[Class T-Shirt] Recommended Back Name Ideas for Class T-Shirts at the School Culture Festival

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At school culture festivals, it’s common for each class to make matching T-shirts.

Recently popular “back names” actually originated from sports uniforms—it’s the part where the player’s name goes.

Here, we’re sharing lots of ideas for those back names.

Of course, you can simply put your name, but adding a funny one-liner is also recommended.

Use these ideas as inspiration to come up with fun back names that will liven up your culture festival!

[Class T-Shirts] Recommended back-name ideas for class T-shirts at the school festival (41–50)

Anyone chickening out?

The word “hiyoru,” which carries meanings like “to chicken out” or “to get timid,” originates from the manga Tokyo Revengers, serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine from 2017 to 2022.

It spread thanks to a line by Manjiro Sano, the leader of the Tokyo Manji Gang, in chapter 11: “Hiyorutteru yatsu iru? Inē yo naa!?” (roughly, “Anyone chickening out? Didn’t think so!”).

This phrase has also become a go-to pick for back-print slogans, as it sends a message like “There’s nothing to be afraid of!” that gives your friends a push.

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self-proclaimed ◯◯

There are people who tell their friends, “I’m a musician,” but from the outside it doesn’t really look like they’re doing anything serious with music… In cases like that, we sometimes sarcastically call them a “self-proclaimed musician.” Originally, “self-proclaimed X” was used to bad-mouth someone, but lately people even use it to poke fun at themselves, saying things like “self-proclaimed number one”! At a school festival, a phrase like “the school’s self-proclaimed top mood-maker” might get some laughs (lol).

Try coming up with your own self-deprecating, funny phrases!

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Huh?

The phrase “hanya?” is secretly popular among young people.

Its origin is the YouTube channel of Rei Maruyama, a comedian with Watanabe Entertainment.

It seems to have spread because the character Chiaki Inoue, a high school art club president she plays, frequently uses “hanya?” as her catchphrase.

Basically, it’s used when you feel a sense of “huh?” or “wait, what?”, but because it sounds cute, it’s also a go-to phrase when you can’t quite come up with an idea.

It’s especially good for girls, since it can create a subtly cute vibe.

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