Heartwarming / Black Clover

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With a cast of quirky, lovable characters, naturally Black Clover has its touching moments with their interactions.

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Magic Knights Entrance Exam Arc

• Asta, feeling depressed after learning that he has no magic whatsoever, falls into a depressed state. Yuno, his childhood friend gifted with great magic, acknowledges Asta as his rival, restoring his morale.
• When Yami questions Asta as to if he does believe that he'll become the Wizard King, his answer that he'll keep on trying to become the Magic Knight no matter how many times he fails impresses Yami, who invites him to join the Black Bulls. Finally, after years of mocking, Asta is recognized for his worth by someone and closer to achieving his dream.
• Yuno calmly stops Sekke from harming Asta with his magic, telling him that he doesn't compare to Asta. Despite their rivalry, Yuno sees Asta as his brother and genuinely cares for him.
• After years of being tormented by her family for her inability to control her magic, Noelle thinks that the Black Bulls will mock her too. Instead, they're impressed by her magical power and try to befriend her, telling her that they're a whole group of failures. She takes Asta's hand and willingly embraces being a member.
• Noelle, who has been raised a snooty royal all her life, thinks about fleeing Heath and his forces. A young villager girl begs her to help save them, causing Noelle to have a change of heart and declare that she'll protect these people, leading her to manifest a new protective spell.

Dungeon Exploration Arc

• Yuno smiling as Asta shows off his physical strength and ability against Mars. This shows that Yuno has faith in his best friend and rival no matter what and is proud of how far Asta's come.
• Klaus acknowledges Asta and Yuno, who he previously looked down on for being peasants, as great Magic Knights and changes his bigoted views.

Royal Capital Assault Arc

• Asta defending Noelle, who is being ridiculed by her siblings for her poor magic control and causing their mother's death, is this.
• Fuegoleon standing up for Asta when the Silva siblings deride Asta and their own younger sister and calling them out for their shitty attitude.
• Asta fighting hard against Rades in spite of his powerful zombies to save the life of an innocent little girl shows just how moral he is.

Eye of the Midnight Sun Encounter Arc

• A minor one, but Asta letting Nero sleep on his pillow while they were staying at Rebecca’s place in Nean.
• Gauche, who has only cared about his little sister Marie after their parents were killed and their wealth was taken from this, changes his mind at his younger sister's urging, going back to save Asta and Sister Theresa.

Underwater Temple Arc

• While trying to learn a new spell to transport the Black Bulls down to the Underwater Temple, Noelle cannot recall any happy memories from her childhood. She then gets cheered on by her comrades and remembers all the happy memories she spent with the Black Bulls, which helps her finally learn the new spell.
• During their stand against Vetto in the Underwater Temple, Magna and Luck individually reflect on their relationship and how much they admire the other in spite of their differences, showing that they truly are best friends.
• After Asta defeated Vetto, both Vanessa and Finral pull him into a big hug out of both relief and concern about his safety.

Forest of Witches Arc

• Charmy's shy, flustered reactions around Yuno are really cute and heartwarming.
• After Yuno bids farewell to Asta, Langris tells him that he should choose better friends. Yuno replies by telling him that Asta is his rival and he's proud of him.
• Asta's arms are severely injured during the fight against Vetto, such that they are considered incurable by the Kingdon's best doctor, so the rest of the Black Bulls rally together behind his back to find a cure, defying their normal behaviors in an effort to stay focused. When he finds out, Asta cries Tears of Joy out of gratitude for his companions.
  • Gauche, who normally doesn't like Asta due to Asta's friendship with Marie, researches ancient hexes in the royal library, even passing over a book about how to be the best big brother and make your little sister love you.
  • Charmy goes to search for rare food ingredients and forgoes eating whatever she can get her hands on.
  • Vanessa returns to the Forest of Witches, which she had previously left to ask the Queen's help.
• After the Witch Queen's plans are wrecked, she accepts defeat and heals the others. Seconds later, in a sincere gesture of love for Vanessa, the Queen tells the latter that she's free to return to the forest whenever she wants.

Royal Knights Arc

• Although Asta inviting Kahono and Kiato to the Star Festival is enough to trigger friendship-WAFF, it's implied he did so just so he could give them the potion of Witch Queen's blood magic, thus healing their injuries. He was thinking of them through all the chaos of the previous arc.
  • Kahono then pays it forward by trying to hook him up with Noelle, Cool Big Sis style.
• A little girl has lost her mother. She's crying alone in the street.
  • Asta, The Hero he is, moves forward of course but it is Noelle who reaches her first.
  • The four of them (Asta, Noelle, Kahono and Kiato) create an impromptu street performance to cheer her up.
  • Noelle is recognized as royalty by the girl's mom and gets suddenly distant and formal. Noelle tells her to knock it off. Royalty or commoner, everyone has the right to enjoy the Star Festival. Rather amazing character development, right? She's becoming quite the confident and benevolent princess.
• Mereoleona, who acknowledges that Noelle has grown from the meek, timid girl bullied by her siblings. She challenges Noelle to surpass her mother, which Noelle happily reciprocates.
• En Rigard showing support to Noelle saying that no brother should treat her the way Solid has. En Rigard himself having ten younger siblings whom he is protective of.
• After Finral's team has lost in the Magic Knights tournament, his brother having long since lost any and all semblance of sanity, decides right then and there to kill him. There's not a moment's hesitation before Luck, Asta and Magna have their weapons pointed directly at his neck and make it clear, in no uncertain terms, that if he moves even an inch, they'll put him down. No matter what happens or their opinion of each other, the Black Bulls ALWAYS have each other's back.
  • The anime's sixth opening adapts this into an awesome lingering shot of Luck, Magna, Vanessa, Gordon, Gauche, Charmy and Grey all standing in defense of Finral, right before Asta clashes with a raging Langris.
• Why Julius created the current ranking system that allows even peasants to be recognized for their talents? He was inspired by Zara, who he considered the ideal Magic Knight back when they were knights, but he was never properly recognized for this. Which shows that there was someone out there that admired and saw Zara for who he was as a man as much as Zora Ideale does.

Elf Reincarnation Arc

• Asta refusing to abandon Mereoleona despite Zora's protests and the almost certain death that awaited them. In the end, he makes a miracle happen and saves her life.
• Luck finally is able to emote properly, and is driven to tears when realizing his new family will never leave him despite that he almost killed them all while brainwashed.
• Henry finally having someone to talk to after YEARS of isolation when Asta joined the Black Bulls, since no one could get near him for very long due to his mana drain aura.
• Nozel Silva giving gestures of love for Noelle as an act of reconciliation in Chapter 176. Even though he and his younger siblings always mocked her over the years, Nozel admits that he did it so she wouldn't disappear from his sight again since she reminds him of their deceased mother. Further, Nozel acknowledges how strong she has become.
• Gauche, in a rare moment of affection, acknowledges his friendship with the Black Bulls and thanks them for saving him.
• In Chapter 190, Solid Silva follows Nozel's example in showing how much he loves Noelle while she's escaping with the other Black Bulls. While he acknowledges that Noelle has indeed become stronger, Solid assures her that he will become more stronger since he's her older brother. To top it all off, he tells her to return home soon because she's a member of the Silva family.
• Secré's words of encouragement and belief that Asta will be the Wizard King she gives before he defeats the Word Devil are definitely this. All his life Asta's been mocked and his dream treated as a joke by everyone except Yuno. But Secré having seen everything he's accomplished despite his inability to use magic knows he can succeed.
• With most of the rest of the elves, Licht bids farewell, telling him he's kept Tetia waiting. He thanks Yuno for letting him fight with his unborn son and entrusts his grimoire to Asta.
• Lumiere's goodbye. He's grateful that he got to meet his descendants and thanks Secré for her loyalty over the centuries before crumbling away.

Heart Kingdom Joint Struggle Arc

• Nero, who thought all her life that her magic was useless, learns that a magic tool she made with Lumiere helped save the life of Julius, someone who shares the same ideals as her late beloved prince.
• Marie is brought in to be executed as part of a plot to trigger his Devil power, Asta without hesitation uses his anti-magic Black Asta form to save her, consequences be damned.
• When Asta is declared evil by the congress and Damnatio, the entirety of the Black Bulls literally blast their way into the courtroom to defend him, effectively declaring war on the kingdom to protect their comrade. Doubles as Awesome. While it's no surprise seeing his comrades do so given how fond they are of Asta and how much he's inspired them as Magic Knights, Zora's reaction is particularly heartwarming given his views on magic knights as a whole. He calls Asta annoying, but an example of what a true Magic Knight should be.
  • Yami proclaims Nero to be a Black Bull too. When she tells him that she used them and is no longer truly human, he tells her that she can't pretend not to be a Black Bull after having spent so much time with them as a bird and that they’re a group of weirdos who welcome her. Reflecting on Lumiere's last request, she accepts her new friends.
• In the aftermath of the six month timeskip, we get confirmation that after all their heartache Finral and Finnes are finally engaged.
• Asta and Yuno take a trip back to Hage where a new magic school has been set up. Two of the instructors there are a pair of nobles from the start of the series who tried to attack Yuno out of jealousy for a lowly commoner having a four leaf grimoire; they were inspired by Yuno and Asta's examples to turn over a new leaf. Additionally, Nash has taken over Asta's old training spot and routine in the hopes of becoming a great magic knight.
• After Asta saves some citizens from some Dark Disciples who were using their mana to power their giant moving fortress Candelo, a black haired woman asks Asta if he will be doing anything to their village. Asta tells her that he and his friends are not going to do anything to their village and that they can do whatever they want to it. He also tells them that Finral will be bringing them home. All the citizens feel relieved after that. It is nice because it shows that even though the citizens had a rough time with the Dark Disciples, they can go home without having to worry about any more trouble.
• Grey is revealed to be in love with Gauche, who saved her from being robbed and gave her the motivation to persevere after running away from home. This love for him motivates her to cast a spell that heals his would-be fatal wound from Dante.
• Noelle and Mimosa comforting Lolopechka as she cries about being scared to die from her curse, telling her it's okay to cry among her friends. With them and Nero becoming close to her after six months, they're motivated in their fight against Vanica to save her.
• Yami, instead of calling Asta "kid", refers to him by his name when he states that he can't win against Dante without him. Asta, who'd been defeated and unable to get up, remembers the experiences he's shared with Yami and stands up to fight alongside his captain.

Spade Kingdom Raid Arc

• As it turns all along, the elves were able to live on in secret thanks to Secre saving Tetia and her surviving unborn twin by sealing their mortal wounds. The look on Secre's face says it all that it wasn't all in vain, as Patry and the other elves were relieved to discover the elves have their future.
• Asta's first instinct in confronting the Anti-Magic Devil who now took physical form and needs to beat him to take control? It is to thank the devil for everything he has done for getting him so far. In spite of Nacht telling Asta he needs to beat him or he'll suffer from the drawbacks of the ritual, Asta tells him that the devil won't hurt him because his ki isn't showing any sign of killing intent and that makes him not evil. These words touch the Anti-Magic Devil so deeply, memories of being told the same words by a kind woman looking similar to Asta start to unravel.
  Asta: "Just because you are a devil, doesn't necessarily mean they're a bad guy!!!"
• Said woman, Licita (who turns out to be Asta's mother), took in the Devil, named him Liebe, and raised him as her own son. Licita gave Liebe the love and acceptance that he had never known in the underworld. Crosses into Tear Jerker territory when Licita sacrifices herself to save Liebe from being possessed by Lucifero, with Liebe vowing to wipe out all of the other Devils to avenge her.
• After defeating Liebe, Asta wants to befriend and make an equal contract with him out of gratitude for letting him fight all this time and because he knows he truly isn't a bad guy, even in spite of Nacht trying to tell him no. Liebe is touched and realizes that Asta, who smiles a him as he extends his hand, is his adoptive mother's child. Liebe accepts his hand with a smile on his face as well.
• Nacht flashes a genuine, happy smile for the first time at Asta for making the foolish but right choice with Liebe.
• Chapter 272: The cover shows Asta and Liebe smiling at each other with the visage of their mother Licita between them, signifying the beginning of a bond between the two brothers. As they train against Nacht, the two think to themselves that they can't let each other die.
• Nacht telling Asta that he has been watching him all this time since he had joined the Black Bulls, telling him that despite being possessed by a devil, born without magic, and toyed by fate, he was always morally right. He tells Asta that he wants right people like him to be rewarded, emotionally touching Asta.
• Chapter 282: Asta and Liebe finally learned Devil Union, although it lasts only five minutes. However, they use this short time to save the Clover Kingdom after it was almost destroyed by the devils. The incredible part of this chapter is how many people who never had faith in Asta are amazed by him and cheering him on, with Klaus screaming his name and saying he can do it. After so many chapters, Asta finally has his worth recognized.
• Chapter 288: After the reader went through the tragic flashback of Nacht's history with his twin brother Morgen, we are back to Nacht's battle against Lilith and Naamah, with Asta saving him before he was completely defeated and killed by the two devils. Nacht says he doesn't matter and that Asta should hurry and defeat the Dark Triad, but Asta uses his anti-magic to help Nacht instead, saying he shouldn't say he doesn't matter - he should live on and see how much stronger Asta and Liebe got thanks to him. At that moment, Nacht sees Morgen's silhouette in Asta.
  Nacht: Was I hoping... a new morning would dawn?
  • This scene gets much more touching after we remember how Nacht told himself in the last chapter that no one in their right mind would bother saving him, after his years of doing whatever he wanted. And then right in the next chapter, Asta saves him.
• After Asta and Liebe defeat Lilith and Naamah, they give each other a victory brofist.
  • The monologue Liebe has before they win the fight: He thinks back when Asta gives his thanks for Liebe always giving him the strength to fight. Liebe smirks and says that should be his line.
• Chapter 294: Having defeated Dante, Magna is greeted by his awestruck and PROUD squadmates. First, Zora catches Magna before he can collapse to the ground from exhaustion and announces his victory. Asta then gushes over how incredible Magna is for defeating someone he had to team up with Yami to just barely defeat. Blood Knight Luck pays the highest compliment he can by stating how much he looks forward to fighting Magna again.
  • Jack the Ripper ends up having a moment. First, he is in genuine awe of Magna's victory and acts similar to Fuegoleon in Chapter 30, when the latter complimented Yami's foresight regarding Asta's potential. Then when Dante regains consciousness and starts ranting about how he could never lose to a "nobody" (Magna), Jack tells him that Magna won and that he wouldn't allow Dante to "rain on his parade", before slashing him.
• Chapter 301: On the heels of Asta's last-minute save of Lolopechka in the previous chapter (and Noelle's emotional reaction to seeing him), Noelle is once again inspired to keep fighting and finally becomes honest with herself about her feelings.
  Noelle: You've done enough. Just the fact that you came...simply thinking about you...gives me strength! Oh. It really is true then. I've been explaining it away, but...to think I'd realize it at a time like this. I...LOVE...ASTA.