Ro-Kyu-Bu!/Awesome: Difference between revisions

* Subaru making 10 free throws in a row in the arcade. While it's not as awesomeimpressive as it sounds, keep in mind that he has been out of itbasketball since his own basketballhigh school team disbanded.

* [[One Man Army|Tomoka taking on boys her age]] ''[[One Man Army|all by herself]]'' during gym class., This single act ''alone'' inspiredinspiring Maho take up basketball and form the Keishin girls' basketball team.

* Tomoka challenges Subaru one-on-one in their first ever practice session together withon 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 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]].

** [[Batman Gambit|With somea bit of trickery]], he had Airi feast on the boys' non-existent frontline to draw double teams on her, freeing up either Maho or Saki for an open jump shot. If that fails, it's down to Tomoka going one-on-one on Natsuhi, and if '''''[[Gambit Speed Chess|that]]''''' fails, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Hinata's Innocent Charm]] should do the job]].

** It was stated by Mihoshi that Subaru managed to take his weak middle school team to the regional final the previous year. He toppedthen that b'y trainingtrained a bunch of cute little girls, most of whom know nothing about basketball at all, to beat the boys team which was all but stated to be the ''defending regional champions''. A bunch of cute little girls defeated the best boys' basketball team in thetheir region!

* Tomoka taking on Mihoshi's challenge to make 50 free throws in a row so that Subaru can keep coaching theher girlsteam, and with [[Determinator|massive persistence]], eventually pulling it off ''in the rain''! [[Red Baron|Shiny Gift]], indeed!

* In Episode 78, Tomokawith wouldSubaru haveon managedthe toline getAiri pastmanaged Subaruto forblock theAoi's firstpotential timegame-winning ''ever''shot, if[[Thanks onlyfor shethe didMammary|and notlands trip overon her worn-out shoesboobs]].

** Saki proving to be a veryan effective [[The Strategist|Point Guard]], allowing Tomoka to focus more on scoring. She may have failed to win the game for her team in the end, but it was thanks to her and Subaru's strategy that Keishin managed to hold their own against ''the best girls' basketball team in the region'', and as revealed later revealedon in the Light Novels, ''in the entire country!''

* 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, and he is able to persuadepersuaded them to stick through it far smoother than Subaru ever did with the sixth graders. This allowed the fifth graders to compete so well for a hastily-formed team, but Tomoka and the gang held their ground to win the dojo match in the end.

** When you realize how badass Ginga was both [[Famed Inin Story|as a player]] and as a coach and Subaru had to get his own skills somewhere, [[Like Father, Like Son|you now know where the awesome comes from]].

** The Keishin fifth graders run-and-gun strategy courtesy of Aoi is basicallyand taken straight out of Mike D'Antoni and the Phoenix Suns's "Seven Seconds or Less" playbook with the Phoenix Suns. This allows them to set up their offense before the defense could react, and cruise to a halftime lead against the sixth graders.

** 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 the area just short of the free throw line to deter penetrations from Mimi and TsubaHii, forcing them to pass to Masami, who will always attempt a long-range jumpshot. Saki then proceeds to slowly take herMasami farther and farther outsideout of her shooting range. byMasami forcingthen herresponds fartherby andmaking farthera awaylong range shot from ''near the baskethalf court line''.

** 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 completely in the second quarter. She's not even done yet, as she throws this potshot to Rena before shootingfiring a long-range shot over her: "''[[Pre-Mortem One-Liner|Take this, Rena Ashihara, and choke on it]]!''"

== ''Miscellanous and Meta'' ==

* While ''[[Ro-Kyu-Bu!]]'' certainly did not influence the rise of Japanese basketball the way ''[[Slam Dunk]]'' did in the 1990s or the way ''[[Kuroko no Basuke]]'' did in the 2010s, it may not be a mere coincidence that the Japanese women's national basketball team managed to win the Asian championship '''''fourfive times in a row''''' and grabbed the silver medal from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics since the anime series aired in 2011. Special mentions go to their incredible championship runs in 2017 (with their '''''B-team''''' no less), in 2019 (with their returning veterans), and their silver medal run in the Olympics (defeating several European teams on the way and making it competitive against Team USA in the gold medal match) under American coach Tom Hovasse as their own Subaru.