what grinds your gears in anime?

[Kyle Nuva]

characters are stupid, slow, forgetful and blind at the worst times

they forget they have powers

the strongest may be an idiot, looking at you jojo and many more

yelling for no reason, not when they are angry but just yelling

brain dead clueless when a monster is right there but thinking its a harmless pet
that was a cat but its true form is a dog. looking at you, magic knights rayearth

asspull powers

plot armor

friendship is magic, oh the villains have friends? tough ♥♥♥♥, you dont get that benefit. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

powers, level ups and transformations NOT EARNED BUT GIVEN BECAUSE GOTTA MAKE IT BABY MODE FOR A MAGICAL GIRL ANIME

false transformations, i didnt see her sword change at all, instead it grew two more inches. lame

when a character or thing exists that can do everything but stop the enemy........

characters speaking in riddles

having no reaction, ♥♥♥♥ and late to super late

recaps and recaps in every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ episode

flash backs, flashbacks in flashbacks and filler

[The nameless Gamer]

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Publicado originalmente por The nameless Commander:

You are watching the wrong anime then. Try something for mature audiences.

I don't like harem anime either,

They are not the ones I meant. Try something like "Psycho-pass", "Ghost in the Shell", "Jin-Roh: The wolf brigade", "Perfect Blue", "Texhnolyze", "Kino's Journey", "Monster"...

[Xero_Daxter]

When the villain waste too much time resulting in the main character getting back up.

[Hobbit XIII]

Publicado originalmente por The nameless Commander:

Publicado originalmente por ⛧:

I don't like harem anime either,

They are not the ones I meant. Try something like "Psycho-pass", "Ghost in the Shell", "Jin-Roh: The wolf brigade", "Perfect Blue", "Texhnolyze", "Kino's Journey", "Monster"...

Perfect Blue was troubling. Good but troubling.

Publicado originalmente por Xero_Daxter:

When the villain waste too much time resulting in the main character getting back up.

Do not insult every awesome movie I have ever seen!

[Sixtyfivekills]

Is there a name of the genre of "popular girl falls in love with some socially awkward random guy"? It was called "dress up darling" or something like that, some blonde chick and some dude who makes dolls.



Feels like a self insert to me. At least with harem it tends to get so ridiculous to the point where I imagine author laughing his ass off (Love Flops, I've no idea what the hell I watched but my companions and I had a blast, one even getting emotional near the end LMAO), but this? I don't know, just doesn't feel right with me.

[Xero_Daxter]

Here is another one. When the evil villain explains his power and his weaknesses.

[The nameless Gamer]

Publicado originalmente por Sixtyfivekills:

Is there a name of the genre of "popular girl falls in love with some socially awkward random guy"? It was called "dress up darling" or something like that, some blonde chick and some dude who makes dolls.



Feels like a self insert to me. At least with harem it tends to get so ridiculous to the point where I imagine author laughing his ass off (Love Flops, I've no idea what the hell I watched but my companions and I had a blast, one even getting emotional near the end LMAO), but this? I don't know, just doesn't feel right with me.

The author of "My dress-up darling" is a FEMALE. Also, it partially breaks the trope as the girl is NOT denying her feelings. Neither is Gojo, the male. It's more disbelief that someone like Kitagawa could be interested in someone like him. But "My dress-up darling" is DEFINITELY not one of those rom-coms where both sides are in serious denial of their own feelings.

[Sixtyfivekills]

Publicado originalmente por The nameless Commander:

Publicado originalmente por Sixtyfivekills:

Is there a name of the genre of "popular girl falls in love with some socially awkward random guy"? It was called "dress up darling" or something like that, some blonde chick and some dude who makes dolls.



Feels like a self insert to me. At least with harem it tends to get so ridiculous to the point where I imagine author laughing his ass off (Love Flops, I've no idea what the hell I watched but my companions and I had a blast, one even getting emotional near the end LMAO), but this? I don't know, just doesn't feel right with me.

The author of "My dress-up darling" is a FEMALE. Also, it partially breaks the trope as the girl is NOT denying her feelings. Neither is Gojo, the male. It's more disbelief that someone like Kitagawa could be interested in someone like him. But "My dress-up darling" is DEFINITELY not one of those rom-coms where both sides are in serious denial of their own feelings.

Guess it takes time, but at a time we were looking for something that hooked us from the very first episode.

There was that, some blue haired girl with an eyepatch that has such a long name I can't bother looking it up, and mentioned Love Flops which ended up being our favorite.


I am not really familiar with a genre either, only similar ones I watched were Clannad (adored After Story), Angel Beats (was fine I guess, ending was not effective at all however) and Toradora (heard the PSP game was really insane so I wanted to watch it, it was okay).

[❤ Sly Succubus ❤]

I might ruffle some feathers here, but my biggest dislike in anime is when the hero starts out overpowered. Now I don't mean someone like Saitama as he's literally a trope in of itself. I more so mean heroes/villains/whoever begins in the story as already maxed out.

For example: Seven Deadly Sins, mainly Melionas.

While I enjoyed the anime, I disliked how Melionas was always over powered, he's nothing like the rest of his team nor his lover as his literal curse is immortality, he literally can't die so despite being literally nearly killed countless times, he was never in any form of danger to start with, and to top that off, his only increase of power was literally going full demon-mode which frankly didn't do much beyond make him more intelligent in the battlefield.

This is a trope that is not as such, related to Goku or members in Dragonball, while granted some of them start out overpowered, its not the issue that they are overpowered, rather is the issue that we simply don't get to see how they became that strong and sure, in some cases in Dragonball we don't get to see that but typically thats fine because those people are not going to be on screen for long anyways.

I think this is best displayed in two situations. Sword Art Online and the prior example.

Now in Sword Art Online sure, Kirito is not overpowered at the start but every time we see him, he's already several steps ahead of everyone else and he's never underpowered, and the only two times he was in any form of actual danger was when he decided to fight an administrator of the game which, at that point he was asking to be killed anyways, and when he got swarmed by more soldiers then he could solo which, again, is like asking to be killed. And we never see him grow, each time we see him, he's already grew a new power. For example between the time he kills the first boss, up to the 42th floor boss (AKA the Goat Demon Boss) he's already mastered duel wielding from some other person who we never see nor is mentioned in the books or show and he's mastered the skill to the point that he literally solo's a boss that an entire raid party were unable to even outright damage.

There's being overpowered, and then being overpowered with no explaination. Like I will bring up for example: Alucard from Hellsing. Yes Alucard is strong and overpowered and he starts that way out of the gate but thats because in the anime he starts that way, in his books, we learn of his history, see him grow and master his power, so in that case, we already actually DO get to see him grow, its not on the screen sure, its in a book but I have the Sword Art online books and they don't display how Kirito gets his powers, he just automatically suddenly has a duel wielding skill that can instantly kill any boss when he feels like it.

[Jolly Devil]

Fan service. I just don't get how z cup breast and an hourglass waist is sexy. Or showing half naked women in battle makes it better. Just go fap on Porn Hub if you want to see that stuff. Several good anime have been ruined by the perversion of certain type of men making this crap.

Also any time a bad guy suddenly becomes good bc the main character said so. Obito killed hundreds if not thousands in that war, and Naruto is like, he was a good guy in the end. No he wasn't. He was a bad guy simp who did a TON of evil stuff in Shippuden. So ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid.

[The nameless Gamer]

Publicado originalmente por Sixtyfivekills:

Publicado originalmente por The nameless Commander:

The author of "My dress-up darling" is a FEMALE. Also, it partially breaks the trope as the girl is NOT denying her feelings. Neither is Gojo, the male. It's more disbelief that someone like Kitagawa could be interested in someone like him. But "My dress-up darling" is DEFINITELY not one of those rom-coms where both sides are in serious denial of their own feelings.

Guess it takes time, but at a time we were looking for something that hooked us from the very first episode.

There was that, some blue haired girl with an eyepatch that has such a long name I can't bother looking it up, and mentioned Love Flops which ended up being our favorite.


I am not really familiar with a genre either, only similar ones I watched were Clannad (adored After Story), Angel Beats (was fine I guess, ending was not effective at all however) and Toradora (heard the PSP game was really insane so I wanted to watch it, it was okay).

Slice of life is generally a slow-burning genre. It has to be, since its main appeal is not any sort of action or grand scheme... just relationships and dynamics between characters. If you want an anime/manga which is an analytical deconstruction of the slice of life/romance genre, give "Scum's wish" a try.

[Nightlight]

Saying it "grinds my gears" may be overstating it, but I'm tired of tsunderes. They're way too overused, and a lot of times they just come across as abusers that I think the male MC should be far away from.

Granted, there are less crazy tsunderes that don't across like that, and I think part of my problem is that my perspective has been colored by witnessing female on male abuse in real life, making me more sensitive to tsunderes than what I probably should be.

This isn't me saying tsunderes shouldn't exist or anything like that. If the people making anime want tsunderes in them then they're free to do so, and if you like tsunderes then more power to you, I'm just tired of them.

[Rio]

Publicado originalmente por Nightlight:

Saying it "grinds my gears" may be overstating it, but I'm tired of tsunderes. They're way too overused, and a lot of times they just come across as abusers that I think the male MC should be far away from.

Granted, there are less crazy tsunderes that don't across like that, and I think part of my problem is that my perspective has been colored by witnessing female on male abuse in real life, making me more sensitive to tsunderes than what I probably should be.

This isn't me saying tsunderes shouldn't exist or anything like that. If the people making anime want tsunderes in them then they're free to do so, and if you like tsunderes then more power to you, I'm just tired of them.

Theres a lotta guy tsunderes. I'd almost say most guys are

[Devsman]

Publicado originalmente por Xero_Daxter:

Here is another one. When the evil villain explains his power and his weaknesses.

Or how about this one:

Villain: You know that one fundamental truth that the whole story to this point has been based on? It's WRONG!

Hero: Ha, you think you can fool me with a ridiculous story like that? Bad guys ALWAYS lie! That's what makes them bad!

Hero's friend: ... Well, actually...

[Kyle Nuva]

Publicado originalmente por Sigma957:

Characters are all starting to look the same. Except in certain shows.

Also generic looking GUNDAMs that looked slapped together (and where the hell are their feet). Also fights go on way too long (Dragonball syndrome).

gundams with no core, super slim mid section

[Kyle Nuva]

Publicado originalmente por Dazai:

-I hate fan service.
-The ♥♥♥♥♥♥ whiny females annoy me.
-Overly using sexual jokes or sexualizing characters too damn much.

The list goes on. Its probably why I have drifted from anime and rarely find any that peak my interest. Too much same old recipie tropes used in majority of anime.

Publicado originalmente por Tiberius:

Flashbacks during climatic scene. I'm bout to cut this baddies head off but first.. let me tell you abt my sad sad childhood

yep... ♥♥♥♥ man