Katawa Shoujo/Tear Jerker

Hisao

 * His Act 1 bad ending is one, even if he had not . He walks around the festival, lonely as he notes that none of the girls he met in his first days are available, and never emerges from his state of depression and bitterness.

Emi

 * The discussion after the exams, where she explains


 * The scene with Emi opening up to Hisao, a week after
 * The conversation in the graveyard arguably counts as well. "Eight years ago today, I lost my legs.

Hanako
"Hanako: " (...) I know I need help! I know I'm broken! ”"
 * Hanako's bad end as well. It's already shocking enough to see her, but what really drives it home is the fact that it's very easy to think the choices that lead to it are the right ones. Again, this one calls What the Hell, Player? while forcing the reader to seriously reevaluate why they've become so emotionally attached to her in the first place.

"Hanako:"
 * Her Neutral ending isn't much better. Who's to say that ...?
 * Speaking of Hanako, the reveal of how she came to be scarred, and why she's got (some of) the psychological issues she has.


 * Hanako's
 * Hanako is basically a walking tearjerker.

Lilly

 * Both of Lilly's endings evoke this to some degree, what with in both. The twist is that in the good ending  The music playing through most of the ending, Friendship doesn't make matters any better, either...

Rin
"Rin: I can't hug anyone Hisao. I'm a bad person like that."
 * Rin's first H-Scene.
 * Even more so in her bad ending, where


 * Possibly her biggest tear-jerker of all is

Shizune

 * Shizune's bad end you get for Oh, Christ. While most of the text remains the same as the Good End which has the theme of, having it change to have the underlying subtext that  makes every scene so uncomfortable. And it all ends with Shizune  What the Hell, Player??! And as one final note,
 * And the worst part? Shizune
 * And let's not forget that, while ... it doesn't exactly go black and white, and isn't shown as a ... but as a person  It sucks for everyone equally.

Saki

 * Saki exists only in the 2011 April's Fool Joke by the developers, yet she got quite some attention, also because of her characterization which basically makes her a living Tear Jerker. While Hisao has to deal with a condition that puts his life constantly on the line, he'll be fine as long as he keeps up with his medication and gets some exercise. Saki's disease leaves no such hope: she may have from a few years to a couple decades left, but death will certainly come for her, and not before the disease will have gradually reduced her to a shell, finally taking away even her ability to breathe. She doesn't allow this to take the best of her, but even the happiest story with her could not be detached from a sense of constant sadness for the Foregone Conclusion that is her future. Katawa Shoujo might deal with some depressing stuff, but a story with Saki would likely blow all of the others out of the water in terms of making the reader cry.