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* ''[[Death Note]]'' loves doing this. You'd be surprised how epic [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skfMexjZ4O0 eating chips] or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjydsimSvHk writing in a notebook] can really be. You obviously aren't trying hard enough. Granted, said notebook is an [[Artifact of Doom]] that ''kills'' people when their names are written in it, but is dashing across the desk (complete with red/blue after-effects and flaming eyes) really necessary? The manga wasn't anywhere quite as ridiculous with some of these aspects, and it's arguable this is just a result of trying to transfer the striking and stylized visuals possible with individual panels.

** Mikami Teru takes this even further by making slashing motions with his pen as if it were a sword while writing names in the [[Artifact of Doom|Death Note]] while saying "sakujo" ("delete" in the English dub) to himself when he [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOFEXzYRGG0 finishes writing a name]. A particularly epic sakujo of the anime includes slow motion, a fall backwards, and a very, ''very'' joyful look on his face that resembles an orgasm more than a killing. [http://celesse.deviantart.com/art/Death-Note-Gasm-53647615 Fanart ensued.] The same [[Memetic Mutation|Sakujo-gasm]] also has what appear to be large drops of shiny white [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|sweat]], with a spotlight on his crotch. seen at the end of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPoQmytWvIQ this video], which includes every instance of his [[Catch Phrase]].

* General Hengel in ''[[Tentai Senshi Sunred]]'' takes on even the most boring of everyday tasks -- like buying furniture -- with an ''incredible seriousness'' and lightning effects in the background. His subordinate sees him as slightly loony, but is loyal nonetheless.

* ''[[School Rumble]]'' LIVES off this trope

** The Survival Game episodes were made almost in the style of ''[[Battle Royale]]''.

* ''[[Saki (manga)|Saki]]'' has [[Mahjong]] played with dramatic camera angles, speed lines, flashing lights, and gusts of wind. Being able to get plus-minus zero score every time is pretty awesome and somewhat inhuman, but that is just the beginning. It's not just dramatic music and lighting, this turns it [[Up to Eleven]] in ways you would not imagine. Winged creatures, transformation and ''lightning'' are only the '''beginning.''' Good luck understanding ''any'' of the actual mahjong play except through context, but it is frikkin' '''''epic'''''.

* ''[[High School DxD]]'' gives us the debut of one of Issei's primary [[Power Potential Perversion|powers he'll use later on]] called ''"[[Clothing Damage|Dress Break]]."'' The anime turned this debut [[Up to Eleven]] when it had ''[[Ominous Latin Chanting]] music'' playing while he spreads his demon wings out.