Title Drop / Anime & Manga

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• 7 Seeds is the name of the "7 Seeds Project" thought up by the government to Fling a Light into the Future before the meteorites wipe out humanity. The name gets dropped a few times, generally by the guides who explain why they find themselves here and other people in the know.
• In Accel World, the virtual reality game known as Brain Burst is colloquially referred to as the "accelerated world," since one second in the real world is equivalent to 1,000 seconds in Brain Burst. In Volume 16, Metatron drops the actual title.
  Metatron: “My servant…must not cry. I know you will reach it someday. The end of this Accelerated World we live in… This…Accel World.”
• In almost every manga by Misturu Adachi, every chapter is titled after a phrase that is said within that chapter. This is, however, a chapter title drop and not a series title drop.
• In Ah... and Mm... Are All She Says, the main character is a manga artist with a communication disorder. One flashback to her high school days has a schoolmate comment, "Yep, 'Ah...' and 'Mm...' are all she ever says."
• The first OVA of Ai no Kusabi has a the title drop when a character uses a metaphor of the "space between two connected opposites" to describe the relationship of the two lead characters.
• Air Gear has a title drop while Kanon discusses Ikki and Ringo's reasons for riding to Rika.
• In Alive: The Final Evolution, an ancient alien race thought that death was the final stage of evolution and came to earth to die. soon, however, it was realized that being alive as one singular being was 'the final evolution,' hence the title.
• While the main lead of Angel Densetsu is the eponymous angel, Leo thinks he's the devil incarnate. And shortly after says to Ikuno that she is an angel (and she even gets an angel cover like Kitano usually does). Could be either spoofed or played straight: this is after both the Heel–Face Turn and the Villain Realization of Ikuno, but she's still Ax-Crazy like nobody's business.
• Characters in Aoharu × Machinegun start dropping the title of each episode starting with Episode 5.
• In Asteroid in Love, the forty-second chapter's eyecatch shows Ao sitting on a luggage with several stickers, one of which simply says "Asteroid in Love".
• Attack on Titan:
  • As grammatically close as one can get, anyway. During the speech that Dot Pixis made before the attempt to re-take the Trost District, he says, "When this plan succeeds, it'll be the first time we've reconquered land from the Titans! It will mean mankind has finally managed an attack on the Titans!"
  • A true one is finally provided in chapter 88, with The Reveal that the name of Eren's Titan is the "Shingeki no Kyojin" (Advancing Giant/Attack Titan), which is the Japanese title for the series and also the title of said chapter.
• The Japanese version of the third season of Bakuten Shoot Beyblade. Each and every episode of that season is also a line of dialogue spoken by a character. More often than not, it gives off a hint as to what occurs in an episode in a very subtle way (it may be a partial line, it may be a full line). As an example, here's the sixth episode's title.◊ Now here's where that particular line is spoken.◊
• Beastars: In the story, "Beastar" refers to an animal selected by prestigious schools to become a leader to the world based on their personality and accomplishments, with the Sublime Beastar being an official political position chosen among the pool of previously chosen ones, however, there is no plural version of the word. It's not until the final arc of the manga that Legosi proposes to Louis that they become "Beastars" together to change the way carnivores and herbivores interact with each other, with Louis lampshading that there is no plural that word. Later, during the turf war against Melon, Louis learns that Legosi named their team (which is composed of only the two of them) "Beastars" as well.
• Berserk:
  • At the end of the first chapter, Puck (who senses the emotions of whoever is nearby) looks on the carnage left behind by Guts's battle with the Snake Baron and whispers in shock, "...berserk..."
  • And much much later in the series Guts gets his Midseason Upgrade, The Berserk Armor.
• In Beyond the Boundary, the significance of the title is not apparent until the end of Episode 7, where Izumi says that The Calm may be this.
• Black Clover is named after Asta's Anti-Magic grimoire, which has a five-leaf black clover on the cover.
• Bocchi the Rock!: At the end of episode 8, Nijika nicknames Hitori "Bocchi The Rock."
• Bokurano had one in Chapter 55, although the impact gets Lost in Translation if you read it in any language that doesn't have multiple ways to say "I". In the middle of a conversation, Ushiro goes from using "ore" to using "boku," which surprises Machi. (This conversation, which happened toward the end of the manga, never got adapted into the anime.) Given that bokurano just means "ours", a pretty common word, both versions have quite a few meaningless title drops as well, including in the opening song, "Uninstall."
  Machi: "We". We may not have been together for long, but it's not like we just met. And in a situation like this, I don't care if it's not true, I'd like to feel as if we were close friends. We, ours, ours.
• Boys Run the Riot: At the end of Volume 1, Jin organizes a mass gathering to advertise the fashion brand, only for chaos to ensue when the police try to break it up. Ryo, who's been pondering a name for the brand, is struck by inspiration:
  Ryo: A "riot"... can mean an "outburst of feelings." It also has a slang meaning... "a highly entertaining thing." But that alone is what we should aim for... and move toward— we are... "Boys Run The Riot!"
• In the anime version of Broken Blade while looking at the broken-down Ancient Golem one character comments that it's almost like a "broken blade".
• Case Closed: Sera's catchphrase happens to be "Case Closed", which is the English title for the series.
• Cells at Work!: "Mission! Health Comes First", the opening to the anime, drops both the English and Japanese titles as it goes.
  One, Two! Three, Four!
  We are Cells at Work!
• In Charger Girl, Plug always says "Fight! Ippatsu! Juuden!" whenever she charges someone up. It translates as "Fight! One shot! Charge!"
• Code Geass:
  • While not quite as overt, in the main series the title is dropped in as Lelouch briefly mentions both of them in a monologue of his. Some people also believe he eventually obtained a Code in addition to his Geass by the end of the show.
  • In Code Geass: Nightmare of Nunnally, After Alice takes on the Mark Nemo and becomes Nunnally's Knight, she becomes known as "Alice the Code Geass, Knightmare of Nunnally." Rolo shouts this title after she uses the Flame of God and escapes with Nunnally.
• The title drop for Darker than Black appears in the last episode title of the first series, called "Does the Reaper Dream of a Darkness Darker Than Black".
• DEAD Tube is about a video hosting website that has Snuff Films as its top viewed, most popular, and encouraged content. Said Website is aptly named DEAD Tube, so of course the characters drop the series name all the time.
• Den-noh Coil doesn't even mention the eponymous Den-noh Coil phenomenon until the end of Episode 14.
• In Descendants of Darkness, Muraki, during one of his Tsuzuki-torture moments, says to him that they are the same in that they are both — you guessed it — "descendants of darkness."
• Kannazuki no Miko (later published under the name Destiny of the Shrine Maiden) provides a title drop on the last page of the manga, even though it never explains the name for English-speakers. (In fact, TOKYOPOP doesn't even translate the series title; they just add a subtitle, "Destiny of Shrine Maiden".) For the record, it means "priestesses of the godless month" — namely October, which according to Shinto is when the gods congregate elsewhere. This is part of the series' heavy Shinto influence, and it's for this reason that Himeko and Chikane's shared birthday is October 1.
• In (at least the dub of) Dinosaur King, the title is refers the title Dr. Z plans to bestow on himself one he brings as many dinosaurs into the future as possible in order to build a "dinosaur kingdom".
• Dr. STONE: Early on in the series, Senku talks about how hygiene is an important way to stave off illness, especially in a post-apocalyptic world without medicine; thus when he invents soap he calls it "our stone of life — Doctor Stone!" It can also apply to Senku himself (since he's by far the smartest person in the Stone World), and later on to the "stone beam" that destroyed humanity, since reversing the petrification proves to be a Panacea that can cure conditions beyond modern medicine like clinical brain death.
• Happens off-hand a few times in Eensy Weensy Monster.
• Excel flat-out says "The title [of the anime] is Excel♡Saga" in Episode 2, and tells us what it means
• Failed Princesses has a naming scheme similar to Madoka Magica, above. For example, the first chapter is titled, "Cuter Than Anyone," and opens with Nanaki Fujishiro, one of the two main leads, saying, "I have always wanted to be cuter than anyone, anywhere."
• In Final Fantasy: Unlimited, Kaze is frequently referred to as "Unlimited".
• Subverted in FLCL: the title of the series, though it comes up frequently, has almost no meaning in the grand scheme of things. Or even in the short-term...
  Kamon: Ah, your brother's away, so she sinking her fangs into you, Naota! Fondling around! Fooling around! FOOLY-COOLY!! ...What's fooly-cooly?
  Naota: How should I know? I'm still in grade school!
• In Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, also known as Sousou no Frieren, Frieren is referred to as such by the demon, Aura. "Sousou no Frieren" can mean either "Frieren at the Funeral" or "Frieren of the Funeral", i.e. Frieren who sends people to their funerals.
• From Eroica with Love is also a catchphrase of the titular character.
• Fullmetal Alchemist is the Code Name of Ed, who has a prosthetic arm and leg made entirely out of metal. His brother Al is an animated suit of armor, which causes people who haven't met the duo to think Al is the "Full Metal Alchemist". The Japanese metaphor of the "heart of steel" (Edward being, in Japanese, the "alchemist of steel") also refers to the brothers' dogged determination, which gets a title drop in the last page of the manga and scene in the second anime before the credits.
• Fushigi Yuugi's theme song is entitled "Itooshi Hito no Tame Ni", which translates to "For My Loved One." The song's title and its translation are used for the final episode. To add to that, the title of the anime itself makes up the last two words of the song.
• Futari wa Pretty Cure has a title drop in the girls' In the Name of the Moon speech, as do Yes! Pretty Cure 5 and HeartCatch Pretty Cure!, now followed by Suite Pretty Cure ♪, Smile Pretty Cure! and Doki Doki Pretty Cure. Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash★Star does it a little differently: the speech simply uses "futari wa Pretty Cure", but the 11th-Hour Superpower is called "Precure Spiral Heart Splash Star". Fresh follows this pattern, with the girl's (first) Mid-Season Upgrade basically just adding "Fresh" to the end of the original attack name.
  • Glitter Force Doki Doki, the English dub of Doki Doki! PreCure, has the girls all shout "Glitter Force Doki Doki!" at the end of their group In the Name of the Moon speech.
• Gasaraki mentions the "Gasara" quite early on, but "Gasaraki" doesn't get mentioned until halfway through the series. The two are related, though.
• The series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex sounds like a confusing title, but does make sense in the context of the show. The first part comes from the manga, which dealt with the meaning and nature of the human soul (or "ghost") when artificial intelligences could convincingly simulate human thought and most humans were at least partially cybernetic. The second part refers to the occurrences where several people with cyberbrains come together to perform some action like a flash mob, but there doesn't seem to be a leader or even someone who originally came up with the idea, much less communication between these people beforehand. To add an additional layer, episodes were labelled as either "Stand Alone" or "Complex", depending on whether they related to that season's arc.
• The Girl Who Leapt Through Space wastes no time. It drops its own title at the end of the first episode.
• The 271st chapter of Golden Kamuy has First Lieutenant Tsurumi musing that since the Ainu believe everything in the world is a vessel for the gods, or Kamuy, then considering the sheer disaster brought about by the hoard of gold everyone is fighting over, the "Golden Kamuy" must be a God of Evil.
• An example of the second type: Good Luck! Ninomiya-kun ("My condolences, Ninomiya-kun"), ends with the show's title as the final spoken line by Hosaka as he overlooks another normal, chaotic morning with the many women surrounding Shungo Ninomiya.
• At the end of the Gravitation OVA's, an executive asks Tohma (in English) what Bad Luck's appeal is. Take a wild guess what he says.
• Grenadier has both a partial and full title drop in the anime. In the tenth episode, Rushuna is bestowed the title of "Grenadier", revealing that it's a title given to Senshi (gun users) who kill other Senshi. In the final episode, she is bestowed the full title of "Grenadier: Hohoemi no Senshi", the anime's full title (translating as "The Smiling Senshi" or "The Senshi of Smiles", referring to Rushuna's "ultimate battle strategy" of eliminating someone's will to fight by smiling at them and embracing them to her breasts).
• It's become something of a trend in Gundam to name a series after the Mid-Season Upgrade Gundam rather than the one the protagonist starts out with.
  • This goes back all the way to Zeta Gundam, where the title mech wasn't even built until about twenty episodes in and the main character started out with what amounted to a souped-up version of the original Gundam, but the trend has become more pronounced in recent years.
  • G Gundam: The God Gundam doesn't show up until the beginning of the Gundam Fight finals. In the dub, it was renamed "Burning Gundam", which leaves the title unexplained. Some fans have suggested that it means Gundam of Gundams, which it the title of the winner of the Gundam Fight.
  • In After War Gundam X, aside from being named for the title mech, each individual episode was taken from a character's dialog that episode.
  • Gundam SEED Destiny: The Destiny Gundam comes along when the series is more than half over.
  • Gundam 00's eponymous robot didn't even make an appearance until the very last episode of Season 1. We had to wait until Episode 2 of Season 2 to actually see it in combat. On the other hand, the second episode of season 1 dropped the full name of the franchise itself!
  • An odd example occurs in the Gundam SEED side story manga X-Astray, where the main Gundam is originally called the Dreadnought, but is rechristened the X-Astray after it's equipped with a back-mounted remote weapon system shaped like an X.
  • The title Gundam of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing is the one the protagonist starts with. However, a more conventional title drop occurs in the movie, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz, where one of the villains describes human history as such.
• The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All not only has three Title Drop Chapters(the first two chapters and Chapter 18, in which the Internal Reveal happens), but in Chapter 22, Aya drops the title while angsting about her learning that the clerk she had a crush on was actually a girl four chapters prior.
  Aya: I get it already. Looks like the guy I was interested in wasn't a guy at all.
• In Volume 6 of Hayate the Combat Butler, Hayate finally develops a Finishing Move. The name of this move? The "Hayate no Gotoku", however, it's written as "Whimsical Hurricane".
  • That is what the title means: Just Like the Wind.
  • In the Image Songs of the second season, each character has exactly one Image Song with "Hayate no Gotoku" in the lyrics.
• Hellsing: "The dead dance. Hell Sings!" Thank you, Major.
• High School D×D has Issei Hyodo getting the title when in Volume 12, his old body is destroyed. However, Great Red and Ophis rebuilt him by using both their powers with Great Red mostly using his powers to create Issei's body. Since Issei is still in high school and his body coming from Great Red, he's now known as High School D×D or "Dragon of Dragons who is still in high school".
• Higurashi: When They Cry ("When the Cicadas Cry"):
  • Applies in Tatarigoshi-hen. Keiichi says it when he plans to murder Satoko's abusive uncle... which is understandable since Higurashi means day-darkener so in essence he says: It will be over tonight.
  • A number of Image Songs and OP/EDs for the series also count. "Higurashi ga naku" appears in the first opening (which is named for the series) as well as a few other places, and "Higurashi no naku koro ni" is in a version of "Dear you" as well as in one of Rika's image songs.
• In the ending of Episode 7 at the second season of How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend, the Blessing Software's second project is named "Project Two: Saenai Kanojo no Sodatekata" which is the alternative spelling of the title in Japanese.
• Hyouka, which means 'Ice Cream', is actually a story about a high school club solving minor mysteries around the campus. The title comes from the club anthology, titled Hyouka by a member of the club from decades past. As for why it's named Hyouka... well, it's not as sweet as you might think.
• I Can't Believe I Slept with You, is a story about Chiyo Koduka, an unemployed woman apparently having sex with her landlady, Ritsuka Hara, to deal with her overdue rent. One would assume that Kozuka is the one who ends up regretting it, since the question is asked of her in the first chapter, but it turns out that it's actually Hara, who drops the original Japanese title of the work.
  Hara: ...I knew all along that we never should have gone that far. Sleeping with you under those circumstances... even if it was just once, I regret it. The truth is... Koduka-san, I...
• I Had That Same Dream Again: Done in the last chapter when Nanoka greets Kiryu and says "I had that same dream again" to him.
• In Episode 4 of ID-0, Ido reveals that the reason he has no memory of his life before becoming an Evertrancer is because, when he first gained consciousness, he had an ID score of ID-0. This is also the reason for his name.
• At the start of I Married My Female Friend, Kurumi gets a phone call from her editor, who says that her column has been approved and asks her for a title. After a glance at Ruriko, her best friend and wife, Kurumi offers the title- "I married my female friend."
• In Iris Zero, 99% of all children born after a specific period in time have magical eyes, while the one percent have utterly lost the Superpower Lottery and are ridiculed because of it. The main character happens to be an Iris Zero. Who happens to be more useful despite his disadvantage.
• Episode 17 of Ixion Saga DT mentions the word Ixion, followed by a pointed reaction that it should mean something, and the actual title screen showing up. Turns out it's a Red Herring. While it does reveal a little background information, nothing comes out of it.
• Kaguya-sama: Love Is War:
  • Chapter 45 (I Can't Hear the Fireworks, Part 2) famously had Kaguya combine this with Close on Title and Double-Meaning Title.
    Kaguya: Everyone is looking at the fireworks. The fireworks they worked so hard to let me see. But I'm sorry. I can't turn my eyes away from his face. My heart is so loud that... I can't hear the fireworks.
  • Chapter 135 does this with the series' Japanese title "Kaguya Wants to be Confessed to", when Kaguya mentally points out the reason why she could never confess to Shirogane.
    Kaguya: If you were to reject my confession, there's no doubt that our friendship would be ruined. That's why I want to be confessed to. Because if I were to confess, I might fail. However, if you were to confess to me, your chance of success is 100%!
  • Season 3 retroactively turned the Arc Words "Ultra Romantic" into one by virtue of using it as a subtitle.
• The first chapter and episode of Kakegurui ("Compulsive Gambler") has The Watson / Deuteragonist of the series, Ryouta Suzui, straight out calling the series' Gambling Addict main character "A compulsive gambler." The Animated Adaptation's Expository Theme Tune similarly has the main character dropping the line "I'm a compulsive gambling queen."
• In Kanon, the title comes from Pachelbel's "Canon" ("Kanon D-dur" being its original German name), which is played in the coffee shop. It isn't until the middle of the series that two characters engage a metaphor-laden dialogue referring to it, embodying the themes of the series.
• In Living With My Brother's Wife, the story of a girl named Shino living with her widowed sister-in-law Nozomi, the title is dropped at the end of the first chapter.
  Shino: My parents died a long time ago, my brother half a year ago. Now I'm living together with my brother's wife, and that's the whole story.
• In Log Horizon, the title is dropped by Shiroe after being queried about the name of the guild he just established in Episode 6.
• On the last page of Lychee Light Club, Kanon is seen walking away from the abandoned factory, while saying "Goodbye, Lychee... Light Club...".
• After looking quite nonsensical for some time, the Oddly Named Suffixes of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's and StrikerS were eventually title dropped by Fate at the end of the latter's ninth episode, telling the young rookies that they are the titles of two kinds of excellent mages. In case you wondered why "A's" was pronounced like "Ace", that's what it's supposed to mean.
• Mahoromatic's second series, Something More Beautiful, drops its title during a climactic battle with The Mole.
  • The exact title is dropped in almost the very end of series, before a kiss.
  • It was first dropped as early as in Season 1's Whole Episode Flashback, which is referenced in aforementioned scene.
• Majikoi! Love Me Seriously!:
  • Done hilariously at the end of the anime by all the girls, when Yamato tells them that his most important ones are... his hermit crabs.
  • The Visual Novel also features a title drop in Yukie's route. Not for itself, but for They Are My Noble Masters, in relation to Fushikawa's offer to let Yamato work for her.
• In Episode 37 of Majin Bone, Leonard the scientist discovers that a Rare Metal Bone is a Bone acknowledged by a Majin and given incredible power. "You might call it a... MAJIN BONE!" *cue theme song music*
• My Brother's Husband is about a Japanese man named Yaichi who meets his deceased brother Ryoji's husband Mike. Yaichi uses the phrase to refer to Mike that way when standing up for him in front of a homophobic teacher, showing that Yaichi has come to accept Mike as family.
• My-HiME, known as Mai-HiME in Japan, has Nagi address Mai as, well, Mai-hime (princess Mai: first meaning). But the meaning of this title is a lot more convoluted. HiME is itself an acronym used inside the series to describe girls with powers similar to Mai's (Mai the HiME: second meaning). And the anime just happens to share title with a famous novel by Mori Ogai called "Maihime" (Dancing Girl: third meaning), which is referenced by Nagi's constant metaphors alluding to dance. Add the fact that "mai" is homonymous with the English word "my" (My princess/My girl with HiME powers: fourth and fifth meanings), where My-HiME seems to be the accepted romanization, and you probably have the ultimate title drop. The English-subtitled version uses the "Mai-HiME" romanization until the end of episode 16, where the title is well and truly dropped.
• My Monster Secret: The series' Japanese title, Jitsu Wa Watashi Wa (meaning "Actually, I..." or more loosely, "the truth is, I...") tends to be used as something of a Mad Libs Catchphrase for the series, typically cropping up whenever a new character shows up ("Actually, I'm a vampire", "Actually, I'm an alien," ect.). The official English translation minimizes it slightly by using "Actually, I am..." as the series' subtitle, but it still crops up a lot. It comes to a head in Chapter 189 when practically every non-human in the school says it as a sort of show of solidarity after Youko is publicly outed as a vampire. The chapter itself even uses the phrase as its title. It gets further lampshaded in the next chapter, where the summary of 189 is "Title-drops everywhere".
• My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! drops the second half of the title in the first volume of the light novel.
  Hmm...? That’s a little weird, isn’t it? In the happy endings, she gets chased out of the kingdom and stripped of her title... and in the bad endings, she dies... Are there no happy endings for Katarina Claes?! There are only bad endings! All routes lead to doom!
• My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected: in the anime, the title's name is the last thing you hear, the protagonist Hikigaya Hachiman is the one who says it.
• Briefly in Negima! Magister Negi Magi, the True Companions (who ultimately became the Ala Alba) after gathering and building their team and many arguments on a name, chose to be called the Negima-club. Evangeline (the club advisor) disliked the name and re-named them the aformented Ala Alba (white wing) after the lead's father's old group, the Ala Rubra (Crimson/Red wing). Outside of Eva's earshot they still prefer calling themself the Negima club.
• New Game!'s ending theme Now Loading!!!! doubles it up by title-dropping both the series and the song within the same line:
  New game is now loading, now loading, now loading...
• In Ninja Nonsense, when Miyabi first arrives, she tells Shinobu to "Stop this..." and you know the rest. That's the English title, of course — the Japanese is an untranslatable pun that even the original version can't work into dialogue, so it's included in the opening theme instead.
• In the manga Not Simple, a novelist named Jim warns that the story he is writing about the protagonist Ian is, well...not simple. This is also the title of the book he's writing. Additionally, the strange life and Anachronic Order of the story is confounding enough to make this a Justified Title.
• In Omamori Himari, Himari's role is to protect Yuuto from demons that seek to kill him for his demon slayer blood after Yuuto's protective charm (called an omamori in Japan) stopped working. In other words, Himari herself is Yuuto's new protective charm, or — you guessed it — Omamori Himari.
• One Piece is named after the greatest treasure in the series, that also happens to be the ultimate goal of the main character. Obviously, it's referenced its share of times as a result of this, though not quite as often as one might expect. The most epic title drop is, however: "ONE PIECE DOES EXIST!"
• Only the Ring Finger Knows: From Yuichi, at the end of the first volume when he and Wataru finally get together: "Let them say what they wanna say, only our ring fingers know the truth."
• Subverted in the first episode of There's No Way My Little Sister Can Be This Cute!, where the main character is woken up by an alarm clock just before he could say it, but played straight in the third episode, when the main character's sister finally calls him "Aniki" (big brother) for the first time.
• Paranoia Agent never drops its own title, but every episode has its title appear in some way during the episode proper. The last episode's title appears on a sign that is promptly destroyed by the final form of Shonen Bat.
• Parasyte's original Japanese title is "Kiseijuu" ("parasitic beasts"), a variant of the more common word for parasites "kiseichuu" ("parasitic insects"). While the latter is used occasionally to refer to the alien parasites, the former is only used by mayor Hirakawa in a speech in which he calls humans the real parasites. Similarly, in the English translation he calls them "worms — or Parasytes".
• Persona 4: The Animation takes its episode titles from lines spoken in the episodes themselves, though the titles are in English while the lines themselves are spoken in Japanese. They were in well-spoken English too, up until the awkwardly-named "Anniversary to Become a Family".
• Pokémon:
  • In the FRLG arc of Pokémon Adventures, Red and Green trade their starters, leaving Red with Charizard and Green with Venusaur. Mewtwo comments on this, thinking, "FireRed and LeafGreen, eh?" Unfortunately, since Green is called Blue in the English releases, it didn't translate well; with translations either giving the title drop despite not matching the character's name or replacing it with a "fire and water" metaphor even though Venusaur is a grass Pokémon.
  • Pokémon: The Series:
    • After deciding to join Ash in his journey, Cilan's brothers bid him farewell with the phrase "Best Wishes", which became the Japanese title of the series during the Unova arc.
    • This phrase is also uttered in the much later Rival Destinies episode "Scraggy and the Demanding Gothita!"
    • The end of the 11th movie Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior has Dawn dropping one at the end of the movie. (..Oddly enough, it has the movie's Japanese name being said in both versions...)
      "It's a...Sky bouquet!"
• Pretty Cure always manages to work in the title:
  • In Futari wa Pretty Cure, Pretty Cure included the phrase in their In the Name of the Moon speech. (This continued into Futari Wa Pretty Cure MaX Heart and Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash★Star, which also included the subtitles in attack names: the Marble Screw Max Heart Sparkle and the Spiral Heart Splash Star.
  • Starting with Yes! Pretty Cure 5, the team announces the title after a group transformation.
• The Prince of Tennis: The main character Ryoma Echizen is occasionally referred to as the Prince of the Tennis, due to his skill at a young age as well as being the son of arguably the best tennis player in the world.
• The Princess Resurrection manga has one that only works in Japanese. The series' real title is Kaibutsu Oujo, meaning "Monster Princess", and Hime is addressed as such by one of the few supernatural beings outside her jurisdiction.
• The title of Project ARMS refers to an experiment in which ARMS are installed in four children. Double meaning in ARMS also (while two of the children received their implants in their arms, ARMS is used in the sense of "weapon")
• Once an Episode in Puella Magi Madoka Magica; every episode is named for a line of dialogue that appears in it.
• In Queen's Blade, it is literally the first words of the opening narration to every episode.
• In the first volume of the Read or Die manga, Yomiko faces off against a pyromaniac while trying to rescue Nenene from a crazed fan. With every shred of paper within the vicinity going up in flames, Yomiko had effectively become powerless and rather distraught at the sight of all the burning books until Joker flew in on a helicopter to drop down a briefcase loaded with paper for her to fight with. This prompts him to think out loud, looking over her situation and saying that she now has a choice, which is, as one could guess, to read or die.
• Rebuild of Evangelion ends with Shinji resetting not just the Rebuild timeline, but *all* Evangelion continuities into ordinary worlds without Evas, where everyone can move on. He and Rei call this plan "Neon Genesis."
• Revolutionary Girl Utena does this with its final episode, in which the title of the episode is also the last line of dialog in the series.
• Played with in Sakura Discord. Oka proposes the name "Sakura Discord" for their baseball team, comparing it to a cacophony that creates an odd kind of melody in the end. Alas, he's the only one willing to use it, much to his dismay. Nomiya calls the group "THE Sakura", and keeps using that name even after everyone rejects it.
• Scryed never mentioned its title in the anime. The manga attempted a very awkward title drop, by making it the "word of evolution" that lets anyone who says it change their Alter into a stronger form.
• In Serial Experiments Lain, every episode title is a single word, which invariably gets mentioned in a meaningful context in that same episode, although it doesn't necessarily mean what the viewers thought (for example, "Psyche" is a type of processor Lain installs in her Navi, and "KIDS" is the codename of an experiment conducted by a Mad Scientist years ago).
• Seven of Seven drops both the Japanese and English titles in the same scene, after Mary sees the multiple Nanas together.
  Mary: One, two, three... Seven! Seven of Seven! Seven of Seven!
  Nana: Seven of Seven... de, Shichinin no Nana!?
• Shakugan no Shana does this in an interesting way: Shana is the female lead, and "shakugan" (burning eyes) is part of her title, "Enpatsu Shakugan no Uchite," but they aren't used together until Episode 23, in reference to her dual identity as a person and a Flame Haze.
• The protagonist of Shangri-La drops the title as the very last word of the series.
• Shirobako has episode titles derived from lines in the episode.
• There is a silver spoon in the cafeteria of the school in Silver Spoon. No one knows what it's for yet.
• In the finale of Slayers Evolution-R, Xelloss calls Lina and her group by the series title.
• In Sorry, But I'm Not Into Yuri!, the protagonist, Toudou, acquires a Love Potion for use on her (male) homeroom teacher, but to test it out, uses it on Yomotsuka, a girl she doesn't like. The potion works a bit too well, causing the otherwise prim and proper Yomotsuka to become perverse and lustful. A part of Toudou enjoys her time with Yomotsuka, but she's conflicted about it.
  Toudou: Two girls, together?! It's impossible! That's right! I still have my teacher! I'm sorry, but... I'm not into yuri!!
• The penultimate chapter of Soul Eater, usually taken as a Character Title, features one of these as Crona refers to fear as 'the soul eater'.
• Sukisho's full name (Suki na Mono wa Suki Dakara Shouganai) translates to something like "I like what I like so there". Sunao manages to subvert this in the first episode by saying "I hate what I hate, so there."
• Summer Time Rendering becomes the title of Hizuru's new novel idea at the end of the series, directly inspired by Shinpei and Ushio's recollections of the loops and the shadows via dreams.
• Super Dreadnought Girl 4946 Mana is very insistent that she is not 50 meters tall, but 49 meters, 46 centimeters. Later, Jinguuji decides to make a light novel out of her story, which he calls "Super Dreadnought Girl".
• Takopi's Original Sin: Chapter 13 is titled "Takopi's Original Sin", which turns out to be helping Shizuka kill and dispose of Marina.
• In Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann:
  • The Lagann's most powerful form is called "Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann". It's large enough to throw galaxies.
  • In addition, the title of every episode is also a line spoken by a character in that same episode — each story arc uses a line from a different character. Naturally, whenever the episode's title is spoken, it's a hugely dramatic moment. (Well, more so than usual.) In fact, one pivotal episode withholds the title until the end because it's a massive spoiler.
  • Translation conventions in the dub not only make some of the previously mentioned episode titles non-title drops, but, since the series is released simply as Gurren Lagann, technically makes the series title drop the third episode. This also renders the series title drop a half non-sequitur to someone that didn't know the series original name, as they kept it untranslated.
  • And then there's also Simon's "And that's Tengen Toppa! That's Gurren Lagann!" in the final fight.
• Tokyo Ghoul's sequel adds ":Re" to the title.
  • In chapter 9, we learn the meaning of this addition when Sasaki visits a little coffee shop called :Re, which turns out to be run by Touka and Yomo.
  • The ":Re" part of the title is given further meaning in Chapter 86, when it is revealed that Kaneki is the One-Eyed King:
    In many languages, like for example in Maltese, "Re" means "King"
• Tokyo Mew Mew:
  • Done when Mew Ichigo first names her group of sentai Magical Girls Tokyo Mew Mew. Thereafter, they're usually referred to as "the Mew Mews" unless there's something very serious going on where they need to live up to their name.
  • The English dub, Mew Mew Power, refers to the title in Zoey's (Ichigo) In the Name of the Moon line: "Mew Mew style, Mew Mew grace, Mew Mew Power in your face!" (This was something like "The five of us will serve for Earth's future ~ nya!" in the Japanese version.)
• It's not an episode of Toward the Terra unless there's a title drop at least once. Usually at the end of a dramatic speech.
• In the Tower of God anime adaptation, both the first and last episode of the first season contain the line "Welcome to the Tower of God," first spoken by Headon and then by Hwaryun. The phrase "Tower of God" doesn't appear anywhere else, as most of the time, as always in the original webcomic, the Tower is just called the Tower.
• The "Reservoir" in Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- is explained in Chapter 213, six years after the start of the series. It refers to the water reservoir under the Clow Ruins, which is apparently the fulcrum for the Big Bad's Gambit Roulette. The "Tsubasa" part isn't revealed until the very last chapter and in hindsight is at least half glaringly obvious to almost every fan.
• The anime adaptation of Umineko: When They Cry (When the Gulls Cry) has pulled this with Battler in one of its episodes. The original Umineko No Naku Koro Ni visual novel uses this phrase several times; it generally refers to the end of the story, when the storm will subside, causing the seagulls to return to the island, so the people can hear the seagulls cry again. This is also used as a bodycounter at the end of each arc and it sums up the whole series as it most of the time reads this: ''When the seagulls cry, there are no survivors''.
  "...That's right...When the police come...When the seagulls cry, the crime will be solved."
  
  "...Once the typhoon has passed, when the seagulls cry, everything may be resolved."
  
  "I see...We'll definitely be able to understand each other...When the seagulls cry."
  
  "...That's right, when the seagulls cry...I will remain silent until then."
  
  "When the seagulls cry, nobody will be left alive..."
  
  "...When the seagulls cry, everything will end, I guess. Done, done, the end, the end. So refreshing."
• Until Death Do Us Part has a title drop right in the first chapter.
• During the first volume of the manga Vagabond, Takezo (soon to become the famous samurai Miyamoto Musashi) declares "I left home knowing I'd never go back. From this day on...I'm a Vagabond."
• The very last words spoken in Welcome to the NHK are..."Welcome to the NHK." That's also the title of the last episode. These words are also spoken in the first episode by an (imaginary) announcer when Sato first comes up with the conspiracy that gives the show its title.
• This happens in Wife and Wife when a young lesbian couple, Kina and Sumi, discuss what to call their relationship after having recently moved in together.
  Kina: I got it, Suu-chan. I'm gonna be yer wife after all. An' yer gonna be my wife...So that's it! We're Wife an' Wife!
• The World God Only Knows:
  • The title is finally dropped and explained in Episode 12.
  • A much better example comes on Chapter 215, when Dokurou explains to Keima he must turn the world he is into the one he knows to save everyone
    Dokurou: Onii-chan, you must turn this into the world you only know.
• Yu-Gi-Oh!:
  • The title of the franchise means "King of Games" in Japanese, and it quickly becomes Yugi's moniker and official title. The Toei version throws it a few episodes in while "Duel Monsters" has this in its opening monologue. In the English dub, the Pharaoh mentions he was once known as Yu-Gi-Oh when Yugi asks him his name.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: "GX" is an abbreviation for GeneX, the name of a tournament in the second season.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds: "5D's" is the name of the turbo dueling team that Yusei, Aki/Akiza, Crow and Jack form during the WRGP. It stands for "five dragons", which is the number of the Signer Dragons.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL: Astral at one point has a dream in which a voice told him that "he must obtain the power of ZEXAL". Eventually it's revealed that it's some kind of legendary force in the Astral World, and in practice it allows Yuma and Astral to overlay. This happens several times throughout the series. There's also an In-Universe archetype called "ZEXAL Weapon".
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V: ARC-V is a gigantic machine created by Akaba Leo that harvests the Life Energy of the people carded by his soldiers. There is also the Arc Area Project, which is the planned process of turning the entire population of Heartland into cards.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS: VRAINS stands for Virtual Reality Artificial Intelligence Network System, and it's Exactly What It Says on the Tin. All the duels take place in Link VRAINS.
• Zombie Land Saga: The plot is driven by the Zombie Land Saga Project, the goal of which is to form an idol group comprised of zombies to help revitalize Saga.

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