Heartwarming / The Unforgiving Flowers Blossom in the Dead of Night

• As Marie slowly kills Kanamori because he broke the Mesomeso-rules and declares a loser, she exclaims that she doesn't really hate him from the bottom of her heart as she was grateful to him for saving her from bullies and still says she loves him.
• Higanbana: I tried to eat you... and you still want to be friends?
• While Higanaba did want to see Hikaru squirm in "Hameln's Castanets", she does have one altruistic reason to tear him apart, he made Marie cry. Say what you will about their relationship, but Higanbana truly cares for Marie as a friend.
• In "One Girl's Day": Higananba states that she'll give Yoko one day of happiness before she devours her soul. After the day ends, Marie goes to leave so Higanbana can eat Yoko. Higanbana does exactly that...and then lets Yoko go to the afterlife.
• The "Reaper of the Thirteenth Step" chapter. After Aya spends two months outrunning Izanami in his game of tag, the final day is the day of the school marathon, where Izanami will be running and chasing her the entire time. Aya runs as fast as she can...and not only outruns him to the very end, but comes in first place in the marathon, as all the running she did earlier has given her practice. After she collapses at the finish line, Izanami helps her up, congratulates her on besting him, and suggests she take up track and field. The chapter ends not only with Aya finding new meaning in her life, but she and Izanami develop a sort of master-student relationship with Izanami wearing a sports coach uniform instead of his reaper robes, and telling Black Tea Gentleman to stay far away from Aya, as she is now under his protection.
  • In a way, Izanami really wanting Aya to look forward in life giving her a head start and being the one to pick her up after the end of the race.
• Despite her story in "The Princess's Lie" ending badly, "Welcome to the Mirror World" states that people's opinions of Midori are changing once they see how determined she is to develop her acting skills. This means that perhaps she'll eventually leave the Black Tea Gentleman's influence one day.
• The "My Best Friend" story. Tomoko forgoing the chance to be resurrected and even pretending to despise Michiru, so that her friend would live her life happily and get over Tomoko's death. Also qualifies as a tearjerker.
• "Renoir of the Art Room" has Renoir bonding with Yuki and absolutely saddened over his death. In the end, after some advice from Higanbana, he decides to show himself more in the art room with the concept that Humans Are Interesting.
• "Before the Spider Lilies Bloomed" gives us Higanbana's backstory, which starts out surprisingly heartwarming... before moving into Tear Jerker and Nightmare Fuel territory. We see that Higanbana was once an Emotionless Girl who killed only to survive, but began to develop emotions after meeting a bullied student named Shūichi Arimori, who had a very philosophical view of emotions and was Wise Beyond His Years.
  • Though her Start of Darkness is a terrifying and depressing story, "Before the Spider Lilies Bloomed" ends with Higanbana reuniting with the adult Shūichi, who still remembers her and reaches out to her despite being blind now.