History Heartwarming / YandereSimulator

* As of July 9th, Yandere Simulator has changed from Unity 4 to Unity 5. Why is this heartwarming? Well, seeing [=YandereDev=]'s happiness to this on his development blog would do it. This also helps with him talking about meeting some very kind fans at Anime Expo, saying how their kind words and this new development has made him excited to continue working on the game. After hearing him struggle for so long on Yandere Simulator, it's nice to see him having some joy again.

* The [[ReasonableAuthorityFigures teachers]] at the school seem to genuinely care about the students. Not one of them is ever rude to them unless they do something bad. Makes people wish they had them as teachers.

* Call it 'Heartwarming on a Technicality', but even after you've trashed Kokona's reputation to the point that her friends kick her out of their group, you can still go up to the roof where Kokona is sitting alone on a bench and [[ThrowTheDogABone tell her she looks lovely]]. She performs the same animation she always does when complimented, but in context it feels much more profound, since you're the only person left who's willing to be nice to her... [[KickTheDog although you can then go and spread more gossip about her behind her back]]. Do it enough and she is DrivenToSuicide.

* When discussing Kokona's and Kizana's similar appearances, one of [=YandereDev=]'s original ideas was for Kizana to copy Kokona's hairstyle, then have Ayano bully her into changing her hair. However, he later came up with another possibility: ''Kokona'' copied Kizana's hairstyle because she idolized her. Kizana would then try to convince Kokona to come up with her own unique hair, leading into her asking Ayano to help Kokona with this as part of her task. [[PetTheDog Despite her faults, she still values creativity.]]

** Adding on to this, Dev revealed in the first blog post of March 2017 that in response to the videos, he'd received a lot of messages basically telling him to take more care of himself. It's certainly nice to know that a lot of the fanbase cares about his wellbeing enough to encourage him to not overextend himself.

** Well, the ''actual'' reason for it would be to keep Senpai's hidden Sanity stat from dropping too far from your actions – if you play the game as a murderous sociopath (''especially'' if Hanako dies), Senpai will be near-catatonic by the time Ayano confesses.

** Yandere-chan admits in the game's intro that [[EmptyShell she never felt anything]] before she met Senpai. He's such a NiceGuy that he managed to make a ''[[BeyondTheImpossible genuine sociopath]]'' [[BeyondTheImpossible feel human for the first time in her life]].

--->'''Kokona''': He...he...[[spoiler:He cries...]]\\

'''Kokona''': [[spoiler:He cries...and talks about his debt problems...]]\\

'''Kokona''': [[spoiler:When my mom died last year, my family lost a lot of money...my dad took out a loan so that he could continue to pay for my tuition fees...but... It turns out that he borrowed money from some really shady people... they raise the interest rate by 10% every ten days...and they threaten to get violent with him if he doesn't pay up...]]\\
'''Yan-chan''': [[spoiler: Loan sharks...]]\\
'''Kokona''': [[spoiler: I'm trying to help my dad get out of debt... I'm trying to earn money any way I can, but...the only ways to make money fast...are...[[CompensatedDating gross...]]]]

* A meta example would be in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6wP1qj2USs "I Want My Senpai Back"]] special. [[spoiler:Despite the RunningGag, the special ends with Kokona still alive. Yandere-chan even [[PetTheDog genuinely thanks her for her time before leaving her in peace]].]]

* Students with the Heroic personality will do everything in their power to protect their classmates if they see Yandere-chan attack people, even if it means facing the violent sociopath in a struggle to the death they may not win. At least by occupying you, [[HeroicSacrifice they can allow other students to escape]].
* You have to admit, there's something adorable about how Kokona and her friends go to the Cooking Club room to eat octopus hotdogs she made. Might also double as a TearJerker, since Yandere-chan can ruin their friendship with Kokona, murder them, and/or frame Kokona by the end of the week.
* Yandev has said in a twitter post that all women in Yandere-chan's bloodline exhibit similar yandere behavior - in their late teens they become obsessed with a single male, marry him one way or another, and live out the rest of their life together with him. When asked about what would happen if the husband passed away of illness or old age before the wife did, Yandev replied that an Aishi woman has no reason to keep on living without a soulmate, and will take her own life without a second thought, following him into the grave. It's a little heartwarming, in a dark, horrifying way.

* Assuming the upcoming matchmaker mechanic applies to non-rivals, there will be plenty of chances for HeartwarmingMoments. Yeah, you could just matchmake a rival to dispose of her, but you could also make your favorite side character happy by getting them together with their crush.
* While the Delinquents may be a bunch of [[{{Jerkass}} jerkasses]], a planned feature will have them treat Yandere-chan as one of them if her reputation is low enough. [[YouAreNotAlone It seems that they do look out for one another, along with other social outcasts and misfits.]]

* The ten rivals have differing personalities and attitudes, from the tomboyish Asu to the feminine Amai, the shy Oka Ruto to the brazen Osana Najimi, and more. Senpai is so accepting of all of their personality traits and foibles, he also sees the best in them and won't look upon them negatively if, for example, they end up covered in blood.

*** A bonus to all this? Instead of [[spoiler:only releasing Mr. Haruka from his debt, Yan-chan makes Ronshaku release ''all'' his clients from debt. Everyone who owed money is free, and won't have to worry about the company coming after them anymore.[[note]] Though it's not just heartwarming, but smart as well. If she released just Kokona's dad, Mr. Ronshaku would know exactly who to take revenge upon. By releasing everyone in debt, Yandere-chan has left him clueless as to who's responsible.[[/note]]]]

* Yandere-Dev has been releasing small previews regarding the matchmaking update. Matchmaking Preview #6 shows Kokona and her new boyfriend [[note]]whose appearance might be changing in the actual update since Yandere-Dev already changed it to hide his identity[[/note]] about to confessing their love to each other; walking together to school, holding hands and sitting together on a bench during lunchtime (the later two also has them two [[CrushBlush blushing]] and little hearts floating between them)
* Despite the fact that Yandere-chan is a heartless sociopath and is doing it more out of PragmaticVillainy than anything, it's sweet to see her set up a love confession and have it go through.

* Yandere Dev is thinking of giving the player the ability to leave notes and gifts for Senpai, to show that Yandere-chan may not be an emotionless stalker after all.
* Shortly after making a video ranting about Twitch's year-long ban of Yandere Simulator, [=YandereDev=] began to regret it as he felt it destroyed any chance of a peaceful resolution with Twitch--if Twitch unbanned the game after that, that'd give the impression that they could essentially be bullied into submission, but if they didn't, that'd give the impression that they were holding a petty grudge against [=YandereDev=]. As a result, he uploaded another video defending Twitch and providing more reasonable explanations as to why they never responded to him (such as the e-mails never reaching him for whatever reason or them simply having no protocol for what to do if a developer disputes the banning of their game) in an attempt to "extend the olive branch" and resolve the issue more peacefully.
** Came to somewhat of a resolution in February 2017, when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXbQfGyxGDM Twitch finally responded]], with an email explaining not only why ''Yandere Simulator'' was banned, but also why they had remained silent up until now, and why the game was unlikely to be unbanned in the near future. [=YanDev=] went over the email in the linked video, coming to the basic conclusion of "It sucks, but I can see why they did it now; I'll lobby for it to be unbanned once the game is more-or-less done."
* A meta example. [=YandereDev=] made two videos where he explains his painful work schedule revolving around the game's development, and discusses how some of the potential solutions may negatively impact on his relationship with ''Yandere Simulator's'' fanbase. One of the two polls he put up asked whether his fans are "chill" (not minding if he takes breaks and don't mind the longer development time) or "heated" (demanding a strict work schedule and following deadlines). As it turns out, '''95% of his fans''' are of the "chill" variety, and [=YandereDev=] was correct about the game's detractors being a very VocalMinority. It truly shows that all but a small chunk of the fans don't mind about the development speed, so long as it's developer is healthy.

** Came to somewhat of a resolution in February 2017, when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXbQfGyxGDM Twitch finally responded]], with an email explaining not only why ''Yandere Simulator'' was banned, but also why they had remained silent up until now, and why the game was unlikely to be unbanned in the near future. [=YanDev=] went over the email in the linked video, coming to the basic conclusion of "It sucks, but I can see why they did it now, I'll lobby for it to be unbanned once the game is more-or-less done".

* Shortly after making a video ranting about Twitch's year-long ban of Yandere Simulator, Yandere Dev began to regret it as he felt it destroyed any chance of a peaceful resolution with Twitch--if Twitch unbanned the game after that, that'd give the impression that they could essentially be bulled into submission, but if they didn't, that'd give the impression that they were holding a petty grudge against Yandere Dev. As a result, he uploaded another video defending Twitch and providing more reasonable explanations as to why they never responded to him(such as the e-mails never reaching him for whatever reason or them simply having no protocol for what to do if a developer disputes the banning of their game) in an attempt to "extend the olive branch" and resolve the issue more peacefully.

This is a game that revolves around [[RemovingTheRival getting rid of your love-competition]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse by any means necessary]], and yet… even with all of the dark, disturbing, and downright sad things in this game, there's more than a few moments that make players go "awww".

* The ten rivals have differing personalities and attitudes, from the tomboyish Swim Team Captain to the feminine Cooking Club Leader, the shy Oka Ruto to the brazen Osana Najimi, and more. Senpai is so accepting of all of their personality traits and foibles, he also sees the best in them and won't look upon them negatively if, for example, they end up covered in blood.

*** A bonus to all this? Instead of [[spoiler:only releasing Mr. Haruka from his debt, Yan-chan makes Ronshaku release ''all'' his clients from debt. Everyone who owed money is free and won't have to worry about the company coming after them anymore.[[note]] It's not just heartwarming, but smart as well. If she released just Kokona's dad, Mr. Ronshaku would know exactly who to take revenge upon. By releasing everyone in debt, Yandere-chan has left him clueless as to who's responsible.[[/note]]]]

* Now that the "rivals" have been released and given character profiles, there's a moment of heartwarming related to Amai Odayaka, the week 2 rival: while several of the rivals depend on Senpai for emotional support, Amai notably makes friends with Senpai just so Amai can give ''him'' emotional support after he's reeling over however you eliminated Osana in the previous week. And it's this friendship that leads to Amai falling in love with Senpai, so while several rivals fall in love with Senpai because he was nice to them, Amai falls in love with Senpai while in the course of being nice to ''him''.

* Now that the only remaining elimination methods are rival specific, [=YandereDev=] has mentioned that the next task is implementing a true rival. Meaning [[TheWoobie Kokona]] finally gets a break.

* Despite the fact that Yandere-chan is a heartless sociopath and is doing it more out of PragmaticVillany than anything, it's sweet to see her set up a love confession and have it go through.
* Now that the only remaining elimination methods are rival specific, YandereDev has mentioned that the next task is implementing a true rival. Meaning [[TheWoobie Kokona]] finally gets a break.