Azumanga Daioh/Awesome

• Kimura's reasoning as to why he became a teacher: "CUZ I LIKE HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS AND STUFF!"
  • Cap with the boys' reaction: "Never have we seen such an honest teacher before!"
• Kimura at the first sports festival. "::clears throat:: ...FIRST PLACE VICTORYYYYYYYYYY! ::slowly walks off the stage::"
  • Pretty much everything Kimura does.
• Chiyo-chan starting her second year by putting a first-year student who calls her a "little kid" in his place.
• Nyamo's drunken sex ed lesson is one of the most memorable parts of the series.
  • The best part of all was the next morning when Chiyo asks Nyamo to explain something and the growing look of sheer terror on Nyamo's face.
    • To say nothing of the reaction of Tomo, Yomi, Osaka, and Kagura, who now have a new-found respect for Nyamo.
  • The fact that it's essentially the only thing - during three years of High School, no less - that gets Osaka's undivided attention cements it as Nyamo's Moment of Awesome.
• This troper could also be persuaded to go with a couple of scenes involving Sakaki (of course). During a snowball fight, Kagura throws a snowball at Chiyo. Sakaki manages to intercept it and briefly keep it in motion before throwing it back, all without breaking it. She missed Kagura, but not by much...
  • Clearly, the shot was a distraction giving time for the second girl to unleash the main attack. Also, this troper now has a new favorite character. That is the definition of Cool Big Sis.
  • I found the manga version funnier. Chiyo and Osaka are throwing snow balls at each other (and repeatedly missing). When Osaka finally lands one in Chiyo's face, Kagura asks them if she can play. Osaka quickly recruits her onto her team. By the next panel Chiyo was covered in snow bahaha.
    • The snowball that landed in Chiyo's face was thrown by Kagura. Which doesn't make the ensuing Curb Stomp Snowball Fight any less awesome though.
• Yukari finally finding a weakness in Nyamo in the third vacation episode -- and milking it for all it's worth.
  • This troper finds the best part about this to be everybody else's reactions to it.
  • "U-umm...can you teach me to juggle?" Awwwwwww...
• Osaka's moment with the knife. There's a wake-up call Yukari-sensei won't be forgetting any time soon.
  • This troper will never forget Yukari's face.
• Also, during the third year relay race, a boy is taunting Chiyo's lack of speed, unwittingly annoying Sakaki. She wordlessly whips her band off and ties her hair up in it, before proceeding to, having been handed the baton, regain the lead destroy the competition.
  • Which unfortunately is totally ruined later, but it was still cool. Chiyo's exuberant cheering stunning even Tomo was an added bonus for this troper.
  • And even more awesome in that, in the manga at least, she later passes that same boy, who can only look at her in shock.
  • One final touch in the manga, english translation at least: the title of the strip is "Watch And Learn." You're plenty Badass, Miss Sakaki. You just don't know it.
  • Also, shortly before Sakaki's part in the race, where Osaka managed to get passed by every other participant. Cue the cut to a screaming Kagura passing every single person but one, with the other members of the cast commenting on how fast she is.
• Yamamaya scaring off Kamineko.
  • And before that, Kagura repeatedly hitting Kamineko after he bites Sakaki.
• Sakaki finally gets to be alone with Maya at Chiyo's house. Though she had hardly shown much emotion up to that point, she ends up literally rolling on the floor because she's so happy (watch it here, starting at 1:00). It's not a crowning moment of awesome, but rather a crowning moment of awwwwwwwwwwwwwsome.
  • This one really belongs here.
    • It's okay,it's Sakaki. She gets a pass.
• Chain reaction standing ovation for Chiyo. Beautiful.
• BANNNNNNZZZZAAAAAAAAIIIIII!!!!!!
• Yomi decking Tomo during the last part of the last episode.
  • "SHORRRRRRRYUKEN!"
• In the manga version, when Yukari finally gets her present and starts singing happy birthday ...to herself. (Students: "Is she...happy?")
• Sakaki singing karaoke. It's awesome in both the original Japanese and the English dub.
• Sakaki deciding to suck up the pain and pet the cat in Episode 11.

Sakaki: I can't keep running away. I have to face it. And then overcome it. ("it" referring to the cat's gnashing teeth, clamped down on her fingers)

• Tomo asks Chiyo riddles, and she gets them all wrong. Tomo then asks Osaka, who gets them all right.
• The most Awesome scene of all was when the Iriomote Cat showed up to protect Sakaki from the Biting Cat. All other moments pale in comparison.