History Awesome / ArpeggioOfBlueSteel

*** Haruna's Graviton Cannon blast (which actually makes [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Takao's mental model]] [[http://i.imgur.com/iS7CB7Q.png dodge on reflex]]), which clears out [[http://i.imgur.com/BzLaT1d.png a whole line of Nagara-class in one sweep]] (an experience familiar for Anime/KantaiCollection players from the Ars Nova event)a-la Gunbuster. Which is ''then'' followed by Kirishima going absolutely bonkers with Haruna's weapon systems.

*** Haruna's Graviton Cannon blast (which actually makes [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Takao's mental model]] [[http://i.imgur.com/iS7CB7Q.png dodge on reflex]]), which clears out [[http://i.imgur.com/BzLaT1d.png a whole line of Nagara-class in one sweep]] (an experience familiar for Kantai Collection players from the Ars Nova event)a-la Gunbuster. Which is ''then'' followed by Kirishima going absolutely bonkers with Haruna's weapon systems.

*** Haruna's Graviton Cannon blast (which actually makes [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Takao's mental model]] [[http://i.imgur.com/iS7CB7Q.png dodge on reflex]]]]), which clears out [[http://i.imgur.com/BzLaT1d.png a whole line of Nagara-class in one sweep]] (an experience familiar for KantaiCollection players from the Ars Nova event)a-la Gunbuster. Which is ''then'' followed by Kirishima going absolutely bonkers with Haruna's weapon systems.

* Yukikaze [[Main/OneHitKill one-shotting]] I-201 with an '''''anchor'''''. Supreme-Flagship's personal guard indeed.
* Kongou deserves a mention for the sheer determination to off Gunzou she displays, not giving up even when [[spoiler:most of her hull is reduced to sinking debris]].

* Haruna and Kirishima[[spoiler:(With a little [[BigDamnHeroes last minute assistance]] from Iona)]] proving a Mental Model doesn't need its ship to kick copious ass in episode 6.

** [[spoiler:Kongou]] doing the same in [[spoiler:her Death Star form]] to the American Fog fleet. Her version even has a different look to it, appearing more like two interwining twisters than a big laser. Awesome and absolutely terrifying!

** The climax of the ''Cadenza'' movie. After Musashi experiences a VillainousBreakdown [[spoiler:after finding out that Iona ''wasn't'' a false personality that Yamato created]] and decides to destroy everything in anger, Iona [[spoiler:as the Yamato]] charges through Musashi's multiple Graviton Cannon blasts, dives ''into'' the lower half of Musashi's own Mirror Ring system, and uses it to ''warp right on top of Musashi'' to deliver a point-blank Hyper Graviton Cannon blast of her own.

*** Haruna's Graviton Cannon blast (which actually makes [[FunnyMoments Takao's mental model]] [[http://i.imgur.com/iS7CB7Q.png dodge on reflex]]]]), which clears out [[http://i.imgur.com/BzLaT1d.png a whole line of Nagara-class in one sweep]] (an experience familiar for KantaiCollection players from the Ars Nova event)a-la Gunbuster. Which is ''then'' followed by Kirishima going absolutely bonkers with Haruna's weapon systems.

* Ashigara going full [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness OOC]] and calling out the whole Blue Steel crew for their utter bonehead decision to try to go rescue Gunzou after his ship is sinking when it's very clear that they're not in the condition to rescue him and get out in time before Ise's fleet comes into combat range. It didn't quite got through (the crew only pulled out after Gunzou's message telling them to get out reached them), it does show that beneath her GenkiGirl tendency she can be quite intelligent and logical.

* The Battle of Yokosuka Bay between the I-401 and Hakugei 3 against Kirishima and Haruna. Kirishima and Haruna batters the Hakugei with their attacks until the I-401 arrives to rescue them. Later, Kirishima and Haruna combine their ships and trapped the I-401 under their gravity field and prepare to fire their combined Super Gravity Cannon. Just when it seems the I-401 last ditch attack to stop Kirishima and Haruna fails, it turns out to be a distraction to allow the Hakugei fires a Corrosion Torpedo into their Super Gravity Cannon, causing a chain reaction that destroys both ships. Hakugei gets the honor of being the first human ship in history to defeat not one but two the Fog ships.

** Iona's final trump card against Kongou's flagship-equipment final form? Her compliment of three Seiran, as of unused or indeed ''unseen'' since the series began. This, after it's been established that the Fog in general have abandoned aircraft due to their inability to use Klein Fields. So what does Iona do? She ''personally takes control of the flight of the Seirans herself'', much to Kongou's disbelief, and uses them to drop their corrosive payload right on top of Kongou.

* The first time Auxiliary Super-Graviton Cannon Ships (also Option Ships) are used: I-401 parts the ocean to the bottom and then scores a OneHitKill against Milchkuh from so far away that Zordan Stark has no idea who did it.

*** Not to be undone, Kongou makes her entrance after interrupting Hiei's Graviton attack, [[http://i.imgur.com/ozoXWzt.png amidst the burning cruisers]] [[http://i.imgur.com/mBuUXMs.png she had just destroyed]]. Burning Love, indeed.

*** Takao announces her arrival with a missile barrage that takes out seveal Nagara cruisers.
*** Haruna's Graviton Cannon blast (which actually makes [[FunnyMoments Takao's mental model [[http://i.imgur.com/iS7CB7Q.png dodge on reflex]]]]), which clears out [[http://i.imgur.com/BzLaT1d.png a whole line of Nagara-class in one sweep]] (an experience familiar for KantaiCollection players from the Ars Nova event)a-la Gunbuster.

* The climax of the ''Cadenza'' movie. After Musashi experiences a VillainousBreakdown [[spoiler:after finding out that Iona ''wasn't'' a false personality that Yamato created]] and decides to destroy everything in anger, Iona [[spoiler:as the Yamato]] charges through Musashi's multiple Graviton Cannon blasts, dives ''into'' the lower half of Musashi's own Mirror Ring system, and uses it to ''warp right on top of Musashi'' to deliver a point-blank Hyper Graviton Cannon blast of her own.

** [[spoiler:Kongou]] doing the same in [[spoiler:her Death Star form]] to the American Fog fleet. Her version even has a different look to it, appearing more like two interwining twisters than a big laser. Awesome and absolutely terrifying!

* Iona's final trump card against Kongou's flagship-equipment final form? Her payload of three Seiran, as of unused or indeed ''unseen'' since the series began. This, after it's been established that the Fog in general have abandoned aircraft due to their inability to use Klein Fields.

* Iona's final trump card against Kongou's flagship-equipment final form: her payload of three Seiran, as of unused or indeed ''unseen'' since the series began.

** [[spoiler:Kongou]] doing the same in [[spoiler:her Death Star form]] to the American fleet. Her version even has a different look to it, appearing more like two interwining twisters than a big laser. Awesome and absolutely terrifying!

** Kongou doing the same in her Death Star form to the American fleet. Her version even has a different look to it, appearing more like two interwining twisters than a big laseer. Awesome and absolutely terrifying!

* Episode 11. Iona completely obliterates a fleet of 22 Nagara-class light cruisers with a mixture of her WaveMotionGun and missile barrage.

* Haruna and Kirishima[[spoiler:(With a little [[BigDamnHeroes last minute assistance]] from Iona)]] proving a Mental Model doesn't need its ship to kick copious ass in episode 6.

* The Battle of Yokosuka Bay between the I-401 and Hakugei 3 against Kirishima and Haruna. Kirishima and Haruna batters the Hakugei with their attacks until the I-401 arrives to rescue them. Later, Kirishima and Haruna combine their ships and trapped the I-401 under their gravity field and prepare to fire their combined Super Gravity Cannon. Just when it seems the I-401 last ditch attack to stop Kirishima and Haruna fails, it turns out to be a distraction to allow the Hakugei fires a Corrosion Torpedo into their Super Gravity Cannon, causing a chain reaction that destroys both ships. Hakugei gets the honor of being the first human ship in history to defeat not one but two the Fog ships.

* Episode 4. Like, all of it.