History BennettTheSage / TropesKToO

** His breakneck-speed rundown of ''Anime/{{Kite}}''[='s=] climax takes him three deep breaths to get through.

** Noting how much ''De:vadasy'' is a ripoff of ''Evangelion'', Sage refers to its three teenaged protagonists as Not-Shinji, Not-Asuka, and Not-Rei.

** He cites this as one of the major problems with ''Puppet Princess'', as it frequently switches from gory violence to slapstick comedy on a dime.

* NoExportForYou: He notes that ''Anime/AndroidKikaiderTheAnimation'' had an OVA that was never brought over to the states (specifically a crossover with ''Series/{{Inazuman}}''). He couldn't care less about it after how dreadful the TV series was.

** The aforementioned ''Ultimate Teacher'' review mentions Excel's "Sarin gas" rant in the last episode of ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' [[note]]Which was intentionally made too risque to air.[[/note]]. While American viewers would wonder what the heck she's talking about ([[MindScrew as usual]]), Japanese viewers would recognize it as a reference to the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo Subways in 1995.

** Sage shows a small sample of ''Gundress''[='=] theatrical version with [[ObviousBeta pencil test mecha]] with this caption:

* MachoMasochism: Sage mocks ''Anime/ApocalypseZero''[='s=] protagonist's [[RatedMForManly one-note machismo]] and willingness to take injury just to prove his toughness.

** In "Evangelion: Nothing Ever Ends", he makes a pun about the last-minute changes made to ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' in the wake of the sarin gas attack in Tokyo: "[...] or, in other words...to [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion rebuild]]." As he smirks, someone off-camera boos and throws someething at him.

* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Critic's crying {{angrish}} in ''Starchaser'' leads to the masturbation subversion gag up above.

* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Critic's crying {{angrish}} in ''Starchaser'' leads to the ADateWithRosiePalms subversion up above.

** He is absolutely repulsed by Shinji [[spoiler:[[ADateWithRosiePalms jacking off to the comatose Asuka]]]] in ''The End of Evangelion''. In his opinion, this scene doesn't make Shinji an unlikely hero, it makes him a douchebag.

** Sage mentions some of the re-used character designs of Masami Obari that show up in ''Angel Blade'' and ''Voogie's Angel'' but originated from other works, most notably "Taint Misbehavin'" and a blond-haired villain from ''VideoGame/VoltageFighterGowcaiser''.

** Sage mentions some of the re-used character designs of Masami Obari that show up in ''Angel Blade'' and ''Voogie's Angel'' but originated from other works, most notably "Taint Misbehavin'" and a blond-haired villain from ''VideoGame/VoltageFighterGowkaiser''.

* NoPronunciationGuide: Sage will call out an anime if it can't keep its pronunciations straight. A few specific examples:
** He points out a scene in ''[[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei Tokyo Revelation]]'' where the BigBad pronounces Yosuke as "Yosuki," while the rest of the cast pronounced it "Yohskay", suggesting that either the cast, crew, or both, didn't care to keep their pronunciations consistent.
** He chastises a character in ''Sins of the Sisters'' for pronouncing another character's name as "Ah-rin" ''a mere second'' after [[{{Hermaphrodite}} they]] pronounced it "Aaron."

** This is also done in the ''Mezzo Forte'' review during the second pornographic sequence. Sage notes that he can’t show what’s happening but plays the audio from the last few scenes, which is ''very'' clear about what's happening.

** He's incensed by the fact that the rapist brother in ''Doomed Megalopolis'' gets off with only a few punches to the jaw.

* LeeroyJenkins: Sage [[InvokedTrope describes]] Leila as such in the ''Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust'' review after she takes off on her own to confront Meier Link...although he admits that it may have been just to get away from Borgoff's dad jokes.

** Discussed in regards to Tetsuro's character design in a flashback in ''Galaxy Express 999'', where the fact that he looks so strange completely kills the mood of a scene where he watches his mother die.
** Also brought up in his discussion of ''Gall Force'', saying the mourning montage was ruined by one character doing so while sitting on a toilet.

** He takes this to an extreme in his ''Super Atragon'' review, where he refers to the main character by a different nickname every time he mentions him.

** He points out a scene in ''Tokyo Revelation'' where the BigBad pronounces Yosuke as "Yosuki," while the rest of the cast pronounced it "Yohskay", suggesting that either the cast, crew, or both, didn't care to keep their pronunciations consistent.

* NotHelpingYourCase: While ''The Guyver'' has Sage displaying saint-like patience with Critic and trying to get him to have fun again, the NoSenseOfPersonalSpace (and liking a voice actor who played a rapist) along with the ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' rip-off movie involving also a DisneyDeath and Creator/MarkHamill turning into a gross cockroach wasn't exactly the best way to prove anything.

** Sage shows a small sample of ''[[Anime/AndroidKikaiderTheAnimation the Kikaider OVA's]]'' OffModel animation with this caption:

** Sage shows a small sample of ''Gundress's'' theatrical version with [[ObviousBeta pencil test mecha]] with this caption:

** Sage mentions some of the re-used character designs of Masami Obari that show up in ''Angel Blade'' and ''Voogie's Angel'' but originated from other works, most notably "Taint Misbehavin'" and a blond-haired villain from ''Voltage Fighter Gowkaiser''.

** He discusses a specific version in the ''Voogie's Angel'' review which he calls "Final Act Syndrome", in which a comedic series, rather than going through CerebusSyndrome, suddenly and drastically switches to tragic in its last episode. He also notes that ''Voogie's Angel'', in his opinion, took over from ''Manga/DesertPunk'' as the defining example of this type of shift. He brings this up again in the ''Master of Martial Hearts'' review, although in that one, he describes the tonal shift in the last episode as being so out of nowhere and so ludicrously exaggerated that it causes the plot to circle all the way back to black comedy.

* MoralGuardians: Sage has noted that he would like to do more reviews as Suave, but [=YouTube=] demonetizing them kills the incentive. Suave lampshades his absence as host in the ''Green Green'' review.[[note]]This review was sponsored, getting around the demonetizing issue.[[/note]]

** After his review of ''Tenchi Forever'', Sage says that he's done with ''Tenchi'' as a series, even though there's other continuities and entries in the ''Tenchi'' series that he hasn't touched. Sage admits that he really doesn't have anything else to say about the series and its many different continuities, and he chose ''Tenchi Forever'' to end on because it ends the Universe continuity and carries an air of finality throughout the film. (At the time, ''Forever'' really was going to be the last ''Tenchi'' animation ever made, but it got a ContinuityReboot years later.)

** He's similarly angered by ''De:vadasy'' for Minato not facing any consequences for raping Not-Shinji, since the scene was never brought up again.