Tear Jerker / Moomin (1990)

"Even you, who always tries to keep strong will have moments when you need to shed tears.

In those moments, just cry your heart out,

and then you will find that the sadness quickly disappears."

— Emiko Shiratori (Yume No Sekai He | Japanese opening song)

You should have told him, Snufkin.

• "Snufkin Leaves Moomin Valley", when Snufkin in first time in the series heads to the south. Moomin didn't even have a chance to say goodbye.
• "Hurry Up, Snufkin" when Moomin is sick with flu and he misses Snufkin who hasn't come back from south. On top of that, he even has a very disturbing dream involving Snufkin and a giant kappa monster.
• Another episode has Moominpapa run away with Mama to seek adventures. Moomin calling out their names at the top of the hill with the sad music playing in the background makes a real tearjerking scene.
• "The Big Explosion", Snork is awaken by a big explosion. He runs all the way to his hangar only to find it burning, which means his airship that he worked with for such a long time, is destroyed. Snork is so heartbroken that he just falls on his knees and sighs sadly.
• "The Kite", Moomin and Moominpapa speaking about Snufkin leaving Moomin Valley again. Moomin really wants to go to South with Snufkin, but Moominpapa explains how Snufkin needs to do his journey alone.
• In "The Secret Dish", Moominmama is left tacitly upset when the others get bored of her cooking and travels a great distance to find special ingredients. Snorkmaiden attempts to fill in as the group's cook, though the end result is such a disaster that Snorkmaiden is left sobbing uncontrollably with Moomintroll and Moominpapa trying in vain to comfort her.
• When Moominpappa escaped from orphange into a dark forest and he images that everything attacks at him. He is then seen hiding in a snag, crying.
• In the final episode of Tanoshii Moomin Ikka, "Going South", Snufkin is again leaving Moominvalley. But this time he gives Moomin his harmonica and says he can play it when he misses him. This may have been a hint that Snufkin is not coming back in next spring.
  • Also the soundtrack Moomin Tani Fuyu plays in the end like it did in the begining of the first episode; [1].
  • Snork, Alicia and the Witch leave the Moominvalley behind in the same episode. It was their last appearance in the whole series, never appearing in Bouken Nikki.
  • This was the final episode of the English dub. Quite a depressing note to go out on for a kids show.
• "The Girl With Birds", Bouken Nikki. Basically, Sniff falls in love and has his heart broken. It's hard to watch the poor guy sob his heart out on the front steps of the Moomin house and not once does anyone step up and hug him.
• "Sand Sculptures" Little My is trapped in a forest fire when she tried to protect her Groke sand sculpture. She hits her head on tree and weakly mutters that the Groke sculpture is ruined. She then faints and was pretty close to dying from smoke inhalation.
  • Little My is also desperate to save Snufkin's tent before getting safe from the fire.

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