RSS Posted August 3, 2006 Report Share Posted August 3, 2006 76. Hidden Surprises: Anything over 50 feet tall can (and most likely will) conceal or transform into a giant robot / mech. Buildings are especially useful in such cases. The above is from: http://www.earth-2.net/articles/anime-cliches Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo Molinero Posted August 3, 2006 Report Share Posted August 3, 2006 Great stuff as usual. No much more can be said, but it it's amusing as hell. My faorite one... 94. America Sucks: All Americans in animes are loud, stupid, brutish, unrefined, violent, smelly and generally just unpleasant. They are also completely expendable in any large-scale battle. Yesh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James D. Posted August 3, 2006 Report Share Posted August 3, 2006 Great stuff as usual. No much more can be said, but it it's amusing as hell. My faorite one... 94. America Sucks: All Americans in animes are loud, stupid, brutish, unrefined, violent, smelly and generally just unpleasant. They are also completely expendable in any large-scale battle. Yesh! It's funny. That was the very last one I thought of when I was completing the article. (I wound up shuffling them around a bit when proofreading it.) And when I thought of it, I was like, "How the FUCK did I forget this up until now???" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted August 5, 2006 Report Share Posted August 5, 2006 86. The Law of Obsolete Power: No matter how strong a given character gets, there is always another level of power beyond that which the character has currently attained. And once they achieve this insane power level, it will become useless after roughly four episodes. Thus, the Möbius strip of pointless powering-up continues Dragonball Z in a nutshell. Very funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxPower Posted August 13, 2006 Report Share Posted August 13, 2006 11. The Center of the Universe Principle: Everything that is worth your attention takes place in Tokyo. If there is action that takes place elsewhere, it means that a character is going to be a foreign exchange student in the United States. This makes me laugh because it makes sense doesn't it? All US movies are based in the US, British movies based in England, Bollywood in India, so why wouldn't Anime be based in Japan? Or is that the point of a cliche? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James D. Posted August 14, 2006 Report Share Posted August 14, 2006 11. The Center of the Universe Principle: Everything that is worth your attention takes place in Tokyo. If there is action that takes place elsewhere, it means that a character is going to be a foreign exchange student in the United States. This makes me laugh because it makes sense doesn't it? All US movies are based in the US, British movies based in England, Bollywood in India, so why wouldn't Anime be based in Japan? Or is that the point of a cliche? Well, you have to figure that, obviously. But in anime, everything is Tokyo or Neo Tokyo. Rarely ever is it Nagasaki, or Osaka, or Hokkaido, or whatever. (If by some whim of God it turns out to be Osaka, then it will be about characters from there who speak in horrible Southern U.S.A. dialects. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 I don't really follow anime, but I put my brother onto this column specifically and he laughed along in agreement with much of this. I salute you, James, for making my brother feel like he knows something worthwhile! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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