A common anime trope is the rendering of a normal, proportional character into a somewhat disproportional shorter form with a big head, large eyes, and short limbs, a.grand.a. a chibi art style. It's usually for comedic relief.

Chibi is a Japanese word meaning small or curt. When a character goes chibi, it'due south typically humorous given the nature of the exaggeration. It could be a character'southward confused reaction or the course taken for any one detail emotion or state of affairs. Whatever the case, it's always pretty funny to see the chibi form of 1's favorite character.

10 Umaru Turns Chibi As Soon As She Gets Abode (Himouto! Umaru-chan)

Umaru-chan from My Two-Faced Little Sister

People have multiple sides. Once they get home, they expose a more slovenly and disorganized self that they wouldn't show to the public. That'southward certainly the instance for Umaru Doma.

In Himouto! Umaru-chan, she'southward the perfect high school girl, refined and an over-achiever. When she gets home, she does a total 180. Every bit soon as the forepart door closes, Umaru turns chibi as a visual representation of this switch. She wears her hamster hoodie and becomes a lazy otaku who loves junk food and video games.

ix Roka AKA Ultimate Darkness Always Turns Chibi (D-Frag!)

Roka from D-Frag

Despite already being small in height, Roka Shibasaki consistently turns chibi at any given moment. Despite her small profile, she'southward supposedly the strongest pupil in the unabridged schoolhouse, thus her nickname Ultimate Darkness. She's a second-year student at Fujou High, President of the Simulated Game Creation Club, and turns chibi in response to almost every situation in D-Frag!.

8 Tatsumaki Turns Chibi Whenever She Is Offended (1 Punch Human)

Tatsumaki from One Punch Man

Tatsumaki is a petite adult female and is unremarkably mistaken for beingness much younger than she really is. Despite the misconception, she'southward an S-Class Rank 2 professional person hero in the series I Punch Man. She'southward an esper of immense power and one of the strongest among all the other heroes. Her alias is Tornado of Terror, as the utilize of her abilities tin create tremendous impairment.

Thanks to her size and bratty demeanor, she is often offended when being called a sassy kid or whenever she's ignored. So, whenever she takes offense, she ironically becomes more than childlike.

vii Their Avatars Are Chibi Versions Of Themselves (Baka & Exam - Summon the Beasts)

Baka&Test Summon Test War

Fumizuki University, a prep school that implements the world's finest and most unique schooling system, is the primary setting ofBaka & Test - Summon the Beasts.

A placeholder examination determines their rank, and their rank determines the class they're placed in. Class-A, the most luxurious, and Form-F, the most dilapidated. To alter their classes, students can initiate a Summoner Test War. Information technology is a battle between classes where students utilize avatars to fight other students. The avatars that the student possesses are chibi versions of themselves with animalistic features and weapons.

6 The Male Lead, Tomoki, Is Chibi Most All The Time (Sky's Lost Holding)

Tomaki and Ikaros from Heaven's Lost Property

Tomoki has constantly dreamed of an angel since he was a child, and then after a series of events, a fallen angel appears before him. So, to understand the nature of the New World and the Angeliods, Tomoki is recruited into the New World Discovery Club for guidance from Eishirou Sugata, the sky bedlamite.

Existence a character who hardly takes anything seriously and simply wants a peaceful life, Tomoki is practically in chibi mode in every other scene, only returning to normal when things get serious.

5 Aladdin Is Literally Nicknamed Chibi (Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic)

Aladdin and other characters from Magi: Labyrinth of Magic)

Magi, a rare class of magicians, guide certain individuals to mysterious places in order to aid them build their empires. They disperse labyrinths, known as "Dungeons," around the world with supernatural beings called, Djinns, to rule over them. With the guidance and successful conquest, that individual gains immense power and is chosen as a candidate to rule the world. For Magi: Labyrinth of Magic, cheers to certain events, Aladdin and Alibaba are on the quest to exercise just that.

With the term chibi being used to draw a short person or small child, Aladdin is as well literally called chibi. Aladdin is a young male child between the ages of ten-12 at the start of the show, so he doesn't fifty-fifty need much deformation to begin with.

4 Sunako Is Self-Witting And Constantly Turning Chibi (The Wallflower)

Sunako and Kyouhei from The Wallflower

In the series The Wallflower, Sunako lives as a shut-in and has developed a hatred for beauty. Even though every time she sees someone beautiful, she gets a nosebleed. Her reasoning for becoming a wallflower was due to her beat rejecting her and calling her ugly. She also began to embrace all things morbid and occult-related befitting of her current circumstances.

She begins living in her aunt's mansion under the aforementioned roof as four handsome boys. To proceed to live at aunt'southward mansion rent-costless, the boys are tasked with turning Sunako into a proper immature lady. Throughout the serial, Sunako spends most of the series in chibi form to represent how she's unable to accept her beauty because of the trauma from two years agone.

three The Running Gag For These Three Is Them Existence Chibi (Maid Sama!)

The Tree Idiots From Maid Sama!

The all-boys school in Maid Sama! is transitioning to being co-ed, and Misaki Ayuzawa is the first female person student council president. Beingness a stickler for the rules and using aggressive techniques on the misbehaving boys who bully girls, Misaki is nicknamed the Demon President, especially past the schoolhouse's 3 idiots - Shiroyan, Kurotatsu, and Ikkun.

The matter is, after a series of events leading to them finding out her big secret, they become her biggest fans. A bulk of the characters become chibi for comedic relief. For the idiot trio, however, they are chibi almost every time they announced on the screen.

2 Elsie Turns Chibi In Response To Keima (The World God Only Knows)

the world god only knows elsie chibi

Keima Katsuragi is the legendary "God of Conquest" as he tin conquer any girl'due south center, at least in dating sim games. Randomly, he receives an bearding offer to prove his supremacy at dating sim games, and he arrogantly accepts. Little did he know is that he signed a contract with a mischievous devil named Elsie. At present, the two have to work together to retrieve runaway evil spirits who have escaped from hell and have taken root in young girls' hearts.

Elsie'south pretty incompetent at her task and is overly naive. So, when speaking to Keima, who's quite irritable, she frequently turns chibi in defence and indignation.

Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist

Two brothers, Edward and Alphonse, suffer from unfortunate consequences later attempting a forbidden deed of alchemy. They now seek a mythical relic, the Philosopher'south Stone, to reverse the damage done to their bodies. Along the mode, they uncover the dark nature of the mythical relic.

Due to the story having a pretty serious tone, there are moments of comedic relief to ease the tension. The majority of these are moments when Edward turns chibi and snaps angrily against the people who offend him.

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