Punctuated For Emphasis / Anime & Manga

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Examples. Of. Punctuated! For! Emphasis! In. Anime. And. Manga.

• Actually, this can apply to a number of (but not all) situations that involve Calling Your Attacks (the same applies for video games).
• This actually happens a lot in anime when a female character wants to sound as cute and/or girly as po...si...ble.
• I! AM! Devilman!
• In Azumanga Daioh, there is "RUNNER UP! RUN! ER! UUUUP!"
  • "FIIIIIIIRRSSTTT...PLLLAAAAACCCEEE...VIIIICCTORRYY!!!!"
  • SA. TA. ANDAGI!
• Berserk: "THIS IS — A DECLARATION OF WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRR!!"
• Bleach subverts this. Most of the time, yelling "BANKAI!" does not come with emphasis. But Ichigo, in some medias, does put emphasis in form of "BAN! KAI!!"
  • Mayuri's release when fighting Uryru was a rather understated "Ban. Kai." This made it creepier.
  • Isshin likes to do this as well. "GOOOOOOOOD! MOOOOOOOOOOOOOORNING! IIIIIIIIIIICHIGOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
  • In the dub of Episode 13, when Tatsuki attacks some Hollow-controlled students to protect Orihime, she yells "WHAT THE HELL — ARE YOU — PEOPLE — DOING?!"
    • Justified, since Tatsuki is fighting at the time, and making sure that even as she talks, she breaths properly for each hit.
  • Chapter 403 also gives us Ichigo's response to Aizen's new form. "What...the fuck...is that..."
  • Also, Ichigo's GETSUGA TENSHOUGHAHGHA!!!
• Bottle Fairy. New Year WILL! <sting> NEVER! <sting> COME! And it doesn't! Until the next episode.
• Chainsaw Man: IT'S NUTS! OR! NOTHING!
• Code Geass: "I am...ZERO!!"
  • "ALL! HAIL! BRITANNIA!!!"
  • Mao screaming "ALICE!!! GIVE! ME! THE! DRUUUUUG!!!!!!" during her (yes, her) Villainous Breakdown in the Nightmare of Nunnally manga.
• Used in the finale of Death Note: Near, finally starting to sound bitter in his confrontation with Light, makes liberal use of periods to make his deduction nice and clear. "Light Yagami... You. Are. Kira."
  • I! AM! JUSTICE!
  • SAKUJO! SAKUJO! SAKUJO!
• Digimon Frontier brings us "EXECUTE! BEAST! SPIRIT! EVOLUTION!"
  • Digimon Tamers: FIST! OF! THE BEAST KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!
  • Digimon Data Squad: "DIGISOUL... CHARGE! OVERDRIVE!"
    • CHAAAARGE! DNAAAAAA! BUUUUURST MOOOODE!
  • (Digimon 1)! (Digimon 2!) Jogress Evolve!
  • The second Digimon movie Our War Game had the dub line: "YOU'VE! GOT! MAIL!"
  • Now in music form, courtesy of Digimon Fusion: GET! BACK! GOOD! WORLD! XROS! HEART!
• Can there be an example of Punctuated For Emphasis in one word instead of three? Well, if you're IIIIIIIIIIIZAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAA-KUUUUUUUUUUUN from Durarara!!, then yes. Yes, there can.
• Eureka SeveN: I! CAAAAN! FLYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!
• The 4Kids Entertainment dub of One Piece from "You Dirty Rat!": LEAVE! * throws sand* LEAVE! * throws sand* LEAVE! * throws sand* LEAVE! * throws sand*
  • That actually happens in the original version. We also have Luffy's line after beating Arlong: NAMI! YOU'RE MY NAKAMA!!!!.
• Fullmetal Alchemist: "I'M. A. HOUSEWIFE!!!"
  That's the polite response. But just for today, I feel like showing off a little. I! AM! AN ALCHEMIST!!!
• Full Metal Panic!: Kaname let this out when Sousuke gets his hand on her breast: "What. In. The. Hell?!! Keep your hands off me, you pervert!!!"
• Fushigi Yuugi also has examples of this.
  • "REKKA... SHIN-EN!"
    • Subverted when he needs to make a very small flame. "REKKA! SHIN! ...eeeeen."
  • "WHAT—DID YOU DO—TO—MIAKA?" and all other variations thereof.
  • "YUI! DON'T! SUMMON! SEIRYUU!"
• From Gankutsuou: "TAKE. THE HAMMER STRIKE. OF REVENGE!"
• Gai Shishioh of GaoGaiGar announces all of his attacks in this way to some degree. But when it's time to really bring out the epic, there's only one thing to say: "HIKARI! NI! NAAAAAAAAAAAAAREEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!" (Translatable as "BE! COME! LIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!" And then the hammer comes down).
• Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl: I! CAAAAN'T! FLYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!
• Then there's one that predates the aforementioned two Gundam examples: SOLOMON! I! HAVE! RETURNED!!!
• Father Anderson in Hellsing: "ALUCAAARD! VAMPIIIIRE!"
  • There are a few other examples, notably Jan Valentine in the manga: "Therefore! All! You! Bitches! Can you just fuck off and die!" (And yes, it was actually written this way.)
    • And Jan in the anime: "BEWARE...THE...MILLENNIUM...!"
    • In Hellsing Ultimate 2, Jan Valentine performs the famous Konami Code: "Up! Up! Down! Down! Left! Right! Left! Right! Bringin' the motherfuckin' death, by Konami."
  • Alucard: "Guess what I just caught? I caught you....Rip....Van....Winkle...."
  • SEARCH AND DESTROY! SEARCH. AND. ''DESTROOOOOOOOY!!'' (Also includes Punctuated Pounding.)
• Kogorr from Heroman lets out a particularly nasty one when he lures Heroman in for a seemingly fatal blow by using a false weak point.
  Kogorr: Sorry, but... my weak point... is... not... THERE!
• Greece of Hetalia: Axis Powers actually says 'This...is...Sparta...' in one episode.
• In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, Joseph Joestar's catchphrase is rendered as "Oh! My! God!" In the video game based on that arc, he screams it as his death cry (albeit without pause).
• Kirby: Right Back at Ya!'s "You're watching Channel D! D! D!"
• "MEEEEEEERRRRRRYYYYYYY... CHRISTMAAAAAAAASSSSSS !!!!!!", from Kyouran Kazoku Nikki.
• Lyrical Nanoha:

  • Vita of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's had her employing this after she had walked away heavily wounded from a battle against a Sand Worm and was still pushing herself to continue fighting even though her body was ready to give up.

  Vita: It. Doesn't. HURT! (I. Taku. NAI!)

  • Nanoha's memorable scene in StrikerS:
    Nanoha: Blaster-3 ... Divine ... Buster!
• Metal Fight Beyblade: Near the finale of Metal Masters, Ryuga sees Dr. Ziggurat's Hades City, a reminder of how he was being used by Ziggurat as a stepping stone for the creation of Faust in the past. As such, he launches L-Drago at Hades City to destroy it and take cathartic revenge upon the mad scientist. Ryuga emphasizes every word when yelling "let it rip" (in the English dub) to convey the intensity of settling things once and for all.
  Ryuga: Smash it to pieces along with our horrible past! LET! IT!! RIP!!!
• Mobile Fighter G Gundam has "TAKE THIS! MY LOVE! MY ANGER! AND ALL OF MY SORROW! SHIIIIIINING! FIIIIIINGER! SWOOOOOOOORD! GO! GO! GO!"
• Mobile Suit Gundam 00. I. AM. GUNDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!!!!
  • AH HA HA HA HA HA HA THE SUPER SOLDIER IS BACK!!!
    • Seriously when your name is H/Allelujah you are bound to have quite a few of these.
• Naruto: "U-ZU-MA-KI RENDAN!" with each vovel shouted out by separate clone of Naruto!
• Taken to extreme in Negima! Magister Negi Magi, due to Chamo's Large Ham tendencies. PAC!!!-TI!!!-OOOOOOOOOOO!!!
  • " CHACHAMARU-SAN! IS NOT! A DOLL!"
• In Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!, Mahiro is disgusted by the "chicken" that Nyarko serves him. She offers to make him a BLT sandwich the next day and then starts striking Sentai-like poses that form the letters and shouting B! L! T!. Which unfortunately stands for Byakhee-Lloigor-Tsathougga.
• Pokémon 3: Entei — "You. Are. MAMA!"
  • Pokémon: The First Movie: This! Cannot! Be! ...MY DESTINY!!!
  • Also: KRABBY, NOW! USE! YOUR! VICEGRIP!
  • And of course: '''I...LOVE...FOSSILS!!!"
• From Pokémon Adventures: "All who stand in our way shall die... and die... and die! GO! TO! HELL!"
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion: After Homura gets fed up with the villain's constant babbling, she gives them one last Big "SHUT UP!" before turning into a witch.
  Homura: Da. Ma. Ri. Na. Sai!! ^note Roughly translates to "Will. You. Just. Shut. UP?!"
• Ranma ½: Ranma is a boy. He does not like being called otherwise.
  Kuno: Pig-tailed girl, I love you!
  Ranma: I! AM! A! MAAAN!
• Sailor Moon: Crisis.... Make!!...UP!!!!!!!!!
  • Also, from the first episode: "Sai! ...Lor! ...V!"
• Giroro in Sgt. Frog: "This...is...SPARTA!" He says the original quote. Joji Nakata, Giroro's voice actor, voiced Leonidas in the Japanese dub of 300.
• In episode 19 of Soaring Sky Pretty Cure, Tsubasa screams at Ageha in this manner when she denies that she's overworking herself... right after the former caught her sleeping on the table, thinking she was unconscious.
  Tsubasa: But! You! Are! Am! I! Wrong?!
• MACH GO! GO! GO! in the original Japanese version of Speed Racer.
• A comedic example happens in The Summer You Were There, after Kaori calls Shizuku just after the latter wakes up and reveals she is already at Shizuku's house.
  Shizuku: Are you planning on coming over? Every? Single? Day?
• Super Atragon: Captain Hayate is prone to saying his Catchphrase this way, "UNDERSEA-BATTLESHIP RA, ENGAGE!!!"
• With laws of physics that literally runs on the Rule of Cool, the ultimate attack in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann simply has to be delivered like this: GIGA!!! DRILL!!! BREEEEAAAAAAAAKEEEEEEERRR!!!!!
  • GIGAAAAAAAAAA!!! DORIRRRRRRRRRRRRRUUUUU!!! BUUUUUUUUU(*beep*)KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
  • LET'S SEE YOU GRIT! THOSE! TEETH!
• From Toradora!, the roar of a wounded tiger becomes this. RYUUJI! IS! MINE!
• Trigun has Legato losing his composure. KILL!! HIM!!!
• 20th Century Boys:
  • "I said I'm singing a song. And when someone's singing a song, YOU. DON'T. SHOOT. THEM."
• Whisper Me a Love Song:
  • After Shiho, a former member of SSGIRLS, coerces Himari into joining her new band Laureley as manager to spite Himari's girlfriend Yori, Mari is furious over this development.
    Mari: Shiho Izumi played us for chumps and it pisses! Me! OFF!
  • In Shiho's flashback, she finds it hard to accept that Aki would invite her to SSGIRLS after Shiho had been kicked out of every other band she was in. Shiho yells to herself, "I! Don't! Get! Her! At all!"
• In the dub of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Yusei does this with his Catchphrase whenever he performs an Accel Synchro Summon: "It's time to REV! IT! UUUUUUUP!!!"
• Hiei in YuYu Hakusho: "DRAAAGOOOOON! OOOOOF! THE DAAAAARKNESSSSS, FLAAAAAME!!!"
  • Also, Yusuke's "GO! TO! HELL!!" as he defeats Doctor Kamiya.