Teru's route, nearly-constant references to Sangosho in his dialogue make it clear that the cafe is important to him; his ambition is to take over ownership of it someday. So during his third-year Christmas event, when the heroine visits him because he missed the Christmas party and learns that the cafe is closing - and Teru, uncharacteristically subdued, asks if she'll let him put his head in her lap for a little while - it tugs at the heartstrings.
** The real tearjerker of Teru's route, however, comes the following month, when he calls the heroine out to the beach and tells her he's moving away and has given up on his dream of running Sangosho. When the heroine says that isn't like him quickly gets angry and demands to know what she really knows about him, [[CruelToBeKind telling her that the way he's behaved toward her has all been a lie]] and she should just forget about him, and it's painfully clear [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy why he's doing it]], and it ''stings''.

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* Ruka's accident. After telling the heroine that he'll end all the fights for her sake, he crashes his bike and wakes up just when the heroine arrives to the hospital, and tells her that he wouldn't have minded if he had died there.

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* Most of the end-of-game {{Love Confession}}s are normally pure heartwarming, but Shiki Mihara's has more of the flavor of an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, as he miserably confesses to the heroine that he hasn't been able to paint and can't bear the thought of losing her. [[VideogameCrueltyPotential To make matters worse]], it's possible for the heroine to tell him she doesn't think she's good enough for him, causing him to plead desperately with her to believe that he loves her.

* The famous "Yubikiri shita janai!!" ("What about our PinkySwear promise!!") scene in ''Nijiiro no Seishun'', especially in the Original Drama Soundtrack, where SachikoSugawara's performance is even more heartwrenching. But in either case, Saki's cry from the heart is extremely palpable, and you can't help but feel ''horrible''.

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