Toward the Terra/Tear Jerker

Toward the Terra sure deals its share of emotional gutpunches...


 * This troper doesn't usually cry all that much over fictional things--a tear or two here or there, usually--but god, the last four episodes. Gut-wrenching, screaming, curled-in-the-corner-of-the-couch sobs. Particularly  and
 * The tearjerkers start way back in about episode nine, with . Not to mention episode eleven, in which . Then the next episode rubs salt in it by showing . Owww.
 * Don't forget episode seventeen, which even makes into something sobworthy - and that's before we get to ...
 * There's one scene from the manga ending that gets to me every time:  Dammit, Takemiya.
 * The ending of the manga is also possibly even more of a Tear Jerker than the anime's, thanks to Grand Mother taking physical control of Keith and forcing him to, and his meltdown afterwards: "Never warp my will again!"
 * Blue's in the manga.