Key Tears Confessional

Key Discussion
#21

Air: Mizusu’s death and her mother’s voice acting for it got me

Kanon: Sayuri’s attack

Clannad: Kotomi’s route end and obvious parts in AS (such as "only two places I’m supposed to cry)

Little Busters: I forget what did it for me. Everything undershadowed by Refrain’s Kyousuke’s farewell, can’t listen to Faraway after that

Rewrite: Shizuru’s route- Nishikujo’s sacrifice and Chihaya’s Sakuya’s sacrifice.

Although do need to play Planetarian again, I played Gentle Jena in front of a crowd for my piano class and began crying later because of that, but didn’t cry to Planetarian. So the challenge if that scene in Planetarian will make me cry again.

Still at war with myself to not cry on Angel Beats, especially Ichiban no Takaramono. So far have resisted well.

#22

being 10= balling my eyes out and using a lot of tissues and 1= feeling a knot in the throat and 5= actually criying, this is my key tears conffesion:

little busters! secret of the world unveiling: 10 ( I could even say 10000 xd)
little busters! regular ending (the hospital scene) : 10
Clannad nagisa’s death: 10 (I could also say 1000)
Clannad all after story after nagisa’s death: 9
Kanon, makoto´s route: 8
kanon, main story, ayu’s route: 8
Air, main story: 8
Air, kanna’s route: 7
Angel beats, main story, otonashi and kanade: 7
Angel beats, yui route: 7
planetarian, main story: 7
Clannad: misae’s route: 5
little busters, komari’s route: 3
rewrite, chibimoth’s death and kotori’s parents sacrifice: 3
rewrite, shizuru’s route ending: 2
… haha darn u key!! T_T

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#23

ahahaha same here!!!

#24

Well, in LB! i cried a little in Masato’s episode, seeing his past and how Kyousuke accepted him the way he was. I didn’t cry in the Farewells neither did I in Komari and Rin’s scene. But I cried REALLY HARD when Rin opened the notebook and started recalling the time she spent with the other girls. And that song was playing: Little Melody… I felt so damn sad. I remember my mother running to my bedroom to check if I was fine, lol.

#25

Uh guys you might want to tag those spoilers.
On topic, I’m afraid I can’t contribute to this topic a whole lot since I haven’t cried to a story since I remember. I was obviously intensely emotionally moved to all of Key’s works that I have experienced though.

#26

The actual number of times that I’ve teared up is pretty small but Key has most of them by far.

LB: The first time LB got me was in the goodbye scenes specifically Kengo’s. Just seeing someone that had fought so hard and sacrificed so much finally give in and admit that he wished he had used his limited time differently hit me like a hammer. And of course the credit roll after the hospital scene I cried like a baby. I blame it on the really bad sun burn I had at the time. Jokes aside that was the emotional climax for all of LB for me. That’s just when it finally sinks in about everything that is happening and the truth behind it all.

Rewrite: A bit odd but Rewrite only got me once. When Chibimoth died it set a lump in my throat and got a sniffle out of me but no tears.

Clannad: I had so much of Clannad spoiled for me that it was hard for anything to really affect me. So the obvious ones didn’t do much for me but one scene in particular did get me pretty good. The sunflower scene where it finally clicks for Tomoyo what it means to be a father and the moment he and Ushio had there was really moving.

Kanon: I’ve only watched the anime haven’t read the VN so I can’t say for sure but Makoto’s story in the anime really got next to me especially the scene where they are playing with the bell and he starts basically begging her to ring the bell again.

#27

To a first key anime i cried was clannad: when tomoya and nagisa were holding hands with fuko and said their goodbyes that was the moment i realised keys work is gonna be something awesome. And then also the classic when ushio cries and dies i just went full cry baby mode.
Apparently i didnt have that much of a cry moments in other keys animes but i did share a tear on air and kanon. But angel beats man…
I cried sooooooo much for like what is it 3 hours non stop when everyone from angel beats were saying their goodbyes and also the ending scene just made me cry even more yeah would call it a baby mode.
But little busters… i had like a normal crying session - same with rewrite but - not that much as clannad /angel beats tho - honestly i wouldnt think rewrite would make me cry that was really awesome.
Sooo yeah im a crybaby lol

#28

Is it possible for me to rewrite a post? Cause I’m going to do that right now.

Kanon

Mai’s breakdown after what happens to Sayuri

The end of Shiori’s story arc

AIR

“MOMMY!”

“GOAL!” aka “I DID IT!”

CLANNAD
The end of Kotomi’s story arc
The end of Yukine’s story arc

The graduation scene

Nagisa’s death

the sunflower scene

Tomoya telling his father that he’s done enough and that he can rest

The ending in the sense that it left a huge void

Planetarian

Yumemi’s death with “Perfectly Human” playing in the background .

Angel Beats
Episode 13

Little Busters
Kud’s bad ending

Kanata’s breakdown during Haruka’s route
The entire last third of Refrain

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#30

Key has had its fair share tear jerking moments on me.
In the Kanon visual novel at the end of Makoto’s route I was sobbing through the scene and where her hand with the bells around her wrist lay in the grass

In Angel Beats When Kanade and Otonashi were the only two left and the backstory behind Kanades heart was explained

And my biggest cry fest
In Planetarian During the flashback scene where the planetarium staff didn’t want to leave Yumemi behind from the city evacuation and at the ending, all I could do was sit there and cry out all over myself, even with spoiler tags I refuse to spoil it in detail but the scene where the rain filled up around her eyes.

#31

Rewrite:Cried alot at the end of shizuru’s route
Clannad After Story: A part of me died when Ushio died
Planetarian: The ending made me tear up obviously
Little Busters Refrain: I also teared up when Komari disappeared in front of Rin

#32

I’m still new to this haha o.o" sorry

#33

Working with spoiler tags is new to me.

#34

[spoiler][/spoiler]

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#35

I almost cried when I heard “BOYS BE SMILE” the first time
(the Refrain anime OP)

“A World is Born” gets me every time, too

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#36

Ohh, that’s a very specific moment. Boys Be Smile was an amazing opening.

#37

As soon as I recognized that it was Kyousuke’s theme, I teared up

#38

Kanon

Young Ayu fell from the tree
Yuuichi and Makoto’s wedding (and Makoto’s disappearance)

Air

Michiru’s good-bye on the roof
Haruko taking Misuzu to the beach
Haruko taking Misuzu to the summer festival
Misuzu’s death

Clannad

Kotomi receiving the breifcase
Yuusuke and Kouko’s wedding with Fuuko
Tomoya and co. winning the basketball game
Nagisa’s play
Nagisa’s graduation
Tomoya’s proposal to Nagisa
Nagisa’s death
Tomoya and Ushio in the field
Ushio asking about Nagisa on the train - this killed me the most in Clannad. God damn
Ushio’s death
Tomoya deciding to be with Nagisa
Ushio’s birth where Nagisa lives

Planetarian and Tomoyo After didn’t make me cry

Little Busters - mostly based on the anime cuz I’ve only completed two routes in the visual novel so far

Visual Novel:
Riki confronting Komari about not being her brother on the roof - this made me cry in the visual novel. not so much in the anime
Rin - The ending of Rin1 in the visual novel where right at the end when Riki goes unconscious after leaving the classroom and the “try again” text appears
Also when Kyousuke was explaining that Rin was going to the other school because of a bus accident left me in tears

Anime:
The bus accident
Kyousuke explaining the bus accident
The boy’s farewell
Rin’s farewell to all the girls
Komari’s disappearance in front of Rin
Riki and Rin waking up in the real world
Riki and Rin finding Kyousuke
The bus going ka-boom
Kyousuke swinging through the window
The trip to the beach

Angel Beats

The graduation

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#39

Clannad

Nagisa’s death

The flower bed scene where Ushio cries in Tomoya’s arms

Ushio’s death

I don’t exactly tear up easily unfortunately… but I still get emotionally depressed afterwards

#41

Didn’t know this thread existed but I’ll go with it. The ONLY time I ever cried do anything outside of real life was Clannad After Story.

This is just from what I remember from that scene.
“There’s only one.”
“But I saw a bunch of robots at the store.”
“This one is the one that daddy picked out and bought for me. The first gift from daddy.”
“… Ushio… I’ve been a bad daddy for all these years. Will you let me live with you?”
nods “But I lost something today so now I’m sad. Sanae-san told me that the two places I could cry are in the bathroom… And in daddy’s arms. Is it ok to let it out now?”

I really can’t describe how strong that scene is without just throwing out the whole conversation. I just love it sooo much.

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#42

The only other notable moment was the end of Shizuru’s route with that damn diary. I’m still not even sure why it hit me so hard, but it did.

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