Figured I'd make another version of this thread. What are some common tropes, cliches, or other frequent occurrences in anime that get on your nerves? Mine are as follows:
-Dense male lead who somehow ends up with 3 school girls around his chabudai every meal (shiro, kohta)
-Character who's incredibly annoying or useless but made to be a fanservice magnet to compensate (yoshida)
-Character runs out the house with toast in mouth when they're late (daisuke)
-Amnesiac tsundere who doesn't change overtime and forgets the calm, caring moments (louise, kaname)
-Their masochistic male counterparts who continue to take beatings from them (saito). One reason I leally liked Kazuma from Kaze no Stigma was because he didn't take shit from anyone.
-(not really a trope) but characters with nasally voices (except youhei from Clannad)
-"monster of the week"
-all the girls in the cast have really high pitched voices
-excessive use of lateral camera panning
-when they put 2 or more subtitles on the screen and expect us to read them both in a split second, much less know who's saying what since they all sound the same
-When VAs change between dubs
-When the show is supposed to be having an emotional moment but the music during or after ruins the mood
I'll add more later.
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Edited by Gaara444: 3/11/2013 4:28:55 PM>"I'm late for school!" then runs out with toast in the mouth. >The MC's best friend is the love interest. >"Looks like we'll have to use THAT!" >"It can't be helped." >"Ugh, You're hopeless." >MC walks into girl when she's naked >"I'm fighting for my friends!" >Special item/move called Izanami/Izanagi >"Hey....." then after several seconds of silence "....nothing, never mind". >Tsundere characters. >Characters are 18 years old but looks and acts like 12 year old's. >"EEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHH" >Parents are always away/never around. >Shy girl has a ridiculously huge rack. >"I don't know what I wanna do after High School cause I'm too focused on relationships." >Hardly any black characters. >Natural hair color is some abnormal color. >Characters with long hair have it go down to their butt. >Engrish. >"GASP! You're the pervert who saw my panties this morning!" >"I'm a transfer student." >Enemy characters with guns always miss the heroes/only nick their arm. >"I'm a demon/alien from another world." >Hair naturally defies gravity. >Hero wears super baggy pants/wields overly huge sword. >Unnecessary belts on characters outfits. >Panties are striped, always. >Character only drinks a drop of sake but gets shitfaced plastered. >Important character always sits next to the window and stares out through it. >Student Council in the most important thing in school. >Beach episode. >Culture Festival episode. >Sports Festival episode. >Part time job as maid/cute waitress. >Watching Voltron/Power Ranger spin off on TV, always. >Worthless character who nobody likes is skilled with guns with years of experience. >The Japanese Government is either a super power or a bitch boy to other nations. >All characters are skilled in fighting games despite never playing video games. >Hot Spring plot device. >Shounen enemy always wants to become a God. >Most advanced military weapon is a human looking robot piloted by a teenager. >All teachers are wither tough as nails men, or single easily drunk women. >"We have a wealthy uncle." >MC is either stupid as Hell in school or so smart he can skip at his leisure. >MC never cares about anything until shit goes down. >Old man is a skilled trainer and a dirty pervert. >MC uses force against enemy, enemy mistakes it for speed. >MC is always oblivious to everything. >MC is always a Beta pervert. >MC is always a 17 year old self insert loser.