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MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
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#51: Aug 18th 2011 at 8:57:31 AM

[up] The character is also often a Strange Girl, if not an outright Mystical Waif.

edited 18th Aug '11 8:57:44 AM by MarqFJA

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NoirGrimoir Rabid Fujoshi from San Diego, CA Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
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#52: Aug 18th 2011 at 4:16:25 PM

Read the page, it explains everything.

(And Raso, I really don't think that info about H-doujinshi is relevant, lol evil grin)

edited 18th Aug '11 4:22:22 PM by NoirGrimoir

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MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
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#54: Aug 18th 2011 at 7:31:02 PM

32 Footsteps has already provided a good argument against using only "Ayanami" from the Trope Namer / Trope Codifier.

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Raso Cure Candy Since: Jul, 2009
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#55: Aug 18th 2011 at 7:34:57 PM

A google of "Ayanami" and looking at the GIS doesnt turn up a single result to anything different than just Rei... nvm found one a battle ship with the name... woop de doo. EDIT: two Gravure Idols and thats it, Its usage in works is close to nil from what I see. Unless its a shoutout.

edited 18th Aug '11 7:50:03 PM by Raso

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32_Footsteps Think of the mooks! from Just north of Arkham Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
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#56: Aug 19th 2011 at 9:21:41 AM

[up]Wait, you're only looking at the GIS? That's cherry-picking your data. Trust me, I've pulled up a band, a character in a show called 07 Ghost, a Japanese porn worker (I hesistate to use "star"), the destroyer that the Evangelion character was named after... and that was just the first five pages of looking for "ayanami" on Google. Yes, Rei Ayanami is the most common result, but far from the only one. And several of those were on the first page of results.

For comparison, you have to go to the second page of searching "mario" to even find something not related to the title character of Super Mario Bros - and we live in a world where there's a famous chef named Mario Batali (said author of several cookbooks, owner of several famous restaurants, and once and possibly future cast member of Iron Chef America is the 14th link).

In short, using the Google results of "mario" as a baseline for the One Mario Limit, "Ayanami" by itself fails.

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Bookyangel2438 from New York City Since: Jul, 2011
#57: Oct 8th 2011 at 8:34:35 PM

Bumping. Is this stale?

edited 8th Oct '11 8:34:43 PM by Bookyangel2438

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troacctid "µ." from California Since: Apr, 2010
#58: Oct 8th 2011 at 9:10:59 PM

Yeah, I think it's stale.

Personally, I find it hard to object to the name of Character X being used in the title of a trope whose definition is "An Expy of Character X".

Rhymes with "Protracted."
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#62: Oct 9th 2011 at 7:50:11 AM

[up][up][up][up] Yes.

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captainpat Since: Sep, 2010
#63: Oct 9th 2011 at 8:24:13 AM

Yep, pretty sure we can lock this.

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