Maison Ikkoku/Heartwarming

You know what, let's just call the final dozen episodes a "Crowning Season of Heartwarming". Some of these also show up on the Tear Jerker page.

• Mitaka finally accepting Asuna and moving on with his life. That scene where they're sitting next to each other on the bed gets me going every time.
• When Godai finally explains his feelings to Kyoko. This marks the turning point where not only do they both have the courage to be honest, but they both trust each other enough to listen.

Kyoko: You should've thought of that before! Before you started with all those other women!
Godai: Look, I'm not slick enough to even try making passes at women!
Kyoko: Oh, sure...
Godai: Don't you understand? It's you... you are the only one I ever wanted

• The scene where Kozue and Godai break off their relationship -- as friends, and Kozue asks him what the other woman is like. Before he can answer, she gets off the train, but we get to hear:

Godai: The woman I love, Kozue... burns with jealousy, leaps to conclusions, cries, and turns to ice, but, when she laughs... the world is mine.

• The scene with Godai and Kyoko, where he's carrying her drunken father home on his back- and Kyoko finally accepts his hand in marriage he finally proposes.

Kyoko: Promise me... that even if it's by one day... you'll outlive me.

• Godai and Kyoko having sex for the first time.
• When the tenants ask, "Spare us any more guessing." "Yeah... are you two together, or not?" Godai and Kyoko are so used to hiding their feelings that it never even occurred to them that the first thing Ichinose would say is, "What're you afraid of? Think we're gonna tease you or something?" and Youtsuya, of all people, says "Our heart-felt congratulations." Kyoko just stands there with a blank look on her face and Godai has to pick himself up off the floor.
• The final scene at Souichiro's grave where Godai finally accepts Souichiro as a part of his life, showing how much he's grown as a man and giving Kyoko the freedom to finally let go of her husband.
• The Grand Finale wedding
• The extended epilogue showing how everyone's moved on in the subsequent months. This Troper can't help but cry when Godai and Kyoko come back with the baby and hears 'Kanashimi o Konnichiwa' one more time.

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