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** Dragonball fandom is particularly guilty of this trope, though in some cases it's because authors are using Japanese to represet alien (usually Saiya-jin) dialects. Perhaps a rare case of a [[Justified Trope]] given that Toriyama used English for Vegeta's attacks for exactly this purpose.
* The [[Deva Series (Fanfic)|Deva Series]] has quite a bit of [[Gratuitous Japanese]], often in the form of common statements such as "Hai" and "Gomen nasai", and occasional phrases (?Ohayo, minnnaaaa-ssaaaaan!?).
* A horrific example of this very nearly destroyed the Improfanfic series ''Final Fantasy Legacy'', and was the very first instance of an Impro part actually being pulled ([[Canon Dis ContinuityDiscontinuity|entirely removed from the series and disregarded by all future authors]]) to save the story. The original author for the sixth chapter (of what would go on to be a 60+ chapter story) committed multiple sins, including killing off half the characters, throwing a brand-new story into ending mode, and spewing rivers of gratuitous Japanese into a story which, at that point, had used ''absolutely no Japanese whatsoever''. Some of the worst examples:
{{quote| Chapter title: ''"Shoujou no Kokoro to Akuma no Higeki"''<br />
... dare ga? Kimi wa dare?<br />
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