Memetic Mutation/Anime and Manga



Since most anime-viewers are big nerds, there are naturally going to be a lot of anime-inspired Internet memes.

Please add entries in the following format:
 * The name of the anime (if it belongs in the "Other" folder).
 * The meme. labelnote:Explanation  The explanation behind the meme.  /labelnote
 * Further mutations and successor memes, if any.

Works with their own pages:


 * Axis Powers Hetalia
 * Hetalia Bloodbath 2010
 * Captalia
 * Hetalia Bloodbath 2011
 * Bleach
 * Code Geass
 * Death Note
 * Dragon Ball
 * Gundam
 * Lucky Star
 * Naruto
 * Nasuverse (Fate/stay night and Tsukihime)
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion
 * Puella Magi Madoka Magica
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Umineko no Naku Koro Ni

Fullmetal Alchemist

 * When Roy Mustang becomes Fuhrer, all of his female employees will be required to wear TINY MINISKIRTS!
 * HE LOVES DOGS!
 * And is dead sexy... in a miniskirt!
 * And then Vic got Ed's seiyuu Romi Park to say it.
 * FULL METAL ALCHEMIST!
 * THIS MEME HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN THE ARMSTRONG FAMILY FOR GENERATIONS!!! *sparkle*
 * King Bradley killed a tank. With a sword.
 * Keep calm and look for an ice cream truck.

Haruhi Suzumiya

 * "Nyoro~n"
 * And then official Haruhi staff made a series off of it for YouTube, much to the chagrin of the Unpleasable Fanbase, was referenced in the live concert for the show by Taniguchi's voice actor, Minoru Shiraishi, who proclaimed "Nyoro~n! Smoked cheese!", and also in Lucky Star, produced by the same company as Haruhi.
 * Suzumiya Haruhi no Seitenkan
 * "Hare Hare Yukai"
 * The popularity of this dance is astounding. And there are six of these videos.
 * "Is This A Dancing Anime?"
 * Think the dance is popular? Have you seen the Cebu Filipino prisoners dancing to it?
 * I see your prisoners dancing and raise you One Kirsten Dunst Music Video!
 * Everyone is Itsuki for Kyon.
 * "You made Mikuru cry!"
 * Haruhiism
 * "We've entered an endless recursion of time."
 * "Kyon-kun, denwa."
 * "Wawawawasuremono... ore no wasuremono..."

Hellsing

 * A declaration of war? EXCELLENT! I CAN'T WAIT TO DESTROY YOU AGAIN!
 * Up,up! Down, down! Left, right, left, right! Bringing the motherfuckin' death by Konami. Aaaah I am so fucking hard right now!
 * If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed at His Coming. They'll save you for your fate. Amen.
 * Aaaaaameeeeeeen!.
 * Gentlemen, I love war.
 * Guess what I just caught? I... just caught... YOU. Rip. Van. Winkle.

Higurashi

 * "Why can't anyone her horns?"
 * "I'd her horns" (NSFW).
 * Remember kids, you should tell your friends if you shoot kids for fun.
 * Ni-pah!
 * "OMOCHIKAERI~!"
 * Do you know Oyashiro-Sama? Yes, Hinamizawa. I kill you, you kill me. No, Hinamizawa!
 * USO DA!
 * Use Soda!
 * ANY Evil Laugh in the series will get this. Not only are there a bunch of loop videos of the girls just laughing for ten minutes, there are a bunch of remixes of their laughs, too.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

 * MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA!!!!! ZA WARUDO!! Toki wo tomare! (throws knives) Soshite toki wa ugokidasu. ROAD ROLLER DA! WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!
 * The Jotaro Kujo equivalent: ORAORAORAORAORA ORAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
 * "Even Speedwagon is afraid!"
 * Giorno always wins. Always.
 * AH, WHAT A GLORIOUS DUWANG
 * "What was that?! Depending on your answer I may have to kick your ass!"
 * "This taste... it's of a liar!"

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha

 * FULL POWER ABSOLUTE DESTRUCTION!
 * "Shall I... cool your head a little?"
 * White Devil
 * PS Vita.
 * The extraordinary popularity of overdubbing scenes from the show with the soundtrack of mecha shows, including but not limited to Subaru's Final Fusion.
 * To the point that in Japan, Subaru is more commonly known as GaoGaiGar-tan, since she is well, a walking homage to the aforementioned series.
 * Rainbows are straighter than Subaru.
 * Befriending.
 * This has reached the point where if it involves making friends, Nanoha becomes a Memetic Badass who could make Chuck Norris wet himself. This naturally makes one wonder, if this is how she treats people she wants to be friends with, what would she be capable of against someone for whom she really wanted to bring the pain.
 * Erio, the biggest playah.
 * "Listen or be shot."

One Piece

 * YO HO HO HE TOOK A BITE OF GUM GUM!
 * Thanks to the advent of Emporio Ivankov's powers combined with the author drawing Gender Bent versions of the main characters, there has been an absolute deluge of Rule 63 fan art. Absolutely no one is safe.
 * Within moments of his anime debut, AMV's to "Sweet Transvestite" were rampant.
 * Magma is hotter than fire. Swords are hotter than magma.
 * Fishman Island is the next destination.
 * Oda NEVER Forgets!
 * SUUUPPAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
 * Nobody dies in One Piece outside of Flash Backs!
 * This is a bit of an Invoked Meme, as it just applies to people the protagonist has met. Partly because even with villains, he doesn't kill them, but leaves them alive to watch their hopes and dreams crumble around them. (Plenty of unimportant people die).

Tiger & Bunny

 * A few episodes into Tiger and Bunny, a couple of fans noticed that Kotetsu's goatee looked, shall we say, adorable. And thus the legendary catbeard was born.
 * Batman's "MY PARENTS ARE DEEEEAAADDDDD!!!!!" meme has also been adopted for . Altering famous Batman comic panels to make them about also seems popular.
 * "X! And X again!"
 * Since episode 15, many a crack has been made about Keith Goodman/Sky High's incredibly obvious status as a clueless virgin. The 4th drama CD has only encouraged them.
 * "Goddammit, Sunrise. Stop doing this to us."
 * "I must have that delicious Oyaji Moe scent!"
 * Sold out in X seconds
 * "Is it Saturday yet?"
 * After unwittingly winning the affection of not one but three Tsundere (Karina, Barnaby and his own wife, Tomoe), the fandom has concluded that Kotetsu has magical Tsundere-attracting powers.
 * "Yes, yes, Baaahnaby. Jut out your hips more."
 * After the twenty fourth episode, Kotetsu's preoccupation with fried rice didn't just become a meme - it became an international event
 * Being Bison is suffering.

Yu-Gi-Oh! and spin-offs

 * "In America!"
 * "Attention, duelists! My hair is now an internet phenomenon!"
 * Pegasus and Bakura play children's card games the manly way... with ancient Egyptian laser beams!
 * Tristan has spouted the now-famous lines: "My voice gives me super strength!" and "Burn the witch!" Also, people at anime conventions love to swipe the Millenium Rings from Bakura cosplayers and fling them across the room while shouting "Go, Millenium Frisbee!"
 * Screw the Rules, I Have Money
 * Screw The Rules, I Have Green Hair!
 * CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES!!!!!
 * IN THREEEEEEEEE DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
 * BROOKLYN RAGE!
 * Nyeh?
 * "Doro... MONSUTAA KAADO!"
 * Yami is a canon Peachshipper.
 * Yu-Gi-Oh Tenth Anniversary Movie "Synchro What?"
 * The Classy Ass.

Other
""C-Crispin Freeman! Get out of my bedroom!""
 * "desu".
 * You mean de geso?
 * After the horribly animated Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro na -Crescent Love- drew two cabbages as simple green circles, Fan Art with Feena holding one such cabbage was everywhere, and it actually survived a round in the SaiGAR "manly character" competition. Negima!? also spoofed this one.
 * "FUTAE NO KIWAMI, AAAAAAAAAAH!"
 * "IT'S A TRAP!"
 * Also used in reverse -- a woman hiding as a man is called a "Reverse Trap".
 * Funny thing is that it already overlapped with the whole Trap Card meme, so, you'll usually see photoshopped cards of Bridget and Jun, among other lesser known traps.
 * Similarly, male characters who end up in drag for zany schemes will usually prompt fans to create Wholesome Crossdresser or even outright female personas for them. A famous example is 'Ranko', a false persona Ranma Saotome creates which many fans distanced from the male character.
 * "Ideon destroyed the universe!!!"
 * It doesn't help that in Super Robot Wars Alpha 3, they said the universe would be destroyed if Ideon went out of control.
 * NICE BOAT!
 * The "Magical Heart Kokoro-chan" OVA episode gives a quite deliberate Shout-Out to the meme, featuring a lifeboat labeled "NICE BOAT" drifting down a river of blood...
 * And then Kadokawa posted up a short clip of a (admittedly quite nice looking) sailboat with the words "It's not finished yet" (or something to that effect) the day Haruhi-chan was supposed to start.
 * Similar to the Loituma Girl cartoon, a looped short clip of Mai and Mii dancing from the Popotan h-game opening was set to "Caramelldansen" by the Swedish Eurodance group Caramell. Thus the Caramelldansen Vid trope. Any videos that fit that trope should be listed there.
 * An episode of Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei snuck this in as a quick flash on a wall.
 * Caramelldansen has gone classical. When we get a full string orchestra with full brass and choral accompaniment playing this, the world will end.
 * An accordion version has been created.
 * At 2:09 in this video, several bars of.
 * A full string orchestra and a wind band version. Still no choral accompaniment.
 * Card Crusher.
 * Similar to the Rambo example in the film section, in the 1970s Ferdinand Marcos' regime banned Super Robot show Voltes V in the Philippines, officially because of excessive violence, but really because the heroes were rebels fighting a brutal dictator. Voltes V proceeded to be adopted as a mascot by Filipino rebels.
 * The ending sequence from Clannad, the touching "Dango Daikazoku", has been made into hundreds of different versions.
 * The opening theme of Clannad ~After Story~, Toki wo Kizamu Uta, has a tendency to be remade with any anime that has a Improbably-Female Cast, any other work of Key Visual Arts, or just any work in general.
 * Tomoya seems to be known to some as "the Clannadman". (Related expression: "You will never be the Clannadman!")
 * Fuuko's love of starfish has reached memetic levels. "HITODEEEGethbot (talk)!<3"
 * The "talent" joke. In Sailor Moon R the girls were trying out for a role in a play. In the dub, Lita said she should get the role because she has the most talent. In the original version, Makoto said she should get the part because she has the biggest boobs. However, the dub still has a close-up of her chest. Talent has since become a euphemism for breast size.
 * "Sailor Mars is the hottest". This tends to show up in discussions about which of the Sailor Soldiers is the hottest. Sailor Mars' powers are based around Playing with Fire, so the Incredibly Lame Pun was inevitable.
 * Not exclusively related to anime but the infamous Finnish dubbing team Agapio Racing Team's Macekre-dub of certain series has achieved meme-like qualities in Finland, especially the emotionless expressions of emotion from Digimon.
 * Examples of this can be found here and here.
 * "____ is mai waifu"
 * The male version should be "hasubando" but is usually just "husbando."
 * An alternate origin could be the Japanese otaku practice of proclaiming a female (or male) character "ore no yome", which means exactly the same thing. A Shout-Out to this practice appeared in Lucky Star.
 * There's even a Mai-Waifu Fansubs, the waifu in this case being Enma Ai.
 * Fate Stay Night: GAR!
 * "OW MY NUTBLADDER!"
 * |___________|
 * 2008: "The Year of Dead Snipers".
 * Symmetrical Docking
 * There's even a video out of it (not using the above heroines, but you get the idea)
 * Backbeard, noted Celtic eyeball monster and Gegege no Kitaro villain, has become associated with criticism of lolicons.
 * Among Humongous Mecha fans "G is the most powerful/hot-blooded letter of the alphabet". See Gundam (especially G Gundam), GaoGaiGar, Getter Robo, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, among others.
 * Not to mention green being "the most powerful/hot-blooded colour." Not just because it starts with a "G", but because the Getter Rays from Getter Robo and its derivatives (G-Stone Energy, Spiral Energy, Bronze Bell Power and so on) happen to glow neon green.
 * On /a/, it's a meme to answer any and all requests for anime recommendations or the source of a picture with "Boku no Pico".
 * Which is generally followed by Bible Black, La Blue Girl, etc...
 * On /m/, Legend of the Blue Wolves is "popular" for both this and a "lose" condition in bets based on the last number of your post.
 * And sometimes mixed with other boards' versions of the same joke (like Battletoads)
 * YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
 * Kodomo No Jikan's ED has been parodied with other series' characters. This is good news for people who like the song but can't stand the underage fanservice imagery of the original.
 * Bara manga Kuso Miso Technique has spawned two catchphrases: "uho, ii otoko!" ("wow, nice guy!", roughly equivalent to "hey, good-looking!") and "yaranaika?" ("wanna do it?"). The characters' exaggerated facial expressions have been shopped extensively onto other works.
 * "JUST AS CLAMPED!"
 * Tsubasa's manga also brings us the fan pairing of Apple-kun/Freckle-chan.
 * Not from the anime itself, but from the English dub outtakes of Noein:

""Because you're Yuri Lowenthal and I'm in your bedroom again.""
 * This gag continued in the outtakes for Durarara


 * Thanks to the characters in Saki never showing any panties even in angles where a Panty Shot should appear (naked flesh is shown instead), Japanese fans in 2chan have declared that "Saki is not wearing any".
 * ... Bang.
 * See you, space cowboy.
 * See you, Space Samurai
 * Ooh whachu saaaaay
 * In any nonserious artbook or doujin for Ronin Warriors - and even some of the serious - one of two things from the image CDs is bound to be referenced: Seiji/Sage really loves pumpkin, and Touma/Rowen is a terrible singer.
 * "DANCEN ROSAS PIRAÑAAS, AAAAAAAAH!"
 * ANOTHER DIMENSION!
 * "Sai-shou-dou-kin!?".
 * Pactioooooooo!!'
 * Eveyone is Shotacon for Negi.
 * Akamatsu's really hot wife demands HIATUS.
 * KEN DID THE RESEARCH.
 * S-stupid Meme... I-it's not like I'm spreading you because I like you or anything! *blushes* D-dummy...
 * Black Butler: "Yes, my lord."
 * Sebastian is a pedo-demon.
 * Ciel in a box/Box-chan.
 * It has become popular on several sites to, whenever Ogin gets mentioned, talk about her amazing assets by ending the sentence with "and that is a very good thing."
 * FLY AWAY NOW, FLY AWAY NOW, FLY AWAAAAY!
 * I WANT YOU-OU-OU-OU-OU!
 * On Pixiv, it's become a meme to draw characters from other shows in the PSG style.
 * Be sure to follow the RRRRRRRUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUs.
 * GOD! MY! OOOOOOH!
 * The Laughing Man is an in-universe example.
 * He's become quite the meme in Real Life, too. Especially his unmistakable logo.
 * I'm Tv Tropes, tantei sa!
 * This troper learned to do that in Hawaii!
 * Oi oi oi!
 * Tekkaman will deactivate that giant robot with his SPACE LANCE! Maybe the SPACE LAN- Oh, it slipped! I've got to get this GIANT ARM off me! IT'S SO HEAVY!
 * Can't forget VOLTEKKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! *breaks mic*
 * More known in Japan, but the final shot in Ashita no Joe where has become one of the most well known and well remembered images in Japanese pop culture history.
 * Dr. Slump: N'cha!
 * Hoyoyoyo/Ayayaya
 * KIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNN
 * Arale's glasses have also become memetic to the point where "Arare Megane" refers to any pair of round glasses similar to the ones Arale wears.
 * pupipupipupipupi
 * "Mahariku Maharita Yanbara Yan!"
 * Rumiko's Reply: "I don't think about such things, and neither should you!"
 * Gentlemen, behold... CORN!
 * Natsurium, The densest material known to man.
 * I watch it for the economics.
 * Stupid Potato!
 * Every time you bring up real world physics in a discussion about fantasy anime, God kills a Catgirl. Please, think of the catgirls.
 * Amen, hallelujah, and peanut butter.
 * YOU GOT FUCKED!!!
 * KOUME! It's eight of clock! WAKE UP!
 * "Captain! No smoking on the bridge!"
 * Soul Eater: GODDAMMITSHIT
 * FOOLS!
 * MY LEGEND BEGAN IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY!
 * ATATATATATATATATATATATATATATA!!!
 * "Omae wa mou shindeiru." "What the hell are you talking abo--HIDEBU!" (head explodes)
 * SURVIVAL STRATEGY!
 * VIVA MUFFLER!
 * FABULOUS MAX!
 * Making photoshops of Shoma's very Off-Model face from episode 10 has become quite popular in some image boards.
 * As of episode 16, doing the same with a certain shot that shows  is starting to go that way too.
 * Shouma is mai waifu.
 * Lol wut? u mad?
 * is getting NTR'd.
 * HEY MR. PRESIDENT, WATCH OUT!
 * Himari no tame ni!
 * Shibireru darou?
 * Mario will never be relevant.
 * IIIIIKUUUUUHAAAAAARAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
 * Blood C, BEST COMEDY OF THE YEAR, MAN!
 * "Protection." Gonna get "protected."
 * Baccano: THANK YOU, FUCK YOU, THE STAR IS HERE!
 * "WATASHI WA SHINAN- SHINAN ZO!" "FARUKON PAUNCH!"
 * The creepy face Yuno makes at the end of the first episode of Mirai Nikki. It's gotten to the point where it's gotten its own tags on Pixiv (恍惚のヤンデレポーズ, lit. "yandere pose of ecstasy") and Danbooru (yandere_trance).
 * GONNA PROTECT THE SHIT OUT OF YOU
 * Akise isn't gay. He's Yuki-sexual.
 * Akise is a boss.
 * Katekyo Hitman Reborn
 * "Juudaime!"
 * In Soviet Anatoray, ship steals YOU!
 * Itsumo Hitori...
 * GOTTA GO FAST!
 * Make yourself taller
 * I'm in despair!X has left me in despair!
 * Akira gives us this gem: "TETSUOOOOOOOOO!!" "KANEDAAAAAAAAAAA!!"
 * DRR DRR DRR.
 * No. 6 due to the amount of Ho Yay between Sion and Nezumi has fans saying sarcastically "THIS ANIME IS VERY HETEROSEXUAL."
 * Sion's sperm is all for Nezumi.
 * Guilty Crown: Dropped every week.
 * Actually, this is a recurrent meme on 4chan. Whenever there are livestreams of any series on /a/, there'll likely be at least one 4channer saying "DROPPING" and stuff like that.
 * Jormungand "Her name is Koko She is Loco I said Oh no"
 * Steins;Gate "El Psy Congroo"
 * "CHRISTINA"
 * "Dr Pepper"
 * "I am Mad Scientist, It's so cool sonuvabitch"
 * Tuturu~
 * "I am Mad Scientist, It's so cool sonuvabitch"
 * Tuturu~