Tear Jerker / Re-Kan!

• Re-Kan! may be a comedy series, but it's a comedy series about ghosts. Each and every one of Hibiki's supernatural friends is a person who passed away, many of them far before their time.
  • Roll-call Samurai starved to death, cold and alone.
  • The cool girl from Episode 6 wasn't meeting up with her date for Christmas. She was meeting up with her mother so she could tell her to move on.
  • Episode 8 with the little ghost girl, and the promise she made with Moriya-sensei when they were younger. They promised to meet again when they were bigger, and presumably marry each other, but unfortunately she died a short time after he left the hospital, and by the time she found him again, he had grown up and gotten engaged to another woman. That said, she's still happy to have met him as an adult, and is happy to see he can eat carrots now, which he couldn't as a kid. Narumi interestingly takes it a little hard when she leaves, despite having spent the least amount of time with the girl due to her fear of ghosts.
    • Narumi's affected hard because earlier in the episode she became scared of the girl once again, and rushed off saying 'goodbye', a word the girl ghost didn't know. When the girl vanishes later, cue the tears.
    • The girl's ascension - the first to be seen on the show - is a beautiful mixture of this and Heartwarming. The girl embraces Hibibki and serenely dissolves into sparkles, then briefly appears before a newly-wed Moriya to bid him farewell. All the while, a gentle, slowed down version of the series' opening theme plays in the background.
  • Episode 9, when Amami end up making some red bean paste sweets for a Grumpy Old Man, with some help on the ingredients from the man's wife during Valentine's Day. He ends up accepting them, not wanting them to go to waste, and later tears up after he finishes eating them. This was his first Valentine's Day without his wife, who had passed away a few months earlier, hence why he was so bitter at all the lovey-dovey couples he saw at the park.
  • Later, as he eats them, the camera pans down to his shadow. And his wife is sitting right next to him.
• Yuuhi never even got to hold her daughter before she died. In episode 11, with the aid of all of Hibiki's ghostly friends, she finally gets to amend that.
  • Episode 11 ends with Hibiki waking up, alone. The friendly spirits who have been around her all her life are invisible to her. Poor girl...