Charators how get noise bleeds, because of a girle. it makes not scene! because they somehow got to see them naked or in skipe clothen. I'm told that its old joke or something that when a virgen gets in this kind of problem they get a nose bleeds. I now that not even the japanese Believe it. But it bugs me.
I don't mean to be a dick, but is english your first language?
Oh yeah, and this list reminded me about people reacting to things by falling over. It never really made any sense to me, and it's not that funny to start with, even ignoring how overused it is.
Fanservice when it doesn't fit the character or the situation (ex. High School of the Dead)
When animation quality is good in spurts but is mostly just average or shitty (ex. Naruto)
When a plot falls apart and series only really focuses on comedy when it could have had a good story (ex. Angel Beats)
When a premise just makes no sense from day one... (Yugioh, GX, and 5Ds).
In short, while I like anime for no adequately explained reason... I hate so many little nuances of it. Lately, I've begun wondering why I even bother watching or reading any of this shit... but I still do. Like a crack addict coming back for more, even though they stopped giving him the good stuff a long time ago.
Pointless fanservice. Case in point is High School of the Dead. Stopped watching halfway through, couldn't stand 75% of the show just being about showing some very jiggly, oversived, cartoon T'n'A.
I think the fanservice does serve a point... an important plot point. The series doesn't take place on the normal planet earth. It takes place in a world where the physics are extremely broken. One bullet can knockdown a wave of zombies and the slightest bit of movement will make the breasts of any woman jiggly violently and uncontrollably for what seems like hours...
... yeah... I'm just messing with you. That show really is a piece of shit. lol
I know it doesn't really count but...
The fangirls. The "I know 5 japanese words" and "I'm so edgy I watch fucking NARUTO" and "Oh, thought provoking anime? That's for suckers. Now shut up and let me watch pointless crap" types. There's more, but you get my point. I don't fully respect anime as an art form, since for every one Cowboy Bebop, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Neon Genesis Evangelion etc. there's about 356 Axis Powers Hetalia, Death Note, crap like that. Sorry, Japan, make moar TTGL, THEN we'll talk.
- Annoying fanservice. Unlike most people, I will be the first to admit that a bit of fanservice doesn't necessarilly hurt a show. But when it is done frequently and/or in a "in your face" manner, it starts to get annoying even when you are the intended audience....especially when you are the intended audience. I can't recall her name, but there is a female character in Bleach who's breasts are so enormous that you literally have trouble paying attention to the show.
No, I mean another character. The one with the bandana on her head, who keeps smoking something and provides a rocket for Ichigo and his friends so they can get into Soul Society.
After reading much of these, I've concluded MANY of you don't like anime. Some of you seem to be rallying against the very things that make anime, anime. Such as facial expressions that are really stylized. Some things are understandable, but things like the facial thing are not.
This is actually synonymous with Asian theater. Coughing up blood is meant to show the character has the outward appearance of being fine however inside they're screwed.
I really don't watch anime anymore save for slightly newer stuff like gurren lagann, and movies like Karas, and sword and the stranger I just stick to a few manga.
Anime wise fillers that deviate from manga's story to the point its just stupid.
And pointless love triangles: girl A loves guy A but can't come right out and tell him, guy A is so fascinated with fighting, weapon etc. to notice/care. guy B likes girl A but is more of a joke to girl A even though she's so shallow/one dimensional she should be glad anyone notices her.
The way I see it is that a lot of these 'clichés' are simply differences in culture that a Western audience don't understand. I'm not calling the 'you're too stupid to understand the deepness of anime' card, because there are some things in anime which really do grate on me.
Let me use an out of anime example. Snake and Raiden. Snake would be what you'd call a typical Western hero, right? Raiden would be a typical anime hero, right? Aren't they kind of... opposites? Snake's a macho, flirtatious, grizzles, hairy, boot to the head kinda guy, he gets things done and he's not too hesitant when it comes to using force. Raiden on the other hand is a lean, clean shaven, awkward (around Rose), lovesick, almost puppy dog like character. Look at the hate he garnered from a Western audience.
I watch a fair bit of anime myself and I can say that a lot of characters do fit Raiden's mould. But it's obviously a popular popular character for the Anime/Manga demographic. How many DC or Marvel superheroes can you think of, that might fit Snake's mould?
I think it's less of these things actually being 'cliché' and more of them being aspects of a culture we're unfamiliar with. Big eyes is part of the art style, awkward moments and sexual tension is part of the humour. If you can't see it yourself, don't be surprised, it's from an entirely different culture. As for the 'good guy always being victorious' and the power of friendship, maybe the people citing this as a cliché need to watch some of the darker, more serious anime. Hell, you only need to go a few shades below peppy to FMA, and by no stretch does friendship conquer all.
There are subtle differences in some and drastic differences in others. You can't claim they the art styles are 'all the same' when they clearly vary according to the artist.
HOWEVER I do hold an issue with the huge breast. Maybe it's overcompensating for something?
mostly facial expressions... they bug the crap out of me. like when characters talk with their eyes closed, turn into cat-faced freaks, develop strange growths to further signify certain emotions, etc.
and i hate how their mouths just flap flap flap the same way for every word in a sentence. it strikes me as laziness on the animators part, but i suppose it helps a lot to have it like that, considering that a lot of animes are dubbed in other languages.
1) Most anime is based on shounen/shoujo manga, or aimed at that audience, so the main characters are always really young--like 25 max. I don't really hate this, but it's the main reason I don't watch a lot of anime anymore. These days I prefer a good seinen anime with more mature protagonists like Black Lagoon.
2) Every anime had the same six types of voice actors: irritating tsundere girl, plucky hero, annoying guy with the Kansai accent, sweet voiced Yamato Nadeshiko, evil arrogant woman, slightly effeminate snake-like villain, and deep-voiced villain. I got so annoyed with hearing the same voices over and over again, I now prefer to watch anime with English dub. It helps that the quality of English dubbing--4Kids aside--has improved by leaps and bounds in the last 10 years.
3) In every grappler anime, every fight scene took 3 or 4 episodes to resolve because of cross-talk and internal monologue, and my least favourite exchange:
HERO: Ha! I have blocked your ultimate technique! It will not work on me again!
VILLAIN: (evil laugh) You think that was my ultimate technique? I was saving my ultimate technique for someone worthy of it!
(Fight continues for another 2 episodes)
Fillers. Oh the many filler episodes they make just pisses me off to know end.The one on Bleach that I believe is still going on has lasted long enough to get its own season it's so long.
Haha, I always get a kick out of people who get pissed off at "fillers". Fillers exist for a very specific reason, which if you watch Gintama was outlined very nicely in one of the episodes (can't remember which). Basically, when you're basing an anime off an ongoing manga series, you're comparing a 16-20 page/5 minutes to read comic to a 20 minute animated show. These do not run at the same speed, the animated series runs at a faster pace and if left alone will catch up and overtake the official manga storyline. So they have three choices:
1. Let the anime catch up and split off into an entirely different storyline (Full Metal Alchemist)
2. Drag out each animated episode so that it directly matches the manga episode, usually by having riducously long recaps, excessive and unecessary flashbacks, full episodes of grunting power ups, etc, all of which greatly degraid the quality of the show (As seen in Bleach, Naruto, DBZ respectively).
3. Take a break from the main storyline and introduce supplimentary story archs, possibly featuring little seen secondary characters to provide more depth to the overall story.
I mean seriously, what do you expect them to do? And how the hell do people get so upset when rather than following the storyline from the manga that they already know they're given free additional content?
Well, I get the point of fillers, they just irritate me when the manga goes far enough ahead for quite a few episodes but still continue on with the filler.
Instead of ranting on my despise of Anime cliches (I could write 5 8-page essays on that) I should just point out that we might as well slaughter every shonen Jump anime in existance for the better of the Earth. (except Yu-Gi-Oh! its so stupid its funny)
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