Your most hated anime cliche

[Jonluw]

Ironic considering your avatar is from Gurren Laggen.

THAT'S NOT HOW MINDMILLS WORK! I mean, that's not what irony means. It means using the words with different meaning than literal.

Also, Gurren Lagann (..spelling, man) goes over the top the right way.

Well, irony isn't that strictly defined actually. As opposed to sarcasm; which would be what you described. I agree that it is ironic that you complain about Gurren Lagann while having a Gurren Lagann avatar.

 

[Serperoth]

Ironic considering your avatar is from Gurren Laggen.

THAT'S NOT HOW MINDMILLS WORK! I mean, that's not what irony means. It means using the words with different meaning than literal.

Also, Gurren Lagann (..spelling, man) goes over the top the right way.

Gurren Lagann is one of the best things to come out of Japan in recent years. Behind the over-the-top action (and fanservice) is actual meaning, something most anime lack. I love TTGL Similar with Cowboy Bebop.

 

[the trooper]

fanservice has really started bug me. i didnt so much in the past but when i look at anime like High School of the Dead, i feel like ripping out my hair. if it has redeeming qualities its fine but if it justs boobs boobs and more boobs, then thers a problem

 

[Polyg0n]

Those little sidekicks who speak in really high pitched voice and are just generally annoying.

 

[Jonluw]

The reasons in this thread combined contribute to me not being even slightly interested in Anime series.

A pity. There are a lot of great anime out there that does not abuse these cliches, and you're missing out if the fact that some anime does abuse them makes you not want to watch any at all.

 

[Jonluw]

These are not Death Gods. . . well okay I don't know for sure but I always imagined shinigami to be more scary looking.

Spoiler

For a minute there, I thought you were going to complain about the shinigami in Death note...

 

[nuba km]

ridiculously big boobs for no reason other then ridiculously big boobs. I mean imagine if they replaced the ridiculously big boobs in bleach with character development.

 

[Antonio Torrente]

fanservice has really started bug me. i didnt so much in the past but when i look at anime like High School of the Dead, i feel like ripping out my hair. if it has redeeming qualities its fine but if it justs boobs boobs and more boobs, then thers a problem

how about tenjo tenge? that has an extreme amount of fanservice

 

[Prof.Wood]

The speech that always is said During a big fight about how the evil guy can never win because he doesn't have love and friendship on his side.
God I hate that speech.

 

[MarsProbe]

Giant military robots, piloted by 12 year olds. What military outfit would put something like that under the control of a kid anyway?

In fact, this reminds me of an article ran in that Newtype USA magazine where they were interviewing the creator of some anime. In this anime, humanity was fighting against some alien race and for some reason, only the women actually fought in the war. The creator stated in the interview that if humanity was fighting against an alien race, it is obvious that only the females would be called to arms. Now, I'm no military strategist, but if you were fighting an alien force, you'd surely want everyone possible fighting for the cause, not just a portion of the population? He didn't even any explanation of why this was so "obvious".

Still, if everyone followed those ideas, we wouldn't have a Master Chief, which wouldn't be much good for humanity.

 

[WakeTheDead1]

the fans themselves are cliches, at least where im from, all fat with greasy hair and shirts with dragons on them, shirts not tshirts

 

[Phoenix09215]

Normally in fillers. When a new character is introdued and they're acting like they hate everyone and that no one can be trusted because of their horrific past. BUT WAIT! The main character then changes them aand they realise that the world is full of fun and laughter! not douchebags...

 

[ssgt splatter]

the character that doesn't believe in fighting or violence or whatever so gets in the way, never does anything and always fails when they try to talk the bad guys out of doing whatever it is they were trying to do. Orihime in Bleach is possibly the worst for this. i haven't seen it since the end of the Zampaktou Mutiny arc but all she did pretty much since she got kidnapped by Ulquirra is say 'Kurosaki-kun' and cry. think she tried to talk people out of fighting (while she was crying!) but failed dismally. i used to think the same of Hinata from Naruto, all she did was say 'naruto-kun' but at least she didn't cry or get in the way. then she had that fight with Pain. granted she lost but at least she tried and she didn't go down easy.

Who's Pain? Is he in Shippuden or the, uh, younger days...the series before Shippuden?

 

[Acidoctor]

It starts to snow at Christmas.

 

[Vhite]

The OVER THE TOP ANIME REACTIONS!

They anger me...

Spoiler: Example

/thread

 

[Ih8pkmn]

"The game is more than a game". See Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, and every anime made for a toy tie-in.

or

Several important plot aspects getting cut out to introduce "cute" characters. See One Piece. (Americanized Anime Only)

or

Americanized Anime theme songs. I'll say this much for Naruto, as confusing as that show was: the music didn't suck.

 

[PureChaos]

the character that doesn't believe in fighting or violence or whatever so gets in the way, never does anything and always fails when they try to talk the bad guys out of doing whatever it is they were trying to do. Orihime in Bleach is possibly the worst for this. i haven't seen it since the end of the Zampaktou Mutiny arc but all she did pretty much since she got kidnapped by Ulquirra is say 'Kurosaki-kun' and cry. think she tried to talk people out of fighting (while she was crying!) but failed dismally. i used to think the same of Hinata from Naruto, all she did was say 'naruto-kun' but at least she didn't cry or get in the way. then she had that fight with Pain. granted she lost but at least she tried and she didn't go down easy.

Who's Pain? Is he in Shippuden or the, uh, younger days...the series before Shippuden?

he's the leader of Akatsuki. he doens'doesn't appear in Part I, only Part II (Shippuden). pretty good arc

 

[ReaperzXIII]

FRIENDSHIP SPEECHES!!! F*CKING FRIENDSHIP SPEECHES!!! That times the characters power by 10 to the power of bullshit squared so they can defeat the eater of worlds and killer of babies.

Or bad guy decay, such as Pain in Naruto "I AM PAIN STEALER OF SOULS, LORD OF DESTRUCTION! THERE CAN BE NO REAL PEACE SO I SHALL DESTROY WORLDS TO MAKE FAKE PEACE!!!"

[insert friendship/I know what you've been through speech]

"I am Pain! I believe in peace and rainbows and will sacrifice my life for rainbows"

Thats why I liked Aizen, he was evil just for the sake of being evil, nothing changed that, nothing will change that he is a bastard through and through and not just some pansy with lots of expendable income and superpowered artifacts that wasn't hugged by his daddy enough.

Oh also bullshit power levels the worst offender of this being Bleach, within a few months Ichigo went from normal kid, to shinigami, to vice-captain level shinigami, to captain-level shinigami to Vizard to stronger Vizard to WTFPWNTLEVEL9000 Hollow to God-mode.

 

[Lullabye]

The main character not getting laid.
This is the reason I actually like School Days.....

Also, the posing. Just the sheer amount of posing in every anime pisses me off. Especially the whole "we all look of into the sky and hope for a brighter tomorrow" bullshit after every new bad guy is defeated.

EDIT:
SEXISM!
OMG THE SEXISM!
not the outright "women are inferior to men" but when they make up a female evil character for no other purpose than to fight the good female character.
*stares at naruto*
God that pisses me off.

 

[Ethylene Glycol]

Hmm . . . what is my most hated anime cliche.

These are not ninjas

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These are not Death Gods. . . well okay I don't know for sure but I always imagined shinigami to be more scary looking.

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and these are not pirates

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Bleach used to be good, but then Kubo turned it into an endless parade of continuous fight sequences and new characters who do nothing to advance the plot. I would've called it a melange but I don't know what "melange" means offhand.
Also: Quiet, you. One Piece is awesome. >:C

How Anime's have the main character want to be the best at something but they NEVER will get there.

Are you talking more about Pokémon or InuYasha here?

Along with Yu-gi-oh, One Piece, Naruto etc.

Well, those aren't exactly the same.

Pokémon is driven entirely by that "I wanna be the Guybest ever" thing, and there's really no plot there. Naruto's got a lot more depth, and there's an actual plot; Naruto's quest to "be the best" was more of a character trait than an actual plot element, and that seems to've been scrapped now that he's pretty much been turned into The Messiah. InuYasha, on the other hand, is more like Pokémon in that the quest could theoretically be written such that it never ends, with a new Monster of the Week every so often (and it pretty much was), but there was a plot there, despite it sucking horribly and being dragged out way too long for anyone to still like the characters.

...the ending of One Piece is actually planned out, apparently, but Oda's having too much fun writing the story. Or So I Heard. Dunno if I can or will deny that it's a quest-driven thing like Pokémon, but there's not even a vague measure of how close to being "the best" Luffy's gotten/getting, soo...