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*** In another instance involving Kuno, this was actually inverted and parodied: turns out that he had gone to Watermelon Island, where he trained under a waterfall by dicing watermelons as they came down from upstream. Eventually, he got so good at it that he'd chop up watermelons to tiny cubes entirely by reflex, attaining a speed and destructive potential that even ''Ranma'' couldn't get past...! But it turned out that this [[Training from Hell]] wasn't meant for combat at all, it was all so he could [[Mundane Utility|woo girls]] at the [[Smashing Watermelons]] game—devoting valuable training and (accidentally) earning great skill in order to do something completely mundane.

** Not to mention a lot of those 'chores' or other mundane activities [[Martial Arts and Crafts|are the martial arts]].

** He then proceeded to wreck Totosai's shit after realizing that it was all a misunderstanding.

* A subversion from ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'': Brock and Ash meet Bruno, a member of the Elite 4 who agrees to train them. He gets them to do a ton of chores. Brock assumes this all has a deeper meaning but Bruno just wanted his chores done, which is followed by his training which can be summed up in one sentence: "Be nice to Pokemon."