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Yeah, Im bored, I have this much spare time to make this thread, so I will.

What Im asking is for a discussion of what you all think are the worst anime cliches ever.

Heres my list: (no particular order)

1. Overused and/or crappy transformation sequences. Many anime's are subject to this flaw. Digimon, Pokemon, Witch, many of the Transformers seasons, Voltron, and others that I forget.

2. Overused action-flashy-scrolling-liney-background-thingies. Y'know, when someone goes in for an attack and that colorful epileptic superfast scrolling background pops up. They are ok ONLY IF USED SPARINGLY. Eureka Seven, to my knowledge, only used this once as the Gekko was divebombing Dewey's ship in ep 49.

3. Calling out attack names. This can be annoying...very...very annoying. Nobody cares what you call a slash with a sword. Its not "SUPER MEGA ECHOY VOICE ELECTRIC EAGLE FALCON SHARP SWORD SLASH OF DOOOOOM!!!!!1!!11" Its a forward slash....The animes that suffer this particular alement are: Inuyasha, many many Mecha animes, basically every anime that has to do with any action whatsoever. Eureka Seven did this one or two times with Anemone's Vascuud Crisis.

4. Overused/crappy attack sequences. You only need these once or twice to be effective. But having an animation for every attack, every time it is done, now THATS stupid!

5. Spazzing embarrased gumby characters. This is when any character, when embarrased, starts flipping out and doing....just strange things, like flopping around, flailing his arms while jumping up and down screaming, or as in the case of Eureka Seven, that one time when Renton was trying to explain to Eureka somtm that I forget (I really want to get the DVDs and watch the series again!), but he starts blushing, standing on one foot, snaking weirdly, and switching poses/directions instantaneously. I never got what was with the Japanese and those weird sequences...

6. Exasparated flopping. When someone says something to another character that causes them to instantly crash to the ground with their legs sticking just into the frame. Inuyasha, Pokemon, Digimon, basically everything with any slow parts needing filled, like walking sequences...

7. Repetetive effects for anything and everything. Inuyasha was a major carrier of this disease... Every time someone got stabbed in the back, felt something "demonic", sensed something, or in the cause of Inuyasha's Tetsaiga (sp?), whenever it did anything on its own/learned a new move, they would do that stupid zoomblur pulsate thingy.

8. "Sheeplike" extras. This is when, even in the very slightest danger, the extras, or "pedestrians" as I sometimes call them, are always the first to be eaten, stabbed, cut down, entranced, etc, etc, etc. Sure some extras are supposed to be weak, but come on...nobody has the balls to fight back??

Thats all I can think of for the moment.

Post your thoughts here!

And heres another:

Syncronized talking. Its alright if its like a demonic chant or something, but when something's going to happen/happening/people are shocked/etc, you dont need 4+ people saying the EXACT same thing at the EXACT same time...