Awesome Moment Of Crowning / Anime & Manga

• Attack on Titan: Chapter 69 has Historia crowned the new queen within the Walls.
• Happens in Berserk at the end of the Millennium Falcon arc, where Griffith, the general Big Bad of the series proper, after defeating Emperor Ganishka and fusing the astral and mortal worlds together, has recently claimed the throne of his new kingdom of Falconia. Though the actual ceremony hasn't happened yet, the Pope fully intends to both conduct his marriage to princess Charlotte and place the crown on his head.
• Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto shows the coronation of Pope Alexander VI, and several his children in the procession, though there's no real title in it for them. Notably absent is the pope's eldest surviving son, main character Cesare. He was lying low in Siena, instead of parading around Rome, to make their planned Nepotism a little less blatant (though contrary to popular belief, it didn't far exceed the average of the time). The manga gives Cesare his own moment, though. He is kneeling in prayer, on the lovingly rendered mosaic floor of Siena's Duomo when his entourage enter and give him the news of his father's election, after which they kneel to him. Cesare stands, spreads his arms and declares that their moment has come.
• Code Geass:
  • In R2, Lelouch managed to kill his father and named himself the emperor of Britannia. There were many who refused to acknowledge him, but that was before he showed them his Power of the King. In the end, after Lelouch's death, his younger sister Nunnally is crowned as the 100th Empress of Britannia. Neither of their coronations are shown, however. It's likely that Lelouch didn't have one, due to his short reign. The same applies to Nunnally, for those who accept her swift abdication as canon.
  • In Nightmare of Nunnally, this happens with Euphemia. She makes her moment even better by delivering a surprisingly good rousing Dawn of an Era speech that is implied to being spoken by both her and Zero at the same time, in completely different locations, with pretty much the same wording.
• At the end of The Familiar of Zero Louise is bestowed with a Royal title and becomes second in line for the throne by Queen Henrietta, becoming her "Sister".
  • If one considers that Saito and Louise have been "married", this could technically mean that Saito has become a Prince and is now 3rd in line for the throne. Even then, it's pretty obvious they'll get married for real. He also gets his own version when he becomes a Knight Chevalier and therefore nobility. Which has the added bonus of her father cannot complain anymore about whom she marries.
• At the end of Fullmetal Alchemist, Ling Yao goes back to Xing with a philosopher's stone and becomes emperor. Unfortunately we don't see his crowning but we get a final shot of him on the throne in the photo collage at the end of the series.
• Rumaty has one in Hanasakeru Seishounen.
• The last shot of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind is literally this for Giorno, as he becomes The Don of the Passione Mafia in a tribute to the final scene of The Godfather.
• Anna awakens as the new Red King in K: Missing Kings, in the middle of a battle. The lead trio of the Clan emerge from the building where the battle had taken place, and are greeted by a sword salute from the Blue Clan.
• Legend of the Galactic Heroes when Reinhard von Lohengramm is crowned Kaiser Reinhard I of the Galactic Empire Sieg Kaiser Reinhard!
• Happens in The Legend of the Legendary Heroes, with Sion Astal leading a revolution.
• Subverted horribly in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS. A clone of the Sankt Kaizer gets a Cool Starship and incredible magical powers. She also happens to be a Brainwashed and Crazy little kid who's fighting her adoptive mother. Just to crown the subversion, she loses all these things, reverting to the little kid and taken back home by her mommy. She happy about that though.
  • In the ViVid Spin-Off Manga, where said girl is the main character, her mommy gives her this power back! Have we mentioned that said mommy is a weird combination of Magical Girl Warrior and Combat Pragmatist?
• In the end of the Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch manga, considering how mermaid politics work. Aqua Regina gives her throne and powers up so that Lucia can be the new Aqua Regina.
• Gundam 00 features this in a metaphorical way when Ali shoots Setsuna on Ribbons' behalf when Setsuna attempts to shoot him. This gives Setsuna GN radiation poisoning until it becomes apparent that the 00 Raiser's ability was to use this and turn it into the completely opposite effect of grooming Setsuna into the first TRUE innovator. Cue massive BSOD for Ribbons when he realizes that the 00 Gundam can only achieve its maximum potential when it is placed in the hands of a True Innovator. In other words, not only did Ribbons fail in his scheme to obtain the 00 Gundam's GN drives, but he literally CROWNED the king himself.
• In My-Otome, Mashiro is crowned Queen of Windbloom in Episode 3. In the manga, Manshiro's coronation happens midway through the story, but it's also when Sergay sets his plans into motion, making it a Wham Episode.
• Naruto:
  • Tsunade is crowned Hokage near the end of Part 1.
  • Kakashi's and Naruto's inaugurations as Hokage remain off-screen, but in the tie-in chapter for the Boruto movie, Naruto's inauguration is finally shown. While preparing to head there, Naruto gets knocked out by his squabbling children and a transformed Konohamaru has to take over his place in the ceremony. Yes, that just happened!
• A variant of this is seen at the end of Ōoku: The Inner Chambers vol. 3. The ritual ceremony of fealty had been set since the rein of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, and did not greatly change even as a mysterious plague began felling the boys of Japan save for the shadowed form of Ieyasu's reclusive grandson Iemitsu muttering acknowledgement from behind a screen and ever more aging vassals presenting delicate-featured youths in looser-than-needed robes as their heirs. One year, after the most severe outbreak yet of the 'Red-Faced Pox' brought the male population to new lows and famine made things yet more worrisome, a command for the ceremony's attendees to raise their eyes rings out as the screen is raised to reveal a young woman in female garb standing in the place of the Shogun commanding all to acknowledge her as shogun. By the time of the fealty ceremony the following year, female lords are acknowledged.
• Lucia's in Rave Master. Which includes everyone dressed elegantly and a speech about how love is great and all but screw it anyway.
• Transformers: Cybertron: Starscream draws power from the stolen Cyber Planet Keys and grows to the size of a skyscraper, bursting out of the top of a volcano. And then, he places upon his head a massive crown identical to the one G1 Starscream wore in The Transformers: The Movie and declares that he will conquer the universe. He is armyless by now, but it doesn't matter.
• Esther becomes queen at the end of the Trinity Blood anime, and her coronation is lushly rendered.
• In the manga Vampire Game, everything is leading up to the princess marrying the Captain of the Guard. Which actually happens, but he gives up the throne and just stays a military man. He leaves the ruling and the title to her.
• In Vinland Saga, the king has been trying to eliminate Prince Canute from contention for the throne, one way or another. After threatening to attack Wales unless the prince was killed, Askeladd beheaded the king, killed about a dozen soldiers, and then allowed Canute to stab him, thus "avenging" his father. The prince, bleeding from the face, dons the crown and takes control of an army whose leader had wanted him dead minutes before. Badass.
• Early on in the The Vision of Escaflowne, Van Fanel is crowned king just moments before The Empire invades his kingdom.

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