Trope Namers/Anime and 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)

• Best Student Council
  • Maintain the Lie

• Bleach
  • Flash Step

• Break Blade
  • Un-Sorcerer

• The Big O
  • Tomato in the Mirror

• CLAMP
  • Noodle People

• Cowboy Bebop
  • Media Research Failure
  • Mushroom Samba

• Dirty Pair
  • Lovely Angels

• Dragon Ball
  • Combined Energy Attack (Formally Spirit Bomb)
  • 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 Level
  • Readings Are Off the Scale (Formally Over Nine Thousand)

• Excel Saga
  • Eat the Dog

• Fist of the North Star
  • You Are Already Dead

• Fullmetal Alchemist
  • Equivalent Exchange
  • Gate of Truth

• GaoGaiGar
  • Disappears Into Light

• Gigantor
  • Shotacon

• Girls Bravo
  • Censor Steam

• Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
  • I'm Taking Her Home with Me

• Magic Knight Rayearth
  • Magic Knight

• Mahou Sensei Negima
  • Marshmallow Hell
  • Two Roads Before You

• Mazinger Z
  • Rocket Punch
  • Super Robot

• Mobile Suit Gundam
  • Char Clone
  • Colony Drop
  • Mid-Season Upgrade (fandom term)
  • Minovsky Physics

• • Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory
    • Gundamjack
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
    • Ensign Newbie

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

• Neon Genesis Evangelion
  • Eva Fins
  • Mind Rape
  • Zettai Ryouiki (the term itself)

• Otaku no Video
  • Misty May

• Peach Girl
  • Wounded Gazelle Gambit

• Pokémon (anime)
  • Gotta Catch Them All
    • Gotta Kill Them All
  • Pokémon-Speak
  • Team Rocket Wins
  • To Be a Master

• Ranma ½
  • Martial Arts and Crafts

• Read or Die
  • Paper Master

• Rurouni Kenshin
  • Rain of Blood

• Sailor Moon
  • In the Name of the Moon
  • Sailor Earth

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

• Tenchi Muyo!
  • Really Seven Hundred Years Old
  • Tenchi Solution

• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
  • Beyond the Impossible

• Uchuu Senkan Yamato
  • Wave Motion Gun

• Voltron
  • Robeast

• The World God Only Knows
  • Wild Card Excuse

• Yu-Gi-Oh!
  • Black Magician Girl (cross-reference to the Final Fantasy series)