Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple/Awesome

• Pretty much anything the masters of Ryozanpaku do when things become serious. Up to and including successfully fighting a fully and heavily armed military force during the Tournament Arc.
  • To elaborate, these guys were fighting soldiers in body armours with assault rifles, APCs, Tanks, Gunships with their bare fists and legs (and katanas in Shigure's case) and were WINNING. To quote Akisame "Be careful, even though they are wearing body armors they can still die"
• Kenichi's first use of the Mubyoshi punch VS Siegfried
• Kenichi elbowing a goddamned shark to save his sister during the Beach Chapter.
  • Mind you he only had a vague idea how to swim, he learned that day, and he jumped off a cliff to save her
• Kisara's overhead double kick to defeat Freya.
• Kenichi VS Odin as a whole and specific parts:
  • When The Glasses Come Off so Odin can launch his most powerful attack.
  • Only to be countered by Kenichi's All Your Powers Combined mimicry of his masters.
    • Which was also friggin' hilarious, at least in the anime.
• The D of D tournament was a crowning moment for many of the Shinpaku members, my personal favorite being when Siegfried spun his head halfway around, and generally showed himself to be invincible.
  • I'd personally prefer he, being on TIBET doing hellish training on himself, sensing they needed his help, got somehow a old-style open cockpit single person airplane, flying to the island, itself extremely heavy defended, and then JUMPING on the arena from the airplane, landing unharmed, pwning some of their currents enemies, then PASSING OUT of exhaustion from the 3 or so days that took him to get there plus 40 days of spinning like a prayer wheel non-stop.
    • Not to mention the fact that he was SINGING on the way down.
    • Hell, he even stops dead in the middle of a battle...to compose music and write it out on the body of his opponent. He also has a Nice Hat.
    • Can we just agree that Siegfried is not a man, but an instance of one long continuous Crowning Moment of Awesome given human form?
    • Motion seconded, and carried.
    • He dodged missiles on his way down!
  • Let's not forget the bit at the end, where the members of the Shinpaku Alliance fight against Fortuna, an honest-to-goodness master-class fighter, and they WIN. Granted, it's shortly revealed that Fortuna was on the low end of the master spectrum, but it's still very impressive, as up to that point, non-masters even landing a blow on a master (much less defeating one) was completely unheard of. Oh, and pretty much all of them were suffering from their tournament injuries as well (at least 3 of them were completely bedridden before getting up to fight Fortuna), making it even more impressive.
• This moment for Apachai , it turns out he was actually holding back in this fight and up until this moment was losing.
  • Its appropriately called the Punch You Don' Let Children See.
• Heck, even Nijima gets some awesome moments, like when he used himself as bait to lure Berserker into a trap, or during the D of D Tournament where he enters himself as a fighter, despite having no fighting ability. He may be a Jerkass, but you have to admit that the guy has balls.
  • And what he lacks in martial arts skills he makes up for with tasers.
  • Also consider that he pretty much created the Shinpaku Alliance pretty much by himself, a feat made even more impressive by the fact that most of the members don't even like him, and didn't want to join. Yet he still manages to lead them.
  • He got another moment in chapter 55 when his group faced Hermit for the first time. After Hermit chucks one guy off the bridge into the river Nijima (who has zero combat experience) sends the rest of the group back to base, deciding to face Hermit alone. He bluffs him until everybody else is a safe distance away, and jumps off the bridge, recovers the guy who got thrown off, and makes his way to safety.
• Kenichi's latest escapade deserves mention just for the growth he's demonstrated. The first time he was fighting on top of a speeding vehicle, he was scared out of his mind and wondering just what the hell he was doing on top of the thing. The second time, when he's not yet reached Master-class... He tells Freya and Nijima to escape without them. He's got this. "This" being a bloody Master-class martial artist with a sword. As soon as the guy jumped onto the truck, Kenichi knew he was Master-class. He didn't flinch for a second.
  • The really amazing part is where he takes a blow on par with a blow which splits the truck they're standing on in half, and after seeing the carnage his Master-class foe causes, he tells Freya and Nijima to run, because, to quote: "I'll look after this! You two take Freya's grandfather and run!"
• After the first 100 chapters or so, any time someone harms/threatens Miu. What follows is Kenichi taking Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass to the extreme.
• Hayate Fuurinji, any time he actually decides to do something. Especially when he's training Kenichi, but he has other moments as well. "Play on land! Are you goldfish?!"
• Don't count out the masters of Yami. First, there's Alexander Gaidar, who engaged in a sculpt-off with Koetsuji, and even used Koetsuji's techniques against him. Silcardo is a damn crazy loon who swallows pineapples whole. Diego... well, just look at the entry under Crazy Awesome on the main page. Agaard Jum Sai gets serious bonus points for managing to kill Apachai.
• Kenichi uses Apachai's goddamn APANCH and CHAI KICK to defeat Koukin, complete with glowing eyes. Holy--
• When it comes to protecting Kenichi from the aforementioned sword wielding master, now come back with a grudge NOT EVEN DEATH CAN KEEP APACHAI DOWN!!!!!
  • Actually, all of Kenichi's fight with Koukin is a Crowing Moment of Awesome. The two's fight is probably the closest thing of pure equals that has been seen yet.
  • Apachai then proceeds punch the guy in the face breaking his blade knocking him out the at two walls out the building AND HE'S STILL ALIVE!!!!
  • What follows is a triple-threat combination of Crowning Moments of Awesome, Funny and Heartwarming as Apachai tells Kenichi that he borrowed some time from the reaper in order to protect him. Que Akisame showing up with Glowing Eyes of Doom and declaring that they will use their awesome skills to essentially cheat god and all the other masters chipping in to save the big lug. Yes, Akisame manages to be awesome, terrifying and hilarious at the same time.
• Of all people, Ukita manages to save Chikage from being backstabbed by a Yami weapon wielder with a vajra by grabbing it with his hand, then proceeding to grab the wielder and toss him down upon the ground, instantly knocking him out.
• Chapter 419 has the Shinpaku Alliance getting CMOA's but the biggest one has to go to Siegfried; all his opponent could say is what the fuck is this guy doing?
• Why hasn't anyone mentioned Sakaki yet, he gave a beating so brutal, Kenichi and Miu had to stop him, TWICE, and they were scared of "him" and he was on their side. Once against the French assassin and again against the political fighter, both master class
  • That's your evidence? What about when he took on two Masters from Yami at once just to keep Kenichi from being angry at him and successfully rescue YOMI member, Rachel Stanley?! Sakaki is Crowning Moment of Awesome.
• Kenichi getting the ever-loving crap kicked out of him by the Valkyrie and GETTING UP LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED.
  • Actually, pretty much every time he gets up after severe butt-kicking is a CMOA.
• Shigure vs. the Valkyrie gang.
• Kenichi's father when he made his attempt to retrieve his son. He was willing to take on all the Ryouzanpaku masters AT ONCE with his rifle, managed to impress weapons mistress Shigure by doing a spinning, one-handed reload of the rifle he was carrying and FORCING her to dodge, and tore through every one of the traps near the hot spring. He was also willing to sacrifice himself to save his son by protecting him from an onrushing boulder.
  • Kenichi himself gets a moment right there when he shows his father how much he's grown by CATCHING the boulder as it threatened to crush them both. Sakaki had to save them a moment later when he started to lose his grip, but that didn't detract from the fact that he caught a boulder roughly five times his size.
• In Chapter 417, Miu and her opponent Rimi run down the side of a dam in order to catch a disk with vital information on Yami. After catching said disk, they then give gravity the middle finger by running all the way back up, fighting each other the whole way while a completely surprised Thor watches in awe. A crowning moment for hero and villain both.
• In chapter 461, Kenichi GETS UP after taking a near-fatal beating from a Brainwashed and Crazy Miu and hitting a bladed bulldozer of a fighter that was trying to kill her with a Mubyoshi that saved her life, AND THEN challenges the guy to a fight!
  • To really understand how Kenichi's improved since he developed the Mubyoshi. When it was first made, he had to hold his hands against his target for several seconds. Now, he was able to pull it off instantly after being beaten around by Miu. As in, he was struggling to get up when he was last seen!
• The entirety of Chapter 465. Kenichi and Miu (the latter having just been broken out of her brainwashing) take down Junazard's insanely-powerful swordsman henchman--and in the midst of it, Miu wards off the remaining traces of said brainwashing.
• Chapter 466 has Furinji Saiga demonstrating exactly why he's the freaking One Shadow when he pulls off a Big Damn Villains moment, which includes stopping no less than three master class fighters in their tracks with his damn fingers.
• Chapter 467: THERE ARE NO WORDS!!!!!
• Chapter 468: You're a Badass if you can casually do this.
• Chapter 472: Jenazad demolishes Hongou so thoroughly that it's hard to see the latter pull a win against him.
• Chapter 475: Hongo DOES pull that win against Jenazad--with his injured hand no less.