Dope Slap / Anime & Manga

• Azumanga Daioh:
  • As punishment for forgetting her homework, Osaka is brought up before the class to do a Boke and Tsukkomi Routine with Miss Yukari. When Osaka suggests that Yukari be the boke, she is rewarded with a thwack from a rolled-up book.
  • During the Okinawa trip, after Tomo nearly drops Chiyo-chan over a cliff (albeit accidentally), Kagura does this to Tomo, even asking the "What are you, stupid or something?" question.
• Bleach:
  • Ichigo's teacher gives him the karate-punch variant after a long absence, when he tries to small-talks her and mentions that she changed hairstyle — which was three weeks ago.
  • Rukia and Renji deliver a tag-team Dope Punch to Ichigo for running off into Hueco Mundo carelessly, without telling them.
  • Anime episode #160: During a Flash Back, Kaien Shiba gives Rukia one while they're in a forest in the Soul Society. She wasn't paying attention to him and even yelling and shaking her didn't work.
• Kogoro does this to Conan in Case Closed quite often when he catches the boy snooping where he shouldn't. More often than not he uses his fist (and sometimes even gives Conan a full noogie), resulting in a painful-looking lump.
• The Curse of Kazuo Umezu: In "What Will the Video Camera Reveal?", the teacher does this to a student (who's looking at Rima) with a book.
• Food Wars!: The dope slap is Kouijiro Shinomiya's favored way of dealing with people who annoy him. His reasons for deploying the dope slap are many and varied, from calling him out on bullying staff to bringing out a too-cheap wine to serve with something he cooked.
• Fruits Basket:
  • The karate chop version is Kakeru's trademark move. One time Yuki tried it... with three times the power.
  • Kyo overhears two guys checking out Tohru and does the Boyfriend Bluff to get them to leave her alone. During the time they were expressing interest in her she looks like she's spacing out and afterwards Kyo gives the Dope Slap to her and says "See what happens when you stand there like a space cadet?"
• Fullmetal Alchemist:
  • Winry frequently dope-slaps Ed for damaging his automail arm. She's also the only person who has ever dope-slapped Al without injuring herself as she uses her trusty wrench to give him some sense.
  • Izumi tends to prefer judo throwing Ed and Al when they do something stupid as opposed to slapping them.
• Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu: Often delivered by Kaname to Sōsuke by way of Paper Fan of Doom, whenever Sōsuke uses overkill military answers to end mundane problems (i.e.: telling a cab driver to wait for him and Kaname by threatening to shoot him if he doesn't cooperate).
• Futaba-kun Change!: The wrestler sisters Karin and Anzu regularly give each other a karate chop on top of the head... or a dope punch... or a dope kick in the face... usually berating the other for her stupidity — or blaming her own on her sister. Yes, they're a pair of dumbasses.
• Gangsta.: Alex gives Worick a slap on the head if he is being too much of a Chivalrous Pervert or she feels his Obfuscating Stupidity got out of hand. The strength of said slap depends on how annoying he is at the moment.
• In Gintama, Tsukuyo frequently uses a variant of this by throwing a kunai at Gintoki's head if he does or says something stupid in her presence.
• Hanaukyō Maid Team:
  • Episode 2: The maids use a bright light to cover up their assisting Taro in solving a math problem in class. When one of the maids tries to explain the light as a U.F.O., another maid gives her one of these and tells her to think of a better excuse.
  • Konoe does it to various maids in both series (particularly Ikuyo Suzuki). Whenever she does, she hits so hard that it causes a lump on their heads.
• Kale from Sayuri Tatsuyama's Happy Happy Clover Manga series does this twice. He first does this when Clover starts falling asleep while Shallot is explaining the type of books he likes which she considers boring. Kale notices and slaps her behind the head and tells her it's rude to do that in front of a person they just met. The second time is when Shallot tells Clover that she's a "Busy Body" which makes Kale quickly slap his head to not make things worse for her.
• Infinite Stratos: Chifuyu Orimura does this to her younger brother Ichika thrice in the first few minutes of the first episode.
• Inuyasha: Inuyasha chastises Shippo by conking him on the head (Inu-Yasha sometimes does this to Totosai, too). But since Shippo and Totosai are spirit monsters, it's a closed fist smack from the front, hard enough to raise a comical bump.
• Isabelle of Paris: Poor Jules can't catch a break.
  Jules: "Marry Victor."
  Geneviève: "Huh?"
  Jules: "Our relationship is destined to fail, Geneviève."
  Geneviève "Why? Because our positions are too different? The worlds we live in are too far apart? I don't care about any of that. Jules, I only care about you-"
  Jules: "I want you to be happy."
  Geneviève: *long pause*
  Geneviève: *slaps Jules*
  • Again, in the same episode.
  Jules: *hears a knock at the door*
  Jules: "Who is it?"
  Victor: "I am Victor Langlois of the French army."
  Jules: "Victor?" *opens door*
  Victor: "Jules Francoeur, right?"
  Jules: "That's right."
  Victor: *takes one step forward*
  Victor: *slaps Jules*
  Victor: "I challenge you to a duel!"
• Jujutsu Kaisen: Yuji tends to be on the receiving end of one from his teammates. Notably, Kugisaki once delivered this trope in the form of a flying kick. Megumi has much more patience than her, but have conked Yuji's on the head on the occasion too. It's not a real problem because Yuji is a self-admitted dumbass and also Made of Iron, so it doesn't him phase at all.
• In the Kiniro Mosaic anime Beach Episode, Karen is impressed when she sees Yoko's "nice body" and starts feeling around her chest area to find out what makes her body so different, threatening to take off her bikini top. Yoko is naturally uncomfortable with this attention and punches her in the head. Karen exclaims that not even her father had ever hit her.
• Mio from K-On! does this a lot, usually to Ritsu. Her preferred method of application is a fist to the top of the head. In one episode, Mugi tries very hard to get Mio to hit her like this, because she sees it as an important part of bonding with friends.
• Emilia of Lapis Re:LiGHTs delivers these to her Robot Maid, α (Alpha), when she irritates her. This can range from the latter's having No Social Skills with other people, her being incredibly blunt and snarky with Emilia, or her intentionally riling her up for kicks.
• Macross Frontier has an odd twist on the old concept, where Klan (in her macronized state) delivers a dope slap to Mikael's Humongous Mecha's head, causing him to rattle around in the cockpit.
• A Running Gag in My Hero Academia has Monoma from Class 1-B act snotty towards the characters in Class 1-A, only for Kendo to smack him (usually a karate chop to his neck, which knocks him out) then apologize to 1-A for his rudeness.
• Naruto:
  • Itachi had a variation for dealing with his younger brother Sasuke. It involved jabbing Sasuke's forehead with two fingers.
  • Sakura frequently punches or slaps Naruto when he says or does something he shouldn't have, or if he pisses her off.
• Negima! Magister Negi Magi:
  • In the manga, Setsuna actually pulls out a paper fan (apparently from hammerspace) to dope-slap Chao, in response to Chao explaining that she's a martian from the future seemingly sarcastically. Twice. This could also be considered a fine example of a Boke and Tsukkomi Routine.
  • Nagi, however, was more a fan of the Dope Headbutt.
• There's a scene in Nichijou where a teacher paps Yuko over the head with a book, repeated 46 times, before asking her to come see him after class.
• Used in Onegai My Melody, when a mother thought her young son's apology to the Victim of the Week wasn't heartfelt enough.
• Quite common in One Piece, and usually administered by Nami. Of note is the fact that her dope slaps even cause Amusing Injuries to Luffy, whose powers explicitly include being able to more or less ignore blunt force.
• PandoraHearts:
  • In "Retrace 49", Liam punches Break in the back of the head when he complains about telling Sharon about his blindness and calls him an idiot.
  • "Retrace 65": Oz punches Leo in the face for talking about how the two can be enemies now that the one person keeping them friends, Elliot, is now dead.
• Light, humorous moments are pretty rare in the manga Parasyte. However, there's that one time a classmate of Shinichi dope-slaps another, after the latter accidentally revealed Shinichi's large scar in the chest by horsing around in the lockers room.
• Persona 5: The Animation: Ryuji, of all people, does this to Ren for attempting to unmask a costumed student in the school festival as if she was a shadow.
• Popotan: Mai has a tendency to press her fists against her younger sister Mii's head whenever she finds her irritating, which mimics this trope in spirit.
• Sailor Moon: When the Sailor Guardians arrive at Hotaru's house to rescue her and Chibi-Usa, Usagi gives her usual introduction speech to Hotaru's confused father and caps it off with the "In the name of the Moon, I'll punish you!" towards him. Rei immediately slaps her from behind and tells Usagi heroes aren't suppose to say that to the people they've come to help, while Usagi claims she's has to say it because it's her catchphrase. None of them realize Hotaru's father is actually a villain, meaning Usagi's accidental threat was actually pretty apt.
• In Sakura no Ichiban!, Misao often slaps Asami across the face or slams Asami's skull with her fist whenever the latter does something reckless or stupid.
• Science Ninja Team Gatchaman: Jinpei got a few of these, usually after saying something stupid or smart-alecky.
• Sengoku Basara:
  • The Tiger of Kai isn't content to deliver a simple dope slap to Idiot Hero Yukimura Sanada. When he says something truly dumb, he delivers a dope PUNCH, usually sending Yukimura through the nearest door, or into a wall. He's always up again a second later though.
  • Magoichi also whacks Motochika on the skull like this to bring him to his senses. It stings, but doesn't send him flying.
• Seraph of the End: Yuu gets this sometimes from Kimizuki and Mitsuba. Guren has also kicked Yuu for being an idiot.
• In Sorcerer Hunters, Tira does this to Carrot more than once.
• Soul Eater:
  • Tsubaki unexpectedly do this to Black☆Star after he makes Maka run off crying during their training for Chain Resonance.
  • Maka has done this herself... with a book. Particularly to her dad.
  • Shinigami hits people who irritate him with his Shinigami Chop. He's very tall and his hand is very large. Especially funny when he does it to Medusa.
• Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs: Leon's Sarcastic Devotee Robot Buddy Luxion occasionally gives him one of these in the form of an electric shock.
• Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! does a slightly different variant. Uzaki starts trying to hypnotize Sakurai to force him to call her by her first name. At first he plays along, but then she starts making silly demands like buying her a new VR game, causing him to get mad and chop her in the head so she knocks it off.

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