In The Prince of Tennis, on the team of Rokkaku, Amane "David" Hikaru is frequently kicked for making many lame puns.Samson Oak in Sun and Moon tends to cause these with his Pokemon-related puns.In My-HiME, Haruka attempts to make a pun which is immediately followed by dead silence and staring.Rei's almost driven insane by Takeshi Tsuji's onslaught of terrible, context-less puns during their shogi match.Rei feels a chill (a Japanese visual cue for a pun that's found terrible) when he's told to "katsu" his battles while being given a pork cutlet. Hayashida, the teacher to the protagonist Rei, utters a bad Japanese pun involving pork cutlets ( katsu) and winning (also pronounced katsu but written differently) during their lunch break as a way of encouraging Rei for his recent string of losses.In Kamichama Karin, Karin makes one of these ("Wait, a god just burned my hair ?") and then chastises herself for it.When he say that his comments have hopefully "broken the ice", everyone is astounded he would make such a horrible joke, except Stephen's wife, who claps. At the start of the Steel Ball Run in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, the race's benefactor, Stephen Steel, announces the trophy for the winner has been buried in a block of ice dug up from Antarctica which will melt by the time the race is over.Howdy from Hamtaro just loves to tell really bad jokes that nobody in the show finds funny at all.) Both Gintoki and Hijikata attack him while yelling "That's not funny!". In Gintama, once Gintoki and Hijikata switch bodies thanks to Hiraga's rice maker, Hiraga makes a joke that instead of making "Egg on rice", it made "Ego in the wrong device".(In the original Japanese version, he made a joke about "tama", or soul, being switched instead of "tamago", or egg.He acknowledges the lameness of his pun himself and blames his Money Fetish for it. In an attempt to cheer Miaka up, he tells her that after causing some trouble, Tasuki will probably be taken to task (in the Japanese version, the word used for the pun is tasukete, or "help" in English). Tamahome throws one out in Fushigi Yuugi.Whether it is a Shout-Out or not is unknown. And Negima! Magister Negi Magi's Jack Rakan did it the same exact way.Hyatt notes that this is just too obvious (and she usually plays Captain Obvious to explain the joke, so this is her way of calling it lame). Excel of Excel♡Saga draws a comparison between conquest (征 服, seifuku) and uniforms (制 服, also seifuku).Eden of the East's protagonist Akira Takizawa has one of these moments when he finds out why Mr.