History Awesome / Bokurano

** Also, check out the trance remix, courtesy of Exit Trance [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waNZm4zEO6I&pp=ygUWdW5pbnN0YWxsIHRyYW5jZSByZW1peA%3D%3D]]

** Check out the cover by MasaakiEndoh. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ssBtJ4Jx7c He managed to make that song Hot Blooded... and it works]] [[LyricalDissonance Sorta.]]

* Mako punching Oda in the face after taking her abuse for so long without so much as raising a clenched fist. She then insists that Oda actually help out with the cleaning duty, before [[Funny/{{Bokurano}} teleporting Oda and her boyfriend, both of whom are still naked, into her mother's car]]. The end of her arc reveals that Oda actually listened to Mako.

* In the anime, Ushiro fights for an entire day in Zearth to die smiling for saving the earth and his sister more specifically. In the manga, [[spoiler: after witnessing the death of his best friend, then his mother and his sister (which happens on the same day), he decides to sign the contract, so that his half-sister can live on. This marks a drastic character development for Ushiro, who goes from an uncaring jerk to someone willing to give his life for others.]]

* In the anime, Ushiro fights for an entire day in Zearth to die smiling for saving the earth and his sister more specifically. In the manga, [[spoiler: after witnessing the death of his best friend, then his mother and his sister (both happens on the same day), he decides to sign the contract, so that his half-sister can live on. This marks a drastic character development for Ushiro, who goes from an uncaring jerk to someone willing to give his life for others.]]

* In the anime, Ushiro fights for an entire day in Zearth to die smiling for saving the earth and his sister more specifically.

* Also, in the manga Komo is the only pilot who wins ''without'' piloting Zearth, using [[TheLastDance her last piano recital as her ThanatosGambit. She manages to get through to her opponent [[TalkingThroughTechnique by playing the piano]], giving a NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech monologue while she does. Her opponent then decides to allow Komo's father to kill him, saving Komo's universe, rather than running the clock out and letting both her universe and his be destroyed.

* Mako's mother (who is an ex-prostitute)gets one in the manga, during neighborhood clean-up. The mothers of Mako's classmates had come to verbally harass her, and not only does she throw their insults right back in their face, but when one of the moms slaps her, she slaps her right back.

* Also, in the manga Komo is the only pilot who wins ''without'' piloting Zearth, using [[TheLastDance her last piano recital as her ThanatosGambit. She manages to get through to her opponent [[TalkingThroughTechnique by playing the piano]], giving a WorldOfCardboardSpeech monologue while she does. Her opponent then decides to allow Komo's father to kill him, saving Komo's universe, rather than running the clock out and letting both her universe and his be destroyed.

* In the anime, Ushiro [[spoiler:fights for an entire day in Zearth to die smiling for saving the earth and his sister more specifically]].
* In the anime, Kirie [[spoiler:being the only pilot to pilot Zearth twice, proving during his second fight that he's easily the best pilot in the entire series, and then unmasking Machi as the uncontracted pilot. That last one doubles as a DyingMomentOfAwesome.]]
* Also in the Anime. Machi, [[spoiler: how does she redeem herself? By helping Ushiro save Kana from the contract, ''killing Koyemshi'' and then forcing her way into the contract, fully replacing Kana.]]
* In the manga, Anko gets at least '''three''' during her turn to pilot. [[spoiler:First she saves Machi's from certain death when a corrosive substance starts leaking into the cockpit, [[TakingTheBullet but she gets get legs burned off because of it]]. Even then, she manages to continue fighting bravely and finally beats her opponent [[HoistByHisOwnPetard while using its own weapon against it!]] Finally, with her last strengths she delivers an incredible RousingSpeech to make people understand that Zearth and the pilots [[HeroWithBadPublicity are not the enemy]].]]
** Anko gets another in the anime. When her turn comes, she's faced with the triple whammy of not only knowing that she's going to die, but also learning that [[spoiler:her father cheated on her mother (thereby ruining his career in the process)]], and facing a veteran opponent. Despite being one of the most emotionally fragile of the pilots, she holds together and even manages to FaceDeathWithDigni

* Also, in the manga Komo is [[spoiler: the only pilot who wins ''without'' piloting Zearth, using [[TheLastDance her last piano recital]] as her ThanatosGambit. As soon as the other pilot shows up, her father Admiral Komoda manages to shoot him dead; Komo herself dies peacefully while mentally giving us a gorgeous WorldOfCardboardSpeech.]]
** She's also pretty awesome in the anime, as [[spoiler: Komoda has been murdered mere hours ago... and ''she goes out to fight anyway'', refusing to give into despair and savingus despite how shitty her deal is.]]
* In the anime, Moji, when faced with a robot that has two seemingly identical halves, manages to find out which one has the cockpit, destroying it in a risky but successful gambit. In the process, he also [[spoiler:deduces that humans are piloting the robots]].

* Shortly before that, Mako secures Koyemshi's cooperation by {{blackmail}}ing him, claiming that she knows the identity of his accomplice. [[spoiler:She's wrong about it being Moji, but even the threat of telling the others manages to unnerve Koyemshi enough to get him to help her out]].

* While Kanji has many regrets about the collateral damage inflicted and sacrifices made in his battle, he managed to use fragments of Zearth's armor to parry missiles coming from thousands of kilometers away to protect Zearth and the Ascension Towers, continuing to do so even after Zearth loses a leg, and was mostly successful in holding out over a period of ''34 hours''. To make things even better, he manages to get what he wants in the end- his father ends up taking responsibility for the problems with the towers' construction, and they get turned down.

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* Mako punching Oda in the face after taking her abuse for so long without so much as raising a clenched fist. She then insists that Oda actually help out with the cleaning duty, before [[Funny/Bokurano teleporting Oda and her boyfriend, both of whom are still naked, into her mother's car]]. The end of her arc reveals that Oda actually listened to Mako.

** She's also pretty awesome in the anime, as [[spoiler: Komoda has been murdered few hours before... and ''she goes out to fight anyway'', refusing to give into despair and savingus despite how shitty her deal is.]]

* Mako punching Oda in the face after taking her abuse for so long without so much as raising a clenched fist.

** Check out the cover by MasaakiEndoh. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ssBtJ4Jx7c He managed to make that song Hot Blooded... and it works]] [[LyricalDissonance Sorta.]]

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* In the anime, Ushiro [[spoiler:fights for an entire day Zearth to die smiling for saving the earth and his sister more specifically]].

* Mako punching Oda in the face.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egng0Mcf31M Waku doesn't need arms. He used to play soccer.]]

* In the anime, [[spoiler:Ushiro fights for an entire day Zearth to die smiling for saving the earth and his sister more specifically]].

** Also, [[spoiler: how does Machi redeem herself? By helping Ushiro save Kana from the contract, ''killing Koyemshi'' and then forcing her way into the contract, fully replacing Kana.]]