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- Even though it was a bit reckless on her part, Suzu's mother risked her life to save a child stranded during a rising flood.
- During her first time on U, Suzu (under the guise of "Bell") sings her song. That unto itself is awesome. But when the haters and naysayers start criticizing her song, she soldiers on regardless. What they say doesn't matter as much as what she loves to do. Although she's a bit dispirited by the comments when she's done, she's rewarded for the integrity of her song with the first follower.
- Belle quickly getting followers by the millions after her song. What follows is a montage of her song rapidly gaining popularity and taking U by storm, to the point it eclipses other celebrities. And even her previous haters love it without knowing why! All the while, Swarms of Song plays as a hyped-up reprise to reflect how Belle's following is building power. All in all, the different videos and news articles about Belle come together to make up an appropriately breath-taking mural of Belle as an angel!
- Fridge-Awesome: This may not be intentional, but there's something symbolic about both the scene and "Swarms of Song". They seem to reflect that stories like "Beauty and the Beast" gain their strength through telling and retelling. Like so, Belle's song gained its strength the very same way, through word-of-mouth and attention. The more people who knew, the stronger the song grew, until it became a chorus and a power-ballad. This entire scene is an ode to the nature of the tale as old as time!
- Hiroka helping Suzu gain more followers as Belle, by being her manager. She's only 17 years old, and she has being a celebrity manager down to a science.
- The introduction to the Dragon! He's a stalwart powerhouse and a chimerical force to be reckoned with, able to keep Justin and his men at bay with sheer strength alone. No matter how many times they hit him, no matter how much they outnumber him, he just keeps on ticking and keeps giving them a licking!
- His ability to withstand a beating becomes both Harsher in Hindsight and Heartwarming in Hindsight when it's revealed he (unfortunately) had practice from protecting his younger brother Tomo from their father.
- Dragon's castle! It is an immaculate structure of grand proportions, a secret world of beauty and grandeur. It's like something out of an RPG video game, offering whatever player is brave enough to approach to explore its vast halls and endless rooms. To gaze upon it is to gaze upon the rare and hidden 7th wonder of U.
- When all the girls at Suzu's school start turning on each other and her over the rumor that she asked out Shinobu, there's something to be said that Suzu and Hiroka could reason with an entire student body of hormone-driven teenage girls. And they were able to dispell the rumor in record time no doubt.
- Dragon coming to Belle's rescue and shielding her from Justin and his men when they try to capture and interrogate her.
- Dragon's AIs coming to Belle's rescue when Justin was about to use his Unveil Ray on her as a threat for not ratting out Dragon.
- Despite all odds, Suzu and Hiroka manage to find Dragon's true identity. Bear in mind, Hiroka established that finding one U member out of five billion members would be like finding a needle in a haystack. But using nothing but a scant hand-full of clues (and hearing Tomo hum the song meant for his brother), Suzu did the impossible and found just who they were looking for.
- It takes on a whole new layer of Awesome when one realizes she figured out the Dragon's identity before Justin. We're talking about Justin, who has been hunting down the Dragon for months, and a highschool student succeeded where he failed.
- Shinobu giving Suzu a firm but gentle What the Hell, Hero? speech, explaining that of course Kei and Tomo aren't going to trust her to help them. After all, how can she expect them to come out of their shells when she won't come out of hers? It's part of what helps Suzu realize she can't hide behind her Belle persona forever and must find the strength to face her trauma.
- Every. Single. Thing. About “A Million Miles Away.” On top of everything else she is going through, and an unfortunate first meeting with Kei, Suzu, her friends by her side, is absolutely desperate to find him. There’s not even much she can actually do for him aside from prove she is Belle. Shinobu points out this would mean singing... as herself. While you can see JUST what she’s thinking in response, this ultimately does not deter her in the slightest.
- Belle using Justin's Unveil Ray on herself, knowing she will expose herself to the world over. Previously, she dreaded the very idea of it when he threatened to Unveil her. So why's she doing it now? Not only is she protecting Dragon from being exposed to a judgmental world, but it's the only way she can sing as herself on U, helping her gain Kei and Tomo's trust.
- Unto itself, Belle's Transformation Sequence into Suzu is a nice twist on the magical transformation that's always been key to "Beauty and the Beast" stories. Instead of it happening to Dragon (who wouldn't benefit from the exposure), it happens to Belle. And the movie manages to make it more epic than if it followed the formula by framing it as a noble sacrifice!
- Revealed in front of an outright incalculable audience, she is outright at an emotional low, but begins to sing in front of everybody as herself, sending the song to Kei and Tomo to gain their trust.
- She reflects upon memories of her mother and her time in U, and the strain causes her to break down in tears. In response, not only is there not a single dry eye in the audience (Even Justin, albeit for different reasons)), but every last soul present casts a light and joins in support. Every. Last. Soul. Taking a moment to collect herself, Suzu finally manages to come to terms with her mother’s death and finish performing on an absolutely breathtaking note; even managing to come back as Belle one last time.
- The sheer awesome of the bookend nature of the story: just before getting the link from Hiro to join U, Suzu attempts to sing... and the song she tries to get out, and fails badly doing so, is A Million Miles Away! Then she uses the U invitation link and becomes Bell. And at the climax, Bell grabs Justin's device and Unveils, returning to Suzu ... and she starts to sing A Million Miles Away.
- The final section of the song where Suzu transforms into Belle again in full context. Prior to this moment, Suzu used Belle as a crutch to be able to sing due to a combination of crippling self esteem issues and trauma. But after a movie's worth of character development, not only does Suzu no longer need her Belle persona to be able to sing but she has essentially absorbed Belle and the two are now one and the same.
- Belle using Justin's Unveil Ray on herself, knowing she will expose herself to the world over. Previously, she dreaded the very idea of it when he threatened to Unveil her. So why's she doing it now? Not only is she protecting Dragon from being exposed to a judgmental world, but it's the only way she can sing as herself on U, helping her gain Kei and Tomo's trust.
- When Kei's father cuts the feed before Kei can get his address out, Ruka, Shinobu, Hiro, and Kamishin manage to pull enough evidence from the train chimes in the background and the angle of the highrises outside their window to pin down Kei's and Tomo's location to the neighborhood.
- The coolest part is, not only does Kamishin get to show off his own intelligence, but in the form of using his own trip to Tokyo as a clue to figure out where Tomo and Kei live.
- And of course, the whole rescue would have been for naught if Tomo hadn't decided to risk his abusive father's wrath by leaving the house to look for Suzu, all on faith that "Bell" would actually come and save them. And that faith is rewarded.
- The climax with Suzu holding tightly to Kei and Tomo just to keep their brutish father from taking them back.
- The very scope of it. For a long time now, Kei has heard countless people on U claim they would like to help, but their words proved hollow. Yet, here we have Suzu, who is willing to to take a train all the way to Tokyo and go running through the rain just to find two strangers out the pure strength and compassion of the human spirit. Actions do speak louder than words.
- And when her assailant does manage to pull her off his sons (all the while tearing a small chunk of her cheek off), what does she do? She bravely stands between the boys and their father, bravely prepared to face whatever he does to her so they won't ever go back to that life. He was capable of beating her to death if he had a mind to, but she just stood there staring at him. Ultimately, for some reason, the father backs down.
- Fridge-Brilliance: Suzu wasn't just standing between an assailant and his sons. She was also adopting the Dragon's philosophy. Instead of choosing offense, she chose to defend those who couldn't protect themselves, just as he did for her and Tomo.
- Unto itself, this beautifully mirrors her own mother's attempt to save that little girl from the flood. Instead of this little rescue mission ending with her untimely death, Suzu made it out alive. On her mother's behalf, she was able to pull off a rescue and live to tell about it.
- Basically, Suzu not giving Kei’s dad a "Reason You Suck" Speech proves that she's above him. In fact, the expression on Kei’s dad’s face afterwards indicated that she told it like it is about him, and he knew exactly what Suzu was saying about him.
- Notably, this is the first rendition of "Beauty and the Beast" to memory that does not end with Beauty ending up with the Beast, or with anyone in general. For one, Suzu is a teenager and has her entire life ahead of her to decide who her heart belongs to. For another, it truly breaks the mold that not all fairy tales have to end with a romance.
