Fairy Tail/Tear Jerker


 * Everytime there is a Flash Back involving Lisanna, you can prepare yourself to wipe some tears from your eyes, because it is either this or a slightly less depressing Crowning Moment of Heartwarming. The anime expands her role and only makes it worse.
 * Then
 * Erza's . It's All Just a Dream, but that doesn't make it any better. Just seeing everyone's reactions, especially Natsu being mad with rage, with Lucy and Gray trying to hold him back, really drives the point home.
 * The Tower of Heaven arc was essentially just one big Tear Jerker with some heartwarming moments thrown in between.
 * during the Fantasia parade. Especially in the anime, thanks to the Crowning Music of Awesome.
 * 's royal thrashing. Yes, we shouldn't be too surprised, but he's always been there, to the point that something of that magnitude happening to him just seems impossible. And that's not even counting how it happened.
 * Episode 68 from
 * The title of that chapter in the manga is one.
 * During the very end of episode 89 (Edolas Arc), where the, we have a shot at Happy's reaction: trembling, bursting into tears, and his voice breaking. His Seiyuu conveys really well his distress.
 * Chapter 251. When Cana finally tells Gildarts  Gildarts has a flashback of all the times he saw Cana while she was growing up (coincidently, she always looks sad), and he has an absolutely heartbroken expression on his face when he realizes that this whole time, she was suffering because of him. What happens next also moves this moment into the Heartwarming  section.
 * Chapter 252 has
 * Chapter 253. The entire thing.
 * Episode 122 takes it Up to Eleven.
 * The next chapter shows us what happened to the Fairy Tail guild after the
 * You know how after Lucy saw the reunion between father and daughter at Tenrou island she began to think that she'd like to go see her own dad? Well, she's finally able to in chapter 256,
 * The entire chapter 257. Also doubles as a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.
 * "Lucy, I've always loved you."
 * Lucy's during chapter 272:
 * The worst part about all this?
 * In chapter 281
 * You know how after Lucy saw the reunion between father and daughter at Tenrou island she began to think that she'd like to go see her own dad? Well, she's finally able to in chapter 256,
 * The entire chapter 257. Also doubles as a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.
 * "Lucy, I've always loved you."
 * Lucy's during chapter 272:
 * The worst part about all this?
 * In chapter 281
 * In chapter 281