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Best/Worst Cliches/Tropes in Anime

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It's no surprise that Anime, like any storytelling medium, has many cliches. Here, we can discuss which are the best ones and the worst ones in Anime as well as Manga.

So, fire away!
 
Um... *ahem*

I generally don't like the whole "childhood friend" thing in anime. It's terribly boring and obvious. Now, in video games, it bothers me less because it is usually handled better, but in anime, it just turns into too much awkward "Oh, now I realize that I've loved him all this time" kind of stuff.
 
Best cliche: Characters who are secretly psychotic/sadists (I still hope to see one licking a female protagonist's tears to show how sick they are)

Worst cliche: Women with breasts that defy the laws of physics (followed by a small chest woman, who are jealous)
 
Tsunderes. Good god are they annoying. And the Double Standard against men that comes along with them.
 
I don't really like the love at first sight thing, speaks for itself.

As for a good cliche. Anything having to do with an apocalypse never goes wrong for me......at least so far.
 
Too. Much. Breathing. Lots of gasping by female characters whenever something drastic happens, and that sometimes gets to the point where it gets seriously annoying (and somehow misleading if there is family around). Might just be me. Hell, I might not even have described this cliché too accurately.
 
Flying Christi said:
Too. Much. Breathing. Lots of gasping by female characters whenever something drastic happens, and that sometimes gets to the point where it gets seriously annoying (and somehow misleading if there is family around). Might just be me. Hell, I might not even have described this cliché too accurately.
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To be fair, this happens in real life so it's really the Truth in Television. That counts for something.
 
Mm, can't recall any absolutely brilliant tropes off any anime, but Conviniently Seated bugs me often and Theme Tune Cameo throws me off quite much every time ("did they have this low a budget for the score?").
 
I hate how predictable ecchi/harem Anime are. I mean, with Green Green, Love Hina, Queen's Blade, Qwasar and so on, you can pretty much call them by the more appropriate titles of "Sexual Shenanigans And Erotic Escapades Made Not To Entertain With A Good Story But Rather To Get Horny Teens And Adults To Buy Our Crap. Screw Storytelling! We've got money! Plus, Our Animators Can't Get Laid To Save Their Lives!"

To sum it up...
 
Best Cliche: Tsundere done in the right way.

Worst Cliche: A girl having a crush on a boy and clinging onto him when the boy is obviously uninterested. THEN the story developing somehow that the boy realizes how the girl had been by his side all along.
 
all of the freaken pipe organ music thats overused.
 
The amount of gasping can be awkward. When I was watching The World God Only Knows yesterday, my brother thought I was watching a porno xD

Personally, I don't like how characters can easily be sorted into archetypes. The fact that some characters are so similar to another in a different show really puts me off (like how Yuriyuri's cast is essentially K-ON! but sexed up). What I do like though is a character that may start off like an archetype, but then proves the viewer wrong in subsequent episodes.

Also, there's also how in a lot of shows (particularly harem shows), the majority of the female cast is pretty much forced to fall in love with the main character, even when there's no logical explanation for it.
 
97SaturnSL1 said:
all of the freaken pipe organ music thats overused.
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Orgel music is popular here still, it seems. You hear it in quite a few places, and not just in anime/media. You may even hear it in a parking garage.
 
SSJ_Jup81 said:
97SaturnSL1 said:
all of the freaken pipe organ music thats overused.
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Orgel music is popular here still, it seems. You hear it in quite a few places, and not just in anime/media. You may even hear it in a parking garage.
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where in the world would you hear organ music in a parking garage?.lol.


Another cliche i hate is that some characters are just plain idiots. in a racing anime a guy racing an AWD mitsu EVO manages to spin out of control,crash and total his car when he tries to adjust his WINDSHIELD WIPERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that road he was on was wet to the equivilent of just a spray with a garden hose too!
 
97SaturnSL1 said:
SSJ_Jup81 said:
97SaturnSL1 said:
all of the freaken pipe organ music thats overused.
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Orgel music is popular here still, it seems. You hear it in quite a few places, and not just in anime/media. You may even hear it in a parking garage.
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where in the world would you hear organ music in a parking garage?.lol.
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You've never been to a mall, and heard music or something playing in the background when in a parking garage from the speakers that are in there?
 
mwto said:
Worst: 1)Girls having almost no clothing, or overly large breast
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Related: Breasts that defy the laws of physics, like that picture where the girl is jumping up and down and her breasts have somehow rotated 90 degrees.

Yeah, they don't work that way. Busts come in all shapes and sizes, but there are some limits to their variety and that is one of them.
 
Goodbye Blue Monday said:
Yeah, they don't work that way. Busts come in all shapes and sizes, but there are some limits to their variety and that is one of them.
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Producers: Screw realism, we have horny teenagers and otakus to cater to.

I hate it too. I mean, I have my urges too but what I wouldn't give for more Anime that show little to no fanservice (that is, the blatant kind where they're pretty much like "check out the T & A on this bitch, boys!") just to boost the ratings and focus on the actual goddamn story. Cuteness is okay though.
 
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