History MundaneMadeAwesome / Anime

** Tomo was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlUJkykiASE once]] so impressed with Osaka's yawning that she got all [[HotBlooded hot-blooded]] about it and decided Osaka should open a "yawning dojo". [[RealityEnsues It turns out]] that yawning practice on the roof in the afternoon is a great way to fall asleep...

* In the manga version of ''Manga/BattleRoyale'', when Shinji Mimura thinks he's found a way to hack into the network of the Program, you can't help but yell: [[http://www.mangarush.com/manga/battle-royale/v-3/22/p-11 "Yeah, work that keyboard!"]]

** Uryuu Ishida occasionally displays lightning-fast, incredibly accurate... ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSA069pHfZw sewing]]'' skills, complete with the same stern concentration he has when fighting or speaking of [[SeriousBusiness Quincy pride]]. It's also applied to him more generally as he'll make his own uniform for battle, solely for the sake of looking cool. He even has a [[CrazyPrepared back-up cape]] just in case the one he's wearing gets damaged.

** Aizen proves his truly epic taste in furniture with the ''[[http://sp2.fotolog.com/photo/50/60/65/alandria/1192851322_f.jpg Megacouch]]''.

** His mechanical diabolical looking [[spoiler:[[http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a182/photoperson17/GC/1190.jpg clothes hanger]]]] made in the same aesthetic style as his Zero suit.

** Mikami Teru takes this even further by making slashing motions with his pen as if it were a sword while writing names in the [[DeadlyBook Death Note]] while saying "sakujo" ("delete" in the English dub) to himself when he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOFEXzYRGG0 finishes writing a name]]. A particularly epic "sakujo" of the anime includes slow motion, a fall backwards, and a very, ''very'' joyful look on his face that resembles an orgasm more than a killing. [[http://celesse.deviantart.com/art/Death-Note-Gasm-53647615 Fanart ensued.]] The same [[MemeticMutation Sakujo-gasm]] also has what appear to be large drops of shiny white [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything sweat]], with a spotlight on his crotch. seen at the end of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPoQmytWvIQ this video]], which includes every instance of his CatchPhrase.

** Also, when Mello eats a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftJWy7IDMkg chocolate bar.]]

** Colonel Roy Mustang [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4dMQ7m9oQ0&feature=related loves dogs]].

** The time the Yorozuya trio broke into Hattori's house to dramatically cook fried rice. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7RLOffYSgQ To an awesome soundtrack no less.]]
** The game of kick the can gets turned into this on two different occasions, but especially [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7ojdo9ZjXQ the second instance.]]

** ''Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Rei'' [[BeachEpisode episode 1]]: Who would've thought that taking off Keiichi's trunks would be SeriousBusiness. Takano's Kunai Syringes, [[strike:Ciel's Black Keys]] Chie's T-squares, the Yamainu lurking in the pool, Oishi's riot police, Kasai's stun grenade among many others. Oh, and Keiichi's [[UnusualEuphemism fur seal]]. The fighting is like in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9L6slBJDQU Daybreak]].

* ''Manga/KurokoNoBasuke'', a sports anime, obviously has turned almost everything about the game into something pretty awesome. But one example that stands out in particular is how they turned the concept of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology) ZONE]] into something similar to going full-blown ninja. No one in real life, when they enter the ZONE, could possibly move like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky0W00kxEM0 this]].

** In the ''[[Anime/SunnySideBattle Sunny-Side Battle!]]'' OVA, Itachi makes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpNUAh7h0Rw breakfast.]]

* In ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'', a mere tennis serve is illustrated by a sequence including the extinction of the dinosaurs by a meteor shower of tennis balls. Happily, this means the series about tennis does, indeed, put more drama into tennis than [[Manga/DeathNote the series about mass murder]] does. Still not convinced about the nature of the anime? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khpyUChlwfU Just gaze at this tennis match]] which is elevated to ''Anime/DragonballZ'' proportions. One of the comments gave a pretty good description: "It feels like ''Final Fantasy'' and tennis had a lovechild, and named it ''Prince of Tennis'' and let it run free among the ''DBZ'' community until it matured into this. "

* Wouldn't debate competitions be so much more interesting if they were as bright and shiny as the red and blue text in ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry''? This is so far more true in the VN than in the anime. In the VN, they'll show bright sword slashes flying through the dark while intense music like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsOmgr3q4sA Dread of the Grave]] or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuRRe1moVhY Dreamenddischarger]] plays.

* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': Two words: combat waitressing. Picture a MMA competition between gorgeous vixens duking it out with FullContactMagic and SupernaturalMartialArts to decide who's the strongest waitress of them all. That's ''VG'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_z3YxPQ20s in a nutshell.]]

* ''Manga/TheWallflower'': The fighting manga-esque ping pong battle (see [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOE04nchmv0 here]]).

* "Anime/StitchMeetsHighSchoolMusical": Stitch and the other aliens dance to "[[Film/HighSchoolMusical We're All in This Together]]" just to bring a stuck basketball down.

* There was a ping pong match in ''Manga/SoredemoMachiWaMawatteiru'' featuring Tatsuno Toshiko and Haribara Harue, with [[TheStoryteller Badass Narration]] and music that belonged in the CrowningMusicOfAwesome section. It was one of the most epic moments in the SliceOfLife genre.

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ''
** Tien telling King Kai a joke. Complete with dramatic falling, giant faces, and energy blasts.

** Even before that, in the dub.

** Just cooking or even when they're preparing cooking makes the chefs looking so Badass. The epicness of either cooking or eating is on the same level as of ''Manga/DeathNote'', but with a strong flair of a battle manga. This is what happens if you combine this [[MundaneMadeAwesome trope]] with AwesomeArt.

* ''Anime/CardfightVanguard'', being a card game anime, naturally runs with this. Any time a character rides a new Vanguard, it usually involves them dramatically slamming the card down onto the playing field. Then the [[ImagineSpot sequences]] [[HardLight on]] Cray proceed to take it UpToEleven.

** "Challenge of the Samurai" had a pair of Metapod [[CrowningMomentOfFunny dramatically trying to out-Harden each other for what seems like hours.]]

** So is [[CrowningMomentofFunny teaching stag beetles to sumo wrestle]]. Go, Rodriguez!

* The snowball fight in episode 19 of ''Manga/XxxHOLiC''. Too awesome to spoil with extra words.

* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'': [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Card games... on MOTORCYCLES!]]

* ''Manga/NounaiPoisonBerry'': Decision making and the {{Josei}} theme is made awesome thanks to the GhostInTheMachine council members.

* ''Manga/{{Akagi}}'' will freight the outcome of a simple round of {{Mahjong}} with [[RuleOfDrama an amount of drama]] and [[RuleOfSymbolism symbolic content]] roughly on par with [[Literature/TheBible the Book of Revelation]].

** Minor example, but Haruhi manages to make a table tennis serve appropriately ''EPIC''. In the same episode, Kyon adds a brief burst of light to placing down what he thinks is a winning {{Mahjong}} set.

* ''Manga/{{Saki}}'': {{Mahjong}} is played with dramatic camera angles, speed lines, flashing lights, and gusts of wind. Being able to get plus-minus zero score every time is pretty awesome and somewhat inhuman, but that is just the beginning. It's not just dramatic music and lighting, this turns it UpToEleven in ways you would not imagine. Winged creatures, transformation and ''lightning'' are only the '''beginning.''' Good luck understanding ''any'' of the actual mahjong play except through context, but it is frikkin' '''''epic'''''.

** A trend that starts in 5Ds and continues into the following sequel series' is that when a character summons a monster from his/her extra deck, the summon itself is always done with a lot more drama and flair than usual, while the summoner does a chant, shouts out their summoning method, and then calls the name of the monster they summon as the monster gets some dramatic camera angles. The fusion users in ''Anime/YugiohArcV'' even make it a point to clasp their hands together as they perform their fusion summons.
* The snowball fight in episode 19 of ''Manga/{{xxxHolic}}''. Too awesome to spoil with extra words.

* ''Manga/MakenKi'': At Tenbi Academy, everything is decided by duelling for it, which includes asking any of its female students for a date. So if any guy's got a crush, they'll have to throw down the gauntlet and hope they can win - because [[AmazonsWantHercules the girls]] are ''[[MoreDangerousThanTheMale a hell of a lot]]'' [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower stronger]] than the guys are.

** Mikami Teru takes this even further by making slashing motions with his pen as if it were a sword while writing names in the [[ArtifactOfDoom Death Note]] while saying "sakujo" ("delete" in the English dub) to himself when he [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOFEXzYRGG0 finishes writing a name]]. A particularly epic "sakujo" of the anime includes slow motion, a fall backwards, and a very, ''very'' joyful look on his face that resembles an orgasm more than a killing. [[http://celesse.deviantart.com/art/Death-Note-Gasm-53647615 Fanart ensued.]] The same [[MemeticMutation Sakujo-gasm]] also has what appear to be large drops of shiny white [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything sweat]], with a spotlight on his crotch. seen at the end of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPoQmytWvIQ this video]], which includes every instance of his CatchPhrase.

* ''Manga/StraightenUpWelcomeToShikaHighsCompetitiveDanceClub'' actually has this as its premise for Competitive Ballroom Dancing.

*** [[RuleThirtyFour One could wonder what would happen if one of the pair had sex on screen]]...

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': A more serious version. After everyone joins the Recon Corps, they get the signature green capes. Showing them each putting it on, before panning across the entire team, treated as the coming of age it is.

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': A more serious version. After everyone joins the Recon Corps, they get the signature green capes. Showing them each putting it on, before panning across the entire team.

** A normal day at school involves learning how to use knives, guns, seduce and attempting to kill the teacher; who is a yellow octopus resembling creature with an undetermined number of tentacles and can go at Mach 20.

* ''Manga/OnaniMasterKurosawa'' is Manga/DeathNote [[XMeetsY but with fapping]]. Yes, really.

** In the ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' movie, Izzy redirects hundreds of emails to Diaboromon to slow him down and allow their Digimon to finish him off. What makes it this trope is Izzy's over-the-top line while all he's doing is ''redirecting emails''.