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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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== ''Ro-Kyu-Bu!'' ==
* Subaru making 10 free throws in a row in the arcade. While
* [[One Man Army|Tomoka taking on boys her age]] ''[[One Man Army|all by herself]]'' during gym class
▲* Subaru making 10 free throws in a row in the arcade. While it's not as awesome as it sounds, keep in mind that he has been out of it since his own basketball team disbanded.
* Tomoka challenges Subaru one-on-one in their first ever practice session together
▲* [[One Man Army|Tomoka taking on boys her age]] ''[[One Man Army|all by herself]]'' during gym class. This single act ''alone'' inspired Maho take up basketball and form the Keishin girls' basketball team.
** However, when Subaru learned of Tomoka's [[All of the Other Reindeer|back story]], he was so moved by her dream to play basketball with her newfound friends even if she has to quit otherwise that ''it got him back to basketball'' and he decides to ''[[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|stay on anyway]]'' [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|to protect it]]. ▼
▲* Tomoka challenges Subaru one-on-one in their first ever practice session together with the condition that he continues coaching her team if she wins. He wiped the floor with her without even jumping to block. To be fair, he did place a handicap on himself not to jump and she did not take any jump shots either. All of her shot attempts were drives to the basket which he can easily defend with his experience and size advantage.
▲** However, when Subaru learned of Tomoka's [[All of the Other Reindeer|back story]], he was so moved by her dream to play basketball with her newfound friends even if she has to quit otherwise ''it got him back to basketball'' and he decides to ''[[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|stay on anyway]]'' [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|to protect it]].
* The Boys vs Girls match is arguably the first Crowning Moment of Awesome in the series. Without the game ending up like it did, the story would have ended then and there.
** [[Batman Gambit|With
** With the game and her team on the line in the final minutes, Tomoka once again takes on the boys by herself. But when they [[Desperation Attack|triple-teamed her]] [[Down to the Last Play|on the last play]], it was ''Maho'' of all people who won the game for the team at the buzzer!
** It was stated by Mihoshi that Subaru managed to take his weak middle school team to the regional final the previous year. He
* Tomoka taking on Mihoshi's challenge to make 50 free throws in a row so that Subaru can keep coaching
* In Episode
* The practice match between Keishin and Suzuridani at the latter's training camp.
** Saki proving to be
** Manaka [[What the Hell, Hero?|calling out Miyu]] for [[Underestimating Badassery|constantly underestimating Keishin]] despite getting stomped by Tomoka and Maho.
-> ''"[[Worthy Opponent|Keishin is strong]]. [[Let's Get Dangerous|If you have no intention of taking them seriously, go home]]."''
== ''Ro-Kyu-Bu! SS'' ==
* The first of many duels between Tomoka and Mimi. The French girl showed off skills beyond most elementary schoolgirls, but Tomoka's experience won her the day.
* Masami threatens to upload to the Internet a rather suggestive picture of Saki and Subaru at the firing range during the festival. Saki basically tells her to [[Bring It]], to which Masami responds by caving in and deleting the picture.
* With the fifth graders' collective asses getting kicked, Subaru's father Ginga takes over as coach and cooks up a strategy where they take turns shooting the ball
** When you realize how badass Ginga was both [[Famed
* Subaru's [[Heroic Rematch]] with Ryuichi and his gang.
** After at least a night of bonding with Tomoka, they are now in perfect sync with each other, allowing her to successfully receive his backdoor pass she couldn't before.
** Airi [[Heroic Second Wind|finding the
** Subaru spamming his newly-mastered scoop shot to finally defeat Ryuichi one-on-one.
* While the ForM exhibition tournament isn't as great as the regional tournament later on, it also has a good amount of awesome on its own.
** The two Keishin teams and Suzuridani's B-team easily making it to the semifinal is a true testament to the strength of both schools.
** The Keishin fifth graders run-and-gun strategy courtesy of Aoi
** Subaru countered the above by reducing their offensive rotations to only three players and have the Saki and Airi duo focus on defense. He has Airi roam around
** Tomoka wins the semifinal game with her own version of the scoop shot, complete with angel wings sprouting out of her back.
* '''THE''' [[Heroic Rematch]] against the [[Opposing Sports Team]] in the first round of the regional tournament.
** Airi and Hinata managing to outplay their respective matchups who gave them a hard time before as Tomoka leads the charge to give Keishin the lead in the first quarter.
** Masami guarding Rena despite the gap in their abilities in order to figure out her playstyle, leaving it to TsubaHii's [[Signature Move|Twin Hell]] to completely contain Rena in the second quarter. She's not even done yet, as she throws this potshot to Rena before firing a long-range shot over her: "''[[Pre-Mortem One-Liner|Take this, Rena Ashihara, and choke on it]]!''"
** Aya [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|calling Rena out]] for her hero ball antics, capping it off with an epic [[Armor-Piercing Question]]: "''Do you want our team to win because of you, or do you want our team to lose because of you?''"
** The fifth graders held Rena to only 4 points and drew 3 personal fouls from her in the second quarter. Maho held Rena scoreless the entire third quarter and drew her fourth personal foul ''all by herself''. Maho pulling off a [[Wronski Feint|hesitation move]] that caused the twin towers of Suzuridani to collide with each other is just icing on the cake.
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* Hinata's [[Character Development]] is definitely a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] in itself. To wit:
** She made the game-winning shot against the boys' team, this time in the inter-class tournament.
** The [[Offhand Backhand|BOSS HAND reverse shot]] against Suzuridani in their practice match, which she does again in their [[Heroic Rematch|official match]].
** In ''SS'', she managed to curb-stomp an opponent who was giving her a hard time before.
* While ''[[Ro-Kyu-Bu!]]''
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▲* While ''[[Ro-Kyu-Bu!]]'' almost certainly did not influence the rise of Japanese basketball the way ''[[Slam Dunk]]'' did in the 1990s or the way ''[[Kuroko no Basuke]]'' has done today, it may not be a mere coincidence that the Japanese women's national basketball team managed to win the Asian championship '''''four times in a row''''' since the anime series aired in 2011. Their last two consecutive championships in 2017 and 2019 were thanks to their new generation of players and American coach Tom Hovasse as their own Subaru.
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