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I was reading _Black Lagoon_ and realized that Lotton is a bit like a
chuunibyou. He called himself "The Wizard" and he always wanted to make a cool
entrance before a fight but usually got his ass kicked quickly. In my opinion,
he's a chuuninbyou. But no one ever mention that he's chuunibyou.

(Or probably he's not chuunibyou after all, but keep that for another
question.)

Being the earlier anime ( _Black Lagoon_ was aired in 2006 while _Chuunibyou
demo Koi ga Shitai!_ was aired in 2012) it got me thinking about whether the
word "chuunibyou" actually originated from this anime. Or probably it was not
just as popular as now.


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Does the word "chuunibyou" originate from the anime "Chuunibyou"?


No, the word "chuunibyou" was not coined by the anime _Chuunibyou demo Koi ga
Shitai!_ (nor by _Black Lagoon_ ). The term is attested back to 1999. (For
further reading, the [TVTropes
article](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Chuunibyou) linked in [Aki
Tanaka's comment](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/44044/is-the-word-
chuunibyou-originated-from-the-anime-chuuni#comment58985_44044) seems good.)

[Data from Google
Trends](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%E4%B8%AD%E4%BA%8C%E7%97%85,%E4%B8%AD%E4%BA%8C%E7%97%85%E3%81%A7%E3%82%82%E6%81%8B%E3%81%8C%E3%81%97%E3%81%9F%E3%81%84)
seem to indicate that searches for this word were low but slowly rising until
October 2012, when searches spiked (because that's when _Chuunibyou demo Koi
ga Shitai!_ premiered). Search volume for "chuunibyou" has since fallen off,
but is somewhat higher than it was just before October 2012, even after you
subtract out searches specifically for _Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!_. My
point here is that in 2006 (unlike now), the word "chuunibyou" had very
limited purchase and it is hence unsurprising that it would not be used in
_Black Lagoon_.


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