History MundaneMadeAwesome / AnimeAndManga

* Lelouch Lamperouge of ''Anime/CodeGeass'' is a textbook example of this. With a fabulous, stylish Batman-esque costume, Lelouch, [[LargeHam with his flair and love for drama]], fired up his popularity amongst Japanese resistance cells against Britannia with his [[MilkingTheGiantCow exaggerated gestures]], speeches, and [[TheChessmaster ability to pull off outrageous plans]] that [[RefugeInAudacity most would consider suicide]]. Examples include:

** The second ending is one of the best ways to show the trope: Light goes up an elevator, his Note is opened by the wind, he writes a name on it, watches his clock, ''flies at high speeds'', walks calmly across traffic, ''flies in the opposite direction'', and does a [[CrucifiedHeroShot Crucified Villain Protagonist Shot]] over a city... all of that to the rhythm of heavy rock.

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* ''Franchise/{{Beyblade}}'': Spinning tops is the most known sport in the world. Beyblades are just like normal tops, but they are made with [[AppliedPhlebotinum special technology]] -- what kind differs per sub-franchise. You can [[SummonMagic summon giant beasts to attack]], [[GravityMaster control gravity]], make [[ElementalPowers fire storms, tidal waves and hurricanes]], [[SeriousBusiness destroy huge stadiums]], and other stuff. No wonder there is always some random BigBad trying to TakeOverTheWorld with these "toys". Surprisingly, [[NeverSayDie no one ever died]], but the [[PoliceAreUseless police doesn't seem to care]].

* ''LightNovel/GJBu'' has Kyoro's hair-brushing skills, which make the receivers look like they're... ''turned on''.

* ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie'' has an series of epic games of Jenga, Mahjong, Twister and others, all for a [[SeriousBusiness cup of pudding]].

* The last episode of ''LightNovel/MagiciansAcademy'' features an intensive manga drawing scene complete with evil overlord pencil techniques, maniacal laughs, and pencils leaving streak marks across the sky... all too similar to [[Manga/DeathNote a certain other anime]].

* ''Anime/MayoiNekoOverrun'''s OnsenEpisode gave us ''badass ping-pong playing'' (Though sandwiched in it there was a minute of {{padding}})

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'', Akio is the main source of this, often grabbing things and drawing out a baseball bat in a dramatic way with SpeedStripes, whoosh sound and all.

* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':

* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'':

** EVERYTHING [[LargeHam Alex Louis Armstrong]] does. EVERY SINGLE FREAKING THING. With sparkles of AWESOME included. This epicness ♥♥♥ HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN THROUGH THE ARMSTRONG FAMILY FOR GENERATIONS!!! ♥♥♥ In the new anime, he and Sieg Curtis perform the MOST. AWESOME. {{BROFIST}}. EVER. Complete with pec flexes and BishieSparkle, WHILE BEATING UP [[LightningBruiser SLOTH]], while a deep-voiced male chorus sings in the background.
** Ed doesn't understand why nobody else appreciates his... ahem... unique aesthetics.

* America from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' lives and breathes this trope, treating everything from watching horror movies to eating Japanese blowfish as [[SeriousBusiness mighty trials from the legends of Hercules]].

* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'':

* Everything in ''Franchise/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' is this. The only reason it doesn't get into RuleOfCool is because of how utterly crazy everything is, especially the increasingly insane and weird powers which are ''supposed'' to be PsychicPowers. Some examples:
** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Part 2]] has a chariot race which involves vampire horses, a giant war-hammer, a pillar being used as a weapon, massive crossbows, one of the competitors [[EyeScream blinding himself]] to avoid being tricked, and several ImprobableAimingSkills.
** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Part 3]] has an epic poker match which involves fighting for souls, people being turned into poker chips and two people trying to out-cheat each other. And the hero breaks the villain's finger for what seems like nothing at first, but is quickly shown to be interrupting a cheating attempt. The last wager knocks the villain out.
** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Part 4]] gives us an epic match of RockPaperScissors, complete with air jousting, windows breaking, powers being stolen from people, and a kid throwing himself in front of a big rig truck because he lost. He gets saved by the arrogant manga-ka he was playing against so that the kid couldn't steal his power (which, by the way, is the ability to read people like a book and write commands into people that they have to follow).
** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Part 6]] makes a ''game of catch'' awesome to watch.
** In [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Part 7]], the PresidentEvil bases his entire villainous philosophy around the analogy that at a dinner party, the side one takes their napkin from is determined by the first person to pick one up, with everyone else following their lead. As a result, when things go his way, he's prone to posing dramatically and [[LargeHam bombastically proclaiming]] "I will pick up the napkin!!"

* More than one moment in ''VideoGame/{{Medabots}}''

* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'':

** Before that it made Satou ''looking through uncensored hentai game CG sets'' (and [[ADateWithRosiePalms some other stuff]]) as astounding to the audience as it is to him by punctuating reaching the end with ''giant explosions''. Lampshaded when a note on the screen says this is an imaginary screen.

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'':

* ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'': The whole series works on Mundane made Sexy! ...or Fanservice made Awesome? Sheesh, middle ground: Mundane made Sexyawesome.

* This is the biggest plot element in Lightnovel/BeingAbleToEditSkillsInAnotherWorldIGainedOpWaifus. The protagonist's special ability is all about getting the most boring and mundane skills he gets his hands on and reconstructing them into truly awesome abilities nobody else has... and then installing them into his slave harem for maximum tactical advantage... while trying to stay under the radar.
* ''LightNovel/BenTo'': A show about epic gang fights for... discount lunchboxes. But it's awesome. Even the weapons are awesome from Ayame's {{Dual Wield}}ing Chopsticks, to Monarch's One-handed cart swinging and finally Orthus's shopping baskets {{Speed Blitz}}zes.

* ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan'' plays Sakura-kun's [[DeathIsCheap death and resurrection]] in this manner in the final episode of the first series. Normally, this would be a legitimately dramatic scene... but in this series, this happens at least {{once an episode}} and is played purely for comedy, so handling it as if it were actually dramatic only makes it funnier -- which was probably their intention.

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' gives us [[ThrownOutTheAirlock the best way to get rid of a fridge ever]], with sparkles and orchestral music to boot. [[spoiler: Then Ed eats the monster that's been attacking them. Seriously.]]

* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': Mikado Ryugamine uses the Internet so epically that his [[http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/ww262/CapZiggy/vlcsnap-2010-03-15-22h18m45s103.png mouse catches on fire]]. If you've ever wondered why ''your'' mouse has yet to catch fire during your epic Internet browsing, that's because [[spoiler:''you'' have never weaponized [[{{Imageboards}} Anonymous]]]].

* One episode of ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' season 1 features HumongousMecha engaging in fierce battles of tug-o-war and ping-pong.

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'':

* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'':

* Anime/InuYasha versus bicycle. With the [[{{Leitmotif}} main battle theme]] playing. Incidentally, the bike wins.

* This is literally the premise of ''LightNovel/LoveChunibyoAndOtherDelusions'', where a few characters with often see things through the filters of their teenage delusions of epic grandeur, or ''chunibyou''.

* ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'': Even something like cheating at poker is made extremely intense in the anime adaptation.

** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Part 2]] has a chariot race which involves vampire horses, a giant war-hammer, a pillar being used as a weapon, massive crossbows, one ofthe competitors [[EyeScream blinding himself]] to avoid being tricked, and several ImprobableAimingSkills.

** In a color chapter of volume 4 of the manga, Tomo, in a daydream sequence about what she would do if she had her classmates' abilities, makes an epic entry into the classroom in which she backflips from the classroom door into her seat, answers a question asked by the teacher, and says she forgot her textbook. Then back in reality, Tomo blames Osaka for the end of her daydream sequence, saying "her powers got mixed in there, and everything got all weird."
*** This scene was adapted into the anime thusly: Tomo announces the disbanding of the Bonkuras/Numbnuts/Knuckleheads, given that she's found a way to get out of being one herself: by stealing Sakaki's athleticism and Chiyo's intelligence. Osaka chimes in, saying that Tomo can have her lateness and forgetfulness. Tomo explains the consequences of absorbing these "abilities" as well, the same as described above for the manga. Osaka apologizes for these additions.

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'': What terrifying event upon the Flying Pussyfoot drives Isaac and Miria to horrified tears? It's not the hijackers, or the apparent appearance of the [[UrbanLegend Rail Tracer]]. Nor is it the mutilated, unrecognizable corpses scattering the train cars. The truly terrifying thing is the sudden realization that ''they forgot to get Ennis a present!'' '''[[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!]]'''

* ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'': Koyomi brushing Karen's teeth. Epic toothbrushing. ''[[BrotherSisterIncest With incestuous overtones.]]''
** And then there's the fact that the first scene in the first episode is a BulletTime panty shot...

*** It's just that the whole series works on Mundane made Sexy! ...or Fanservice made Awesome? Sheesh, middle ground: Mundane made Sexyawesome.

* Everything about ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'' is done in awesome fashion with slow-motion and special effects, despite supposedly being a soccer anime about completely normal KIDS (and eventually adults) doing soccer. To count -- soccer balls catching on fire, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciA3S-1EOGM shoots that are strong enough to rip clothing and send an adversary flying]], {{inner monologue}}s that sometimes evolve to ''mental dialogues'', special kicks that need to be ''[[CallingYourAttacks shouted]]'' before used...
** Although nothing compares to the ''awesomeness'' that are Kojiro Hyuga's training sessions. To learn a new kind of special kick, he usually has to ''shoot balls through waves on a beach'' or ''shoot balls to pierce through trees by summoning lightning''. Yes, seriously.

** Naturally, ''Manga/HaruhiChan'' takes it further, with ''Manga/DeathNote''-style doodling-as-swordplay and Kyon and Haruhi building balloon-modeling into a fierce battle.

* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' gives us the debut of one of Issei's primary powers he'll use later on called ''"[[ClothingDamage Dress Break]]."'' The anime turned this debut up to eleven when it had ''OminousLatinChanting music'' playing while he spreads his demon wings out.
** Also in the anime, Issei has the ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu7CcALop3U best alarm clock ever!]]''
* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'': Water Gun fights and Zombie Tags are awesome to many viewers. However, they are rather over-exaggerated.
** The water gun fight is even ''more'' dramatic in the manga.

** ''Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Rei'' [[BeachEpisode episode 1]]: Who would've thought that taking off Keiichi's trunks would be SeriousBusiness. Takano's Kunai Syringes, [[strike:Ciel's Black Keys]] Chie's T-squares, the Yamainu lurking in the pool, Oishi's riot police, Kasai's stun grenade among many others. Oh, and Keiichi's [[UnusualEuphemism fur seal]].

* ''Literature/{{Kurozuka}}'''s anime gives us the incredible, breath-taking, five-minute 'throwing a bag of excrement into the river' scene.
** There is also a scene later on where Karuta gets rather too into making hotpot before the big battle, complete with dramatic beats and zooms.
* ''Manga/TheLegendOfKoizumi'', in which ''all world politics are decided by mahjong''. At several points characters have set themselves on fire from sheer [[HotBlooded hotbloodedness]] of playing mahjong. [[UsefulNotes/ThePope The Vatican team]] refer to it as "man's attempt to recreate ''Genesis''".

** Episode 01: Rikka trying to open a train door by DramaticWind and then walked in as if nothing happened.
*** Also in the episode: Rikka unseals her MagicalEye.

*** Then again; if the crowds at the real Comiket are anything like the ones we saw in that episode, some of that might actually be necessary (maybe without the synchronised watches, but you get my point).

** THOUSAND YEARS OF DEATH! is a glorified ass poke.
*** Then Naruto actually manages to make this attack actually awesome by [[spoiler: performing it with a kunai laden with ''explosives'']], seriously hurting ''Gaara in half bijuu mode''.

* ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'' is full of this trope {{played for laughs}}. [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/my-ordinary-life/episode-1-motivation-573100 A robot girl that's chasing a cat accidentally bumps into a boy, AND CREATES A ATOMIC EXPLOSION THAT DESTROYS TOKYO! And a dropped piece of sausage is a world shaking, life or death event.]]

* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin''--Kenshin slices through a daikon radish using a kitchen knife with more gravitas than he'd been shown to fight some of his battles, and for good reason: he's looking for a legendary swordsmaker, and he was testing the blade.
** Which is skipping over the ''actual'' awesome, when he immediately puts the radish halves together and the cut seals and the radish becomes one piece again, because the cut was just that perfect.

* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' pulls out dramatic music and slo-mo at the end of episode 6 when Yoko loses her top.

* Wouldn't debate competitions be so much more interesting if they were as bright and shiny as the red and blue text in ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry''? This is so far more true in the VN than in the anime. In the VN, they'll show bright sword slashes flying through the dark while intense music like "Dread of the Grave or "Dreamenddischarger" plays.

* The third episode of ''Anime/WelcomeToTheNHK'' turns ''googling porn'' into a magnificently epic adventure on the high seas.

** Just like everything else about ''Yu-Gi-Oh'', [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries the Abridged Series]] lampoons this mercilessly.

*** "Oh, my God! '''A giant rock!'''"

** Haki can make a ''glare'' knock foes out.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0lSNITIJ20&feature=related Crocus's abuse of the dramatic moment,]] part of one of the more bizarre episodes. Also LampshadeHanging.

** There's nothing dramatic about the phrase "thank you"... until it's spoken while accompanied by a close-up shot of Yumichika's focused, fearless, [[LetsGetDangerous dangerous]] eye where it becomes a PreAssKickingOneLiner to a CurbStompBattle. The anime even [[UpToEleven cranks this up]] by giving Yumichika GlowingEyesOfDoom and [[DramaticPause dramatic music pause]] as he says it.

* ''Anime/CardfightVanguard'', being a card game anime, naturally runs with this. Any time a character rides a new Vanguard, it usually involves them dramatically slamming the card down onto the playing field. Then the [[ImagineSpot sequences]] [[HardLight on]] Cray proceed to take it UpToEleven.

** While the Japanese version of the potato chip eating was similar, the people dubbing decided to go [[HamAndCheese full out]] and added freaking ''[[UpToEleven maniacal]] [[EvilLaugh laughter]]''.

** EVERYTHING [[LargeHam Alex Louis Armstrong]] does. EVERY SINGLE FREAKING THING. With sparkles of AWESOME included. This epicness ♥♥♥ HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN THROUGH THE ARMSTRONG FAMILY FOR GENERATIONS!!! ♥♥♥ Taken UpToEleven in the new anime when he and Sieg Curtis perform the MOST. AWESOME. {{BROFIST}}. EVER. Complete with pec flexes and BishieSparkle, WHILE BEATING UP [[LightningBruiser SLOTH]], while a deep-voiced male chorus sings in the background.

* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' gives us the debut of one of Issei's primary powers he'll use later on called ''"[[ClothingDamage Dress Break]]."'' The anime turned this debut UpToEleven when it had ''OminousLatinChanting music'' playing while he spreads his demon wings out.

*** The water gun fight is even '''''[[UpToEleven MORE]]''''' dramatic in the original VisualNovel, especially when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR0SvgLy_D8 Night when the Invisible Scares you]] plays in the background ''of the entire 10 minute fight.''

* ''Peace Hame'' [[UpToEleven runs on this trope]] to liven up what would otherwise be a standard Harem hentai by being an AffectionateParody of the Shonen genre among [[Wrestling/WorldWrestlingEntertainment others]] as the overall goal's for [[TheHero Tamao]] earning the right to have sex with his classmates and take their pictures afterwards [[RefugeInAudacity for the school yearbook.]]

* ''Manga/{{Saki}}'': {{TabletopGame/Mahjong}} is played with dramatic camera angles, speed lines, flashing lights, and gusts of wind. Being able to get plus-minus zero score every time is pretty awesome and somewhat inhuman, but that is just the beginning. It's not just dramatic music and lighting, this turns it UpToEleven in ways you would not imagine. Winged creatures, transformation and ''lightning'' are only the '''beginning.''' Good luck understanding ''any'' of the actual mahjong play except through context, but it is frikkin' '''''epic'''''.

** Taro might fit into this trope as well. His main goal in life is to replace the front half from his EmbarrassingFirstName, "Pantyhose Taro", but all of his chosen replacements are attempts to take {{Awesome McCool Name}} literally, and thusly just as stupid- "Mr. Cool Taro", "Awesome Taro", et cetera.

** [[ItMakesSenseInContext BUBBLES!]]

** In ''YuGiOhTheDarkSideOfDimensions'', Kaiba ''slams'' his hand into the stone floor, then his fist plunges into the stone releasing bursts of light. He then says in the most straining voice he can manifest the word "Draw". But yells in in a similar fashion to Yami's infamous "DORO! MONSTA CARDO!". And pulls his arm around him by at least ''225 degrees''. And the the the ground begins to crack as he summons Obelisk the Tormentor.

** In ''YuGiOhTheMovieTheDarkSideOfDimensions'', Kaiba ''slams'' his hand into the stone floor, then his fist plunges into the stone releasing bursts of light. He then says in the most straining voice he can manifest the word "Draw". But yells in in a similar fashion to Yami's infamous "DORO! MONSTA CARDO!". And pulls his arm around him by at least ''225 degrees''. And the the the ground begins to crack as he summons Obelisk the Tormentor.

** In movie, YuGiOhTheDarkSideOfDimensions, Kaiba ''slams'' his hand into the stone floor, then his fist plunges into the stone releasing bursts of light. He then says in the most straining voice he can manifest the word "Draw". But yells in in a similar fashion to Yami's infamous "DORO! MONSTA CARDO!". And pulls his arm around him by at least ''225 degrees''. And the the the ground begins to crack as he summons Obelisk the Tormentor.

* ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'': releasing a Pokémon onto the battlefield is often done with great emphasis, and a flashy background. When contests were introduced, it got a little more flashy. Thanks to a new contest upgrade in the ''Diamond/Pearl/Platinum'' games though (which then got introduced in the anime too), releasing a Pokémon into a contest now is similar to setting off several large, bright, fireworks -- '''''all at the same time'''''.
** "Challenge of the Samurai" had a pair of Metapod [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments dramatically trying to out-Harden each other for what seems like hours.]]

* ''Manga/WayOfTheHouseHusband'': Much of the comic's humor comes from "Immortal" Tatsu, [[RetiredBadass a Yakuza enforcer turned house-husband]], treating everyday things like shopping with his wife or cleaning the house like he's still a hardcore mobster.

* Skuld of ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' managed to do this with making a floppy disk unregistrable and then wiping the memory by duping an EldritchAbomination into possessing it first: making the disk unwritable meant [[SealedEvilInACan trapping the abomination in it]], while wiping the disk with a magnet was how she ''killed it''.

** Tomo was once so impressed with Osaka's yawning that she got all [[HotBlooded hot-blooded]] about it and decided Osaka should open a "yawning dojo". [[RealityEnsues It turns out]] that yawning practice on the roof in the afternoon is a great way to fall asleep...

** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Part 4]] gives us an Epic match of RockPaperScissors, complete with air jousting, windows breaking, powers being stolen from people, and a kid throwing himself in front of a big rig truck because he lost. He gets saved by the arrogant manga-ka he was playing against so that the kid couldn't steal his power (which, by the way, is the ability to read people like a book and write commands into people that they have to follow).

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* ''Manga/MutekiKanbanMusume'' is a GagSeries that is a SliceOfLife anime… except for their protagonists, {{BurgerFool}}s in a shopping district, who live in a WorldOfHam doing this trope practically all the time. The picture of this page is Kankuro doing mundane tasks with the same enthusiasm he trains to defeat his rival.

* America from ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'' lives and breathes this trope, treating everything from watching horror movies to eating Japanese blowfish as [[SeriousBusiness mighty trials from the legends of Hercules]].

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' gives us one of the most epic [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v29/c261/12.html arm wrestling matches]] ever. It ''blasts a hole in the floor''.
** Just two chapters later, a kiss takes up four pages, has an inspirational speech in the middle of it, and causes an explosion.
** Thanks to the magical items she procured during her travels in the Magical World, Nodoka manages to turn a question that most people ask many times in their life into the most awesome thing ever.
--->'''Nodoka''': [[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger What]] [[LetsGetDangerous is]] [[{{Telepathy}} your]] [[IKnowYourTrueName name]]?!!
** And lately [[spoiler:near the end of the Negi vs Fate final fight]] we get One Handshake Death Match.