Anime and manga examples of First-Name Basis. * Kou, Wakaba, and Aoba from Cross Game. A Running Joke that Aoba's many admirers get quite upset that Kou and Aoba are on a first name basis. Since they assume it means he's her boyfriend. Aoba is not amused. * "Yatchan" in Grenadier (annoying cute shortening) * Of course, this was after he called himself stupid under his breath and Rushuna initially called him "Mr Stupid", so he probably felt at the time it was more acceptable to be "Yatchan". Later on he seems to warm to the name. * Mirelle in Noir replacing "you" with "Kirika" after Kirika sacrifices finding out more about herself to save Mireille's life. * .hack//Sign had a personal pronoun switch. * In Cardcaptor Sakura, Li Shaoran finally calls Kinomoto Sakura by