

The third short of Squid Girl's fifth episode is done almost entirely without dialogue.Other than a few lines of Angrish from Mitsuba, everything else is conveyed non-verbally. Episode 9 of Mitsudomoe dedicates one of its segments to this trope.The first episode of Texhnolyze comes close, but it does have a few lines of dialogue towards the end.The editors remark at how dangerous doing something like that is for ratings, but it ends up successful. Lampshaded in Bakuman。: Niizuma Eiji writes a chapter of his manga with no words, only pictures and sound effects.Lampshaded by Chachazero holding a sign reading "This chapter is brought to you in near silence." Even when characters speak to each other, only pictures or one or two words are shown in the speech bubbles. Chapter 166 in Mahou Sensei Negima, focusing on Okochi Akira, an unusually quiet student, is done entirely without dialogue.

The Ah! My Goddess spin-off Adventures of Mini Goddess has an episode with Urd going out on a rainy day.The Training montage chapter before the Submerged Fish Hunt in Tower of God.
