| There are some recurring and rather popular tropes in Shonen manga that I find annoying to downright distasteful. What's your opinion? Here's my list The lovable pervert: Too often, we get important characters who behave inappropriately with people, especially women. And we're supposed to find their behavior endearing rather than disgusting. Sexual harassment is played for laughs. Now, a flirtatious character who respects boundaries and understands that no means no is cool. But stalkers, molesters, voyeurs, would-be rapists? What's wrong with people? Fanservice: I could go on about this one. To keep it short, I'd just say that sexualizing characters to grab eyeballs instead of focusing on plot, characterizations and art is cheap and sends a wrong message. Also, about both these tropes. Shonen is supposed to be for young boys, mind you. Protagonist power: A very common trait for Shonen protagonists is that they're not the sharpest tool in the box. They also tend to fall into a generic mould. Not a good combination when the supporting cast is interesting. I find it extremely exasperating when the protagonist saves the day via talk no jitsu, nakama power or some other asspull while other characters fail out of nowhere. Also, many Shonen tend to just overlook the more negative or irritating aspects of the protagonist's character. Ill-written romantic subplots: Shoehorning romances that feel forced and do not mesh well with the plot, badly written storylines where people who don't work as couples are forced together, unnecessary romance that messes with the pacing, particularly cringy pairings.. I think we could do without that. My least favourite trope here is the designated girlfriend - a side character who has no function except to pine after the hero and play damsel in distress. Bad filler: Need I elaborate? |
| "There's your truth and there's my truth. As for the Universal Truth - it doesn't exist." |
| Way to OP Good guys. They just destroy the tension in the fights since we know that guy can just come to fight and finish it with no problem. Also Trope of being not the real villain.This one gets annoying at the end when series can finish itself 4 times but still going because last final boss was a puppet. |
Evarinya said: This is why I appreciate DBZ - We didn't even waste time on Goku's romance, just straight into the fighting. Fuck his wife.Ill-written romantic subplots: Evarinya said: This for sure. Mecha Naruto hurts on different levels.Bad filler: Need I elaborate? |
| Fake underdogs. I get that some authors want their main characters to be inspiring or relatable, but this usually leads to horrible writing. The most recent example of this is Black Clover. |
fleurella said: Boring MCs. I think shounen has some of the most unbearable protagonists. Like why can't there be more MCs with twisted morality such as Gon and Light. Shounens are targeted to older children(not older teens or adults, older children.) so its much easier to write something more simple for the demographic to process. Im not saying 10-14 year olds are dumb, but im saying the average 10-14 year old wont be able to process and enjoy certain animes. |
| I gave up on character of the week since it takes too much thinking. I'll just change my forum pfp to whoever I want every week lol. |
| dead parents and short main character |
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| Talking too much when fighting, especially when the characters just casually reveal their powers to their opponents. |
 (っ◔◡◔)っ 𝓘 𝔀𝓲𝓼𝓱 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓪 𝔀𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓯𝓾𝓵 𝓭𝓪𝔂 ♥ |
| The out of control scaling that takes places. They treat taking a step backwards as illegal and it always gets to ridiculous places as a result. Going from save the kid getting picked on by the school bully to saving the school, to saving the town, to saving the country, to saving the planet, to saving the universe. They don’t need to constantly one up themselves until there is nowhere left to go. |
| Very true, I don't like what Oda did to my boy Sanji, he is now the butt of every joke lmaoooo |
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moonlily1 said: Characters being resurrected after death. Completely agree, not just because it is a lazy writing cop out, but it can take away from actual deaths too. One death in particular stands out to me that I didn’t take seriously because I was sure they’d just be brought back to life. Then over the course of several episodes it slowly occurred to me that was less and less likely to happen so the emotional effect of the death was completely lost |
| - Loud never give up Shounen mc which give Zero fucks for life problems : well I'm tired with this motivational PSA try something more creative -Shipping side characters : idk what's the essence of shipping side characters which doesn't have much relationship development to made a character for a spinoff continuation -Harem : harem mostly are toxic , but harem and shounen are combination made in hell , Shounen waifu wars ended up making twice more toxic condition than generic harem show , you know what happened in Naruto and Bleach right? |
| Хайде, хайде, хайде, това е първата зона, брато, първа зона, първа зона, добре, добре, добре, това става тук горе, отива тук горе, само спокойно, само спокойно... Ха, отдясно е, навсякъде отдясно отдясно къде е дясното ти о да добре добре добре тихо мълчаливо не успях да се съсредоточа върху това ЕХ ТЪПАК КОГАТО СИ БАВНО БАВНО ... ой е путката на моето момиче прасе куче, аз Чувствам се добре, о, мамо, *шамар*, какво е това госпожице татко- |
| Giving backstory to main protagonist via killing someone/tragedy. Useless side characters or underdeveloped side characters. Delusional villains. |
| The villains having the same personalities across every anime, almost all of the time. Either I'm narrow-minded about the subject of villains, but maybe there is no such thing as a villain that doesn't have these traits? Well, definitely not... this is just very common to see. 1. The silent and cold villain (everyone's favorite character, usually attractive and bishounen/bishoujo, think of Michael Jackson from Demon Slayer) 2. The upbeat, genki villain who's also crazy as fuck (think Sally or Toga) 3. The WICKED CHAD with a god or superiority complex and batshit crazy powers (think Vetto, Cell, Doffy, etc) Here's your fuckin' villain bro. Nothing personal.  |
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| The power of friendship is still annoying and will always be annoying to me. Some are slightly more tolerable than others but at it's worst, I can't stand it |
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| Not really a "trope", and it's not exclusive to shounen or even anime in general, but underused characters. Now I get that not every character can or should have a lot of screen time. However, there's always those characters who clearly have wasted potential. And that problem gets worse the larger the cast is. So many characters could have been awesome if the writer cared enough about them. |
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