{"id":109,"date":"2000-07-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-07-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2000\/07\/21\/ask-john-why-are-english-letters-used-in-anime-titles\/"},"modified":"2000-07-21T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-07-21T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-why-are-english-letters-used-in-anime-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-why-are-english-letters-used-in-anime-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Why Are English Letters Used in Anime Titles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhy is it that when a movie for Sailor Moon or The Slayers is released it, has a capital R, G, X, S, or GO at the end of the movie title?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nTo be honest, I&#8217;m not entirely certain why anime shows get single Western letters after their titles to denote new series.  As far as I know, in many cases, the letters stand for something, but in other cases, I think it&#8217;s simply a case of tradition.  I suspect that the single letters originally came from a simple desire to be stylish while differentiating one series from the next.  Just off the top of my head, I can come up with a bunch of examples: Saber Marionette R, J and J to X, Gundam Z and ZZ, Gundam X, G Gundam, Gundam W, V Gundam, Dragonball Z &amp; GT, Sailormoon R, S &amp; SS, Cutey Honey F,  Street Fighter 2 V, Burn-Up W and Burn Up X. Most of these letters actually stand for something, such as Victory Gundam, Cutey Honey Flash and Burn-Up Excess. As a side note, none of the Slayers animation actually has single letters attached to its titles.  The Slayers soundtracks all used single letter abbreviations of the full movie titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Why is it that when a movie for Sailor Moon or The Slayers is released it, has a capital R, G, X, S, or GO at the end of the movie title?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}