@Kabitzin
The wine is not yet ready here have a starfish~DOZO.

@Derek
Yeah Noe will always be #1 in my heart.

Its a good ending, and Stripey is just an evil tanuki who no only ate Raigomaru, but also has a foot fetish. Time to fix him, and fix him good…

@serial
Shin-chan is baka, at least Noe stole all his tears. That way when Hiromi lays dying on her death bed and Shin can no longer cry, oh yessss….revenge is a dish best served cold.

@dsong
I think Noe got a decent enough end as it was mostly about her and not Hiromi for the final stretch. Now is still Moe. Even if Hiromi has Shin now he will never forget Noe, nor can he cry again for Hiromi, hehehe. Its still a good series and Noe deserves to have her deed be spread amongst the people even if Hiromi gets to ride on her coattails.

Shin was given an opportunity to reach soaring heights yet chose to remain on the ground. Now he will never take flight, and his relationship with Hiromi is doomed. As for Noe, Jun, Ai, and Shin’s mother – they were victims of character assassination and deserved better treatment from the writers. Rest in peace.

After reading stripey’s post praising Hiromi for letting Shin go to sort it out with Noe as an act of love, I felt frustrated again.

For me, I don’t see any of Hiromi’s actions towards as based in love. Sure, she might have done it because she thought she loved him – but what she did to Shin over the various episodes, including the “Noe Confrontation” were not really things you do to people you claim to love. You don’t trick or beguile them into choosing you. You don’t try and run off your rival with lies or try to buy pity points with tears. Finally, when she ran out of options in episode 13, again not exactly out of love, she does one thing right and lets Shin sort it out himself – but he had already decided he would do so anyway, and certainly doesn’t need her permission to do it.

And with that, “childhood friend” Hiromi wins, for reasons still unknown to me.

Maybe I am being too mean, but grr.

Seriously, WTF. I loved the series, but Noe deserved a MUCH better ending. She was the strongest character throughout the whole run, and in the end she gets a broken leg, a broken heart and some friends on the side.
Meanwhile, mean-streak Hiromi gets the whole enchilada and the Kodak moments.
That’s it, Shin’ichiro is a goddamn idiot.

The anime begins, and ends, with Noe being the important one. True Tear is not about Shin, Hiromi, nor the two together even. It is about Noe. And when I think about it like that, I am okay with this ending, I think.

@Crusader: Amen to that.

@danie
Noe will get over it and Hiromi will still have the knowledge the Shin cried so much for Noe to haunt her the rest of her life. Noe made new an better freinds and she brought people together, Noe became a better person, while Hiromi remains largely her flawed self.

Noe is Moe. Sieg Noe.

@Hinano
Oh X-eggs is that all you have? That means that not only to I get to crush enemies with heavy weaponry I get a chance to meet Hinamori Amu too. I have access to heavy firepower and I have a deep love for the smell of cordite, I fear no X-egg. 40mm HE grenades, and incendiary rounds with AP? I’ll be eating scrambled eggs well before dinner time comes. I’ll be sure to get a Amulet Heart, Spade, and Clover autographs with along with a photo of Ikuto saving Amu for a misplaced 40mm practice round. However I get the sense you don’t get access to 40mm HE and we all know fat yaoi fangirls are nearly impervious to small arms, and they make for poor eating too.

I always knew you and JP were Sanjou and Nikaidou shame on you for ruining the lives of children! In the name of Great Justice shall I burn you both out of your apartment and into the arms of Amulet Spade who will then cleanse you of your flawed shugo tama.

@Gevulde
Noe makes him cry like a girly man that’s vengeance enough I suppose.

@Levihan
Noe is the light that illuminates the darkenss, forever noble, forever mighty Noe is the saint that brought happiness to four people. Her deeds will live on.

@Caraniel
Lady Noe appreciates your support of her tale, may you spread it to where ever you go so that the good name of Noe will be known to all.

@Sleepy
Noe also got all of Shin-chan’s tears.

@Youko
Tomoyo and Jun forever!

Noe is Moe. Sieg Noe.

Fare thee well. Noe rules.