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This is from the manga Blue Period. Meaning of the sentence aside, I also want
to understand what role is なんか and なん playing here.
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meaning translation manga sentence contractions
What does 冷静になんかなんなよ mean?
なんか is a word used to make light of the word before it. It's interchangeable
with なんて here. なんな right after it is a contraction of なるな. See [this
answer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/61959/5010) for the rule.

So the sentence is basically 冷静になるな ("Don't be cool/calm") but with the
implication that 冷静 is an undesirable thing to him for now. He noticed that
the dispassionate and realistic analysis in the previous pages would only make
him lose passion. So he started to encourage himself by saying 冷静になんかなんな.
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