For me, there were two things that struck me.
(Umineko EP7 Spoilers) Foremost was episode 7’s funeral rites scene with Will. When Will started alluding to the answers to each individual mystery. It made me realize how only now did I begin to care about the heart of the culprit and I regretted not doing so earlier.
(Chiru Spoilers) Once I started to reread Umineko, it hit me how vindictative and sorrowful episode 2 . How much raw pain in that episode from the culprit made me cry
I’ve started to reread a lot of Umineko scenes. Some scenarios which were just puzzling to me or even funny to me just make me upset now, hahaha.
Beatrice’s death in episode 4 always gets me. Especially when DisCode starts playing. It’s a really touching song which fits the atmosphere perfectly… It’s almost as good as the Ricordando il Passato cue.
This song isn’t in the game, but I’m still including it because it should have been. Hymn is Clair’s image song (I believe?), but the subject of the song is Sayo. Once you read Confessions, the imagery of Clair signing this over her coffin is too much :’((((
The messed up English phone call in episode 4 used to crack me the fuck up. Now it’s just… disturbing. I don’t know if it made me cry, but it made me feel some emotions.
(Umineko EP8 spoilers) When 9 year old Ange falls asleep after the riddles and everyone says how they will always be with her in the hardest of times. Eva’s words got to me especially.
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I always thought I was immune to crying to anything really… until that scene you mentioned. I don’t know why it just got to me. 
(Umineko spoilers) It’s just all the sympathy that you build up towards towards Ange in ep4 all being brought back all at once. Ryukishi pls y u do dis ;-;.
Here I thought Umineko EP4 was created for the sole purpose of making people cry. Either I thought wrong, R07 isn’t very good at it or I thought too highly of mankind.
Too many to count in Umineko, I’m not sure from where to even start…
Maybe in chronological order, and not counting rereads of some of these, as they can be interpreted i many different ways, once finished Umineko. Meaning, some of these have one HARSH impact during a first read, some others gives you a harsh time when you are rereading only, and some are just very sad regardless of how many times you read, ever since the very first time.
I’ll just do it for the first 3 EPs for now, as from 4 up to 8 there are SO MANY of them, in either of these circumstances, that I would be writing the whole day about the scenes. I’m not quite the person who would easily cry for anything at all, but in the “20 hours or so/per EP” of the first 3 EPs, at least 3-4 scenes made me drop some tears for each.
As for the one that made me cry for quite a bit of time for real though, I think only EP8’s final acts made it THAT far. Definitely one of the best epilogues I’ve ever seen to a work of fiction.
EP1:
-> I heard you fell in love with that passionate character interaction between Shannon & George, where he even asked for her hand right there, most of the whole chapter was dedicated just for that scene. So, what happens thirty minutes later in the VN, during the very first chapter of the second day? Yeah, Shannon gets killed off right way, creating one terrifyingly depressing and claustrophobical atmosphere for the rest of the whole Episode.
-> Right after a hopeful moment of humanization for Eva’s character, (up to that moment a complete jerk towards anything and anyone that weren’t named George or Hideyoshi), which was also a very heartwarming presentation of her relationship with Hideyoshi, what happens? Killed a scene after, and I just started trying to relate myself to them. So cruel…
-> And then there’s the scene where the Servants are obliged leave Kinzo’s room, and just heartbreaking it is to see Genji abstaining himself of the trust he built for most of his life working as Kinzo’s servant and friend, giving Natsuhi his own master key at that. That scene, paired with the cries of Kumasawa fearing for her own safety, it really got me hard the first time reading.
EP2
->The prologue storyline for both Kanon & Shannon is enfuriatingly sad, considering Eva’s and Beatrice’s attitude towards their hopes and dreams of love. It’s just made worse in a reread for several reasons.
->Either of the scenes with Beatrice destroying the love between two people is this, and it hits harder in a reread, when you understand what is it all about.
->Battler renouncing the game while crying to Maria about how hopeless their situation is, and the bad ending this decision leads to Rosa (besides her being a very problematic mother all things considered, I was kinda starting to understand her flaws and attitudes around that part). Though, the epic return of Battler to the game by the end of it made it all from tear-inducing despair to glorious hope in just one awesome moment during the “Masterchef Beato” scene.
EP3
->After so much character interaction with Eva and Hideyoshi, to see Eva breaking down after his death and feeling guilty for a crime she doesn’t quite understand if it was really caused by her. The reveal of EP3 being a forgery didn’t even made it any less harsh to read through.
-> “Ghost Kanon” guiding Jessica while she was blind was a very touching and yet revealing moment, but Jessica’s happiness of hearing Kanon and the great use of the OST is what really makes this scene a tear-jerking one.
->Beatrice’s “change of heart” and defending the chessboard against EVA-Beatrice up to the point she is but a piece of heart meat for good is also one emotional moment in a first read.
->THE BETRAYAL, especially when you understand what’s going on behind the scenes in a reread. Just how badly hurt must Beatrice be for doing that to a seemingly happy ending with Battler, even though he would remain ignorant to her real story and his own promise.
Oh god, Ryukishi y u do dis!!?
Are you enjoying breaking our hearts like this, you magnificent bastard!?
(spoilers for EP8, maybe? No specific details or plot mentioned, though.) I finished Umineko for the second time a few days ago. I can’t believe I forgot how emotional the ending is. I was in tears at the situation and the perfect use of the OST.
I honestly didn’t cry but I felt a range of emotions pretty wide, but the end of EP8 may be what made me the saddest, probably but that’s mostly because it was the end of Umineko
There was a lot of moments I cried at, but in particular right now since I stumbled across it on Youtube, [Ep5 spoilers] when Battler realizes about Beato’s mystery and becomes Game Master / Territory Lord /Endless Sorcerer Battler. It was half from the scene between him and Beatrice, and also half from the beautiful spiritual metaphor - or rather - connection and expression - of it as well to me.
Also, in general, it’s not a long moment, but [Ep8 spoilers] The magic ending, with “Ricordando il passato” playing always gets me.
Higurashi I think has too many, I can’t think of at the moment, but definitely at least I can say [full series spoilers] The end of Matsuribayashi hen where we know Rika has escaped her fate, in happy tears - but the end of Minagoroshi hen had me crying in more of a despair
During EP. 1 when George finds Shannon’s corpse.
This, this, this. I’ll probably come back to this thread again once I’ve reread, but the magic ending in EP8 made me bawl, especially after Beatrice and Battler kissed.
Hooow about yes. The (EP8 spoilers) magic ending always makes me cry, especially with that beautiful theme!
The emotional episode 2 conclusion always does it for me.
Rosa and Maria are so precious. ;_;
There was a close one, and one that actually did it for me, both of which are very late in the series.
The close one was at the end of Ep 7. After the tea party, when Battler finally shows up to console the crying Ange. It chokes me up.
But the one that actually got me, and messed me up inside, was during Ep 8. And it’s probably not a scene that you would expect to bring someone to tears. The goat battle, in itself, isn’t an emotional scene in that way, of course, but during the fight on first read it was pretty clear to me that the goats were voicing a lot of the fan and online reactions to various characters and developments in Umineko. And of course, the goats, the ‘audience inserts’ that are saying things that we the readers probably have at some point, are written as stupid, destructive, horrible people destroying the ground they stand on. And I started thinking, is this reallly how Ryukishi sees his audience? Has the fanbase broken him? Does he actually hate us now? Yeah, that one got me crying. I don’t really interpret that scene that way anymore, but when it first came in, it got me good.
He didn’t tho. No one saw Shannon’s corpse
Well, I didn’t pick up on that on my read.
by read, I mean my initial read. i figured out the whole shannon corpse thing as soon as i reread ep 1. but on my first read, i didnt know, hence why i found it kinda sad.
Remember this is a spoiler-free topic, guys. Tag spoilers, and especially also provide explict context for what you are spoiling.
Even on my reread, (Umineko Episode 4 spoilers) Ange’s final moments on Rokkenjima got to me again. Real Ange, not Meta Ange.