Anime Cliches

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10. Im hoping this aint true but .... Every third working Salaryman in Japan can't Possibly be a skirt lifting pervert!!!
Sure Porn is generally regaurded as a acceptable passtime in Japan, but isn't that supposed to make them less horny during the day? Obviously not according to anime. The only reason for hot chick to walk across the street or take the subway is so they can be accosted by another no name collared pervert and in turn to be rescued by some sort of teenage hero.
Greatest Culprit in recent memory: Tenshi na Konomiki (every 5th episode is another pervert)



9.Japanese: The ultimate survivors ..... errr, not really!
Japanese manga writers are thoroughly convinced that in case of holocost, alien invasion, or demonic invasion, japan will be the only country left standing. Sure they got alotta pluck holding their islands as they showed us in WWII but mostly it was a lost cause. GET OFF YOURSELVES ALREADY! enjoy some new vistas! You dont even need to kiss up to the evil Americans! Here are 3 nations that got some REAL grit.
Russians: They stopped 2 megalomaniacs from taking their country. First Napolean, then Hitler. They didnt even win through tactical genius or superior technology. They won through blood spent, pure and simple.
Britain: Showed us that Quality always beats quantity by spanking two great "Armadas" first in sea when faced up against the spanish armada, then in the air by stopping the German Luftwaffle in the greatest air battle in history. Always outnumbered, never out spirited.
Arabs: Did you know that the middle east used to be green untill wars raveged the landscape permanently? Well the people still live there, and for the most part, they are still fighting.
Greatest Culprit in Recent Memory: Gunparade March (the world tries nukes on aliens then promptly expires except for japan)



8. Earths Greatest Weapons will be weilded by our children .... IF WE WERE ALL FREAKING NUTS.
There never was, never is, and never will be a time when we will create a super weapon to be piloted only by 13 year olds. I'm sorry, but it aint gonna happen. We can barely get by the thought of giving our 13 year olds paintball guns and we sure as hell aint gonna teach um responsiblity by giving them a 50 ton 10 story large robot that can level cities in a single missle salvo! Im sorry, it just aint gonna happen no matter how amazing these children may or may not be!
Greatest Culprit in Recent Memory: Sokyuu no Fafner (13 year olds with lots of angst no less pilot mystical robots)



7.Lets go off to fairy tale land!!!
Alice in Wonderland is sometimes compared to an extremely long and surreal acid trip. So when I see another pre adolescent get transported to another fairy tale land I grimace a little and when I hear the words "never never land" I only can think of Micheal Jackson. Honestly Mangakas, it's time to stop! (this point includes fanciful underground worlds invisible to the real world, I'm talking to you Tokyo Underground)
Greatest Culprit in Recent Memory: Inuyasha (After ranama the creator had a chance to create something truly origional .... he didn't!)



6.Japan has the most toughest gangsters in organized school history!!!
Kind of hard to beleive considering people kill themselves over failed college exams in Japan. If there is anything we know in America, it's that little aisian kids wearing gangster colors, rapping, and swearing their heads off is only one thing: DAMN FUNNY! It was pretty novel to see rough and tough japanese kids back in the day, like in Slam Dunk, but I think the jig is up already and this particular cliche should be put to rest.
Greatest Culprit in Recent Memory: Midori no Hibi (main character beats up gangsters from other schools constantly, apprently they are all just wussbags, HEY JUST LIKE REAL LIFE)



5.Americans in the future are all self absorbed, insensitive, and power hungry!
Cmon I don't need you guys to kiss up to us but as an American, it's disturbing to see people think that we are gonna go the way of the Dodo in the near future. Heck we get enough flack from AMERICAN sci-fi writers as it is. If american somehow does manage to survive we are always trying to cover things up or masscring civilians. Puhleeze Japan, stop acting like the ethnic purgings in Africa are that much more bearable than our screw ups just because we are embarrased about it and they are not! (And you know in reality you love us Japan, and WE LOVE YOU!)
Greatest Culprit in recent Memory: Ghost In the Shell: Standalone Complex (the americans appear in the 1st season twice, and they both aren't glowing reviews)



4.The human body is the most effecient design for future military vehcles!
There is a reason why planes,subs,spacecraft,cars are shaped the way they are. It's because it's the most efficient design for the task they built for. The human body is horribly inefficient, and the only reason we stand on 2 legs was because it frees our hands to do other things, NOT because it allows us to fly, swim, or even travel on land more efficiently. So it is laughable from a design standpoint to see large man shaped robots as the kings of the battlefield. Lets see something truly magnificent and strange in military technology.
Greatest Culprit in recent Memory: Kenran Butoh Sai (If there is anyplace where design is important to increase mobility its IN THE WATER!)



3.Aliens don't just look like humans, THEY ARE ALSO DAMN HOT!!
Look in live action sci-fi shows, the reason all aliens look human is because it's damn expensive to make them look like anything else. I mean in star trek it's alot cheaper to put someone in a rubber costume than make a completely computer generated or animatronic main character alien not to mention the fact that if you dont have a monstrous budget this particular character would look like complete crap next to their real life counterparts. BUT THIS IS ANIMATION. If there is any place to make cool alien characters that REALLY LOOK ALIEN, its in Anime and if it's possible ... please make the most horrendous looking one the GOOD GUY rather than the BAD GUY for a change. This is just a case of complete lapse of creativity.
Greatest culprit in recent memory:WOW i cant think of any at the moment, maybe i can have a little back up in this area, I'm pretty sure it's true though, if not, let me just say i was really grabbing at ideas by this point to reach my goal of 10!



2.Whats better than a sexy hero? A HAREM OF SEXY HEROS!
I'm sorry, this particular cliche is especially disturbing becuase frankly even I dig it sometimes. I mean they are sexy and already half dressed......the only next step to REALLY please the fans is to make them all open lesbiens with eachother (they would all have to be lesbiens because we already have animes where just one of the group has acute homosexual tendencies). Let's just take a tiny step backwards here ... boys can be heros too after all! AS A MALE I DEMAND EQUAL RIGHTS!!!!
Greatest culprit in recent memoryivergence EVE (Look at them, I MEAN JUST LOOK AT THEM ... oh GAWD stop staring will ya?)



1.Japanese History is the only history worth exploring!
This brings me back to old 80's anime. From an old family friend who went to Japan, he said that in the 80s there was a heavy fascination with European culture which is easily refelected in their Anime's. Instead of using that to explore other cultures, like perhaps obscure African or south American folk stories and histories. Animes has actually regressed into, ITS ALL ABOUT JAPAN. Frankly ive been really getting into those film festivals where they showcase foreighn hits. There is some damn good stuff out there, its just a matter of finding them and then putting a good anime spin to it.
Greatest culprit in recent memory:Samurai Champloo (yet another timeless classic in Japanese fuedal period, OH BOY!)

Gw perbaiki sedikit nomer 1. Masalahnya bukan 'Japanese History is the only history worth exploring!'. Masalah sebenarnya : IT'S ALL ABOUT JAPAN. Kasih tau gw pendapat kalian soal ini :

1. Manusia terkuat berasal dari Jepang (Hanma Yujiro)

2. Omnipotent dari jepang dan Tuhan pencipta alam semesta dari jepang (Anime Tenchi Muyo)

3. Purgatory isinya orang Jepang doang


No no no. Gw bukannya mau racist. I love Japan. I mean, apa ga bisa lebih universal dikit? Purgatory isinya orang Jepang doang sama sekali ga masuk akal. Di Tenchi Muyo, ada 3 dewi pencipta alam semesta yang punya panggilan 'Chousins'. Tenchi Masaki jadi omnipotent yang lebih kuat dari mereka. Hanma Yujiro saat umur 14 tahun mengalahkan para pasukan Amerika sendirian di perang vietnam, dan bertangan kosong.

well, I was expecting he would mention something like ...

1. tokoh utama pasti bisa segala2nya dan magnet utama bagi cewek2 di universe anime/manga itu, tidak perduli seberapa ancur muka, fisik, atau otaknya.
2. tokoh utama selalu jadi yang terbaik, terhebat, terawesome, padahal sebenarnya mereka ga sehebat itu kalau mau dipikir lebih rasional lagi
3. cewek2nya pasti ada yang heboh banget, ceroboh banget, dan cool banget
4. adegan pervert = pertanda jodoh

FireCyclops wrote:

well, I was expecting he would mention something like ...

1. tokoh utama pasti bisa segala2nya dan magnet utama bagi cewek2 di universe anime/manga itu, tidak perduli seberapa ancur muka, fisik, atau otaknya.
2. tokoh utama selalu jadi yang terbaik, terhebat, terawesome, padahal sebenarnya mereka ga sehebat itu kalau mau dipikir lebih rasional lagi
3. cewek2nya pasti ada yang heboh banget, ceroboh banget, dan cool banget
4. adegan pervert = pertanda jodoh

1. Kebanyakan anime zaman sekarang emang kayak gitu dengan tujuan memuaskan para otaku. Biasanya otaku memposisikan dirinya sebagai pemeran utama setiap kali nonton anime yang beginian. check Princess Lover, Infinite Stratos, of even Shuffle!. Pemeran utamanya cowok yang ga ada bagus-bagusnya n menyedihkan dalam segi kepribadian dihadapan orang macam Kenshiro atau Guts yang notabene punya kepribadian.


2. Agreed. I don't see anything great from someone like Arima Teppei or Ichika Orimura. Both of them are normal boy with little to no personality tapi cewek2 nempel sama mereka terus. Kenapa? Apa karena mereka cowok tampan n punya kepribadian yang tidak menarik (bukan berarti jelek), maka cewek2 nempel sama mereka? It's a complete PIS.


3. Ceweknya kadang ceroboh dan berujung ke adegan panty shot atau adegan2 ecchi lainnya. Again, ini untuk memuaskan otaku. Sux.


4. Duh... I don't even know how to comment this. But this is true...