| I think my last straw with it was definitely Attack on Titan or Demon Slayer. It was just so overused that it actually started to get frustrating. When an anime character's parents die does it still shock you, or does it just disappoint you? |
| Nowadays I get surprised when the MC has BOTH parents. You unlucky bastard, now you can't live alone with a female childhood friend. |
| I think that what happened in Shingeki works because we saw the whole scene, we didn't care about Eren's mother, but we're shocked cause we saw the whole thing. In Kimetsu no Yaiba was just meh, we didn't know anybody from Tanjirou's family and they're just dead, it doesn't work anymore with me. How can Kimetsu be average at everything? |
| If you're a fanboy, please don't waste my time. Watch more movies, please. Perhaps, this is hell. |
| Quick cheap way of trying to make you feel for main characters is starting to fail at being a way to make me feel for main characters And since you brought demon slayer up, I just gotta say, maybe tanjiro is one tough cookie, but I think he got over his family's deaths way too easily |
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| I mean, yeah. It's just expected any time you jump into a series that if there's a nice mom, she's going down. I agree with @Nefelupitou up there, though. It still hits in AoT because you see it happen and see just how brutal it is, so the shock value is still there. All that said, I don't mind the dead parents trope. Even if it's expected, it's still a solid catalyst for the MC to leave home to start their journey or whatever. I prefer it over the MC's parents just never being seen or mentioned again for no reason, anyways. |
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DBZisUnderrated said: I think my last straw with it was definitely Attack on Titan or Demon Slayer. It was just so overused that it actually started to get frustrating. When an anime character's parents die does it still shock you, or does it just disappoint you? The shock value might have worn off, but that doesn't make it a bad thing at all to kill of parents. It depends a lot on the execution of the scenes. Aot s1 spoiler |
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| yes, its so predictable at this point. |
| Haven't noticed it in anime but when I used to read VN's it was always dead/they never showed them because they "worked during the day" and I hated that. No reason not to show parents especially when you can have sexy ass milfs like https://myanimelist.net/character/151553/Mitsuki_Bakugou?q=bakugou&cat=character |
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Nobita-X said: Nowadays I get surprised when the MC has BOTH parents. You unlucky bastard, now you can't live alone with a female childhood friend. yea it's always either the dad is gone because they divorced or the mom is gone because she's dead :P |
 'On-Hold' is another way for a completionist to say 'Dropped' |
| Oh for sure, it's makes me roll my eyes at this point. I think more anime should take a chance at characterizing their protagonists through their interactions with their parents, seeing as parent-child is a major relationship in defining who someone is. |
| The shock value definitely has worn off but it still is kinda sad for characters imo. |
| Was anybody shocked when Harry Potter’s parents died? This trope has been around forever. |
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| yes, definitely. I prefer when the characters parent(s) condition are unknown at the beginning, and then are revealed later (if they are ever revealed) |
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| Parents dying for cheap shock value has definitely worn off, but in some instances, the death of parents can be done really well. Fate/Stay Night always comes to mind where Kiritsugu sits outside with Shirou at night. This moment becomes even more impactful after you watch Fate/Zero. It's such a well done moment. |
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| Since when do we need parents anyway? |
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| Yes, I've been somewhat desensitised to it. |
| in all forms of media I just kinda expect it. Like ok, that's sad...moving on |
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| That trope got old to me long before I discovered anime. Batman. |
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| Generally yes, although I will say that Granted, it was revealed that they were all fine anyway, but the shock value when I first saw the end of that episode was 100% genuine. |
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| I can’t stand it tbh. And worst of all it’s probably gonna keep being used. |
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| Not really? It's not really a shock moment it's just a basic call to adventure plot line and while tropey can be done well. I don't think there has been a time where it wasn't overdone lol |
| it's a pretty decent cliche, I accept it every time |
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| Not only parents but brother , sister sometimes twin and of course best friend are just overused Then you will get a single parent raising the child either the father or mother died or ran off .one of the Worst of the kind is Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai . |
Tristar_ShinobiNov 2, 2020 10:46 PM
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| Being an orphan is pretty much one of the checklist of your typical Shounen protag so I don't really mind it. |
DoubleJEspejwan6 said: Generally yes, although I will say that Granted, it was revealed that they were all fine anyway, but the shock value when I first saw the end of that episode was 100% genuine. I remember that being the one time the parents being dead shocked me in anime too lol, I honestly can't think of any others at the top of my head |
| this trope goes beyond anime, a lot of fictional medium use it so it was never a shock for me lol edit: also i like the found family trope so the parents are dead thing was never a big issue for me |
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| In the case of AOT, I think it's more of setting up the plot rather than shock factor/"Oh no, my parents are dead". |
| That explains why Japanese people are having less and less kids each year - anime has taught them that if you do your chances of dying young increase exponentially. ----- Japan's birth rate hits another record low in 2019 Japan's demographic crisis is getting worse, as the fast-graying nation experienced its biggest natural population decline and a record-low birth rate this year, government statistics show. The estimated number of babies born in the country in 2019 fell to 864,000 -- the lowest since records began in 1899 -- according to a report published Tuesday by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. The number of newborns is estimated to have shrunk by 54,000 from 2018, and the figure remains under the 1 million mark for the fourth year running. Deaths in 2019 also hit a postwar record high of 1.376 million, with a natural population decline of 512,000 -- the highest ever. Source: CNN |
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| It's a overused shit and for me it's considered boring or bad writing for me and in the end it means nothing, like I totally forgets that their families died. Attack on Titan case, that's a really shocking one to see, probably because it's one of my very first anime I've ever watched Apparently the author thought with this "unpredictable" writing I would forgive the main character because I "feel" them, nah it's just bad writing |
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| I would say yes, but I was never shocked at sad anime backstories in the first place (EXCEPT FOR FUGO'S BACKSTORY IN BOTH THE ANIME AND THE MANGA IM STILL MAD ABOUT IT AND WILL NEVER NOT BE. I don't know why IT in particular makes me mad, BUT IT DOES.) |
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| there's only three characters i felt sad when they died- Miki makimura - Devilman crybaby Kaori miyazono - Your Lie in April Kana - Parasyte the Maxim |
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| Eh, sometimes you need the parents to just not be there for the story to happen, this trope doesn't really bother me. If anything, I prefer them to be dead instead of just not being there for no apparent reason. |
| Yeah it just sucks its better if they had parents alive |
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| it hasnt worn off for me because it wasnt shocking in the first place since literally every shounen has that? lol |
| Im most shocked when main character has pararents and have normal conversation with them. |
| an anime character's parents are dead, boohoo |
| I just think. "Oh wow, what were their names again?" |
| It's more shocking to see an anime where the protagonist's parents are present and have some amount of character to them. |
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| Forget just parents, I'm desensitised to anyone dying now because the fake out deaths from most shounen (Fairy Tail cough) has made not believe any character is dead. I refuse to believe a character is dead unless I actually see them "die" and there's no supernatural shit going on. Also, I still won't 100% believe they're dead until the end of the series and they ever returned Examples: |
| "Friends are the family we choose. Family are the strangers we live with." "There's a victim inside every villain. That doesn't absolve us of our crimes." |
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