* Noriko's PreAsskickingOneLiner before going into combat to protect the Excellion bomb sums up her feelings for Coach Ohta in one [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome]] and [[TearJerker tear-inducing]] sentence:
--> '''Noriko:''' "Don't think the combined Gunbuster is some ordinary machine, IT HAS COACH'S HEART BEATING WITHIN IT!!!"
* The very ending. [[spoiler:WELCOME HOMЭ!]]
** ''Anime/DieBuster'' shows this scene from the Earth's point of view, [[spoiler: all the cities going dark and then lighting as Noriko and Kazumi appear as two pinpoints in the sky. And then you blubber like a baby all over again.]]