5 annoying anime cliches

"Cliche- a trite, stereotyped expression; a sentence or phrase, usually expressing a popular or common thought or idea, that has lost originality, ingenuity, and impact by long overuse"

                                                  

Cliches have been part of anime for quite a long time now, as originality is much harder to come by nowadays. There's some weird ones such as when the main character ONLY sits in the back near the window. If you hadn't noticed before, do you understand why? Because I sure as hell don't. There's also the one where whenever a character seems something sexual, their nose starts bleeding. There's absolutely no reason for why your nose would bleed if you saw boobs. Seriously, it's just dumb. Then there's the other weird one where the the character will be late to school, so they run to school with a piece of toast in their mouth. Why is that so popular? Who started it? So many questions. Anyways, here's the 5 most annoying cliches in anime.

5. Never stop adjusting glasses.

WHY WHY WHY WHY

This might seem like it's not a big deal, but for me, it is SO ANNOYING. Almost everybody in my family has glasses, and they rarely ever have to adjust them. So do people in anime just buy shitty glasses or what? Or maybe it's because people think it looks cool. Either way, it's obnoxious. Another thing that's annoying is the character with glasses is almost always the "smart" guy. Like why can't the smartest people have ever have eyes that work just fine? This is another cliche that I just don't get why it exists in the first place. Why the creators of anime/manga felt the need to latch onto this cliche and keep using it is a question I'd pay to have answered.

4. The "comical" boob grab.

When does this actually happen in real life? Never.

You know what I'm talking about when I say this. The guy trips on top of a girl and accidentlally grabs her boob. First off, people rarely ever fall down and land on another person in real life like they do in anime. Even rarer that they happen to grab their boob. It wasn't funny the first time I saw, and it wasn't the 1000th time I saw it either. The girl, no matter if the guy really didn't mean to do it or not, will then slap him, punch him, kick him, *insert other physical violence here.* Even if the the girl falls on the guy, she STILL gets angry at him. This is what specifically annoys me the most. Sometimes I wish the guy would just yell "IT WAS YOUR FAULT!', and then leave, but that hasn't ever happened from what I've seen sadly.

3. Over abusive tsunderes

"Tsundere- is a Japanese character development process that describes a person who is initially cold and even hostile towards another person before gradually showing their warm side over time."

There are 2 types of tsundere in anime. The first I'll call type A. They're the tsunderes that are nice, sweet, and generous, but just happen to have a hidden violent side as well. Type B tsunderes are the ones that are jerks pretty much all the time AND they're violent. Type B tsunderes annoy the hell out of me. Take Taiga from Toradora for example. Even when she's dating a guy she really does love, she's STILL a jerk to him more often than not, and is STILL abusive. Apparently it's supposed to be funny. Who knew? All I know is it makes me dislike the character a little less every time she beats the hell out of one of her "friends". 

2. Nobody can aim worth a damn.

Standing 3 feet away? NOPE YOU'LL STILL MISS

You've seen it before dozens of times. The main character is in being shot at by a bunch of bad guys, but NONE of the 20+ bad guys can shoot him. I mean, I've only shot a gun a few times, but the bad guys in anime make my aim look great. I know the main character isn't going to die, but can the creators at least make it so that's it's not completely laughable at how bad everyone's aim is. While on the topic of bad aim, have you noticed that the characters in anime can dodge bullets? Like, they see them coming and dodge them, which is completely impossible to do. Even though I love action anime, the genre is almost always guilty of doing this. But even this isn't as bad as... 

1. Amnesia.

Perfect example of a character ruined by the amnesia cliche

If I had a dollar for every time I watched an anime where one of the characters had amnesia, I'd be a very rich man. After a quick google search, I found that less than 5% of the population has amnesia, yet in anime, it seems like it's about 85%. It's been so overused that it's more laughable or groan inducing than believable. Whenever an anime introduces amnesia, I immediately lose some interest, as I feel like the creators were so uncreative an uninspired, that they went with the easy route for character development. You know, where the character slowly gains back his/her memories throughout the anime. There's also always the "forgotten childhood best friend" too. Like when the main protagonist has a harem, and unbeknownst to him, one of his lovers is a childhood friend. But no, he has amnesia, the most overused and annoying cliche in anime, so he won't remember her until the last few episodes.

5 worst anime characters.

I'll preface this post by saying I'm sorry if a character you like is on this list. Now let's get started...

5. Tskune Aono (Rosario To Vampire)

Tskune is your typical harem lead, meaning he's clueless when it comes to women. Now there's a lot of characters that are clueless when it comes to the opposite sex, but Tskune takes it to a whole new level. The amount of cringing you'll do while watching this bumbling idiot try and talk to women will be over 9000 (Overused joke, but you will probably cringe that many times). He's also always having to be saved by the girls in his harem. Every. Single. Episode. He's also the most indecisive guy of all time. Throughout both seasons, he never chooses any of the girls, he just says "I DONT KNOW UGHHHHHH *WHINE*WHINE*WHINE." This guy is everything that's wrong with harem leads, all balled into one terrible character.

4. Nina Einstein (Code Geass)

Nina Einstein starts as a your typical very intelligent and shy girl. Nothing noteworthy at all. As the anime goes on, you see that she's a massive racist and annoying psychopath. It's never explained why she hates the Japanese so much either. She's a weak minded character too, as she has to obsess over another person for emotional support. I also hate her because during the anime, she was so crazy, that she would've blown up all of Tokyo just to get revenge for Euphemia (person she obsesses over).Couple that with the fact she has really ugly hair as well, and you got Nina. 

3. Yukiteru Amano (Mirai Nikki)

I'm baffled at the fact that some people like Yuki. He's THE most whiny character I've ever had the displeasure of watching. Even when his life is in danger of ending, he still whines and bitches about everything. This is made even worse by the fact that, for a couple of episodes, he actually mans up and DOESN'T whine and moan the whole time. He then reverts back to his normal self. Characters that act differently for no reason is a huge negative in my book, as it takes any character development they had, and just throws it out the window. Also, Yuki has a really annoying voice actor (Japanese), which just adds to the hate I have for this character. It's so whiny and nasally, like he always has a cold. The only thing I like about him

2. Kirito (Sword Art Online)

Kirito is THE definiton of a Gary Stu. A Gary Stu is a character, that is perfect. They look good, they're smart, they're overpowered, everything goes right for them, and is pretty much just there for the viewers to self insert. Kirito has almost no personality, no character development, and no matter how powerful his enemy is, he ALWAYS wins. No matter what he does, he's perfect at it, and it's never explained why. The fact that he solos MMO bosses is enough to confirm that he's overpowered as hell. I thought I would like him since he is also a hardcore gamer like me, but even that wasn't enough to save him from becoming one of my most hated characters. 

                            1. Kirino Kousaka (Oreimo) 

"Tsundere- is a Japanese character development process that describes a person who is initially cold and even hostile towards another person before gradually showing their warm side over time."

This girl... this girl right here, is the biggest bitch I've ever seen in anime. Throughout the whole anime she is a jerk towards almost every single person she comes into contact with. If there was an award for the worst tsundere, she would take first place, no questions asks. If I had Kirino as a sister, I'm not sure I could live my life without strangling her once. Character development? Hardly. From episode 1 to the last episode, she was a conniving, bossy, stuck up, spoiled brat. The constant insults and abuse to her brother were funny at first, but eventually, they just became obnoxious and infuriating. Oh, and she's also into incest, which is icing on the (really shitty) cake.