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I've neglected LJ so much lately but this weekend I hope to post pictures of my nieces. St. Patrick's Day was their FIRST BIRTHDAY! Hard to believe a whole year has passed! Wednesday I took off work to spend time with them (and their Mom) to celebrate their birthday - we had their party Saturday (3/13).
Anyway, I'll gush and babble more about them this weekend. Right now I'm hoping to get some help. An anime group I belong to started a discussion in their forums and I'm drawing a complete blank so HELP!
Topic 1: Top 100 ANIME Cliches (here is what is already listed)
1. Parents are either absent, dead, or neglect their children an absurd amount of time.
2. Long and elaborate transformations designed to eat up broadcasting time and save on animation hours.
3. When someone does any act of perversion (ie. touching or seeing breasts) that person usually gets a nosebleed.
4. Anytime missiles are shot at the heroes they never get hit and they always explode pointlessly behind them in a straight line.
5. Everyone has a key to the school's rooftop.
6. Tear Jets, bulging veins, burning eyes, other overreactions, exaggerate emotion used to reduce detail.
7. Sweat Drop. A large, perfectly vertical, blue sweat drop appears on a character's head to represent embarrassment or awkward consternation. The drop may grow as the situation heightens.
8. Generally, in order to be effective, a super attack or weapon must have a name, which must be said while used.
9. The protagonist most hone his skills or develop a new technique. Can take many episodes or entire seasons.
10. A grievous injury may be shaken off, sometimes in the middle of a fight or sports match. Conversely, a scar caused by a scratch to the face will never fully heal.
11. The worlds most devastating super weapon is entrusted to a 13 year old or is actually the 13 year old himself/herself.
12. Aliens seem to always be extremely attractive.
13. The protagonist is generally a coward who wants nothing to do with the cause.
14. Fighting an enemy can take many, many episodes and when said enemy is dead and everyone celebrates, you find out he really isn't and then wait several more episodes for him to die. (DBZ is probably the worst about this).
15. No matter how powerful the protagonist gets, there is always room to get more powerful. Also, regardless of how powerful the antagonist is, there seems to be an even more powerful antagonist just waiting.
16. The antagonist will leave your protagonist near death but not actually kill him/her when they had the chance.
17. The villain is either unabashedly attractive, or a monster... sometimes both. If the villian is the main character, they are always attractive.
18. Unintelligent and rash villains are generally unattractive and die, or our otherwise beaten quickly. This only applies to the antagonists. If the protagonist is a villain, they are attractive no matter how low there intelligence is, or how rashly they behave... and they survive through everything.
19. The protagonist always destroys the Mega Doomsday weapon mere moments before the Earth is destroyed only to find out a week later that another more devastating Doomsday weapon was being secretly built before the last one was even completed.
20. Protagonist Military officers suffer near constant insubordination and do nothing about it, Antagonist Military officers kill anyone that commits insubordination on the spot. Yet somehow the protagonist always comes out on top despite undisciplined and traitorous soldiers under his/her command.
21. Any time female characters start to have feelings for the protagonist (male of female) they suddenly are overcome by an irresistible urge to beat them to a pulp. After an entire season (sometimes several) they come to terms with their feelings and the beatings stop. (Not sure why the protagonist keeps them around).
22. When you have a sword you can slice through anything no matter how large, thick or dense it appears to be.
23. If you are a pervert, you run the risk of having metal wash tub basins drop out of the sky and hit you on the head.
24. If you are late for school, it's mandatory to have a piece of toast hanging from your mouth as you run out the door.
25. The mushroom shaped sigh
26. The booger bubble thing while the person is asleep
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Another topic is "Anyone heared of any great Horror/Occult/Gore anime?"
Any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Hope everyone's having a good day!
Anyway, I'll gush and babble more about them this weekend. Right now I'm hoping to get some help. An anime group I belong to started a discussion in their forums and I'm drawing a complete blank so HELP!
Topic 1: Top 100 ANIME Cliches (here is what is already listed)
1. Parents are either absent, dead, or neglect their children an absurd amount of time.
2. Long and elaborate transformations designed to eat up broadcasting time and save on animation hours.
3. When someone does any act of perversion (ie. touching or seeing breasts) that person usually gets a nosebleed.
4. Anytime missiles are shot at the heroes they never get hit and they always explode pointlessly behind them in a straight line.
5. Everyone has a key to the school's rooftop.
6. Tear Jets, bulging veins, burning eyes, other overreactions, exaggerate emotion used to reduce detail.
7. Sweat Drop. A large, perfectly vertical, blue sweat drop appears on a character's head to represent embarrassment or awkward consternation. The drop may grow as the situation heightens.
8. Generally, in order to be effective, a super attack or weapon must have a name, which must be said while used.
9. The protagonist most hone his skills or develop a new technique. Can take many episodes or entire seasons.
10. A grievous injury may be shaken off, sometimes in the middle of a fight or sports match. Conversely, a scar caused by a scratch to the face will never fully heal.
11. The worlds most devastating super weapon is entrusted to a 13 year old or is actually the 13 year old himself/herself.
12. Aliens seem to always be extremely attractive.
13. The protagonist is generally a coward who wants nothing to do with the cause.
14. Fighting an enemy can take many, many episodes and when said enemy is dead and everyone celebrates, you find out he really isn't and then wait several more episodes for him to die. (DBZ is probably the worst about this).
15. No matter how powerful the protagonist gets, there is always room to get more powerful. Also, regardless of how powerful the antagonist is, there seems to be an even more powerful antagonist just waiting.
16. The antagonist will leave your protagonist near death but not actually kill him/her when they had the chance.
17. The villain is either unabashedly attractive, or a monster... sometimes both. If the villian is the main character, they are always attractive.
18. Unintelligent and rash villains are generally unattractive and die, or our otherwise beaten quickly. This only applies to the antagonists. If the protagonist is a villain, they are attractive no matter how low there intelligence is, or how rashly they behave... and they survive through everything.
19. The protagonist always destroys the Mega Doomsday weapon mere moments before the Earth is destroyed only to find out a week later that another more devastating Doomsday weapon was being secretly built before the last one was even completed.
20. Protagonist Military officers suffer near constant insubordination and do nothing about it, Antagonist Military officers kill anyone that commits insubordination on the spot. Yet somehow the protagonist always comes out on top despite undisciplined and traitorous soldiers under his/her command.
21. Any time female characters start to have feelings for the protagonist (male of female) they suddenly are overcome by an irresistible urge to beat them to a pulp. After an entire season (sometimes several) they come to terms with their feelings and the beatings stop. (Not sure why the protagonist keeps them around).
22. When you have a sword you can slice through anything no matter how large, thick or dense it appears to be.
23. If you are a pervert, you run the risk of having metal wash tub basins drop out of the sky and hit you on the head.
24. If you are late for school, it's mandatory to have a piece of toast hanging from your mouth as you run out the door.
25. The mushroom shaped sigh
26. The booger bubble thing while the person is asleep
******
Another topic is "Anyone heared of any great Horror/Occult/Gore anime?"
Any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Hope everyone's having a good day!