Your most hated anime cliche

[Tsaba]

This shit...

The pointless Mexican standoff. Especially when it goes on for longer than 30 seconds.​

As much as I?m on the side lines with anime, there is one without question I love and that is Cowboy Bebop. I don't usually engage in this kind of fanboy reflex and let people be entitled to their points of view and generally get on with my live BUT THIS CANNOT GO UNCONTESTED. You ma'am can go nail your taste in animation to you side of a freight train because cowboy bebop is the best animated series to come out of Japan and to use its image to enforce a negative opinion is a sin against all things holy, just and not made by committee.
Don?t take any of this to heart, I just really like Cowboy Bebop

Although I must say I do have a burning hatred of child/teenage protagonists with gold like powers or being in charge of nuke launching military hardware instead of season soldiers with skill, experience and minds that have coped with the stress of battle.

Have to agree with he stand off, but, like this guy said, could of picked a picture of a series it "didn't" work for in.

 

[Irridium]

The type of anime that just keeps going and going and going and going and going and going...

Thats about it though. Oh, and fan-service, and the over-the-top expressions.

 

[Sviests]

The artificial lengthening of series with episodes that have no points. there has to be at least 3 seasons worth of dragon ball of topless muscle men screaming at eachother waiting to throw an energy ball that will be unaffected on the new most powerful being in the universe #837

Fillers? Yeah, I hate them too.

 

[Servantes]

The over the top "cute character" that serves nothing other than annoy everyone for no reason, but somehow proves it's worth in one episode then resumes being annoying and worthless for the rest of the series.

 

[RandomMab]

White hair.

 

[Johanthemonster666]

Actually, my above mentioned critique of most animes coupld be described as a hatred of filler scenes/episodes.

 

[Blackality]

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.

This.
If High School of the Dead was fan-service free it would be so much better.


And speaking on High Schools, just look at them: So...perfect.Everything works, everyone is rich, with uniforms and extra-curricular activities.

*looks at national show with an high school as the setting*


Wait a second... It's not only on japan.It's every-freakin-where!

 

[gim73]

Sneezing when somebody talks behind your back.
Pulling a giant hammer out of the nether behind you.
Bath houses
Calling out the name of the attack as you do it.
Immense indestructible fortresses that have a self destruct tied to the main bad guy dying.
Fanservice
Big eyes
Main characters who are oblivious to the feelings of the girls around them
Females who like pretty boys that are obviously not interested in the opposite sex (looking at you sasuke!)
Men that look like women
women that pretend to be men that look like women
eating five times your body weight in every meal
pirates vs ninjas
schoolkids
giant robots
five member teams in chromatic colors
magical school girls
big ass swords


meh, I don't actually hate any of these.

 

[Eri]

After reading much of these, I've concluded MANY of you don't like anime. Some of you seem to be rallying against the very things that make anime, anime. Such as facial expressions that are really stylized. Some things are understandable, but things like the facial thing are not.

 

[feeback06]

I really hate childish reactions to things. Especially when it comes to relationships.

 

[HK_01]

Oh also bullshit power levels the worst offender of this being Bleach, within a few months Ichigo went from normal kid, to shinigami, to vice-captain level shinigami, to captain-level shinigami to Vizard to stronger Vizard to WTFPWNTLEVEL9000 Hollow to God-mode.

This, a thousand times this. That is just really annoying, especially, as you said, in Bleach.

 

[Nieroshai]

The angst of any serious character, or the inability to grasp the gravity of a situation in a happy character. Ultra-pessimists and ultra-optimists are about all I've ever seen in most anime.

 

[Abedeus]

Ironic considering your avatar is from Gurren Laggen.

THAT'S NOT HOW MINDMILLS WORK! I mean, that's not what irony means. It means using the words with different meaning than literal.

Also, Gurren Lagann (..spelling, man) goes over the top the right way.

Well, irony isn't that strictly defined actually. As opposed to sarcasm; which would be what you described. I agree that it is ironic that you complain about Gurren Lagann while having a Gurren Lagann avatar.

If Bender can't explain it, nobody can.

Also, I didn't complain about Gurren Lagann. Especially since whenever they meet a tough opponent, they burst right through him the next episode. Which makes sense, since Gurren Lagann is powered by the controlling pilots' fighting spirits and willpower (Spiral Power, the power of evolution, to be exact).

 

[Death God]

Fillers. Oh the many filler episodes they make just pisses me off to know end.The one on Bleach that I believe is still going on has lasted long enough to get its own season it's so long.

 

[Jonluw]

Ironic considering your avatar is from Gurren Laggen.

THAT'S NOT HOW MINDMILLS WORK! I mean, that's not what irony means. It means using the words with different meaning than literal.

Also, Gurren Lagann (..spelling, man) goes over the top the right way.

Well, irony isn't that strictly defined actually. As opposed to sarcasm; which would be what you described. I agree that it is ironic that you complain about Gurren Lagann while having a Gurren Lagann avatar.

If Bender can't explain it, nobody can.

Also, I didn't complain about Gurren Lagann. Especially since whenever they meet a tough opponent, they burst right through him the next episode. Which makes sense, since Gurren Lagann is powered by the controlling pilots' fighting spirits and willpower (Spiral Power, the power of evolution, to be exact).

I still hold that if you were complaining about Gurren Lagann, having a picture from Gurren Lagann as your avatar would be ironic. Let's say it's because your complaining implies that you do not like Gurren Lagann, while your avatar implies you does.

Besides, you can't simply define irony by a dictionary entry, there are even several different kinds, and none of them are very clearly defined. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony

 

[Infernai]

The overly long talks before and during fights.

Looks like someone hasn't seen black lagoon xD

 

[Fenreil]

I hate when a show with a good idea is ruined by being childish or perverted.
Seikon no Qwaser is the best example. I loved the idea of characters each having their own element from the periodic table, but I couldn't watch more than five minutes without wanting to pull my hair out from the obsession with breasts.

Echi. My god the Echi in some anime can cause me to almost throw up. Gurren Laggen is a massive example of this. For something even worse try Negima. I am currently forcing myself to read the god-awful manga for a reason I can't remember. Maybe I'm schizophrenic and my other me is a sadist.

I did the EXACT same thing with Negima. Just when I was getting to the point when I couldn't stand it anymore, things started getting good. In the end, it's now one of my more liked manga.

I'm getting real sick of everyone's motivations being "to protect". Everyone always has a moment, when the bad guy has the hero at his mercy, when he gets asked "Why do you fight?". The hero, of course, replies "So I can protect my friends!" and proceeds to kick the villain's ass. How original.

 

[Zorg Machine]

The parts that are sooooo drawn out (most notable anime with this is DB's KAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEE......HHHHHHHH
HHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA)
I love One Piece so much that I watch the anime and read the manga. However, it doesn't change the fact that I now have the "something is going to happen" tune that plays every FU**ING time people are going to fight, seared into my skull.
You are a horrible person and time is of the essence so let's stand here staring menacingly at each other while this tune plays in the background.

 

[Haunted Herring]

1. Over-used character archetypes. When your characters can be summed up in one word, you've done something wrong.

Moe.
These kinda characters piss me off to no end. Round-faced, air-headed, 'adorable' catchphrases like: 'nyu', 'ugu' or the accursed 'desu'. Irritating and lifeless personalities, standing only as two-dimensional characters for fanservice or eyecandy. Or, for the most part: no reason whatsoever. Though Moe characters with Yandere personalities makes for much fun time [http://media.photobucket.com/image/yandere/stifler-leonheart/yandere.jpg].

Tsunderes.
While not as annoying as moe characters they can still be tiring to watch. Constantly in denial of her feelings and acting tough in front of her crush, tongue-lashings, apathy and bruises await any guy wanting to get close to her. Eventually she lets her guard down and becomes 'dere-dere' or misty-eyed and soft. Basically a pushover when it comes to love. When done well these sort of characters CAN be entertaining to watch, but they're so overused you're begging for some originality.

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2. The 'Will they - won't they?' Storyline.

Guy has hots or girl.
Girl has hots for guy.

Do they do anything about it for the majority of the story?
No.

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3. Memories, or rather the lack of them.
You remember stuff when you were 10 or even younger right? All the turning points in your life, surprises and disappointments. Not for many animé characters, nothing. Back-story drives some characters while some don't seem to have any at all.

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4. The lack of parents.
'Yep, I'm your average fifteen year old child living on his own/with friends. Nothing wrong about that' We usually get the half-assed explanation that they're working over-seas or died in a car crash or MURDERED. (ZOMG DRAMA!!1) It's a couple more characters the animators would have to draw so having them out of the picture makes things easier for them.

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Hotsprings filler, 'There's the bad guy! Get him! *defeats bad guy* There's another bad guy!' Repeat ad nauseam. The RPG-esque way the bad guys get stronger with each arc, forcing the good guys into training, e.g, grinding. And pretty much everything else said above me.

I love animé, but there are a few things which irk me sometimes.

 

[chinangel]

Boobs. MASSIVE boobs.

This. as well as whenever a female character is shown to 'need a man' for whatever reason. especialyl when it goes against her established character. This can be just as bad as 'omg i'm a girl, i'm just here for eyecandy!'. /rage.

oh, and how many anime's are just "Dragonball Z with..." (insert swords, lasers, magic, what have you)