Anime Acronym List

Last updated 13 April 2001

Please e-mail corrections and additions to me.

Notes
Suggested Tag-Lines for use in rec.arts.anime.* subject headers
Terms Specific to the Anime Newsgroups
General Internet Terms
Contributors

This list is posted monthly to rec.arts.anime.misc and rec.arts.anime.fandom, and is available on the World-Wide Web at http://robkelk.tripod.com/acronyms.html

This list includes the Suggested Tag-Lines list previously maintained by Gordon Waters. My thanks to Mr. Waters for suggesting the two lists be consolidated.

Many people who are new to the anime newsgroups have trouble figuring out what all the abbreviations stand for. (Some of the old-timers have this problem occasionally, also.) This is a list of the more common short-form terms in use on the rec.arts.anime.* newsgroups (technically speaking, these aren't all "acronyms", but most people call them that anyway).

Anthony D. Baranyi would like to remind everyone of one point of good netiquette:

I'd like to make a suggestion to folks who use the "acronyms" for anime titles - write the entire title out ( and maybe put it in quotations ) then use the acronyms afterwards in the posting. This is particularly useful for the newer readers of raam and newer anime fans in general.

Notes

Abbreviations that do not stand for anime titles are noted as such.

Any part of an acronym or definition in square brackets is optional. (For example, the general internet term "IM[[NS]H]O" can be written "IMO", "IMHO", or "IMNSHO".) However, the square brackets are part of the suggested tag-lines.

When more than one title exisis for a particular anime, the Japanese title is given first, followed by the other titles in alphabetical order. This often puts the best-known title at the end of the list!

The letters "TV" are someimes added to "AMG"/"AMS"/"OMG", "BBNM"/"Nuku"/"Nuku^2", "EH", "RoLW", "TM", and "YUA" - this indicates the broadcast TV versions of these shows. (The default usage is the direct-to-video versions.) However, it is not usual to add "TV" to "BGC" for this purpose; the tendency on alt.fan.bgcrisis is to use "BGC2040" instead.

Suggested Tag-Lines for use in rec.arts.anime.* subject headers

For information about specific people in Anime (for example, Matsumoto, Miyazaki, Orikasa Ai, Megumi Hayashibara, etc.) put the name in brackets (e.g. [MIYAZAKI]). For information about specific anime or anime organizations, put the term in brackets (e.g. [8MST], [AIC]).

Example:
"[SPOILER][HAYASHIBARA][BGC] Megumi in BGC episode 5" could be used on a post that discusses the fate of Megumi Hayashibara's character in the fifth "Bubblegum Crisis" OAV.

Suggested Tag-Lines for use in rec.arts.anime.marketplace subject headers

These tags should be used only in rec.arts.anime.marketplace, since marketplace activities are off-topic in the other rec.arts.anime.* groups:

Suggested Tag-Lines for use in e-mail subject headers

If any of the following tags apply, you should seriously consider not posting your article to the rec.arts.anime.* groups - you may want to use e-mail instead:

Terms Specific to the Anime Newsgroups

General Internet Terms

If an abbreviation isn't given here, it may be on one of the other acronym lists on the Internet. The alt.fan.pratchett Acronyms page has pointers to some of these other lists.

Contributors

This is not [to be used as] a mailing list. To decode this list, process it with this awk script:

BEGIN { FS "  +" }
{ printf("%s %s%s%s\n", $2, $3, "@", $1) }
END