After temporarily becoming male again while Suzu hugged him, Matsuri realizes his Gender-Bender Friendship had caused him to see her more familiarly and fall in love with her. According to the author, Gideon doesn't experience this himself until much later in the story, when Dawn sacrifices herself by taking the bullet for him and turning savage.

And the apostle identifies this as being ‘the blessed hope – the appearing [ epiphaneian] of our great God and Saviour’ (2. But waiting around for someone to do the right thing causes us to do the wrong thing by and to ourselves. In Scarlet Lady, during the events of "Evilustrator", when Marinette (who had the Ladybug Earrings stolen from her by Chloé, not that she knows it) meets Master Fu, he muses that Marinette being in love with a superhero can't be easy. After it takes him only one day to wrap his head around this—and after he notices that Toneri took an obsessive interest in her—he realizes that he's in love with her as well, and he responds by being incredibly unsubtle with his feelings and becoming a Crazy Jealous Guy every time Toneri tries to take Hinata away from him. Subverted in a late chapter of The Wallflower manga, much to the neverending frustration of Kyohei/Sunako shippers: it looks like Kyohei has finally realized his feelings for Sunako when he finds himself visualizing her in her "beautiful" form while mediating and subsequently acting flustered when he sees that she's become beautiful in real life.A hope that crystallises in that moment in time when there was the ultimate ‘manifestation’ that would penetrate and break the cycle of despair. The scene made it clear she was having trouble using the word "love", until the others assured there was nothing to be ashamed of. Since the series only presents what Ichikawa's thinking, its somewhat more ambiguous as when Yamada herself realized she was in love with Ichikawa after showing a growing interest in him.

Then Hikaru finally sees that he's in love with Haruhi after Kaoru explains that's why he felt so jealous when Haruhi spoke so kindly about Tamaki.Professor Riddle's Chronicles: Riddle only realizes how much he cares about Bellatrix after the two of them get into a serious argument and she starts ignoring him completely.