History Heartwarming / Toradora

* The OVA based off an extra short story, "Ben-to no Gokui", is a mix of Heartwarming and SugarWiki/{{Funny|Moments}}: To summarize, Kitamura's grandmother starts making boxed lunches (ben-to) for him as Ryuuji becomes envious and insecure of her talent in lunch-making (PlayedForLaughs, of course) and becomes overly determined to make a better lunch than her, starting from making grand lunches, to rice balls, to instant noodles until he is driven to COOK the rice INSIDE THE CLASSROOM. When everyone smells the cooked rice, his plan to create the better 'ben-to' is foiled... that is until Taiga meets him on the roof and gives him a lunch consisting of rice balls she made herself. She claims that she was only able to make those rice balls because Ryuuji taught her how to. Despite the rice balls tasting... a little worse than expected, Ryuuji realizes the true essence of making 'ben-to' or boxed lunches. As long as it was made with your sincerest feelings, it would be delicious to the receiver, no matter what sort of food you made; Kitamura's grandmother made those delicious lunches to suit Kitamura's tastes, and Ryuuji made food to suit Taiga's tastes. The OVA ends with some sort of cherry blossom viewing party with Ryuuji, Taiga, Minori, Kitamura, Ami, Haruta, Noto, Kihara, and Kashii. Taiga is revealed by Ami to have made boxed lunch enough for everyone and Ami and Kitamura make Taiga feed Ryuuji (like how lovers usually do it) using her chopsticks, much to Taiga and Ryuuji's embarrassment and to everyone else's amusement. D'AAAAAAAWWWWWWWW~!
* A Meta example comes at the tail end of this review of the series by Youtuber Riyogaa, "Why Toradora is (Currently) the Best Romantic Comedy Anime [In the Form of An Analysis and Review]." Starts at about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fEkFtmIRU0&t=21m08s 21:08.]]
-->"You know, I could go through every single episode of ''Toradora!'' and analyze the crap out of it, but it doesn't change the fact that there's one main reason I love this show so much: ''Toradora!'' gets what love is. We're taught growing up, especially in the West, the love is this "Prince & Princess" kind of thing, with "soul mates" and, how you're bound to meet "The One." While that can happen, in actuality, love is this big, weird, confusing, wonderful mess, where anything can happen. ''Toradora!'' understands that you're just as likely to find love that's been right next to you the entire time, and while it's no dragon-slaying knight and princess, that doesn't make it any less grand, strong, or beautiful."

''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'' is basically all Crowning Moments separated by resolutions and buildups. The entire series actually sometimes manages to be a tearjerker, funny, and heartwarming AT THE SAME TIME during certain scenes.