History Heartwarming / MegaloBox

** Aragaki, Santa, Bojiri and finally Ochio coming together to help Joe keep the still under construction gym safe during the typhoon.

* Team Nowhere reforming, with Aragaki and Yuri as Joe‘a coaches, and Joe making his peace with all of them.

** In the process, [[spoiler: Joe retires from boxing with the knowledge that he has a family to live for, serving as a {{Foil}} for his counterpart from TomorrowsJoe who kept boxing until it killed him due to feeling he had nothing else to live for.]]

* The ending, for almost all involved. [[spoiler: Sachio threw in the title when he sensed that Joe might keep going longer to the point of serious harm, a decision the Joe of the past might have been furious at, but the Joe of the present happily accepts. Both he and Mac depart on friendly terms and leave the ring behind for good, returning to their families. Yukiko stepping down as President of Shirato, but not before taking all rights to BES and releasing the license to medical researchers everywhere. Sachio leaves for an engineering training camp, but is assured that he will always have a home when he comes back, much like Nanbu once promised Aragaki, with Joe showing every intent to keep the promise. After all the pain and trauma of the past 5 years for all involved, they can finally move on.]]

* The ending, for almost all involved. [[spoiler: Sachio threw in the title when he sensed that Joe might keep going longer to the point of serious harm, a decision the Joe of the past might have been furious at, but the Joe of the present happily accepts. Both he and Mac depart on friendly terms and leave the ring behind for good, returning to their families.]]

** Additionally, choosing to fight with Chief’s Gear, instead of being Gearless, so he can come home to his family.

* Joe and Sachio settling their conflict in the ring, ending the fight with a tearful hug.

** Aragaki, Santa, Bojiri and finally Ochio coming together to help Joe keep the still under construction gym safe during the typhoon.

* Joe taking a dive so he can save Bojiro’s restaurant deed, echoing what Chief told him in the ep 1, that “there’s nothing embarrassing about trying to survive.”

* The Spanish immigrant community giving [[spoiler: Chief’s Hummingbird Gear, made by his son Carlo,]] to Joe, so he can carry on his word and spirit through the world.

* Though it comes after [[spoiler: his heartbreaking death]], Chief managing to get the paperwork in order to buy their land for the immigrant community is equal parts this and awesome.

* Joe making his first steps to redemption and healing in episode 3, culminating in shaving off his beard and [[spoiler: no longer seeing Nanbu’s ghost.]]

** Joe making his first steps to redemption and healing in episode 3, culminating in shaving off his beard and [[spoiler: no longer seeing Nanbu’s ghost.]]

** With the hug from Chief: Chief has just won the tournament and tells Joe that he's family after Joe thanks him. Joe accepts Chief's hug and hugs him back.

* Crossed with Awesome/MegaloBox and TearJerker, but Nanbu finally deciding to put someone else’s interests above his, and [[spoiler: Cutting his remaining eye out so that he can settle his and Joe’s debts with Fujimaki.]]

* Crossed with Awesome and TearJerker, but Nanbu finally deciding to put someone else’s interests above his, and [[spoiler: Cutting his remaining eye out so that he can settle his and Joe’s debts with Fujimaki.]]

* The hugs Joe gets from Mara and Chief in episodes 2 and 4 are especially heartwarming. These two hugs were heartwarming because after all the pain Joe has been through, it was nice to see him receive a little TLC from strangers.

* The hugs Joe gets from Mara and Chief in episodes 2 and 4 are especially heartwarming. This troper found these two hugs heartwarming because after all the pain Joe has been through, it was nice to see him receive a little TLC from strangers.