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* To Tomoki in ''[[SoraHeaven's noLost OtoshimonoProperty]]'', everything perverted is extremely serious business. To the extent of spending half a year building a system that would allow him to monitor the best peeping spots in the city without leaving his room and using a ''[[Kill Sat|Peeping Satellite]]'' for a similar purpose. He actually almost won a wrestling tournament through sheer pervertedness.

*:* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]'' brings out the absurd even more where this card game has reshaped the class system of the world and people are willing to risk their lives in deadly motorcycle crashes<ref>the autopilot helps, but even then...</ref> to play the stupid game. And least we not forget all the broken friendships over a single stupid move.

*:* You think that's crazy, the card game has taken importance in the justice system of 5Ds. When police encounter a criminal escaping on a D-Wheel they hack its computer and force the criminal to duel, the looser forcibly stopped. If they could force the duel they should be able to just force the D-Wheel to stop and skip the duel all together, but they deliberately give runaways the chance to resist arrest! If the runaway wins, they don't even challenge him again, they just let him go!

*:* And if that world doesn't become more insane for ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal|Yu-Gi-Oh Ze Xal]]'', this troper will eat his deck.

*:* Kaiba actually goes over his duel with Yugi (which ends in Yami Yugi's [[Mind Rape]] of him) from every angle, including [[You Keep Using That Word|quantum analysis]]. What the carbon-14 of Kaiba's Blue Eyes White Dragon turning into nitrogen-14 (for example) has to do with anything is beyond the viewers.

*:* [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]] like Seto Kaiba and Siegfried often mock Joey for using luck-based cards, claiming that he's not a ''real'' duelist. At one point in 5Ds, Kiryu uses a luck-based card, and Yusei starts flipping out and asking what the hell he's doing. Kiryu tells him to relax, it's just a game.

* Subverted in ''[[Kidou Tenshi Angelic Layer]]'', [[CLAMP]]'s version of a typical [[Shonen]] battle-game series. At first, it seems to fit perfectly, as Angelic Layer matches are broadcast on the sides of buildings to large crowds, Angels are treated as [[Companion Cube|Companion Cubes]]s, and {{spoiler|Shuuko has abandoned her daughter in favor of playing professionally.}} However, as we progress through the series, we realize that it was just a busy public place where people wanted to watch a sport (much like football), people that take the game too seriously frequently [[An Aesop|learn]] from [[Defeat Means Friendship|being defeated]] that they should just have fun, and {{spoiler|Shuuko's debilitating self-loathing, which propelled her to leave her child, is cured by her coworkers' support and her daughter's forgiveness.}} Most people see the competition as just a game--albeitgame—albeit a tad odd.

* ''[[Grander Musashi]]'' takes sports fishing ''very'' seriously, to the point that anglers [[Calling Your Attacks|call out a technique]] whenever they throw fishing lines into the water, and treat their fishing rods and lures as [[Companion Cube|Companion Cubes]]s. There's even an academy that trains would-be anglers in the dark arts of fishing. In the sequel, [[Gotta Catch Em All|seven divine lures that everybody is after]] created by Poseidon ''are the reason for the sinking of Atlantis''.

* In ''[[ShuffleSHUFFLE!]]'', the [[Instant Fanclub|instant fanclubs]] in the anime have carried over into real life, with [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]], of course.

** Never say [[Yandere (disambiguation)|Kaede]] is a psycho [[Knife Nut]] [[Stalker with a Crush]] in front of members of ''Kitto Kitto Kaede-chan'' if you value your life.

* ''[[xxxHolic×××HOLiC]]'': Watanuki pretty much [[Hannibal Lecture|Hannibal Lectures]]s a woman he is teaching cooking {{spoiler|because she won't eat what she cooks, as she doesn't want to know herself and will not eat what people she is familiar with make either.}} Yea, that's right. If you don't eat your own cooking or others, it means {{spoiler|you don't know yourself or them and are afraid of commitment. Or something.}}

** Justified in the [[RODR.O.D the TV|TV series]], where {{spoiler|the British Library is enacting a multi-generational plan to take over the world by ''rewriting history''. Taking control of the world's books is just the first step.}}

* In ''[[Nononono]]'', ski jumping is apparently a very important sport in Japan--importantJapan—important enough to have masses of people threaten the safety of an athlete and his family for not winning a medal.

* An omake for ''[[ToA AruCertain Kagaku noScientific Railgun]]'' involves a group of scientists dispatching a special ops force in order to find out what type of panties Misaka Mikoto wears. They also sent a request to the supercomputer Tree Diagram, who told them not to use it for such a small thing.

* The Delta Force class (''especially'' Touma, Aogami, and Tsuchimikado) in ''[[ToA AruCertain Majutsu noMagical Index]]'' take [[Serious Business]] [[Up to Eleven]]. Seeing Komoe-sensei shed a tear? Go pull off an all-out war in a a school festival! No more food in the cafeteria because the class was dismissed late? Organize a small scale break -out so some members can go get some food from a local store. Someone mention Nabe? Let's all go out tooto eat~!

{{quote|'''Sky High:''' Thanks to you, our surprise party was ruined. ''[[Beware of the Nice Ones|I worked hard to remember my lines.]]''}}

** And light music, naturally... but not as serious as cake.