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Take That Back Leorio is a line of dialogue spoken angrily by Kurapika from the anime Hunter x Hunter to the character Leorio in a scene from the first episode of the 2011 series, to which Leorio responds, "It's Mr. Leorio." The scene became the subject of memes, including remixes and recreations, in late 2020 on multiple platforms, including YouTube and TikTok.

Origin

On October 2nd, 2011, episode 1 of the anime Hunter x Hunter, titled, Departure × And × Friends, aired on Japanese television. On April 16th, 2016, the episode aired in North America.^[1] At one point in the episode, characters Kurapika and Leorio get in an argument while on a ship. Leorio insults Kurapika and goes to leave the room. She yells, "Take that back, Leorio," and he hesitates in the doorway. He turns his head slowly, then says, "It's Mr. Leorio," and walks out. On July 15th, 2020, the scene was uploaded to YouTube^[2] by crypti, garnering over 447,000 views in roughly 7 months (shown below).

The scene is notably funny to fans of the Japanese dub, where Leorio is subtitled to say, "It's Leorio-san to you," sounding more natural than in the English dub. Some viewers have also noted the pronunciation of "Leorio" as "lay-oreo" funny, as well as the performance of the dub in general.

Spread

On May 22nd, 2020, @haramisenpai uploaded a video to TikTok^[9] showing off a mashup song she made mixing Doja Cat's "Oh What A Time To Be Alive" with the audio from the Hunter x Hunter scene, garnering over 191,000 views in 9 months (shown below). The sound has used in over 5,600 TikTok videos in the same span of time.

On June 11th, @brooklynpaigeflamm uploaded a video to TikTok^[10] in Kurapika cosplay dancing and lib-dubbing to the sound, garnering over 628,000 views in 8 months (shown below, right). On June 17th, @fireofseptember posted a Duet^[11] to the video cosplaying as Leorio, garnering over 870,000 views in a comparable span of time (shown below, right).

On July 14th, @kaziuchisouda, formerly @insomnia._.weeb, uploaded a deep fried edit of the "Take That Back Leorio" scene to TikTok,^[3] garnering over 547,000 views in 7 months (shown below, left). Over the course of the next two days, @kaziuchisouda uploaded versions of the video more and more deep-fried until it was completely unrecognizable (example shown below, right).^[4]

The original deep-fried version was re-uploaded to YouTube^[5] on August 1st, garnering over 14,212 views in 6 months. On August 8th, a sped-up version of the video was uploaded to YouTube^[6] by lunechimsx, garnering over 159,000 views in a comparable span of time.

On August 11th, NetherNitro uploaded a distorted version of the scene to YouTube,^[7] garnering over 261,000 views in 6 months (shown below, left). On September 10th, Mega Memer uploaded a version of the scene dubbed by themselves to YouTube,^[8] garnering over 317,000 views in 5 months (shown below, right).

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