Ginga Densetsu Weed/Awesome

Tropes used in the animated adaptation:

• Crowning Moment of Awesome: So, so many! Hell, if someone is named, expect them to get one. (Spoiler Warning)
  • GB tricking Kamikiri into thinking Weed's army was way, way bigger than it was.
  • Kagetora's "my uncle thought it was worth it to die just to take out a bear's eye" speech to Kaibutsu.
  • John's defiance of Hougen before his death, in which, after being impaled on a tree branch, snaps it off, pulls it out, and hurls it in Hougen's face, bloodying his nose.
  • Mel, an adorable and tiny golden retriever puppy, defending Gajou from Hougen's full-grown soldiers, BY HIMSELF.
  • Tesshin scoring the first hit on Genba
  • Reika luring Hougen away from her injured friends before knocking him and herself into the river.
  • Hougen using a nearby lackey to block Weed's Battouga attack.
  • Hiro taking revenge on Kamikiri.
  • Kyoushirou pretending to defect to Hougen, and testing the loyalty of his own followers in the process. And his subsequent rescue of Gin.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: Dun NUN NUN NUN nun dun... YAAAAAAAAH!
  • And it holds its awesomeness quite well on this Spanish version fandub.
  • GNG's Opening is pretty cool, too.
  • And don't forget the closing theme.
  • For either one.
  • This troper is fairly certain her jaw hit the floor when she heard Exceed the Verge of Death.

Tropes used in the Manga:

• Crowning Moment of Awesome: There are many more crowning moments in the manga, and the fact that there's more story is only one reason why. (Spoiler Warning)
  • GB, Sasuke and the other dogs trick Kamakiri into thinking Weed's army was way, way bigger than it was.
  • George gets over his fear of water and saves a drowning Reika in the river despite his injury.
  • In Hokkaido arc, a heel face turned Aramu gets over his guilt and drowns Victor in the water by pulling his leg and trapping him underwater by tying himself in the tangled mass of seaweed.
  • In the recent Hybrid Bear arc, Ken manages to scare off the bear from killing his injured brother George with a howl and an aura of his father's spirit.
  • Weed's duel with Victor on the beach in the Hokkaido arc, where he proves once and for all that he's worthy of being Gin's heir.
  • * Reika spends most of Ginga Densetsu Weed being more or less useless. Near the end of the series she cons Big Bad Hougen into thinking she's in love with him and pushes him into river in order to drown him. It doesn't work, and Reika nearly drowns herself, but hey, she tried.