EricTheFred (post: 1344525) wrote:Weird thing is, I've known two different people in my life with heterochromia of the hair, (one was a girl with this weird silver streak in her hair just like you see Goth girls sometimes do, but this was when I was in middle school, ages before that became popular.) and I've read somewhere that heterochromia of the hair is much rarer that heterochromia of the eyes, yet I've never met anyone like that.
(And yes I do need to learn to read down to the end of the thread and use multiquote.)
Doubleshadow (post: 1344976) wrote:Sounds like she had a birthmark on her scalp. Not the same as true heterochromia.
Maokun: Ninjas or Pirates? (Vikings are not a valid answer, sorry)
EricTheFred: Vikings are always a valid answer.
When did this become Anime Stereotypes That Need to Die, Except Ones I Like?Yamamaya (post: 1344970) wrote:Agreed, I love the different hair colors.
GeneD (post: 1344736) wrote:*coughcough* Which characters in Yu Gi Oh actually have a purpose? (I watch too much Abridged, yay for Ineffectual Man)
I think insanity and destroying the world for the heck of it are excellent reasons.
I'm not really a fan of magical transformation sequences, so I don't really watch magical girl series. I'm sometimes also disappointed with non-romance romance situations or romance situations where no real affection it shown, but this may be resolved if I actually watched more shoujo series. ]
Yay for Abridged! =D
Insanity and destruction are great reasons, but just overdone. I wish villains actually had personal depth to them, though. I think the tragedy in them is that they're so flat. Forgive me for my Blue Sub. 6 craze, but that's why I like Zorndyke. He had a realistic reason, and I felt some sympathy for him.
For some reason, Yugi from Tenshi in Tokyo (remember that?) came into my mind.
The antagonist motivates the protagonist, and also makes the story more interesting. The protagonist shouldn't have every drop of the writer's attention.Nate wrote:Guys remember TV Tropes. Old ideas can be used to great effect sometimes. And sometimes, even purposely avoiding cliches can become a cliche itself.
Plus, Mary is right. If we avoid stereotypes, then the things we use to avoid the stereotypes will become stereotypes themselves.
Actually, isn't that what happened? Japan wanted to avoid the stereotype of big manly men saving the world, so they had girly girls saving the world. What did we end up with? The magical girl genre. In avoiding a stereotype, they created a new one.
Fish and Chips (post: 1344999) wrote:When did this become Anime Stereotypes That Need to Die, Except Ones I Like?
" wrote:RustyClaymore 11:27 - Ah yes, Socks is the single raindrop responsible for the flood. XD
khakibluesocks wrote: Oh, and you better not ask for any help whatsover from your unbruised friends gawking at you from the sidelines because this is a "fair fight" and honor must be secured. Oy.
KhakiBlueSocks (post: 1345409) wrote:2. The mother who dies in childbirth. I mean, come on! Either Japan's prenatal/postnatal care system is shot to pieces, or the doctor is delivering these babies with rusty forceps.
KhakiBlueSocks (post: 1345409) wrote:I have a couple entries:
1. The inability of characters to fight back if they've been slapped or otherwise punched. I mean, I'm a peaceful person, but if someone hits me, even if it's a "snap out of it" kind of hit, I'm gonna hit back!
2. The mother who dies in childbirth. I mean, come on! Either Japan's prenatal/postnatal care system is shot to pieces, or the doctor is delivering these babies with rusty forceps.
3. The father and/or mother who is conviently on a business trip in America. Yeah...that's a good way to get him/her out of the house for a couple months to leave our main character unsupervised and untethered.
4. The train/fight/train/fight cycle. This annoys me the most. Main character is fighting a bad guy. He loses in the worst way. He goes off on a training quest with some master, learning a super-secret, hidden technique to make him stronger, he goes back, fights said bad guy, wins, then relaxes for an episode or two until it starts all over again. Oh, and you better not ask for any help whatsover from your unbruised friends gawking at you from the sidelines because this is a "fair fight" and honor must be secured. Oy.
KhakiBlueSocks (post: 1345409) wrote: Oh, and you better not ask for any help whatsover from your unbruised friends gawking at you from the sidelines because this is a "fair fight" and honor must be secured. Oy.
Fish and Chips (post: 1344999) wrote:When did this become Anime Stereotypes That Need to Die, Except Ones I Like?
Yamamaya (post: 1345619) wrote:By definition, anime sterotypes that need to die are ones that you find annoying and idiotic.
rocklobster (post: 1345684) wrote:I like the big eyes in anime. Eyes are the windows to the soul, after all.
" wrote:RustyClaymore 11:27 - Ah yes, Socks is the single raindrop responsible for the flood. XD
Yamamaya wrote:That's only the Mary Sue characters.
The rest of the anime girls are not like that at all.
Nate (post: 1348729) wrote:Have you watched anime in the last 20 years?
Also Mary-Sues are the OVERPOWERED anime characters who do everything because they're God incarnate.
Might want to double-check your terms.
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