History Heartwarming / CLANNAD

* I could hardly contain the feelings of pure heartwarming in the last episode of Season 1. When Akio came skidding into the packed school auditorium to deliver one of the greatest of all possible GetAHoldofYourselfMan speeches to a crying Nagisa at the top of his lungs, affirmed by Sanae and Tomoya. "We let our dreams become your dreams! Because that's what parents ''DO!'' That's what ''family'' does!" So amazing it should also be CrowningMomentofAwesome.

* Another moment when [[spoiler: Tomoya gets Akio and Sanae's blessing to marry Nagisa after Tomoya is able to hit a home run on Akio's pitch]]
** View Here [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9eeSGpwvTI here]].

* The two siblings that Sunohara, Sanae, Tomoya, and Nagisa met on their "date". The older saves the sister from getting bullied, they hold each other's hands, and brother cleans something from his sister's face. Say it with me: '''''AWWWWW'''''

* The ending to Yosuke Yoshino's backstory. After the crash from stardom, Yoshino returns home. And who's there at the bus stop waiting for him? Fuko's sister, Kouko, who welcomes him back with open arms as he embraces her.

** Repeated again, after defending Mei from the soccer team. Youhei and Tomoya devolve into fighting eachother over Youhei ignoring his middle-school sister dating an older guy, a lie Tomoya told him as a test. Youhei informs Tomoya that the ploy failed and he didn't react because the older guy was his best friend. The next morning they meet on the street with bandages on their faces and give each other dirty looks for a moment before bursting out laughing. Possibly the most accurate "bro-fight" in anime.

* Tomoya remembering his first meeting with Youhei (orchestrated by Koumara-sensei) after both of them had been in fights. They saw each other's bandaged faces and laughed.

* I can't believe no one has mentioned the moment at the end of Episode 22 of Season 1, when Tomoya finally gathers up the courage to tell Nagisa that he loves her. Nagisa's subsequent reaction, combined with the [[AwesomeMusic appropriately epic music]] in the background led me to fight back tears of joy. This could also count as a [[CrowningMomentofAwesome CMOA]].

* The end of season one's last official episode, episode 22.

* I can't believe no one has mentioned the moment at the end of this episode when Tomoya finally gathers up the courage to tell Nagisa that he loves her. Nagisa's subsequent reaction, combined with the CrowningMusicofAwesome in the background led me to fight back tears of joy. This could also count as a CrowningMomentofAwesome.

* Clannad is absolutely ''packed'' with these, but episode 18 of ''~After Story~'' takes the cake and eats it too- the scene where [[spoiler:Tomoya's estranged daughter Ushio tells him that she has to find the robot he bought for her rather than getting a new one when she lost it because it's her first present from her Papa, and Tomoya tearfully embraces her while promising to be a better father to her reduced me to tears. Followed by Tomoya himself crying openly on the train while telling Ushio about how he met Nagisa.]] Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPGLfVnXb3M here]].

** Her TrueEnding in particular is simple, but heartwarming, [[spoiler: suggesting that she has woken up from her coma]]:

** The end of season one's last official episode, episode 22.
** The second half of ''~After Story~'' Episode 18, where [[spoiler:Tomoya, after finding out his dad's motives for winding up the way he is, [[GenerationXerox realizes he became just like him.]] The kicker starts when he goes back to Ushio and reconciles with the estranged daughter who he never once really LOOKED at for five years after Nagisa's death, and both of them erupt into tears. He thereafter takes her in as his own.]]

** Her TrueEnding in particular is simple, but heartwarming:

* Tomoya remembering the day he first met Youhei after both of them had been in fights (not with each other). They saw each other's bandaged faces and laughed.

* The ''~After Story~'' OVA "The Events From One Year Before", where Tomoya and Youhei's prank leads to Nagisa making a friend.

* [[spoiler: Tomoya mending Ushio's turtle toy when spending a day with her after being estranged from his daughter.]]

---> '''Nagisa''': So please, don't lose yourself. No matter what may await, please don't regret meeting me.

** To be precise, this moment comes in episode 22 when [[spoiler:Tomoya suddenly returns back to the foot of the hill where he met Nagisa, watching her walk away after he decided that they shouldn't have met when she died]]. Realizing where he is, Tomoya [[spoiler:calls out her name and starts running to her, embracing Nagisa as the colors of the setting turn vibrant again]].

* It's a subtle thing, but in the recap episode, it's made clear that Ushio calls Sunohara 'Uncle Youhei.'

** And then there's the moment when Tomoya finally reconciles with his father.

* Episode 8.[[spoiler: Sunohara has gone to the hospital and seen Fuko. Next morning, he can't remember why he was even there and of course can't remember Fuko. But then he starts vaguely remembering her, even stating that he doesn't think he hated her.]] What he said about himself was true. Deep down in his heart, he is a good guy.

---> '''Tomoya''': Nagisa.
---> '''Nagisa''': Yes?
---> '''Tomoya''': Will you marry me?
---> '''Nagisa''': ...Yes.
---> '''Tomoya''': Are you sure?
---> '''Nagisa''': As long as we've been together, I've known you were the only one. And even...
---> '''Tomoya''': Even if I'm like this? Even though I'm so pathetic...
---> '''Nagisa''': It's fine, I'm pathetic too. But, I think if we're together, we can grow stronger.
---> ''Tomoya chokes up in tears and hugs her''
---> '''Tomoya''': Will you stay with me?
---> '''Nagisa''': Yes. Of course I'll stay with you. No matter what happens. For as long as we live.

* Tomoya's marriage proposal to Nagisa:

---> '''Tomoya''': Let's get married.
---> '''Nagisa''': ... Yes.

---> '''Nagisa''': I've always been thinking that you're the only one.
---> '''Tomoya''': I'm a guy like this! I'm a really pathetic...
---> '''Nagisa''': I am, too. But, if we're together, we can become strong.

---> '''Tomoya''': Will you always be with me?
---> '''Nagisa''': Yes. I will always be with you. No matter when. No matter how long.
** Submitted for your approval: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHz1ZDPkVy0 The Proposal]]

* Episode 8.[[spoiler: Sunohara has gone to the hospital and seen Fuko. Next morning, he can't remember why he was even there and of course can't remember Fuko. But then he starts vaguely remembering Fuko.]] What he said about himself was true. Deep down in his heart, he is a good guy.

* The ending to Yosuke Yoshino's backstory. After the crash from stardom, Yoshino returns home. And who's there at the bus stop waiting for him? Fuko's sister, Kouko, who welcomes him back with open arms as he embraces her.

* The entire middle section of episode 22 of ''~After Story~'', [[spoiler:a montage of the reset button ending that covers where all the characters are now]],consists of the biggest ongoing CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming in the history of human fiction. It's a Crowning Half-Episode Of Heartwarming. Mere words cannot describe it, but it reduced me to tears AGAIN- tears of pure joy. Especially as up to that point it looked like the series might be going out on the bleakest of TearJerker Downer Endings.

** Submitted for your approval: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HA8nZwHkNw The Proposal]]

** And, by extension, [[spoiler: When Tomoya and Nagisa forget Fuuko for half a day, then remember when prompted by Koumura-sensei. Nagisa shouts out "Fuuko-chan!" and they both turn to see her standing there all along.]]