Funny / Daikaiju Yuki

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Daikaiju Yuki

• Yuki's first meeting with Midori ends up being a Love at First Sight scenario, whether she likes it or not. The only reason she bows to her is so that she can avoid making eye contact. In fact, every interaction she has with her involves her one way or another trying to keep composure in spite of her overwhelming beauty.
• Yuki acknowledging that she isn't endearing herself to the temple locals with how awful she smells from the journey she took to get there.
• While investigating the underground shrine to Narajin, Yuki watches Midori dancing in an almost inhumanly graceful way. All that goes through her head is what great shape she's in.
• A Running Gag involves Yuki falling about a meter out of the sky every time she exits Narajin. The second time it happens, she lands face-first in the mud. In front of one of Avarta's major figures and a whole crowd of people.
• Another amusing Running Gag is Narajin getting defensive every time he's called a cat. The first time is immediately after he scratches debris out of his ears (onto Yuki no less) and rolls onto the floor all sprawled out.
• Upon realizing why Ken came to Narai (to exploit Narajin):
  Yuki: Dammit Ken. You really were a bastard.
  Narajin: Who is Ken?
  Yuki: A total bastard.
  Narajin: Very descriptive.
• During their travels, the narrator states how Yuki wonders if, through continued bonding, she and Narajin could learn new techniques like flight.
  Narajin: No Yuki, we cannot fly.
  Yuki: Dammit.
  • Becomes Hilarious in Hindsight when they learn to do just that in Yuki vs. Fleshworld.
• Upon being asked by Narajin what a party is, Yuki tells him it's like a big explosion of excitement. Unfortunately, Narajin is Sarcasm-Blind, and begs Yuki not to go around causing any explosions. The next morning, Yuki wakes up with another woman, clearly having had a very...amorous time with her.
  Yuki: Hell of an explosion.
  • Much later after the battle of Tarakona, Narajin sees the devastation, and brings up a rather Black Comedy-laden Brick Joke:
  Narajin: Truly a horrible party.
• The Title Drop for Chapter 7, "Gift from the Gods", isn't anything to do with the power of the kaiju. Rather, it's a joking comment from Yuki to a woman she had a wild night with in Avarta.
• During their fight against Ganejin, Yuki has Narajin shove trees down the elephant kaiju's trunk. Ganejin can only roar in confusion and fury as this goes on.
• Upon seeing Ganejin's rather ornate amulet and stone, Yuki grumbles to herself that Ganejin gets the cooler accessories.
• Ganejin holding onto Jhalaragon's frill to skirt across the ocean at high speeds, as if he were water skiing.
• It's during a major Tearjerker moment, but there's something darkly funny about Narajin vomiting lava instead of regular bile upon seeing what they had just done to the Laurentian stronghold/town.
• Frank Houston is an absolutely awful human being responsible for most of the atrocities in the story, but he's a rather fun Large Ham of a Card-Carrying Villain, and an odd source of levity after the previous chapter's tragedy.
  Houston: Oooh, I do love a good deal. So here's how it usually works - you ask me for something, then I say no, then you say "but wait!" and offer me something I want, but then I don't want it enough to give up the other thing so I throw you in jail and get both.
• In what seems to be a pleasant Shout-Out to the Power Rangers franchise, the Gargoyle's corpse explodes upon being defeated. When Ivan asks if its dead for real this time, it blows up again.
• Yata and Jhalaragon arriving just in time for the battle's aftermath. The lizard can barely hide his dissapointment.
• Yuki realizing upon returning to Narai that she basically did everything in her night garb.

Y2K: Yuki Conquers the World

• It's mostly a terjerker, but it's kind of funny how Midori ends up covered head-to-toe in black ink after Yuki/Narajin disposes of the deep sea leviathan. Later, we see her garb in her room, still covered in the stuff even after a few days.
• Apparently, Yuki's desire for Midori is so great that not even Narajin can block it out.
• Yuki briefly thinking that a statue of Narajin is just as nervous as she is before realizing that projecting onto inanimate objects isn't going anywhere.
• Just as Yuki is about to knock on Midori's door, she ends up hitting the poor priestess' face instead at full force. Who knew a mostly serious kaiju novel could contain a scene not disimilar to one from Spongebob Squarepants?
  Midori: Thanks for coming over to punch me in the face.
• Yata repeatedly being denied the chance to share his adventures in the Lost Continent with the other Pantheon members. Upon being turned down by Manny, he just gives up.
  • Also, he's started calling Jhalaragon "Jerry".
• Before they enter the volcano, Allie, who's not familiar with this mode of transportation, wonders if they're just trying to kill the new girl.
• As the narration points out, the sight of Alkonoth paddling through the water like a duck is somewhat amusing.
• The revelation that the Pantheon could have talked with Mungonde instead of just showing up and agitating him. Yuki is appropriately furious at Narajin for the whole "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot nature of it all.
  • Later, she concedes that for all of Narajin's postulating, he does not truly know what he is doing most of the time. Though she also admits that she doesn't either.
• Yata stuffing his face full of mandaza dumplings.
• Just as it is heartwarming, the sight of elephants gathering around to joyfully greet Ganejin is worth a chuckle. Imagine Gamera being admired by a group of turtles or King Kong by a bunch of apes, and you have the right idea.
• Yuki having to kick Yata in the ribs in order to wake him up during the trip across Alkebulan.
  • Earlier, Ganejin waking everyone up with his trumpeting call. Try having THAT for an alarm clock.
• Shortly after Narajin explains to Yuki what spaghettification is (being ripped apart slowly by the force of a black hole), Yuki pronounces it as "spagetty". She doens't even let Narajin correct her.
• Yuki declaring that she'll kick all the Dreadnoughts' asses...even if some of them have three asses.
• Midori incredulously asking Yuki if she should just go and sharpen sticks living in the rainforest while Yuki rescues the Pantheon. Naturally, Yuki folds and lets her come.
• Upon finding the energy prison the Pantheon is trapped in, Midori and Yuki try to figure out how the priestess can get through.
  Yuki: Okay...just let me know before you try something that might-
  Midori (without missing a beat): The rock I threw exploded.
  Yuki: Don't go in there.
  • Later, Midori resorts to just throwing a bunch of rocks to get the aliens' attention.
• Yuki calling the smaller Dreadnought kaiju the Buggos. Narajin of course finds the name to be terrible, but he's in no position to argue at the moment.
• The Pantheon blasting their way out of the underground prison, holding hands and firing their beams downward like a rocket. It's totally absurd and awesome at the same time...and then they end up free-falling back to the surface.
• Yata's reaction to seeing Mount Kilimanjaro erupt into a flood of lava:
  Oh yeah, come to daddy. Come to da-
  (Gets hit alongside everyone else by the lava)
• Midori/Aten bowing peacefully to the rest of the Pantheon...after she had just violently destroyed the Dreadnought kaiju by herself. Only Ganejin bows in response while the others are on the verge of pissing themselves out of fear.
• Allie is obviously quite terrified of Midori when she advances on her after she and Yuki shared an intimate hug. All the priestess does is kiss her on the lips, all just to mess with her and Yuki.

Scythian Frost and Other Stories

Scythian Frost:

• The Running Gag with the rations Kirill and Sasha are forced to eat.
  • The first time it's shown leads to this exchange:
  Kirill (sarcastically: Oh man, what we've got tonight?
  Sasha (equally sarcastic): I'll give you a hint. It comes from a can, we've been eating it for the last three days, and I don't know anything else about it.
  Kirill: Sounds great. Maybe I'll fall asleep while eating it and dream that it's lobster.
  Sasha: Maybe it has lobster in it.
  Kirill: Along with the whole rest of the ocean. That's it. It's deep-sea leviathan. That's why our supply's endless.
  Sasha: They'd need only one.
• Sasha briefly musing how darkly hilarious it would be if the Captain, an officer in the ongoing violent war with Narai, met his end fallling down a flight of slippery stairs.
• Sasha's rather fitting reaction to finding out what they were looking for (Alkonoth's tomb):
  Sasha: Holy bird shit.
• Upon reaching the mine field, we get this un-apologetically punny exchange:
  Sasha: Mine.
  Kirill: Yours?
  Sasha: No, a mine! We're in a mine field!
• The fact that those awful rations are enough to distract three huge worms for a bit. Hey, at least something enjoys that awful swill.

Outrigger:

• Taika claims to want to see Narai for its temples made of gold. Kai teases that he's just wanting to see the beautiful temple priestess. He certainly wouldn't be the last, that's for sure.

Lair of the Devourer:

• While hearing about the one hunter who survived Ammit with one of her teeth, Akuma asks if he did dentistry on the animal that had eaten his friends. Debare clarifies that the tooth is lodged in his shoulder.
  • Much later, Akuma has to keep herself from laughing when the hunter shows up, and proudly declares that his name is Tooth.
• Debare's reaction to Akuma's plan to confront Enofe Chuk:
  Debare: We just go north in a boat and...fight an army of gangsters.
  (Akuma pulls out a huge serrated knife from her khakis)
  Debare: Okay, you could do that.
• Debare suggests that the council stayed behind so that they could fill out he and Akuma's missing people certificates.
• Akuma's quite accurate train of thought when a large circular object ends up in their boat:
  Grenade. Explosive. Jump!
• Ammit reacting like an excited dog, smacking her lips and nodding her head up and down, when the giant gorilla prepares to throw Enofe Chuk to her.
• Debare desperately trying to weasel his way out of going on any more adventures with Akuma at the very end, but the young women isn't having any of it.

The Pantheon Arrives!:

• The simple fact that, in spite of taking place on an entirely alien world, this one features a surprisingly mundane civilization that functions no different from our own. For starters, it's told from the perspectives of two alien desk jockeys. Imagine an average day at the office, except the workers look like four-legged arthropods. It's the kind of absurdity you'd expect in some wacky sci-fi comedy show, but it works all the same.

Pharaoh of Eels

• Laki getting totally drunk on the boat.
  Niko: You know what they say. Beer before liquor-
  Laki: Gets me there quicker!
• Everything about the guard, with Jenni's encouragement, being open to the concept of "re-destruction" (actually redistribution). He proudly proclaims that that's exactly what he's enacting as he frees the eels onto the pirates.
• One of the pirate base's last lines of defense is...a few people dangling from bungee cables held by cranes. Pirangon is appropriately baffled by this, and doubly annoyed at first as he tries to swat at them like a man does with mosquitoes.
• Alan nearly hitting Niko and Shaheed with a machete while trying to escape.

Yuki vs. Fleshworld

• The Praise quotes page includes a very pointed one from Matt Frank, the main artist behind the illustrations:
  Matt: I might be a little biased at this point.
• The first time Yuki attempts to defy gravity, she proudly declares "Kiss my ass, ground!", jumps up in the air...and falls onto her back.
  Yata: Well, the ground kissed your ass.
• Yuki considering finally telling Narajin the difference between a party and an explosion, and then deciding against it becuase it's funny.
• Yuki and Midori's love-making is so loud Yata can hear it from several rooms across, to the point where he had to put alien headphones on Manny.
• It's during a very tense and nightmarish moment, but during the acid rain scene near the alien base, after Manny deduces that the only way in is by running at a wall with Aten's henshin stone, Midori does so, screaming all the way.
  • Then it's revealed that the kaiju actually LIKE the hellish rain.
• One of the Dreadnoughts in the first battle is a humanoid with two massive cannons for a head. Yuki, having learned nothing from naming the Buggos, calls it Frankie Two-Guns, much to Narajin's bereavement.
• One of the floors in the Dreadnought facility is home to living geometry. One of the noted inhabitants is a sphere full of stumpy legs and feet. Yuki has to prevent herself from laughing at the sight.
• Yuki telling Jorguis that Charybdis ate himself on Earth. The lieutenant dwells on the word choice for a bit...before realizing that the humans he's working with don't mess around at all.
• While in the Warrior Beast tomb, Yuki finds out that Jorguis cannot read. While Midori tries to act supportive, Yuki can't help but find it amusing.
• After the day is finally saved, Narajin admits that he had no idea that Yuki's plan with the supernova star would work, then admitting that one of the perennial facts of life is that, in the grand scheme of things, no one really knows what they're doing.

Mokwa: Lifesblood of the Earth

• Upon seeing what the pantheon did to the west Laurentian coastal barrier, Mokwa notes that they could have just taken the northern entrance, while Allie states that their break-in was like trying to eat a sandwich with your feet.
• When she sees a group of Laurentian soldiers in the jungle, Allie tells Mokwa that she's going to pretend to be their prisoner, and that she knows exactly what she's doing. One chapter later:
  Allie: What the hell am I doing?
• Then there's her act when trying to go undercover. She pretends to be a witch native to the jungle, and for a while, all of the soldiers actually fall for it, panicking at her fake persona (only [[Only Sane Man Lieberman doesn't seem to buy it). Later, when asked for her name, she goes with Yuki, causing no shortage of confusion.
  • Earlier, Allie deduces that the group is a scouting/reconnaissance squad, something they're already doing a lousy job of by being the loudest and most out of place thing in a jungle with kaiju in it.
• When Allie shows up to stop the Pategonian soldiers from attacking Mokwa, one is so startled by her he ends up misfiring a missile, causing it to crash into a vacant street behind him, complete with a puff of smoke. It's rather embarrassing.
• Obasi's secretary, Lesedi, briefly mistaking Allie for Midori. According to her, Obasi hasn't stopped bragging about his friends from the pantheon since he gained a place in office.
• The soldiers in the forgotten lands briefly stopping their attack on Mokwa when the ends up parting the clouds and bathing them in sunlight...only to resume their attack immediately after the clouds come back.
• At first, it seems that Umbria is a place full of crazies looking to eat our heroes. Then the elder has them eat pizza. A kind that's covered in hundreds of garlic cloves. Still wary of these people, Allie has this internal thought before eating:
  Allie: Here go my last moments. Death by pizza.
  • Then there's the reveal. The over-garlicked pizza was in fact a test that she and Obasi passed. They aren't cannibals...they're just paranoid about vampires. Altogether, the sheer absurdity of this chapter is sure to get a rise out of the reader.
  • The elder nonchalantly stating that they shoved a stake through the heart of the last person who didn't pass. Obas can only mutter "Reasonable" to hide his horror.
• The Ship Tease between Obasi and the Burgomaster, whom the former seems totally oblivious too, even with Allie's later playful prodding.
• During the celebration of Supayra's end, a random person asks Allie to marry him. She proceeds to raise her eyebrows and quietly leave.

Mokwa: Ursa Major

• While in the Golden Clan's kitchen, one person throws a hot potato at Allie.
• During her train ride, Allie passes through Falkirk and notices the real life sculpture known as The Kelpies. Because it's an Old World construct, she theorizes that it was in fact a monument to a two-headed horse monster. And apparently, a researcher took her explanation to heart and instigated a huge search for giant hoof prints.
• Supayra whining "I am big and important!" when Allie insults him.
• According to Allie, Frank Houston had attempted a comeback for the flying machine, but all he got was a spectacular crash in the Laurentian desert.
• In order to find the queen in the alien castle, Allie asks a guard, unironically, this:
  Allie: Take Me to Your Leader
• The Colonel's name is written as "Colonel [unintelligible grunting and screeching sounds]" Allie just settles for Colonel B.
• Supayra sarcastically acting like a jilted lover when he shows up after Allie and Tim's affair.