- Joined
- Apr 24, 2022
- Messages
- 1,486
- Reaction score
- 4,277
- Pronouns
- She/Her
- Staff
- #1
If you know, you know.
Are there certain tropes that appear frequently in anime that you just can’t stand? Tropes that once you see you’re immediately turned-off from even giving the anime a chance more than an episode? Maybe I’m speaking as a jaded anime fan, but there’s quite a few of these for me— thankfully most are boxed into the genres they often inhabit, but sometimes I’m not so lucky.
Keep it civil guys! And remember these are all opinions, if there are tropes in here you like someone else doesn’t, feel free to talk it out and discuss differences, but be cool about it, okay? Everyone is allowed to have their own feelings.
I often hate ‘self-insert’ protagonists. I understand the appeal, but it just isn’t for me. I don’t like these because they are often liked by other characters just because they are ‘nice’ with little substance beyond this. Character writing is super important for me to enjoy an anime and this can kill the vibe immediately.
Fanservice. I’m not going into detail on this one, and neither should anyone else, just know it more often than not takes me out of a dramatic story or scene. I just often find it so unnecessary.
Power level being treated as a gag. This is one that’s cropped up recently, mostly in isekai and power fantasies, but occasionally in shounen. Where the protagonist is already super OP, and their Op-ness gets treated as hysterically unbelievable for the gag. (ex. character going, “oh, don’t worry about it, I already leveled the building!” and the rest go “WHAAAAT?!”) I just don’t see this kind of thing as funny at all. It gets old fast to me.
When characters are nothing more than tropes. A little redundant sounding in this thread, but I hate when you can very much tell a character is just a single trope at their core (a tsundere, an airhead, a delinquent etc etc) characters can have these qualities, but I’d really like some more complexity going on than just surface level personality traits!
Normal guy meets extraordinary girl. It’s hard to place my feelings on this one, as more often than not it’s just a formula for a love story, but I’d like to see less gender-roles in play whenever I see this sort of story. It’s hard to think about this one without going into the weeds. I guess I could say I don’t really hate it, but the formula I see is overdone, and I’d like to see some norms broken.
I’m sure I have more than these, but I’ll think more on it later, for now, I’d like to hear your thoughts!
Are there certain tropes that appear frequently in anime that you just can’t stand? Tropes that once you see you’re immediately turned-off from even giving the anime a chance more than an episode? Maybe I’m speaking as a jaded anime fan, but there’s quite a few of these for me— thankfully most are boxed into the genres they often inhabit, but sometimes I’m not so lucky.
Keep it civil guys! And remember these are all opinions, if there are tropes in here you like someone else doesn’t, feel free to talk it out and discuss differences, but be cool about it, okay? Everyone is allowed to have their own feelings.
I often hate ‘self-insert’ protagonists. I understand the appeal, but it just isn’t for me. I don’t like these because they are often liked by other characters just because they are ‘nice’ with little substance beyond this. Character writing is super important for me to enjoy an anime and this can kill the vibe immediately.
Fanservice. I’m not going into detail on this one, and neither should anyone else, just know it more often than not takes me out of a dramatic story or scene. I just often find it so unnecessary.
Power level being treated as a gag. This is one that’s cropped up recently, mostly in isekai and power fantasies, but occasionally in shounen. Where the protagonist is already super OP, and their Op-ness gets treated as hysterically unbelievable for the gag. (ex. character going, “oh, don’t worry about it, I already leveled the building!” and the rest go “WHAAAAT?!”) I just don’t see this kind of thing as funny at all. It gets old fast to me.
When characters are nothing more than tropes. A little redundant sounding in this thread, but I hate when you can very much tell a character is just a single trope at their core (a tsundere, an airhead, a delinquent etc etc) characters can have these qualities, but I’d really like some more complexity going on than just surface level personality traits!
Normal guy meets extraordinary girl. It’s hard to place my feelings on this one, as more often than not it’s just a formula for a love story, but I’d like to see less gender-roles in play whenever I see this sort of story. It’s hard to think about this one without going into the weeds. I guess I could say I don’t really hate it, but the formula I see is overdone, and I’d like to see some norms broken.
I’m sure I have more than these, but I’ll think more on it later, for now, I’d like to hear your thoughts!