Trope Namers / Anime & Manga

The following tropes were either started or popularized by Japanese entertainment. Here are some of the Trope Namers in anime and manga series.

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• ARIA
  • Scenery Porn (via blogs)

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• Astro Boy
  • Astro Clone

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• Best Student Council
  • Maintain the Lie

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• Bleach
  • Flash Step

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• Broken Blade
  • Un-Sorcerer

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• The Big O
  • Tomato in the Mirror

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• CLAMP
  • Noodle People

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• Cowboy Bebop
  • Cowboy BeBop at His Computer (from an article about the show)
  • Mushroom Samba

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• Digimon Data Squad
  • Sleep-Mode Size

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• Dirty Pair
  • Lovely Angels

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• Dragon Ball
  • Backup from Otherworld
  • From a Single Cell
  • Frothy Mugs of Water (from the Ani-Mayhem card game)
  • Fusion Dance
  • Kamehame Hadoken (cross-reference to Street Fighter)
  • Meteor Move
  • Power Levels
  • Super Mode

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• Fist of the North Star
  • You Are Already Dead
  • Kung-Fu Jesus^note From Toki's Fan Nickname

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• Fullmetal Alchemist
  • Equivalent Exchange
  • Gate of Truth

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• GaoGaiGar
  • Disappears into Light

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• Gigantor
  • Lolicon and Shotacon

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• Girls Bravo
  • Censor Steam

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• The Gundam metaseries:
  • Mobile Suit Gundam
    • Colony Drop
    • Mid-Season Upgrade (fandom term)
    • Minovsky Physics
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
    • Ensign Newbie
  • G Gundam
    • Golden Super Mode

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• Higurashi: When They Cry
  • I'm Taking Her Home with Me!

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• Magic Knight Rayearth
  • Magic Knight

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• Mazinger Z
  • Rocket Punch
  • Super Robot (technically, though Super Robot Wars is the one who coined the term)

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• My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!
  • Next Life as a Fictional Character

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• Naruto
  • Dynamic Entry (named for Might Guy's flying kick)

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• Negima! Magister Negi Magi
  • Marshmallow Hell
  • Two Roads Before You

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• Neon Genesis Evangelion
  • Gainax Ending (Studio Gainax has used this in other works too, but this is the most well-known one)
  • Mind Rape
  • Rei Ayanami Expy
  • Zettai Ryouiki (the term itself)

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• Peach Girl
  • Wounded Gazelle Gambit

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• Pokémon: The Series (anime)
  • Aim for the Horn (From a misquoted line spawned from an early episode.)
  • Pokémon Speak
  • Team Rocket Wins
  • To Be a Master

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• Ranma ½
  • The Glomp
  • Martial Arts and Crafts

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• Read or Die
  • Paper Master

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• Rurouni Kenshin
  • Rain of Blood

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• Sailor Moon
  • In the Name of the Moon
  • Sailor Earth
  • Sailor Fuku
  • Sailor Senshi Send-Up

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• Space Battleship Yamato
  • Wave-Motion Gun

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• Super Dimension Fortress Macross
  • Bridge Bunnies (fandom term)
  • Macross Missile Massacre
  • Roboteching (like the above, but with lasers)

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• Tenchi Muyo!
  • Really 700 Years Old

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• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
  • Beyond the Impossible

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• Voltron
  • Robeast

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• The World God Only Knows
  • Wild Card Excuse

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• Yu-Gi-Oh!
  • Black Magician Girl (cross-reference to the Final Fantasy series)
  • King of Games
  • White Magician Girl (cross-reference to the Final Fantasy series)
  • Gate Guardian.

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