Comments on: Top Ten Cliches in Japanese Anime

By: Space cowboy

Space cowboy — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:43:57 +0000

Dude you need to watch some less mainstream anime, try finding a cliche in.

The eyes and Hair can be explained easier than you’d imagine…its animation dude disney do the same thing why cant the japanese?

Take your eyes of the 10 current mainstream anime series and start looking elsewhere you may find someone … (god forbid) original…0_0

By: AtlasTurtle

AtlasTurtle — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:08:50 +0000

A lot of what you mentioned here is the style of anime. The eyes and hair are some of the things anime is known for. Speaking of the hair, just because anime is from the japanese doesn’t mean that the characters are always japanese. Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad, Love Hina, and Earth Girl Arjuna are some I can think of off the top of my head that aren’t all japanese. You should do more researching and redo your little list. One out of ten girls have cat ears or small horns? That’s really invalid.

By: Spink

Spink — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:03:57 +0000

Mecha cliche.

constant thrust = constant velocity
lasers travel slower than light
somebody singing can take down an enemy armada
there is sound in space? (except in akira briefly)
inertia has no effect. (pulling a 10,000g turn will not turn you into poo)
more to come but I can’t think of any more off the top of my head.

By: ingrid

ingrid — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:59:53 +0000

you forgot a cliche whenever a character is happy she/he will close their eyes and smile.

By: Guignolle

Guignolle — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:21:03 +0000

I think you forgot that the hero and co are from 10 to 17 years old and that after a good beating they look like they rise form the dead and kick the villain’s ass. The super smart brat who resolves the unresolvable…

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:49:08 +0000

If the hero travels in a ensemble group, they usually consist of the following. LOL. BLEACH TO THE POINT.

The most cliched anime around I think is Bleach. 8 out of 10 of these apply to it. But hey, what the hell is wrong with cliches like big boobs and super large weapons?

By: Kenshiro

Kenshiro — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:47:57 +0000

And now if your talking about some of the best gundam series i think the mostly would be: gundam wing, zeta gundam, gundam X and the movie: Char’s counterattack.

By: Kenshiro

Kenshiro — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:45:17 +0000

Isn’t transformers a japanese anime to begin with? i mean i used to beleive it wasn’t but after i knew how old it was and seen the headmasters series in japanese which ofcourse had some trash language aswell but was cut from the english series as well as the changes in some names like [Optimus] is actually [Convoy]

By: simon

simon — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:18:28 +0000

jason - okay, okay, let me go and watch a few mecha shows and i’ll do a top ten mecha anime cliches, ‘K?

ferdaus - oops, you’re right about darkstalkers. I keep getting the two mixed up. re handiplasts - the bandages come up immediately after they get beaten up!

IX - Nobita! Nobita!

By: IX

IX — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:22:09 +0000

watch Doraemon. The best of the best.