Tear Jerker / Vandread

• The Littlest Cancer Patient Shirley in the second season. Her friendship with Bart and her willingness to listen to all of his stories with rapt attention caused her to feel very protective of her. Bart invokes Heroic Resolve to upgrade the Nirvana and completely stomp the attackers when she starts to take a turn for the worse. However, he finds out she died during the battle from her disease. A double whammy comes from the show cutting to her trying to hold on so she can see Bart again.
• The Red Shirt Army at the end of the first season. Hibiki meets them, they get some depth and they aren't going let their planet get harvested, and the harvest fleet they were trying to stop proceeds to effortlessly tear them apart while Hibiki is powerless to help them, leaving him critically injured and surrounded by derilects and scrap.
  • Hibiki's trauma is twofold. One was the individuals he got to know either instantly dying or sacrificing themselves to save him (a first time experience for him). The second was during the battle itself, with the colonist fleet inspired by him cutting a swath through the enemy and following behind to back him up, which only adds to the pain and his feelings of personally failure when the main enemy armada proceeds to obliterate the fleet entirely and proceeds past to towards their planet.