[Tear-Jerking Breakup Songs] A curated selection of love songs that gently comfort a wounded heart!

Goodbye, AngelMEGA SHINNOSUKE

Sayonara Tenshisama

Mega Shinnosuke is an artist who has earned support for his genre-crossing musicality.

This track, included on his fifth album Tenshi-sama† released in November 2025, is a love song that portrays feelings for a cherished person one can no longer meet.

What stands out is how it refuses to deny the misery of heartbreak, choosing instead to carry it forward and keep moving on.

While the album also features tracks like the theme song for the TV anime “Hiroshi Nohara: The Way of Lunch,” this song—despite having no tie-in—plays a pivotal role at the core of the work.

Its bittersweet narrative, like being told goodbye at the very start of a film, is sure to gently accompany anyone seeking to heal the pain of a broken heart.

Feel the sorrow and faint hope distilled into 4 minutes and 41 seconds.

an unkind girlKoresawa

an unkind girl

It’s a ballad that portrays painfully real emotions, where unrequited love and self-loathing intertwine.

Singer-songwriter Koresawa, who keeps her real face hidden from the media, delivers this track as the closing song of her EP “Atashi no Koibito E.P,” released in November 2025.

It’s a poignant breakup song performed with just a single guitar and voice.

Through everyday scenes, it chronicles a clumsy state of mind—so consumed with thoughts of the other person that tenderness becomes elusive.

Among the tracks that include commercial tie-ins, this one deliberately weaves an unadorned sound whose solitary resonance strikes right at the heart.

On nights when the wound hasn’t healed and you want to cry quietly alone, it will be there to keep you company.

A pure white townFujimaki Ryota

Ryota Fujimaki / “Pure White City” (Music Video)

A ballad as quiet as snow falling and piling up, yet imbued with a palpable warmth.

This single by singer-songwriter Ryota Fujimaki—also known for his work with Remioromen—was released in January 2025.

It was produced as a lead track from the album “Hakanaku Moroi Mono,” which came out in March of the same year.

The beautiful tone of a 12-string guitar intertwines with lyrics that overlay the heartbreak of a breakup onto Tokyo’s winter scenery, leaving a tender, aching afterglow.

Unspeakable goodbyes, gratitude tucked away deep in the heart—this song seems to affirm such unresolved emotions, and will likely resonate deeply with those standing at the end of a romance.

In the season when cold winds blow, it will gently stay by your side when you wish to sit quietly with your thoughts.

codependencyDomura Riu

Codependence / Riu Domura (Lyric Video)

It’s a song about a relationship that can’t be called healthy—wanting to be needed, being used for convenience, and still being unable to leave.

Created by Riu Domura, a singer from Awaji Island in Hyogo Prefecture, it was included on the 2019 debut EP “Escape.” Even while recognizing the love is false, they hold each other, staying close only to fill their loneliness.

The protagonist realizes they’re just the other person’s toy, yet can’t break free; that anguish unfolds over a chill track.

In the end, all that remains is loneliness—an aching futility that hits home.

It may encourage those struggling in unhealthy relationships or those who want to break away.

That’s not fair.Ochiai Wataru

Wataru Ochiai – That's Unfair (Music Video)

They’re someone who says they “love” me, but I know their heart isn’t here.

Even so, I can’t walk away, because those moments when they say it are the only ones that save me.

Wataru Ochiai’s 2021 release sings from the perspective of a woman sinking into a relationship so ambiguous it can’t even be labeled “more than friends, less than lovers,” moving between blaming the other person and loathing herself.

A phone placed face down as they leave; me almost grabbing their arm, then seeing them off with a smile—tiny details of daily life lay bare the reality that I’m not the one.

The simple arrangement, built around acoustic guitar and keys, is chosen to make the words stand out.

Precisely because the vocal delivery is calm and understated, the pain lands with raw immediacy.

After its 2021 release, the song charted in countries around the world, including Thailand, Laos, and Ireland.

The music video features actors Mizuki and Kento Hotta, and is approaching 900,000 views.

For anyone who knows the feeling of “a love you want to end but can’t,” this is a song that will gently stay by your side.

MissingKubota Toshinobu

Toshinobu Kubota – Missing [Official Video Short ver.]

It’s a heartbreak song loved across generations.

Do they have a reason they’re not allowed to love each other? The two can only gaze at one another.

How painful must it be, a love that can’t even be put into words as “I love you,” a romance that has only an ending from the very beginning…

Cold fireworksKami ga nokoshita yume o kuu.

“Aiso Hanabi” — Devouring the dreams left behind by the gods. Official Music Video

This song is a heartbreaking breakup ballad that overlays the dazzling burst of fireworks with a love coming to an end.

Though they stand side by side, their hearts no longer connect.

That frustrating relationship is portrayed against the backdrop of a late summer night.

The emotional vocals convey the painfully raw feeling of wanting to cling to memories while knowing there’s no going back.

It resonates deeply with anyone carrying an unforgettable love.