When I blogged Toradora 16, I managed to ignore what was presumably the main part. Here's how Calamitous Intent reports the impression:

I can’t believe it, I actually had to pause the episode, run out of the room, and get tissues. The only other anime that actually got me to do this was Air, and that was a looooong time ago.

Is this a good thing?

The 16th episode was absolutely amazing. (No wonder the subbers said that you’d need antidepressants after this episode)

Same question again.

Questions about tissues aside, I didn't need any antidepressants. Maybe I'm too old to care, maybe it's Nanoha's fault. But the intense proceedings of 16 seemed empty and meaningless to me. I complained about the same thing before. Since then, all that 16 has done was to up the fury a few notches.

But I'm happy that Choux is able to enjoy the show.