Basilisk/Tear Jerker


 * In Basilisk, had this editor crying for hours.
 * death was as sad as this one as well..
 * On the same note, this troper found quite saddening as well, especially after
 * And it may generally come in behind all these, but in the manga really got to me, along with  undignified and miserable end.
 * I wonder how I could forget
 * Actually, every single damn death in the whole anime was sad in a sort of way.
 * Let's not forget the gruesome yet heartbreaking way Okoi died at the hands of Nenki and how her last moments with her brother were. Just when you thought she was about to get away, especially avoiding rape twice! And then we have Saemon-as-Yashamaru as the recipient of her Famous Last Words, unable to grieve and mourn for his beloved sister no matter how his heart is breaking right there.
 * As for Yashamaru, he died a man and his supposed "murderers" were comrades helping each other, and Gyobu didn't necessarily plan to kill him either.
 * And if we go to something else than deaths, seeing in the anime how Kasumi Gyoubu became the ruthless Bare-Fisted Monk we know... Damn, it hurt.
 * death is part this, part High Octane Nightmare Fuel.