As much as I like anime, there some tropes/jokes/cliches I'd rather do without:
The 'lol she's so bad at cooking that KOs people, so everyone's afraid to eat it' trope
The 'guy trips over and accidentally lands with his hands on someones boobs' trope
The 'scary, freaky, gay stereotype that doesn't seem to notice that people think they're a freak' trope
The 'cool rival' trope.
The sexualisation of minors in general is offputting too
Character that has sexual harassment as one of their main character trait and it's somehow played for laugh, like the goblin with the grapefruit hairdo in MHA
I loved Jiraiya in Naruto but absolutely hated this aspect
yes honestly, sometimes I drop whole animes because the fan service is too much
Most anime is made for teenagers or little kids. Many of the tropes you mentioned are just because of a 10 year old needs to watch demon slayer and immediately understand what’s going on. One exception is the gasping/panting/etc isn’t a trope, that just something Japanese people do a lot. It’s just exaggerated in anime since the medium is a self referencing simulacrum of real life. Miyazaki during his famous rant about the industry talked about how people don’t produce characters based on people, but rather how they are based on the characters based on people. Add in a few generations of this and you sort of get to the heart of why most anime is fun, but nothing in it is real and the whole industry blends together except a few things daring to be different.
Constantly making small gasps and pants to portray shock, exhaust, surprise, irritation, etc.
I’ve been told by my half Japanese friend this is something actual Japanese people do. Like they just gasp a lot for whatever reason.
but they’re not the same as in the anime.
Idk I’ve literally heard my friends mom go “Naaaaannnnnnnnniiiiiiiiiii?”
If a character says something insightful, meaningful, interesting in a dialogue the other character they’re conversing with has to say their name in response. Once you notice this it’s hard to forget.
Yeah this is probably the most common trope of all. In anime they say characters’ names incredibly frequently and it’s hard not to notice. Is this a Japanese culture thing or just anime?
In Japanese, you do say people's names more often because pronouns don't really exist. The closest thing would be kare/kanojo which means "that guy/girl" (or "boyfriend/girlfriend"). Most of the time you would either use the person's name with an honorific, or else use a nickname, so that the listener knows what your relationship to them is. That could also have something to do with the trope y'all were talking about and why it doesn't play as well in translation, since honorifics don't translate well some of the meaning gets lost.
Yeah I hate those tropes too. I hate the self-insert blank slate male characters too.
I really hate those self MCs, the ones with black/brown hair, skinny and gets all the girls, honestly really annoying at this point
Just fanservice in general honestly
How when after the villains are beaten they just become friends with the MC
Muh gender equality!!!! characters like Kazuma
How female characters how just literally useless, oversexualized, and or/and exist just for the MC
