Your most hated anime cliche
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Harem anime with a terribly pathetic loser as the male lead and a lot of hysterical girls after him for no reason.
Inconsistencies in each character's strength. Bleach is the prime example of this. DBZ got it right but Bleach has characters randomly powering up for whatever arbitrary reason Kubo can think of these days. It's kind of upsetting.
How is it not? Kamina is so over the top ridiculous. I can't see how the creator who make "manly combining" without it being a joke on other animes.Isaac The Grape said:
A few things bug me
A)Lets go to the beach (Every anime I watch has this some where it seems)
B)Boobs boobs boobs did you know they have boobs
C)A anime series that was fine on it's own then added sex to "make it better"
D)Filler
E)the DBZ effect(saying they trained for the strongest attack).
A)Lets go to the beach (Every anime I watch has this some where it seems)
B)Boobs boobs boobs did you know they have boobs
C)A anime series that was fine on it's own then added sex to "make it better"
D)Filler
E)the DBZ effect(saying they trained for the strongest attack).
The Porsche 356 is my favourite car
I was going to give a list of points on various themes and ideas that appear in the show that point out certain Japanese ideals and the lack of inference of parodying nature that a parody would contain. But I'm not. I can't properly think this late. It is apparent that we have watched different versions of TTGL. I assume that you have watched an English language version. I have watched a fan-subbed Japanese version. I have no doubt in my opinion that TTGL is a full embodiment of the aforementioned stereotypes and all the better for it.Nautical Honors Society said:
I don't really have any...
Any real anime cliché works when done right I think. They can just suck really badly in crap anime or if they're way over done.
Dubs trying to pull of japanese cliché's is what gets my blood a-boilin'.
It seems to be a generally accepted statement as it is said so frequently, but WHEN IS THIS THE CASE?!
Very rarely in anime does this apparent stereotype exist! in fact the only one that springs to mind is evangelion... which doesn't really count. Seems more like an american 'hero' stereotype to me.
And while i'm at it: for the 1000th time, cloud is not a whiney emo kid! Just because he has millions of fangirls and is unfortunately a weeaboo magnet, doesn't make him whiney or emo! :'(
Any real anime cliché works when done right I think. They can just suck really badly in crap anime or if they're way over done.
Dubs trying to pull of japanese cliché's is what gets my blood a-boilin'.
This kinda annoys me when people say this.PaulH said:
It seems to be a generally accepted statement as it is said so frequently, but WHEN IS THIS THE CASE?!
Very rarely in anime does this apparent stereotype exist! in fact the only one that springs to mind is evangelion... which doesn't really count. Seems more like an american 'hero' stereotype to me.
And while i'm at it: for the 1000th time, cloud is not a whiney emo kid! Just because he has millions of fangirls and is unfortunately a weeaboo magnet, doesn't make him whiney or emo! :'(
Gundam or GTFO.
But i really hate when anime characters say each others names every other minute. Im not talking about just the first name, oh no. They have to say the first middle last etc. It gets old.
Also every character i want to live ends up dying, and they always seem to kill off the love interests. Mainly in Gundam, it's ridiculously predictable.
But i really hate when anime characters say each others names every other minute. Im not talking about just the first name, oh no. They have to say the first middle last etc. It gets old.
Also every character i want to live ends up dying, and they always seem to kill off the love interests. Mainly in Gundam, it's ridiculously predictable.
"It can't be helped" go back and watch your fav animes and i gaurante this line will pop up in most of them. Anytime someone makes a mistake or somthing bad happens some one is bound to say "It can't be helped" that exact damn line!
It reminds me of the "shrug" in acting. for those of you who haven't studied acting the shrug is a big acting no no because its ambigous in its meaning and its a sign of bad acting because: It's over used, generic, and doesn't do a good job of telling the audiance what an actor is feeling. "It can't be helped" has a similar feel to me. It's just a generic way of saying "lets move the plot along".
It reminds me of the "shrug" in acting. for those of you who haven't studied acting the shrug is a big acting no no because its ambigous in its meaning and its a sign of bad acting because: It's over used, generic, and doesn't do a good job of telling the audiance what an actor is feeling. "It can't be helped" has a similar feel to me. It's just a generic way of saying "lets move the plot along".
Note the picture at the top of the wikipedia article. Would you argue that that is not irony? His words do not themselves convey anything other than their literal intention; but the context in which they are presented does. As was the case with your (hypothetical) post.Abedeus said:
A dictionary has to define a concept in a short space, and therefore the definition will be narrowed down. A dictionary entry cannot possibly hope to explain irony in its entirety, and therefore needs to make do with a simplified explanation of one of the variants of irony; so Bender reading aloud from the dictionary is sadly irrelevant.
Hypothetical scenario: You ask someone to hit you in the stomach, while you are wearing a piece of armor. Somehow, upon impact a piece of the armor tears loose, cutting and injuring you badly.
Would you not agree that this was ironic? That what you wore for protection ended up hurting you worse than what you were trying to protect yourself against?
That's one example of a scenario that is not covered by the dictionary entry.
Tl;dr: I still think someone with a Gurren Lagann avatar complaining about Gurren Lagann would be ironic. (I realize you didn't, but hypothetically)
But listen: I can not be bothered to discuss this any longer. There are and have been more than enough discussions on this subject and, frankly, I am becoming bored with it.
This doesn't annoy me in general but it can fail if it isn't used well: The whole 'start of a new season - let's show how powerful the new foe is by having a main character lose!'
I don't mind it so much but it sucks if it isn't used properly, I mean I recently watched the latest episode of pokemon in which, believe it or not, despite being experienced beyond belief, collecting over 36 gym badges and travelling across 4 different nations, Ash and his no doubt level 100 Pikachu are beaten by a noob. Granted, Pikachu couldn't use electric attacks but seriously!? This guy challenged the pokemon league! 4 times! Pikachu should be able to K.O this grass starter in one quick attack!
I don't mind it so much but it sucks if it isn't used properly, I mean I recently watched the latest episode of pokemon in which, believe it or not, despite being experienced beyond belief, collecting over 36 gym badges and travelling across 4 different nations, Ash and his no doubt level 100 Pikachu are beaten by a noob. Granted, Pikachu couldn't use electric attacks but seriously!? This guy challenged the pokemon league! 4 times! Pikachu should be able to K.O this grass starter in one quick attack!
but why did he need to say it at all? Why not sure or okay? "It can't be helped" doesn't seem to fit any particular situation. Its just somthing generic they say. I honestly think its a translation thing. like when they use a phrase that has no easy translation into our language they just say "It can't be helped"...makes them sound like robots.Jonluw said:
Mine's not limited to anime but I absolutely hate it when the protagonist gets tricked by an Obviously Evil [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ObviouslyEvil] villain into destroying the world or turning everyone into giant scrotums or whatever their plans are.