Memes / Touken Ranbu

Memes for Touken Ranbu.

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• 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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• "じじが来ない" ^Explanation  Jiji/Grampy didn't come. due to Mikazuki's extremely low drop rate.
  • "Jiji is a myth/doesn't exist." Related to the above. It's often used in English fandom for any rare sword that a saniwa can't ever seem to get their hands on.
  • In the western fandom, there's referring to Mikazuki Munechika as Jijisus and photoshopping his head onto the likeness of Jesus Christ. This is usually coupled with the Touken Ranbu logo being edited onto a bible and the fanbase jokingly stating that Touken Ranbu is a religion.
• 01:30:00 ^Explanation  Saniwas who want to obtain certain swords through smithing often get annoyed when seeing this timer, as it signals that their resources have been wasted on yet another starter sword. Generally, players will be aiming for 3:20:00 (rare tachis), 02:30:00 (oodachis and Heshikiri Hasebe), or 4:00:00 (Mikazuki/Kogitsunemaru/Iwatooshi). Unfortunately, the 01:30:00 timer is a possible result in almost all smithing recipes.
• "柄まで通ったぞ！"^Explanation "Stabbed to the hilt!", Yagen's critical hit line. Fans often comment this on Yagen fan-arts or anything Yagen-related. Expect the quote to pop up in comment sections on otome audio plays done by Seiichirō Yamashita.
  • For that matter, the infamous "首落ちて死ね！" ("Drop your head and die!") that has come to be associated with Yasusada himself, to the point where the Hanamaru radio show has its own "Drop-your-head-and-die segment".
  • “よきかなよきかな“ ^Explanation  brilliant, brilliant. for Mikazuki Munechika as it started out as a random ingame line stated by the character and essentially ended up becoming his official catch phrase. The fandom often use this as well as his Stageplay and Musical actors respectively in reference to him. Digitarou uses it for the character as well, and it eventually becomes his official in-game catchphrase comes the Ranbu level update.
  • Anaya.^Explanation The Old Japanese form of ara, an expression of surprise, which is often associated with Mikazuki due to his antiquity, even though he never says this in game canon.
  • Suki da.^Explanation Mishearing of 突きだ ("stab!"), Honebami's attack line, which leads to numerous Bami-confesses-to-enemies jokes.
• Heshikiri is the Meme King/Meme Lord. ^Explanation Heshikiri looks uncannily like Miles Edgeworth, plus the meme below.
• Splicing Heshikiri using Photoshop. ^Explanation  It has become a competition between Tourabu Twitter fans to see who can make the most ridiculous Heshikiri For the Lulz. The most common variety of this is Heshikiri's head on someone else's body, but there is a lesser known variant where a different head is on Heshikiri's body. Heshikiri memes ahoy!
• Eyuki^Explanation misreading of Kosetsu's name. Many other swords have names that are impossible to read for the first time without a reading guide, leading to many amusing misreadings, which includes "Yamatomamori Antei" for Yamatonokami Yasusada and "Ichigo Ichie" for Ichigo Hitofuri.
• KAKAKA! ^Explanation Yamabushi's ridiculous laugh. It's even spawned a Voice Clip Song!
• Yagen's legs.
  • Also, Iwatooshi's cleavage, which is drawn and shaded very clearly in his Internal Affairs sprite, not to mention his awakening pose, which gained him the Fan Nickname 'Iwatits/Iwatitties'
  • Shinano, Yagen's brother, is also noted for his long, slender legs. It doesn't help that he wears a pair of garters that highlight this.
  • And the grand prize winner goes to Sengo Muramasa, whose design inspired all sorts of positive reception for his long and muscular legs.
• ODOROITAKA?! ^Explanation  "Are you surprised?" Tsurumaru's trademark line

• Nihongou's scabbard looks like a feather duster, and the way he dresses makes many players called him "Mr Janitor" . Or have his spear used like a feather duster.
  • Putting the three yari together as Janitors◊.
• Horse Poops. ^Explanation One of Namazuo's lines stated that he'll throw horse poops at people he hates
• Fans really love to joke about Mitsutada confusing Monoyoshi Sadamune as Taikogane Sadamune, who he calls "Sada-chan".
  • Related to above, joking about Mitsutada being unhappy with the similar name issue (either because he dislikes Monoyoshi for not being the Sadamune he expected or he's sad about Sada-chan not coming home)
• Cute and Psycho /Faux Affably Evil/ Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon Monoyoshi. It was implied Ieyasu carried him during the Siege of Osaka Castle, thus witness how the castle got burned and the swords of Toyotomi clan in it, thus leading fans to depict him as a kid with Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon who would talk about the incident with a smile on his face and cheerful tone, just to spit on the face of those who got burned in the incident (namely, Ichigo and Namazuo).
  • Also due to his uncanny resemblance to Slaine Troyard from Aldnoah.Zero (not to mention that both are voiced by Kensho Ono), some part of the fandom likes to shoo him out from Tourabu by saying 'Please go back to Aldnoah Zero!'
• NO-Ookanehira^Explanation This is an ongoing meme that involves Uguisumaru being excited at new swordboy announcement, only to find that said sword wasn't Ookanehira
  • This meme can also apply to Mitsutada, just replace 'Ookanehira' with 'Sada-chan' (Taikogane Sadamune). As of June 22, 2016 however, this variant became a Discredited Meme (cue fanarts of Mitsutadda flailing in happiness)
  • As of December 19th, 2016, the reveal of the actual Ookanehira has turned NO-Ookanehira into YESkanehira. (And cue fanarts of Uguisumaru losing it.)
• Gotou as a rocker. Or with Yu-Gi-Oh! . Or with Cardfight!! Vanguard. Or people saying he's actually a character from those series because of his multicolored Anime Hair reminds them that usually card games animes have characters with such weird hair.
• What if Higekiri and Onigiri met?^Explanation Due to Onmyōji (2016) introducing its own Bishōnen personification of the Minamoto treasure sword. The character is either compared to/depicted alongside this game's Higekiri for being the same sword, or Mikazuki for having the same voice actor.
• Dategumi ^Explanation The swords that were owned by Date clan, which are Tsurumaru, Shokudaikiri, Ookurikara, and Taikogane Sadamune. But those that were owned by Date Masamune himself are only Shokudaikiri and Ookurikara. are often depicted as the Comic Trio. Tsurumaru is the schemer, Shokudaikiri is the follower, when Ookurikara is the powerless one. Similarly, Ice Royal Milk Tea ^Explanation Other name for the R4 group, the four tachis with four-petal rarity , each word in the phrase references each sword's appearance. Kousetsu is the Ice, because his look and personality is as cold as ice and his name means "snowy inlet". Ichigo is the Royal, because of his princely look. Tsurumaru is the milk, because he wears white. Uguisumaru is the tea because his color is primarily green and Uguisumaru himself loves green tea. can also seen as the Four-Man Band, with Tsurumaru is the pervert, still leading, Ichigo is the Only Sane Man, Kousetsu as The Smart Guy and Uguisumaru as the Butt-Monkey because of the above no-Ookanehira. Helps that Uguisumaru is a Cloud Cuckoolander to begin with.
• Some part of the fandom couldn't help but notice Shinano having a similar hair and eye color as Suou Tsukasa that they'd have both of them together to see Tsukasa reacting to his "doppleganger".
• It didn't take long after Houchou was revealed for the fandom to run with his opening line about liking sweets and married women. He quickly became a Memetic Molester KidAnova who Likes Older Women. He also got depicted going after swords who most frequently get treated as being wife-like in fanon, such as Horikawa, or with the similarly-named and motherly Hoshou whenever there's a KanColle crossover.
• I want to give these Kiwame tantous a hug (and a blanket) when they're hurt. ^Explanation The in-game narratives for Kiwame training journeys tend to give meaningful, but harsh life lessons to these sheltered swords, inspiring a good amount of pathos from players (Imanotsurugi and Akita are two glaring examples). Kiwame swords also gain new damaged sprite art with an entirely different pose from their default battle sprite. The... gratuity of these new sprites in the swords' expressions, injuries, and clothing damage can be rather unsettling for players due to their young appearances. What doesn't help is that it seems to be a requirement for Kiwame swords to now lose their shirts when they activate Awakening.
• Who cares about the Heavenly Swords?^note After Ookanehira's implementation into the game, he was revealed to harbor some resentment towards the Tenka Gouken and especially the as-of-then unrevealed Doujigiri, his rival due to their namesake swords being made by Kanehira. Fans took this trait of his and turned it into a full blown obsession, giving him a One Sided Rivalry with the Heavenly Swords and an obsession with beating them at anything.
• The Tenka Goken ( Save for Juzumaru, sometimes ) bullying Ookanehira for not being a Tenka Goken. ^note Due to Ookanehira's above quote and his bitterness toward not being considered a Tenka Goken.
• "You must understand. Muramasa isn't a bad person!" ^note Sengo Muramasa is often depicted as something of a nuisance for Tonbokiri, either because he's crazy (Muramasa's reputation is making swords whose wielders succumb to madness), because he loves to act up, or because he's usually depicted as a Shameless Fanservice Guy due to his much-adored legs and Stripperiffic outfit
  • huhuhu ^Explanation Muramasa's laugh, which has been dubbed as the next KA KA KA!
  • It's also become a meme on twitter to draw other sword boys, or characters from different series who share Sengo's voice actor, dressed in Sengo's outfit.
• Heshikill Hasebe ^note  A joint meme with Fate/Grand Order. For the 2017 swimsuit event, Demon Archer (Oda Nobunaga) has her sword turned into an electric guitar with a wheel as the body. Since Heshikiri Hasebe was a sword of Nobunaga, they often turn him into an OOC rocker with "Heshikill" being his stage name.
• Depicting Mochichika (the various verions of the mochimochi mascot version of Mikazuki Munechika) in humorous scenarios with the Touken Danshi has become so popular that it could be said that Mochichika has developed a fanbase of his own. It's the most popular mochimochi mascot to the point where even Doujinshi of it exist. In a similar vein, some of the mochimochi mascots of the other Touken Danshi get this treatment as well with their respective Touken Danshi counterpart, making it an ongoing meme anytime a new mochimochi mascot gets released, though its too a lesser degree than mochichika.
• The fact Chouson Can't Hold His Liquor, which soon spawns a slew of fanarts depicting him in various states of drunkenness.
  • And then there is his Badass Bookworm personality and heavily Meiji scholar-like design, which has prompted some fans to shoo him back to Bungo to Alchemist.
• Kokin's feminine appearance and sultry mannerism see him frequently called Jizō's sister instead of brother.