History Main / SnowMeansLove

%% * There used to be ''[[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Order of the Stick]]'' merchandise that pulled this with [[EvilTwin Nale]] and [[HornyDevils Sabine]].

* ''Anime/LoveLive'': μ's' song "Snow halation" is all about this trope, as the lyrics are about falling in love with someone while it's snowing out.

* Combined with SnowMeansDeath in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', twice. Once when Casca tries to dissuade Guts from leaving his pre-Eclipse TrueCompanions, right before the showdown with Griffith (this also marked the moment when she had her LoveEpiphany). The other one post-Eclipse when Guts fights off snow-demons to protect Casca. They also share a moment in the snow when Guts and Casca depart from Godo's place when [[spoiler: Guts wraps his cape around her and says that he would never leave her behind again.]]

* ''Manga/KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl'' manages to have a SnowMeansLove scene in the middle of summer.
* ''Manga/LoveHina'''s Christmas special, in which Naru and Keitaro spend a good deal of time wandering around feeling lonely. As well, it is snowing when Naru finds Keitaro after he ran off in an early episode of the series.
* The heartwarming ending of the 1999 ''VisualNovel/ToHeart'' Anime series.
* On Sara and Lottie's home planet in ''Anime/StrainStrategicArmoredInfantry'', snow means brother-sister love.
* The ending credits of ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'' show a snowy romance between Abel Nightroad and Esther Blanchett. [[spoiler:That never happens in the actual show, though.]]
* Invoked for HomoeroticSubtext value in ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis''. [[AloofBigBrother Tezuka]] finds [[EyesAlwaysShut Fuji]] once waiting for him outside an hospital, and so as they speak about the upcoming tournaments, snow starts falling down on them, so Fuji [[UmbrellaOfTogetherness covers both of them with his red umbrella]] as they go home. Needless to say, the [[YaoiFangirl Tezuka/Fuji fans]] [[ShipTease had a field day]].

* In the first episode of ''Manga/SomedaysDreamersIISora'', Michiru asks Sora to use her magic to conjure up a gentle snowfall over her as she confesses her love to her crush. This actually happens ''indoors''.
* In the {{OVA}} of ''Anime/UtaKata'', the loving but temporary reunion of Ichika and Sei with [[spoiler:their reflections, Manatsu and Kai,]] takes place during a white Christmas.
* There's a boatload of snow in the SchoolPlay romance the characters of ''Manga/DNAngel'' put on and the arc it was based in. Notable in that the romantic leads were played by Daisuke and Satoshi.
* The diamond dust in ''Anime/DiamondDaydreams'' pretty much fulfills this role.
* The last episode of ''Anime/WelcomeToTheNHK'' combined this trope with SnowMeansDeath - Misaki returns to the town she grew up in to commit suicide, and is saved by Sato, at which point they realise they love each other. Then Sato goes nuts and tries to kill {{God}} [[HeroicSacrifice in a kamikaze attack]]...
* An example happens in ''Manga/CeresCelestialLegend''. When Suzumi sends Tooya out to do a dangerous mission, Aya runs after him in worry. He reassures her that everything will be fine by giving her a lovebite and then kissing her, at which point it starts snowing. But since this is Aya-slash-Ceres we're talking about, it's a subversion: The snow turns out to be flower petals.

* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has an enigmatic conversation between C.C. and Lelouch over why snow is white. The beginning of the conversation takes place on a mountain top. While their relationship is not strictly romantic, this was a 'getting to know you' moment between them.

* Lampshaded in ''Manga/SgtFrog'', where snow is explicitly stated to make girls three times more beautiful, which means Giroro is quickly overwhelmed by Natsumi (on whom he's [[LoveAtFirstPunch already crushing hard]]).
* In the ''Anime/BlueLiterature'' segment adapting Osamu Dazai's ''Ningen Shikkaku'' (No Longer Human), the protagonist Yozo Ooba meets his future wife when she shelters him as he lies collapsed on a snowy street.

* In the anime adaptation of ''Manga/SweetBlueFlowers'', Fumi and Akira share a very important moment in the snow when Fumi finally realizes that [[spoiler:Akira was her first love]].

* ''Manga/JunjouRomantica'': It's snowing in the scene where Usagi rather abruptly realizes that, oh, he doesn't love Takahiro, but Misaki instead. And then he promptly makes out with him against a streetlight.
* ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' has Shiki Ryougi and Mikiya Kokutou meet for the first time while it was snowing.
** It also snows in the epilogue OVA, one of the most romantic sections of the whole series.
* In ''Manga/WildFangs'', as Mao waits at the train station it begins snowing and Syon shows up to stop him from leaving. While they have their romantic moment it's announced that the trains are cancelled because of the snowfall.
* Snow is often associated with Jack and [[spoiler:Lacie]] in ''Manga/PandoraHearts''. They met on a snowy day, reunited eight years later on a snowy day, and Jack found out [[spoiler:[[SnowMeansDeath Lacie died]]]] on a snowy day.

* In ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'', one of [[TwiceShy Yoshiko and Matsuyama's]] most shippy scenes happens when they're working on cleaning off the snow in the Furano fields. Matsuyama notices that Yoshiko's hands are cold and injured due to her hard work [[YouMustBeCold and attempts to warm them up with his own]], then they both realize the implications and jerk away while heavily blushing.
* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'': In ''The Disappearance Of Haruhi Suzumiya'', snow accompanies a moment between Kyon and Yuki, in which Kyon declares that should anything happen to her, he'll set out with Haruhi to save her. It's worth nothing that one reading of "Yuki" (雪) means "snow."
* In ''Manga/CaseClosed'', Satou gives her boyfriend Takagi a ''very'' happy kiss in the snow of Hokkaido, right after she helps to rescue [[ButtMonkey the poor guy]] from a cruel DeathTrap that ''almost'' invoked SnowMeansDeath on him. Cue to them forgetting [[IsThisThingStillOn that their co-workers were watching over them through a camera...]]
* In ''Anime/SwordArtOnline'', Kirito and Asuna finally meet in real life and share their first real kiss while it's snowing. ''Almost'' turns into SnowMeansDeath when [[spoiler:Kirito gets attacked by the BigBad on his way to the hospital.]]
* In ''Manga/HonooNoAlpenRose'', Jeudi and Lundi share a happy hug in a snow-covered garden [[spoiler: after Jeudi ''barely'' averted [[SnowMeansDeath dying in the same snow]].]]
* In the movie ''Anime/{{Patlabor}} 2'', Captain Shinobu Nagumo and Yukihito Tsuge have a secret meeting during a gentle snow fall, with a romantic soundtrack (titled "With Love")

* [[ChristmasEpisode Chapter 63]] of ''Manga/{{Horimiya}}'' had Hori walking Miyamura home in the snow right before [[spoiler:he asks her to marry him.]]

* A rather tragic example from Franchise/{{Batman}}: flashbacks in one comic show a pre-transformation Dr. Victor Fries, starved for love his whole life, finally find happiness with his future wife Nora, and the two share a tender first kiss as snow falls around them. What makes it tragic is the fact that [[ForegoneConclusion we already know]] that eventually Nora contracts the rare disease that results in her being placed in suspended animation while Victor feverishly works to save her...before he himself is turned into Mr. Freeze. The fact that they share their first kiss while snow falls around them is romantic...but still bitter irony considering the mutation that Victor ends up undergoing later on.

* In ''Fanfic/WhiteRain'', snow was falling when [[spoiler: Itachi (senior) made his proposal to Lucia (to spend their last time together pretending that they were ordinary people who loved each other).]] It is only much later that Lucia realizes that [[spoiler: even then, she may have actually loved Itachi all along.]]
* ''Fanfic/WereGonnaGetThereSoon'': Derpy thanks Thunderlane for helping avert a potential disaster when [[LethalChef she]] had to provide snacks for the next Weather Team meeting. She gives him a piece of Maple Candy she saved, shaped like a heart, and Thunderlane gets it enough to kiss her cheek as she looks away bashfully.

* Snow begins to fall when Valkron finally admits to having affection for Iruna and kisses her in ''Fanfic/WarriorsOfTheWorldSoldiersOfFortune''.
* Subverted with a dramatic twist in the ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheVow''. When [[{{Seers}} the Soothsayer]] is asked to foretell what the wedding between Lord Shen and Lady Lianne would be like, she tells it to happen "beneath tears of snow". Everyone interprets the timing to be the nearing middle of winter when real snow falls in Gongmen City, and so they start making arrangements for the marriage to take place then and outside. When the wedding is ongoing, the atmosphere is positive without doubt even though there isn't any snowfall. [[MomentKiller Then suddenly the entire moment (and the bliss of certain individuals) is crashed]] when an eyewitness of the [[spoiler:mass murder]] committed by Shen right before the wedding day rushes in to expose him, leading him to be exiled and leaving the hearts of his parents and fiancée broken. [[spoiler:The [[ProphecyTwist prophecy's actual meaning]] is revealed with a {{double subversion}} thirty years later when Shen and Lianne are finally married. It happens with Shen crying for the first time in years, his tears looking like tears of snow with their cloudiness and milky white coloring.]]

* In ''Fanfic/TheApprenticeTheStudentAndTheCharlatan'', Nova and Twilight's first [[RunningGag casual event where two best friends can hang out]] [[BlatantLies in a completely platonic manner]] is in Trottingham after a night of snowfall, and they end up going to the local Hearth's Warming Lights festival. It should be mentioned that Nova never expressed romantic interest in Twilight before the night ([[CaptiveDate leading to her literally dragging him kicking and screaming on this date]]), but then there's a moment that he catches her in the right light, and he falls head over heels for her.
* It starts snowing in ''Webcomic/MariasFirstChristmas'' when Maria and Shadow kiss.
* Mio gets proposed to during the snow in ''WebVideo/OurTapes''.

* Used symbolically in the 2000 modern-day adaptation of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''. It never snows throughout the whole movie until Scrooge finally opens up his heart, declares his genuine, unselfish love for Bella, and casts his old life aside wholesale.

* ''Let It Snow'': This is the entire premise of the collection of short stories. All three short stories take place in the same town, between December 24 and 26, when a massive snow storm hits.

* ''Series/SchittsCreek'': It begins to snow during the ChristmasEpisode as Johnny and Moira walk arm-in-arm back to The Rosebud Motel, and it is revealed that Moira and the kids pulled together a last minute Christmas Party for Johnny.
* ''Series/OneLifeToLive'''s Max and Luna consummate their relationship as a Valentine's Day blizzard rages outside. Ten months later, there's similar weather on their wedding night.

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'' puts the game's only romantic scene between Cless and Mint (and one between Arche and Chester) in a town that's perpetually bathed in snowfall. The scene also has a poignant C-arc where Klarth uses his single Origin-powered time-scrying to [[spoiler:check in on his love Mirald]].
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'':
** There's a scene between Lloyd and his future 'soulmate' (mind you, only four of them are romantic in nature) placed in a similar location. [[spoiler: (Actually, Flanoir is Freizkeil, Meltokio is Arlee); 4000 years and a continental shift earlier.]]

--> "[[BlatantLies I-I was talking about]] [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Mieu]]...!"
* Happens in ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheUnwoundFuture'', [[spoiler:but also SnowMeansDeath. Layton's lover, Claire, who was revealed to be slung into the future has to go back to the past to when the time machine exploded. Layton [[NotSoStoic pleads]] with her to stay, but she leaves anyway. It snows once she's confirmed to be gone.]]
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem:''
** The fourth chapter of ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar Geneaology of the Holy War]]'' takes place in snowy Silesse and has three possible relationship-boosting talks between Azelle and Tailtiu, Lewyn and Erinys, and Claude and Silvia. In the second case, this will ''automatically'' trigger their RelationshipUpgrade.
** The player [[InvokedTrope can make the trope happen]] if his/her preferred romantic couples reach the highest level of support in stages that are covered in snow.
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', the {{ninja maid}}s Flora and Felicia have [[AnIcePerson cryokinetic powers]] as members of the Ice Tribe. The trope can come in play if Felicia is romanced by Arthur and/or Flora is romanced by a Male Avatar, since the {{love confession}}s in themselves stun the girls so much that they [[PowerIncontinence briefly lose control over their powers]] [[ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe out of joy]] ([[PlayedForLaughs and hilarity]]), and once the twins calm down and properly accept the respective proposals, their surroundings are already covered in ice and snow.
* In ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'', Effie and Necro barely dodge SnowMeansDeath when Necro saves Effie from falling to her death in a snowy frontier place. The trope goes full-blast when Effie embraces Necro as they get away safely, and he expresses happiness regarding [[PlayingWithSyringes the heavily modified body]] [[RubberMan that allowed him to reach for her.]]
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel II'', after each of the dormitory events with Rean's chosen partner towards the beginning of the Finale section, the view cuts to the outside of the dormitory to show it gently snowing. If your chosen partner was one of the female characters, then it certainly means love. If a male character, then, well, a strong friendship at least.

* An unorthodox example in ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework''. It’s in the snow at Barbarossa that the protagonist chooses which one of his classmates (Lauren, Morgan, Amy, or Rachel) with whom to continue a relationship.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' is entirely based around this trope, as it takes place during winter and the game revolves around romancing one of five girls. However, since it's an {{Utsuge}} where all the girls' routes have some kind of tragedy to deal with, it also sometimes makes use of the SnowMeansDeath trope.

* Subverted in ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo''. The game opens with a LoveConfession to the main character, Hisao, by his crush in the falling snow. Unfortunately, the stress of the situation triggers Hisao's cardiac arrythmia - which he didn't even know he had before then - and things veer dangerously close to SnowMeansDeath as he has a heart attack. He spends the next six months in the hospital... and the relationship doesn't last more than six weeks.

* ''VisualNovel/Canvas2'':
** The [[spoiler:reconciliation scene with Misaki]] is designed around this trope.
** Mami's birthday party.

* ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}'': The phrase "sad girl in snow" in webcomics was popularized by the strip, deriving simply from the fact that this is something the creator/character Piro draws a lot of. Specifically [[http://www.megatokyo.com/strip/142 this guest comic]] by ''Webcomic/MacHall'', lampooning Piro's angst, self-depreciation and fascination with {{Moe}}, even early in the strip. There hasn't been snow until near the end of Chapter 9. Of course, shortly after it starts, [[spoiler:[[SnowMeansDeath Miho gets nuked]]]].
%% * There used to be ''[[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Order of the Stick]]'' merchandise that pulled this with [[EvilTwin Nale]] and [[HornyDevils Sabine]].
%% * In retrospect, ''Webcomic/TheWaterPhoenixKing'' used this in Chapter 3 (it was also SnowMeansDeath, for some.)
%% * Parodied by ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp09102003.shtml here]].

* The last pages of ''Webcomic/NineteenTwentyOne'' are set in the snow and [[spoiler:it's where Yun-lee and Dong-whi finally get together and have their first kiss.]]

** has the scene between Lloyd and his future 'soulmate' (mind you, only four of them are romantic in nature) placed in a similar location. [[spoiler:[[strike:The same town, actually]] (Actually, Flanoir is Freizkeil, Meltokio is Arlee); 4000 years and a continental shift earlier.]]

* The storyline of ''VisualNovel/SnowSakura'' is all about romances in a snowy town of Yukito.
* ''VisualNovel/Canvas2'':
** The [[spoiler:reconciliation scene with Misaki]] is designed around this trope.
** Mami's birthday party.

** The fourth chapter of ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral Geneaology of the Holy War]]'' takes place in snowy Silesse and has three possible relationship-boosting talks between Azelle and Tailtiu, Lewyn and Erinys, and Claude and Silvia. In the second case, this will ''automatically'' trigger their RelationshipUpgrade.

* ''Manga/KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl'' manages to have a SnowMeansLove scene in the middle of the summer.

* In ''Theatre/JasperInDeadland'', the final song is about [[spoiler:Jasper and Agnes returning to the surface and promising to love their lives and each other]] as snow begins falling.

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* In ''Theatre/AlmostMaine'', snow starts to fall when Pete and Ginette are reunited.
* In ''Theatre/JasperInDeadland'', the final song is about [[spoiler:Jasper and Agnes returning to the surface and promising to love their lives and each other]] as snow begins falling.
* In ''Theatre/{{RENT}}'', one of Angel's lines is "Kiss me, it's beginning to snow!" in number "Christmas Bells". Mark's observations, the penultimate lines of ACT I in the stage play: "The riot continues. The Christmas tree goes up in flames. The snow dances. Oblivious, Mimi and Roger share a small, lovely kiss." This occurs after their love song "I Should Tell You".
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* In ''Theatre/{{RENT}}'', one of Angel's lines is "Kiss me, it's beginning to snow!" in number "Christmas Bells". Mark's observations, the penultimate lines of ACT I in the stage play: "The riot continues. The Christmas tree goes up in flames. The snow dances. Oblivious, Mimi and Roger share a small, lovely kiss." This occurs after their love song "I Should Tell You".

* In ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', Satou gives her boyfriend Takagi a ''very'' happy kiss in the snow of Hokkaido, right after she helps to rescue [[ButtMonkey the poor guy]] from a cruel DeathTrap that ''almost'' invoked SnowMeansDeath on him. Cue to them forgetting [[IsThisThingStillOn that their co-workers were watching over them through a camera...]]

''It was as if you had put on a white veil''\\

* Subverted with a dramatic twist in the ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheVow''. When [[{{Seer}} the Soothsayer]] is asked to foretell what the wedding between Lord Shen and Lady Lianne would be like, she tells it to happen "beneath tears of snow". Everyone interprets the timing to be the nearing middle of winter when real snow falls in Gongmen City, and so they start making arrangements for the marriage to take place then and outside. When the wedding is ongoing, the atmosphere is positive without doubt even though there isn't any snowfall. [[MomentKiller Then suddenly the entire moment (and the bliss of certain individuals) is crashed]] when an eyewitness of the [[spoiler:mass murder]] committed by Shen right before the wedding day rushes in to expose him, leading him to be exiled and leaving the hearts of his parents and fiancée broken. [[spoiler:The [[ProphecyTwist prophecy's actual meaning]] is revealed with a {{double subversion}} thirty years later when Shen and Lianne are finally married. It happens with Shen crying for the first time in years, his tears looking like tears of snow with their cloudiness and milky white coloring.]]

* ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' is entirely based around this trope, as it takes place during winter and the game revolves around romancing one of five girls. However, since it's an {{Utsuge}}, it also sometimes makes use of the SnowMeansDeath trope.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' is entirely based around this trope, as it takes place during winter and the game revolves around romancing one of five girls. However, since it's an {{Utsuge}}, it also sometimes makes use of the SnowIsDeath trope.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' is entirely based around sad girls in the snow. Small wonder that Yuuichi hates the stuff.

--> '''Ranma:''' ''*laughs*'' [[LampshadeHanging Snow's kinda perfect right now]]!

* ''LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai'' has Shiki Ryougi and Mikiya Kokutou meet for the first time while it was snowing.

* In Manga/HonooNoAlpenRose, Jeudi and Lundi share a happy hug in a snow-covered garden [[spoiler: after Jeudi ''barely'' averted [[SnowMeansDeath dying in the same snow]].]]

* ''FanFic/WereGonnaGetThereSoon'': Derpy thanks Thunderlane for helping avert a potential disaster when [[LethalChef she]] had to provide snacks for the next Weather Team meeting. She gives him a piece of Maple Candy she saved, shaped like a heart, and Thunderlane gets it enough to kiss her cheek as she looks away bashfully.

* ''VisualNovel/{{GrisaiaNoMeikyuu}}'': In her after story Michiru believes rather strongly in the romantic nature of winter. So she decides that she will go to a winter date with Yuuji... [[InsaneTrollLogic in the middle of the late-summer heat of early September.]] At the end of the short story however, [[spoiler:her wish of a romantic snowfall comes true, which makes her really happy... even if the after credits scene reveals it to not actually be snow.]]

For a different interpretation of snow, see SnowMeansDeath.

** has the scene between Lloyd and his future 'soulmate' (mind you, only two of them are romantic in nature) placed in a similar location. [[spoiler:[[strike:The same town, actually]] (Actually, Flanoir is Freizkeil, Meltokio is Arlee); 4000 years and a continental shift earlier.]]

* Happens in MakotoShinkai's ''Anime/FiveCentimetersPerSecond'', where Takaki and Akari have their first ([[spoiler:and only]]) kiss on a snowy day under a cherry tree. They then proceed to [[SnowedIn sleep next to each other for a night.]] The rare combination of SnowMeansLove and CherryBlossoms makes for a very romantic scene.

* An example happens in ''Manga/AyashiNoCeres''. When Suzumi sends Tooya out to do a dangerous mission, Aya runs after him in worry. He reassures her that everything will be fine by giving her a lovebite and then kissing her, at which point it starts snowing. But since this is Aya-slash-Ceres we're talking about, it's a subversion: The snow turns out to be flower petals.