History Heartwarming / Persona4TheAnimation

** Looking at this battle, Margaret rains down the most powerful attacks from the game's ultimate Personas, while the ones on Yuu's side are mostly mid- to low-tier Persona. Despite their human weakness, despite their meager strength, [[RuleOfSymbolism the bonds of Yuu's friends and family are still enough to protect him, to save him from his despair]], and inspire him to fight back and win once and for all.

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** Yosuke holding a sobbing Yu, without a single word...THE defining Brosuke moment. Both of them lost someone dear to them and Yosuke knows just how painful it felt. But it hurts worse for Yu because of the HopeSpot he had from saving Nanako whereas Yusuke couldn't.

** Also in Episode 12, the way that Yu defeats Shadow Mitsuo by unleashing every Persona he has in quick succession works as a non-verbal ShutUpHannibal to Shadow Mitsuo's claim that they're NotSoDifferent, thanks to the bonds Yu has made.

** The developement of Yu and Rise's relationship, most notably the picture she left on Yu's desk.

** At the end of the episode there is about a 80+ seconds of heartwarming starting with Yu telling Teddie he can stay forever. [[TearJerker/Persona4TheAnimation It ends with...]]

* Episode 24: Every scene involving Teddie, from him weeping in the Velvet room thinking that [[MyGreatestFailure he hadn't been able]] to save Nanako, and Yu telling him he had, to his being told in the television world that since he's got a Persona he's basically as good as human and his visit to Nanako in the hospital.

-->'''Nanako:''' Daddy...\\

--> "You saved my Life in more ways than one, haven't you? I was supposed to take care of you, but you took care of me. Maybe that's how we were able to pull it off in the end, how we were able to truly become a family."

** The whole fight against Margaret when he snaps out of the Delusion. He does not summon the Personas, '''they come to him and some of them even shatter themselves to be summoned'''
** "You saved my Life in more ways than one, haven't you? I was supposed to take care of you, but you took care of me. Maybe that's how we were able to pull it off in the end, how we were able to truly become a family."
** To top it off (literally), who's the first voice Yu hears cheering him on? Nanako.

** Yosuke holding a sobbing Yu, without a single word...THE defining Brosuke moment.

* This exchange from the anime between Narukami and Yosuke after the latter finds out that [[spoiler:Saki, the girl he had a crush on, actually despised him, and Shadow Yosuke twists the knife by taunting him that he'd only decided to investigate her death because he was looking for excitement]]:

* In episode 7 it's revealed why Kanji took on 100 bikers single handedly. [[spoiler:The noise of the bikes had kept his mom from sleeping for several nights so he decided to shut them up.]]

** The development of the Yu and Yosuke [[HeterosexualLifePartners Bromance]], with the duo finally going on FirstNameBasis. [[spoiler: Specifically when Yosuke saved Yu from Mitsuo's shadow.]]

** Also in Episode 12, the way that Yu defeats Shadow Mitsuo [[spoiler: by unleashing every Persona he has in quick succession]] works as a non-verbal ShutUpHannibal to Shadow Mitsuo's claim that they're NotSoDifferent, thanks to the bonds Yu has made.

** The climax of the episode. [[spoiler: Nanako and Yu watch the festival fireworks together, and she watches Yu interact with the Social Link characters he'd been spending the episode with while OutOfFocus. Without knowing what he'd done, she sees these people seem to magically become happy thanks to her "big bro", and then she walks home hand-in-hand between Yu and Dojima.]]

** When [[spoiler: Namatame]] is controlling the rest of the team, and Yu is struggling to summon his Persona, obviously unwilling to fight back against them, he hears Dojima's voice in his head, allowing him to summon Kohyru, the ultimate Hierophant Persona.

** In between all of the {{Tear Jerker}}s brought by the episode, we have Aika [[spoiler:giving the infamous Rainy Day Special to Yu... to celebrate Nanako recovery]].
** Better yet ''[[spoiler: Yu finishes it!]]''

** [[spoiler:Don't forget Nanako surviving in the end.]]
** At one point, it shows Narukami asleep with his phone open. If you understand what the characters read as, you realize that the messages [[spoiler:are from his school friends]].
* Episode 24: Every scene involving Teddie from [[spoiler: him weeping in the Velvet room thinking that [[MyGreatestFailure he hadn't been able]] to save Nanako, and Yu telling him he had, to his being told in the television world that since he's got a Persona he's basically as good as human and his visit to Nanako in the hospital]].

** Watching the various team members support each other against the Reapers is pretty inspiring, as are their various ShutUpHannibal speeches. Yu tells [[spoiler: Ameno-Sagiri]] that as long as he has his team he can do anything. [[spoiler: Everyone's determination to save him allows them to evolve their Personas all at once, Susanoo pulls Yu out of Ameno-Sagiri, and everyone makes an opening for Yu to finish off the baddie with freaking LUCIFER.]] ThePowerOfFriendship at its finest.
** At the end of the episode, when [[spoiler: Adachi]] simply tells everyone to leave him in the TV World and everyone gets their two cents in, Yu offers to help him up. No smartass comment. No guilt trip in order to make him feel worse, just a simple gesture.
** ''"Let's go home, [[spoiler: Adachi.]]"''

** [[spoiler:Margaret snapping Yu out of his HeroicBSOD, and the defeat of Izanami. "Children of man... Well done!"]]
** [[spoiler:Before that, [[HesBack Yu's heroic]] [[HeroicResolve resolve reigniting]]. By sending the rest of the team into the shadows, presumably to death she was ''knowingly'' slamming nonstop on Yu's Despair Button. In spite of everything that happened, losing everyone, submitting himself to Izanami's illusion, and apparently Margaret coming to finish him off, he manages to think back to the bonds he made and, one by one, regain the Personas he strengthened through knowing them. To seal the deal, he accepts his shadow, canonically one of the most difficult things for anybody to do, without hesitation. [[InfinityPlusOneSword In enters Izanagi-No-Okami]].]]
** Three words: [[spoiler:"You are me."]]
** Pretty Much [[spoiler:the whole fight against Margaret whe he snaps out of the Delusion. He does not summon the Personas, '''they come to him and some of them even shatter themself to be summoned''']]
** [[spoiler:"You saved my Life in more ways than one, havent you? I was supposed to take care of you, but you took care of me. Maybe thats how we were able to pull it of in the end, how we were able to truly become a family"]]
** [[spoiler: To top it off (literally), who's the first voice Yu hears cheering him on? Nanako.]]

** The scene where Yu put on Teddie's costume to entertain the children doubles as this and a CrowningMomentOfFunny

** The development of the Yu and Yosuke [[HeterosexualLifePartners Bromance]], with the duo finally going on FirstNameBasis. [[spoiler: Specifically when Yosuke saved Yu form Mitsuo's shadow.]]

* In episode 7 it's revealed why Kanji took on 100 bikers single handedly. [[spoiler:The noise of the bikes had kept his mum from sleeping for several nights so he decided to shut them up.]]

* Episode 12 has quite the dozy;

** Pretty Much [[spoiler:the whole fight against Margaret whe he snaps out of the Delusion. he does not summon the Personas, '''they come to him and some of them even shatter themself to be summoned''']]

** [[spoiler:Before that, [[HesBack Yu's heroic]] [[HeroicResolve resolve reigniting]]. By sending the rest of the team into the shadows, presumably to death she was ''knowingly'' slamming nonstop on Yu's Despair Button. In spite of everything that happened, losing everyone, submitting himself to Izanami's illusion, and apparently Margaret coming to finish him off, he manages to think back to the bonds he made and, one by one, regain the Personas he strengthened through knowing them. To seal the deal, he accepts his shadow, canonically one of the most difficult things for anybody to do, without hesitation. [[PlusOneInfinitySword In enters Izanagi-No-Okami]].]]

** In between all of the {{Tear Jerker}}s brought by the episode, we have Aika [[spoiler:giving the infamous Rainy Day Special to Yu]]... to [[ComfortFood cheer him up]] after it went FromBadToWorse.