History Awesome / ShamanKing

** And Yoh and Amidamaru proceed to do what couldn't be done in the manga; ''they kill Hao by'' '''''[[CleanCut slicing him and the Spirit of Fire in half with a single slash.]]''''' After pretty much all the crap Hao and his disciples did, all the innocent people, shaman and human alike, killed, all to use their spirits to fuel the Spirit of Fire, all the destruction they caused, all the lives they ruined, all to execute that psychopath's plan for mass genocide, seeing the architect of it all finally going down is absolutely nothing ''short'' of cathartic. Of course, that's probably 'nothing'' [[FateWorseThanDeath compared to what the King of Spirits likely did to him]] after the battle was over. After all, how else can you explain it taking so long to start the tournament back up?

* Faust's fight with Yoh. The 2021 anime especially makes this fight look beautiful. Special mention also goes to Faust's VA Matt Caplan during the post-fight scene where Faust summons a giant skeleton and Matt delivers an awesome EvilLaugh that sounds plain unhinged and demented.

* And the biggest moment of awesome in the first anime? Yoh and Hao's final fight. By this point, Hao and the Spirit of Fire are being powered up by the poached King of Spirits, making them seemingly unbeatable. What's Yoh and Amidamaru powered up by? '''''The combined furyoku of all the shamans in the world.''''' Needless to say, it was totally wicked.
--> '''Yoh:''' "I think this is what it feels like to be Shaman King."
** And Yoh and Amidamaru proceed to do what couldn't be done in the manga; ''they kill Hao by'' '''''[[CleanCut slicing him and the Spirit of Fire in half with a single slash.]]''''' After pretty much all the crap Hao and his disciples did, all the innocent people, shaman and human alike, killed, all to use their spirits to fuel the Spirit of Fire, all the destruction they caused, all the lives they ruined, all to execute that psychopath's plan for mass genocide, seeing the architect of it all finally going down is absolutely nothing ''short'' of cathartic. Of course, that's ''nothing'' [[FateWorseThanDeath compared to what the King of Spirits did to him]] after the battle was over. After all, how else can you explain it taking so long to start the tournament back up?

* During a side-story focusing on him, Horohoro, faced with the dilemma of the life of a human-hating grizzly bear, loved by the park ranger who saved his life, being threatened (by law; if he attacks humans, he'll be put down), he decks himself out in full Ainu shaman garb, marches ''right up'' to the grizzly in question, and proceeds to ''sit down and offer him some sake''. He proceeds to try and discuss the situation with the bear, despite getting nearly mauled several times (by the several hundred pound ''grizzly bear''). Finally, he gets through to the poor creature; but just as it looks like the whole story will end happily, [[DiabolusExMachina a trio of poachers shoot the bear dead on the spot]], and then try to run when they see the park ranger. Horohoro, a believer in the laws of nature, demands that the hunters at least take their kill with them when they leave; when he finds out from their responses that they killed the bear for ''sport'', and not for food, he goes ''[[UnstoppableRage apeshit]]''. The hunters panic and shoot him, only to find that he's just manifested a shell of ice around his body, stopping the bullets cold. Seeing this, they panic again and shoot at him, only for him to stop them with a wall of ice. And finally, he manifests a completely new Over Soul, which can only be described as a LaserBlade made of pure ''cold''. With a mighty swing, he fells several trees behind the poachers, and immediately locks them right there in the air with a huge mound of ice; but he doesn't ''touch'' the poachers. His last words to them are: "I won't kill them. If I did, I'd be as worthless as they are."

** Faust in a [[Heartwarming/ShamanKing heartwarming fashion]] using a BatmanGambit to let Team Spartacus lose without hurting them in episode 49.

* Yoh and friends vs Hao and his disciples in the last eight episodes of the anime.

*** Yoh's FUCKING ENTIRE GROUP of friends went bat shit on Hao, even though most of their efforts were wasted. So Hao takes Anna's Shikigamis when she tries to use them against him. All of Yoh's friends recklessly attack them and failed, while Manta is watching his friends, questioning their actions. So what does he do? He and Mosuke decide to use Spirit Control on his laptop to forge a hammer and strikes the Shikigamis.

** The fifth Johto Guard a.k.a. Shaolin trapped in a Jiang-Shi forced to obey Yuan beating the crap out of Yoh, Ren, Horohoro, and Ryu at the same time. And Jun and Lee Pyron [[BigDamnHeroes show up with the latter drop kicking him in half]].

* Yoh and Tao Ren's third fight for them to enter in the Shaman Tournament. All of it. The battle was SO EPIC, the dub episode had to spoil the ending. The name of that episode; "One, Two, Three [[spoiler: Draw]]".

** The fifth Johto Guard a.k.a. [[spoiler: Shaolin trapped in a Jiang-Shi forced to obey Yuan]] beating the crap out of Yoh, Ren, Horohoro, and Ryu at the same time. And Jun and Lee Pyron [[BigDamnHeroes show up with the latter drop kicking him in half]].

** Horohoro's second moment was him defeating Brocken. To summarize, Bill and Brocken were killing off defeated Shaman King tournament participants, and the Ice Men were next. Horohoro decides to protect them since he's mad that [[spoiler: Ren died]]. He's almost killed when his dad arrives to knock out Bill and remind his son of "Survival Of The Fittest". So Horohoro comes up with a unique plan. He uses his brains, and uses the Ice Men's spirits to lead Brocken into a trap and encased him in a block of ice. With him out of the fight, Horohoro lies in victory, but Bill has survived to finish him off. Who saves him? [[SixthRanger Ly]][[SixthRangerTraitor se]][[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor rg]]. With his new angel, Zelel.
** Horohoro gets another one when his team "The Ren" are completely demolished by The Gandhara, a team with Godlike Spirits. Horohoro begins to flashback to Pascal Avaf's training and he and Kororo awaken the Nipopo Gauntlets, a new Over Soul, that forms giant gauntlets of ice that cover his entire arms. Cue CurbStompBattle, and Horohoro wins the round for his team. Most importantly, however is that during the fight, Lady Sati, declares that [[spoiler:Horohoro will be the Fifth Elemental Warrior, which means he will be getting the one of the Five Elemental Spirits (the Spirit of Rain specifically)]]. If you need help imagining what that means, just think of Hao's Spirit of Fire.

** [[spoiler: Fun fact, when she does that in the manga [[PregnantBadass she is in the early stages of pregnancy]]. At fifteen. Awesome doesn't even begin to cover it]].

* Yoh and the Elemental Warriors return from Hell. Special points go to Yoh for unleashing his new Over Soul, Spirit of Sword: White Swan on the same person who beat Hao 500 years ago; [[spoiler: Yohken Asakura]] and Faust reviving him to do the same to Big Bill, Zang-Ching and Turbine, and Team Ren coming back to stop Kanna, Matilda and Marion from killing Gandhara.
** Before that, we have Anna vs. a-pissed-off-Hao. Did we mention that Anna has over 600,000 furyoku, half of Hao's 1200000 level. Yeah. Its was a fun fight. [[spoiler:[[PregnantBadass Also, she's pregnant.]] Yeah. Anna rocks]].

** Four words: MANTA [[spoiler: BECOMES A SHAMAN]]. And Mosuke returns.
*** And the situation in which it happens is a good evaluation of how intelligent and quick-thinking he is. [[spoiler:Manta has been kidnapped and forcefully made to fight Yoh with Mosuke also enslaved inside of his sword - forcing Yoh into a situation that could lead to his having to hurt or ''kill'' his best friend. Manta manages to avert this by speaking to Mosuke mentally and figuring out that if they can change the spirit focus, they can turn the tables. Cue Manta taking Mosuke from the sword, directing him into the ''laptop'' and proving that despite his size and anxious nature, he has what it takes to be a shaman!]]

*** Ren, pissed off at Hao for [[spoiler: absorbing Yoh's soul]] doesn't even manifest his third new Spirit Control, yet uses his full-powered Golden Thunder on Hao anyway. And his Ultimate Rapid Hyper Tempo Assault on Hao's Shikigamis was bad either. He even uses one of his [[spoiler: manga's newest Over Soul's attacks, God/Machine of War on Hao]].
*** Yoh's FUCKING ENTIRE GROUP of friends went bat shit on Hao, even though most of their efforts were wasted. So Hao takes Anna's Shikigamis when she tries to use them against him. All of Yoh's friends recklessly attack them and failed, while Manta is watching his friends, questioning their actions. So what does he do? He and [[spoiler: Mosuke decide to use Spirit Control on his laptop to forge a hammer]] and strikes the Shikigamis.

** He gets another one during his first fight as an X-Law against Team Nile for the second round of the tournament (In the anime, this happens a few episodes before the tournament). Using only Chloe, he increased his skills to take on all three members and crushing Anahol's arms. He would have killed them if Yoh didn't ask him to stop. Then Lady Jeanne comes in, and kills all three members in under two minutes.

* The tournament battles in the anime were also impressive and showed character development for at least half of the main characters.

** He gets another one during his first fight as an X-Law against Team Nile for the second round of the tournament (In the anime, this happens a few episodes before the tournament). Using only Chloe, he increased his skills to take on all three members and crushing Anahol's arms. He would have killed them if Yoh didn't ask him to stop. Then Lady Jeanne comes in, and kills all three members in less than two minutes.

** Yoh gets one afterwards when Anna sends the spirit of Shaolin, Lee Pyron's master into Yoh. Shaolin-in-Yoh proceeds to Curb-Stomp Lee, from blocking all of his attacks, to striking him down with a {{Kamehame Hadoken}}. Shaolin-in-Yoh ends the fight with a charged double fist strike.

* Faust's fight with Yoh. The 2021 anime especially makes this fight look beautiful. Special mention also goes to Faust's VA Matt Caplan during the post-fight scene where Faust summons a giant skeleton and Matt delivers an awesome [[Evil Laugh]] that sounds plain unhinged and demented.

** Trey and Ryu BackToBackBadasses moments fighting four of the five Johto Guards.

* Lyserg gets his first moment by [[CurbStompBattle curbstomping Trey and Len]] only seconds after their fight.

* In episode 53, the Lily Five's first match of the tournament is against Hao's team. The Lily Five are too stubborn to bow out and so Yoh challenges them to fight him before he'll allow them to face Hao. Then the most amazing thing happens, they actually manage to beat him by pulling their act together. Sadly they all ran out of furyoku and are therefore unable to fight Hao, so they drop out anyway. Still, it was pretty cool seeing the girls improve so much and hold their ground. That and they became known in-universe as [[RedBaron "The Five Girls That Stood Up Hao"]]. And Hao was pissed.

** [[GoThroughMe Yoh defending Boris from the X-Laws.]] Heck, he even has the stones to tell them that if they're going to kill Yoh just for stopping them from killing Boris, [[NotSoDifferent then they're all no better than Hao himself.]] Cue them all in rage pulling out their Archangels, showing full intent on killing Yoh for saying that to them. And he still stands there, sword and Amidamaru ready. Cue Boris TakingTheBullet for Yoh, thanking him for his kindness. It becomes a TearJerker thanks to his backstory, and Lyserg joining the X-Laws afterward, but still.