Considering this series is about a Traveling Salesman going around Japan screwing people over with his deals, it's a 100% guarantee that there will be sad moments.
In General
- Moguro ruining the lives of people who have a perfect life by exploiting a minor flaw in their life and exaggerating it until it ruins them.
Original
Episode 4: "The Man Who Transformed"
- The client, who with Moguro's help disguises himself so he can live a freewheeling alternate lifestyle is shocked to find that Moguro's (created?) a family which comes with the alternate identity. Oh, boy, I guess he learned his lesson and he's gonna go back, right? Uh, no. Alternate-wife offers beer and sex, and he embraces both. Now as for his wife and daughter? Well, that image up there is from the remake of this episode. The one consolation is Moguro figures the client will eventually get tired of his new life and return, but that's pretty cold comfort.
Episode 58: "Memory Bar"
- Moguro and his client really were going back in time to the Taishou Era, so from poor Etchan's perspective, the man whom she'd fallen in love with walked out the door one day and never came back after proposing to her and promising to return. You can understand why she feels a bit decayed—I mean, betrayed.
Episode 106: "The Fixer"
- The client is a serial philanderer whose wife Taeko married him when he was just starting out and stayed loyal to him even as his rising fame led him to sleep with more and more women. Wearily resigned to his affairs, it's clear that she truly loves him. He does care about her in return, but his latest fling demands that he divorce her, so he does. It's clear from her voice that even though Taeko says she's through with him, it's breaking her heart to do it.
NEW
Episode 1: "Daydream" / "Make A Budget And Stick To It"- Because of the way her co-workers talks about her, Takashima makes herself feel better by shopping, but all the shopping she does causes her financial problems. Because of this, she has to sacrifice her food and electricity to pay for her credit card bills. Moguro gives her an unlimited credit card, with the catch that anything purchased with the card will be repossessed the next day, to help her feel the pleasure of shopping without losing money. She unfortunately misused the card by using it for beauty treatments, which helps with her self-esteem, but it came with the cost of making her old, fat, and ugly.
- Takashima's co-workers are just horrible people. Not only do they talk badly about her, but they also try to convince their supervisor to get her fired. It's no wonder why she's driven to go shopping all the time.
Episode 6: "I’ll Lease This Monster" / "Tonight’s Another Awesome Night"
- Udo is a large man who, despite having a body that can be used in athletics or manual laborer, just wants to be an actor to support his family and it's his dream. His tries to be an extra in a movie but his size fills up the screen. Moguro helps him by giving him a monster mask and being his agent which makes him very successful. When Udo's previous agent convinces him to cut ties with Moguro can come back to him, Moguro decides to permanently make the monster mask stuck to his face causing him to go mad to the point that he destroys the movie set and beats up his agent and the director. After this incident, there's no doubt that he'll never do acting again.
Episode 7: "The Man Who Transformed" / "The Rule of Mommy Friends"
- Episode 7A is a remake of episode 4 of the original, except the client stays horrified to discover this other family. So he doesn't even get to enjoy himself.
Episode 10: "The Person in the Acquired Film" / "Fake Grandchild"
- Oite Kazuhito's story starts out with one during Moguro's opening narration. Upon coming home from work after retiring and bringing home a dozen roses for his wife, she is instead waiting for him with a divorce application. Oite drops the flowers and his retirement souvenir as his daughter carries his granddaughter away and leads his now ex-wife out of his apartment and he can only watch them leave with a blank face of resignation.
- The rest of the episode also does a good job of showing just how lonely he is without the rest of his family. It's no wonder that he grew attached to his new "grandson" as easily as he did.
Episode 11: "Destructive Tendencies" / "I'm an Idol"
- Imagine you're in a loving marriage to a loyal, upstanding man who suddenly disappears one day. A stranger shows up at your doorstep and tells you he'll lead you to him. The two of you end up in a dive bar in the worst part of town, and you see an utter wreck of a sot who looks like he's had decades of hard living and can barely speak except to ask for more booze. That's him. That's your husband now.
