.hack/Tear Jerker


 * .hack//SIGN has a tears of joy moment right at the end, when the players behind the game characters and  recognize each other in the real world for the first time and joyfully rush toward each other... and for the only time in the entire series the depiction of the real world changes from drab black and white to vibrant color.
 * This troper still remembers a moment early in the series that still makes him mist up.
 * The "Legend of Twilight" manga (not the anime), which has a similar moment to Tsukasa's grunty adventure (Indeed, it's implied that the same girl who abandoned her grunty with Tsukasa has done so with Hotaru) has  For those who've also read the AI Buster light novels and know how she came into possession of that weapon, the scene can be quite powerful. The mangaka even wrote in author's notes at the end of the book that once   YMMV on this one, though; people who aren't aware of Kamui and Albireo's past don't tend to see her as particularly sympathetic, and due to some translation-induced gender changes in the Light Novels, even then they might miss it.
 * Vaguely remember the girl who ditched the Grundy getting a big What the Hell, Hero? moment the second time, which kinda made the first grunty all the more tearjerking, since normally apathetic Tsukasa was duped by her in the first place, scouring the lands searching for a cure, and then it wouldn't eat it, because it was too late...
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 * Somewhat mitigated when one realizes that  Of course, that one gets turned on its head even later in with the revelation that  Missions after the end of the game   And then comes GU... Let's just say that for Maha,.
 * In the .hack//AI Buster light novel, the climax: He is so distraught by these events that he ends up quitting the company, sowing the seeds for.
 * A followup scene in the Legend of Twilight manga has, traveling through the Net Slums, which are an area of leftover data and partially deleted remnants. A girl appears before them:   The girl smiles and replies, "I hope your ending will be kind to you... Good night." and disappears...   Who knew A Is could be so sweet?
 * Aura's theme is Crowning Music of Tear Jerking. Enough said.