Anime probably does n’t bank on its special tropes and clichés more than any other media or music genre , but human , it feels like it . It seems like every show , motion-picture show or OVA are the same , and the hoi polloi create them are just following a pre - prescribed checklist . Here are 10 of the most prevalent anime clichés out there .
1 ) Parental Guidance Suggested
More than 50 % of all high-pitched school of age minor in Japan are completely parent - less , and another 35 % only have one parent stay . Basically , if you ’re Nipponese and have a kid , you are signing your own death warrantee . Goku from Dragonball Z ? No parents . Naruto ? No parents . Ichigo from Bleach ? numb mom , hold out pa . Tohru from Fruits Basket ? No parents . The three main kids from Evangelion ? Only one of them has a parent , Shinji ’s pop , and Shinji would have been way better off if he had died . The amount of halfway - shoal and high school aged kids who are live without any kind of grownup supervision is , frankly , ridiculous .
2 ) Me So Hungry
Are you the protagonist in an action anime ? Then guess what ? You have a terrible eating disorder . For some reason , being the wiz in any shonen / boy - eccentric manga or show means you wish eating all the time , and this is somehow supposed to be hilarious . Goku eats everything , One Piece ’s Monkey D.Luffy is ghost with meat , Death Note ’s lambert must constantly be feed himself pelf , and yellowtail tuna is Zatch Bell ’s heroin . Even the few fat anime characters are less obsessed with food than these guys . There are some anime heroines ghost with food — usually fighters , like Ikki Tousen ’s Sonsaku — but more of them seem to be haunt with booze , like Evangelion ’s Misato , Ran of Tsukikage Ran , Karula from Utawarerumono , and Yukari from Azumanga Daioh .
3 ) Girls , Girls , little girl
You roll in the hay what happen when you have a res publica efficaciously without adult supervision ? in high spirits school kids inhabit together in sin ! And not just regular sinning — harem sin , because constantly one guy will terminate up live with four or more hot female child , all of whom desperately love / want to get up him . The “ harem ” is such a coarse cliché in Zanzibar copal that it ’s actually it ’s own genre , encompass Love Hina , Hayate the Combat Butler , High School DxD , Shuffle , Tenchi Muyo andoh , more then 160 others . And those are just the non - porn harem anime . If I listed the hentai harem series , we ’d be here all day .
4 ) awe > Sex
How does one have a show about one guy living with several attractive ladies and not have it terminate up as porn ? Well , not because these guys have bring a vow of chastity , but also not because they ’re super - respectable or something . No , the problem is that the manly protagonists are distressingly shy , so whenever any girl make the first move , they by and large stammer , have nosebleeds , pass out , run screaming , or some combination . High School DxD , To Love Ru , Onegai Teacher and more are all example of this cliché — which seems a little weird because most of these series are also PG-13 - tantamount boob delivery devices , too . The amount of sex the medium Japanese high - schooltime student in a romance or comedy gum anime turns down is , frankly , laughable . No wonder Japan has a trouble with declining parentage rightfield .
5 ) The Boobfall
Have you unintentionally bumped into someone so firmly you fell down on them ? If so , have you ever landed face first in someone ’s boobs ? Sure , it might come about occasionally by stroke , but in Japan it happens every single prison term . It ’s like cats always set ashore on their feet — Japanese Zanzibar copal character reference always land face first in dummy ( this pop off for both cat and girls , by the way ) . Sometimes , hang is n’t even involved — anime characters take the air ( or melt down ) in someone ’s white meat so often that TV Tropes has named it“Funbags Airbags . ”The worst version of the Boobfall , in my august opinion , is the accidental grope . Say you ’re falling on someone — what do you do ? If you answer “ To use my arms to break my fall , or , at least to attempt to avoid falling upon the other mortal as much as possible as not to injure them , ” then you ’re a human being . If you answer , “ Put my hands directly in front of my chest as if I were get a football game , so when I land on a girl I can knock off a flavour ” then congratulations , you are an anime character , in such company as Shinji from Evangelion , Ed Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist , everything Love Hina ’s Ken Akamatsu has ever written , and countless others .
6 ) Groping Is Our Business
So if that ’s “ accidental perversion , ” what about “ intentional perversion ” ? That act belong exclusively to the salarymen , those tireless white collar workers who keep Japan ’s economic system strong okay and who , no matter their age , once they are in a railroad train car with a high-pitched school girl , will immediate start grope their bottom . If you are a girl in a sailor suit getting on a train , there is a 99 % chance one of the suitcase - behave passengers will habituate the jostling of the gearing to cop a quick tone — and that ’s the skillful case scenario . Some will use their phone camera to face up your skirt . But that ’s anime , apparently ; in real life , Japan has made some subway and gearing motorcar for women only , so … yeah , that ’s just middling horrifying .
7 ) All and Tsundere
The best known Japanese character stereotype is probably the moe girl , more popularly dub the “ Moeblob . ” These are prissy , quiet girl who are passing polite , proper , precious without being aphrodisiacal , and most importantly , destitute of anything resemble a personality . They were insanely popular 5 - 10 years ago , with countless series focused on dull girls who did nothing and had nothing happen to them , but they ’ve in the end faded ( to supersede by anime about girl with vast breasts . Progress ! ) . But there ’s one fictional character character that exist before the moe , and will go on forever : The Tsundere . These are the autocratic , cattish distaff characters who have a voiced , romantic inside ; they usually give the manlike agonist a arduous time , but are secretly infatuate with them . These characters are often physically violent and/or often super - potent , and they often beat the objects of their affection . Tsundere include Akane from Ranma ½ , Asuka from Evangelion , Sakura from Naruto , Chidori from Full Metal Panic , and Winry from Fullmetal Alcihemist just to name a few of several thousand . Note : the luck of the Tsundere receiveing an inadvertent boobfall from the boys they care is about 1 - in-1 , as is the chance they will like a shot plug them for it .
- Child soldier
When problem comes , we do n’t need the USA , the strain violence , superheroes , or even Godzilla . All we involve are a few teenager . The amount of gum anime submarine sandwich over the age of 22 is shockingly low , particularly when you count that these kids are doing everything from fight foreign invasions , engage wars , piloting elephantine golem , hound fiend , battle ninjas , whatever . Evangelion , Naruto , Bleach , One Piece , Code Geass , every Gundam series … the list hold out on and on and on . It ’s like people in Japan disappear at the years of 24 . Or maybe that ’s when they become salarymen and start groping high school girl on subways trains .
9 ) Hot Springs Eternal
When you desire to titllate your viewer but are tired of boobfalls , it ’s meter to hit the bath — specifically , the bathhouse or the hot springs . This is basically an excuse to get your independent distaff characters naked , and then provide more boobfalls . These are common enough in gum anime that they can be reasonably predicted to occur at the 6th , seventh or eighth episode . Even unseasoned kids ’ serial like Pokémon and Mega Man : NT Warrior have them . The only difference between the kids ’ display and the older - skew shows is that when you buy the more grownup show on DVD , you get to see the pap censor that were in the TV broadcast . Whee .
10 ) Born to Run
There is nothing I can say that will illustrate this cliché , feel in the opening credits of pretty much every anime ever , just than this telecasting will , so love .
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