Talking with Signs: Difference between revisions

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Used minimally in one of the last ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' episodes, so as not to let on to Yusuke and Yomi that they're listening in.

** Genma Saotome is unusual in that he uses signs to communicate with other cast members (and not the audience) when [[The Speechless|in his panda form]]. In a spectacular [[Lampshade Hanging]] of this trope, one of the ''Ranma'' [[OVA|OVAs]] shows Genma floating in a [[media:signboat.jpg|boat built entirely of all the signs]] he ever displayed during the course of the television series, which he had apparently been carrying on his person all that time.

** In another episode, a team of pursuers tracked Genma down by following the trail of signs he was leaving behind.

* The eponymous, mute character of ''[[Helen ESP (Manga)|Helen ESP]]'' relies on large note pads to communicate.

* A rather surreal example in ''Gestalt'', a fantasy inspired OVA and manga series. Ohri, the resident ''[[Manic Pixie Dream Girl|Manic Pixie Slave Girl]]'' is [[Cute Mute|mute]], {{spoiler|having had her voice and mystical might stripped away some time before her first appearance}}. In the OVA, she communicates with the main cast by having an RPG inspired text box pop in front of her, and [[Voice Grunting|using her residual ability to vocalize]] to further emphatize its contents. While the cast acts briefly suprised at first, they manage to understand her.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==