Kamen Rider Fourze/Heartwarming

• When Gentaro discovers in #2 that he's in space and he despite himself sheds some Manly Tears, you can't help but feel delighted how even such a Badass is moved by the majesty of space.
• Starting in #3, Gentaro changes the name of his Finishing Move from "Rocket Drill Kick" to "Rider Rocket Drill Kick", paying homage to the heroes that came before him.
• #4. Miu forgives her friend Tamae for hurting her and sabotaging her attempts to be Queen of the School. Her speech--which is to not let people worship her to make themselves feel better, but to make themselves feel better by doing things to benefit them--is also good.
• #5: Miu has definitely warmed up to the Club. She was at first cold and uncaring, but you can't help but 'aww' as she's smiling and skipping all the way toward the Rabbit Hatch.
• #6. JK's been a colossal jerk the whole episode. When the guy he screwed over is getting ready to finish him since none of his "friends" showed up to help him, suddenly Gentaro appears. When reminded about JK's Jerkass behaviour, Gen simply says:

Gentaro: I'll become friends with him. That way he sees that someone can accept even a spikey headed jerk like him.

• #8. Shun finally reveals his backstory, which is given a response of Gentaro crying and telling him that he understands his pain. This leads to Shun telling his father that he'll make his own friends now, no longer burdened by what his father wants him to be.
  • Satake hugs his son in relief once Gentaro frees Teruhiko from the Zodiarts' influence.
• #9. Shun comes to tell a member of the football team to back off and not embarass his now ex-girlfriend in public. This shows that he really has changed for the better.
• #10: All of the Kamen Rider Club members talking to Tomoko confessing about themselves (From being a self-centered control freak, a space otaku, etc.) and Tomoko's single tear at how she has become friends with them.
• #11: After Kengo is trapped on the moon, every member of the club is off trying to find the missing locker. Shun's talking to coaches, Miu's talking to many of her friends, and even Tomoko's tracking down stuff on her iPad! This goes to show that the group has really bonded and come together.
• #12: After Kengo is saved, he finally accepts the other members of the Kamen Rider Club as his friends.
  • Even better? He plants the Kamen Rider Club Banner as a flag on the moon and does the Secret Handshake with the gang watching in delight. The episode ends with them jumping for joy at how the club is complete.
  • Miu gives Yuki a well deserved hug after all the shit the poor Otaku's gone through from the previous episode.
    • Don't forget Yuki's speech to Kengo, reaching out to him that the whole Kamen Rider Club really cares about him and are trying their hardest to help. There's a reason she's The Heart of the club!
  • A minor one but Gentaro and the others put faith in Tomoko's abilities and let her go on her way to figure out what went wrong with the destroyed locker.
• #14: Kengo uses a special power glove to channel the Medical Switch to heal Gentaro, despite knowing that he's gonna be in immense pain from doing it. He does the fist bump with Gentaro and Gentaro puts his faith into him. This shows that the two have bonded after a very short time.
• Movie Wars MEGAMAX: Kengo gets a major What the Hell, Hero? moment when he's willing to hand Nadeshiko over to Foundation X. However, he redeems himself later on in the movie when Gentaro is thrown from the villains' van while attempting to save her; at this point Kengo rides up on Fourze's motorcycle, apologizes to Gentaro and says that he can understand how he feels, then hands over the bike and tells Gentaro to go save the girl he loves.
  • This is followed up when Gentaro rescues Nadeshiko from Foundation X, only for her to to be taken away and effectively killed as she's turned into an Astro Switch. As a defeated Gentaro watches in anguish as the villains get away, the rest of the Club jump the remaining mook, giving Gen a Rousing Speech, letting him know You Are Not Alone as they're thrown around in the process.
  • And then we get a Heartwarming Moment of Awesome when Eiji rides up and offers to help, telling Gentaro "Riders help one another out, don't they?" Which is echoed in the final segment when Shotaro says the same thing to Eiji (which is a Call Back to Eiji's cameo in The Gaia Memories of Fate).
  • At the end of the movie, after Gentaro sees (and gets passed up by) the real Nadeshiko, the members of the Kamen Rider Club all do his salute (tapping the chest with a fist, then pointing at him). He smiles and responds in kind. All in all an excellent example of how much the club has grown as True Companions over the course of even just a quarter of the series.
• #15: Gentaro and Yuki teaching the Glee Club their Secret Handshake. This is the first time that's ever been done outside members of the club (and Miura), meaning that they're all friends now.
  • Miu and Shun were shown buying decorations and preparing for the Kamen Rider Club's Christmas Party. If you saw them in the first episode, you'd never expect them to do it now!
  • Also, when told that the other members are preparing for said Christmas Party, Kengo doesn't even bat an eye, perfectly ok with them doing so. There's something you'd never expect!
• #16: Gentaro lets Yuki help the Glee Club sing for the Kindergarten class despite her worried about Gentaro's condition.
  • Gentaro helps Matoyama see the light about his art, especially when Matoyama sees all the artwork made by the kindergartners surrounding a previous work he made. Made even sweeter when Matoyama--in Zodiarts form--does Gentaro's Secret Handshake.
  • Once Matoyama is free from being a Zodiarts, we last see him back on the rooftop sketching Mount Fuji. However, Abe comes and they both do Gentaro's Secret Handshake.
  • Yuki's Hayabusa Song is a hit with the kiddies, especially when the kids start imitating Yuki's dance.
  • Miu wasn't shown during the fight with the Zodiarts. Why? Because she was busy getting a cake for the Christmas Party topped with 7 candles that represents all 7 members of the club (from a black candle representing Tomoko, a pink 'M' candle to represent her, a bent one for JK, a star topped one for Yuki, etc.).
• #17: In the lunch room scene in which Gentaro mingles with all the different cliques of the school. Even giving one of them the Secret Handshake. When he said he was going to be friends with everyone, he meant it.
• #18: One for the Club: Tomoko tells Meteor off about how Kamen Riders are heroes. That's enough for the other members to also get in the way of Meteor about to beat the ever-loving crap out of Fourze. All 6 members are there, shielding Fourze, and they don't give a damn who Meteor is. They are gonna protect their friend from him!
• #19: A small one, but when Gentaro was crying on the roof, Kengo's new foodroid came to comfort him.
• #20: Miu, JK and Tomoko encourage Gentaro to go to Kengo and talk to him.
  • Gentaro and Kengo do the Secret Handshake once more. Especially sweet when Kengo answers that the two are friends as long as Gentaro thinks they are. Gentaro goes "Screw that! We'll always be friends!"
• #22: Gentaro convinces Haruka-sensei to be a teacher again and they do the Secret Handshake. Here's hoping that Haruka-sensei decides to appear in more episodes and help out the Kamen Rider Club!
• #23: When Meteor try to kick Cygnus Zodiarts--while the latter is using Tomoko as a shield--he says that he is not soft like Fourze, but in the end he can't do it.
  • Even if Cygnus wasn't as heroic as he seemed, the Ugly Duckling Society encouraging its members to do acts of kindness is quite touching.
• #24: Tomoko says that she want to avenge Meteor as a thank you for saving her life.
  • After all the shit Eguchi goes through in this episode, he decides to become a hero by doing small stuff like helping old ladies across the street.
• #25: Miu promotes Yuki to Club President once she graduates. It's a very sweet move because it notes that the two have become really close friends during their time in the club.
  • Shun thanks Gentaro for allowing him to be in the KRC, noting that after all his time doing what his father wanted him to do, he felt like he accomplished something in High School. It's also because of that that he got his love for football back, and that he truly has fallen in love with Miu.
• #26: Miu's dance with Gentaro, particularly because Shun suggested it and how he knew that it would make Miu happy. Made better with the Kamen Rider Girls' song "Bloom" playing in the background.
  • Ryuusei tells Shun and Miu about how the KRC won't be able to function without them. When he sees the two run off to help the team, he smiles.
  • The Montage of Shun and Miu's evolution from selfish jerks to lovable heroes that plays during the dance. The fact that Shun is walking away from the girl he loves while she dances with his best friend almost brings this into Tear Jerker territory but that's counterbalanced by the fact that they aren't actually leaving the KRC.
• #27: Gentaro reveals a bit of his family life and about why he makes friends--to see them smile. He fondly remembers how his parents encouraged to make new friends because they would help him out in the long run. He still keeps this philosophy even though his parents died when he was young.
• #28: The Kamen Rider Club putting their souls on the line with Cancer so Ryusei can see Jiro. He returns the favor by passing up the chance to get his Super Mode and use of the Meteor System back in order to save them. Made all the sweeter because Tachibana rewards him with the Meteor Storm Switch for passing a Secret Test of Character by doing so.
• #30: Ohsugi-sensei decides to help out the Kamen Rider Club and thus becomes The Mentor for the group. His reason? Because as a teacher, it's his duty to help the students out. Gentaro graciously thanks Ohsugi and both he and Yuki hug their new teacher, all screaming out "OHSUGI KITA!!!"
  • Gentaro searched high and low for Haru's name tag, but he didn't do it alone. Tomoko, JK, Kengo and Yuki helped also, as shown by the mud on the leggings and pants, thus making Ran realize that there were upperclassmen that cared for her after all.
  • Ran apologizes to Haru and promises that she would never state that she'd protect Haru, because the reason Haru wanted that switch was to be able to protect her.
• #32: Kengo reaching out to Gentaro in what appears to be heaven and telling him that his friends still need him. The two grab hands and the scene zooms out to show that Kengo is being supported by the other members of the Kamen Rider Club--they're all waiting for him to return, and that proves it.
  • Ryusei reuniting with Jiro, even if he had to make a Deal with the Devil and be the temporary Hero-Killer to achieve that goal.
  • Kengo finds his father's words carved onto the Rabbit Hatch, dealing with how friendship would help people take on the universe.
  • Even after all the shit Gentaro went through the previous episode, he forgives Ryusei because he believes that a person who was giving it his all to save his friend wasn't a bad guy at all.
  • Ohsugi-sensei cries at the sight of Gentaro dead, noting that the teacher cared about his student.
• #33: Although very minor, notice where Gentaro, Kengo, Yuki and Ryuusei are sitting compared to them in #29. Now that Ohsugi has befriended the group, he doesn't have any need to place them in the front to antagonize them.
  • And he also is glad he's now the Club Advisor for the Kamen Rider Club, and considers them his friends (although that wasn't heard due to Yukina dragging Gentaro off).
• #34: After Yuki explains to Yukina that Gentaro would still fight off the Zodiarts even if she took the Fourze Driver away, Yukina rushes toward Gentaro and asks him to make a promise: to take a picture with her and smile. At the end of the episode, Gentaro is holding onto the photo that the two took.
• #36: JK calls his father--the fisherman Gentaro was hanging out with earlier on--and has a nice heart to heart chat.
  • Moreover, JK mentioned that he had to apologize so much to his friends about the whole incident. Gentaro gets him to stand up and forgives him. Cue Cry Into Chest.
  • Gentaro is off fishing with someone even though three of their members are hospitalized, three of them are rave zombies and one of them is working with the enemy. Why is he doing this? He's doing it because the person he's with is JK's former rockstar father and he needed to learn the song his father played for his son. This shows how big of a messiah Gentaro is--he'd do anything to make his friends happy.
  • In two parts of the episode, you can see Miu's Super-Deformed pictures hanging on the wall. She's added Ohsugi-sensei's picture, proving without a shadow of a doubt that he is now a part of the Kamen Rider Club.
  • JK's farewell letter as he closes his Milky Night Carnival radio show as a whole as he says goodbye to his dream persona by opening up to himself.

JK: "Goodbye DJ Gene, JK (Jingo Kaizo)"

• In Movie Wars MEGAMAX, Gentarou decides that he doesn't care whether Nadeshiko is human or space slime. He's decided he likes her anyway, and the rest of the Kamen Rider Club put their lives on the line to support him against Foundation X.