Rurouni Kenshin/Tear Jerker

""A sword is a weapon. The art of swordsmanship is learning how to kill. That is the truth. What Miss Kaoru says is sweet and innocent talk that only those whose hands have never been stained with the blood of men can believe. But to tell you the truth, I much prefer Miss Kaoru's sweet and innocent talk over the truth, that I do.""
 * Just about everything in the second episode of the first OVA.
 * Screw that, the whole first OVA series is a big Tear Jerker. And the original manga/TV series had its moments as well.
 * The First TV Episode. Kenshin has had enough pretending not to be the Battousai, and shows for the first time why he has such a strange philosophy to fighting:


 * The funeral for  who wasn't really dead at the time but, hey, we didn't know that!
 * Don't tell me you didn't die a little inside when Misao entered the place where  fought just in time to see   collapse before her eyes.
 * Towa no Mirai, the ending theme for the movie, tends to do this to a lot of people.
 * Don't tell me you didn't cry at least once during either episode.
 * The Seishohen (Reflections) OVA's ending is also sad because . Of course, if you read the original manga you just might be pissed instead, because the manga's ending is Happily Ever After.
 * The Seishouhen OAV did have genuinely sad moments, like,  , or.
 * Soujiro's steady breakdown during his fight with Kenshin is heartbreaking...
 * One can't help but tear up when he pleads with Kenshin. "If you claim to protect the weak, then where were you when I needed you?"
 * Kenshin's farewell to Kaoru before he goes after Shishio. No wonder poor Kaoru got depressed (if perhaps excessively so) after that.
 * Surpassed by Kenshin's backstory from the Rememberance arc (animated as the Trust and Betrayal OVA) in which Kenshin The shock of this causes Kenshin to swear to never kill again, and Tomoe's brother Enishi to swear revenge and to turn Kenshin's life into a living hell.
 * In the series, there are also  Both of them with the Adagio Cantabile of Beethoven's Path Ã©tique Sonata as background music. This troper can't hear said sonata anymore without crying.
 * WTF, people. You have not mentioned the manga scene where ? COME ON, I still sob when I remember.
 * The end of the first Tsukiokuhen OAV, depicting how Kenshin and  met. Years have passed since the first time I saw it... and I still am brought to tears like in the beginning.
 * And 's death. God, poor  . The Shimabara arc was the last good part of the anime, and despite having a Bittersweet Ending,   remains a Tear Jerker.
 * The flashback where  is one of the few times this troper cried Manly Tears while watching an anime. And then   made an oath to become "as strong as God!" and the source of his messianic complex was made painfully obvious.
 * This troper felt tears well up when  And God, the look on Aoshi's face...!
 * Another Aoshi-related one:  Seeing  's absolute heartbreak at that makes it even worse. Poor, poor child.
 * I can keep it together for Okina's request and  inner turmoil. But Kenshin's answer and   response put a lump in my throat, but for a good reason.
 * And what makes me cry just as much, if not even more... 's horribly depressing backstory. My God,  ... it never fails to bring the water works for me.
 * Even more when either  or when   Waaaah!
 * Iwasaki Taku's heartbreakingly gentle and heartfelt musical score for the ending of Rurouni Kenshin: Memories.