Write up a big damn master list of your most hated anime tropes.
fun idea, might do
would take too long to do in one sitting, but let's get all the obvious ones out of the way:
recycling the same exact conventional art style that's associated with all anime over and over and over again—big eyes, small noses, thin outlines, slender frames, unnatural hair colors, over-the-top hairstyles, overly generic hairstyles
when main characters have 10x the care and detail put into their designs as opposed to background characters, and when background characters or extras have NO detail or thought put into them whatsoever (i understand budget and time constraints, but i'm still allowed to hate this)
lazy animation tricks—overuse of key frames, tweening, repeat cut, random chibifying/super deformation, only having two frames for talking scenes (open mouth, shut mouth—DONE!), literally recycling previous animations, and other stupid shit
every character has the same exact face
fanservice
wish fulfillment
>draw a girl
>call it a boy
*i would also hate the reverse of this—if it ever happened, which it doesn't
>draw a fully-developed adult
>call it a child or teenager
>draw a child
>sexualize them
>draw a child
>they're actually 700 so don't worry it's not pedophilia
disgusting pervert goes way out of line on several occasions, but is never seriously taken to task because everything he does is played for laughs and is shot with a comedic tone, so that makes it all okay and you should just laugh with them because hahaha humans are disgusting scumshit isn't that so cute and funny
female characters whose personality = "is sexually attractive"
sexually attractive female characters who are "badasses" and do conventionally masculine things as a substitute for anything unique or interesting—bonus points if they are cold, aloof, and/or distant because they're just so COOL
camera cuts to or pans over a girl's body for absolutely no reason, other than pandering
WHOOPS the MC just accidentally groped his love interest in the most convenient way ever HOW EMBARRASSING
WHOOPS the main female character just had a wardrobe malfunction and all the male characters saw!!!!! cue large geysers of blood rocketing from the male characters' noses (who the fuck gets nosebleeds just from being sexually aroused, and why the fuck does japan think it's so fucking funny)
beach episodes
when a character is about to confess to (or maybe even kiss) their love interest when they're suddenly interrupted by something stupid, and the love interest is too fucking dense to take the hint (common throughout all media, but anime is insufferable with this shit)
dense fucking characters in general, where being dense isn't a genuine character trait—their brain only seems to work when it is laser-guided by the plot
when love, friendship, or family saves the day
the generic male protagonist that is fucking impossible to not relate with on some level
harems
tsunderes in general, but especially poorly done tsunderes who are more tsun-tsun than dere-dere
character gets beat up or hit by a strong attack—cut to a shot of all the other characters gasping and shouting their name (bonus points if each character gets a split screen)
gasping in generalwhen a character gets really emotional about something, and the background gets replaced with flames or some other over-the-top imagery as they start shouting about whatever bullshit
temple veins, sweat drops, blue blushes with the vertical lines, exaggerated facial expressions and reaction shots
someone gets seriously injured for comic relief in one scene (like getting a black eye or a huge bump on their head), but they're absolutely fine in the next scene, because it was just played for laughs
a character is sleeping, causing them to blow a giant snot bubble with their nose—who has ever seen this happen in real life? i REALLY don't understand this one
shouting the name of your attacks before using them—it's cool in fighting games, it makes sense in pokémon, but it's not cool and doesn't make much sense pretty much anywhere else
when flashbacks are only used to pad out the episode
scrappy doos out the fucking wazoo
the classic "five man band" trope when played sickeningly straight
"AT THIS RATE,"filler arcs, filler in general
we decided to set our anime in high school because we don't have enough of those
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