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Edited by A 3 Legged Goat:
3/11/2013 6:26:49 AM
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Tropes in Anime that annoy you
Figured I'd make another version of this thread. What are some common tropes, cliches, or other frequent occurrences in anime that get on your nerves? Mine are as follows:
-Dense male lead who somehow ends up with 3 school girls around his chabudai every meal (shiro, kohta)
-Character who's incredibly annoying or useless but made to be a fanservice magnet to compensate (yoshida)
-Character runs out the house with toast in mouth when they're late (daisuke)
-Amnesiac tsundere who doesn't change overtime and forgets the calm, caring moments (louise, kaname)
-Their masochistic male counterparts who continue to take beatings from them (saito). One reason I leally liked Kazuma from Kaze no Stigma was because he didn't take shit from anyone.
-(not really a trope) but characters with nasally voices (except youhei from Clannad)
-"monster of the week"
-all the girls in the cast have really high pitched voices
-excessive use of lateral camera panning
-when they put 2 or more subtitles on the screen and expect us to read them both in a split second, much less know who's saying what since they all sound the same
-When VAs change between dubs
-When the show is supposed to be having an emotional moment but the music during or after ruins the mood
I'll add more later.
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Edited by Epsira: 3/16/2013 6:05:01 AM>"Now I'll show you my true power!" >"Is that all you've got? I was expecting more!" (then followed by #1 usually) >Hyper high pitched voices (whether feminine or adorable creature) >Over-politeness (it's just not realistic) > Stereotypical hot female leads that rely on other masculine characters constantly >Screaming while powering up
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The lack of locks on bathrooms doors
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When someone is half demon or anything.... I really hate it. Also anthros unless they're an interesting animal that's never been done before or often.
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Edited by Sesto: 3/12/2013 6:29:46 AMOh, I just remembered another. The "super sickness". The sickness that no doctor can cure, that makes a character bed-ridden for days, or even weeks. The only anime that I was fine with this is Clannad, but that's mainly because it was the first time I had encountered it.
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1 ReplyWhiny females, like Bulma. Although Winry wasn't bad, I love Winry.
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Literally all of them. I can't get in to anime because of all these predictable tropes and reused character types and plots.
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2 Repliesthe beach episode. the hot springs episode. main character turning into a whiny bitch after losing. useless side characters used only for explaining attacks/what the hell is going on. that one annoying "straight man" character who shouts a lot and gets way to mad about things.
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Purple eyes.
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15 RepliesEdited by Gaara444: 3/11/2013 4:28:55 PM>"I'm late for school!" then runs out with toast in the mouth. >The MC's best friend is the love interest. >"Looks like we'll have to use THAT!" >"It can't be helped." >"Ugh, You're hopeless." >MC walks into girl when she's naked >"I'm fighting for my friends!" >Special item/move called Izanami/Izanagi >"Hey....." then after several seconds of silence "....nothing, never mind". >Tsundere characters. >Characters are 18 years old but looks and acts like 12 year old's. >"EEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHH" >Parents are always away/never around. >Shy girl has a ridiculously huge rack. >"I don't know what I wanna do after High School cause I'm too focused on relationships." >Hardly any black characters. >Natural hair color is some abnormal color. >Characters with long hair have it go down to their butt. >Engrish. >"GASP! You're the pervert who saw my panties this morning!" >"I'm a transfer student." >Enemy characters with guns always miss the heroes/only nick their arm. >"I'm a demon/alien from another world." >Hair naturally defies gravity. >Hero wears super baggy pants/wields overly huge sword. >Unnecessary belts on characters outfits. >Panties are striped, always. >Character only drinks a drop of sake but gets shitfaced plastered. >Important character always sits next to the window and stares out through it. >Student Council in the most important thing in school. >Beach episode. >Culture Festival episode. >Sports Festival episode. >Part time job as maid/cute waitress. >Watching Voltron/Power Ranger spin off on TV, always. >Worthless character who nobody likes is skilled with guns with years of experience. >The Japanese Government is either a super power or a bitch boy to other nations. >All characters are skilled in fighting games despite never playing video games. >Hot Spring plot device. >Shounen enemy always wants to become a God. >Most advanced military weapon is a human looking robot piloted by a teenager. >All teachers are wither tough as nails men, or single easily drunk women. >"We have a wealthy uncle." >MC is either stupid as Hell in school or so smart he can skip at his leisure. >MC never cares about anything until shit goes down. >Old man is a skilled trainer and a dirty pervert. >MC uses force against enemy, enemy mistakes it for speed. >MC is always oblivious to everything. >MC is always a Beta pervert. >MC is always a 17 year old self insert loser.
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3 Replieshow they feel the need to add intakes of breath and weird non-word exclamations EVERYWHERE in the script >hero meets generic bad guy >sharp intake of breath >"OH!" >"[bad guy name]!" >hero sees pretty girl who is obviously going to be a major plot point >sharp intake of breath >"OH!" >close-up of pretty girl >hero is surprised by something or hesitates for some reason >short intake of breath >"oh" i mean, come on people.
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2 RepliesNo U! villians. Case in point: Aiden from Bleach. To save everyone from a metric -blam!-ton of information I would have to share I'm going to really simplify this: Named characters get special powers, Aiden's power is the ability to control the perception of everyone around him. He can make you feel, smell, touch, hear and taste whatever he wants. Roughly in the middle of the showdown between Aiden and his lackeys and the various secondary characters, Aiden get caught on the getting his ass kicked in end of a 6(?)v1. When they are finished, he cuts them all down in an instant because he used his ability to make them look at an illusion while he switched in one of their allies to take the asskicking. It's the type of character that will take whatever the antagonist/protagonist throws at them and in one motion, invalidates it and returns the favor 100 fold.
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Edited by NicVsP: 3/12/2013 2:12:53 AMGiant boobs which actually grow bigger every episode. The main character always getting owned at first, only to get up again and again, and the villain is surprised every time he does so.
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Edited by Sesto: 3/12/2013 2:08:44 AMMC who sits at the back of the class, right beside the window. Generic girl who is in love with MC for no reason. When characters talk out loud to themselves.
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When characters pull random stupid moves and transformations out their asses to beat the latest villain. Looking at you, DBZ.
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3 RepliesThe "talk a whole -blam!- ton and explain my plan in great detail" trope.
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I hate how they have a strong female lead who is suddenly not as powerful as she was in the first 5 mins of the show and has to rely on the male love intrest for everything.
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Filler. I realize most shows with a coherent plot will make use of filler and/or padding, but it's just so prevalent in anime. Having giant chunks of the series just take up space is terrible for a story. Bonus points when either: A. It later contradicts something B. A new, annoying character is introduced and doesn't go away
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5 RepliesRelevant.
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When male characters constantly get hit by hammers, smash into walls, fall off cliffs etc etc. Why are female characters immune to slapstick violence yet they always deal it out? I wouldn't mind seeing a female character get knocked out with a mallet once in a while
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'Sad music makes sad scenes sad' No japan, it doesn't work that way, stop.
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Really the only ones that annoy me are the dense male leads or the pathetic can't do anything useful male leads.
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j-pop solves everything and works for every situation.
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Talking animals and useless wussy characters piss me off to no end.
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Anime tropes are pretty much THE reason why I barely watch it.
