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Anti Bully Ranger is a catchphrase from the anime series Yuru Yuri, associated with the character Akari Akaza and the catchphrase "I'll kill you so hard you will die to death." Used as response to someone "bullying" another user or when posting an opinion, it also has inspired the catchphrase Pls No Bully, used in a similar way. Later on, the phrase evolved into "No Bulli," and became particularly popular in the Doki Doki Literature Club fandom.

Origin

The origin of the Anti Bully Ranger comes from Yuru Yuri during a playground fight scene where Akari Akaza "transforms" into an anti bully ranger to break up the fight. The scene was uploaded to Youtube on November 6th, 2014 (shown below).

Spread

On Twitter, an account called antibullyranger^[1] was created, making it's first tweet on May 27th, 2014 (shown below). The account gained upwards of 5000 followers and making 1000 tweets.

On November 4th of 2014, a Steam Group "Pls No Bully ;w;"^[2] was founded gaining 500 members. The phrase is also quite popular on 4chan's /a/ board.^[3][4] The phrase later became associated with Satania from Gabriel DropOut. A post on the /r/Animemes subreddit featuring the character from April 8th, 2017 gained over 440 upvotes (shown below, left). On February 8th, 2017, Instagram user antonii-chan uploaded a ipcture of the character in a box, gaining over 270 likes (shown below, right).

No Bulli

As "Pls No Bully" continued to spread, the phrase was shortened to "No Bulli," and grew associated with Doki Doki Literature Club. For example, a picture of Buffsuki crossed with Swearing on a Christian Server was posted to /r/DDLC on November 25th, 2017, gaining 70 upvotes (shown below, left). A fake film poster for a film starring Natsuki called "No Bulli" was posted to Steam on November 17th, 2017, gaining 36 upvotes (shown below, right). The propagation of the phrase led to a question about it posted to /r/DDLC^[5] on December 3rd, 2017.

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