Bleach/Narm

As such a long runner series, there are MANY moments in Bleach that are supposed to be dramatic or tense...yet you can't help laughing.

ANIME

"Ichigo: Fiskfejs! Så här går det...när man fuckar med min familj! (Fish face! This is what happens...when you fuck with my family!)"
 * When, Zommari loses it and starts yelling for Byakuya to...er... "Take my love from me!" It makes more sense if you know that he had a voodoo-based power called "amor," which is funny to begin with. This was a holdover from the manga. The anime lampshaded the "Take my love!" narm in the Post Episode Trailer: Isane stated that she didn't interrupt because she thought Zommari was proposing to Byakuya.
 * Add to that the revelation that he represented intoxication.
 * Zommari in general was one big narm, from his immobile pumpkin-like release to his "BANZAI! AIZEN-SAMA!" upon death. He was colored pink, which didn't help matters.
 * Making it even worse, one translation of that part had the line as "LIVE LONG AND PROSPER, AIZEN-SAMA!"
 * What you get when you cross Byakuya's pink flower petal bankai with Zommari's pink pumpkin sea urchin release is this truly epic image from a dead serious fight.
 * Things get downright silly when the black Espada tries pulling the Fantastic Race Card.
 * Ichigo's Image Song, "Number One". Whenever Ichigo's about to kick major ass, this song starts up. It's sung in English, and it sounds like an R&B track from the Disney Channel. The only time it fits is when it's played during the episode with Don Kanonji because he's comic relief. Maybe Ichigo hears it in his head, and that's why he's frowning all the time.
 * The episodes that go into Nel's backstory as the third Espada lose drama because Nel retains her high-pitched kiddy voice even after she switches to her adult form. It's impossible to take the story seriously when she sounds like that.
 * It sounds a little better in the dub. The child and adult forms have the same voice actor, but her voice sounds appropriately more mature (although still high-pitched).
 * The opening Shoujo S is one of those openings that has a lot of dancing, like what Kyoto Animation has done. The problem is it looks like they based the dances off strippers, and it hardly fits Bleach at all.
 * Episode 155 has Espada 9, Aaroniero Arraruerie, giving Rukia instructions to kill her friends. Rukia is kneeling down, and Aaroniero walks right up to her with his crotch-area practically in her face.
 * When Ichigo transforms into a shinigami for the first time, he screams "Feel the WRATH of my BLADE!"
 * It Got Worse in the Swedish translation. I know Gratuitous English is justified by Truth in Television, but come on:

"Narrator: Renji delivered Makoto's Bakoto to Head Captain Yamamoto."
 * Big Bad Aizen's transformations have steadily increased the Narm factor; he's gone from Bedsheet Ghost Aizen (leading people to joke that Kubo's finally let the assistant responsible for backgrounds design a character) to Mullet Aizen (the only difference between his normal self and this form is a mullet and inverted eye colors)
 * If you watch this, you will NEVER take Aizen seriously again.
 * Tousen's first words after he uses his are already hard to take seriously. The anime decides to make his voice high-pitched when he says them. Seriously, one almost expects him to shout "HELP ME, HELP ME!"
 * From the English dub's recap before episode 187:


 * The scene during Aizen's Hannibal Lecture toward Ichigo, where suddenly shows up. It's awesome, until it then cuts to Ichigo making this face.
 * was already going to be a laughingstock once he was animated. So of course, the animators decide to make him even more flamboyant. How? By making him sparkle every time he flash-stepped.
 * This VERY oddly animated close-up to Tsukishima's face was supposed to be Nightmare Fuel material. It ended up being hilarious instead
 * The fight between Ichigo and becomes hilarious thanks to the latter's...dragonfly wings. Which are also pink.

MANGA

"Komamura is not amused."
 * Chapter 349 may well have set a record for the longest Big No in a manga, going on for two pages and forcing the speaker to take a breath before concluding it. Granted, the event in question is extremely traumatic, but Big Nos are seldom effective.
 * One moment toward the end of the Soul Society arc was turned into a Narm by sub-par amateur translations of the manga chapter. As Aizen advances on Rukia, who's practically paralyzed by his spiritual pressure, he tells her, "You must be paralyzed by my overwhelming power." Seriously, everyone knew he was a narcissist, but...
 * In Chapter 356, Barragan explains that each Espada embodies an aspect of death. While most of them are serious, he reveals his to be old age. Although it is an aspect of death, it seems out of place and breaks the serious tone.
 * In Real Life, society has tried to decouple death from old age for a long time. Thus, this is like the Mobile Suit Gundam anime's salt shortage.
 * The title of Chapter 363 - "Superchunky From Hell".
 * When, Hitsugaya says he wants to "do violence" to Aizen. It's a line victim of a Blind Idiot Translation.
 * Goes straight into Funny Aneurysm Moment when.
 * In chapter 393, it was revealed that Wonderweiss' - as in the dopey, childish arrancar - exists solely to counter the abilities of Yamamoto. It did not help that Wonderweiss' new form looks like a butterfly.
 * Chapter 403. What's supposed to be an awesome moment for Aizen is ruined by his RIDICULOUS new form.
 * The Heart. This phrase gets an entire page to itself. That might be overkill.
 * "I can see you...I CAN SEE YOU, KOMAMURA! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
 * The series has spent the past 2-3 years building up to
 * And before that, we got the penultimate form of all evil in the universe, a tube sock, or as other people have called it, "the walking condom".
 * For what it's worth, Kubo finally managed to nail the One Winged Angel thing in the iteration after that. is genuinely terrifying.
 * Aizen's always been a smooth talker. His interaction with Ichigo in Chapter 388 has him talk about how he could easily stab Ichigo through the heart. But he lays it on so thick that it sounds more like he's hitting on him than threatening Ichigo with death.
 * The panel focusing on Aizen's finger as he tells Ichigo "Don't raise your voice like that, Ichigo Kurosaki."
 * Bondage Aizen. That is all.
 * In chapter 438, Ichigo begins working on getting his power back. When he finally has a breakthrough in this? His powers manifest as a swastika. It's not an actual swastika, being backwards, but the chapter it debuted in was actually entitled "Swastika Break."
 * I haven't seen it, but it might be a manji, which is this Buddhist religious symbol or something. That doesn't explain "Swastika Break" though....
 * "Swastika" is just a name for the symbol. It's not like a rainbow is suddenly called something else when it's not used in a gay pride parade.
 * This scene with pointing a weapon to 's back would be more dramatic if not for the focus on the aggressor's legs and how her weapon looks like a fucking toy gun.
 * Chapter 456: The fight between goes from a very tense one to pretty much Narm once  Good going,, now  almost sounds like a mix between a broken record and a complete moron.
 * Chapter 457: Moe's appearance would be a Crowning Moment of Awesome (and is still kinda is)... if not for how you can't help recalling the huge Idiot Ball he had glued to his hands when he appeared. The contrast is so stark that it makes his most recent scenes freaking weird.
 * Chapter 459: This scene is supposed to be dramatic, yeah. But not when looks like he's giving  head all out in the open and  looks at them in envy.
 * Chapter 462: 's HORRIBLE new outfit. Did he take up fashion clues from Aizen?!
 * Also the Engrish title: "Why me sad".
 * Then there's the scene where knocks  out and catches her so she won't fall to the ground...but the way it was drawn, it looks like he's about to grab her by the breasts from behind.
 * Chapter 463: It's not easy to take seriously ...thanks to  looking more and more like bunny ears.
 * Also, becoming a Large Ham due to being Drunk With Power. The contrast with his usual behavior is so stark, again, that his scenes become hilarious. And this makes it even WORSE.
 * Chapter 468: What should be 's Crowning Moment of Awesome via is totally ruined when you notice that his face looks a LOT like his infamous Rape Face
 * Chapter 419, where Aizen enters the throes of Villainous Breakdown and begins shouting "Abandon your arrogance, human!" Also, his creepy Hollow form is made hilarious when we see that the skin of his face had been tied under his chin like a bonnet.
 * Komamura's reaction to Tousen-fly, telling him he is far uglier than he had imagined. Tousen previously being blind and Komamura having severe self image issues.


 * In chapter 403, Ichigo's reaction upon seeing Aizen's new form. "What...the fuck...is that..."
 * Some consider it Narm Charm, though, as Ichigo was voicing EXACTLY what the readers were thinking of it.
 * Chapter 470, and  fight. It didn't start out particularly silly, but when  it becomes impossible to take it seriously. The Cat Smile just cinches it.
 * NOT helped by the anime rendition. What the HELL, Studio Pierrot.
 * Chapter 476 the third panel on this page. Rukia looks like a sad puppy making the entire scene very hard to take seriously.
 * In chapter 478, should be a Tear Jerker, but it'd be more convincing if it wasn't so overblown and the second page wasn't so oddly drawn. Thank God the anime fixed it.
 * Chapter 482: "Get off my bed." Nice to see your priorities are sorted, Ichigo.
 * Chapter 483: The newest nominee for the most horrible and/or laughable rapeface: Ivan Azgiaro!
 * Chapter 486: While it's a rather sensible idea to have the True Companions reunite themselves in Ichigo's room to discuss matters, when join in, it's so damn... distracting. Not helped by  having a rather special arrival.
 * Chapter 489: Kirge's... enthusiastic and VERY bombastic delivery of his challenge to Ichigo is...weird, to say it politely.
 * 491: Kirge Opie: quite the badass, very explosive... and owner of the ugliest shoes this side of Hueco Mundo. Seriously.
 * The shoes reappear in 492, where after, we see Kirge's legs sticking out of the sand, like a kid buried head-first in it. Wha...?
 * 495: The fact that Komamura gets called "doggie dog" by  in the middle of   can be seen as this. Yeah,   is young and very cocky, but using borderline Baby Talk just doesn't cut it.
 * 's fight against another Vandereich loses its seriouness the moment when the enemy that then gangs up on him turns out to be a freaking Masked Luchador.
 * ... Who the Hell calls a male character Nanana, Kubo? Huh? HUH?