Your most hated anime cliche

[Jonluw]

The Japanese dub does tend to be better a fair amount of the time though.
Some of the English dubs make me physically shudder.

Do you know whether they are planning to dub K-ON? Imagine Yui in the english dub...

I've never watched K-ON, so I don't really know much about it.

Most popular anime tends to get English dubs at some point though.

Yui is the brown haired one who hugs Azusa at the beginning.

Jeez, finding a decent voice-sample is hard, the best I could find was that.
Edit: I'd say the beginning of the third clip is the best example of what her voice is like.

Edit: One of the openings might be a better example.

 

[Cowabungaa]

The OVER THE TOP ANIME REACTIONS!

They anger me...

Spoiler: Example

Hate to say it, but this. It's the reason why I don't really dig anime as a whole, just a few select series. I just can't bond with the characters when they spam those stupid expressions.

The art style. It is the same.

Well that's just plainly not true. Compare Yu Gi Oh with a Studio Ghibli film with Cowboy Bebop with Grave of the Fireflies. Anime has plenty of variation in it's art-style, it's just that most of the popular (and new) stuff is drawn in the same damned way.

 

[Ironsouled]

The dumbass.
Sure, most of the characters in an anime are idiots, but they at least OCCASIONALLY do something moderately intelligent. Except for one character, who's purpose in life is to fail the epic battle of breathing and walking at the same time, let alone Think of anything whatsoever. (Kon in Bleach... I could go on, alot)

 

[Jonluw]

Why is everyone white? Shouldn't everyone be Japanese or at least look more Asian? Hegemony sucks.

This keeps coming up.

Here, have this explanatory video:

 

[rosemystica]

Harem anime, period. D:

 

[Zack Curran]

If its a series, and someone dies. And comes back. And dies again. And 'Oh look! We cant bring him back to life like last time, we have to find a new way to resurrect him!'
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And do.

 

[Terrortree]

Bad guy appears. beats good guy. AHH I CAN'T BEAT HIM! look inside yourself. Finds new power from out of his ass. beats bad guy. lather rinse repeat

 

[allways2edlast]

Im also tired of high school setting animes. I now most anime's like this are shounen anime for people in high school but can we please get more verite. Aswell as seeing the same charactor stereotypes over and over again: An angist ant-social main charactor, a shy ant-social main charactor, a short temper stovern charactor, a main female charator how has strong felling for main charactor. But to shy about it, so shys away from him or for whatever reason turn violentt to him. heared that befor. I don't expect ever anime to try something complatle new. But Im seeing to many anime that are to same old same old.

 

[pigmypython]

I don't have any...

I actually sort of like the over the top reactions, if they're well done.

I'll just use this space to complain that Death Note went downhill halfway through.

Edit: Oh wait. The main character that knows nothing about girls and messes up his relationship by being too agressive and such. Examples: Suzuka and what little I have seen of School days.

This is because Japan is so sexually repressed that that IS the genuine reaction of most of its male population...

 

[Ironsouled]

This keeps coming up.

Here, have this explanatory video:

Thank you. I've been trying to tell some of my anime-head friends that (of course, non-anime acclimitized people are worse, but with them I don't even bother) but I haven't found anyone who agrees with me.

OT: I've said my piece. I'm allowed to thank an intelligent person!

 

[Chased]

I would like to see a little more innovation in terms of art and technical achievement.

I've only seen 2 seasons of Darker Than Black, all of Mushi-Shi, bunch of random Fullmetal Alchemist episodes (same with DBZ), first season of Rueni Kension (spelled that wrong :/, and bits and pieces of Vampire Knight, Spice and Wolf, Code Geass and Ghost in the Shell (SAC or something). I understand my view is narrow, but this isn't to say some anime I've seen hasn't been innovative and technically different than the rest. I thought Spirited Away was flippin' amazing and I really did enjoy watching the said shows above, but much of anime to me in general seems to be calculated and generic in terms of design. This isn't to say that their is anime out there that is awesomely innovative, I'm just unaware of it.

Also, a big part of anime and animation in general is a matter of taste and opinion. I for some reason can't seem to like anything Disney makes except for a handful of Pixar films. I also tend to gravity more towards animation that has heavy usage of boldness in terms of visual contrast (like The Boondocks for example or recently Afro Samurai which I just started to watch). I know this is a terrible analogy, but anime watchers also remind me of extreme metal music listeners (like those that listen to Metalcore, Black Metal, Death Metal etc.) To the mainstream a lot of vocals in these sub-genres of metal sound the same, but I and others can easily hear noticeable differences, which is what I am assuming anime watchers can do with different art styles and such (I don't watch enough anime to be able to really differentiate).

 

[Twilight_guy]

Why is everyone white? Shouldn't everyone be Japanese or at least look more Asian? Hegemony sucks.

This keeps coming up.

Here, have this explanatory video:

That music was annoying. The video was nice thought (although it might be a little bit to vested in it's thinking). Still the fact that both Americans and Japanese can both precive a character as one of there own is ever more interesting! Self image is such a complex and wonderful thing.

 

[Composer]

do american voice dubs count as a cliche?
cause i hate those

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

I hate it when the characters re-iterate plot points which everyone grasped more than 10 episodes ago, and stupidly easy resolutions like how naruto talked with nagato.

 

[Jonluw]

This keeps coming up.

Here, have this explanatory video:
snip

Thank you. I've been trying to tell some of my anime-head friends that (of course, non-anime acclimitized people are worse, but with them I don't even bother) but I haven't found anyone who agrees with me.

OT: I've said my piece. I'm allowed to thank an intelligent person!

My pleasure. I actually stumbled across that video on this very site, but I forgot to bookmark it last time.

[sub]eee! I was called intelligent [/sub]

 

[hurfdurp]

After you've watched 200+ episodes of something, and the last episode doesn't settle the loose ends and is very ambiguous and doesn't provide some sort of proper ending. Presumably so you go read 15 volumes of the manga to figure out what the heck happens.

 

[HeySeansOnline]

Fanservice, god how I detest fan service. I try to get into Gurren Lagann, but almost ever scene with Yoko so far is cheecake. I watch Evangelion and I have to feel like a pervert cause those girls are 14. And I find the holy grail that is Cowboy Bebop, but even it makes scenes with Fae hard to watch because her outfit conforms to her body.

It's just I'm focused on the characters/action/story and then boobs get shoved in my face. So far he only anime I've seen that hasn't been blatant about it is Trigun, and most of Gundam.

 

[Der Kommissar]

It annoys me when there is a villain who, upon first appearence, beats the shit out of the main cast and is only defeated by a major fluke. Then they reappear and are defeated with a lot less effort and the next time they are beaten by the main heroes sneezing.
Eventually this leads to the enemy joining the good guys, for some reason or other.

I don't hate this but it does annoy me.

Viral?! Is that you?

 

[Johanthemonster666]

I like some animes, but there are what truly drive me insane-

1) epic fireballs, lightning, and other ridiculous powers/abilities being the crutch of almost ALL Shonen Jump shows. These shows have their origin in DBZ, which brings me to point 2.

2)ALL fighting animes are practically the same! Don't try to get technical with me about this, telling me there are "MASSIVE" difference between shows like Bleach, Naruto, and DBZ.Why are they the same? Because they all have the same character archetype amd plot resolutions.

+the loud mouthed,anoying character who becomes the hero with the help of his cliche' friends
+the doushbag rival who eventually becomes his friend (or dies before such a resolution clearly occurs)
+The main theme of the show is "friendship can conquer anything!"
+ As mentioned there's some sort of superhuman/magic power at work that looks absolutely ridiculous,Nautro and Bleach being the biggest offenders (making superheros look more realistic and relatable).

3) This is the biggest annoyance of them all- A whole show being dedicated ENTIRELY to characters talking amongst themselves and going on internalized monologue journeys as events unfold before them. As a reader I can tolerate story development and character's thoughts/dialogue.But anime has a terrible habit of dragging out dramatic monologues, explainations, characters thinking out loud, and of coure exaggerated reactions to situations (over-the-top anime reactions). I'm told this is so that the anime and the manga can advance at a similar pace or whatever, but I have a hard time believing that with most of these shows.


4)Bathouse episodes revolving around naked women and the guys trying to sneak a peak.

5) The perverted/socially inept achetype present in every show just to be everyone's punching bag, it's getting old.