A nice dinner between newly found allies.
It is created by Gen Urobuchi. Despite of being dark, but there are some heartwarming moments between characters in the series.
WARNING: Unmarked spoilers ahead, please self-advise. Various tropes here contain major plot spoilers!
List the examples in a chronological order, if possible.
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Season 1
Episode 10: A Thief's Pride:
- Juan Can Yun decides to rescue Dan Fei rather than accompany his former teacher and others.
Episode 13: A New Duty
- The conversation where Shang Bu Huan entrusts Dan Fei and Juan Can Yun guarding the new sword, Goukouken.
Shang Bu Huan: It takes about a hundred years for the hole in space to completely close up. In the meantime, the sword needs to stay where it stands. A new job for the Seal Guardian who guard these holy grounds, in other words.
Dan Fei: Right!
Lin Xue Ya: You're going to rebuild the holy grounds to keep another sword safe? Good grief... an exhausting notion.
Shang Bu Huan: You guys can do it though, right?
Juan Can Yun: (holding Dan Fei's hand) Yeah, leave it to us. Right?
Dan Fei: Yes.
Season 2
Episode 1: Xiān Zhèn Fortress
- Despite of being a serious conversation between Shang Bu Huan, Lang Wu Yao and Ling Ya, but it's a bit heartwarming since Shang Bu Huan reunited with a familiar face who isn't out to kill him.
- Lang Wu Yao's reason why he went to Dong Li to look for him it's because he felt lonely without him. It shows that he really does care for him deeply.
Episode 3: Princess of Cruelty
- When Lang Wu Yao saw Shang Bu Huan get poisoned by Xie Yingluo, it shows that how he much he greatly care for Shang Bu Huan. He even willing to fight the mind-controlled villagers without holding back in order to saves him before being killed.
Episode 4: Close Foes
- Lin is willing to help Shang Bu Huan and search for antidote to cure his poison he received from Xie Yingluo. It is hinted that Lin takes a soft spot for Shang Bu Huan and sees him as a friend.
Episode 6: A Poisoner's Pride
- Di Kong saves Xie Yingluo from the brink of death and kept her location a secret from Shang Bu Huan and Lang Wu Yao. However, his reason for saving her is because he wants a proper answer from her.
Episode 8: The Song That Dooms Evil
- Di Kong decides to give the elder couple he helped from the previous episodes a proper burial after they were killed by Xie Yingluo. It shows that even though he only met them once, but he felt that he should create a proper burial ground for their souls to rest in peace.
Episode 10: Demonic Swords/Holy Swords
- Lang Wu Yao gave Xie Yingluo a proper burial after she was killed by Lóu Zhèn Jiè.
- It's both a tearjerker and a heartwarming since he gives his summoning whistle to Shang Bu Huan hopping he will escape and a safe place to hide before Lóu Zhèn Jiè finds him. It shows that Lang Wu Yao wants Fu Kan to be safe even though that's a chance he won't be able to stop Lóu Zhèn Jiè.
Season 3
Episode 5: Legend of The Demon Princess
- Mu Tian Ming does not blame Shang Bu Huan for losing her eyes, and doesn't have any hard feelings for him after he abandoned her and Lang Wu Yao after the battle against Huo Shi Ming Huang. Instead, she continues waiting to see him again.
- Despite everyone at the Phoenix Light Palace suggesting Lang's mother get her unborn child terminated due to being part demon and be sent to a nunnery, she refuses to give her child up as she doesn't blame him for her misfortune. It shows that even though her son Lang Wu Yao is part demon, she will always love and protect him.
- It speaks volumes about Wan Jun Po's reputation and personality when he announces to actually betray Order of the Divine Swarm and Xi-You Court at the same time Explanation , troops from both sides are willing to put aside their hatred to each other and follow his orders.
- Despite they're practically on different sides right now, Shang actually still worries about Wan for trying to take on Zhao Jun Lin by himself.
Episode 13: Zhao Jun Lin
- When Zhao Jun Lin taunts Wan Jun Po's inability to use Sorcerous Swords to their full potential during their initial fight, saying that he's nothing but a fool for trying to stand in her way, Shang outright states Wan is worthy to be called as a "hero" as he saves him.
- In the last episode, there was a mook from the Order who barely held back against another from the Court due to his hatred to the Court. During this episode, said mook was dying when he's being found by the later, and the former tells the later to fight 100 times harder to avenge him (contrasting the former's oath to kill all 100 troops from the Court). The later oblieges.
- After the fight, Wan (on his last breath) urges Shang and his companions to take care of his troops who followed him all the way, while asking Lin Xue Ya to ttake him back to the Court for a last conversation with the Emperor, trying to persuade him to prepare for the Demonic Invasion. Truly A Father to His Men and a patriot......which makes what happened next much more tragic.
- That fact that Dan Fei agrees to take them to refill Seal Guardians' ranks just takes the cake, despite some of the survivors came from the Order.
Manga
Chapter 10:
- Lin seems to care a lot about his teacher, Lian Qi. Especially he show some concerns for him as he hopes he's doing alright.
Chapter 11:
- Lin remembering of his time when he was Lian Qi's student.
- Lian Qi get along with children before meeting up with Lin and his companion at the Limitless Temple. He gave of his inventions to the children to play with. The children were very interested and one of them thinking it was magic.
Chapter 13:
- After Sha Wu Sheng left, he tell the group that he wanted to give Lian Qi a proper burial and ask them for help.
Chapter 15:
- In the manga, It more heartwarming where Dan Fei having a nice conversation with Shang Bu Huan about after leaving the shrine, she find that everything is new to her, but she feel ashamed to admit. However, he told her not to worry and to enjoy herself to laugh and smile.
Chapter 20:
- In the manga play it very different, Dan Fei confronted Diao Ming about her reason of not telling him where she hidden the piece of Tengyouken, a flashback of her brother and companions is shown. It strange, only Syu Un Syou, Kei Gai, and Sha Wu Sheng are the only people wasn't feature in her flashback. It implied that she thinks of Lin Xue Ya, Shang Bu Huan, and Juan Can Yun as her true companions/friends.
Chapter 21:
- After Dan Fei lost consciousness, she dreams back at the shrine where she reunited with her older brother in relieved. She was crying and tells him about a horrible nightmare where Mie Tian Hai killed him and stole the piece of the Tengyouken. Her brother tells her not to worried and lend out his hand to hers. Although her dream it was very heartwarming, but it will never become reality she wish for.
- When Juan Can Yun saw Dan Fei horrible wounded, he breaks her prison cell and comes to her aid. He uses his sash to patch up her clothes after being torn off by Chyou Mei.
Chapter 22:
- Shang Bu Huan, having seen his former allies betrayal first hand while imprisoned is completely livid. Dan Fei begins to descend into becoming a Broken Bird, feeling like she failed her family, her brother, her mission in life, and was a fool for letting her kind nature leave her blind and to be taken advantage of by others. When she wishes for death, Shang Bu Huan has had enough. After bursting their cells, he confers to her that being a good person should never be something to looked down upon. Alongside promising to reclaim what she lost, he promises he won't leave the mountain without her.Shang Bu Huan: "You can always regret being deceived, but don't you for one second regret trying to do the right thing."
Chapter 26:
- Dan Fei did the same thing where she turn her sash around given by Juan Can Yun and torn a piece off to patch his wound she inflicted him, who previous thought he was a enemy and traitor.
Chapter 32:
- In the manga, Juan Can Yun protect Dan Fei from being crush by the rock boulder that caused by one of Youjyarei's attack. Luckily, it was confirmed by Shang Bu Huan that he's not dead just unconscious after he save her.
Chapter 34:
- After the ordeal, Dan Fei and Juan Can Yun are Happily Married.
- They both visit Tan Kou's grave, Juan Can Yun prays to him despite never meeting him in person, and after leaving, Tan Kou's ghost appears with a smile.
Film
Thunderbolt Fantasy: The Sword of Life and Death
- In Sha Wu Sheng's past, even though his father asked Tekkisen to kill him when he was an infant, he took him in as his own. It is hinted that he either took pity on him or doesn't believe Sha Wu Sheng is a man eating fiend.
- Shang Bu Huan's advice to his impostor about starting his own life.
"Hang in there, and live. Cry laugh, get mad, fall in love... And find something you really care about. That'll be your real life, and not an imitation. And when you're found that stuff, I'm sure you'll finally be able to let go of that nasty skull mask. And while you're at it, you can put aside the name of Shang Bu Huan, too."
