2013-09-18, 18:50 | Link #643 |
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The fact that all the girls fall for the main male protagonist, for no reason at all, even when the series is NOT a harem. I know anime is naturally dramatized, but I'm hoping that there could be at least a bit of realistic character behavior. It makes the show a lot more relatable.
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2013-09-22, 12:08 | Link #644 |
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Shirou Emiya is (in)famous for saying "People die when they are killed".
The irony is that while this statement gets mocked for how "Captain Obvious" it is, the statement actually doesn't seem to apply much to anime these days. Just recently, a major character made a dramatic re-entrance after seemingly being killed a few episodes before. Going by the statements made by the other major characters, this character really did get killed. So your average person would probably think that her dramatic, out of nowhere, re-entrance would be startling and surprising, in a good way. But no, most viewers seem downright ho-hum over it. I think it's a shame really. It can take a lot of the thrill away from a startling re-emergence, and it can also cheapen an actual death scene (since in some cases, the character really is dead, and isn't coming back, and suspicions to the contrary means the death doesn't have the impact it could and perhaps should have). So this cliche of a character never actually being dead unless a dead body is produced (and even then, doubt may be there) is something I've grown to dislike.
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2013-09-26, 08:00 | Link #647 |
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Probably been mentioned in this thread already but....
*Male Protagonist walks in on a Female Character showering/dressing* "EHHHHHH????" - Female *Male Protagonist gets beat up over a mistake he could have apologized for before quickly closing the door* The worst part about this cliche is for some reason the water pipes are sound proof so you can't tell if there's water running somewhere in the house and if you're behind a closed door I'm pretty sure you can hear the shower running. Last edited by Celestia Ludenberg; 2013-09-27 at 07:52. |
2013-09-26, 08:25 | Link #648 | |
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At one point early in the series, the protagonist is given short direction to the bathroom. He stands in front of the two doors down the hall, contemplating how if he purposely choose the wrong door, he may run into a delicious cliche of exactly above. Without hesitation, he opens to the door to find a woman dressing inside. The manga is full of genre savvy characters who have fun with cliche.
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2013-09-26, 11:15 | Link #650 | |
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2013-09-27, 07:52 | Link #651 | |
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I'll have to read that. I like things that poke fun at other things |
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2013-10-03, 04:52 | Link #653 | |
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Also, if a shounen hero comes 'round you better close shop because he will literally eat the entire supply of food, any season. They will consume enough food that your Winter supplies will be totally gone, but not enough that you starve before the cold sets in. Horrible people those shounen heroes... There was one character whose eating obsession was done really well, though: Hei from Darker Than Black. Though this series had the advantage of it being an interesting plot point.
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2013-10-03, 07:46 | Link #655 |
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I also hate this type: Girls who tease boys with their bodies, but in the end they are all "innocent"!
Not really that much - I actually enjoy some of them, like Tatenashi from Infinite Stratos. The main point here is the illogical of this type. |
2013-11-29, 22:33 | Link #657 |
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Anime cliches, oh what have you done to me.
--This is for trying to tell a story when you were better off being harmless fanservice. --This is for setting up a story and forgetting it exists for most of your episodes. --This is for having an indecisive (fe)male lead who can't pick a partner. --This is for resetting all the story events that happened without any prior warning. --This is for escalating powers in action series that eliminate most of the strategy the combat was focused on. --This is for throwing random things together and trying to pass it off as smart. --This is for ruining characters who were good in a previous season or earlier in the show. --This is for building a relationship between characters that's about to become or is romantic before it's swiftly destroyed by the real winner.
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2013-11-30, 07:52 | Link #658 |
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1. Random boob-groping that comes out of nowhere for no reason at all! God, someone kill this cliche already!
2. Characters REFUSING to clear things up between each other, to the point of overusing the quote "this has nothing to do with you!" This happens a lot in romance anime (and other media) for some reason. 3. Incest. Everything incest. 4. Giving girl characters ridiculously HUGE boobs that are too large for them and making them into sex objects instead of characters. Ugh! I'd go on, but I'd probably get yelled at. |
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I think that 2 is bad if its overused, but I can understand how misunderstandings between characters can be a good way to create drama, suspense, tension, and rivalries. I agree with 4 once we get to the point that they look like dangerously unhealthy tumors. And some anime sadly do take it to that point.
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2013-11-30, 20:57 | Link #660 | |
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It's just a variation of the "Big Guy" trope, in settings where it's still useful to have a character counter the more limber lead, but would be a bit awkward to have a rather muscly dude as the role, i.e. Steins;Gate and, well, the Manga Guide to Calculus .
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