History Narm / Manga

* "Scanslations" (which is to say, translated manga scans - the comic equivalent of Fansubs) suffer from this when the translators do not originally speak English (or whatever language the scanslation is in), are overly literal, or just [[TheyJustDidntCare don't care]]. One particular instance comes from a scanslation of an early issue of the ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'' manga in which the otherwise touching and poignant segment of Ed and Al Elric being forced to be midwives for a delivering mother is ruined by the line "THE BABY'S BEEN BRONED!" (sic). That same page also has "time to the wash the baby" and "becasue".

** One ''DGrayMan'' scanslation translated "The Musician" as "[[TheCasanova The Player]]." Way to break the drama, guys. Arguably even funnier because that particular character could probably score with anyone in the series, [[EvenTheGuysWantHim male]] or [[ChickMagnet female]], if he tried.

* Very late in the ''FruitsBasket'' manga, BishieSparkle is used as a VomitDiscretionShot after Kyo's stomach gets the better of him.

Manga with their own Narm pages.

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* From DeadmanWonderland we get [[GratuitousEnglish "Hey you fucking guys"]], courtesy of Genkaku.

* In the second half of Manga/PrivateActress, [[spoiler: [[BigBad Kana]]=/=[[EnfanteTerrible Satoka]] ]]'s villainy can be seen as this easily. The idea of [[spoiler: a girl no older than 15]] being [[VillainSue SO omniscient, dominant and powerful]] over the series's adults that [[spoiler: she easily drives a woman who's almost 10 years older to an overblown and melodramatic suicide]], tries to [[spoiler: make everyone believe that [[CastingCouch she slept with a man old enough to be her grandfather]] to get all kinds of publicity]], AND [[spoiler: gets a girl doused with acid to get her out of acting competition]], among several other things, stretches your WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief quiiiiite a bit. Specially since this series is supposed to be SliceOfLife and thus almost completely devoid of magic or supernatural elements to use as plot devices, which makes [[spoiler: Kana/Satoka]] ''even more'' ridiculous [[EvilIsPetty and not to mention petty as fuck]]. [[AdultsAreUseless What kind of adults are these?!]]

* {{Fourteen}}. Even the description of the plot puts this manga in narmtopia. The manga takes place in the future in a chicken meat growing factory, where a lump of chicken flesh transforms into a supermutant chicken man named "Chicken George". ([[NamesTheSame Yes,]] [[Series/{{Roots}} really.]]) He goes on a mission to take revenge on humanity for ruining the planet. This was written by the author of the creepy horror manga "Manga/DriftingClassroom".

* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'': In the sequel manga the character Urie is frequently drawn without his mouth so it looks awkward when they have him talking.

* The scene in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' in which [[spoiler: Ed digs up the remains of his attempt to transmute his mother back to life]] was supposed to be one of the most dramatic scenes in the series, but the cartoony look on Ed's face combined with his line ([[spoiler:"THIS HAIR IS BLACK!"]]) makes it one of the funniest scenes instead.
** Greed's BigNo was narmy, in part because of its scanlation.
** The friendship speech [[spoiler:that Edward gives Envy right before he commits suicide.]]
** Armstrong's face right after [[spoiler:the BigBad's defeat, where everyone thinks that Al won't make it after the last battle.]] It kills the drama of the scene.
** The Norwegian translation falls into this by translating all English words, including the names of the humonculi. And… the Norwegian equalents doesn't sound nearly as threatning. It was cancelled after the 7th volume as probably most interested people would pick up the English volumes online or in import stores for having many out already.

* Although, to some, all manga can be construed as {{narm}}y, what can really ''kill it'' for fans and {{otaku}} alike, is when the magazine editors for which the manga is originally released take it upon themselves to add more to the suspense of the already CliffHanger-ish ending. By adding stupid tag-lines. The most EPIC, [[MindScrew MIND-BLOWING]] THING could happen, and ''snap'' the [[RuleOfCool coolness]] evaporates into {{narm}} for the reader. Just by adding a few simple words such as: [[{{Psyren}} "Rejection!"]] or they just plain [[CaptainObvious point out the obvious]] or ask stupid questions like "What will X do next!?" As you can imagine, it becomes quite tiresome when your favorite manga gets sorta ruined every single chapter.

** Also, the scene where Kaworu kills a kitty became Narmful if you know the "Kaworu kills kittens" meme. Yes, that meme. For the [[GenreBlind meme-blind among us]]:
---> [[spoiler: Every time you masturbate,]] Kaworu kills a kitten.

* The official English translation of the TrinityBlood manga often uses some very... questionable translations for dialogue and sound effects. It kind of ruins the drama when the vampires insist on using YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe every time they speak, ''especially'' with [[TheScrappy Ion Fortuna]]. The fact that he keeps insisting on addressing himself as "we" really lessens whatever drama they were going for. The sound effects are just as bad; in the Gunmetal Hound chapters, a dude getting shot in the head apparently warrants the sound effects "Bonk" and "Splat". [[InherentlyFunnyWords BONK AND SPLAT, GUYS.]] There's also an entire panel, right in the middle of a tense, fast-paced fight scene, used to translate the large japanese sound effect as "a cold wind blows". [[FlatWhat What.]]
* During a rape scene in the ''{{Zeorymer}}'' manga the attacker walks outside, breaks off an icicle from the roof, files off the pointy end with his teeth (very considerate of him), and uses it to continue raping the victim. This would be disturbing, except it happens right after a cheesy exposition monologue (also made while raping), so instead it just pushes the whole scene over the top and into funny territory, and it just gets funnier when you realize that the rape is [[GratuitousRape never mentioned again]].
* ''PandoraHearts'': See Elliot in Chapter 26 [[http://www.mangareader.net/350-24655-31/pandora-hearts/chapter-26.html here]] where [[FreudWasRight he holds a sword at crotch level]]. Oz [[http://www.mangareader.net/350-24655-35/pandora-hearts/chapter-26.html does it too.]]

* In ''BlackButler'' chapter 68 Ciel goes to a school where students have "butlers" which are called "fags". I laughed every time the word fag came up. "It's fag time!"

** Made even better/worse/whatever by how from then on, Kyuubey has BlackEyesOfEvil. It's so stupidly and ridiculously {{Anvilicious}} that it seems he's constantly tripping balls, or that the manga author thinks [[ViewersAreMorons the readers are complete idiots]] who need to be constantly told how eeeeeeevil he's supposed to be.

* The (highly controversial) manga ''Kodomo No Jikan'' is an odd example of this trope, as it's not any particualr ''scenes'' that are {{narm}}y but the greater elements in the series as a whole. The series is mostly a drama about elementary schoolgirls growing up, with a bunch of trashy {[lolicon}} {{fanservice}} mixed in. This makes the series as a whole ''very'' narmy, as the {{lolicon}} bits detract from the serious, ([[{{Melodrama}} melo]])dramatic storyline, and vise versa as well.

* ''MadBull34'' usually gets a pass because of NarmCharm, but the second chapter of the manga is... special. A junkie going through withdrawal takes a neighbor hostage in his apartment. Aside from his being fat for a long-term heroin junkie, what he does with the girl is ridiculous. Facing out the window with shotgun in hand, he forces her to grab his testicles and squeeze as if she wanted to crush them - reasoning that such intense pain will take his mind off the whole "my desire for smack is driving me mad" thing. Whatever you're imagining, it's more absurd than that. Subsequent chapters feature their fair share of bizarre and hilarious content, but this is the, ahem, high point.

* The entire fourth round of the ''LiarGame'' tournament gives the different players nicknames, usually based on their appearance. Thing is, these nicknames can sound condescending when they're spoken out loud, [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname which they are]]. So we get the eternally cheerful Nao calling people "Four-Eyes", "Baldy" and "Fatso", among other names, in the middle of otherwise serious discussions.
** LiarGame has a lot of this due to the characters' mouths opening ''way'' too wide when they're feeling particularly happy or surprised.

* In ThePrinceOfTennis, specifically New Prince of Tennis, when Atobe evolves to get his xray vision, it's really not a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

* The most poignant scenes in the manga ''{{Translucent}}'' are ruined by the frequent Narmtastic OffModel shots. Even when on model, some of the characters look incredibly bizarre for a supposedly realistic manga. In particular, there's Shizuka's teacher, whose first appearance makes his head three faces tall and tilted 45 degrees. Even in later volumes, he has a head easily twice the height it should be.

* The art in ''{{Hellsing}}'''s early chapters is a bit... weird. Fortunately the manga underwent some drastic ArtEvolution, but this makes rereading Volume 1 really jarring. Take a look at [[http://manga.bleachexile.com/hellsing-chapter-1-page-13.html Seras]]. It also doesn't help that Hirano apparently hadn't finalized Alucard's characterization... [[http://manga.bleachexile.com/hellsing-chapter-1-page-23.html "I still have too many human reasons"]]? He's a completely different character than the [[KickTheDog sadistic]] [[SociopathicHero psycho]] [[CharacterizationMarchesOn we know him as today]].

* {{Fourteen}}. Even the description of the plot puts this manga in narmtopia. The manga takes place in the future in a chicken meat growing factory, where a lump of chicken flesh transforms into a supermutant chicken man named "Chicken George". ([[NamesTheSame Yes,]] [[Series/{{Roots}} really.]]) He goes on a mission to take revenge on humanity for ruining the planet. This was written by the author of the creepy horror manga "DriftingClassroom".

* ''KurosagiCorpseDeliveryService'' has one during a chapter in which the group discovers that a parasite normally found in snails that bulges out their eyestalks and hijacks their mind to make them go up to high places and get eaten by birds has adapted to use humans in the same way. While the final discovery of a victim with his eyeballs turned into humongous eyestalks is supposed to be horrific, it's also somewhat ridiculous, especially with the victim's expression and his line afterwards.

** Fun Fact: The parasite exists in RealLife (although it can't infect humans, thank God). It's called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucochloridium_paradoxum Leocochloridium Paradoxum]].

* The first volume of ''BlackGod'' included a segment where, due to some fancy magic, the main character and a random magician girl couldn't be too far apart because she had saved his life by exchanging his mangled arm for her OK one. The manga decided to show this by having the main character's donated arm fall off and following this with his getting told off like a naughty schoolboy for letting it happen.

* ''{{Golgo 13}}'': "Flagburner." It makes sense that someone angry with the Clinton administration would hire Golgo 13 to tip the scales of the 2000 Florida recount. It made a convincing, well-written thriller... up until the panel that showed the stylized Clinton having smiley anal sex in the Oval Office.

* ''MisuMisou'' is about bullying, but after a certain point, the bullying becomes so insanely exaggerated that it becomes difficult to take the story seriously. The bullies in this story are so over-the-top evil that even the orphanage bullies from ''Manga/ElfenLied'' would probably be against them. The most prominent of them go above and beyond typical bullying and into straight-up AxCrazy territory and sound way more adult and fatalistic than the 10 or 11 these kids are supposed to be. The worst of it is when the AlphaBitch [[spoiler: '''''burns down the main character's house''''', which kills her parents and leaves her younger sister severely burned and comatose]]. And that's not even mentioning the fact that the main character is subjected to these things for literally no reason other than the fact that she's from out of town.

* MiraiNikki is full of this because the art isn't well-drawn in the early chapters. [[http://www.mangahere.com/manga/mirai_nikki/v01/c001.1/24.html This]] is a particularly lovely example of Narm in the series.

* ''MisuMisou'' is about bullying, but after a certain point, the bullying becomes so insanely exaggerated that it becomes difficult to take the story seriously. The bullies in this story are so over-the-top evil that even the orphanage bullies from ''ElfenLied'' would probably be against them. The most prominent of them go above and beyond typical bullying and into straight-up AxCrazy territory and sound way more adult and fatalistic than the 10 or 11 these kids are supposed to be. The worst of it is when the AlphaBitch [[spoiler: '''''burns down the main character's house''''', which kills her parents and leaves her younger sister severely burned and comatose]]. And that's not even mentioning the fact that the main character is subjected to these things for literally no reason other than the fact that she's from out of town.

* Viz's English translation for the Manga/DragonBall manga can be narmful in a different way from FUNimation's dub of the anime with its borderline PurpleProse and abuse... of... DramaticEllipsis.