LEAST favorite anime trope?

Magical Girl designs that barely change the appearance of the MC other than the clothes yet somehow no one realises who they are and incest/shota relationships from reasons I don’t think I need to explain.

@anen0me I probably wouldn't go THAT far LOL
There's definitely a target audience for them, and I wouldn't want to deprive them of their favorite genre.
I just personally find them boring and unappealing.

Tsunderes. Specifically the overly violent, super bitchy POS tsunderes...i hate them...and they have caused me to drop several anime in the past

My most disliked trope is ugly to hot whether it be reincarnation, workout, or cheat powers. I never like seeing the core design of a character change significantly.
Ie
Fruit of Evolution
Solo Leveling
Mushoku tensei
Arifureta
Ect

Idk. For me it's usually in romcoms where you have the MC and FMC in a sweet and endearing relationship, and then all of a sudden a new girl comes and it becomes a love triangle or more. This is usually acceptable if it starts out clearly as like an Harem anime, but it's just jarring if it doesn't

I feel like I’ve answered this topic a dozen times, and my answers were almost always different. Either way, I’m currently tired of the tropes that plague romance anime. The love triangle that only exists to generate cheap drama. The “misunderstanding” that could be solved in 15 seconds of basic human communication. The loud, obnoxious childhood friend whose entire personality is screaming. Add in the dense protagonist who couldn’t recognize a confession if it came with subtitles.

Then you get the time-wasters: will-they-won’t-they tensions stretched across an entire season. Accidental groping played as comedy. Blushing, stuttering, internal monologues instead of actual conversations. Confessions interrupted by fireworks, trains, festivals, or divine intervention. God forbid two characters just talk like functioning humans.

Romance is usually fine when it’s a side genre. When characters have lives, goals, or an actual plot outside of “do they like me.” But when it’s anime focused on it, it often collapses under its own tropes. At this point, I can’t tell whether Japan just can’t write romance for shit, or I’ve been watching the wrong shits, or I’m just completely jaded with the genre. Probably all of them.

Reverse isekai
No offence but i really dislike this trope

I don't wanna see any more of those scenes where the guy trips over himself and falls on the girl, or someone is running and they crash into each other or they fall out of a tree or bloody whatever and then they land but UH OH! the overwhelmingly inexorable gravitational pull of her chest and crotch has once again crash landed against his face and perfectly cupped in his open virgin hands that have never felt his playful texture before, better give it a cheeky little squeeze or six, since it honest to god could be the last time, just in time for another vapid KYAAA!!! or an oh so comically swift punch in the face depending on the all of two different brain dead personality types this shit always seems to happen to.

The "I'm going to be intentionally vague with everything I fucking say, but I'll still lambast you as immature for not picking up on my cues and not doing exactly what I want you to do" trope is the fucking worst in the medium. It's only bad because the series never frames them as the c***s they are, and they're usually vindicated at some point anyway.

Some dishonorable mentions off the top of my head:



Ami from 'Toradora'



Talho from 'Eureka Seven'

That's why I loved Renton for shutting her shit down and running away from the Gekko halfway through the series, kek. Even Eureka didn't blame him, and it was on her behalf that they were shitting on him.

Another trope is the anti-love triangle. Usually used by female creators, it's when you want to write a romance story but don't want to write any interesting conflicts or have "losers," so any character that is initially perceived as a potential love rival is immediately relegated to being comedic relief or a fanboy/girl.

Girls that can potentially be a wedge between two boys' """friendship""" immediately being revealed to be fujos (and the author's obvious self-insert), "nice guys" being relegated to the feMC's fruity BFF or having a girlfriend already so they don't get between the bland feMC and the rape-y male love interest, etc.

There's a reason classical literature has always portrayed love as a brutal struggle used to engage the reader. The comfy shit can be a nice change of pace, but it's always going to be milquetoast and forgettable.




You're the best; I completely forgot about this. It's the main reason why I hate Love Comedy despite it having so many cute girls. I fucking hate Hachiman. MCs from Bunny Girl Senpai and Classroom of the Elite are also dishonorable mentions.

I would say I hate any, but there are some that I sort of dislike and sometimes skip:

1. "The growling stomach reconciliation"... or something... Is there a conflict? Boom! One party suddenly gets too hungry to continue the agrument.
   
2. "The new MMORPG that has conquered the entire world!" ... But aren't most of Japanese/Korean/Chinese MMORPGs popular mainly in those countries? "The entire word"? Do they have a different version of the globe or something?
   
3. Musician = constant drama and quarrels with your bandmates. Nah, musician = death in poverty. Sorry...
   
4. Hot springs. Not a bad thing, but it's something inherently Japanese. Beaches are usually fine, though.
   
5. The "prince guy" character archetype. They have zero respect for women's personal space.
   

Not sure how many of those are actual tropes, but anyway...

What I dislike most is when characters act contrary to their own personalities.
For example, a character who doesn’t care about their appearance suddenly dressing stylishly, or a shy character suddenly acting bold.In such cases, I can’t take the anime seriously at all.

@AnimeEnjoyer2357 so you're saying like inconsistent writing done to suit a momentary shtick and not just a character experiencing growth and development or reacting believably to a story beat like they're trying to impress a crush or something

or is none of that good

I loathe the trope that I call "accidental perversion" where a (usually male character) ends up in a nonconsensual encounter of a sexual nature with women that is mistaken as assault or peeping. As a woman it's just very uncomfortable to watch whether it be accidental groping or going into the hot springs at the wrong time, it just makes me die of cringe.

Little girl in love with MC
Abusive character as MC
Perverted little kids
Character gets covered in pseudo sexual fluids

@RudeRedis unfortunately if there's any position the mangasphere is consistent about it's that if you're hot enough you can literally get away with murder

@anen0me I think one manga author said if you look nice, people will forgive you quickly.

@Tropisch homie what have you been watching
don't actually answer that
just
if it ever looks like i might be about to pick one of them up i'm going to need you to start making a high pitched beeping noise that gets louder and more rapid as my fingie gets closer to the offending material
can you do that for me

@anen0me Not really things in anime that I watched, but if I see those tropes I nope out. But by "abusive" I mean when the MC's entire personally is being an ass to everyone or insults everywhere around them. Pervert little kids like that Mineta in Hero Academy or Rudeus (I get he's an adult in little kid body but that counts imo) and the psuedo fluid thing is mostly found in older anime, but makes me cringe if I see it still.

@anen0me
No. Beach episodes are true fanservice.
Hot spring episodes are only japan being obsessed with themselves as usual. Half of those episodes don't even include girls in them.
Japan is so narcissistic they basically cum themselves over everything about their culture and they think hot springs stand at the very top of it, so every anime ever made has to have a stupid hot spring episode.

Muh onsen isn't just a trope (the biggest trope), it's a goddamn religion with them.

@kopisusu73 it's been a sort of running gag in Hajime no Ippo manga for quite some time, but I don't remember whether it was animated in the adaptations.
But we absolutely do need more shows where guys do stupid guy things like Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou as far as I'm concerned.

I can't stand when the MC is obviously OP but is completely oblivious to it and it's constantly used as slapstick humor. I Parry Everything MC is an egregious example of that.

"Let me open my menu so I can see my stats."
"I have enough points to level up my stamina and charisma."
"I used up all my spell slots."
"Aw dude, 4 stam, 4 strength leather belt!"

I hate video game stuff in isekai's. It's not that bad when they're actually in a video game, but not when they're literally living in a fantasy world.

She can't cook. Yor can't cook. They spend an entire episode trying to make you laugh with this gag of her being unable to cook. But of course, this gag is decades old. Older than me lol. So why is it still getting full episodes in the 2020s?

@DaiichiDaiman i think it can offer a decent framework for a story, helping readers understand the setting without having to really get into it - but it's still lazy, and you really have to be bringing something else to the table. I've seen it work, but it's never really felt like an asset.
It worked great in Goblin Slayer, but goblin slayer really subverted the genre's tone. It's OKAY in frieren, but it feels like a pretty flimsy afterthought there. I think what makes the trope feel so noxious is just how ubiquitous it is in every utterly pointless throwaway video game shonen anime.