One Word Title / Anime & Manga

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One-Word Title in anime and manga.

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• AIR: Named after the visual novel it's based on.
• ARIA: Team Title, where "Team" is "Company".
• AKIRA: Only One Name-type Secondary Character Title that starts the plot.
• Avenger: Job Title
• Ayashimon: Another name for Youkai.
• Bakegyamon
• Baoh
• Barrage
• Bartender: As the Job Title that describes the protagonist.
• Basilisk: The anime's titular namesake, the Basilisk, is a mystical creature said to be able to kill any who meet its gaze. Eye contact is the most powerful asset that the main characters have: Gennosuke can reverse the murderous intent of any who meet his eye, thus forcing them to kill themselves; and Oboro can neutralize the ninja arts of any who meet her gaze.
• Bastard!! (1988)
• Berserk
• Blame!
• Bleach: Originally, the story was called "Snipe" to reflect all characters bar Rukia using guns. When the concept changed to thematically symbolising "white on black" in an interesting and non-bland way, it became "Bleach".
• Bokurano
• Chobits
• CLANNAD
• Classi9
• Claymore
• Colorful
• Criminale!
• Dangaioh: Named after the titular Mecha.
• Death Note: the title of every episode of the anime, except for the last one, is composed by only a word.
• Doubt It's a contraction of the Rabbit Doubt game, and about the game itself, where the players are a warren of "rabbits" who must figure out which player is the "wolf" hidden amongst them before they are all picked off one-by-one, which is also what the characters end up doing, for real.
• Duranki
• Endro~!: Named for the credits, or "End Roll", which is the basis for some of the episode titles, such as the first: "It's Still Too Soon for the End Roll!", and the last: "After the End Roll...", which basically makes the whole show, the titular End Roll.
• Enigme
• Fireball
• Flag
• Free!
• Gamma
• Gravitation
• Happy
• Hellsing: Team Title, named after the Hellsing Organization.
• ICE
• Judge
• Madness (2004): Named after a group of people.
• magico
• Monster
• Moriking
• Noragami
• Piano
• PPPPPP: Read as pianissississississimo
• Prism
• Radiant
• Saki:
  • The show's title itself.
  • Of the 25 episodes of, 17 fit this:
    • "Encounter"
    • "Battle"
    • "Confrontation"
    • "Tradition"
    • "Beginner"
    • "Prank"
    • "Awakening"
    • "Existance"
    • "Demon"
    • "Conspiracy"
    • "Nightmare"
    • "Link"
    • "Friends"
    • "Sisters"
    • "Promise"
    • "Determination"
    • "Nationals"
• Several of the chapters in Sands of Destruction are single words:
  • Chapter 3 is "Scar"
  • Chapter 4 is "Warrior"
  • Chapter 5 is "Retribution"
  • Chapter 7 is "Destruct"
  • Chapter 8 is "Retreat"
  • Chapter 11 is "Pride"
  • Chapter 9 was only a single word in Japanese, 語り部, but the English translation adds an article to make it "The Storyteller".
• Shelter
• Shy
• Stitch!^note Except for the German dub where it's known as Yuna & Stitch in keeping with the Lilo & Stitch franchise's typical nomenclature.The English dub also has its own one-word titles for several episodes, especially those that follow the old Idiosyncratic Episode Naming of the franchise's first TV show.
  • "Kijimunaa": The debut of a youkai who becomes a recurring character throughout the first two seasons.
  • "Bojo"
  • "Babeechik"
  • "Warracchi"
  • "Damacchi"
  • "Himamushi"
  • "Topsy-Turvy" (if hyphenated words count)
  • "Pilolo"
  • "BooGoo": Only when treated as a single-length episode like in Japan; the international version splits it into two separate episodes that add "Part One" and "Part Two". This episode is the debut of an alien who becomes a pet to the main characters.
  • "Sasha": The debut of a recurring character for season two who becomes Yuna's new classmate and friend, though her original name in Japanese is "Sae" and her "real" name in the English dub is "Sandra".
  • "Link-age": A pun off the name of Experiment 251.
  • "Switcheroo"
  • "Pokopon"
  • "Tigerlily": The debut of a recurring character from this episode onward who is Yuna's older cousin, though her full name in the English dub is "Tigerlily Sakai".
  • "Shrink": The first full^note he first cameoed in Leroy & Stitch appearance of Experiment 001; he would appear again in "Experiment-a-palooza" below.
  • "Wormhole": Features Experiment 272.
  • "Raijin"
  • "Dorkifier": Features Experiment 122.
  • "Flute": Features Experiment 145, whose actual name was "Bragg" in the original Japanese version but was misnumbered as Experiment 021 or "Twang"; the English dub changed his name to "Flute" cause that's what he plays.
  • "Witch": Features Experiment 610, who has the ability to possess and change others.
  • "Shogun"
  • "Experiment-a-palooza": This one really stretches the trope; it involves several experiments.
  • "Lilo": The return of Stitch's old friend.
  • "Toddler-fier": Referring to a modified Experiment 151/Babyfier.
  • "Boss": Referring to a much bigger clone of Stitch who bosses him and some other Stitch clones who are also bigger than the original.
• SWOT
• Tista
• Uratarou
• Wagnaria!!
• Wanted! (1998)
  • "Wanted!"
  • "Monsters"
• Zipman!!