Had this of been me a year ago, I would have said
when Nuriko died in Ep. 40 (??)
I cried SO much. But I'm sick of fushigi yuugi...and I probably didn't need to to use spoiler tags...I'm assuming that most of you know the classics.
Now, I'm thinking:
- The scene where Kenshin leaves Kaoru
- The BEST part of Slayers when Gourry and Lina kiss (ok, it's not
sad, but it's emotionally gripping)
- The end of the second CCS movie
and I'm also thinking that these are not really SAD. Ok, let's just say episode 25 of Fruits Basket. THAT was really emotionally gripping

...especially the last 5 minutes with Tohru, Ou, and Hana.