Your most hated anime cliche

[Neverhoodian]

I have two, actually:

When someone charges up some sort of major hand-beam attack or something similar, it takes them at least a minute and they start yelling at the top of their lungs. They yell and grimace and generally act like they're suffering from an acute case of constipation, and their opponent JUST STANDS THERE DUMBFOUNDED WAITING TO BE BLASTED. Have you tried JUST PUNCHING/SHOOTING HIM? I'm looking at you, Dragon Ball Z.

I also find it a bit unsettling that so many "sexy" female characters look and sound like they're underage. I keep waiting for Chris Hanson to step in before a romance scene can begin.

 

[DeathsHands]

Anything involving sexualizing everything. Too many cliches to count in that case.

 

[Zaik]

My most hated anime cliche is when the main male protagonist has a wide selection of various female stereotypes and always chooses the always shy and reserved female lead character over numerous superior choices.

 

[okogamashii]

Why is everyone white? Shouldn't everyone be Japanese or at least look more Asian? Hegemony sucks.

This keeps coming up.

Here, have this explanatory video:

That last person on Yahoo answers asking why Japanese people worship white people is a giant idiot. Long long LONG before the Japanese had contact with whites, they prized paleness. It has nothing to do with white people, as often they're actually paler than white people.

 

[okogamashii]

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'.

This is probasbly going to be mirrored by a million people but its the whiny emo kid that becomes a hero cliche.

This kinda annoys me when people say this.
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! :'(

No, it's his sad, stupid personality and his constant pining for his dead girlfriend that does that.

 

[pyramid head grape]

"my mum died when I was little" or "just have a dead mum" annoys me how many times its bin used example BLEACH (most disappointing anime ever).