Millennium Actress/Tear Jerker

• The fact Chiyoko spent her life chasing a shadow is enough to get you weepy-eyed, but then the final scene in the rocket and the line "After all, it was the chase I really loved" accompanied by Susumu Hirasawa's "Chiyoko's Theme Mode 2" is a full blown tear jerker.
  • The moment she says the line above and the following song, "Rotation (lotus 2)" combined with the sudden credits made this troper cry, and not just once.
• Chiyoko just missing the train that her artist is on. Also seeing him go through the prison doors and only arriving just as they close. In both cases her desperate screams say it all.
• The long journey to Hokkaido, which turns out to be all for nothing.
• Finally learning of the artist's fate.