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* The yaoi manga '''A'''ll '''N'''ippon '''A'''ir '''L'''ines. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140423215710/http://www.digitalmanga.com/books/49/ 'nuff said.]
** Except there really is such an airline... the word "airline" is just ''one'' word, though, so its real abbreviation is ANA.
*** Which is [[Hilarious in Hindsight]], since "ana" is Japanese for "hole". Yeah, don't think about it too much.
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* ''[[Code Geass]]'' gives us the rather unintuitive acronym, "F.L.E.I.J.A", which stands for '''F'''ield '''L'''imitary '''E'''ffective '''I'''mplosion '''A'''rmament. The "J" doesn't stand for anything; it is only there to facilitate the word's pronunciation as "Freya". If the reference to the Norse goddess was intentional, one wonders why they didn't just call it the '''F'''ission '''R'''eaction-'''E'''nhanced '''Y'''ield '''A'''rmament.
** There's also the '''S'''uperlative '''E'''xtruder '''I'''nterlocked '''T'''echnology '''E'''xclusive '''N'''exus, which is the Guren SEITEN. Of course, SEITEN isn't a word in English, but in Japanese, it means Eight Elements... which is what the start-up screen calls it. In English. That's a surprisingly high-level of knowledge of Japanese language from a Britannian engineer.
* [[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]] gives us the variable fighter's half-jet-half-humanoid-mecha [https://web.archive.org/web/20070211105649/http://unsd.macrossroleplay.org/VF11gerwalk.gif GERWALK] mode - '''G'''round '''E'''ffective '''R'''einforcement of '''W'''inged '''A'''rmament with '''L'''ocomotive '''K'''nee-joint. This actually makes a bit more sense than most of the other examples - until you look up the [http://macross.anime.net//memories/02/index.html very first proposal involving VF-esque mechas] done by Kawamori, involving non-transforming half-plane-half-mechas called "Ga-Walk" ...
** Not to mention the fact that the SDF-1 Macross itself was formerly known as '''A'''lien '''S'''pace '''S'''hip One.
** The novels of the dub, [[Robotech]], give a backronym for ''Veritech'': '''V'''ariable '''E'''ngineering and '''R'''obotic '''I'''ntegration '''Tech'''nology.
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