Awesome / Sky Girls

• Series ends and page starts with a different kind of Awesome. Karen spends all the series gushing about how much she Hero Worshipps her older brother (a civilian architect), and other characters seem to share her opinion, but we never get to see what makes him stand so much. Until episode 26, that is. In an After the End setting where most cities have large destroyed areas, he's not just restoring places for people to live: he's also sparing time and efforts to restore art museums. His answer when asked why he devotes effort to that, when everyone is busy with rebuilding the residential areas? Because "...especially at time like this, this place is needed". The UNESCO's Blue Shields would be proud.
• Karen puts the Awesome in Awesomeness by Analysis early on. In one of their first actual battles, a Worm outflanks the team and fires upon the civilian workers of a factory. Karen, with her atention fully fixated in their objective but having memorised that Worm's projectiles flight pattern, intercepts every projectile. While firing over her Sonic Driver's shoulder. Without looking.
• Otoha landing a shinai hit for the first time onto her swordmaster grandfather when told that she would only be allowed to join the Sonic Divers program (instead of running the family dojo) if she managed to do it. Mind you, she is good, but her grandfather is on a very different league than her (it's not called "Invincible Sakurano style" for nothing). She only managed to hit him because her aura of determination, the look in her eyes, showed the seriousness of her intent to such a deegre that convinced the headstrong, prejudiced, military-hating Sakurano-sensei to allow himself to be hit and grant Otoha her wish, something that no amount of pleading from Otoha, no reasoning fom his wife, nothing, had managed to achieve. And that is what is awesome.
• At the final battle, the WORMS succeed in creating their own Evil Knockoff of a Sonic Driver. With Yukki as its pilot and its ability disable nanoskins, he overpowers the other girls tactically and mentally. If it weren’t for Aisha’s intervention, he wouldn’t have just won, he would have slaughtered them.