Awesome / Science Ninja Team Gatchaman

• Joe's suicide run and heroic sacrifice at the end of the first series. At the edge of death, with just a week left to live, Joe goes on a suicide mission to bring down Galactor once and for all. He survives horrific torture at the hands of Berg Katse and ends up, before dying, throwing his feather knife into the doomsday machine Berg is using to use to destroy the Earth, stopping it right when the countdown reaches his number "2".
• ADV Films announcing AND releasing ALL 105 episodes also counts, given the fact that countless fans were fearful that the company would abort the project before it reached the final 20 episodes, which had never ever been dubbed before.
• Sentai Filmworks (ADV's successor) managing to rescue the license to the original Gatchaman in 2013, and even redubbing the OVA series.
  • And it continues with Sentai licensing Gatchaman II.
  • Followed later on by Sentai Filmworks licensing Gatchaman Fighter.