Given the Lighter and Softer tone of the series compared to its home game, it's safe to say that there will be a lot of these moments in between sorties.
List the examples in a chronological order, if possible.
General
- Yamanbagiri repeatedly laments that he's a fake.
- The other Touken Danshi doesn't take Hasebe seriously most of the time.
- Kasen tries to clean Yamanbagiri's cloak without him noticing. Multiple times, even.
Season 1
- Throughout the tour that Kashuu gives of the citadel Doudanuki seems to be bored (in contrast to Tsurumaru who seems to be excited by almost everything) until the group reaches the training hall where he challenges Gokotai and Maeda to a fight and starts chasing them with a wooden sword.
- In Episode 2, Doudanuki's reaction when he mistakes Midare as a girl after they first meet.
- In Episode 3, the Touken Danshi are trying to find a way to make the tree near the citadel into a cherry tree. It starts off fairly normal with Namazuo suggesting to travel back in time to get some ashes from Hanasaka Jii-san note but Hasebe brushes him off saying that it's only a fairy tale. Honebami then tries to hypnotize it into becoming a cherry tree but accidentally hypnotizes Akita instead. When that doesn't work, Souza suggests the idea of putting a dead body underneath the tree as they are often found under beautiful cherry trees. Everyone opposes to this with the sole exception of Sayo who can be seen smiling.
- In Episode 4, a running gag where Izuminokami tries to fully introduce himself but gets interrupted by someone else.
- The Toudan going to the store to buy sake, only to come back to the Citadel with anything but.
- Maeda tries to do his job, but he comes back with a big salmon, because he misheard.
- Nikkari comes back with a laughing bag and gives it to Jiroutachi. Its laughter disturbs everyone else and eventually pisses off the ootachi causing him to yell out several types of seafood and having to be held back by Shokudaikiri.
- Tsurumaru's ridiculous "COOL" glasses, which properly became a meme in their own right.
- By the end of the repeated trips, they've left Hasebe's budget high and dry, which comes back to bite them come the Beach Episode where they didn't have enough money to make swimsuits. One of them has to wear a gaudy fundoshi to make do, but Mutsunokami gladly and proudly accepts.
- In Episode 5, where Kasen and the others find spare clothes to wear when their clothes get wet from the rain. When they first asked Aizen, the clothes were too small and only fit some of them. Next, they asked Ishikirimaru, everyone's clothes fit just right except Yagen's since the clothes were too big for him.
- A slight Black Comedy moment. In Episode 6, when Yasusada and Mutsunokami get separated from their team to search for a Asiatic dogwood fruit to relieve fevers , Mutsunokami thought he found the fruit they were looking for. When Mutsunokami takes a bite of it, he ends up throwing up what looks like gold coins.
- In Episode 7, when Namazuo and Honebami build a sand dome together at the beach, he thinks he feels Honebami's hand touching him. However, Honebami wasn't touching him, it turns out it was actually Urashima Kotetsu's pet turtle, Kamekichi, biting Namazuo's finger, causing a comedic freak out afterwards.
- Near the end of the episode, Yasusada wakes up from another nightmare. However, this time it was about AWT48. note Kashuu then asks him if he's ok. (In the English dub, he tells him to go back to sleep.)
- In Episode 8, where the Three Great Spears (Otegine, Tonbokiri and Nihongou) try to catch a blue bird by stacking on each other's shoulders. It's both awesome and funny since Otegine manages to hold two muscular men on top of his shoulders despite having a leaner build.
- In Episode 9, none of the other Touken Danshi recognize Shishiou's disguise as a Super Touken Danshi except the ones who helped made his costume. Surprisingly, Mikazuki knew it was Shishiou right away.
- In Episode 11, Nagasone and Mutsunokami comically bickering about which of their former masters is the most manly.
- Yasusada disappearing from Mutsunokami's photos isn't that funny. However, several of the situations the Awataguchi swords end up in while trying to find out why are.
- Gokotai's questioning of Shishiou is interrupted by Kasen freaking out because a drunk Yamanbagiri is rolling around on the ground and getting his cloak dirty.
- Urashima also seems concerned that someone is missing from the photos. However, the person he was thinking of was Kamekichi.
- The reason Akashi isn't the person who erased Yasusada from the photos: he wouldn't go through that much effort to do anything.
- Namazuo is more disturbed that Nikkari's laughing bag is broken and won't stop laughing which isn't helped by Nikkari laughing creepily as well. Eventually, he succumbs to it and starts laughing too which freaks out Akita.
Season 2 (Zoku)
- Higekiri can't remember his brother's name, Hizamaru, when they introduce themselves to the Touken Danshi in the first episode.
- During the meeting between all 46 Touken Danshi (except Yasusada), Akashi Kuniyuki is seen sleeping inside his sleeping bag (Nendoroid Pouch) when Hasebe comically scolds him for sleeping instead of taking the meeting seriously.
- In the beginning of the second episode, Honebami is searching for his brother, Namazuo, only to find his brother sleeping on top of his futon dreaming about gathering horse dung.
- Kashuu attempts to overcome the obstacles by dodging three logs under the waterfalls like Juzumaru, only to be chicken out of Yamabushi's training.
- Tsurumaru decides to hold a sports festival for the citadel with Konnosuke helping out. The very next day, Taikogane sees the poster and wants Shokudaikiri to be on the same team as him. While the two of them are trying to find a third team member, Ookurikara just so happens to be walking by. When Taikogane tries to get him to join, he refuses on the grounds tht he has no intention of getting along. We then cut to all three of them on the track with a rather depressed Ookurikara repeating that he has no intention of getting along.
- During the first event of the sports festival, where one of the teams has to search for a specify item that says on the sheet of paper, Most of them got simpler things to find like black clothes, glasses, a cute cord, and large cloth except Hasebe. He ends up getting the most difficult task - making lots of Inari Sushi. Konnosuke can be seen drooling after Hesebe realizes he has to make it.
- In one of the events in the third episode, Nihongou and others attempt to stack on each other's shoulders as another way to throw the ball into the basket, but they realize that none of them can throw a ball into the basket while they are stacked on each other's shoulders.
- During a tug-of-war match, it shows Taikogane, Shokudaikiri, and Ookurikara pulling as hard as they can and still losing. On the other side, Aizen was the only one struggling to pull the rope as Hotarumaru is pulling it fairly easily and Akashi doesn't even bother. In the English dub, Akashi even lampshades how unnecessary he is.
- Otegine and the crew decide to do their flower viewing in High Definition. By which, we mean setting up a flatscreen outside, near the flowers.
- In the fourth episode, after Yamanbagiri's brothers finish performing for Kogarasumaru and the others, he attempts to perform as well. However, when the other Touken Danshi arrive, he becomes so flustered that his face turns red. As a result, he passed out of embarrassment.
- In Episode 5, Hachisuka and Nagasone cook for Urashima to celebrate his success. Though, with Hachisuka antagonizing Nagasone, it leads to predictably less than stellar results.
- After his conversation with Sohayanotsurugi, Yamanbagiri doesn't notice that his hood is off until Kashuu points it out, leaving him completely dumbfounded.
- One of the sets of clothes that Shokudaikiri and Ookurikara try on is a Konnosuke costume. (The costume also resembles a Nendoroid More: Face Parts Case
) - When Mutsunokami and Kashuu are exploring the new citadel, they are shocked that the room they find is actually Konnosuke's room filled with fried tofu.
- Otegine has a nightmare where he's being chased by three giant wooden mortars until they have been turned into food. He gets the upper hand by stabbing and skewed them. As a result, he instead have a good dream of eating with his friends. (Unbeknownst to him, this is due to Monoyoshi being close by, since he is literally a good luck charm that brings good fortune to everyone.)
- The return of AWT48 in Episode 7. However this time, it's Kashuu who has the dream.
- In Episode 9, the Touken Danshi engage in a water gun fight so that they train and beat the heat at the same time. However, they take it completely seriously, leading to them parodying the action film genre complete with overdramatic death scenes.
- Horikawa's "death" parodies Tomorrow's Joe of all things.
- In episode 12 of Zoku, Shinano tries to find something to keep him warm instead of asking the Saniwa to embrace their bosom. He tried hays, Shishio’s nue fur, Juzumaru’s hair, bed sheets, and Yamabagiri’s cloak. The only he doesn’t like being embraced with big muscles like Iwatooshi and Sengo Muramasa.
Others
- Before the airing of the first episode of Zoku Touken Ranbu Hanamaru, there was an parody anime segment similar to the first episode — but instead of Touken Danshi, they're Touken Dogs. The plot was similar, except that the Revisionists want to alter the history of the Eastern Zodiac Animals to change the year of the Dog to the year of the Cat instead of altering the history of the major events of Japan. At the end of the segment, it turns out it was just a dream. What's funnier, it was practically the series' New Years special; 2018 is also the year of the Dog, after all.
