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Tokimeki Memorial: Girl's Side Franchise in General
- Every confession is basically this.
- Any time a girl in Rival Mode gives up her guy to you and asks to be friends again. Considering that you're probably only getting this scene by going well out of your way to be her friend even though your relationship has gone back down to 0, it's a wonderful feeling to finally be friends again, especially if you were very good friends when rival mode kicked in and destroyed your relationship.
Tokimeki Memorial: Girl's Side 1
- The ending confession scenes run on this, but Sakuya Morimura's in particular brought the warm fuzzies. You just can't say no to a boy who plants a whole field of anemone flowers to confess his love for you and cries Tears of Joy if you reciprocate his feelings.
Tokimeki Memorial: Girl's Side 2
- The most heartwarming moments from Itaru Hikami's route are related to his membership in the Student Council; after his overly confrontational campaign speech during the first year gets him booed down by his classmates, thanks to the heroine's influence he manages to better express his ideas and get elected in the second year. In the third year, if the heroine is on the council with him, she finds him staying late at school working on timetables for the rest of the council, and they have a quiet moment in which Itaru displays his committment to the other students and the heroine is able to support him by staying to help.
- Even more heartwarming, at the end of the third year Itaru prepares to step down as Student Council President. He assumes that the younger students will have their own ideas about how to run the council, and he's visibly moved when his juniors surprise him with a bouquet and heartfelt thanks for all of his work over the past two years, promising to live up to his example and confirming not only the difference he's made as Student Council President but how far he's come from the guy who only managed to alienate his classmates that first year.
- Katsumi Shiba has one if the heroine is the manager of the baseball club: he spends the first year and part of the second wistfully watching the baseball team practice, feeling unworthy of joining them due to an incident in middle school. During one of their games against another school, however, the pitcher starts playing dirty, and Shiba finds the heroine near tears. His response is to join the baseball club midgame and step up to bat, ignoring the pitcher's trash talk and proceeding to win the game even though he hasn't played in at least a year and a half, finally starting the process of getting over his past mistakes.
- He has another during the school play at the third-year culture festival when he departs a little from the script to tell the heroine about how much it's meant to him that she's supported and believed in him.
- All of the endings qualify, of course, but Teru Saeki's deserves special mention - especially following his concerted effort to push the heroine away a month prior - as he finally resolves for himself who the real Teru is and what he wants, and gives the heroine the key to his grandfather's cafe to hold onto until the day they're ready to re-open it together.Teru: I finally understand that I should just throw away this stupid pride. It can't be helped that it's uncool, that it's pathetic. Because I only think of you... I have no hesitations any more. That's the real me.
- After the heroine asks him about love, Itaru Hikami gives the subject some serious thought and eventually comes back with an answer:Itaru: I want a love that will change me. I'm very self-aware now, to the point that I hate myself for being an incomplete person. But once you set your rules, you can't really back down from that... That's why I want to be influenced. I want to be transformed by this love.
Tokimeki Memorial: Girl's Side 3
- A female example: if the heroine is close enough to Miyo, in the third year sports festival she'll choose her as her item in the borrowing game. When Miyo discovers she chose her because the game asked for a "best friend", she's absolutely happy (even if they both ended at last place) and she'll cheerfully tell Bambi she loves her.
