Big No/Anime and Manga


 * In any Hot Springs Episode, when the women have discovered the fact that they are being peeped on, they will do this in unison.
 * Pedro from Excel Saga is infamous for doing the Big No at least Once an Episode. And when I say a Big No, It seems that every episode he was being given a larger chop of ham, until he got the whole frigging pig in episode 19 (AFROOO!! NOOOO!!!).
 * Wouldn't you? You die the first episode. You spend a number of episodes as a sex slave for a cosmic anomaly, and then you find out someone else is hitting on your sexy wife.
 * Mazinger Z: Kouji Kabuto, right after his grandfather dies on his arms: "GRANDPA! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
 * Great Mazinger: Tetsuya, after realizing : "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"
 * UFO Robo Grendizer: Duke Fleed after watching : "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"
 * Used straight in Record of Lodoss War by two characters at the same time.
 * Used in Trinity Blood at the climax of episode 22.
 * Sonic X:
 * Used at the climax of episode 3 by Amy Rose, Sonic's self-appointed "girlfriend".
 * Shadow the Hedgehog does this in episode 61 while trying to defeat the Metarex ship.
 * Though the series engages in more and more towards the end, the biggest of Big Noes in Neon Genesis Evangelion are one by Asuka, one by Shinji after , and one by Maya Ibuki (who spends most of End of Evangelion freaking out) after . Some of these were dubbed into English as inarticulate yells, probably to avoid being straight-up Narm.
 * Since the Japanese word usually used for the Big No, "iya," sounds like a scream anyway, it only makes sense to translate these as such.
 * Used in Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water by the title character, twice in the final episode
 * In Digimon Adventure, . It was strangely cut from the dub. Equally as strange, the clip was shown in a brief flashback in a later episode, except during a voiceover narration, so her voice was not heard.
 * Also used in the episode "Ogremon's Honor" by Mimi when Leomon dies
 * Liar Game plays this straight with Ms. Kosaka upon her defeat.
 * Mai-HiME has more than a few instances of this happening. Of course, what with all that's going on in that series (especially later on), the characters can be forgiven for yelling Big Nos.
 * Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
 * Ill Girl Hayate has a huge, primal one near the end of the second season. Considering how it punctuates a particularly nasty Break the Cutie moment, the overall effect is quite chilling.
 * In the fourth Megami sound stage, Shamal gives one in a more light-hearted moment when inadvertently shows Hayate a cake from Nanoha's parents' cafe that was supposed to be a surprise (as part of celebrating the tenth anniversary of Hayate recovering) due to being unable to read the kanji on the box.
 * Fate has one in the one-shot "Second Mother's Day," when she worries that when Vivio doesn't give her a gift for Mother's day, she will soon stop seeing her as a mother and eventually no longer recognize her.
 * Quattro gets one of these off just before Nanoha's Dungeon Bypass Wave Motion Gun gives Quattro the honor of being the face of the 'Oh, Crap' page.
 * In a mid-series episode of Gundam Wing, Duo gives one out when Trowa destroys his Gundam . It's even bigger in the US dub; voice actor Scott McNeil has said in order to achieve this, he thought about the time his wife ran over his motorcycle with the family minivan. It's actually so famous that he's often asked to re-enact it at conventions.
 * In Robotech The Shadow Chronicles there are two moments - first when  and then when
 * Simon from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann performs a variation on this trope, instead shouting "" when he believes.
 * The king (or rather, queen) of this trope is - surprise, surprise - Kinon.
 * Fullmetal Alchemist
 * Greed gets one of these in the manga and second anime . Ling,  asks What The Hell Anti-Villain, causing  letting out a screen-filling, gut-wrenching, Big No.
 * Hohenheim after.
 * In chapter 107,
 * Episode 45 of Brotherhood sees Large Ham Alex Armstrong giving big no after big no. He's fighting his sister, Four Star Badass Oliver Armstrong.
 * Bleach
 * Kon does one in episode 15.
 * In anime episode 79 (the Bount arc), Uryu Ishida has one after Yoshino is killed.
 * Shinji does this in the flashback (Turn Back the Pendulum) arc.
 * In anime episode 217, Charlotte Cuuhlhourne does one just before he's killed by Yumichika's sword.
 * In Chapter 349, gets one that spans two pages after . Not only that, she even needs to take a breath before continuing with it.
 * Toshiro Hitsugaya in chapter 392 when he realizes he's stabbed
 * In manga chapter 459,
 * An arrancar girl does this when Chizuru makes perverted advances towards her in the anime.
 * Sailor Moon. A lot, but particularly in the last episodes of the first and last seasons when all her friends.
 * In Code Geass, Lelouch has one when he loses a life-or-death game of chess to Mao -- and the life on the line was Nunnally.
 * The English dub presents us with Suzaku's epic (g)NOOOOOOOOO(me)!
 * Fushigi Yuugi makes use of this trope through Miaka, Tamahome, Miaka, Chichiri, Miaka, Yui, Miaka...
 * Dragonball Z
 * Super Buu's Big No
 * Earlier in the same season (in the original and English dub), Bulma let out one upon learning that.
 * Even earlier, in the dub only (he screams "Goku" in the original), Krillin uses one when it becomes clear that.
 * In the dub, Trunks seemed to have mastered the Narm of the Big No, with lines like "If they let that android free, it will be the end of all of us! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" (Lampshaded in this fanvid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HOAETv_nVo) and not too long after "FATHER! hurgh, NOOOOOO! FATH-ER!"
 * But Trunks also has a decidedly non-narmy Big No in the dub of his OVA when he finds Future Gohan dead. In the original Japanese, it's a simple Skyward Scream.
 * Earlier than the other times, Goku lets out one of the biggest Big Nos ever:
 * Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei subverts this by having one of the girls peep on their (male) teacher, and when they knock over the privacy wall and each side gets a good eye-full of the other, only he Screams Like a Little Girl, much to his consternation.
 * Chitose utters these quite often when having to deal with his self-proclaimed mothers on Happy Lesson, but the entire Biology class gets one when the lesson of the day is: "Dissection - Live chicks".
 * Satoko plays this straightforward the anime-exclusive "Disaster Awakening" chapter of Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni Kai when she.
 * In the first Inuyasha movie (both the English and Japanese versions) Kagome lets out a rather chilling one after Complete with lack of BGM and echoes. It is used rather effectively though.
 * In History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi, during a financial crisis, Miu has the masters of Ryouzanpaku give lessons to small children. Kenichi is amused to see the straight-faced (but cruel) Akisame being run ragged by the hyperactive kiddies, but enacts this trope when he later sees what kind of effect his teachings have.
 * At the end of the first ep of Nyan Koi, Junpei lets out one in its full Engrish glory.
 * In the manga version of Prétear, Himeno lets out a Big No when she realizes that her carelessness has led to.
 * In K-On, Mio lets out one of these after her on stage... accident. Involving a "bowl of rice".
 * The sixth volume of the King of Thorn manga devotes a full page to a Big No.
 * Pokémon
 * Dawn does one after.
 * Pyramid King Brandon also does it whenever he disapproves of something.
 * Mars has one when
 * Nando (?!) gets one when
 * In Transformers Armada, Optimus Prime lets out one when is killed.
 * S-Cry-ed has the main character, Kazuma, shouting this trope involving the death of a character.
 * In episode 11 of Ghost Stories Satsuki yells this when her brother says he put a Creepy Doll in the trash can and she remembers when the doll called her to say it's at the trash can.
 * School Days:
 * Sekai yells this in the last anime episode,
 * In episode 10 Nanami becomes extremely upset after the School Festival, when  She lets out one of these before collapsing to the ground in tears.
 * In season 2, episode 6 of Girls Bravo, a cross-dressing Yukinari screams this at one point.
 * Melfina of Outlaw Star screams "NO!" in episode 17 which stops Harry's hacking attempt on her.
 * In chapter 52 of Mirai Nikki Yukiteru does this when.
 * In the final scene of the last episode of Monster we are treated to a flashback of Nina's and Johann's childhood where their mother is  The two hold onto their mother's hand begging her not to let go, and their mother hesitates   who proceeds to scream "No!" in horror as tears spring from   eyes.
 * Gankutsuou: Victoria Danglars does this in the 8th episode before fainting.
 * Halo Legends: Specifically in The Duel'' Fal.
 * His inflection makes it a bit difficult to tell, but it seems more like an inarticulate Skyward Scream.
 * Used in Karin (also called Chibi Vampire) in conjunction with Big OMG when Winner sees his most recent test score. Link
 * In Hidamari Sketch, Miyako seems to inspire a number of these.
 * Golden Gash/Zatch Bell has this.
 * Similarly, there's Coral Q, who responds to being hit by any attack with an enormous "NOOOOOOOOOO!"
 * Recently in Yu-Gi-Oh 5 Ds there was Yusei's BRUNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
 * Actually, he has two of them. In the same episode.
 * A majority of the regular cast in episode 10 in the Air Gear anime let out a huge "NOO!!!!" after Akito kisses Ikki.
 * Rosario Plus Vampire: Kurumu in chapter 41 of the second manga season. See it here and here.
 * In the first episode of Future GPX Cyber Formula ZERO, Asuka lets one out when she sees Hayato lying down on the ground with his car completely destroyed after his car crashed down from the track with him in it at the English Grand Prix.
 * In AIR when shouts out her name in this fashion.
 * In Kannazuki no Miko, Himeko releases two when . The English is even better.
 * Princess Princess: Sayaka in episode 7 after Yuujirou kisses Tooru.
 * Axis Powers Hetalia: Chibitalia when HRE tries to make him a part of the Holy Roman Empire.
 * Romeo X Juliet: Juliet when Romeo dies.
 * Reimei no Arcana: Nakaba wakes up screaming this when she has a dream foreseeing Caesar getting killed. She has another one when her hair is dyed black.
 * Daily Lives of High School Boys: Hidenori had one in his Internal Monologue when the literature girl is sitting next to him again. Why? She's projecting the image of her novel's male protagonist onto him, which weirded him out.
 * In Tokyo Mew Mew, Ichigo's boyfriend screams this when Ichigo is about to be kissed by Kisshu and Ichigo screams this as well before knocking Kisshu away.
 * Magic Knight Rayearth: Princess Emeraude releases one when
 * Happens in a couple of Hinako Takanaga's works:
 * In The Tyrant Falls in Love, the homophobic Hot Scientist Souichi does this whenever his lab assistant Morinaga comes onto him. Matters are confused because he doesn't want to face up to his potential homosexuality and so pretends to resist Morinaga to satisfy his own guilt even when he secretly wants to have sex - the Big No comes out when he really doesn't want it and needs to make that clear. And yes, that does have slightly Victim Falls For Rapist type Unfortunate Implications.
 * In Little Butterfly Kojima pushes his boyfriend Nakahara off with this whenever a makeout session gets too intense and it looks like sex might happen. Needless to say, this happens quite a lot.
 * Cardcaptor Sakura: Meiling lets out one when Syaoran is injured by The Shot, which she accidentally released.
 * In Narutaru Hiro understandably lets these out as she is raped with a test tube.
 * In Mawaru Penguindrum Ringo does this as a drugged up Tabuki chases her.