Common Tropes in Anime (that you would do away with)

Er.. what's so special about it? I just saw the opening theme and it has some guy grabbing her boob and she smacks him with a big hammer, which doesn't exactly fill me with hope. But I'm not really into Japanese school comedies/romances, so I probably wouldn't be able to get into it even without that stuff.
 
You asked for a show with a well-written female lead that wasn't eye candy, and I gave one to you. And you should be smart enough not to judge a series based on its intro, because sometimes those can be misleading. There is very little (if anything) sexual in the show. OK, but if you're going to avoid a show simply because of what genre it falls under, you're unnecessarily limiting yourself.
 
For the sake of argument, I guess I'll take your word for it. Though how many more examples are there; in action shows, no less? It still seems to be an unfortunately common trope.

Well, I don't like comedy shows. I prefer action shows with a developing plot. That's all.
 
Count me in as another for excessive exposition. It's not deep if you tell the viewer absolutely everything.

Also, any dialogue that goes like:
"He's using the space laser!"
"Space laser?"
"That's right. A space laser."
"So, that's a space laser..."

Top off that with way more flasrabroadacks than needed (sometimes from within the SAME EPISODE), and the tropes used for "padding" bug me the most. It's one thing to take things slowly, but when there's less content in a half-hour episode than there ought to be in ten minutes someone is doing something wrong.
 
This. People, stop being damn lazy and explain your opinions. We haven't had these millions of years of evolution just to let TV Tropes do discussions for us. Articulate your point, don't just assume we're all obsessed with that site.
 
Well, I probably know where the Kaleido Star reference especially comes from (Leon in season 2), but I really don't think Sora deserves to be in this category. True, she usually doesn't get angry at her critics--she just proves them wrong. I think that says so much more when all's said and done.

Also, she's not above talking back when it comes to advocating for herself or defending somebody else. The show has no shortage of "I know I can do this!" or "you're wrong!" or "please let us try!" moments. Real doormats probably roll over when others tell them that they can't do something, but Sora doesn't do that.

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Count me on the anti-tropes list. The appeal is lost on me, from what I've sen here and there a few are just something that a show is doing that couldn't possibly be defined as an actual general cliche. I personally also greatly prefer seeing things explained and discussed instead of anybody just posting a link to the tropes website.
 
Anything overly sugary. I mean, why? What's the point? Why did Satoshi Kon have to make a 13 epe series saying Japan's love affair with all things sugary and sweet is idiotic? Really, knock it off Japan.
 
Yeah, I don't mind stuff like that in magical girl anime but there is such a thing as a limit.

I tried to watch Pita Ten once but I couldn't get past like 2 episodes. Yes, this Pita Ten
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_E8AGi2RABM
 
I would get rid of Unnessecary useage/overuseage of fanservice/echhi content.

unnessecary use of mashocistic violence.

..... and finally killing of characters without good reason (wich rarly happens in anime, but still.)
 
To me, these problems seem related, if not one-in-the-same. It seems a lot of animes don't trust the viewer to figure out what's going on. They seem to think the viewer must be show,, and then told (and occassionally retold) what is going on. Then told of the signifigance of what's going on. And then shown every character's reaction to the event. And then told of the signifigance of a certain character's reaction....Okay, I'm probably overdoing this, but you get the idea. Contrast this to a lot of American Superhero shows, which mostly seem comfortable letting the viewer figure out how/why things happened. (Magneto pulls satelites out of orbit--no explanation. The prototype Sentinel's first fight--no explanation. Cyclops takes off his visor--no explation, just a one-liner. Superman heat-vision's villain's head--three whole worRAB of explation! )



I agree with this one. For a long time, it was my biggest beef with anime. Among other things, the mouth flap casues the anime face to completely freeze while they're speaking. (Or to stay on the same loop, in a higher-bugdet anime) No change in facial expression, no other movement, its just...gah. It looks so fake...



Oh, that last one has been soooooooo overused. And its so pointless to begin with....
 
-Relentless adheration to the source material (See: 99.9% of all shounen series based on comics out there)
-Females being terribly written characters and the whole 'women should be seen, not heard' (See 99.9% of all shows)
-Fanservice in general
-Pointless filler episodes
-Outlandish comedy/Superdeformation stuffed into a show trying to be serious (Full Metal Alchemist, Trigun, etc)
-Not sure if it counts, but giant robots in general. I find them to be too over the top, silly, and boring.
 
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