Ro-Kyu-Bu!/Awesome

Ro-Kyu-Bu!/Awesome

Don't let the Moe Moe aesthetic fool you. True to form as the Distaff Counterpart Spiritual Successor to Slam Dunk, Ro-Kyu-Bu! definitely has its share of awesome moments as a sports series.

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 * A minor one in Episode 2, with Subaru making 10 free throws in a row. While it is not exactly as awesome as it sounds, keep in mind that he has been out of basketball for quite some time since his team's one-year suspension.
 * Tomoka taking on boys her age 'all by herself' during gym class. This single act 'alone' inspired Maho take up basketball, without which Saki, Airi, and Hinata would 'never have', and Keishin would not have a girls' basketball team.
 * Tomoka challenges Subaru one-on-one on their first ever practice session together with the condition that he continues coaching her team if she wins. He proceeds to effortlessly shut her down without even jumping to block (though to be fair, he did place a handicap on himself not to jump, so Tomoka did not take any jump shots either, all of her shot attempts were drives to the basket that he can easily defend with his size and age advantage). But as shown later on, Subaru eventually stayed on anyway to protect Tomoka's dream of playing basketball together with her newfound friends.

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 * While Ro-Kyu-Bu! almost certainly did not influence the rise of Japanese basketball today in the same way Slam Dunk did in The Nineties, it may not be a mere coincidence that the Japanese women's national basketball team won the Asian women's basketball championship three times in row (including an incredibly amazing run in 2017 without most of their best players) since the anime series aired in 2011.