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Reiizm
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Name some Anime Clichés that you enjoy, hate, are overused or are just plain weird.
Here is my Top 5 Anime Clichés - Silent Character with dark past Vs. Loud, annoying character with a high sense of justice. - The colored hair principle that ALL boys can only have black, brown, blonde or very dark blue hair whereas girls can have hair colors that vary from blue to white to purple to green etc. - The background changing to something like, let's say roses (Ouran HSHC) or blue with streaks of whooshing lines running across the screen (Pokemon) and the character(s) doing some sort of action of importance. - There is no balanced ground or consistency. Cute characters are way-too-cute. Strong characters are way-too-strong. Emotional characters are way-too-emotional. Even average Joe's are way-too-average. - The stupid reasoning that it is possible to knock someone hundreds of feet into the air by hitting them/ramming into them at high speeds etc. followed by a *ding!* with a little star where they flew off to at the end. |
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SecretAgent94
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Well a lot of anime cliche's people complain about are more or less limited to the Shonen demographic of anime. If you look for more serious stuff, you won't find too many cliches.
Main protagonist keeps leveling up higher and higher until the end of the show; they're so powerful that it's ridiculous. Protagonist eats a lot for comic relief. Transformation involved change in hair. Nagging female character. Rivalry between protagonist and secondary main character. Initially main character is the only one with a special ability or transformation; by the end of the show anyone can do it. Protagonist in a near death situation suddenly unleashes his true power or transforms. OMG this enemy is so powerful! I've never felt this kind of power before! Pervert master or trainer Protagonist believes in himself to unlock his true potential. I recommend you check out Gurren Lagann. That anime spoofs a lot of shounen stereotypes and is intentionally over-the-top. |
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lilredphoenix
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Here's my list:
Tsundere or emo characters Whimpy chracters that become strong when fighting evil female characters depicted as brainless airheads female characters always with big breasts and panty shots big wide eyed moe characters male characters always depicted as losers in finding love male characters always depicted as arrogant jerks yaoi & yuri characters over glamourized in a stereotypical way Always using school aged children as main/supporting cast of characters I know the creators in Japan do that because it has worked in the past and it sells but it gets old, everything starts to meld and blend so it then seems like everything is copied, knocked off or a spin off from each other there is no "original" concept. |
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ArsenicSteel
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Wow you say those are mainly shounen cliches but those things fit more into shows about action and adventure. Darker than Black, Gantz, Blood+ , and Trigun are considered seinen franchises and they use most of your list. The thing with cliches is they are not actually bad but people just look for easy labels to complain about. |
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ethanftw
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I certainly agree with this. The basic formula for shonen is power, battle, more power, bigger battle, epic power, epic battle, and so on and so forth until the protagonist ends up being the victor in some way. However, like he stated above, the really good animes, and even some good animes that aren't really "out there" are a lot different. Sure, there are a lot of cliches in anime, but it's that way with just about anything. Creators keep using what works, I guess is one way to put it. But like you said, it seems like a lot of the cliches you are mentioning spawn from shonen. For example, "S-cry-ed" fits perfectly into the cliches you listed. While it is still a good anime, I see your point. I guess it all just comes down to finding what you really like and what you don't. |
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Aoi_Sakaraba
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Bathhouse episodes
Swimsuit peaking Abnormally large breast Loli Characters Some random cutesy Creature Some male character getting beat up for supposedly doing something perverted (even if it wasn't on purpose) Hamburger Steak with a Heart Bloody Nose Cute Anime songs (typically sung out by a loli girl) |
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Tommy RKO
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Well let's see, according to anime....
There are no ugly women in Japan. 80% of Japanese women are D-Cups or higher. Boys get nosebleeds whenever they see bra/panties shots, or less. Sexual harassment is not met with arrests and lawsuits, they're met with violence and sending the perv into orbit. There's literally a hot spring around every corner. There's always a bath house somewhere. In fighting anime's clothes seem to shred like lettuce. Everybody eats either Bento or Curry all the time. I should know more, but I can't think of any right now. 
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PetrifiedJello
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I love how this topic comes up every so often. I always wonder if, during this time, if some cliches finally get retired in lieu for newer cliches. The answer, believe it or not, is "yes". Though, I'll leave it to the reader to figure them out.
I'd Buy That for a Dollar - Once used as a little "Hey, we're betting you wish you were the male lead right now" reminder of how entertainment can cause blood loss, many of today's anime features this setting even if there are no romantic interests involved at all. What's rather shocking is the lack of the reverse harem, but when they're done, they're done well, such as Ouran HS Host Club. Bad Physics - breasts that bounce or can dodge bullets? Smoke in space? Cars that can flip end over end without a scratch and the occupants suffer no injuries? The reason most people don't notice is they're too busy admiring a one-armed woman cutting off her other arm and hand it to someone else. Neko Neko, Cat Cat - if anime had any truth to it, the population of cats outnumbers dogs by a margin of 324,943,845.32 to 1. In fact, try naming an anime you've recently watched which didn't have a cat in it. Skank Skirts - Japanese schools, according to anime, have zero tolerance to unusual hair styles but will allow any elementary or high school girl to wear skirts so short, the pantsu shot is a guarantee no matter what angle the camera is set at. I See Dead People - and they're called parents, because most anime series has killed them off. Males with vaginas - The leading girl is there, crying, wanting someone to comfort her. The male, interested in her, stands there like an idiot, questioning himself if he should wrap his arm around her. If it wasn't for the hairstyle, I wouldn't be able to tell who's the true female lead. The Disappearance of Growth Spurts - Milk, it used to do a body good, but now, it leaves high school girls the size of 3rd graders, each of them wearing a t-shirt "I'm not old enough to be a trap". The Younger, The More Mature - "Hi, my name is Saki and I'm in the 3rd grade. I run my own newspaper business while dodging the sexual advances of a college student. It's also my job to keep everyone in line, so of course you're going to want to hug me." Deus Ex Machina - The savior of bad writers, poor animation, or bad sales. If It's Too Good To Be Human - it's probably an android, so perfect it makes me wonder why anime has no Skynet of its own. Worse, these androids seem to serve no purpose other than to (sexually) please humans. Nevermind the most tedious and dangerous jobs on earth. Those require humans to emphasize death scenes. Bruce Li Was An Amateur - against anyone in anime. The dude couldn't even produce his own hit counter, for crying out loud. Red Gold - The blood pressure in any anime character is proportional to the height of the anime character with a 50% increase if the anime character carries the "antagonist" label or 75% (or greater) decrease if the anime character is female. 8 Tentacles, but 9 Lives - squid is so abundant in Japan that melons are priced into the thousands of Yen for their scarcity. If local delicacies are not in favor, there are one of trillions of "WcDonalds" or family restaurants to fill the gap. The Magical Lunch Hour - because school girls have the best lunches defying logic they not be tired for having to get up at 3am to start making it (yet creating a box of rice requires overnight preparation). Yet, despite all the cliches anime has to offer, I'll be a fan until the day I die. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to rush myself to the ER. I just got a paper cut and I've seconds to live. Thank goodness for magical teleportation. |
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Echo_City
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DCR
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The female character being the weakest or one of the weakest member of a team.
The female character of a RPG like manga being the one with healing spells. |
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DavidShallcross
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My one visit to Japan, on a hot summer day in local train from Sendai, I did see some school girls wearing their skirts so high that it was a wonder they didn't show anything. They certainly weren't sitting on their skirts, if you understand me. On the other hand, I probably saw a similar number of students with bleached hair, and one kogal. |
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ArsenicSteel
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My response to SecretAgent94 was pointing out that his list is not limited to shounen stuff and would be better described as action cliches. I can add more seinen titles that have many of those cliches; Beserk!, Blood+, Da Capo, Vampire Bund, Dogs, Ultimate Muscle, Elfen Lied, FLCL, Tenjho Tenge, Kämpfer, Okami-san, NGE, Outlaw Star, and Rainbow. Liking or hating the cliches has nothing to do with it. Trigun as a franchise(manga, anime, and movie) is more seinen, unless you are only familiar with the anime but that would mean you are not talking about the franchise. The same goes for DtB. I am talking about the entire franchise and not just an anime season or 2. |
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John Casey
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-Beach episode
-Tournament arcs -Training sequences -Heroes are broke and hungry -Boring unstoppable villains -Completely out of place "humor" (stares at Hellsing and FMA) -"Witness my power!" "Aha, but I already foresaw it and have a countermeasure in place!" "Indeed. But I already predicted that, so take this!" "I knew you'd do that, so have this trap in place!" "Ungh! That almost got me, but alas, I have ANOTHER power-up!" "Impressive. But that attack I used several episodes ago is now starting to take effect. I win!" "You bastard... NOT YET!" "Et cetera, bitch!" -Rumiko Takahashi-isms. End of story marriage. Most of the above. Female tsunderes. Many characters are always barefoot. Trite villains with murky motives. Boring heroes. -CLAMPing. All the characters look exactly the same from their other works. Ridiculously obvious yaoi undertones. Character development emphasis on guys. Historic story cop-outs. -Massive amounts of exposition during battle. "Now way! He just used that attack. I know how that one works. It goes a lot like-" Five minutes later. "It's a highly difficult skill to master." |
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Unicorn_Blade
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This is by far my favourite, specially when it happens in every other episode, and each opponent is even more powerful than the previous one, supposedly. |
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Darksorrow29
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Surprised no one has mentioned
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage Type in your favorite anime show and behold... Granted a trope is not a cliche, but whatever. The one I hate the most is the ditzy, clumsy, well endowed girl, typically with glasses. For some reason a majority of the time I do not find them attractive either. |
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