Kiss Him, Not Me: In episode 10 Mutsumi hits his older brother with a book when he flirts with Serinuma.After Miyuki finishes the recitation, she asks for Kindaichi's feedback, only for him to respond that he's most excited about the part where the white snake deity was wrapping around the village head's daughter-in-law, prompting Miyuki to smack him on the head with the book she was reading from at the time. One case arc begins with Miyuki telling Kindaichi the local legend of Hakuja village while Kenmochi is driving the three of them there.Played for Laughs in The Kindaichi Case Files.Kill la Kill: Ira Gamagoori can use school regulation pocket books as weapons because they're made of folded steel.Said book was thin and hard-bound, and she smacked him over the head with its spine. Kanon: Mai Kawasumi bonks Yuuichi with the veterinarian book she was reading when he doubted her chances of becoming a Kindly Vet.
He throws quite a few at Nowaki during their lovers' spat in the university library.
Junjou Romantica: Hiroki, a professor in literature, has a tendency to pelt things at people, books being his forte.Hyakko: There's a fake preview in one episode which makes it seem the next episode will be something more along Neon Genesis Evangelion lines than Hyakko - including a scene where Amagasa-sensei holds the students at gunpoint until Touma knocks the gun out of his hand with a blow from a book.Hellsing: Alexander Anderson threw a book (presumably a bible) at Alucard once in the anime.She later uses a pile of them to knock the fake Avril Bradley down a flight of stairs. Gosick: Victorica occasionally hits Kazuya with a book when he's being stupid.Fullmetal Alchemist: In a flashback extra, a very young Ed bonks poor little toddler Al over the head with a book.Mayu-sensei uses this on him on occasion and, of course, Shigure attacks him the same way. Kyo seems to be a magnet for these sort of attacks.Shigure: What do you have in there, a dictionary? Bonus points if it's being used by a Badass Bookworm, established or developing. For additional humor value, the book that's used as a weapon will often have a title that's thematically appropriate to the user, the target, and/or the situation at hand. Often, this will be prompted by a character saying, "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me," or something of the sort. After all, what better way to make the hapless wizard even more hapless at close-range than to have them trying to kill the slathering, three-headed, pointy-clawed, saber-toothed, flaming beast of hell by whacking it repeatedly with a leather-bound tome? Where people decide to use both words and action by hitting someone with a book really, really hard because being bonked on the head with a few thousand pages' worth of hard-bound literature hurts something fierce (the fact that watching someone get conked on the head with a book is inherently funny helps too).Īlso an alternative melee Weapon of Choice for the Squishy Wizard, White Mage, Black Mage, and other magical or scholarly types if the writer decides that a Magic Staff is too fearsome.
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