- AIR: Named after the visual novel it's based on.
- ARIA: Team Title, where "Team" is "Company".
- AKIRA: Only One Name-type Secondary Character Title that starts the plot.
- Avenger: Job Title
- Ayashimon: Another name for Youkai.
- Bakegyamon
- Baoh
- Barrage
- Bartender: As the Job Title that describes the protagonist.
- Basilisk: The anime's titular namesake, the Basilisk, is a mystical creature said to be able to kill any who meet its gaze. Eye contact is the most powerful asset that the main characters have: Gennosuke can reverse the murderous intent of any who meet his eye, thus forcing them to kill themselves; and Oboro can neutralize the ninja arts of any who meet her gaze.
- Bastard!! (1988)
- Berserk
- Blame!
- Bleach: Originally, the story was called "Snipe" to reflect all characters bar Rukia using guns. When the concept changed to thematically symbolising "white on black" in an interesting and non-bland way, it became "Bleach".
- Bokurano
- Chobits
- CLANNAD
- Classi9
- Claymore
- Colorful
- Criminale!
- Dangaioh: Named after the titular Mecha.
- Death Note: the title of every episode of the anime, except for the last one, is composed by only a word.
- Doubt It's a contraction of the Rabbit Doubt game, and about the game itself, where the players are a warren of "rabbits" who must figure out which player is the "wolf" hidden amongst them before they are all picked off one-by-one, which is also what the characters end up doing, for real.
- Duranki
- Endro~!: Named for the credits, or "End Roll", which is the basis for some of the episode titles, such as the first: "It's Still Too Soon for the End Roll!", and the last: "After the End Roll...", which basically makes the whole show, the titular End Roll.
- Enigme
- Fireball
- Flag
- Free!
- Gamma
- Gravitation
- Happy
- Hellsing: Team Title, named after the Hellsing Organization.
- ICE
- Judge
- Madness (2004): Named after a group of people.
- magico
- Monster
- Moriking
- Noragami
- Piano
- PPPPPP: Read as pianissississississimo
- Prism
- Radiant
- Saki:
- The show's title itself.
- Of the 25 episodes of, 17 fit this:
- "Encounter"
- "Battle"
- "Confrontation"
- "Tradition"
- "Beginner"
- "Prank"
- "Awakening"
- "Existance"
- "Demon"
- "Conspiracy"
- "Nightmare"
- "Link"
- "Friends"
- "Sisters"
- "Promise"
- "Determination"
- "Nationals"
- Several of the chapters in Sands of Destruction are single words:
- Chapter 3 is "Scar"
- Chapter 4 is "Warrior"
- Chapter 5 is "Retribution"
- Chapter 7 is "Destruct"
- Chapter 8 is "Retreat"
- Chapter 11 is "Pride"
- Chapter 9 was only a single word in Japanese, 語り部, but the English translation adds an article to make it "The Storyteller".
- Shelter
- Shy
- Stitch!note The English dub also has its own one-word titles for several episodes, especially those that follow the old Idiosyncratic Episode Naming of the franchise's first TV show.
- "Kijimunaa": The debut of a youkai who becomes a recurring character throughout the first two seasons.
- "Bojo"
- "Babeechik"
- "Warracchi"
- "Damacchi"
- "Himamushi"
- "Topsy-Turvy" (if hyphenated words count)
- "Pilolo"
- "BooGoo": Only when treated as a single-length episode like in Japan; the international version splits it into two separate episodes that add "Part One" and "Part Two". This episode is the debut of an alien who becomes a pet to the main characters.
- "Sasha": The debut of a recurring character for season two who becomes Yuna's new classmate and friend, though her original name in Japanese is "Sae" and her "real" name in the English dub is "Sandra".
- "Link-age": A pun off the name of Experiment 251.
- "Switcheroo"
- "Pokopon"
- "Tigerlily": The debut of a recurring character from this episode onward who is Yuna's older cousin, though her full name in the English dub is "Tigerlily Sakai".
- "Shrink": The first fullnote appearance of Experiment 001; he would appear again in "Experiment-a-palooza" below.
- "Wormhole": Features Experiment 272.
- "Raijin"
- "Dorkifier": Features Experiment 122.
- "Flute": Features Experiment 145, whose actual name was "Bragg" in the original Japanese version but was misnumbered as Experiment 021 or "Twang"; the English dub changed his name to "Flute" cause that's what he plays.
- "Witch": Features Experiment 610, who has the ability to possess and change others.
- "Shogun"
- "Experiment-a-palooza": This one really stretches the trope; it involves several experiments.
- "Lilo": The return of Stitch's old friend.
- "Toddler-fier": Referring to a modified Experiment 151/Babyfier.
- "Boss": Referring to a much bigger clone of Stitch who bosses him and some other Stitch clones who are also bigger than the original.
- SWOT
- Tista
- Three episodes of Transformers: Robots in Disguise: "Commandos", "Volcano" and "Landfill".
- Transformers: Unicron Trilogy:
- Almost all episodes of Transformers: Armada, the only exceptions being "First Encounter" (series premiere), "Decisive Battle", "Past II" (follow-up to "Past"), and "Mortal Combat" (series finale).
- A handful of Transformers: Energon episodes: "Scorpinok" [sic], "Protection", "Bulkhead", "Ambition", "Wishes", "Galvatron!", "Distribution", "Formidable", and "Spark".
- And finally, all 52 episodes of Transformers: Cybertron.
- Uratarou
- Wagnaria!!
- Wanted! (1998)
- "Wanted!"
- "Monsters"
- Zipman!!
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