List of comics in WarioWare: D.I.Y.
This is a list of all the Diamond Publishing comics that appear in WarioWare: D.I.Y. They are not created by the employees of Diamond Software, but by their respective favorite creators. They are organized by creators.
Kotobuki Shiriagari[edit]
"This section has comics by Mona's favorite artist, Kotobuki Shiriagari!"
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DS Dad #1 | "Sometimes parents don't get it." | A conversation between a dad and his son about the Nintendo DS. The dad thinks that "DS" is slang for "Dads are Splendid." |
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New Game! #1 | "How video games DON'T get made." | An employee suggests a cooking game for the DS where you can taste the food in real life using your stylus. His boss states that he "hates cooking" and asks for a new idea. |
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Aura Reading | "Some deep-tissue spirituality!" | An aura-reading woman talks with a boy regarding his spirit. It's weak, but it's good at back rubs. |
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Arrested #1 | "You can't outwit the detective!" | A detective accuses Mr. Jones-Smith of committing a crime. Mr. Jones-Smith explains that he has an alibi, but the detective responds by thinking he's a "twin-double-doppelganger-clone." He asks, "They let you be a detective?!" |
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...Dog? #1 | "Pets often look like their owners." | A child begs his parents for a dog. Larry, the child's father, complies by wearing a dog costume. |
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Demands | "Careful what you don't wish for." | A man walks by demanding justice, and then a cream-cheese danish. |
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New Game! #2 | "A new way of playing games!" | An employee suggests an ear-cleaning game; the employee's ears are apparently boring, making them "level 1". |
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Product Test | "Not just the CEO for Dolly Hair..." | A doll with real, growing hair becomes famous. An employee uses it to create a hair-growth tonic. Unfortunately, the user will only get the hairstyle of the doll. |
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DS Dad #2 | "Sometimes parents try too hard..." | A sequel to "DS Dad #1." This time, the dad thinks that "DS" is slang for "Dandy and Swell," and that it could take off. The son responds, "Decidedly So." |
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Rise and... | "The early bird gets...something!" | A person wakes up early happily, only to fall asleep shortly afterwards. |
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Arrested #2 | "Our detective is still trying..." | The detective accuses Mr. Smith-Jones for a crime. Mr. Smith-Jones explain that he has no motive, which the detective thinks is very suspicious. He asks, "Seriously, how did you get this job?!" |
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...Dog? #2 | "Pets are full of surprises!" | The continuation of "...Dog? #1": the child thinks that his "dog" Larry is strange, as he appears to have human habits, and even nearly took his "head" off. When the child scolds Larry by calling him a dog, he cries. |
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Easy Money | "There's no such thing..." | A guy finds a button with a note that reads, "Want to be rich?" The guy presses the button, only to find a note reading, "This button won't help." |
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Arrested #3 | "Our detective and his soft side..." | The detective accuses Ms. Smith-Jones-Smith for a crime, who asks what she did. The detective answers that she stole his heart. |
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Polter-guys | "The brave men of the D.O.T." | At the Department of Transportation, an employee alerts his boss about the confirmed existence of a ghost in the Bick Tunnel. The boss puts a "BEWARE OF GHOSTS" sign at the entrance as a solution. |
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...Dog? #3 | "Larry's adjusting, but..." | The continuation of "...Dog? #1" and "...Dog? #2": the child mentions that Larry is adjusting well. He still doesn't walk on all fours, but he has learned to sleep like a dog. The child only wonders why his mother is so concerned. |
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DS Dad #3 | "Parents get lonely sometimes..." | The sequel to "DS Dad #1" and "DS Dad #2." The dad now thinks that "DS" stands for "David Stanley," and offers to tell the "long story" to his son. His son responds "Please don't." |
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New Game! #3 | "The ultimate game idea!" | An employee suggests a game where the main character has no goal, can't tell allies from enemies, gets everything wrong, and there is no reset button. The employee sadly calls the game "My Life." |
Isami Nakagawa[edit]
"This section has comics by Jimmy T.'s favorite artist, Isami Nakagawa!"
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Spectacles | "What a confusing spectacle!" | A father confuses his son's glasses for a snail, while his son has a snail on his head. |
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Just the Fax | "This is one upset stomach!" | A doctor examines a patient who ate a fax machine and finds out that he is running out of toner. |
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Snack Talk | "Who needs a mobile phone?" | A kid eating noodles attaches a noodle to another kid's cup, with the result being a telephone. |
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Out at Sea | "Did he leave the keys inside?" | A man sees two men kidnapping his squid, so he calls the Octo-police and reports the "squidnapping" to them. |
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Hard Sell | "One man's treasure..." | A man tries to sell a magical slipper that doubles the amount of cockroaches he tries to squish with it. The customer refuses to buy it. |
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Dough Boy | "Cover your mouth when you sneeze!" | A dough boy is spinning dough. He sneezes and the dough flies and lands on a customer's head. |
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Morning Prep | "Getting ready can take a while." | A girl sprays her "bed-head" with water to get a "flowerbed-head." |
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Monstrous! | "What is the deal with monsters?" | A giant monster destroys airplanes to eat the airline food. |
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Me Vs World | "A lesson in humility." | A scorpion shouts that nothing can stop him that day, but he then accidentally stings himself and falls unconscious. |
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Barbershop | "Just trim the sides. Well done." | A barber asks his customer what to do with the muttonchops. The customer responds, "The usual, Hank!" They both eat mutton chops. |
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Dating Scene | "Meeting girls can be tough." | Two men try to ask a girl out. To their surprise, she only dates men who can burp the alphabet. |
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Macho Man | "It's hard to let things go..." | A muscular man cries after letting go of a balloon. |
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Gone Fishin' | "The ocean is very mysterious." | A man watches a fisher holding a fishing net. It turns out the net is actually the web of a giant spider. |
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Competition | "Some people prefer an audience." | Discussing competitions, a narrator compares swimming in the 400-meter freestyle to marching in a 400-meter parade. |
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Nature Walk | "What a bunch of saps!" | A man walks by a tree and notices bugs drawn to the tree sap. He later notices a group of bald people sticking their heads on a "hair-growth tree." |
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Nap Hazards | "Be careful when you-- Zzzzz..." | A boy is sleeping on the carpet and wakes up to find carpet pattern on his face. His dad comes home with a similar pattern on his face, and the boy admonishes him for sleeping on manhole lids. |
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Dog Trainer | "It takes patience to train a dog!" | A man is commanding his dog, but it instead gives its shirt to another dog, to the man's confusion. |
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Willpower | "There must be an easier way!" | A man tries biting his lip to make the sun rise. |
Sekaiichi Asakura[edit]
"This section has comics by Ashley's favorite artist, Sekaiichi Asakura!"
Masakazu Amahisa[edit]
"This section has comics by Orbulon's favorite artist, Masakazu Amahisa!" The Our Hero series consists of an ongoing narrative, unlike the other comics in WarioWare: D.I.Y. The story involves a boy who goes on an adventure similar to a role-playing game, but with various strange twists: he uses a Popsicle stick and a table tennis paddle as a sword and shield, wears a tissue box, and is accompanied by a wad of flavorless gum.
Rei Betsuyaku[edit]
This section has comics by 9-Volt's favorite artist, Rei Betsuyaku!
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Cacti Style | "Beauty is only spine deep." | Cacti pursue health and beauty treatment by removing their spines, alienating their human friends. |
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ゆうれいくん (Mr. Ghost) | あるてんこうせいのかなしいものがたり。 (The sad story of a transfer student.) | Replaced with "Cacti Style" in the international versions. A ghostly transfer student gleefully expects his classmates to be afraid of him, but becomes annoyed when they are friendly and accommodating. |
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Ta-da! | "Detective Magician is on the case!" | Detective Magician fires his gun at a kidnapper, and flowers come out of the barrel. Everyone claps. |
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Half Back | "A half-baked story." | Tennis Pro Sleuth investigates a client's case. The culprit claims Tennis Pro Sleuth only has half a case; Tennis Pro Sleuth replies that half is all he needs, and then asks for the other half of his client's fee (his skin). The Japanese version (titled はんぶんクラブ Hanbun Kurabu, Half Club) has a different page order and contains a series of puns based on the character 半 (han), meaning "half". A man with half-open eyes wearing a visor, short sleeves (半ソデ hansode) and shorts (半ズドン hanzudon) presents himself as the head of the Half Club, and introduces other members: an inexperienced (半人前 hanninmae) worker, a half-exposed anatomical model, and a boy who only knows half the multiplication table. Finally, an applicant is denied entry to the club since his はん han is not 半 as in "half", but 犯人 hannin as in "criminal". |
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Fish Tale | "I've heard this story...I think." | The story of "Little Red Snapper Hood", a girl who wears a red snapper on her head. Her parents are proud of her generosity, but not the smell of their home. |
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Pedigreed | "Breedful things." | A girl leaves her Stretch Dog outside, and the dog gets stretched into a mess, causing her to not recognize him. |
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The War | "The history of the future of history." | An intergalactic war starts because a man steps on an alien's tentacle. |
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かぐやひめ (Princess Kaguya) | べつやくどうわシリーズだい2だん! (Betsuyaku's fairytale series, volume 2!) | The sequel to "Fish Tale", replaced with "The War" in the international versions. A man finds a glowing bamboo culm but decides to wait until the next day to cut it. That night, an anthropomorphic bamboo culm (a would-be Princess Kaguya) visits his home and stays there, becoming a nuisance. Eventually, the man becomes so worn down with stress that he publishes a book warning people not to repeat his mistake. |
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Our Visitor | "Expanding your horizons is fun!" | An exchange student from Biloleek jokes that he is from outer space, and gets sent home in a rocket, to his dismay. |
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Smelltone #1 | "Custom ringtones are SO last year." | The comic advertises a "Smelltone": a phone that emits a scent, rather than a ringtone, when a call is a received. It warns that this may make it difficult to detect calls during dinner. |
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しつもんほうほう (Questioning Methods) | しつもんほうほうっていろいろありますよねー。 (There are all kinds of ways to ask questions.) | Replaced with "Smelltone #1" in the international versions. Narration reads that there are many means to ask questions. The question "Are bananas a snack?" and the answer "They're not." is performed by a student and a teacher in a classroom, on a message board, through smoke signal, and through telepathy. |
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Smelltone #2 | "Getting the most out of your phone." | The comic shows a hypothetical scenario where, on a romantic date, a user covers up his flatulence by pretending that it was his Smelltone. |
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バナナ (Bananas) | バナナはおやつにはいるのだろうか? (When can bananas be a snack?) | The sequel to "Questioning Methods", replaced with "Smelltone #2" in the international versions. Preparing for a school trip, a boy asks his teacher if bananas are a snack, to which the teacher answers they are not. The boy's friends later discuss the topic, and decide to make banana shioyaki, as that would make it qualify as a snack. On the day of the field trip, the bad taste of their dish makes them sick. |
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R-E Man #1 | "Rock-Eating Man, hero of a new age!" | Rock-Eating Man fights evil the only way he can: eating rocks. |
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R-E Man #2 | "Our hero reveals his secrets!" | After a child asks, Rock-Eating Man reveals that sand comes out the "other end," and claims that the Sahara Desert only exists because of him. A caption reads, "Rock-Eating Man, defender of justice, is not above messing with a child's head." |
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World Class | "The best athletes in the world!" | The comic lists three champions of the Adhesive Body World Championships: one can stick a dictionary to his forehead, one can stick a watermelon to his palm, and one can stick a two-liter bottle of soda to his nose. |
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Gran's Tale | "Folktales get better with age." | A child asks her grandma to tell a story. The story is a nonsensical mixture of elements from various folktales: an ugly ducking feeds a poison apple to a wolf to put it to sleep, and a boot-wearing cat accidentally kisses the sleeping wolf, resulting in the cat discontentedly getting married to the wolf. |
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とりにんげん (Birdmen) | とりにんげんコンクールのみらいをうらなう! (See the future of the birdmen competition!) | Replaced with "Gran's Tale" in the international versions. A professor and a boy visit the "Birdmen Competition", where competitors show off upcoming advancements in bird-like humans. The participants of the contest are: a near-future hang glider pilot, deemed underwhelming by the boy; a man with wings and a beak acquired with far-future technological progress; and a man with an island for a head, whom the professor notes misread the name of the competition, confusing the characters 「鳥」 (bird) and 「島」 (island). |
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Similarities | "A useful field guide." | A narrator warns the reader not to confuse French bread with Mr. Jones' hair, a sleeping bag, or a caterpillar. |
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Pocket Cat | "Some mysteries are best unsolved." | A mysterious cat with a pocket on its torso appears. The pocket contains cat food. |
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Uncle Ted | "Good old Uncle Ted..." | The narrator's Uncle Ted acts as a bookmark, but also reads ahead and spoils the book's events. |
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Teacher Tale | "You can learn a lot from pasta." | Mr. Johnson, a teacher made of noodles, makes sure that the class is learning and tells funny stories. However, he doesn't tell anyone why he is made of noodles. |
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Gentlemanly | "Being a gentleman is challenging." | The narrator's father decides to become a gentlemen through confusing means, such as shopping with a silk hat and eating using the tip of a cane. |
WarioWare: D.I.Y. | |
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Main characters | Wario • Dr. Crygor • Penny • Mona • Jimmy T. • Ashley • Red • Orbulon • 9-Volt |
Minor characters | Abby • Young Cricket • Master Mantis |
Microgames | Strange • Sports • Food • IQ • Nintendo • Job Center • D.I.Y. 101 |
Locations | D.I.Y. Shop • D.I.Y. Studio • WarioWare, Inc. • Assembly Dojo • Distribution Center • Options Garage |
Other | Super MakerMatic 21 • D.I.Y. Forum • Record (list) • Comics • Medals • Bomb |
Further information | Gallery • Staff • Contests |