Heartwarming / Angelic Layer

• The password Misaki created to activate her Angel, Hikaru, every time she enters the Layer is adorably sweet.
  "Angel Wings! Please Guide Me and Hikaru!"
• Every time Misaki begs Hikaru to get up, and Hikaru manages to get back on her feet. It's easy to get the impression they have a connection that's much more than Misaki "controlling" Hikaru.
• Icchan showing up to guide Misaki numerous times and to comfort her after her first loss, you can tell he truly cares about her.
• Ohjiro saying that he's falling in love with Misaki and how they are seen together immediately after.
• When Ohjiro loses to Misaki, Icchan leaves the control room to get him (what he believes is) his favorite snack. Ogata offers to do it for him, but Icchan wants to be the one to do it, because this is his brother, after all.
• Icchan picking Shuko up, carrying her to the Ferris wheel and essentially proclaiming his love for her and asking that she and Misaki move in with him.
• When Misaki and her mother finally reconcile, at the end of the anime.
  • Especially when Misaki wheels her mother to her place before the final match.
  • Plus seeing Misaki and her mom walking down the street in the second to last scene just brings tears of joy to your eyes. Not only have they been reunited, but the work that Icchan and Shuko started which created Angelic Layer itself is finally complete and Shuko can walk once again.
  • The final scene with Hikaru leaning against Athena to mirror Misaki and Shuko.
• Hatoko running to, hugging and scolding Misaki in the end of episode 25. As well as thanking her for keeping her promise in the final episode. Complete with a cute kiss on the cheek.

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