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It was while I was on vacation back in the 2000s and I was flipping though channels on the hotel TV. It was a standard fantasy anime episode with the hero's group on some sort of quest.
One of the female characters - we'll call her "X" - had come back to her hometown to visit her loved one. Upon their arrival however, "X" discovers that her house has a new occupant and her female friend from way back when had grown elderly, the latter mistaking "X" for "X"'s granddaughter since she is unaware that "X" isn't entirely human.
It then cut away to "X" in tears and kneeling at her loved one's headstone. The man had long since died of old age, with the inscription on his headstone matching the one inside the locket he gave "X" long ago. The scene ended with "X" screaming at her friends something along the lines of "give me back the time."
Edited by WildfireAshes