Honor Before Reason/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

* In the [[Noblesse]] manwah, [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/noblesse/v03/c189/27.html one of the noble vampires proceeds to cut himself because Frankenstein "unfairly received a wound.]

* In ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'', the title character's suicidal devotion to Nagi and ''every'' person that needs his help. Plus, the fact he [[Social Services Does Not Exist|never called social services]] on his deadbeat parents (who are either heartless, brainless, or both) as a child speaks volumes about his kind character.

** This can actually be considered an element of Ranma's fighting style; whenever challenged to one of the various [[Martial Arts and Crafts]], he always has to [[Beat Them At Their Own Game]], even if he has only a minimum amount of time to pick up the rules and despite the fact he's usually going against a champion of that style. During the Martial Arts Dining arc; despite the fact Ranma is clearly starving, s/he insists that s/he will only eat what s/he ''earns'' from the table/arena. In the anime, at least, s/he even goes so far as to turn down Akane when she offers her fiancé some smuggled food. This almost results in Ranma losing the contest when his/her frantic efforts at both fighting and thinking up counters burn out what little energy s/he has left.

** Nodoka Saotome and her [[Seppuku]] pledge is a rather darkly humorous take on this, seeing as how the so-called "pledge" is ambiguous as all hell (It was that Ranma would grow up to be 'manly'). While the series' heavy reliance on [[Rule of Funny]] ultimately leaves the audience [[Like You Would Really Do It|too skeptical to believe the threat would ever REALLY be carried out,]] all the evidence in the series is that, if Ranma thought he had sufficiently disappointed his mother, ''he would go through with it''. This is despite the fact that Ranma was about a year old when he 'agreed' to it.