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. [[labelnote:Explanation]]The explanation behind the meme, if necessary.[[/labelnote]] Explanation Like this.
- Further mutations and successor memes, if any.
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General Memes
- Referring to anime in general as "Chinese cartoons" Explanation Mocking both the type of person who is confused what country almost all anime originates from and the type of person who gets unreasonably frustrated when others refer to anime as "Japanese cartoons", anime fans combine both terms to ironically refer to their hobby. Over time, this started to get snowcloned into [Asian country] [type of visual entertainment], such as Taiwanese zoetropes, Vietnamese rice paper drawings, Cambodian shadowplay, Mongolian tribal dance and so on.
Things get a little complicated in the 2020's when actual Chinese cartoons enter the seasonal rotation and look about as good as Japanese animation.- "Animu" and "mango" are deliberately mangled pronunciations used for similar purposes.
- Referring to the Japanese language as "Moonspeak" or the written language as "Moonrunes". Explanation A reference to the fact that most Western fans of Japanese works cannot speak or read Japanese, so the Japanese language may as well be "alien moon language" to them.
- "Special Feeling
" note A newscast interviews a guy with his girlfriend and he comments on how it feels special to be in the snow with his lover; which makes her very cutely embarrassed. Cue derivations of this scene starring every shipping fandom in existence, straight, Ho Yay, Cargo and everything in between. - Watching something for the plot. note Plot means fanservice, in case you couldn't tell.
- QUALITYExplanation After the horribly animated Yoake 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. The horribly-drawn cabbages would spawn an inside joke within the anime industry to draw cabbages in much more detail compared to the rest of the show. Years after the anime's airing, any instance of glaring Off-Model animation would be referred to as QUALITY (all-caps included).
- "____ is mai waifu" Explanation "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. (Funnily enough, he's not actually an example of the usual usage - it later turns out she really is his wife.)
- The male version should be "hasubando" or "hazubando" 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.
- "____ is best girl!" Explanation A derivative of the above. Unlike "mai waifu", "best girl" discussions are less subjective: "best", by definition, requires comparison, leading to plenty of debates, joking or otherwise, over who is best girl within a show or even an anime season or year. This can even overlap with Ship-to-Ship Combat. Sometimes it can create variations like "best boy" or "best bro", and occasionally male characters get suggested as "best girl". Fans who are tired of, or poking fun at the trend, will also suggest truly absurd candidates — "Ramiel best girl" is one of the most well-known variants.
- Getting isekai'd by Truck-kun Explanation Many isekai plots use a death by truck accident to set up the protagonist's reincarnation — it's used enough that this method of starting a reincarnation tends to get parodied by other works. The "Truck-kun" term originated from Fuuka and was integrated into this meme.
- "Ah, I see that you're a man of culture as well." explanation A reaction image featuring a screenshot of Last Samurai from Arakawa Under the Bridge. This screencap is often accompanied by mock dialogues used to express good taste in a specific hobby or interest, and it was later snowcloned with various Anime characters which had their eyes closed while slightly looking down.
- "culture" Explanation The meme has been used enough to reference obscure hentai that "culture" has become an euphemism for pornographic content. "Cultured content" can refer to any kind of porn, be it R-18 fanart, doujins, or hentai episodes, while "cultured individuals" describes those who enjoy or produce such content.
- Handholding is lewdExplanation A running joke among the community that treats holding hands as something more salacious than even sex, sometimes jokingly censoring the act or the word. The origins are unknown, but it's thought to be an exaggeration of how anime couples get embarrassed over simple public displays of affection.
- Ara Ara... Explanation An interjection synonymous with "my, my..." and often used by older women. This was popularized (and fetishized) in 2019 when it was associated with flirtatious and buxom big sisters or older women.
- FBI OPEN UP! Explanation A response parroted from the enforcers, which is mostly used to comment on sexualized pictures of underaged Anime/Manga/Light Novel female characters.
- Hello, officer? Yes, this person right here. Explanation One of the most common translations of the Japanese equivalent of the meme above.
- S-stupid Meme... I-it's not like I'm spreading you because I like you or anything! *blushes* D-dummy... Explanation After heavy Flanderization of a character archetype, every Tsundere in existence is required to say this (or a variation) at least once.
- Urusai! Urusai! URUSAI!!! Explanation Another line that is usually expected from a Tsundere...
- "IT'S A TRAP!" Explanation Many Wholesome Crossdressers and androgynous males in anime are drawn really, really pretty, to the point where they can be passed off as actual female characters to new fans with surprising ease. Admiral Ackbar's memetic exclamation was taken to describe this kind of a character as a "trap", in the sense that a highly stereotypical, undersexed, and loudly heterosexual male otaku would be trapped in a conflicting lust for the character. At this point, the jargon is used ironically.
- Also used in reverse — a woman hiding as a man or bifauxnen 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 create Wholesome 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.
- HEALING ANIME Explanation It's not associated with one anime, instead it is a meme used for multiple series such as Yuki Yuna is a Hero or School-Live! that have deceptively cute art-styles and are ostensibly an Iyashikei show, but really have dark plots.
- "Spot The Main Character" Explanation A meme 'game' where you post screencaps of anime where the main characters have character designs that stand out considerably amongst the minor and background characters
- Anime was a mistake. Explanation This is from a mistranslated interview in which Hayao Miyazaki was actually criticizing the lack of creativity in the modern anime industry. People have run with the misquote as a criticism towards the surplus of Otaku-pandering anime, or simply to rile up arguments.
- "No Chromo".explanation Gigguk's suggestion as to what characters should say before sexually pursuing siblings who are not related by blood.
- The hentai protagonist hairstyle Explanation Many hentai and eroge use Eyes Out of Sight to maintain a Featureless Protagonist for the player to self-insert into, and the meme implies that the hairstyle is what allows them to get laid. Several other series, like Assassination Classroom and Seitokai Yakuindomo, poke fun at the trope from time to time.
- [X] yen is about [Y] Norwegian krone. Explanation A meme from the English-speaking manga scanlation community. Norway Scans were known for providing footnotes converting the price of something in yen into Norwegian krone, and though they're now gone, other scanlators have continued the tradition, sometimes snowcloning it using other lesser-known currency.
- Every time you bring up real world physics in a discussion about fantasy anime, God kills a Cat Girl. Please, think of the catgirls. Explanation Anime fandom's version of the MST3K Mantra
- Onii-chan! My hips are moving on their own! Explanation Encompassing all the stereotypes of Hentai, this phrase gets inserted into a wide variety of anime and Japan-related discussions.
- "What if 4Kids got ___?" Explanation Fans occasionally make exaggerated guesses as to how the... controversial licensor would Macekre various anime series, even after the company stopped licensing and "producing" anime in 2011. Bonus points if it's a violent, family-unfriendly series like Higurashi.
- GIRUGAMESH! Explanation Taken from an infamously bad commercial (directed by Vic Mignogna) for Sakura-Con.
- "I hope sempai notices me"Explanation Exact phrasing originates on tumblr, but really just describes Senpai/Kohai romance in a nutshell. Variations of the phrase occur, i.e. "I hope kohai notices me" in Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun
- The "Dead Mom Side Pony", "Hair Of Death", or "Dead Anime Mom Hair". Explanation Missing Mom characters such as Trisha from Fullmetal Alchemist and Carla from Attack on Titan are prone to wearing a Motherly Side Plait.
- Top 10 Anime Betrayals! explanation This is a play off of (in)famous Top 10 Video Countdown youtube channel, Watch Mojo. This specific example is typically accompanined by a character engaging in an action that amounts to Poke the Poodle.
- Blonde Hair Girls always win. Explanation Fans pointed out that most Anime (with harem genre) had blonde-haired girls winning the main male character's heart, which also causes dark-haired girls (Brunette, Black) to lose in the end.
- Speaking of that; some fans noted a recent trend of the Blue-haired girls losing as well (Though started from previous series like Re:Zero, it was eventually popularized from the Anime DARLING in the FRANXX).
- Childhood friend curse Explanation Many Harem Series are bound to include a Childhood Friend Romance, but the protagonist usually chooses one of the other girls at the end (assuming a Marry Them All decision isn't taken). This is exaggerated to a belief that the childhood friend is doomed to never end up with the protagonist. This meme can overlap with the above two harem trends. The doomed childhood romance is such a prevalent trope that the light novel and anime series Osamake markets itself as "The story where the childhood friend doesn't lose".
- It's just a blank picture. explanation An English-translated version of the "白畫面" comment, which is used by the EXTREMELY bitter & pessimistic Chinese viewers on watching a good heteroromantic moment in any Anime series. The picture would go "full color" in their eyes when it comes to Les Yay moments.
- This has been brought to you by Ctenosaur Video, no thanks to "Miami Mike" — I remember what you did to me at DragonCon note Before anime became mainstream in the west, there were various amateur fansubbing groups, including Ctenosaur Video, who would circulate their fansubs on homemade VHS tapes. At some point, a person known only as "Miami Mike" slighted the people at Ctenosaur, who proceeded to trash-talk him in their subs. Who "Miami Mike" was and what he did was a matter of speculation for several years until someone managed to track down an old acquaintance of Mike and got to the bottom of the mystery: Mike had resold some fansub tapes he received from Ctenosaur Video fansubbers, and they never forgave him for it.
- Sauce? explanation Originally "source?" asked by people wanting to know the original anime or manga where an image or screenshot is from. It got mutated into "sauce?" especially after enough people ask for it after OP has already given the source.
- (6 digit number) explanation Inevitably, innocuous panels or scenes from pornographic sources get involved. A popular doujin site catalogs each entry by a unique number, so simply searching that number will easily lead people to the doujin source in question. Some users get subtle by weaving unusually precise 6-digit numbers into their post, and at other times users claim to start interpreting innocuous 6-digit numbers as doujin catalog entries.
- 177013 explanation The catalog number for a doujin named "Emergence"/"Metamorphosis", which outlines a depressing but unusually believable plot where the protagonist of the doujin, in search for validation, gets led down the path of drugs and abuse and dies alone. Like Boku no Pico, this doujin would get recommended to unwitting people looking for a good fap only to sucker them into a gripping but very downbeat story, and many who have read it get "PTSD" from seeing similar character designs sporting glasses and twin braids. Other numbers with extreme content also get used like a Shock Site, but 177013 is the most well-known.
- What are you doing, step-bro? explanation A mainly hentai-oriented phrase that originates from a picture of a girl stuck in a wall with her butt exposed, which makes her wide open for what comes next. Tends to be used in any context of when someone is stuck.
- Among Humongous Mecha fans "G is the most powerful/hot-blooded letter of the alphabet". See Gundam (especially G Gundam), GaoGaiGar, Getter Robo, and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, among others.
- 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.
- Examples of this can be found here and here.
- 2008: "The Year of Dead Snipers". Explanation Gundam 00, Macross Frontier, and the Full Metal Panic! novels all killed off or apparently killed off their respective sniper characters during that year.
- SETSUMEI SHIYOU!"Allow me to explain" A number of shows made by Tatsunoko Production use this phrase when they're about to explain a part of a show that the viewers might not understand right away; usually said by the narrator. It gets used constantly in "Kyatto Ninden Teyandee" to the point of practically being a Catchphrase.
- Dinner, Bath, or Me?Explanation A recurring phrase in anime associated with someone (often a guy) returning home to find an attractive woman at the door who says the aforementioned phrase. This has led to the popularization of the "Dinner, Bath, or Sex" Offer throughout modern media.
- Any Long Enough Sentence Can be a Light Novel TitleExplanation A practice of giving a lengthy title to a Light Novel, leading to this meme mocking the practice.
- Jugemu. Explanation Jugemu is a famous rakugo story known for the Overly Long Name that gets repeatedly recited throughout the story. The story has become memetic due to the eponymous character's name being recited in a blooper for Fullmetal Alchemist and the ED for Joshiraku, "Nippon Egao Hyakkei".
- "Unlike other mecha shows, this one is about the characters." Explanation A Reviewer Stock Phrase used to praise a given mecha series for focusing on human drama rather than mindless giant robot action. It tends to ilicit groans and mockery from the mecha fandom, who will point out that practically every mecha series is "about the characters" and trying to claim otherwise only paints you as someone too ashamed to admit they enjoy a show about giant robots. Sometimes inverted, in the rare case that a viewer regards a show as actually being about the mecha (Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory is the most common example)
Assassination Classroom
- Ansatsu Kyoushitsu is an assassination manga.Explanation A variation of a line from Food Wars! that also went memetic.
- Bitch-sensei.Explanation Class E's nickname (and Insult of Endearment) for Irina Jelavic.
- "Ok class, today we will be discussing about X. Does anyone here know anything about X?"Explanation An image of Irina teaching the class that has been used as a reaction meme to describe situations in class where one's pop culture knowledge suddenly comes in handy.
- Karasuma the Thot Slayer.Explanation During the Assassination Island Arc, Karasuma decide Ignore the Fanservice from Irina before promptly throwing her into the water to shut her up. This has led to Karasuma developing a reputation as a Thot slayer.
- A lot of the Class-E nicknames have become favorites for readers to refer them as. "Justice", "Tsundere Sniper", "Adult Game Protagonist", and "Forever Zero" are usually the most used.
- Reactions to Chapter 128 became very common after the chapter release. There's even a Pixiv tag dedicated to it.
- The Kiss of Death.Explanation (Spoilers) In Chapter 132, Nagisa stops the rampaging Kayano by giving her a 15-second Big Damn Kiss. This moment naturally became a popular moment among Nagikae shippers.
- Civil WarExplanation Chapter 142 got hit with a lot of Marvel Civil War jokes with it heading in the direction that Class 3-E is split on whether to save, or kill, Koro-sensei.
- Invincible TeacherExplanation The series' Market-Based Title in the Philippines that split pretty much the entire Filipino anime community on Facebook mere minutes after local channel GMA-7 announced the release of the Filipino dub, with the Subbing Versus Dubbing arguments, censorship issues, the country's Animation Age Ghetto and the Filipino dubs' tendencies for Market-Based Titles, Dub Name Changes (although they no longer do this in anime anymore, it's usually the dubs of Korean Series that get this treatment these days) and Lost in Translation issues added into the mix.
- "I GAVE YOU POPSICLES!"Explanation After some of his students learned about Koro-sensei's pornography addiction, he bribed them with ice cream popsicles to keep quiet. Just before the class's latest assassination attempt on Koro-sensei, they reveal his secret on film. He belts out this line in the English Dub when he realizes the betrayal.
- Perversion... can save the world.Explanation A observation made by Nagisa over Koro-sensei's (poorly-disguised) porn addiction and how the students could use it as a possible means to assassinate him. Which, as the above meme shows, they certainly did.
- He's an ikemen! Explanation Everyone's swooning over Isogai in his A Day in the Limelight Episode over him doing absolutely anything, which nonetheless gets perceived as gentlemanly.
Bakemonogatari
- Bakemonogatari is a slideshow. Explanation The show's frequent use of still frames, especially during dialogue, lead to many people jokingly claiming this.
- Mispronouncing/misspelling Araragi's name, usually by adding more "ra's" than are necessary. If called out on it, they will respond "Sorry, I stuttered."Explanation Came from a Running Gag in the series where Mayoi would mispronounce Araragi's name in increasingly convoluted ways, only to try to cover it up by saying she stuttered.
- It's an anime about brushing teeth. Explanation Nisemonogatari somehow managed to make a person brushing another's teeth very erotic and a metaphor for sex. Often brought up as the height of the Monogatari series's weirdness.
- Can mew imyagine an imyaginyary mewnyagerie mewnyager imyagining mewnyaging an imyaginyary mewnyagerie? Explanation The tongue twister that Araragi has Cat Hanekawa repeat has become memetic not only due to how complicated it is, but also how Hanekawa says it with cat speak.
- Kaiki is best girl Explanation Due to Kaiki's awesome role in Koimonogatari, his popularity increased greatly, generating him a great legion of fans, with many of them calling him "his waifu" and "the purest girl of the cast".
- Spooky Ougi Explanation Describing Ougi as such became very popular, particularly around Owarimonogatari's release, due to her bizarre character design and odd mannerisms.
- The Ougi Pose Explanation This particular pose Ougi makes in a montage has become very popular among fans, with dozens of edits and parodies.
- Kami-sama arigatou~ Explanation "Renai Circulation" is very memorable and memetic, to the point that some people have declared it as the weeaboo anthem.
Fullmetal Alchemist
- When Roy Mustang becomes Fuhrer, all of his female employees will be required to wear TINY MINISKIRTS! Explanation One of Mustang's actual lines from Fullmetal Alchemist (2003). No one has yet discerned whether he was joking or serious - although in one of the manga's yonkoma, Olivier Armstrong agrees to go along with it if it'd boost troop morale.
- HE LOVES DOGS! Explanation Another of Mustang's lines. Definitely serious, but still silly.
- And is dead sexy... in a miniskirt! 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. Nowadays he feigns ignorance whenever he's asked to say it, but the line got far enough that it's an injoke with the cast.
- And then Vic got Ed's Japanese voice actress Romi Park to say it.
- FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST! Explanation From Brotherhood when a loud bellowing voice shouted "Fullmetal Alchemist" during each eyecatch (which is in English, even in the Japanese version).
- This is not the law of Equivalent Exchange. Explanation An image of Ed resting on a bench with a confused expression on his face, which has been used as a reaction meme towards anything deemed confusing or contradictory.
- THIS MEME HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN THE ARMSTRONG FAMILY FOR GENERATIONS!!! *sparkle* Explanation Major Armstrong is a massive Ensemble Dark Horse 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.
- Manly handshake. Explanation The scene of Armstrong and Curtis shaking hands has become a popular exploitable image, with many comparing it to the Predator handshake meme.
- King Bradley killed a tank. With a sword. Explanation It quickly became popular among fans to describe how badass Bradley is by bringing up the time he took on a tank armed with only a sword and a grenade and won.
- Keep calm and look for an ice cream truck. Explanation Mustang's coup against the government was assisted by reinforcements driving an ice cream truck full of weapons.
- The hate for Shou Tucker has pretty much grown to memetic levels, to the point where he is pretty much the weeaboo Antichrist.Explanation Tucker is an antagonist pretty early on who combined his daughter and his dog into a chimera. He is pretty much the only antagonist who didn't feel some kind of remorse over his actions, especially so considering the 2003 anime didn't feature the Gold-Toothed Doctor. He's also the only character outright confirmed to have gone to Hell after his death. By the 2010s, the kids who hated Tucker have become adults on the internet who still hate Tucker.
- The pain and sorrow felt for Tucker's daughter and dog is commensurate with the hate Tucker garners. Explanation Tucker's desperation to keep his State Alchemist certification ended with him combining his daughter and dog into a chimera in an experiment meant to impress his commanding officers. Said chimera could barely speak and looked absolutely pitiful.
- Making jokes about the fate of Nina Tucker and her dog Alexander in an attempt to Cross the Line Twice is also a common form of trolling.
- [Insert show name]: Brotherhood. Explanation Due to the colossal success of the Fullmetal Alchemist remake, expect any attempt to re-adapt an older property to be referred to with this format.
- It's a terrible day for rain. Explanation (spoilers) Roy Mustang's reaction to Maes Hughes's death, which has been used as a reaction meme to anything tragic.
Haruhi Suzumiya
- "Nyoro~n" Explanation Tsuruya was taken by a Japanese Webcomic artist and made into a Super-Deformed Ditz named Churuya, with a line she said once in the anime made into her Catchphrase, 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.
- Suzumiya Haruhi no Seitenkan Explanation 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.
- Everyone is Itsuki for Kyon. Explanation Summarising both Itsuki's habit of invading Kyon's personal space and Kyon's in and out of universe status as a sex god.
- "You made Mikuru cry!" Explanation From The Melancholy Of Suzumiya Haruhi-chan parody shorts.
- Everything makes Mikuru cry. Explanation There are videos where the clip of Mikuru's crying is placed after random other clips, such as L and his potato chip, or Knuckles claiming that they're not buddies.
- Haruhiism Explanation 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 Taniguchi sings this line as he walks in on a Not What It Looks Like moment with Kyon and Nagato. Quickly became an Ascended Meme as Taniguchi's voice actor, Minoru Shiraishi, references it where ever he can, from his role in Lucky Star, to even reenacting the scene when announcing the ''Haruhi'' live concert!
- The "God Knows" music video is something of a sacred place for Japanese fans. Everyday, they comment "Oharuhi" (a portmanteau of Haruhi and ohayo, good morning) and "Oyasumikuru" (a portmanteau of Mikuru and oyasumi, good night) on the video.
Hellsing
Higurashi
- "Why can't anyone her horns?" 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'd her horns◊" (NSFW). Explanation Fill in the missing word yourselves.
- Remember kids, you should tell your friends if you shoot kids for fun. Explanation A certain fansub is famous for their comments at each break picture.
- Ni-pah! Explanation A nonsense word that Rika often says.
- "OMOCHIKAERI~!" Explanation "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!". Rena is the most frequent user of this line, though it has also been used by other characters.
- Use Soda! Explanation From what some fans think it sounds like.
- 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.
- Shion's Evil Laugh Explanation This is a still image of one Shion Sonozaki manically cackling after she goads Rika Furude into killing herself. It has spawned a fount of Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter" memes on the Internet.
- Rena's Evil Laugh Explanation As with Shion, Rena is prone to laughing insanely, especially if she's under the Hinamizawa syndrome. Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter" memes with Rena cackling (sometimes attacking someone with a machete) are also common.
- 4Kids Entertainment became notorious for their infamously Bowdlerized, sanitized and Americanized dubs; hence it spawned Casey and Friends.
- "Some people who are lactose-intolerant can go to the emergency room!" Explanation "Casey" in the aforementioned video is lactose-intolerant, and when he's about to be given a "taco" with cheese, we cut away to a Public Service Announcement-style narration explaining this in a hilarious way.
- "HE'S TEPPEI!" Explanation Used to express a Lack of Empathy towards the series scrappy Teppei Houjou whenever someone kills him.
Konosuba
- Aqua the Useless Goddess. Explanation Aqua, the Trope Codifier for Loser Deity in Japanese media, is frequently mocked by the anime community for being completely incompetent at everything except party tricks.
- Aqua's penchant for crying has made her The Chew Toy and a frequent target in the eyes of many.
- Aqua's various exaggerated expressions have also become quite memetic, in particular the faces she makes rants over having to help Kazuma or when she loses to Kazuma in Rock–Paper–Scissors.
- Schrodinger's Pantsu. Explanation (Mildly NSFW) Aqua's costume is notorious for never making it clear if she is wearing underwear or not.
- Aqua shaking her ass. Explanation (Mildly NSFW) The scene in Episode 3 where Aqua shakes her posterior while looking at the screen has become memetic for obvious reasons. It was so notorious that it even inspired a custom stage in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which was quickly taken down for violating guidelines.
- EXPLOSION! Explanation Megumin's Signature Spell, and the only one she is able to cast.
- Bakuretsu Bakuretsu La La La! Explanation The song Kazuma and Megumin sing during their montage where they repeatedly blow up Verdia's castle.
- Hai Kazuma Desu (Yes, I'm Kazuma).Explanation Kazuma's deadpan response to whenever anyone in the show calls for him.
- Steal! Explanation One of Kazuma's abilities, which he frequently abuses to be a Panty Thief.
- Yurification! Yurification! Yurification! Explanation In Episode 5, Aqua gets stuck in a cage in order to purify a lake infested with alligators, all the while frantically screaming "Purification!" over and over again. A fairly common edit to this scene has Aqua's frown flipped and the subtitles reading "Yurification!", which is often used to describe Les Yay moments in anime.
- Square TF Up Thots. Explanation A meme depicting the girls cornering Kazuma in the Succubus Cafe has become quite popular as a form of image labeling.
- Eris pads her chest! Explanation The mantra of the Axis Cult.
- Smug Megumin. Explanation Megumin's smirk upon beating Yunyun in a Strip Rock–Paper–Scissors game in the first OVA has become one of her defining expressions.
- Chunchunmaru. Explanation Megumin's nickname for Kazuma's sword.
- Happy Birthday...to me. Explanation Yunyun's One-Person Birthday Party has made her reputation as The Woobie quite prevalent among the anime community, with people either taking pity on her situation or mocking her Friendless Background.
- I yearn for true gender equality. Explanation Kazuma's speech about The Unfair Sex to Megumin has become one of the defining moments of his character. Naturally, when any moment of a man putting a woman in her place or any similar situation comes up, Kazuma is frequently brought up either as a point of comparison or to express his approval.
- Because something is! Explanation The scene where Kazuma finds out the hard way that Sylvia is a Hermaphrodite, which fans have taken to using to describe similar Unsettling Gender-Reveals.
K-On!
- Un-tan! Un-tan! Un-tan! (S1 01 12:12)
- Moe Moe~ Kyun! (S1 04 14:55)
- "Sup, Mugi."
- GITAH?
- Mugi's eyebrows and Ritsu's forehead are practically characters of their own right now.
- Joint meme with Lucky Star: "Asobitai!"
- "Fun things are fun!"
- "Will I become an adult when I grow up?"
- A scene from Episode 2 of Season 2 where Ritsu showcases a huge amount of money to Azusa has become widely popular in the anime community.
- X is canonExplanation Thanks to the very Les Yay-happy nature of the series, any moment or interaction between two characters (mainly Mio/Ritsu and Yui/Azusa) automatically makes a ship "canon" in the fanon's eyes.
- MY MIND IS FULL OF FUCK Explanation An image macro of Ritsu that is used as a popular response for mind-blowing-related content.
- A fanart of Ui punching the wall while browsing on a computer has become a reaction image.
- Borgar Explanation A very brief still taken from the anime of Yui eating a hamburger with a deformed expression.
- Mugi's act of cruelty Explanation A scene where Mugi steals Mio's strawberry off her cake slice, leading to her breaking down in tears. Many fans treated this as if Mugi crossed the Moral Event Horizon.
- Mugi's Yuri Goggles Explanation In episode five of the first season, resident Yuri Fan Mugi is seen looking at Ritsu and the teeacher through two rolled up magazines like binoculars, and blushing. The fandom immediately assumed she thought yuri was afoot
- Racist K-On! fans explanation There are disturbingly numerous instances of people on social media spouting racist, anti-semitic, and homophobic rantings and just so happen to have profile pictures of K-On! characters. Due to this, people have semi-ironically started a generalization that all K-On! fans are racist, ranging from the fandom functioning as a hate group to the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan losing the "most racist person" award to a K-On! fan.
- Rice Bowl Explanation In Episode 6 of Season 1, Mio trips on stage after a performance which lets the whole audience see her panties, but the actual scene cuts to a rice bowl that has the same striped pattern as her panties. Naturally, any mention of "rice bowls" among the K-On fandom brings to mind this scene.
- Due to both of them having blonde hair and prominent eyebrows, it has become popular for fans to compare Mugi to Erwin Smith from Attack on Titan, with some even joking that Mugi is either Erwin's daughter or his reincarnation after his death.
- Brazil mentionedExplanation An image macro depicting Yui with a liquor glass, a bottle of beer, a Brazil-themed hoodie, and a "Please Be Patient I Have Autism" cap celebrating atop a stock image of a group of urban teens in Brazil. While the image was initially created as a way of mocking Brazilian people as Attention Whores, it was embraced by actual Brazilians as a way of expressing tongue-in-cheek gratitude towards their country being acknowledged. This resulted in Latine netizens from other parts of Latin America creating similar photoshops themed around their own countries.
- COCKExplanation In Episode 9 of Season 2, Ritsu wears a hat with the word "rock" on it. It was edited to say "cock" and quickly spread outside of the K-ON fandom.
Little Witch Academia
- Yay Explanation Akko often used yay as a Verbal Tic in the early episodes to express her happiness and excitement (in the Japanese dub anyway), which has led to many memes that use the term yay in relation to Akko or other characters, often to express sheer happiness.
- Don't lose your Yay. Explanation A mashup between one of the main catchphrases from Kill la Kill (another anime produced by Studio TRIGGER) and Akko's main Verbal Tic
- "It's anime Harry Potter!" Explanation A common sales-pitch for the franchise, due to the similarities between the two franchises.
- Shoehorned characters and shoehorned romance.Explanation On the /a/ board of 4chan, one anonymous member vehemently protested against the introduction of male characters, such as Andrew and Frank, claiming that they were "shoehorned" into the plot in order to add some unneeded romantic tension among the protagonists. The member went as far as to say they ruined the whole series. This exaggerated reaction quickly became the object of mockery, and images of shoehorns were used every now and then in Little Witch Academia threads.
- Comrade Akko. Explanation Akko's hardcore support of the strike in episode 14 set off a wave of "Communist Akko" memes, sometimes nicknamed "Akkommunism". Ironically, this doesn't stop her two biggest ships being with Diana and Andrew
- Ursula and Croix are Bayonetta and Jeanne.Explanation Due to them being main characters and their similar appearances with both wearing mostly black with glasses and The Rival having white hair and a red outfit the characters have been compared. Ursula is also quite the parental figure to Akko giving more comparisons. It reached the maximum where the episode 15 preview showed Ursula walking on walls and getting out pistols at Croix just like the final battle of Bayonetta vs. Jeanne, and at one point, her hair looks almost identical to Bayonetta's only red instead of black. It helps that all of Croix minions looks like the angels from Bayonetta. Also, Croix ends up making a Heel–Face Turn just like Jeanne and the True Final Boss is in space.
- Diana is a cabbage. Explanation Fans have noted that the green streak made Diana's blonde hair look like a cabbage. Naturally, the jokes spun out from there. This has also led to the Fan Nickname of "Cabbagedish".
- Akko's two moms.Explanation Between Ursula and Croix each acting as mentors to Akko and the large amount of Ho Yay between them, fans will often have Ursula and Croix acting as Akko's parents, particularly in AUs.
- Wrong Door Explanation This particular meme comes from Episode 8, when Akko is delivering food to Sucy. She comes to Door 493, only to find Punk Sucy on the other side and slamming the door shut in frustration. This invited millions of possibilities to replace Punk Sucy with literally anything. Some examples include Akko being shot by the Angry Video Game Nerd, walking in on Squidward in the bathtub, and being met by Big Smoke. Furthermore, the meme was included in this video along with the Rick and Morty Pringles ad from Super Bowl LIV, the "Joel Checks the Bathroom" meme, and the old Gnomed meme from 2010.
Macross
- Captain! No smoking on the bridge! Explanation A scene in Super Dimension Fortress Macross when a Bridge Bunny reminds Captain Global of this when he is about to light up.
- Yack Deculture! Explanation A memetic Zentraedi phrase that describes anything deemed particularly awesome or catchy.
- Pineapple Salad. Explanation (Spoilers) Roy Fokker's Trademark Favorite Food, which also happened to be the name of the episode in which he dies. Naturally, the phrase "Pineapple Salad" has become an Unusual Euphemism among the fandom.
- Listen to My Song! Explanation The catchphrase of Nekki Basara from Macross 7, which later became a Borrowed Catchphrase for Sheryl Nome of Macross Frontier.
- Basara eats a leaf. Explanation A gif of a leaf landing on the side of Nekki Basara's face which he then nonchalantly eats, which has become memetic for Basara's lack of a reaction before eating it.
- The Nyan Nyan Dance. Explanation A dance Ranka Lee performs in the first episode of Macross Frontier when she tells Alto Saotome where she works at. It is popular to have characters from other series doing the dance, such as Vocaloid, Touhou Project, and even My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
- Ranka Lee's Kira Pose. Explanation Ranka's signature hand gesture, which she most notably performs in her Signature Song "Seikan Hikou", has become a Stock Shout-Out to the Macross franchise in Japan. Much like the above-mentioned Nyan Nyan Dance, it is common to find other characters doing the gesture.
- Alto-hime/Princess Alto. Explanation Alto Saotome has an extremely effeminate appearance, which leads to this Embarrassing Nickname from his comrade Michael Blanc. The fact that he used to be a kabuki actor who specialized in playing female roles does not help his case, as is his Disguised in Drag moment in the second Compilation Movie, The Wings of Farewell.
- When the Rune Sparkles in September/September Delta. Explanation "Rune ga Pikatto Hikattara" (When the Rune Sparkles), the first ED of Macross Delta and the Signature Song of Freyja Wion, sounds extremely similar to the song "September" by Earth, Wind & Fire. Naturally, mashups ensued. This meme is also associated with the scene in Episode 5 where Freyja sings said song as the main character Hayate Immelman flies her around. For bonus points, Hayate and his seiyuu Yūma Uchida share the same birthday of September 21st, the date mentioned in the original Earth, Wind & Fire song.
- Fuck Harmony Gold! Explanation Harmony Gold, the owners of Robotech and thus the rights to the Macross franchise outside of Japan, is thoroughly reviled among the Macross fandom for keeping the franchise from being exported out of Japan by sitting on the rights and doing nothing significant with them (other than trying to revive the mostly-defunct Robotech IP) while only making profits out of lawsuits over any perceived instances of copyright infringement. After the legal battle between them and Big West and Studio Nue over the franchise was finally resolved in 2021, which lead to most of the Macross franchise finally receiving international releases the following year, this hatred now mostly concerns their unwillingness to allow the release of anything in the Macross franchise from before 1987 (which encompasses the original animated series and its Compilation Movie Macross: Do You Remember Love?, the only remaining installment in the franchise that did not get a international release). This sentiment is also shared with the Battletech and Transformers fandoms, since the owners of those franchises have also been sued by Harmony Gold in the past over various cases of supposed copyright infringement.
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
- FULL POWER ABSOLUTE DESTRUCTION! Explanation 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 Catchphrase "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.
- PlayStation Vita. Explanation 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.
- Rainbows are straighter than Subaru. Explanation Subaru's behaviour around Nanoha and Teana has led to her portrayal as a yuri maniac.
- Befriending. Explanation 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, the biggest playah. Explanation 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!" A lot of fans use this phrase to sum up Nanoha's general approach to encountering an enemy.
- Nanoha is a Gundam disguised as a Magical Girl!Explanation First of all, her outfit looks a lot like the RX-78-2 Gundam, she uses Attack Drones in season 3 like the RX-93 Nu Gundam, and she even shares a similar nickname with the RX-78-2 - The White Devil.
Penguindrum
- SURVIVAL STRATEGY! Explanation 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.
- FABULOUS MAX! Explanation Yuri Tokikago's own catch phrase.
- Making photoshops of Shoma's very Off-Model face from episode 10 has become quite popular in some Image Boards.
- 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.
- Everyone is getting NTR'd. Explanation 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.
- HEY MR. PRESIDENT, WATCH OUT! Explanation 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 Catchphrase, 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.
- IIIIIKUUUUUHAAAAAARAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Explanation Come on, Kunihiko Ikuhara is a Trolling Creator of the finest caliber. Fans can be found screaming his name on a regular basis.
Pop Team Epic
- Popuko and Pipimi's tendencies to pull up exaggerated middle fingers has become the signature hand gesture for the series.
- It has become quite popular to draw characters from other franchises, usually duos, in the style of Popuko and Pipimi, such as Panty and Stocking, Nozomi and Eli, and Reimu and Marisa.
- Popuko tearing the screen. Explanation The Hoshiiro Girldrop oneshot (which was "adapted" into the prologue for the first episode of the anime) ends with Popuko tearing through the screen as a Hostile Show Takeover. It has become popular to have Popuko tear through other images as a means to show The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You.
- Beef or Chicken? Explanation An exchange in Episode 1 where Popuko gets provoked by a flight attendant asking her if she wants beef or chicken, only to be defused by Pipimi asking for beef. Popuko's disproportionate response has become quite popular among the fandom.
- "ORE WA ORE DA!" Explanation A scene in Episode 1 parodies Your Name only for Popuko to drop this response, which has become popular among the fandom for how unexpected it is.
- "Let's Pop Together" Explanation A parody of "Let's Groove" by Earth, Wind & Fire that occurs in Episode 4, which not only became memetic for how catchy it is but also triggered a small resurgence of interest into said song.
- Marilyn Monroe. Explanation In the female version of Episode 5, the segment where Pipimi's neck grows while she massages Popuko has the actresses yelling "Marilyn Monroe" in an increasingly sexual fashion.
- Hellshake Yano. Explanation A rock star who Pipimi gushes over during the entirety of Episode 7, who became memetic due to how the whole episode conveyed his story by flipping through storyboards.
- "Ah, you are motherfucker?" Explanation A strip where Popuko says this to a McDonald's cashier in response to her having her pronunciation of the word "Hamburger" corrected, which became memetic for how disproportionate her response is.
- Popuko doesn't get it. Explanation A strip where Popuko says that she understands everything now while a caption says that she doesn't get it at all, which has been used as a reaction to anything confusing.
Tiger & Bunny
- 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.
- 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 and 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 with a new toy or T-shirt to sell.
- "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.
- Sold out in X seconds Explanation 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.
- "Is it Saturday yet?"Explanation Tiger and 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 three tsundere (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.
- After the twenty fourth episode (wherein Barnaby confesses that he's been learning how to make Kotetsu's Trademark Favorite Food, among other things, while begging him not to die), Kotetsu's preoccupation with fried rice didn't just become a meme - it became an international event
- Being Bison is suffering. Explanation 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. The phrasing is a reference to the "being meguca is suffering" meme from Madoka Magica.
Other
- Aikatsu!:
- The axe scene from the Christmas specials. Explanation In each Aikatsu Christmas special, a character will chop down a tree with an axe. It's not exactly uncommon to find fanart of Ichigo wielding it for any number of crazy reasons.
- "Eyecuts, eyecuts!" Explanation What most people hear "Aikatsu! Aikatsu!" as due to the cast repeatedly saying it way too fast.
- "Kiyohara, this is absolutely unforgivable!" Explanation During the original airing of episode 176 had a news telop appear about Kazuhiro Kiyohara being released from jail appear during the scene in which Sumire fails her special appeal. Many fans jokingly blamed her failing on Kiyohara.
- Akame ga Kill!:
- Prepare to see forums involving the word "deathflag" due to the large amount of major characters dying.
- A translation of the title: Akame Kills!
- The imageboards noted how Akame in the anime adaptation kinda physically resembles Seitokai Yakuindomo's Shino, especially when making chibi faces, and just ran with it.
- Justice!◊ A reference to Seryu's obsession with bringing justice to criminals; the girl can barely utter a sentence without the word justice in it.
- AKIRA:
- It gives us this gem: "TETSUOOOOOOOOO!!" "KANEDAAAAAAAAAAA!!" Explanation Much of the dialogue in AKIRA consists of Tetsuo and Kaneda shouting their names at one another
- LEAVE ME ALONE! Explanation Based on a scene in the dub where Tetsuo says this line, followed by brief images as a voice says "Akira". People like to make videos of this scene where the images are replaced with various other things.
- Angel Beats!: Itsumo Hitori... Explanation 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.
- Azumanga Daioh:
- Baccano!: THANK YOU, FUCK YOU, THE STAR IS HERE! Explanation Ladd Russo's epic moment of Incoming Ham.
- Baoh: "Baoh has a laser cannon!" note When Baoh pulls a giant laser cannon out of nowhere to fight Walken, Dr. Kasuminome, known for his Captain Obvious statements, says something so ridiculously obvious it's hard not to laugh.Became a Running Gag on Bennett the Sage's Anime Abandon review series.
- Black Butler:
- "Yes, my lord." Explanation Sebastian's main Catchphrase, 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.
- Black Lagoon:
- Amen, hallelujah, and peanut butter. Explanation A line said by Dutch just brimming with memetic potential.
- YOU GOT FUCKED!!! Explanation A line said by Rock in an awesome moment that led to Dutch speaking the above line.
- Blend-S:
- "S stands for..." Explanation The opening featuring title cards for each character is quickly becoming this, mostly through parodies featuring, among other things, the Soviet Union, Adolf Hitler, or just some random character/scene/object,etc, but always consistently in keeping with the "S" Alliterative List of the original opening..
- Since the reveal of Sora Tokui voicing Hideri, a male-to-female transvestite who sees himself as an Idol Singer, jokes about Love Live!'s Yazawa Nico being a crossdresser went flying.
- Blood-C:
- BEST COMEDY OF THE YEAR, MAN! Explanation According to some people, the series had WAY too much Narm.
- "Protection." Gonna get "protected." Explanation Everyone who Saya says she's going to protect dies.
- Boku no Pico:
- Don't watch an anime called Boku / YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Explanation A video on YouTube called "Don't watch an anime called Boku" features someone reacting to the Shotacon anime Boku no Pico, gradually freaking out and screaming every word he speaks by the time he finishes watching all three episodes. Notably, his commentary is punctuated by several instances of "YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!", which has become heavily associated with the series.
- Related meme: "Recommend me an anime." (Roughly 90% of answers will be Boku no Pico.)
- The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird: "Is this a pigeon?" explanation A scene from episode 3, in which Katori demonstrates his ignorance of life on Earth by gesturing to a butterfly and saying "Is this a pigeon?" When it's not used as a joking response to pictures of butterflies, it's used in snow-clone edits.
- The second half of Bunny Drop is so infamously hated (let's put it this way: neither the anime nor the live-action film adapted the second half) that it led to the term "Usagi Dropped" (Usagi Drop, of course, being the Japanese name), for when you warn someone that the ending of a series is terrible.
- Carole & Tuesday: Galactic Mermaid Explanation A song in the show sung by the Mermaid Sisters, which has lyrics comprised of nothing but English swear words.
- Case Closed:
- I'm _____, tantei sa! Explanation 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.
- Fishing line. Most letal weapon ever! Explanation Fans comment that most of the crimes were done with fishing lines or similar cords.
- Fishers need firearm licenses.
- No fishing line, no crime.
- CLANNAD:
- The ending sequence from , 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"
- COLORs: Using as a reaction clip a video of a main character turning from male to female overlayed with the song "Moonlight" by Kali Uchis, usually to joke about an interest in cross-dressing or some will to transition.
- Cowboy Bebop:
- ...Bang. Explanation The final word of the series.
- SPIKE DIES! Explanation The famous, and highly contested, end of the series.
- See you, space cowboy. Explanation 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.
- Crayon Shin-chan:
- To be a man you must have honor. Honor and a penis! Explanation A line from the third episode of Funimation's dub of the show. It's often quoted by fans and is said to be one of the funniest lines in the dub.
- Cross Ange:
- Nana wills it!Explanation Many fans associate this series with how much Nana Mizuki makes and thinks that she has a say on how the anime goes. Alternatively, it also refers to a situation where Ange is gonna have a bad time.
- MERELY PRETENDINGExplanation Mostly associated with Hilda, though it's also used by quite a bit of characters. Basically, Hilda admits to Ange that she only pretended to be friends with Chris and Rosalie and was pretty much Zola's pet just so she can survive Arzenal so that one day she can go back to her mom. Some also do associate it with Sylvia who at first was a meek Expy of Nunnally until it was revealed that she was an Evil Cripple
- Gassing the sub with no survivors!Explanation /a/ noticed that the masks Tusk, Ange, and Vivian wore were very similar with Bane's mask.
- Embryo's no face, looking like a stick, and floating out of place with his line "What a boring plot." is also getting there. Made even more hilarious thanks to how fans perceive the second season.
- STRONG, INTELLIGENT WOMENExplanation In episode 22, Embryo says he wants to create a world ruled by strong, intelligent women. While watching a woman making food wearing only an apron.
- What is Jesus Yamato doing in Cross Ange?!Explanation Tusk's near-semblance to Kira had fans up in arms accusing Creative Producer Mitsuo Fukuda (the same guy behind Gundam SEED) of recycling characters from other shows. Came to head with Tusk's Unexplained Recovery in Episode 22, coupled with a dose of possible Twincest Squick, considering the fact that Ange was also based on a character from SEED - Kira's twin sister Cagalli.
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba unofficially crossed over with The Promised Neverland, Zenitsu X Sister Krone are a thing, really. In Japan a meme surfaced in 2017 that briefly crossed over the two series above, an image edit◊ of Zenitsu being scared witless of Sister Krone made its rounds in Japanese imageboards, to the point Zenitsu somehow was voted the 29th most popular character in The Promised Neverland for its first official poll, while Sister Krone was voted the 59th most popular character in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba for its first official poll; the meme persisted in 2020, as the series 2nd official poll still got its votes for Sister Krone, even rose to 49th place. Going even further the meme was in fact recognized by Shueisha itself in 2019, as they made a gigantic mural with hundreds of Shonen Jump characters being all over a school building, Zenitsu and Krone were paired together alone, creating the same effect of Zenitsu being scared of Krone as she looms behind him.
- The art for the ending of◊ Destiny of the Shrine Maiden has been parodied by a lot of fan artists.
- Doctor Slump:
- N'cha! Explanation Arale's unique way of greeting someone; she had picked it up from her "father" Senbei Norimaki
- Hoyoyoyo/Ayayaya Explanation Arale says one of these whenever she's surprised. She often says the latter if she's really surprised.
- KIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNN Explanation Japanese onomatopoeia for an airplane flying by. Whenever Arale runs to school or wherever she needs to go, she often imitates an airplane.
- Arale's glasses have also become memetic to the point where "Arare Megane" refers to any pair of round glasses similar to the ones Arale wears.
- pupipupipupipupi Explanation "Gajira/Gadzilla", AKA: Gatchan, makes these noises because he/she/it can't actually talk.
- Doraemon:
- Imageboards such as 2ch have turned Doraemon himself into an Eldritch Abomination called Tanasinn.
- "Suneo's Bragging Theme Song" Remixes. See here.
- "The Gamble Gun" (basically a Russian Roulette style game where one out of six bullets gave bad luck) has a scene where Nobita points a gun at his head and Doraemon tells him to pull the trigger. It's often used without context to make jokes about Nobita's death or suicide.
- A rare Asian CD includes a English cover of the theme song. It's become a meme due to having less-than-perfect lyrics and vocals.
- A screencap from the May 5, 1994 episode was recently the subject of the thumbnail of Chinese Doraemon parody videos. We're not kidding.◊
- "Oyakusoku!" Explanation This word, meaning "promise", refers to a video clip that plays at the beginning of Doraemon DVDs telling the viewers how to properly use the DVD. Many remixes and parodies of this clip have surfaced on NicoNico Douga and YouTube.
- The cult classic comedy Dropkick on My Devil features Hatsune Miku as a recurring character in the third season of it's anime. Her introduction scene with her leek getting exchanged has become popular, either in reposts or recreations, mainly due to the novelty of seeing Miku in anime, on top of being a rarity where Miku herself appears and not a cosplayer. It is also notable for making the "spinning leek" meme (in episode 11) officially appear in a Miku-associated media.
- Dr. STONE:
- In some circles, calling the series a "Bara manga". At first, it was just to make fun of the highly detailed muscles of the characters in lighthearted fun, but then it increased with the "we'll become the Adam and Eve of this Stone world" part which doesn't mean what you think it means.
- After currying favor with the village, one of the girls approaches Senku, asking him what type of girl he likes. His response is "a girl who can blow a lot of oxygen into a furnace." The fans then proceeded to take that response and run with it.
- Gen's alliance with Senku over the promise of a bottle of cola leads to comparisons with "I'll give you a cola" from Kaguya-sama: Love Is War.
- Senku and his group giving a blank stare is widely used as a popular reaction image.
- In Japan, it's a meme to call Gen Senku's wife and one of the heroines of the series.
- The Enigma of Amigara Fault:
- Eromanga Sensei: Megumi likes dicks. explanation The main character of the show is visited by a girl called Megumi, with whom he discusses about girls. At the end of the conversation, she says his dick is useless and states that she likes dicks.
- F-Zero: GP Legend: "WATASHI WA SHINAN- SHINAN ZO!" "FARUKON PAUNCH!" Explanation Black Shadow's final stand against Captain Falcon.
- Fairy Tail:
- It's all Sting's fault! Explanation One chapter begins with two characters noting that Sting's guild has moved down in the rankings in a competition due to Sting's poor performance earlier, and one of the two cheerfully declares "It's all Sting's fault." Since Sting is a bit cocky he wasn't too popular anyway, and fans started messing with previous pages to add the line to the end of negative events, or just blame him for whatever in forum posts.
- ______ is actually Jellal! Explanation On two separate occasions, a character is revealed to actually be Jellal (though the second time was his otherworld counterpart). Fandom took this to mean that every character who covers their face or has a mysterious past/objective is actually Jellal in disguise.
- Wow~!Explanation A strange sound effect that tends to play when something fanservicey or raunchy happens, which found further use in video editing whenever something sexy (or not) happens.
- Food Wars!:
- Food Wars! is a cooking manga Explanation The phrase originated in-work during a particularly heated table tennis match, but was picked up by the fandom in reference to the cooking duels, which, aesthetically speaking, draw so heavily on shonen action cliches there is a very real risk of forgetting that, well...
- Foodgasm. Explanation The word isn't new, but the depictions of people's reactions to eating good food are so Freudian there is no other way to describe them.
- Poor turtle. Explanation A turtle was decapitated and (literally) turned into hamburger on page by Arato Hisako. Since then, this is the reaction whenever Hisako does something badass.
- The creepy face◊ Yuno makes at the end of the first episode of Future Diary. 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).
- GONNA PROTECT THE SHIT OUT OF YOU Explanation The screenshot made into an image macro.
- Akise isn't gay. He's Yuki-sexual.Explanation Akise's Single-Target Sexuality for Yukiteru has been parodied throughout the fandom, especially since his and Yukiteru's relationship brings to mind that of Shinji and Kaworu's.
- Gabriel Dropout: Bully the devil.Explanation Satanichia is a frequent target of bullying and misfortune both in and out of universe.
- 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!")◊
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex:
- The Laughing Man is an in-universe example. Explanation (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.
- Girls und Panzer:
- "Panzer vor means Panzer Vor!" Explanation A result of a Gag Sub.
- "This too is sensha-do" Explanation Maho says this when Erika protests her decision to loan Mako their helicopter so she can get to her grandmother in the hospital. She ends up repeating this line in many fan works, especially versions of the scene in which she acts more affectionately to Miho than she does in canon.
- Chibi Stalin Explanation The Fan Nickname for Katyusha, who is a Tiny Tyrannical Girl and the leader of the Russian-themed Pravda.
- Pizza Time Explanation The leitmotif for the Italian-themed Anzio is "Funiculi Funicula", which was already memetic for its usage in the Pizza Time minigames for the licensed game of Spider-Man 2. Naturally, any discussion of Anzio and its theme will lead to Spider-Man Pizza Time jokes.
- Golden Kamuy:
- "Golden Kamuy is a cooking manga" Explanation There's lots of Food Porn and the characters often cook, making it a pretty decent cooking manga when it's not a gory Action-Adventure. That the group scanlating it is also scanlating actual cooking mangas doesn't exactly help, too. Comes from a snowclone of "Food Wars! is a cooking manga".
- Golden Kamuy is full of crazy people (変態 hentai). Explanation The series features an Ax-Crazy lieutenant (Tsurumi), a soldier talking to his cut-off left ear (Nikaidou Kouhei), an Ax-Crazy Serial Killer who gets a boner every time he sees a gruesome death (Henmi Kazuo), a judoka with an insatiable lust (Ushiyama Tatsuma), a cannibalist obsessed with beauty (Kano Ienaga), a man wearing clothes made of human skins (Yasaku Edogai), a lieutenant obsessed with the aforementioned Tsurumi (Koito), and a scholar who rapes the wildlife in Hokkaido (Shiton Anehata).
- Is this Bara? Explanation Despite being a seinen series, a lot of the fanservice comes from the very macho and muscular male cast, even for more comedic scenes, and the tone of each scene contrasts the tone of the entire rest of the manga. Even those who aren't into the beefcake have been seeing a trend in the story to focus on it. The Hot Springs Episode comes with a two-page spread of all the male characters, nude and positioned suggestively, which became popular to parody in Japanese fanart.
- Anime viewers will often complain about the bad CG work used for bears, even though the production team tried to justify it.
- "The lone mecha fan, pictured here fighting against the tide of CG mechs, colorized 2018"
- The fact that Shiton Anehata's name is a pun of Ernest Thomson Seton, a founding member of the Boy Scouts of America.Explanation In popular culture, the Scouts are too often portrayed as full of sexual predators.
- Great Teacher Onizuka: 'Worried Uchiyamada'Explanation A go-to reaction picture of Vice-Principal Uchiyamada for moments where you realize you forgot something that may as well ruin your day. May be combined with him worrying about his beloved Cresta
- Guilty Crown:
- Dropped every week. Explanation Its fandom complains bitterly about every episode, and states that they'll drop it; and yet the same people are there the next week complaining again and saying they'll drop it.
- Shoe... Explanation Because of the protag's name, Shuu.
- Haikyuu!!: "You should have come to Shiratorizawa." explanation From the two times Ushijima Wakatoshi said that to Oikawa Tooru, despite the latter's hatred of the former and complete disinterest on the offer.
- Farmer!Ushijima. explanation From the time Ushijima compared volleyball teams to fertile soil, fans took it to mean he has farming as an interest.
- Oya? Oya oya. Oya oya oya. explanation From the way Bokuto and Kuroo greet Tsukishima when he walks into the 3rd gym.
- Go go let's go let's go Dateko explanation The chant of one of Karasuno's rival teams is really catchy.
- Hidamari Sketch:
- "OW MY NUTBLADDER!" Explanation Apparently, the levels of cuteness caused an /a/non (so he claimed) to masturbate so hard to this show they burst their "nut-bladder". Used to summarise anything absurdly cute, though the video game meme "HHNNNNNNGGGG!" has almost completely replaced it. Although, everywhere online, if you see a Hidamari discussion (including on This Very Wiki), you're almost guaranteed to hear at least one mention of the word "nutbladder".
- |___________| Explanation Emoticon of a typical wide-face Super-Deformed expression that Hidamari Sketch is infamous for. Often goes hand-in-hand with mentions of nutbladders.
- Itadaki! Seieki♥ (Vampire Vixen in English): "Hot stuff is coming out" explanation a line from the hentai; the word "hot" is usually swapped out depending on context
- Kagurabachi: Thanks to Kagurabachi getting hyped up as the hot new thing by a subset of commentators before the first chapter even came out, others have been facetiously overhyping this manga in a similar style to Morbius (2022).
- Kämpfer: Natsurium, The densest material known to man. Explanation The main character is named Natsuru, and he is absolutely hopeless when it comes to romance.
- Kotoura-san:
- COMEDY!Explanation The anime was marketed as a Romantic Comedy. Viewers were first whamed by the Downer Beginning, and after that, the manga spoilers that started to circulate. Rom Com elements still exist in this series, but it's just half what this story was about.
- MOTHER OF THE YEARExplanation The Downer Beginning started it, but some translated manga has cemented her status. A similar meme exists for the father and even Hiyori Moritani, Manabe's childhood friend. A Sincerity Mode version also exists for Manabe, mainly due to the fact he's one of the rare decisive anime boyfriends in the past few years.
- The ride never ends!Explanation (Spoilers warning!) Some people might be fooled into thinking that after the Downer Beginning or even episode 2, the anime becomes a pure Rom Com. Simply put, it never does. The line itself is taken from a RollerCoaster Tycoon meme (Mr. Bones Wild Ride).
- Koshi Koshi Koshi!/ Rub, rub, rub!Explanation A scene from the OP where Haruka rubs her head against Manabe's sides. This has spawned many parodies.
- Kotoura-san has 12 seasons.Explanation A mainly Chinese meme. Because of the Cerebus Rollercoaster / Mood Whiplash nature of this work, viewers find what they had every episode can be as much as a whole season in other shows; so they often call "episode X" as "season X".
- Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing: In Soviet Anatoray, ship steals YOU! Explanation 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.
- Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!: Rikka's Finger Spin Explanation The first OP contains a segment where Rikka spins her fingers. It has become popular to draw characters from other animes doing the same motion, in particular Mumei Nanashi of hololive.
- Made in Abyss: Sosu.Explanation Faputa's Verbal Tic, which has become a rather endearing trait of her character.
- Maria Watches Over Us:
- "You should tie your scarf in a proper knot." Explanation These are words Sachiko says to Yumi when fixing Yumi's scarf, and which sets in motion all of the events in the Light Novels and subsequent anime. This gets referenced and parodied in many manga and anime, especially when hinting at romantic involvement between girls.
- Mazinger Z:
- Metal Armor Dragonar:
- ↑←↑Explanation The first opening prominently features Kaine shifting a lever in that pattern, synced with the music. Thus many people will bring it up when the show or the opening theme are mentioned.
- Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid:
- Don't lewd the dragons. explanation A common phrase uttered given the well, lewd, situations the dragon girls end up in.
- Milf Coded Explanation A Tumblr user, attempting to take the series to task over its sexual content, called Lucoa this. The phrase was just so nonsensical that fans of the series started spamming it in relation to her.
- I'm going to jail! Explanation A copypasta that originated from Twitch's week-long anime marathon stream, referring to fans jokingly being worried about enjoying Kanna being lewded too much.
- Blue Eyes White Dragon Explanation Some anime viewers have noticed that given the color of her eyes (blue) and her hair/dragon form body (white), Kanna fits the description of Seto Kaiba's signature Duel Monsters card and have done fan works that make reference to that. An example.◊
- The My Neighbor Totoro visual◊ where Satsuki, Mei, and Totoro are waiting at a bus stop is extremely parodied.
- Negima! Magister Negi Magi:
- "Sai-shou-dou-kin!?". Explanation 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.
- Everyone is Shotacon for Negi. Explanation Negi has a potential harem to rival Tenchi Muyo!, nearly everyone falls in love with him in one way or another (including lesbians and 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.
- No. 6 is filled Ho Yay between Sion and Nezumi, so its fans sarcastically remark "THIS ANIME IS VERY HETEROSEXUAL."
- Sion's sperm is all for Nezumi. Explanation In the first episode, Safu propositions Sion by saying she "Wants his sperm." The fandom has taken this and run with it in regards to the aforementioned Ho Yay between Sion and Nezumi.
- Not from the anime itself, but from the English dub outtakes of Noein:
- Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!:
- "She's an Eldritch Abomination, not your waifu!" explanation A variant of "She is a cartoon, not your waifu". Nyarlathotep in the Cthulhu Mythos' is a malicious trickster of inhuman nature, here turned into a pretty girl... but still shows signs of being dangerous.
- (」・ω・)」うー！(／・ω・)／にゃー！ explanation This chant is found in the opening lyrics of the song "Taiyou Iwaku Moeyo Chaos". Also pronounced as "Uhh! Nya!".
- ＼(・ω・＼)ＳＡＮ値!(／・ω・)／ピンチ! ＼(・ω・＼)ＳＡＮ値!(／・ω・)／ピンチ! explanation The chant from the equally catchy opening song of season 2, "Koi wa Chaos no Shimobe Nari" ("Love Is The Servant Of Chaos"). Also pronounced as "SAN-chi, pinchi!" ("Your SAN points are in trouble!"/"Sanity Level Critical!")
- Sons of bitches! Sons of bitches! explanation A mishearing of the chant above.
- "If you stare at me like that, you'll make me pregnant!" Explanation A line said by Nyaruko when Mahiru glares at her to get out of his house before his mother arrives, which coupled with her expression in said scene became memetic for how borderline nonsensical it is.
- Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt:
- FLY AWAY NOW, FLY AWAY NOW, FLY AWAAAAY! Explanation Panty and Stocking's Transformation Sequence is incredibly popular for its Art Shift, incredibly addictive ear worm of a song, and blatant Fanservice.
- I WANT YOU-OU-OU-OU-OU! Explanation Though nowhere near as popular, Evil Counterparts Scanty and Kneesocks' Transformation Sequence is a similarly massive meme.
- On Pixiv, it's become a meme to draw characters from other shows in the PSG style.
- Be sure to follow the RRRRRRRUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUs. Explanation Scanty and Kneesocks' truly epic mangling of "rule".
- GOD! MY! OOOOOOH! Explanation Garterbelt's inverted Big "OMG!" in the final episode.
- GAINAX RUINED CHRISTMAS Explanation (spoilers) The PSG finale had, for all its weirdness, been heading towards a Here We Go Again! ending—when out of nowhere, with less than a minute left in the episode, a Gainax Ending was thrown in. It all went downhill 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 Pet Girl of Sakurasou: Plan CExplanation In Episode 5 of the anime, Sorata and Mashiro talk about how not to let Nanami misunderstand their relationship after the latter agrees to move into Sakura Hall. Sorata's plan it to bribe Mashiro with baumkuchen with a promise that she would take care of herself. Jin suggests they tell Nanami they're dating, which Sorata immediately rejects. Mashiro then innocently invokes Murder the Hypotenuse by stating that she should kill Nanami to keep their secret safe, which he also immediately dismisses. Sorata decides to try his idea, which he calls Plan A, calls Jin's idea Plan B, and Mashiro's Plan C. The entire "Plan C" thing has became such a Running Gag in the anime that it became a byword for killing in some circles.
- 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 meme. Any videos that fit that trope should be listed there.
- An episode of Zoku Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei snuck this in as a quick flash on a wall.
- Caramelldansen has gone classical. When we get a full string orchestra with full brass and choral accompaniment playing this, the world will end.
- Pretty Series:
- PriPara:
- Laala being shocked as two layers of text cover her head◊. Explanation An aftershock of the Kumamoto earthquake happened in between a home shopping program and the premiere of episode 92. TV Tokyo decided to display warnings about the aftershock throughout the episode, with one of them covering the "please sit away from the TV" warning. The image became popular after it was posted by a fan of the series on a clip from Out of Context VeggieTales involving an Emergency Broadcast System banner playing during a qubo airing of the show, comparing the video in question to said screenshot.
- Kiratto Pri☆Chan:
- Glitch MiraiExplanation Mirai Momoyama was included as an Early-Bird Cameo on the Nintendo Switch port of PriChan's predecessor PriPara, which had many glitches. The most notable was Mirai being rendered incorrectly. Many fans decided to make fanart based on this glitch.
- "YABAI CAUTION!" Explanation The first line of Emo's solo song "Suki Suki Sensor". It's common for people to quote this line in threads about PriChan.
- "Congratulations!" "Huh? You were waiting for me to come out of the bathroom?" Explanation A weird scene in Episode 14 where Mirai's fans try to give her presents, but she is in the bathroom. This scene was quoted online when it aired because it was unexpected.
- "A-ka-gi..." "Growl!" "A-ka-gi..." "Growl!" "Animal park!" "Opening soon-desuwa!" Explanation At the end of episode 20 of Kiratto PriChan, we see a brief clip of Anju on the beach watching a commercial for Akagi Go Go Animal Park on her PriChan Cast. This scene is one of the first things that shows up when you search for "Anna Akagi" in Japanese, and many fans have talked about the scene on Twitter and YouTube.
- "The earthquake caused Meltic Star to win!" Explanation An earthquake banner for a magnitude 5 earthquake in Shinshiro appeared when the first chorus of "SUPER CUTIE SUPER GIRL" played in episode 27 of the show. When the rival team, Meltic Star, performed after Miracle Kiratts' song, they were revealed to have won the idol tournament they were competing in, causing fans of opposing team Miracle Kiratts to blame the earthquake as to why they lost. The incident later became a trending topic among Japanese Twitter users the day the episode aired.
- For some reason, the plush of Daia sold at Prism Stone became a meme across Twitter, with many people editing images of the plush into other images and making jokes about it. People even made fan-edits of a version based on the "image change" Daia has later on in season 2.
- The Quintessential Quintuplets:
- Ichika being associated with snakes.explanation (spoilers) It's thanks to her betraying her own sister by disguising as her to confess her own (Ichika's) love for Fuutarou.
- "Runaway train of love".explanation Ichika describes Nino as this due to the latter's aggressive approach to making Fuutarou fall for her.
- Yotsuba being The Chessmaster; fans often joke that she is playing 4D chess.explanation Yotsuba is The Ditz and is too innocent to manipulate people like that.
- EATsuki.explanation Itsuki is a Big Eater.
- "Bros before quints".explanation A variation on "bros before hoes" that comes from Fuutarou choosing to form a group with his male classmates instead of with the quintuplets.
- Ranma ½: 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.
- Re:Zero:
- "I love Emilia." explanation At one point in the series, main character Subaru states that he loves Emilia, thereby negating Rem from ending up with him.
- Rem is Best Girl. explanation Many people say this given Rem's Ensemble Dark Horse status.
- "Who's Rem?" explanation (spoilers) Rem gets subjected to Ret-Gone after having memories of her erased from the populace due to plot events. Any discussion of the character would inadvertently have people feign ignorance of the character or act like she's not in the video/image.
- "It's a body fluid of mine" explanation Echidna offers Subaru tea that she says contains this. Naturally, comparisons to the infamous "Abbacchio Tea" from Golden Wind emerged..
- Reborn! (2004): "Juudaime!" Explanation Gokudera's constant Say My Name moment of Juudaime can be made into a Drinking Game
- Requiem from the Darkness: 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.
- 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.
- Rozen Maiden:
- "desu". Explanation Suiseiseki's Verbal Tic. Even though this is a fairly common speech pattern in lots of characters it became highly associated with her. It's not so much the word itself that's peculiar to Suiseiseki, but how she pronounces it: "desuuh" as opposed to the usual "dess".
- You mean de geso? Explanation With Squid Girl getting an anime adaptation, Ika Musume's verbal tic became just as popular as desu for a short time.
- You mean the inknovative translation? Explanation And with the anime came the fan translation which went to great length to include ink and other squid-related puns in order to relay that verbal tic in the subtitles too. This would later cross over into Ascended Meme when the anime's English dub did it too.
- Rurouni Kenshin: "FUTAE NO KIWAMI, AAAAAAAAAAH!" Explanation Based on the various dubs (the English one being the most popular).
- Saint Seiya:
- "DANCEN ROSAS PIRAÑAAS, AAAAAAAAH!" Explanation From the Latin American Spanish dub "Dance, Piranha Roses!", which is the phrase Piscis Aphrodite says when he uses his rose projectiles.
- ANOTHER DIMENSION! Explanation Gemini Saga's trademark attack, which warps you to a Pocket Dimension. Started in the aforementioned Latin American Spanish dub due to the INCREDIBLY hammy delivery, but it's also been spotted in other fandom corners. Video link.
- Shiryu amigo! Explanation It's a Brazilian Saint Seiya meme from a scene in which Shun is pulled from a cliff by Shiryu and thank him by saying that. It translates roughly as "Shiryu pal!" and sounds really weird. The voice acting makes it hilarious.
- Que bom, Hyoga. Explanation From the same scene; after the aforementioned line, Hyoga blurts, out of nowhere, "I'm also ready", to which Shun answers this (it translates roughly to "That's good, Hyoga"). It became a useful demeaning line; something like "uh, yeah, good for you".
- What happens in the Libra Temple stays in the Libra Temple. Explanation This one refers to the infamous Intimate Healing scene between Shun and Hyoga in the Libra Temple.
- 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."
- Sally the Witch: "Mahariku Maharita Yanbara Yan!" Explanation These are the magic words Sally uses whenever she uses her magic. They have about as much meaning as ""Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo".
- Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei: Make yourself taller Explanation 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.
- I'm in despair!X has left me in despair! Explanation Nozoumu's snowclone-able rant about the G.I.F.T phenomenon.
- School Days:
- NICE BOAT! Explanation 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.
- Shelter2016:
- Sonic X: GOTTA GO FAST! Explanation The name of the American opening song of Sonic X, which is quite an ear worm. It also refers to a silly picture of a Waddling Head Sonic. This fits nicely with the Dumb Running Sonic meme.
- Space Battleship Yamato: "Earth has only [X] days to live!" Explanation At the end of each episode, a countdown of how long the crew had to save Earth appeared
- Space Runaway Ideon: "Ideon destroyed the universe!!!" Explanation 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.
- Spice and Wolf:
- "I watch it for the economics."Explanation Used to by the fans to differentiate between the exciting economic plots and the perceived ecchi elements.
- Stupid Potato!Explanation A line from the dub. The original Japanese, by the way, was "evil potato".
- Soul Eater: GODDAMMITSHIT Explanation Free learns of a different way he could have gotten out of prison sooner after he's already broken out. With Gratuitous English.
- FOOLS! Explanation Catch phrase of the annoying weapon spirit Excalibur, translated from the Japanese "BAKAME!"
- MY LEGEND BEGAN IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY!Explanation The other catch phrase of Excalibur.
- (ﺧ益ﺨ)Explanation The I-have-met-Excalibur face, that all characters, even The Faceless, get afflicted with after having had a close encounter with you-know-who.
- SSSS.GRIDMAN:
- Special Dog. Explanation A recurring snack in the series, which has become somewhat infamous due to Akane Shinjou's Lost Food Grievance in the first episode causing her to instigate a Kaiju attack to kill the classmates who caused it.
- Rikka's thighs. Explanation Rikka Takarada's design shows off her legs by having her wear a short skirt. Naturally, her thighs have become the most memetic aspect of her for Fanservice reasons.
- We need to fuck Optimus Prime and Megatron! Explanation SSSS.Gridman took many western fans by surprise due to its many references to Transformers, in particular Transformers: Shattered Glass of all installments. Given how the female leads Akane and Rikka are based off Shattered Glass Optimus Prime and Megatron respectively, fans have joked that the duo are essentially the characters as waifus.
- Steins;Gate:
- "CHRISTINA" Explanation Kurisu is often called "Christina" by Okabe due to the fact she lives in America.
- "Dr Pepper" Explanation The characters are often seen drinking actual bottles of Dr Pepper in the show. The drink is described as being "an intellectual drink for the chosen ones" Fans of the show will often reference Dr. Pepper or Stein's Gate when either is mentioned
- "I am Mad Scientist, It's so cool sonuvabitch"Explanation Okabe's marvelous English statement to a foreigner he believed didn't speak Japanese
- Tuturu~ Explanation Mayuri's catchphrase
- Daga otoko da!Explanation Okabe describing Ruka Urushibara in a nutshell. This phrase has been used to describe similar characters in anime such Hideri, Astolfo, or Felix.
- Super Robot Wars Alpha 2: 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 2 Yonkoma 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.◊
- Tada Never Falls in Love:
- Several Love Live! fans jokingly note Alexandra Magritte's resemblance to Maki Nishikino.
- Many fans joked about that one ending from Boku Dake Ga Inai Machi (or Aldnoah.Zero) after they realized that Teresa needs to return to her hometown to marry Charles instead of staying with Tada. The comparison came to a halt after Teresa finally decides to stay on Tada's side in the finale.
- Taishō Baseball Girls: "KOUME! It's eight of clock! WAKE UP!" Explanation Inspired by a scene near the beginning , /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.
- 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 The Tekkaman dub has Tekkaman yell out "SPACE LANCE! every fricken' time he uses it . He also states the obvious constantly.
- More known in Japan, but the final shot in Tomorrow's 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.
- Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-: "JUST AS CLAMPED!" Explanation 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.
- Similar to the Rambo example in the film section, in the 1970s Ferdinand Marcos' regime banned Super Robot show Voltes V in the Philippines, officially because of excessive violence, but really because the heroes were rebels fighting a brutal dictator. Voltes V proceeded to be adopted as a mascot by Filipino rebels.
- The World God Only Knows: "I can see the ending!"note Keima's Catchphrase; it has become so associated with him that upon mere mention of the said line, the first person who comes to mind will always be him.
- Yo-Kai Watch: "This has to be the work of a Yo-Kai!" Explanation Similar to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure blaming everything on an "Enemy Stand", Nate blames every instance of weirdness on Yo-Kai interference.
- YuYu Hakusho: "Duelo a muerte con cuchillos" Explanation This is a hilarious quote from the Latin Spanish dub during the fight between Yūsuke and Chū, where Chū proposes to do a "Duelo a muerte con cuchillos" (Duel to the death with knives), disconcerting everyone present since they don't know what he means. In the original Japanese version, Chū says the English phrase "Knife Edge Death Match", making the rest of the characters confused since they don't speak English, but in the dub all the dialogue in the scene was translated literally, creating quite a ridiculous scene.
