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**_"Hyakunen hayai ze!"_**

This is a common boast in shounen anime, declaring that someone is X amount of
years too early to even consider facing their opponent.

Is this a long-lived reference to an older anime's catch-phrase? (in a similar
vein to "You are already dead" from Fist of The North Star)


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Where does the "You are 100 years to early" trope come from?


The catchphrase comes from character **Akira Yuki from the _Virtua Fighter_
series**, and was popularized as a seiyuu meme (basically a meme associated to
a voice actor) **related to famous voice actor Shin-ichiro Miki**.

* * *

Akira is the main character of the Virtua Fighter series, and his catchphrase
was used in every game of the series, starting with the first opus in 1993 for
arcade.

> 十年早いんだよ！
>
> It's ten years too early! [for you to win against me]

[History of jyuunen hayaindayo!
(youtube)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8sVczYAwXM)

After the success of the first game, a Virtua Fighter anime is produced in
1995, with Shin-ichiro Miki acting the voice of Akira. Since then, Shin-ichiro
Miki voiced the character in every installment of the series.

The catchphrase gained popularity and became an easter egg related to Shin-
ichiro Miki.

* * *

Notably, Shin-ichiro voiced in 1996 Ryuusei Date, the main character of the
game _Shin Super Robot Taisen_ (Shin Super Robot Wars). In this game, Ryuusei
says the famous sentence. With the success of the Shin Super Robot Taisen
game, the catchphrase will gain even more momentum afterwards.

In the following games of the _Robot Taisen_ series, Ryuusei said the
catchphrase again, and, starting with _Super Robot Taisen α_ (2000), Ryuusei
got more confident and started adding years to the sentence:

> 百年早いんだよ！
>
> It's 100 years too early!

Ryuusei didn't stop there, and a 1000 years, then a million years variation
ensued in the following games. Eventually, Ryuusei got back to 10 years in the
more recent installments of the _Super Robot Taisen_ games.

* * *

At this point in time, it is a nod to Shin-ichiro Miki to mention the
catchphrase, and it is interesting to note that the seiyuu played a part in
most major shounen anime, even though most are also minor roles.


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It actually comes from Fist of the North Star ironically, The fight between
Kaiser and Shachi which released in 1987, Years before Virtua Fighter was even
a thing.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xJHu7.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xJHu7.png)


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While Akira Yuki really popularized the phrase with his iconic line, the idiom
has been around for quite a while.

It may not be the first recorded usage, but it has been recorded to be used in
1965 the magazine Gendai Rakugo Ron
([source](http://yorei.seesaa.net/article/2729475.html)).


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