anime cliches

[Llust]

there are a lot of rather annoying cliches i come across while watching anime and i was just wondering if there are any that youve noticed pop up a lot in anime. some cliches that ive noticed are;
- anime guys with no nipples
- theres always that one character who eats an abnormal amount of food
- guys get nosebleeds from seeing boobs or panties
- the parents live overseas or just dont give a sht about their kids
- accidental groping

 

[FruitsChinpoG]

Spoiler: lol this video is for you

 

[okaimii]

The main character always sits by the window at school and stares off into space.

 

[LambdaDelta]

one of those sounds like less a cliche and more just wishful thinking

 

[GamingKittenCorp]

OMG THE PARENTS YES! If the parents are involved they like, don't notice anything or just don't care in general lmao. xD How about how there's always the brooding male character that girls fawn after!!

 

[brownboy102]

Main girl is always late for school or somethin' along the lines of school

 

[FruitsChinpoG]

The long-ass dialogue during a fight annoys me, or when they say their attacks out loud * ^*

 

[PastelPrincess]

or the princely bishonens

 

[Tao]

- The 'flat chested' girl who's self conscious of her bewbs. Usually jealous of a specific female character with big bewbs.

- The 'specific female character with big bewbs'. Usually doesn't acknowledge her big bewbs at all. Often ditsy and absent minded. Somehow always finds a way to unknowingly squish them together and make them bounce.

- The "we will win through the power of friendship" plot twist.

- The cocky lone wolf. Usually keeps a minor villain busy whilst telling the main character "Go, I got this" during the final battle, before the camera focuses on his eyes and he says something like "Alright, bring it on, big guy".

- Dead friends/family to justify why every character does everything.

- The 'perv' who would realistically be thrown in jail and put on the sex offenders list, but it's just whimsical in anime.

- The 'moody girl' that everybody is scared of. Often it's a character that's weak and the others shouldn't be scared of at all.

- The 'friendly bad*ss'. Super friendly and likable person who seems really placid, turns out they're secretly an ultimate awesome fighter. Usually they 'only fight if they have to/you make them'.

- The 'I can't do this, I'm weak' epiphany before the 'final showdown' by the main character, despite showing numerous times before that they're super awesome. Either followed up by a pep talk by a friend/partner/teacher they looked up to or a pep talk from the obvious 'will they/won't they' love interest.

- Kids who seem to either live on their own or have terrible parents who are never there.

- The section where characters explain what they are either about to do or have just done. Mostly uses chibi versions of the characters, has crude sketches and often has a chalk board.

- "This isn't even my final form!"

- "You may have beaten me, but I'm not the true villain of this anime!"

- If you're starting a new school, you will always be in the class where a student is the main character of an anime. That's where all transfer students go.

 

[DJStarstryker]

Most anime nowadays seems to take place in a school. I've been watching anime for over 20 years now. School is getting real old as a setting.

 

[LambdaDelta]

since everyone is posting bad cliches I'll instead post a cliche that I actually kinda have a soft spot for (of course provided it's done reasonably well, but that goes without saying)

the enemy character who ends up becoming one of the hero's greatest allies

 

[Panazel Maria]

This one, I'm not sure if it counts as a cliche, but when a battle takes way longer than it probably should because the combatants keep stopping to talk/make dialogues or whatever. This isn't that common, per se, but it does actually happen enough to be notable when it does, mainly because it tends to disrupt battle choreography.

 

[boujee]

That there's like one dude and all these girls
Turns out that the majority likes him
The types include the tsundere, the quiet one, the annoying one, the motherly/caring one, the energetic one, and the ordinary girl

 

[radioloves]

clich?-ness of the really corny and awkward scenes of the romance between the 2 lovers! and over done blushing ooo:

 

[ceanes]

I'm shocked no one has mentioned this one, but the horrible clich? where just as the main character is about to lose they pull some random power up out of their a**, then they never get to use it again, or they do. That really depends on the anime.

 

[HungryForCereal]

TBH, i prefer anime guys with no nipples. they are more beautiful that way. go watch Free! its an anime with 4 hot swimmer guys (the guy in my sig is one of them) with no nipples and they are hot AF.

anyway, one anime cliche is when one of the supporting characters explain a situation in his mind.

 

[piichinu]

Sword art online

 

[Hermione Granger]

The "tch" sound

 

[visibleghost]

so many
i've watched anime that are almost the exact same eith the nice guy, black haired, awkward but cool mc and a bunch of girls who are moe af w one loli tsundere love interest. and the flat chested loli who's kunda evil....,

everyone's living alone (maybe with sister...,)

also if it's gonna be edgy the dad's evil and the mom's dead.

 

[iamnothyper]

huge anime tiddies