We're heading right out now, mom.
There are as many heartwarming moments as there are sad ones on the road to becoming a star.
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- All of the chapters with single-digit numbering make it clear that Ai's love for her children is genuine, as is their love for her, which makes her demise in Chapter 9 all the more heartbreaking.
- Chapter 4, where baby Aqua and Ruby are sneaked into the audience of Ai's show, and potentially blowing her cover be damned, start cheering their mother on with light rod dancing because "We can't help it! Instinct just took over!" The adorable sight of her children cheering her on filled Ai with so much warmth and joy that it blew all the anxiety before going onstage clean out of her, making her peformance that night all the more genuinely radiant and adorable.
- Chapter 10: Despite how she had been frustrated with Aqua and Ruby when they were younger, Miyako doesn't hesitate to adopt them both as her own children after they lose their mother.
Miyako: Of course, your mother is Ai and Ai only. You don't have to consider me your mother. But I think of you as my own kids.
- Chapter 17: Even though Aqua has what he wanted from the Sweet Today production, he ad-libs some of his role to make for a fantastic finale to a mediocre Show Within a Show, because he's learned that Kana Took the Bad Film Seriously and didn't want her talent to be wasted by the producers.
Aqua (internal monologue): Look, I've set the scene for you. You wanted to do this, didn't you? Now act to your heart's content, Arima Kana.
- Later, the author of the in-universe manga watches the episode thinking it was going to be as mediocre as the rest of the live adaptation. Instead, she cries seeing Kana's great performance and is grateful that the show could end on such a high note. At the party, she is thankful to Kana for making the show good. Not so much to Melt for obvious reasons.
- Chapter 24: Despite accidentally scratching Yuki in the face during production, Yuki hugs Akane in order to protect her friend's reputation from being tarnished. While she may have revealed to be manipulative about it, the end result would have benefited Akane to begin with, in addition to the fact that Yuki's forgiveness towards Akane was genuine rather than outright fake as she understood her very well.
- Chapter 27: After learning Akane was attempting to commit suicide, all of her fellow cast members on the dating show gather together to show their support and then help her redeem her image.
- Chapter 38: Kana, suffering from a constant inferiority complex due to her past, quietly begs for anyone to say it was okay for her to be there on stage with Ruby and Memcho, when Aqua does so by waving her color (along with the others) to show her support. It gives her the confidence to smile and put on her best performance.
- Chapter 55: All of Aqua and Akane's costars (Nobuyuki Kumano, Mem-Cho, Yuki Sumi, and Kengo Morimoto) from the Dating Reality Show attended Aqua and Akane's play on the day of its opening. It goes to show that although their time on the show has been over, they continue to support each other after its ending.
- Chapter 62: All of the actors on the stageplay arrange for Kana, who has constantly been adapting her acting ability to support others and keep out of the spotlight, to have a moment to shine once more.
- Akane in particular deserves mention, as her whole present-day rivalry with Kana becomes Heartwarming in Hindsight when her inner monologue reveals one of the driving motivations behind it was to motivate Kana to once again be the selfish spotlight hog that Akane knew and loved as a child.
- Chapter 66: All of Akane and Aqua's costars meeting with Akane after the ending of the show is very sweet.
- Chapter 85: Despite wanting to remove himself from being involved with Ruby and Aqua from his guilt over what happened to Ai, Ichigo couldn't help but smile and praise Ruby for managing to get the reporter job.
- Chapter 90.1: Ruby shares a story about a really nice photographer she worked with that had loads of interesting stories about her school life. Wondering what her name is, she looks up the photo credit... which attributes the photographs to one Kaguya Shirogane.
- Aqua revealing his parentage to the press in order to save Kana from a scandal, though Ruby is quick to scold and disown him afterward.
- Chapter 118: Even at the height of his callousness and no longer bothering to put a thought into anything else but his revenge, Aqua is nothing but enraged at the notion of the Crow Girl (who might or might not be a god or a messenger of one) hurting Ruby by telling her Ai is dead forever and doesn't reincarnate like the both of them. It serves to show Aqua hasn't wholly lost himself yet, and still cares for his sister.
- Chapter 119 reinforces this because when Aqua has an unexpected meeting with Sarina's mother, he's absolutely livid on Sarina's behalf in regards to the woman having Unpersoned Sarina from her life. All it would've taken was a few more wrong moves on her part before Aqua would've personally killed her himself.
- Chapter 121 reveals that although she was quick to get over it and made very poor decisions regarding their daughter, Sarina's parents actually did care about her, but were too consumed by heartbreak to visit her.
- The same chapter reveals that Goro deliberately chose to slack off in the rooms of patients who hadn't received visitors in awhile so he could talk to them.
- Chapter 122 has both twins come clean to each other about their past lives, giving both of them some much needed closure after the drama of the previous chapters.
- To elaborate, Aqua may be a revenge-driven Consummate Liar, a Manipulative Bastard, and a Master Actor but even he is not okay with Ruby being consumed with vengeance, knowing for sure that he'll have nothing else left to hide from her at this point. He even goes as far as calling her "Sarina" and begging for her to listen, not as a request from Aqua, but Goro, and then asking Ruby if fulfilling her dreams instead of getting back at those who killed Goro and Ai is the reason she wanted to become an idol in the first place. Those words have reached out to Ruby, who finally realized that her brother, Aqua, is actually Goro reincarnated all along.
- Aqua had noticed that Ruby found the keychain he originally got from her back then, and is glad that she was keeping on to it. Cue Ruby bawling her eyes out and hugging Aqua in relief as the chapter ends.
- Following up on the previous chapter, Aqua admits that in their past lives, he felt that Sarina smiling optimistically in the face of death made her more radiant than even Ai, and that she no longer has to live under her mother's shadow. This fully restores Ruby's signature cheeriness... though she is quick to follow by pointing out that the conditions for a past promise have been fulfilled; she would marry him once she came of age. She did mention in the previous chapter how they could get around the obvious.
- Finally meeting his current self's biological grandmother, Aqua learns that she became horrified at how she was treating Ai and is still regretting her past treatment of her even a decade after her demise.
- After many chapters of tension between the two, chapter 137 ends with Ruby declaring that no matter if she makes her angry or quit B-Komachi, she won't give up on her friendship with Kana.
- Chapter 145 finally reveals Tsukuyomi's backstory; she was a crow in her past life that was once trapped, being rescued by Ruby and nursed to health by Aqua at her insistence back in their past lives as Sarina and Gorou, respectively. Since then, she followed the pair until their deaths and reincarnations out of gratitude and continues to do so after her own death and reincarnation, noting that despite what they say currently, she will still always see both of them as cute children.
- Kana and Akane's interactions in Chapter 148 and Chapter 149. After finally settling into a Vitriolic Best Buds relationship, Akane actively encourages Kana to confess her feelings for Aqua and enter a relationship with him, with Kana says that if she were Aqua she'd get back together with Akane because she's so pretty and kind.
- Throughout basically every single arc after the prologue, Aqua (and later Ruby) had been planning to kill Hikaru for being behind Ai's murder. But what does he do when he finally finds and later encounters him? He forgives him after learning of both their relationship and what Ai had planned to show him before her death. Not only does Ruby also decide to forgive him, but so does Ichigo, which is a significant development considering that he was almost as vengeful as Aqua for Ai's death.
- Ai's video also revealed that despite what Hikaru had thought, she only broke off their relationship for the sake of his own mental health, and still loved him as a lover with the hopes of being able to raise their children together with him. This not only gets Hikaru to feel guilt over his atrocities for the first time, but it also makes him choose to go straight and repent for his crimes.
- Chapter 157 is a Breather Episode, detailing what the twins were doing after Aqua's confrontation with Hikaru:
- Ruby, tired from several weeks worth of idol work, went straight home to relax and spend more time with Aqua instead of taking breathers with her fellow B-Komachi teammates, reminiscing with him about how fun being an idol is, expressing her desire to go through the finish line (ie. performing at the Tokyo Dome), and stating that ordinary days are wonderful as long as her beloved "sensei" is by her side.
- Aqua then smiled at Ruby, and the two spend the rest of the night shopping and preparing dinner for Miyako as a "thank you" gift for raising them.
- The chapter ends with Miyako coming back home and saw the twins sleeping with smiles on their faces, noting that they've grown closer and wondering what they're dreaming.
- Aqua's second confrontation with Hikaru during the Christmas concert is equeally heartwarming as it is nightmarish and tragic:
- Chapters 159-160: Aqua concluded that Hikaru is Beyond Redemption despite trying to fulfill Ai's Last Request and rightfully accuses him as a liar for his involvement in Nino's failed assassination attempt on Ruby. Hikaru tries to weasel his way out of his current situation, but Aqua is having none of it, and then he pulls out a knife, declaring that Hikaru must die to ensure Ruby's future. At this point, Aqua's final decision to kill Hikaru is more than just vengeance, but due to his extreme sibling devotion for Ruby. He even has bright white stars in his eyes to prove it!
- Chapter 161: Hikaru coolly tries to dissuade Aqua, stating that if he goes through with killing him, Ruby's idol career would be ruined because her brother is a "murderer". However, Aqua has one final lie in his sleeve: He gutted himself so Hikaru would take the heat instead before throwing both of them into the ocean so Ruby's reputation won't be tarnished. In other words, Aqua would do anything to protect Ruby and if he would even go as far as to throw away his own life and future, so be it.
- Aqua's Dying Dream, however briefly, shows a version of events that's equal parts heartwarming as it is bittersweet: A world where Sarina never died, nor did Goro. She made a full recovery, reconciled with her mother, and realized her dreams of being an idol alongside Ai, with Goro attending their concert.
