AnathemicOne
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I'm surprised nobody mentioned the toast in the mouth/late for school trope yet.
Is that Rei? Evangelion 4.44 already out?
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Weird Recurring Things in Anime
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Is that Rei? Evangelion 4.44 already out?
Sakura Trick
Aaron-Lagann
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It's from one of the last episodes where they played out a scenario in which everything was a standard anime to convince Shinji to stay in the LCL. Most of it was reused footage but that was one of the new bits.
FlutterPuffs
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The toast in mouth is a homage to old shoujos.
m_shortpants
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That I can understand. It's an easy juxtoposition-the chains of school and responsibility vs freedom of the outside world.
Or something.
Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou
If you love your youth, you should watched it.
GameGuru59
Banned
One of the best commercials Adult Swim ever did.
Aaron-Lagann
Banned
It's weird because it's almost like it's saying "Hey, don't watch this."
That t-shirt thing always bothered me in the Wild ARMs opening.
Bomber Bob
Banned
middle school girl lesbing out.
totally weird
totally weird
Well, that would make sense except it just wouldn't match every single context it's shown up in e.g. the symbolism wouldn't be such a priority in something like Evangelion or Haruhi Suzumiya.
It's like applying the Oranges motif in The Godfather to every film out there.
This guy yo
Giolon
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Dude what? Toast is great. I'm eating toast right now (but not running late to school).
BeatnikGunsoo
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I think it has to do more with the way German words sound as in sounds cool like the random English word they usually throw in for attacks and what not
Monochromaticx
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Hahahaha I am dying
MikeHattsu
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WrenchNinja
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This is bullshit. It's butter side up.
omg did she die?
m_shortpants
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yeah I was just bullshiting
Eh, at least it's fun to parody this stuff if you understand German.
"Sie sind das Essen und wir sind die Gabel."
i believe that was their attitude towards anime back then.
pieatorium
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Its not just anime thing. Characters can't look out the window if they're not at a window seat.
SuperChoco
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something something target audiences. If you look comparative to Western animation, there is also quite a few shows that take place in a school setting. It's an extremely safe and easy setting to do.
I remember having that exact seat one time in a class. I was surrounded on all sides by girls. They constantly would pull me into their conversations and joke that I found them annoying. Turned out to be a great semester. Though my group partner I would later find out committed suicide. I always think back to that class when I see these scenes in shows.
AnathemicOne
Banned
Germany and Japan had established relations before WW2
ThreePiMatt
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Amnesia. Fucking everyone has amnesia all the goddamn time. But its very specific amnesia because the only thing they forget is their childhood friend. And they always seem to remember just as they're developing a relationship with someone else.
computers putin'
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I'm in fucking tears lmao
How do I never notice this D:Are side mouths still a thing in anime?
You just ruined anime for me :-(
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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Different language conventions? It's understandable that one would find that annoying when it's put back to back like that, I get the impression they were making fun of it in that video.
There's actually something else that people were complaining about a while ago, where one character is giving an explanation while the other will periodically repeat a word that the explainer has said. People assumed that the creators thought that the audience was dumb and needed things repeated to them in order for them to understand but it's apparently an actual language convention that doesn't exist in English.
That's why these kinds of quirks don't annoy me, because since English is not Japanese and Japanese is not English, I expect there to be idiosyncrasies that do not exist in the other.
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
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is just dont like it that they seem to use the very same 3-5 voice actors for fucking everything under the rising sun
DiipuSurotu
Banned
The problem is many shows just blatantly copy each other. It's by otakus, for otakus. Since anime is the only medium they've consumed, they just recycle the same tropes ad infinitim. It reminds me of the ether from Miyazaki about how people in the anime industry need to observe real people.
This isn't related to censorship, but has more to do with appeasing the fanbase.
It's why you'll see more partial nudity/nudity/innuendo than kissing.
TomcatTheLion
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I've been watching anime long enough that not seeing these things would probably be weird.
Weird... recurring things in anime?
What's this anime?
As opposed almost all games involved Troy Baker, Nolan North, Jennifer Hale or animated series involving Johnny Boch wong, Crispin Freeman, Tara Strong.etc Come on man the west is equally guilty as this.
Baconsaurus Rex
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Its not just anime thing. Characters can't look out the window if they're not at a window seat.
is that desk made for ants
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Oh christ this. Actually just about any "comedy" signifier in anime.
ReturnOfTheRAT
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Are hilarious
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