What trope in anime that was weird to you at the start and still weird to this day?

[bigtiddyoneesan]

the trope where apparently everyone has a 99% chance of catching a cold if they get their clothes wet in the rain

 

[Teddy]

The trope where student councils actually have any power at all.

 

[llxUnknownxll]

When a monster joins the party but transforms into a human with barely any "monster traits" if at all. Doubly so if they make the monster traits into a "character quirk" and/or lolify the character.

Fucks sake, I want a dragon in the party, not a loli that eats all the food because "hurr durr, dragons eat a lot".

 

[Romanito11]

For me it's the subliminal p*dofile symbolism everywhere. Like wtf is wrong with most of these animes

 

[Sparrowhawk]

Fountains of blood out the nose. I've never seen this happen in real life and it's so weird to see in anime.

 

[Hitspark]

Fountains of blood out the nose. I've never seen this happen in real life and it's so weird to see in anime.

This actually comes from an old japanese Wife's Tale. The idea was that men who hadn't had sexual experiences in a long time would bleed from the nose upon stimulation or something.

 

[Kaldrak]

the trope where apparently everyone has a 99% chance of catching a cold if they get their clothes wet in the rain

Small cough of death.

Fountains of blood out the nose. I've never seen this happen in real life and it's so weird to see in anime.

I get bloody noses sometimes. Real gushers. It's unpleasant but not what I would describe as a 'fountain.' Mostly has to do with the dry air.

 

[Teddy]

Imagine if veins pulsing on the forehead was normal in response to anger.

 

[KatoShuu]

OP isekais MCs, there're too much. Like bunch of Zubats and Geodude in a cave
Getting OP by showing nothing and relying on time skipping and such, why don't the author show their growth? His/her success and failures? Don't give them OP cheats (or disguised as useless). Just give them the basic things to get by. Magic power/mana for example
If the Reincarnation theme isn't doing anything, might as well make it a Fantasy instead
If the MC is "OP", then make everyone else also OP. (now that I think about it, that sounded stupid)

If the setting/story isn't "serious" I guess it's okay to make them ridiculous/stupid OP as hell

That's why I like Mushoku Tensei, Shield Bro, and Ascendance of a Bookworm to name a few

 

[WingZero234]

The obsession with soy sauce in isekai. There's always a few chapters dedicated to rediscovering some japanese food and and it gets old really fast.

 

[asianskill]

not sure if its a trope but the excessive noise made by the voice actors for every reaction. its a bit funny to be honet

 

[lazyoldman]

It has to be the "male lead afraid of female contact" trope. I understand if he's shy or nervous, but the outright "this is wrong" repulsion is offputting.

 

[NicoNicotin]

This is probably a cultural thing but I never understood the "undesirable older woman" trope where they make a normal anime girl but put the curves slider on max and have everyone in-universe act like she's a grotesque weirdo struggling to find a man.

 

[cryum]

Slaves. The twisted logic they take to justify why it's "ok" is cringe.

Panty shots are one thing, but finding convoluted ways to come into possession of panties and even more convoluted ways to keep them in your possession until a """misunderstanding""" happens is......quite a choice of all time.

 

[Dropofdeath]

The circle jerk of anything about Japanese culture and it being the solution to any problem.

I like Japanese culture but it's just so extensive that as soon as the MC shows Japanese culture everyone reacts in a WOW fashion. It's ok the first few times but it's just so recurring that it gets very apparent in the story.

 

[Kaldrak]

Slaves. The twisted logic they take to justify why it's "ok" is cringe.

The slave thing usually just feels like author fetish fuel when I see it in manga/anime. Not that that makes it all that much better but....

 

[EOTFOFYL]

The obsession with soy sauce in isekai. There's always a few chapters dedicated to rediscovering some japanese food and and it gets old really fast.

Soy sauce is special.
Asiatic food culture,
Like British and tea.

https://www.soysauce.or.jp/en/the-history-of-soy-sauce

 

[Kaldrak]

Soy sauce is special.
Asiatic food culture,
Like British and tea.

I remember you. I've kind of missed your haiku's.

 

[cryum]

The slave thing usually just feels like author fetish fuel when I see it in manga/anime. Not that that makes it all that much better but....

It's not. It's a combination of lazy characterization and justification for loyalty, simplified organization structures that leaves all the power in the MC's hands, projection to overlap slaves with black company employees(which, as you can guess, is often not really accurate), and the usual japanese flavor of "oh no the system is bad, let's support it".

THEN you add the fetish stuff after that, since the slave status is then used as an excuse for harem tropes.

 

[Teddy]

The trope where people who isekai particularly high schoolers remember everything in biology, engineering or literature.