Your most hated anime cliche
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Character decay. If a series runs too long it'll happen to everyone who isn't the main character.
(Except Crow, but seriously, fuck Crow)
(Except Crow, but seriously, fuck Crow)
It definetly gets the message across.Ironic Pirate said:The OVER THE TOP ANIME REACTIONS!
They anger me...
What message? They only one I've ever gotten from that is "Real people don't act like this, but this was cheaper to write and animate." Makes it impossible to care about the characters, at least for me.FallenJellyDoughnut said:It definetly gets the message across.Ironic Pirate said:The OVER THE TOP ANIME REACTIONS!
They anger me...
When, in a fight with good guy versus bad guy, with the good guy clearly inferior to bad guy, good guy gets injured and suddenly wins through SHEER WILLPOWER AND WANTING TO FIGHT FOR/PROTECT HIS FRIENDS, as opposed to winning due to something clever, or exploiting a weakness or whatever.
Also, going into 'training'. It may have been a good idea in DBZ. After that, not so much.
Also, going into 'training'. It may have been a good idea in DBZ. After that, not so much.
the character that doesn't believe in fighting or violence or whatever so gets in the way, never does anything and always fails when they try to talk the bad guys out of doing whatever it is they were trying to do. Orihime in Bleach is possibly the worst for this. i haven't seen it since the end of the Zampaktou Mutiny arc but all she did pretty much since she got kidnapped by Ulquirra is say 'Kurosaki-kun' and cry. think she tried to talk people out of fighting (while she was crying!) but failed dismally. i used to think the same of Hinata from Naruto, all she did was say 'naruto-kun' but at least she didn't cry or get in the way. then she had that fight with Pain. granted she lost but at least she tried and she didn't go down easy.
That god forsaken look EVERY female character must do where she closes her eyes tilts her head and they giggle and smirk. THE PROCESS FILLS ME WITH RAGE!!
The abstract endings that make no sense and make you wonder why you just spent hours and hours on a series that has a conclusion you can make nothing of. For instance Last Exile and Neon Genesis Evangelion!
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
The anime cliche I hate most? "The heartless killers defeated me, but I was just knocked out,because I'm one of the good guys. Now at just the right moment, I'm back." You don't see it that often but you see it often enough to get on my nerves. They did it a lot on gunxsword. A few times on Bleach and One Piece. Annoys the heck out of me.
As for training, all those Animes remind me of the Rocky series of films. Compare DBZ or Bleach to Rocky. Rocky is living a normal life. Circumstances force Rocky to face a powerful foe, luckily for rocky there is something special about him (his body blows can break a cow's ribs). Rocky finds an old pro to train him, and rocky also meets a girl. Because a girl is always needed for our hero to fight for and because it's great drama when we can see her suffer at his misery.
After some more training Rocky eventually beats the first villain, through a mix of new abilities and sheer force of will. This first big villain becomes Rocky's friend, helps him train and also fights by his side (Renji, Piccolo, Vegeeta ect). Rocky fights some other colorful villains like Thunderlips and MR T (who gets a training session after he defeats rocky, who then defeats him) then he meets a new powerful, murderous foreign villain who defeats his best friend and also wants to rule the world. Rocky knows what he must do. Train harder than ever. For a whole three montages rocky trains to defeat Draco. When it is over, he's outrunning cars and shit. He has clearly reached a new level of power. And by the way, we can actually see a fighter's power level in this movie, because they punch this pad that shows us how strong they are. This pad would later show up in DBZ. and while I know fighters must punch these pads form time to time I can't help but feel it showed up in DBZ because Toriyama was a fan of Rocky and saw it there.
As for training, all those Animes remind me of the Rocky series of films. Compare DBZ or Bleach to Rocky. Rocky is living a normal life. Circumstances force Rocky to face a powerful foe, luckily for rocky there is something special about him (his body blows can break a cow's ribs). Rocky finds an old pro to train him, and rocky also meets a girl. Because a girl is always needed for our hero to fight for and because it's great drama when we can see her suffer at his misery.
After some more training Rocky eventually beats the first villain, through a mix of new abilities and sheer force of will. This first big villain becomes Rocky's friend, helps him train and also fights by his side (Renji, Piccolo, Vegeeta ect). Rocky fights some other colorful villains like Thunderlips and MR T (who gets a training session after he defeats rocky, who then defeats him) then he meets a new powerful, murderous foreign villain who defeats his best friend and also wants to rule the world. Rocky knows what he must do. Train harder than ever. For a whole three montages rocky trains to defeat Draco. When it is over, he's outrunning cars and shit. He has clearly reached a new level of power. And by the way, we can actually see a fighter's power level in this movie, because they punch this pad that shows us how strong they are. This pad would later show up in DBZ. and while I know fighters must punch these pads form time to time I can't help but feel it showed up in DBZ because Toriyama was a fan of Rocky and saw it there.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.Timotei said:This shit...
The pointless Mexican standoff. Especially when it goes on for longer than 30 seconds.
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.