Your most hated anime cliche

[mr_rubino]

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

My least favorite anime cliche? Pretty much these wastes of skin.
Go learn Japanese. Subs suck.

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lol you mad?
this pretty much somes up american dub actors
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/330490

I think their are plenty of good american voice acted animes. Cowboy bebop was fine, hell even Dragonballz was pretty good.

ok thier are some good ones
but some of the translations are just.....ugh

Example? From the last 10 years would be the most acceptable, but I'm less than worried about you naming examples older than that as well.

Hell, if we went back to when anime was first hitting American shores, you probably wouldn't even have been born yet. =P

EDIT: Wait... your issue is with voice acting or translation? You seem to be confusing yourself, which certainly isn't out of the question if you're talking about translating from a language you don't understand.

This is made even more amusing if he watches fan translations.

Hehehehe. "THIS SHINIGAMI IS OUR NAKAMA, SEMPAI!!! YOU... EVEN AT A TIME LIKE THIS... ALL ACCORDING TO KEIKAKU. (*Translator's note takes up half the screen*)"
Hey, you can't translate a word like that! It holds too much of a place in the hearts of fans of the show! The English translation would not do justice to the rich and poetic meaning behind the terms!

Bwahaha I actually saw a screenshot of that exact moment last night. Well the ALL ACCORDING TO KEIKAKU thing, and above it it was all (Translator's note: Keikaku means plan). It causes me physical pain to know there are idiots who do shit like that.
Oh and you can't forget how many times fansubbers will use the wrong name or translation for something so through a series you'll get names and terms randomly switching as the fanbase whines for them to go from one to another. I also get a good laugh out of finding spelling mistakes in subs.

Don't neglect the gratuitous insertion of swears to reinforce the notion that obvious kids' anime is "more adult". Protip: The Japanese language does not have swear words. They have words that can be rude if said rudely.

(Actually, that reminded me of a gag I saw on some video or something about politeness levels:
Teacher: Good morning, Akira.
Akira: Good morning.
Class: *gasps of shock and horror*)

HAI! I AM JA-PA-NEEZ VOICE ACTRESS RIKA RIKAMOTO! I SOUND LIKE EVERY OTHER JAPANESE FEMALE VOICE ACTOR! I'M ALSO AN ABHORRENT SINGER! I'M 25 AND SOUND LIKE A 5 YEAR OLD! TEEHEEHEE *wink, jiggle*

Face facts, kid. You like dopey, moaning girlymen and screeching harpy-women because you fear actual emotion, dialect, and variety in your voices.
I'd call you the reason every anime is reskinned and released 10 more times under new titles, but I already know how the Japanese view weeaboos. And it's quite funny, actually.

Now like I said, o-tard, go learn some Japanese instead of reading your inaccurate, wooden fansubs and bland, half-translated official subs. As they say: dubs have gotten better since the 80s, but subs always stay the same. :3

Dubs have not gotten better. Dub is a word synonymous with rubbish. Dub is the art of taking something from it's original form and shredding it with the Razor Blade of Fail. Possibly, sometime int he far future when human beings learn not to try and save as many little slips of paper as they can, we might see some decent dubs, with decent voice actors. Till then, we are stuck with a parade of utter turd.

you quoted me and put in what this guy http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view/mr_rubino said

It's alright. I would have ignored him anyway. Seriously, what a hyperbolizing loon.

 

[soren7550]

Fights with one single bad guy/small group of bad guys that go on forever. This has been annoying me a lot with the Naruto & Bleach mangas and it's coming to the point where I'm ready to yell at them to just die & move on with the story already. (I'm pretty sure that both have been doing this now for 200 chapters or so now.)

 

[ANImaniac89]

Mine would be a cross between the "Power of Friendship" and the clothing that tends to be ridiculous.

 

[Saltyk]

I just thought of another cliche I hate in anime.

Turning a powerful character into cannon fodder.

DBZ did this with basically everyone that wasn't a saiyan. Yamcha, Krillin, Tien, and even Picolo all became worthless fighters after everyone and their grandmother became a Super Saiyan.

Bleach did this with Renji, Sado, and Uryû. Go on. Name more than one fight any of them won. And not a fight they won against a trash throw away opponent. An actual threat!

It's very annoying when only the hero (or a select few) can defeat anyone.

 

[Castratikron]

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.

yeah i hate that bffs forever bullshit, thats why i loved gantz anyone who suggested anything along those lines got brutally murdered

 

[Athol]

My BIGGEST pet peeve in any anime is, the 18-25 yr old male who bitches and moans like a whinny 10 yr old girl...GROW A SPINE OR SHUT UP AND GO AWAY!!!

I feel a little better now.

 

[Zweiblumen]

The overly long talks before and during fights.

Looks like someone hasn't seen black lagoon xD

I've seen it, and it's good. That's not exactly an overly long talk, though.

 

[Sacman]

It grinds my gears when people prefer to watch anime in Japanese instead of a language they, you know, understand? You will not become more japanese if you hear japanese people talk, just letting you know. And the excuse they always use (translation errors) are negligible since some japanese word plays won't work in english. And again, laughing at these jokes doesn't make you japanese either, they aren't important to the story.

Yeah I hate it when people use the translation errors as an excuse if you've ever compared 2 different fan subs they say 2 completely different things half the time...

 

[Saltyk]

I just thought of another cliche I hate in anime.

Turning a powerful character into cannon fodder.

DBZ did this with basically everyone that wasn't a saiyan. Yamcha, Krillin, Tien, and even Picolo all became worthless fighters after everyone and their grandmother became a Super Saiyan.

Bleach did this with Renji, Sado, and Uryû. Go on. Name more than one fight any of them won. And not a fight they won against a trash throw away opponent. An actual threat!

It's very annoying when only the hero (or a select few) can defeat anyone.

Even Vegita does this to an extent. Badguy beats the less important dudes. THEN HERE CAME VEGITA. He got beat up, so it's up to goku to save the world! But yeah, it's annoying. It only serves to 1. Show how useless the massive cast of these shitty shows are. 2. To make the main mary sue seem even more over powered.

Yeah, they did. Even turned him into a complete wuss in a few movies. In fact, Vegita never beat a single major villian. He killed Dadoria, Zarbon, Guldo, and Android #19. Those were the only "major" villians he ever killed. His fights against Buu were little more than "let's see how much punishment I can take until I die." He went from the most powerful and feared adversary Goku ever fought to glass jaw Billy. Why do they do that to so many great characters?

 

[Twad]

Just one? unfair!

Combat nearly always end up in melee/extremely close range... Even space ships get to fight in melee. Long range weaponry never gets anything done.

Fan service (gratuitious boobs and stupid stuff like that)

Where the rival and/or hero are shown being so badass that nothing, not even common sense or overwhelming odds can touch them. (aka the trope of "boring invincible hero/villian") the only thing that can slow them down is eachother.

Underaged teens being far better at everything (absolutely eveything) than battle-tested veterans.

The bad guy always have white on him somewhere (hair, coat, wings ect). Always.

 

[William Dickbringer]

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.

oh that show goes in a downward spiral so fast and there are so many faceplam moment that you begin to wonder "why is every girl in this show an idiot"

O.T. transformation sequence seriously just transform and be done with it

 

[Furbyz]

Panty shots. Mostly underage panty shots but god damnit I hate them all.

 

[The Stonker]

Sojo eyes.

And that all the guys look like girls, no matter what guy that is.

 

[Deleted]

It grinds my gears when people prefer to watch anime in Japanese instead of a language they, you know, understand? You will not become more japanese if you hear japanese people talk, just letting you know. And the excuse they always use (translation errors) are negligible since some japanese word plays won't work in english. And again, laughing at these jokes doesn't make you japanese either, they aren't important to the story.

Yeah I hate it when people use the translation errors as an excuse if you've ever compared 2 different fan subs they say 2 completely different things half the time...

Alright fansubs may be crap but that's because they're done by fans. Official dubs are usually great.

 

[kaveradeo]

Kaaaaahhhhhh!!!

Next week on Dragonball Z: Maaaayyyyyyy!!!!

Haaaahhh!

 

[IsraelRocks]

this

 

[Stabby Joe]

No matter the plot, characters, style, tone and script... it somehow comes back to some sort of rehashed high school-esque setting.