History Main / HappyRain

* ''Anime/WolfsRain'' might be a subversion -- everybody ''would'' be happy that it's raining for the first time in decades if it weren't for the fact that... [[spoiler:they all die before it starts]]. But it ''does'' mark the start of the world's rebirth, so it's happy in that sense.
* ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'': Yotsuba and the rain. She can find happiness in anything. Nothing in this world can get her down. Nothing.
* At the end of the Alabasta arc of ''Manga/OnePiece'', after the conspiracy is foiled, it starts raining after their artificial drought is brought to an end.
* During the Johto arc of the Anime/{{Pokemon}} anime, after Ash and co. help fix a drought.
* Done in the ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' manga with [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Osaka]], who seems to be HAPPY about going to school the day there is a typhoon.

* The ending of an episode of ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'' has the animals cheering during a rainstorm that ended a drought.
* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' features an episode in which has Kagura gets an umbrella and discovers the joy of playing in the rain. [[spoiler: Complete with her going through exactly the same motions of playing in the rain, as though she doesn't notice that it's currently more of a hurricane than simple rain.]]
* ''Anime/TheGardenOfWords''. The protagonists enjoy rainy days because it gives them an excuse to [[UmbrellaOfTogetherness meet under a gazebo]] at the park (this [[CaughtInTheRain being how they first met]]).

* The conclusion of volume 6 of ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita'' has Alita and Figure Four struggling to cross a desert, having been stranded after fighting off the Barjack bandits. With their water supplies exhausted and Alita's soft machine body overheating, they seem to be doomed, only for them to be saved by a miraculous rain... [[RainOfSomethingUnusual that also contains]] ''fish''!

* Similarly, while kids being bummed out at the rain keeping them from playing outside is common in both media and reality to be practically cliche, it's also not uncommon to hear of younger children taking joy in the rain, running around in their bright raincoats and giddily stomping their feet or even jumping to see the water splash around them.

"Isn't This a lovely Day" is from the perspective of someone whose lover was about to leave, but had to stay because of a sudden rainstorm.

* "Rain on Me" by Music/LadyGaga and Music/ArianaGrande. While the wetness is actually a metaphor for [[DrowningMySorrows being drunk]], there's still the interpretation of appreciating the rain.

* ''Manga/AChannel'': Kitou-sensei's sentimental ImagineSpot of the FourGirlEnsemble protagonists running through the rain without umbrellas is mercilessly subverted by [[RealityEnsues authentic view of the girls desperately scampering through the downpour in a foul mood]].

* The first part of the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' fanfic ''Though the Wind Cries'' ends with a mighty torrential rainfall that finality ended the worst drought that Suwako's followers had ever experienced leading to a lot of cheers and TearsOfJoy.

* ''Bollywood/{{Lagaan}}'': Takes place during a crippling drought.

* The conclusion of volume 6 of ''[[Manga/{{Gunnm}} Battle Angel Alita]]'' has Alita and Figure Four struggling to cross a desert, having been stranded after fighting off the Barjack bandits. With their water supplies exhausted and Alita's soft machine body overheating, they seem to be doomed, only for them to be saved by a miraculous rain... [[RainOfSomethingUnusual that also contains]] ''fish''!

* Woodstock.
* Farmers, especially after a drought.

* If you live in a desert or steppe, you love rainy weather.

* The film version of ''Film/{{Dune}}'': When Muad'Dib makes the rain fall at last, the Fremen rejoice. This is... a bit awkward in the book. [[spoiler:Rain on Arrakis would drown the sandworms, filling the soil with a deadly poison and destroying the only source of Spice in the universe, thereby also preventing space travel.]] Probably not the effect the filmmakers were going for... The scene compresses quite a bit from the books about Leto II terraforming the north pole of Dune, where the capital city was located, presumably involving magically created thunderstorms, and this issue was discussed when the sandworms started dying, but only in the book.

By conventional wisdom, [[CueTheRain rain]] [[ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals is associated]] [[GrayRainOfDepression with bad emotions]] and [[CueTheSun the sun]] [[FirstTimeInTheSun is associated]] [[LightIsGood with good]] [[RidingIntoTheSunset emotions]]. And yet there are many situations, in RealLife as well as in fiction, where people are happy to be rained upon.

Sometimes a form of EmpathicEnvironment. Subtropes include RedemptionInTheRain, RomanticRain, and SpoofingInTheRain. Contrast CueTheRain, GrayRainOfDepression, and ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals. In FisherKing situations, may indicate the defeat of the BigBad. Inverse of CueTheSun.

Those occasions when people are happy to be rained upon. Perhaps there was a drought, perhaps it was too hot, or perhaps the protagonist just enjoys Film/SinginInTheRain. In FisherKing situations, may indicate the defeat of the BigBad.

Compare RedemptionInTheRain, RomanticRain and SpoofingInTheRain. Contrast GrayRainOfDepression and ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals. Not to be confused with the idol group of the same name in ''Anime/PrettyRhythmRainbowLive''.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': Hegra, a Yozi resembling a vast living storm, causes thunder louder than anything in Malfeas. This is one of the very few things that reliably keeps Adorjan the Silent Wind away. As Adorjan kills everything she touches and is the most feared thing in Malfeas, demons are very fond of Hegra, and her passage is marked by crowds of demons pouring from their homes, lairs and hiding places and dancing joyously in the rain.

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* ''Radio/{{Earthsearch}} II''. When the protagonists finally find Earth, it's a GhostPlanet with the few thousand survivors of the human race struggling amidst a famine that's lasted for centuries. They use the ''Challenger'''s {{terraform}}ing technology to break the drought, leading to this trope.

* At the end of ''Disney/TheLionKing'' after Simba defeats Scar, the rains return and put out the fire engulfing Pride Rock. The final scene depicts Simba warmly reuniting with his family and friends, and taking the throne at last.
%%* Disney's ''Disney/BalloonFarm''

* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'' when [[spoiler:Calypso is freed]] a massive thunderstorm appears. Realizing what is causing it, Davy Jones treats the first drops of rain on is face like a lover's caress [[spoiler:which it literally is]].

* The climax of the Literature/{{Discworld}} novel ''Discworld/TheLastContinent'', when Rincewind the Wizzard more or less accidentally brings rain to the country of Fourecks for the first time. The aboriginal people were particularly happy, as they finally got to use their word for "the smell of rain."

Compare RedemptionInTheRain, RomanticRain and SpoofingInTheRain. Contrast GrayRainOfDepression and ItAlwaysRainsAtFunerals.

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* ''Manga/WolfsRain'' might be a subversion - everybody ''would'' be happy that it's raining for the first time in decades if it weren't for the fact that... [[spoiler:they all die before it starts]]. But it ''does'' mark the start of the world's rebirth, so it's happy in that sense.
* ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'':
** Yotsuba and the rain. She can find happiness in anything. Nothing in this world can get her down. Nothing.

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* Subverted in a bound ''ComicStrip/FootrotFlats'' collection. The front cover shows Wal, the Dog and Cooch walking through a parched landscape and looking excitedly at a mass of clearly long-awaited rain clouds. The back cover shows the same trio trudging grumpily through the ensuing downpour.
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* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' features an episode in which has Kagura gets an umbrella and discovers the joy of playing in the rain. [[spoiler: Complete with her going through exactly the same motions of playing in the rain, as though she doesn't notice that it's currently more more of a hurricane than simple rain.]]