Never Thought of That Before is a tag for illustrations where any concept and idea shown in the illustrations were never used before in any existing works prior to this, sometimes unexpected. However, rehashed concepts and copied memes thown into any works aren't exactly rare either.

The origin of this tag seems to be originated from a variety show called "Downtown Gaki no Tsukai Ya Arahende!!", aired on Nihon TV. Where a character known as Itao's Wife has this favourite phrase saying "Sono hassou wa nakatta wa" (note the "wa" which is used for feminine speech in Japanese), which translates to "never thought of that before~!" (the ~ is used to denote a feminine tone into a sentence). This tag is deriviated from that sentence.

Although a meme illustration, it is used mostly for praise, for illustrations with extraordinary creativity or ideas one would most likely never think of it until it is presented.

Related Tags

• Winning Concept
• Thought of That Before
• No Need For That Concept
• Shouldn't Have Thought of That
• No Such Concept
• I'll Be Damned If That Concept Exists
• None Other Concept Than That

As well, there are quite a lot of cases where "this" is used instead to "that".

• Never Thought of This Before
• Thought of This Before
• No Need For This Concept
• Shouldn't Have Thought of This
• No Such Concept
• I'll Be Damned If This Concept Exists
• None Other Concept Than This

Others

• List of Ranking Tags

Related Illustrations

↑You would feel like doing a tsukkomi for captions like this...

↑It can also be applied on illustration requests…

↑The very first 「Never Thought of That Before」 illustration, circa 2007.

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その発想はなかった