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Weird Recurring Things in Anime

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Breloom

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When they run like this in shounen anime
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Abinash117

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Haly said:
It's something like, their high school is our college, and their college would be our post-grad.

And no one makes movies about post grads unless their name is John Nash.
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I guess it can not be helped...


I don't like it when some characters always point at people with their fingers or sometimes at nothing..
 
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Crossing Eden

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cajunator said:
It just is. Its cute.
Nope I dont see how its a bad thing.
There are even shows where guys act like pets.
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I had a friend once who did that all the time to women. Told me it was his way of telling them they were cute. They all told me that they hated it whenever I asked them about that. It's very demeaning. Women are not pets. Also here's a weird recurring thing. Same hair color as the eyes and very strange hair colors. Why do so many have odd hair colors? It makes more sense in fantasy settings but the majority of school things have extremely odd hair colors for seemingly no reason.
 
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enanogrande

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emiliano said:
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I can't find other examples but since Misato i've seen this scene in many, many others anime
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Never understood this. Do Japanese people scream out like this when they drink beer IRL? I've been drinking with some Japanese friends before, are they holding back their natural reactions from embarrassment over how I'll react?
 
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Valkerionseven

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enanogrande said:
Never understood this. Do Japanese people scream out like this when they drink beer IRL? I've been drinking with some Japanese friends before, are they holding back their natural reactions from embarrassment over how I'll react?
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Nah its a drinking a refreshing beer thing. You see it in live action movies all over the world too. Just an over reaction is all, especially in anime.

And its definitely been around way before Eva.
 
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Tuck

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Drencrom said:
Y'know what, I'm fucking sick and tired of almost every anime having high school kids as protagonists too.

Why do so many animes revolve around high schoolers? Is being an adult so fucking depressing over there that even anime shows that are aimed to adult viewers is about high school, so that they can reminisce over that shit or what? I just can't understand why so many animes revolve around high school kids, but very few about actual capable young adults in their early 20s. Almost none of them actually portrait a realistic high school environment, story or characters either. The universes and environments are different but it's still about people in HS. I know a lot of shows are aimed at kids so it makes sense for a lot of them to be the same age etc, but it's ridiculous how prevalent it is even when the shows aren't aimed for young teens.
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Ugh this so much. Can't stand it.
 
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cajunator

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Crossing Eden said:
I had a friend once who did that all the time to women. Told me it was his way of telling them they were cute. They all told me that they hated it whenever I asked them about that. It's very demeaning. Women are not pets. Also here's a weird recurring thing. Same hair color as the eyes and very strange hair colors. Why do so many have odd hair colors? It makes more sense in fantasy settings but the majority of school things have extremely odd hair colors for seemingly no reason.
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Anime is just fun a lot of times and the colors are part of that. Theres also nothing wrong with patting a character on the head. The problem here is trying to apply anime ideals to real life. If your friend actually does that he is probably a fedora neckbeard who doesnt respect women or something but anime is not reality or anything close.
I have a great sense of how to act in reality as opposed to what I see in anime. If someone acts that way to actual people it is not anime's fault.
I dont pat people on the head in reality (I do hug everybody though). In a lot of cases, the girls in anime do act petlike. Some of them have animal ears and tails. Its all very cute to me. I enjoy the lightheartedness of it, especially if work was stressful.
 
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Crossing Eden

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cajunator said:
Anime is just fun a lot of times and the colors are part of that. Theres also nothing wrong with patting a character on the head. The problem here is trying to apply anime ideals to real life. If your friend actually does that he is probably a fedora neckbeard who doesnt respect women or something but anime is not reality or anything close.
I have a great sense of how to act in reality as opposed to what I see in anime. If someone acts that way to actual people it is not anime's fault.
I dont pat people on the head in reality (I do hug everybody though). In a lot of cases, the girls in anime do act petlike. Some of them have animal ears and tails. Its all very cute to me. I enjoy the lightheartedness of it, especially if work was stressful.
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I always assume that the strange hair colors are just a way to avoid the samey face syndrome that plagues a shit ton of anime. It's really easy to have an interesting color palette without just slapping as many colors on there as possible. I find it very hard to relate to characters who act nothing like actual people would, in any sort of media. It's part of the reason why I pretty much stopped watching anime altogether except for a few exceptions when the characters do act (and look) more realistic or if the show is GOAT status like FMAB. In the past three years i've had way more fun and laughs watching CN cartoons.
 
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cajunator

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Crossing Eden said:
I always assume that the strange hair colors are just a way to avoid the samey face syndrome that plagues a shit ton of anime. It's really easy to have an interesting color palette without just slapping as many colors on there as possible. I find it very hard to relate to characters who act nothing like actual people would, in any sort of media. It's part of the reason why I pretty much stopped watching anime altogether except for a few exceptions when the characters do act (and look) more realistic or if the show is GOAT status like FMAB. In the past three years i've had way more fun and laughs watching CN cartoons.
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I never can relate to anyone in anime or movies. Im too weird.
I dont self insert myself into the role of a character either so those blank slate guy characters are just boring.
 
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Droplet

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cajunator said:
It just is. Its cute.
Nope I dont see how its a bad thing.
There are even shows where guys act like pets.
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I have a male friend who does this to me and other girls. I mind it mostly because he treats me like a child and gets upset when I do things that might contradict that. It definitely feels demeaning.
 
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Bold One

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VanillaCakeIsBurning said:
I wonder if there are any threads on Japanese or (insert country here) forums titled "Weird Recurring things in western shows" or something similar. I was also wondering what would happen if someone made a thread like that here.

But then I realized it probably wouldn't get that many posts since this forum is mostly North American I think. There's nothing weird to point out about what aligns with your default perception of what's normal. While it's easy to point out what differs in the media from a country that has a different enough culture/media culture than your own.

I guess that's why I can't sympathize with people who seemingly get angry at particular mundane things in anime. I think it helps your perspective to entertain the thought that there are people who find things you find normal to be weird or strange as well.
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Look no one is trying to genuinely 'diss' anime, in fact I think you would have to like anime and watch an awful lot of it to really pick up these 'weird' recurring themes and being from a different culture makes it easier to spot these.

I think it would be a great idea to do weird recurring things in western media
 
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Messofanego

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cajunator said:
No its just adorable.
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cajunator said:
It just is. Its cute.
Nope I dont see how its a bad thing.
There are even shows where guys act like pets.
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cajunator said:
Anime is just fun a lot of times and the colors are part of that. Theres also nothing wrong with patting a character on the head. The problem here is trying to apply anime ideals to real life. If your friend actually does that he is probably a fedora neckbeard who doesnt respect women or something but anime is not reality or anything close.
I have a great sense of how to act in reality as opposed to what I see in anime. If someone acts that way to actual people it is not anime's fault.
I dont pat people on the head in reality (I do hug everybody though). In a lot of cases, the girls in anime do act petlike. Some of them have animal ears and tails. Its all very cute to me. I enjoy the lightheartedness of it, especially if work was stressful.
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cajunator said:
I never can relate to anyone in anime or movies. Im too weird.
I dont self insert myself into the role of a character either so those blank slate guy characters are just boring.
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Oh so you totally detach any piece of fiction from any relevance to reality. I think they inform each other but interesting to hear the opposite. I can respect that.
 
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The Technomancer

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Messofanego said:
Oh so you totally detach any piece of fiction from any relevance to reality. I think they inform each other but interesting to hear the opposite. I can respect that.
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Which...is kind of weird to me. I don't actually get how that works, or how it could work. Like the whole reason that any fiction, animation included, works on an emotional level (even just "I enjoyed that") is because it connects to some conceptualization we have that's inherently based in out experience of the real world. How can something be "cute" if the lines on the screen that compose it don't signify anything?
 
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AniHawk

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another one is a bit broader, but it's explaining the joke. as in, the funny thing happens, and then a character will say out loud exactly the thing i just saw and/or reiterate the punchline.
 
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JNA

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Probably the one anime trope that truly pisses me off is the constant amount of characters that look up at the sky/ceiling and their hair suddenly blows back. EVEN INDOORS! Seriously stop it! We get it, you have super special awesome sexy looking hair. You don't need to always add in that hair blowing to put emphasis on it. Just stop it!

AND what the fuck are they always looking up for? What the hell do they see up there? LOOK AT THE PERSON WITH YOUR DAMN EYES NOT UP DAMN IT! XD

The other little thing is what's with people always running in anime openings? Seriously where are they running? Why are they running? Are they running away from something or someone? Are they running TO something or someone? STOP IT AND SLOW DOWN!
 
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Zukuu

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Lying on your bed and pondering about stuff during the day. No one does that irl, but EVERY FUCKING character in animes does it.
 
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Rice-Eater

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I've seen this in some live action Japanese movies as well so maybe it's not just a anime thing, but a Japanese thing. But what I'm talking about is the extreme cowardice or inability to stand up for yourself that I've seen far too often in anime. Lets say a cop accidentally gets the main character for something they didn't do. Instead of explaining the fucking situation they'll just say something like "It wasn't me, it really wasn't" or they'll just shut up and take it. Same thing happens when certain characters get bullied, chewed out by there boss, etc. It keeps happening and I'm confused why these characters refused to speak up for themselves or take the time to explain whatever it is that happened.
 
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