Strike Witches/Awesome


 * The series as a whole. An alternate history where aliens invaded leading to WWII, and many of the famous pilots and figures of that time appear as alternate versions of themselves with match powers to fight it out with the aliens.
 * The doujinshi featuring the Africa campaign even has the incredibly awesome bonus of including Erwin Rommel, George S Patton Jr, and Bernard Montgomery not only appearing together, but fighting together and alongside one another!
 * The pilots and historical figures appearing in the series, plus all the historical references and in-jokes are just full of WWII historical goodness that demonstrate how surprisingly thorough the creators were in their research! Try finding a pilot with a witch based off them that WASN'T a badass in real life. Spoiler:
 * Season 1 Episode 5: Shirley breaks the sound barrier.
 * Season 2 Episode 2: Mio in general, including when she leaps from the transport to kill the Neuroi the first time around, and when she uses her sword to slice the Neuroi's beam the second time.
 * After being Neurofied, the battleship Yamato takes off from water and was actually doing pretty good by taking advantage of its regenerative abilities while shooting down an armada of Neuroi ships until the main cannon gets jammed.
 * Season 2: Our lead girl is having trouble flying but no one can find anything wrong with her  with her friend left alone to defeat the Neuroi she gets the new Prototype striker then creates a magic circle that DWARFS the Yamato. Hell the entire episode is a CMOA from her effortless healing the crew until there is no one left to her Lucchini style drill attack on the Neuroi.
 * From the same episode, Lynette Bishop's You Shall Not Pass holding off a Neuroi by herself while the Yamato's battlegroup withdraws.
 * To go a bit deeper, the situation at the end was: Lynette was single-handedly fending off a Neuroi resembling a nuke in shape that was so big and SO powerful that even the guns of the strongest super-battleship in existence couldn't kill it, and she was using a sniper AT rifle. That alone is a badass feat, but it just goes up from there! Lynette buys them enough time to escape, and meanwhile Yoshika was having a Heroic BSOD moment from seeming to be unable to fly or protect anyone anymore. What brings her out of it? The voice of her father (a ghost???) that reassures her and gives her a new Striker Unit that is able to withstand her full power... How much power? When Yoshika launches for take off, she makes a shield/symbol appear that is even bigger than the Yamato and then some! She then takes off into the sky and reaches Lynette and the Neuroi's position in seconds. After making sure Lynette was able to fly, what does Yoshika do? She. gets. MAD! She once again produces a gigantic shield that blocks the Neuroi's full power laser strike, charges in pushing it back, compresses her shield to just in front of her, and then rams into the Neuroi full-speed shouting and shooting her way through its insides till she shatters its core.
 * What about Trevor Maloney's Warlock mech!? Being able to control Neuroi and blast them apart with single shots seems pretty hardcore enough.
 * Strike Witches 1991, is an entirely fan-made story line spinoff that was initialized and developed entirely by fans of the series. The amount of writing and art for it is so vast that it's surprising the series' authors haven't considered making it part of the series' canon.