What event occuring in anime do you hate the most?

[hoppurr]

I'm not sure what I hate the most but...

1. When a comedic anime inevitably forces a serious situation near the end in order to form some kind of conclusion. Excel Saga comes to mind, though it was ironic fashion - there are plenty of love comedies or slice of life ones that end on this painful, bittersweet, overly sappy conclusion.

that's not just anime that does that, and i agree, i wouldn't sayi hate when it happens but it is usually a letdown when a commedy becomes more serious at the climax because once that happens, most jokes after that are forced, making it even less funny

2. Using a transfer student as a means of generating conflict or pushing the plot forward. It's just so very hackney at this point, especially when there's one every other episode like with Infinite Stratos.

havn't seen too much of that but, yeah i can see how this has become cliche

4. When they force sympathy for the villain. Naruto did/does this far too much. Either the sympathy should flow naturally from the story telling, or it shouldn't happen at all.

meh, anything overly forced == bad imho

5. With the rare exception of Baccano! and the Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi - I hate disjointed chronology in story telling - like when they start in the middle of story and then return to the beginning simply because they want to introduce all the characters early to draw interest.

yes this can be confusing

6. Transformation sequences.

that would be a significant number of modern magical girl animes

9. When a character is supposedly killed at some point - only to be miraculously revived later.

depends on how it's done, if it's done in a belivable way fine but i agree, such is often forced

[Tiffanys]

1. Death of my favorite character(s).
2. The show losing their budget. Ex: Kare Kano
3. Wuss main characters.
4. Really stupid main characters.
5. Focusing more on fixing and eating food than the actual story itself (F/SN VN was really bad about this).
6. Harem leads that care about moral values and won't do anything with the girls falling all over them (DearS), or the ones that are total pervs but such wusses that they won't (Sora no Otoshimono).
7. Relationships that never develop even though there's such heavy overtones that it seems obvious that there's something between them. It's such a letdown... Like Canaan/Maria (Canaan) or the entire Maria-sama ga Miteru series...

[Nikkoru]

6. Transformation sequences.

that would be a significant number of modern magical girl animes

9. When a character is supposedly killed at some point - only to be miraculously revived later.

depends on how it's done, if it's done in a belivable way fine but i agree, such is often forced

Transformation sequences are acceptable to the point that it is clear they're just using them to bite into a chunk of the screen time via cut & paste - not just transformation sequences, but any sort of needless repetition. For instance, giant robot series with launching/powering up events.

I remembering watching the Power Rangers when I was in grade school and being thoroughly satisfied when they cut the Morphin' Time sequences into a 5-10 second clip. The audience knew what was happening and anymore time spent would be cutting into the action that a 9-12 year old's fragile consciousness needs to sustain attention.

As for supposedly dead characters rising from the grave - in my opinion - if you're going to return someone to life you have to provide some sort of foreshadowing or Aristotelian logic in order to bring them back. That is to say, at the time of their supposed death, their has to be rational explanation for their survival and some indication to us, the audience, that they would indeed survive. Otherwise they're just being either sappy (incapable of believing the audience can accept the death) or lazy (not wanting to discard the character because they're incapable of developing a deeper plot or a variety of characters).

[Satsugai]

How the good character gets powered up from the POWER OF FRIENDSHIP

As if the bad characters don't have power of friendship too.

You must mean My Little Pony, Friendship is..... *cough*. Then of course you must mean Sailor Moon... Bakuman? Toradora! Haruhi? Soul Eater? (though some of those titles dont really have "bad guys") I'm sure there must be a veritable mountain of shounen titles that I'm missing.

Personally, I'm most annoyed when a series (KNGE MUCH?) takes a serious story and throws in random comedy to "lighten the blow", and all they end up accomplishing is watering down the story. This includes kiss scenes that never happen, and are often interrupted by something stupid, as many others have mentioned.

What else... Power ups. Overcoming hardship is one thing, but obvious filler training is absurd and worthless when it lacks other content to fill the story out. This is the sign of a poor series.

[Mimishiki19]

"Shut up woman ! Men are talking !"

When a pubescent snotfaced boy rudely interrupts an elder,vastly more experienced in the subject, woman simply because he's male and damn it he has FEELINGS and everyone fucking smiles.


Sorry for the necro but I'm raging and need release.

[AceD]

1. Death of my favorite character(s).

I actually find this makes them more memorable. More so if there death was meaningful.

I dislike weak ass main characters with no backbone. So many of them, it gets annoying.

[VicViper573]

1. Death of my favorite character(s).

I actually find this makes them more memorable. More so if there death was meaningful.

I dislike weak ass main characters with no backbone. So many of them, it gets annoying.

*reminds self not to say anything about Evangelion.*

Anyway, one thing I really hate in anime is when it comes to characters with secret identities who get caught, the person who catches them is still completely oblivious to the fact that that friend has a secret identity.

[Mimishiki19]

Forced marriages in modern times...or at any time.It's not only that it's a dated,annoying cliche but also most of the time it doesn't make any damn sense.
The woman/girl is a empress,queen,heiress,badass or whatever but she HAS to marry the villain(why always bad people?) because...ahm,yeah!.Seldom there's a reason given beyond the "the guy wants to" or "daddy said so".
How many times have we seen this crap happen to our favorite heroines? I'm sick to death of these storylines just destroying a character.

Worst offender:I honestly can't decide because they are all bad.Either it's Dance in the Vampire Bund that has the most powerful vampire in the world unable to say no because "Ahm,yeah!" or SAO where rape/slavery is legal or Gundam Seed Destiny that makes the female character turn into utter crap.
These 3 make my top list because they made me abandon the series.

[Tompior]

I hate girls with eye patches...

Why the hell do they have to put them in shitloads of anime? Why are they always so pathetic?
When I play an anime, and see girl with eye patch in the 1st episode, I immediately drop and delete whole series.

[1000mAh]

^ I can't seem to remember so many of those, and they aren't so annoying.
At times, they are my fav characters in the specific show.

AS for me; The oblicatory swimsuit episode with no relevant plot or connection to anything but fan service.

[Nodame-chan]

Favorite characters dying and OTPs not happening =/

[Xycolian2332]

Faggots who can't make a move.

Girls that hit boys over misunderstandings.

[JamesAutumn]

I'm not sure how other cultures perceive a hero to be but to in my eyes a hero is someone who is strong and not a weakling that has others do all the fighting. I appreciate a support cast but if the main character only gets powers when everyone else is on the brink of death it's a total mentalf*&% when that happens.

Kaze No Stigma had a good strong male lead and so did Shura No Toki
personally i love it when a lead character can stand on their own and have the support of others it just sucks when theres someone in the front dragging down the powers of others.

I wonder why this occurs because honestly i'm so freakin lost on why this would be seen as popular and not annoying. Although since i've renewed my love for anime this past year i realize that alot of newer ones that i've been suggested to see have alot of weaker vessels as the leads and then they like have mecha abilities only when someone elses life is near the end.

Another thing i do dislike is the romance not getting built upon it seems like a waste of time to show these characters on the brink of sharing their emotions. Personally...in my life i've seen love or what they may think as love develop much quicker and that despite the bad circumstances hell atleast they took the risk to get together even if it ended bad. But i haven't seen that in a anime to be honest although since i've been on tours the past 5 years my knowledge of anime is subpar but i'm workin on it promise!

I really hate how naruto is in love with sakura but she totally friend zones him. dude needs to see the chick ain't diggin him and mozy over hinatas way....just my 2 cents..well one i spent the other on candy :/

[Hadouken]

"This is just the beginning.."

*anime ends*

Cliffhangers at the last episode of an anime. Why? This won't make me want to read the manga, it'll make me wish the manga would end sooner so the anime will continue.

[JamesAutumn]

"This is just the beginning.."

*anime ends*

Cliffhangers at the last episode of an anime. Why? This won't make me want to read the manga, it'll make me wish the manga would end sooner so the anime will continue.

Amen! testify!

[Fool010]

Kaze No Stigma had a good strong male lead and so did Shura No Toki

I hate that type of character, they're overpowered to the point everything gets irrelevant. At least Cassherns invincibility made sense, as it's more a curse than a blessing.

AS for me; The oblicatory swimsuit episode with no relevant plot or connection to anything but fan service.

Onsen episodes with breast groping and pathetically unfunny attempts at peeping are even worse.

I'd add :

- antagonists with a god complex believing themselves to be the second coming of Christ
- antagonists bent on destroying the world/killing everyone because the world isn't a nice place
- antagonists with a grudge bent on destroying the world/killing everyone because someone in the past has been mean to them.
- gratuitious gore and sex in order to appear 'mature'
- the unbreakable power of childhood friendship and kindergarten love in romantic relationships
- fights instead of plot
- Gundam dichotomy : war is bad, warriors are badass
- redundant plot twists
- offscreen narration

and many more.

[JamesAutumn]

I think in entertainment in general i hate the messiah complex. A foreigner is the only person who can save a native land and peoples from a disaster of sorts.

It just seems dumb in my opinion to rely on the actions of someone who doesn't have respect for the customs of the land to come in and save these people. i dunno it's like that in every kinda visual media it may not be a bad basis but it's still annoying i guess as humans we can't think of any other way to start a epic triple a story

[DragonzRage]

simply said in 1 statement

I HATE WHEN THE MAIN CHARACTER SPENDS EVERY EPISODE CRYING!!!!!!!!!

im watching mirai nikki and its always "why am i helpless why am i so sad why am i friendless cry sob sob. i also watched accel world it's a cry fest world there >.>

[megido-rev.M]

^ Because Yuno is always terrifying him , otherwise he would be mustering some courage.

"This is just the beginning.."

*anime ends*

Cliffhangers at the last episode of an anime. Why? This won't make me want to read the manga, it'll make me wish the manga would end sooner so the anime will continue.

+1 totally

[VicViper573]

"This is just the beginning.."

*anime ends*

Cliffhangers at the last episode of an anime. Why? This won't make me want to read the manga, it'll make me wish the manga would end sooner so the anime will continue.

Do not watch "Bastard!" then.  They do that exact same thing.