Have a Gay Old Time/Anime and Manga

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Examples of Have a Gay Old Time in Anime and Manga include:

  • One Piece referred to a certain stream as the "Knock-up Stream" (in those exact words, even in the Japanese version). One Piece: Grand Adventure, which had its dub made by 4Kids, referred to it as the "water spout", but Pirates Carnival called it the Knock-Up Stream.
  • Fairy Tail having the main characters be part of a guild the same name is fine, but then you get some weirdness in the times when someone calls a member of said guild "a fairy".
  • In the first episode of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, two other students tell Kyon about Haruhi and say "Her queerness takes a path unlike anything you've seen." Though given some of her behaviour, maybe they didn't just mean to call her weird.
  • In the Scramble For The Throne arc of Kinnikuman, one of the five impostor Kinnikumen is a Mexican wrestler named Mariposa (Butterfly). It's supposed to be a reference to his graceful, high-flying techniques, but in an anime with muscular, scantily-clad men grappling...
  • In general "XXX" in Japanese just means "(blank/variable thing)", but in English speaking language generally means something to do with pornography or moonshine. One work that could suffer from this trope is ×××HOLiC.
  • The Big O is also a name for The Immodest Orgasm, among other more tame things.
  • Done intentionally in Full Metal Panic!, where at one point Tessa (a submarine captain who is posing as a junior high student at the moment) says she's got experience in "the water business", which is Japanese slang for prostitution. Kaname responds with a muttered "That's kind of a poor choice of words..."
  • Panda and the Magic Serpent, Japan's first color feature animated film, has an English dub that sounds quite liberated for the 1950s: "There was a gay festival in the village. Everybody was celebrating."