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.


 * 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)