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Forest of Drizzling Rain is a very character-driven game, and as such, when they go through torment and trauma, it's bound to hit extremely close to home for the audience.
- The beginning of the story. Shiori's parents die in a car accident just as they're about to buy her a present. On her birthday no less!
- Other than Shiori and Officer Mochizuki, nobody seems to like Suga. The townspeople find him creepy and unsettling, he was bullied by his classmates because he was an orphan and the Taking Spirit really wants to make him suffer. While it seems to be because his aloof personality drives them away, it's later revealed not only he's the last descendant of the Stone Guardian, the one who made the Taking Spirit's life a living hell, but she also cursed his bloodline to be miserable and die young.
- The 2022 remake shows that after Shiori's memories were erased and was forced to leave the village, he was adopted by Shiori's grandfather. The old man admits he resents Suga for what happened to Shiori and for being related to the Stone Guardian. Poor boy keeps being blamed for things that are out of his control.
- Ending 2: The Vanished Promise. Shiori makes Suga keep the night glowstone for protection, so he survives, and they escape together. However, when seeing her off at the station, Suga uses it to erase her memories again. Shiori can only helplessly plead for him not to do it in vain.Shiori: Wait, wait, Koutaro! Don't! Don't do this, Koutaro! I don't want to forget agai-
- The 2022 remake makes it worse. Not only Suga is hating himsef for being a descendant of the Stone Guardian, but he's bawling his eyes out as he takes the glowstone to erase Shiori's memories.
- The truth of the Taking Spirit (real name Tsuyu Kanzaki). The Stone Guardian essentially tricked everyone into thinking she was cruel and evil, slaughtering her husband and unborn child. She was imprisoned and raped until she had enough and commited suicide.
- The 2022 remake makes it worse. Turns out the Stone Guardian and Tsuyu used to be friends, but they were cursed by the God of the Forest. He cursed the Stone Guardian into falling in love with Tsuyu, which resulted into him killing her unborn child and Tsuyu commiting suicide and becoming the Taking Spirit. With her death the possession wore off and he was so distraught by his actions he begged the same god that ruined their lives into creating the glowstones, so he'll forget about what he did to her.
- Made even worse when you remember how he even got into the mess leading up to being cursed; all he wanted was to protect Tsuyu from a snake.
- The Taking Spirit finally being reunited with her child. Hearing her voice go from its menacingly deep drawl to something more gentle and soft, and seeing her red text turn to white and the scary things she was saying shift context as she is finally reunited with her child. The 2022 remake makes it better, by going from a Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl to her normal appearance when she was alive.
- All the White Child wants is to be reunited with his mother. Unfortunately due to his corpse not being complete, she can't recognize him and has spent 500 years kidnapping and assimilating children, not knowing her son is right there.
- If you manage to reunite the Taking Spirit with her long lost son, it seems for a few moments that everything is going to turn out alright after all....Then you try to leave and the ghosts of the children that she killed over the years swarm her and proceed to tear her apart, enraged that she killed them and is going to abandon them. This forces Shiori and Suga to use the glowstone to ward them off.
- To make things worse, the 2022 remake reveals that the glowstone can only erase memories. The White Child is aware this not only will result in the Taking Spirit and the ghost children forgetting about their grudges, but she and him will forget about each other. All he can do is to wish to be reunited with his mother in the next life.
White Child: Mother, I'm sorry. I wanted to go to the next life with you, but....my memories and yours are going to disappear now. Mother....I love you. Mother....Please by mother again.- When you think about it, aside from reuniting for a very short amount of time, Tsuyu and her child don't really get a truly happy ending. However it's implied that although they die in this lifetime, in their next life they'll be a mother and son again, giving the ending a heartwarming undercurrent of hope.
- The last moments of Ending 6, where Shiori decides to make a Heroic Sacrifice and offer herself up to the Forest God as a sacrifice so he will spare Miyako and save the village from the Taking Spirit. The whole time, she is smiling and accepting her fate while Miyako is begging her not to do it. Then she is left in the forest crying, and all Suga can do is vainly fall out for Shiori with what little use of his cursed vocal chords he can muster. And as a final cherry on top, the Taking Spirit and her Ghost Children are screaming in pain as they are devoured by the very malicious god who turned them into what they are.
