One of Vegeta's lines from the first dub of Dragon Ball Z, referring to Goku's Power Level after his first return from the dead. Popular for its Narm, and used to describe any situation in which something is unexpectedly large.
Since most anime-viewers are big nerds, there are naturally going to be a lot of anime-inspired Internet memes.
Please add entries in the following format:
The name of the anime (if it belongs in the "Other" folder).
The meme. [[hottip:Explanation:The explanation behind the meme.]] Explanation
And is dead sexy... in a miniskirt! (Nowadays Vic Mignogna feigns ignorance whenever he's asked to say it, but the line got far enough that it's an injoke with the cast.) Explanation
A line Vic Mignogna came up with when asked to say "something nice about Roy Mustang" in Ed's voice. He added the last part as a joke, but it soon became enormously popular among his fans, much to his dismay.
Major Armstrong is a massive Ensemble Darkhorse for his bizarre-yet-awesome mannerisms. Every time the Major appears on a trope's page, the explanation reads TROPE X HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN THE ARMSTRONG FAMILY FOR GENERATIONS!!! Seriously. Every. single. time.
King Bradley killed a tank. With a sword.Explanation
It quickly became popular among fans describing how badass Bradley is by bringing up the time he took on a tank armed with only a sword and a grenade and won.
Suzumiya Haruhi
"Nyoro~n" Explanation
Tsuruya was taken by a Japanese Webcomic artist and made into a Super-DeformedDitz named Churuya, with a line she said once in the anime made into her Catch Phrase, and an affinity for smoked cheese. Spawned countless imitations involving characters from Haruhi or other anime - and is now more emblematic of Haruhi than anything that actually appeared in the show.
And then official Haruhi staff made a series off of it for YouTube, much to the chagrin of the Unpleasable Fanbase, was referenced in the live concert for the show by Taniguchi's voice actor, Minoru Shiraishi, who proclaimed "Nyoro~n! Smoked cheese!", and also in Lucky Star, produced by the same company as Haruhi.
Fan-made pictures of the cast (and even a rewrite of some of the novels) as the opposite sex. "Kyonko" is particularly popular, mostly for being The Comically Serious, as is "Itsuko", who apparently makes some Itsuki fangirls question their sexuality.
"Hare Hare Yukai" Explanation
The Dancing Theme is practically required by any and all Haruhiists that visit anime conventions.
Haruhi's Reality Warper status made Itsuki speculate that Haruhi is actually God. Note on just "speculation".
"We've entered an endless recursion of time." Explanation
Fan Sub of a repeated line in the infamous "Endless Eight" episodes, as an explanation of what was going on. The line has since become synonymous with Endless Eight, often repeated (multiple times) whenever someone brings up those episodes.
"Kyon-kun, denwa." Explanation
Another oft-repeated line in Endless Eight, said by Kyon's little sister as his phone rings in each episode.
"Wawawawasuremono... ore no wasuremono..." Explanation
One fan's confusion as to why no-one notices that Hanyuu isn't exactly normal. Everybody got on his case for his grammatical error but eventually turned it around to have fun with it.
"I want to take it home with me!" Ryuugu Rena is well known for her love of cute things. Sometimes this gets taken a little too far and she'll snatch up some poor soul and carry her off like a kidnapper.
Do you know Oyashiro-Sama? Yes, Hinamizawa. I kill you, you kill me. No, Hinamizawa! Explanation
Said in Ooishi and Keiichi's Engrish Rap.
USO DA! Explanation
A line commonly used in the anime meaning "that's a lie!"
ANY Evil Laugh in the series will get this. Not only are there a bunch of loop videos of the girls just laughing for ten minutes, there are a bunch of remixes of their laughs, too.
Thanks to the advent of Emporio Ivankov's powers combined with the author drawing Gender Bent versions of the main characters, there has been an absolute deluge of Rule 63 fan art. Absolutely no one is safe.
Within moments of his anime debut, AMV's to "Sweet Transvestite" were rampant.
Magma is hotter than fire. Swords are hotter than magma. Explanation
Admiral Akainu killed Portgas D. Ace while proclaiming that his magma burned hotter than Ace's fire. Shanks blocked a magma attack from Akainu using a sword.
Eiichiro Oda has continually reassured readers that the Straw Hats would reach Fishman Island after the then-current arc. Only recently have they finally reached it.
At least before the Wham Arcs, this fact is frequently brought up in One Piece discussions. The Time Skip is considered a second beginning with the recent deaths of Ace and Whitebeard applicable to Flash Backs, this meme is officially back.
Tristan has spouted the now-famous lines: "My voice gives me super strength!" and "Burn the witch!" Also, people at anime conventions love to swipe the Millenium Rings from Bakura cosplayers and fling them across the room while shouting "Go, Millenium Frisbee!" Explanation
Said in the first episode to "explain" why Kaiba could perform a move blatantly illegal by the rules of the game. A Trope Namer, with many permutations.
Said by Yugi, this has reach the point that it embodies the how much the card game has change, and since it was said by Dan Green; who voices Yugi, everyone has been saying it in the fandom as a means of making fun of people who play Synchro Decks.
Suiseiseki's Verbal Tic. Even though this is a fairly common speech pattern in lots of characters it become highly associated with her for some reason. This meme had good timing, along with being deliberately cultivated by 4chan.
With Invasion Squid Girl getting an anime adaptation, Ika Musume's verbal tic became just as popular as desu for a short time.
After the horribly animatedYoake Mae Yori Ruriiro Na -Crescent Love- drew two cabbages as simple green circles, Fan Art with Feena holding one such cabbage was everywhere, and it actually survived a round in the SaiGAR "manly character" competition. Negima!!? also spoofed this one.
Also used in reverse — a woman hiding as a man is called a "Reverse Trap".
Funny thing is that it already overlapped with the whole Trap Card meme, so, you'll usually see photoshopped cards of Bridget and Jun, among other lesser known traps.
Similarly, male characters who end up in drag for zany schemes will usually prompt fans to createWholesome Crossdresser or even outright female personas for them. A famous example is 'Ranko', a false persona Ranma Saotome creates which many fans distanced from the male character.
Distorting the message behind the famous ending, and in fact is what made it famous. Granted, "Ideon blew up while the Big Bad exploded so large it blew up a galaxy" isn't quite as impressive.
It doesn't help that in Super Robot Wars Alpha 3, they said the universe would be destroyed if Ideon went out of control.
The final episode of the School Days anime was replaced with thirty minutes of peaceful landscape scenery, including a boat on a lake, after it was deemed too close to home due to violent incidents in the news. A 4channer decided to mess with 2ch by making a thread with screenshots of the scenery video describing the "nice boat". In a rare scenario, both the Japanese and American viewers had a good laugh and a meme has been born. Used to describe anything from censorship to being murdered. The real last episode coincidentally did end with a Nice Boat.
The "Magical Heart Kokoro-chan" OVA episode gives a quite deliberate Shout Out to the meme, featuring a lifeboat labeled "NICE BOAT" drifting down a river of blood...
And then Kadokawa posted up a short clip of a (admittedly quite nice looking) sailboat with the words "It's not finished yet" (or something to that effect) the day Haruhi-chan was supposed to start.
Similar to the Loituma Girl cartoon, a looped short clip of Mai and Mii dancing from the Popotan h-game opening was set to "Caramelldansen" by the Swedish Eurodance group Caramell. Thus the Caramelldansen Vid trope. Any videos that fit that trope should be listed there.
From a Japanese TV sketch involving a man crushing a business card in front of the woman who gave it to him, while looking at her with a ridiculous expression on his face, was turned into a meme when someone did a comic strip version with Kagami and Konata from Lucky Star. An example of Values Dissonance, as the exchanging of business cards is a fairly big deal in Japan, with its own set of social mores.
The ending sequence from Clannad, the touching "Dango Daikazoku", has been made into hundreds of different versions.
The opening theme of Clannad ~After Story~, Toki wo Kizamu Uta, has a tendency to be remade with any anime that has a Improbably Female Cast, any other work of Key Visual Arts, or just any work in general.
Tomoya seems to be known to some as "the Clannadman". (Related expression: "You will never be the Clannadman!")
Fuuko's love of starfish has reached memetic levels. "HITODEEE~~~!<3"
For a long time, the only available scans of Part 4 were a So Bad, It's GoodBlind Idiot Translation that used a Chinese source (the town is called Moriou (forest king), which in Chinese would be read as Duwang) that fans refer to as the Duwang Translation. The above quote is one of the more memorably awful/awesome bits of dialogue, spoken by the main villain.
"What was that?! Depending on your answer I may have to kick your ass!" Explanation
In Part 5, Bruno Buccelatti claims that he can tell if a person is lying by the taste of their sweat. He then demonstrates this ability by sneaking up behind the hero and licking his cheek in a memetically Ho Yay-tastic scene.
The "talent" joke. In Sailor Moon R the girls were trying out for a role in a play. In the dub, Lita said she should get the role because she has the most talent. In the original version, Makoto said she should get the part because she has the biggest boobs. However, the dub still has a close-up of her chest. Talent has since become a euphemism for breast size.
"Sailor Mars is the hottest". This tends to show up in discussions about which of the Sailor Soldiers is the hottest. Sailor Mars' powers are based around Playing with Fire, so the Incredibly Lame Pun was inevitable.
Not exclusively related to anime but the infamous Finnish dubbing team Agapio Racing Team's Macekre-dub of certain series has achieved meme-like qualities in Finland, especially the emotionless expressions of emotion from Digimon.
"My Wife" rendered as Gratuitous English, referencing someone's particular attraction to a fictional, unattainable character. Bonus points for extraordinarily hot anime girls. Originated from Azumanga Daioh where the girls look at a picture that Kimura-sensei dropped which he explains is of "Mai waifu". She's pretty hot, and this is Kimura we're talking about here.
The male version should be "hasubando" but is usually just "husbando."
An alternate origin could be the Japanese otaku practice of proclaiming a female (or male) character "ore no yome", which means exactly the same thing. A Shout Out to this practice appeared in Lucky Star.
There's even a Mai-Waifu Fansubs, the waifu in this case being Enma Ai.
Apparently, the levels of cuteness caused someone to masturbate so hard they bursted their "nut-bladder". Used to summarise anything absurdly cute, though "HHNNNNNNGGGG!" has almost completely replaced it.
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Emoticon of a typical wide-face Super-Deformed expression that Hidamari Sketch is infamous for. Often goes hand-in-hand with mentions of nutbladders.
2008 has become known as "The Year of Dead Snipers", after Gundam 00, Macross Frontier, and the most recent Full Metal Panic! novel have all killed off or apparently killed off their respective sniper characters.
Symmetrical Docking Explanation
A phrase commonly used to describe a picture of two girls standing so close together their breasts are squished against each other. Originated from a Super Robot Wars Alpha 2Yonkoma where, instead of showing ChoRyuJin's Symmetrical Docking Transformation Sequence, a picture of original characters (with huge breasts) Kushua Mizuha and Seolla Schweitzer are shown in this position◊.
There's even a video out of it (not using the above heroines, but you get the idea)
Nanoha's tendency for There Is No Kill Like Overkill is her most easily-recognised characteristic and prone to heavy Flanderization, to the point where her detonating a planet is not found to be unusual. (The line itself is based on Nanoha's Catch Phrase "Zenryoku zenkai", literally translating as "Full power, full throttle", but the second part is a homophone of "total destruction".)
"Shall I... cool your head a little?" Explanation
Got its memetic status from Nanoha, but the line and pose are actually a Shout Out to when Freeza kills Krillin in Dragon Ball Z.
White Devil Explanation
Nanoha's Fan Nickname, from a line when Vita refers to her as "a devil" and her white outfit. Also a reference to Mobile Suit Gundam, where Amuro Ray has this nickname in-universe.
The fact that Sony named their recent handheld "Playstation Vita" was not lost on the Nanoha fanbase.
The extraordinary popularity of overdubbing scenes from the show with the soundtrack of mecha shows, including but not limited to Subaru's Final Fusion.
To the point that in Japan, Subaru is more commonly known as GaoGaiGar-tan, since she is well, a walking homage to the aforementioned series.
Nanoha's practice of making friends of those that survive her attacks is another of her defining characteristics, the term used as a synonym for "beat the crap out of" (as in "you're about to be befriended").
This has reached the point where if it involves making friends, Nanoha becomes a Memetic Badass who could make Chuck Norris wet himself. This naturally makes one wonder, if this is how she treats people she wants to be friends with, what would she be capable of against someone for whom she really wanted to bring the pain.
Erio was once the only male of any significance in the entire series, everyone else very minor or Demoted to Extra, and this was the result. Oh, and it's canon◊.
"Listen or be shot." Explanation
During her first fight with Vita Nanoha calls out to her: "Listen to me!" while Raising Heart announces her attack: "Divine Buster!"
Backbeard, noted Celtic eyeball monster and Gegege no Kitaro villain, has become associated with criticism of lolicons. Explanation
Years ago, there was a notorious anti-loli poster called Backbeard on 2channel. This led to someone photoshopping this famous panel◊ to say "kono rorikon domome" ("you damned lolicons!")
Not to mention green being "the most powerful/hot-blooded colour." Not just because it starts with a "G", but because the Getter Rays from Getter Robo and its derivatives (G-Stone Energy, Spiral Energy, Bronze Bell Power and so on) happen to glow neon green.
On /a/, it's a meme to answer any and all requests for anime recommendations or the source of a picture with "Boku No Pico". It's a shotaconOVA.
On /m/, Legend of the Blue Wolves (hardcore yaoi hentai) is "popular" for both this and a "lose" condition in bets based on the last number of your post.
And sometimes mixed with other boards' versions of the same joke (like Battletoads)
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Explanation
One Boxden user wrote a review◊ of Boku No Pico. This being Boxden, it was written in Jive Turkey, creating a rather surreal quality which proved popular on /a/. See also theDramatic Reading.
Bara Genre manga Kuso Miso Technique has spawned two catchphrases: "uho, ii otoko!" ("wow, nice guy!", roughly equivalent to "hey, good-looking!") and "yaranaika?" ("wanna do it?"). The characters' exaggerated facial expressions have been shopped extensively onto other works.
The Tsubasa equivalent of "just as planned", it came into being after Kurogane cut Fei Wong Reed in half, only to find out that he had actually killed Kyle disguised as Fei Wong Reed, leaving the heroes injured and tired while he is perfectly fine. Applied to just about every twist Tsubasa has taken since Acid Tokyo.
Tsubasa's manga also brings us the fan pairing of Apple-kun/Freckle-chan. Explanation
In one flashback arc, we see an adorable little girl with freckles who was once kind to Fai (she looks about ten). In a completely different arc, in a different world and time period, we meet a little boy who cheerfully offers the heros some apples, and later lets them stay at his house. The fans dubbed them Freckle-chan and Apple-kun, respectively, and decided they make a cute couple. Even though there's no possible way for them to meet in canon.
Not from the anime itself, but from the English dub outtakes of Noein:
"C-Crispin Freeman! Get out of my bedroom!"
Thanks to the characters in Saki never showing any panties even in angles where a Panty Shot should appear (naked flesh is shown instead), Japanese fans in 2chan have declared that "Saki is not wearing any".
The words shown at the end of most episodes, used as a sort of book-end. Prone to many variations, even in the series itself.
In any nonserious artbook or doujin for Ronin Warriors - and even some of the serious - one of two things from the image CDs is bound to be referenced: Seiji/Sage really loves pumpkin, and Touma/Rowen is a terrible singer.
Nodoka's character defining Covert Pervert moment, in which she discovers her solution to the Love Triangle in which she finds herself between herself, Negi and Yue is an OT3.
Pactioooooooo!!' Explanation
In this series Pactio is a magical Pact between a mage and his guardian that allows him to empower the guardian and sometimes creates a powerful artifact. Naturally this is done by having the two kiss, and so far over half of Negi's class had Pactio'd.
Negi has a potential harem to rival Tenchi Muyo!, nearly everyone falls in love with him in one way or another (including two of his mortal enemies), and he is only ten years old.
Akamatsu's really hot wife demands HIATUS. Explanation
The series is a stunning example of Shown Their Work, and writer Ken Akamatsu instigates a lot of hiatus to perform research. Fans have another theory, however.
Sebastian's main Catch Phrase, with others listed below. "Yes, your highness" is a variation.
Sebastian is a pedo-demon. Explanation
The explanation for the unbelievable amount of Ho Yay between Ciel and Sebastian.
Ciel in a box/Box-chan. Explanation
The Fan Nickname for Ciel at the beginning of season 2.
It has become popular on several sites to, whenever Ogin gets mentioned, talk about her amazing assets by ending the sentence with "and that is a very good thing." Explanation
The meme comes from the ridiculousness of Ogin's rather obviously large cleavage and how that it's a wonderful thing to look at.
The PSG finale had, for all it's weirdness, been heading towards a Here We Go Again ending—when out of nowhere, with less than a minute left in the episode, Stocking stuck her sword in Panty's head. It all wentdownhill from there. Even the characters were shocked with the turn of events, and fans were set all afrenzy. The airing of the episode? December 24th. Merry Christmas!
The Laughing Man is an in-universe example. Explanation (major spoilers)
The original laughing man was a genius hacker who found out the medical industry was screwing the public over concerning a particularly nasty disease and its cures. He kidnapped one of the major presidents of said industry to make a statement, culminating in a rather public outburst in public, digitally replacing his face with a logo. Since he was never caught, various people took his persona to commit various crimes, all under the impression that they were the original Laughing Man. Eventually, one of them threatened to kill a police chief at a public event. The attempt took place, but at least two dozen people came out of the woodwork to do so, each claiming to be the original Laughing Man. It was eventually determined through insanely complex philosophical, psychological, and technological babble that the Laughing Man had become a meme, and spread into people's minds due to their ability to directly interact with each other's brains on the net.
He's become quite the meme in Real Life, too. Especially his unmistakable logo.
One of Conan/Shinichi's catch phrases is "Edogawa Conan, tantei sa!", which means "I'm Conan Edogawa, a detective!".
This troper learned to do that in Hawaii! Explanation
In a Non-Serial Movie, Conan came up with "my dad taught me in Hawaii!" as a quick excuse to cover up something quialifying as a Deus ex Machina. Therefore, in some fandom corners (specially the Taiwanese fandom) the phrase is often used to either mock or explain plotholes.
Oi oi oi! Explanation
Again, one of Conan's catch phrases, this one for deadpan snarking.
Tekkaman will deactivate that giant robot with his SPACE LANCE! Maybe the SPACE LAN- Oh, it slipped! I've got to get this GIANT ARM off me! IT'S SO HEAVY! Explanation
This is because Toshiyuki Morikawa who voiced Tekkaman Blade screamed to the point that the mic broke. He did this twice.
More known in Japan, but the final shot in Ashita No Joe where Joe slumps over in the ring in his corner, dead after his final match has become one of the most well known and well remembered images in Japanese pop culture history.
These are the magic words Sally uses whenever she uses her magic. They have about as much meaning as ""Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo".
Rumiko's Reply: "I don't think about such things, and neither should you!"Explanation
Rumiko Takahashi famously gave this response to being asked whether or not Ranma could get pregnant. Now anytime a question regarding Gender Benders and pregnancy comes up, this is usually the immediate reply.
A few episodes into Tiger & Bunny, a couple of fans noticed that Kotetsu's goatee looked, shall we say, adorable◊. And thus the legendary catbeard was born.
Batman's "MY PARENTS ARE DEEEEAAADDDDD!!!!!" meme has also been adopted for Barnaby. Altering famous Batman comic panels◊ to make them about Barnaby also seems popular.
"X! And X again!"Explanation
Based off of Sky High's catchphrase, as well as his regular tendency to repeat himself.
"I must have that delicious Oyaji Moe scent!"Explanation
2chan and /a/ have discovered that the cologne Kotetsu owns is a real brand. Things haven't been the same since.
Since episode 15, many a crack has been made about Keith Goodman/Sky High's incredibly obvious status as a clueless virgin. The 4th drama CD has only encouraged them.
"Goddammit, Sunrise. Stop doing this to us."Explanation
Watching Tiger & Bunny evidently leads to a crippling addiction to purchasing all of the show's merchandise (and not-merchandise. Nobody quite expected that sales spike in Kotetsu alleged cologne). Thus, the fandom curses Sunrise's name every time they come up new toy or T-shirt to sell.
Tiger & Bunny fans are very impatient for their Superhero Saturday fix. No T&B thread on /a/ ends without this question asked.
After unwittingly winning the affection of not one but threetsundere (Karina, Barnaby and his own wife, Tomoe), the fandom has concluded that Kotetsu has magical tsundere-attracting powers.
"Yes, yes, Baaahnaby. Jut out your hips more."Explanation
Fans are more than a little suspicious of Maverick's parenting techniques, given his ward's habit of pandering to the Female Gaze.
The writers - head writer Nishida, in particular - have admitted that they're pretty fond of Antonio/Rock Bison - a fondness that paradoxically drives them to relentlessly screw with him.
Sold out in X seconds*
There's been a notorious tendency for T&B figurines to not only sell instantly after preorders open, but actually crash the sites they're sold on from the surge in orders.
Inspired by a scene near the beginning of Taishou Yakyuu Musume, /a/ previously had a tradition of posting a picture of Koume every day with this text at 8:00 board time. It still surfaces from time to time.
Kenshiro's cries as he performs his signature Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken. If any film, anime or series features at one moment somebody pulling out some similar attack, expect to find videos slapping this over the actual soundtrack within hours.
The translation of possessed!Himari's catch phrase. (Doubling as Wham Line when said by somebody else.)
VIVA MUFFLER! explanation
A line in Engrish that Kanba shouts in episode 10- while this sprang up after that episode's premiere, it became even more useful after Himari began knitting scarves for Double H and episode 20's flashbacks.
As of episode 16, doing the same with a certain shot◊ that shows the return of the Princess of the Crystal is starting to go that way too.
Shouma is mai waifu. explanation
Shouma has become, er, very well-known among males in 4chan, and his Yamato Nadeshiko traits have made him one of the VERY rare males that 4channers would consider as "waifu" material.
Lol wut? u mad? explanation
A certain fansub's, er, rather "special" translation of one of Sanetoshi's lines (in which he used very outdated slang) in episode 13.
After Kanba noticed Sanetoshi and Himari's growing closeness in episode 16 and showed jealousy about it, people immediately jumped onto the parallels with the Netorare Genre, in which a male steals somebody else's girlfriend from under the other guy's nose specifically to invoke jealousy in the cheated-on guy (and the audience). The meme started solely focusing on Kanba as the "victim", but as the series went on, the growing Love Dodecahedron made the term relevant to basically every single character, to the point that it has become somewhat of a 4chan tradition to type at least one variation of the "NTR SHIT" phrase in a Penguindrum-related thread.
Many of Masako's scenes in episode 16, especially her dream sequence, contain a bodyguard of her grandfather's who speaks completely in hilarious Engrish. It's actually surprisingly well-done, as he's voiced by a professional English-Japanese translator.
Himari no tame ni! Explanation
It means "For Himari's sake", and Kanba and Shoma say it on a regular basis.
Shibireru darou? Explanation
Sanetoshi's own Catch Phrase, which means "Isn't it electrifying?".
Mario will never be relevant. explanation
The longer the series has gone on, the more obvious it's become that Masako's younger brother Mario was never nearly as important as he was made out to be. The fandom has quite a few jokes about it.
WATASHI WA SHINEN- SHINENZO! FARUKEN PAUNCH! Explanation
Black Shadow's final stand against Captain Falcon in F Zero GP Legend.
The creepy face◊ Yuno makes at the end of the first episode of Mirai Nikki. It's gotten to the point where it's gotten its own tags on Pixiv (恍惚のヤンデレポーズ, lit. "yandere pose of ecstasy") and Danbooru (yandere_trance).
Midway through his arc in Digimon Adventure, Vamdemon killed two of his henchmen in an instance of You Have Failed Me, which promptly caused Yamato and Garurumon to flip their shit at him. While the dub was normally pretty good at averting Never Say "Die", this scene played it completely straight with Myotismon instead "condemning the two to his dungeon in the Digital World", with the reaction from Mattcompletely unchanged. Spawned by translation comparison site Digimon Uncensored, it became something of a memetic Take That at questionable handling of death by the dub and as a snarky term for death in general.
In Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing, Sky Pirate Fam's attempt to steal the Silvius got her captured and forced to work for them. The Silvius' captain also happens to be named Tatiana, which is a Russian name.
Angel Beats! is very notable for abusing its ending song, Brave Song. Get whacked with a giant hammer? Play the ending theme. Use a rocket chair to smash a victim multiple times? Play the ending theme.
The name of the american opening song of the series, which is quite catchy. It also refers to a silly picture of a Waddling Head Sonic. This fits nicely with the Dumb Running Sonic meme.
Euphemism for suicide by hanging. Named after Kafuka's bizarre explanation that Nozomu was not trying to kill himself, but merely trying to increase his height.
