History TearJerker / EurekaSevenAO

* Episode 25 manages to fix some of the sad points of 24, and sees Truth and Ao on an emotional ''Series/QuantumLeap''-esque journey trying to find a way home. Ao visibly ages and grows weary from being trapped in his IFO, which is severely damaged and now just a broken, armless upper torso with a head. [[spoiler:Then comes the big climax, revealing Ao has returned to being able to interact with his native time and his parents' after finally breaking free from the effects of the quartz gun]]. The sheer emotion Ao releases upon getting to the end of his long journey is what makes it so tearful, quite literally so.

** Ao can [[spoiler: never actually enter his parents' universe. That's a whole [[TrueCompanions extended family he'll never get to see.]]]]

* Episode 25 manages to fix some of the sad points of 24, [[spoiler:revealing Ao has returned to being able to interact with his native time and his parents' after finally breaking free from the effects of the quartz gun]]. The sheer emotion Ao releases upon getting there is what makes it so tearful, quite literally so.

** Ao can [[spoiler: never actually enter his parents' universe. That's a whole [[TrueCompanions extended family he'll never get to see.]]]]

* Episode 16 Subjects Team Goldilocks to a RetGone by Ao's own hands. He's the only one who remembers and it is killing him.

* Episode 24 has [[spoiler: Ao's sister revealed to have died at birth. And Ao displacing himself in time to the point he may no longer exist in his own time period.]]

* Episode 22 has the BadFuture, [[spoiler: where Renton walks upon a mother and child dead and decayed, wrapped close together.]]

* Episode 20 has Fleur finally breaking down after seeing her father's VideoWill and being abandoned by Elena.

** His dreams are pushing his sense of self in two different directions by the two women he loved the most.

** And then Truth survived.
** The Posiden being destroyed while everyone was presumably on it. Only team Harlequin survived, with 200 other crew members explicitly mentioned dying.

** The Posiden being destroyed while everyone was presumably on it. Only team Harlequin survived, with other 200 other crew members dying.

** The Posiden being destroyed while everyone was presumably on it. But, predictably, that turned out to be a trick and they survived.
* Episode 20 has Fleur finally breaking down after seeing her father's VideoWill.

** The Posiden being destroyed while everyone was presumably on it. But, predictably, that turned out to be a trick and they survived.

** The Posiden being destroyed while everyone was presumably on it.

* Christophe Blanc's sacrifice in episode 19. Incredibly badass or not, Fleur had to watch her father sacrifice himself for her.

* Near the end of episode 3, we see the photo Ao took from his adoptive grandpa. [[spoiler:[[http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m35obh0Yte1rretido1_500.jpg It's Eureka with black dyed hair, holding her baby in her arms and looking happier than ever.]]]] As the Nirvash starts up, Ao tears up and is relieved that his mother remembered her son.

* [[spoiler:Chief Bruno's]] death, as well as his conclusion about the Iwato Island incident.

** His dreams are pushing his sense of self in two different directions by the two women he loved the most.

* Episode 16 Subjects Team Goldilocks to a Retcon by Ao's own hands. He's the only one who remembers and it is killing him.

* Nirvash releasing Eureka to hold off Truth & getting trashed in Episode 14.
** Naru leaving Ao once again.

* In episode 8, Ao says he wants to beat up his father when he finally meets him, which brings to mind how Renton must be affected by the seperation.
* Endo, a Japanese soldier, met Eureka 10 years ago, where she asked him to look out for her son, Ao. In episode 13, seeing her cry out Ao's name, he remembers his promise and [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices himself]] by distracting Truth long enough to save Ao.

* The Japanese soldier who had met Eureka 13 years ago. In episode 13, seeing her cry out Ao's name, he remembers a promise he made to her 13 years ago to protect Ao if anything were to happen to her. He [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices himself]] by distracting Truth long enough to save Ao.

* In episode 8, Ao says he wants to beat up his father when he finally meets him, which brings to mind how Renton must be affected by the seperation.

* Episode 2. [[spoiler:Not long before her disappearance, Eureka dyed her hair and tells her crying son that she's sorry.]] To call that flashback and the effects her departure had on Ao sobering would be an understatement.
* Speaking of which, the [[FantasticRacism discrimination]] Ao and his mother face in Okinawa. '''GOOD LORD.'''
* Near the end of episode 3, we see the photo Ao stole from his adopted grandpa. [[spoiler:[[http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m35obh0Yte1rretido1_500.jpg It's Eureka with black dyed hair, holding her baby in her arms and looking happier than ever.]]]] As the Nirvash starts up, Ao tears up and is relieved that his mother remembered her son.

* For those who have seen the original anime: In episode 8, Ao outright states he wants to beat up his father. ''Ouch''.

-->'''Never let children die!!'''

-->'''Ao''': "I see...you remembered me this entire time..."

--->'''Ao''': "I see...you remembered me this entire time..."