History Flanderization / AnimeAndManga

** ''G Revolution'' actually turns this into a plot point for the first half of the season, with Takao's aforementioned character flaws and repeated tournament victories (which, as [[FaceOfTheBand the most recognizable member of the BBA Team]], means he gets the lion's share of the credit) causing the other members of the team to break away and try their luck with other teams, as they want to step out of Takao's shadow. Of course, [[spoiler:Takao ''still'' ends up winning the tournament.]]

* A justified example in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' with Tsukuyomi. Her first appearance saw her treating Setsuna with [[SenpaiKohai a decent amount of respect]] (and had a healthy crush on her), and was more of a PunchClockVillain than anything else. Then a bunch of chapters later, she shows up again, in total StalkerWithACrush PsychoLesbian mode with a psychotic obsession with Setsuna [[spoiler: and later kinda with Fate and Negi too]], essentially moving from a somewhat ditzy minor minion to the ''only character in the series who is obviously and undeniably evil''. It eventually turns out that she picked up an incredibly dangerous EvilWeapon somewhere along the line, and has become so blood crazed because she's letting the sword feed on her soul and body.

* ''LightNovel/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles'', in another ''Franchise/FateSeries'' example, does this for the titular character's students: as all of them are minor supporting characters, they lose the complexities they showed when they were main characters in other works. Thus, [[Literature/FateStrangeFake Flat]] becomes nothing more than [[{{Keet}} a hyperactive idiot]], [[Literature/FateApocrypha Caules]] is reduced to an excessively serious and studious StraightMan, and [[VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia Luvia]] is boiled down to a stuck-up RichBitch, just to name a few.

*** [[spoiler:And now after being on Okama Island for so long, Sanji's become utterly weak against women. Once again, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools tropes are]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments not bad.]]]]

* A justified example in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' with Tsukuyomi. Her first appearance saw her treating Setsuna with [[SempaiKohai a decent amount of respect]] (and had a healthy crush on her), and was more of a PunchClockVillain than anything else. Then a bunch of chapters later, she shows up again, in total StalkerWithACrush PsychoLesbian mode with a psychotic obsession with Setsuna [[spoiler: and later kinda with Fate and Negi too]], essentially moving from a somewhat ditzy minor minion to the ''only character in the series who is obviously and undeniably evil''. It eventually turns out that she picked up an incredibly dangerous EvilWeapon somewhere along the line, and has become so blood crazed because she's letting the sword feed on her soul and body.

* ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'':

* ''LightNovel/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles'', in another ''Franchise/FateSeries'' example, does this for the titular character's students: as all of them are minor supporting characters, they lose the complexities they showed when they were main characters in other works. Thus, [[LightNovel/FateStrangeFake Flat]] becomes nothing more than [[{{Keet}} a hyperactive idiot]], [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha Caules]] is reduced to an excessively serious and studious StraightMan, and [[VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia Luvia]] is boiled down to a stuck-up RichBitch, just to name a few.

* A lot of this happened as adaptations of the ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' light novels were made, namely the anime:

** The hero ensemble's tendencies to ''always'' fall for Team Rocket's trickery and {{Paper Thin Disguise}}s got [[GullibleLemmings more oblivious]] the more it was used. Ironically the first time it was used, Ash and the others didn't fall for it. Now the twerps ''never'' seem to show suspicion towards a whole load of similar trios made of a blue haired boy, a red headed girl and a talking Meowth. Meowth also managed to more and more easily convince the twerps [[HeelFaceMole he had turned good]] (since a prominent stint in ''Best Wishes'' the heroes are at least ''slightly'' more skeptical, though still eventually buy it).

** Naruto himself [[TookALevelInDumbass is made to look a lot less intelligent than he actually is in the manga]]. Which seems to be happening in the manga as well, with examples such as Naruto not realizing that the entire island he's on shaking means something's wrong and immediately forgetting something he realized himself. [[spoiler:Thankfully he lost his flanderization entirely after finding [[OneTrueLove true love]] in Hinata and marrying her, and then later becoming Hokage]].

* ''Manga/DGrayMan'''s Cross Marian's suffered this treatment, which can lap over into AdaptationalVillainy . First there was his treatment of Allen. In the manga, Allen received TrainingFromHell from him surely. But, the worst seems to be the debts Cross made him pay. The anime takes it UpToEleven with filler episode 27; My Mentor, general Cross. The episode has Cross selling Allen into slave labor. He's also seen, at one point, asking Allen to bring him man-eating animals, which ends with Allen almost being killed by a lion. In another scene, he has Allen pinned to a wall in an alley, taking his money-the scene giving off pimp vibes, complete with Allen asking Cross how long he was going to be forced to make money for him. None of these things were present in the manga. Canon-wise, he is, at worst a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, it seems. The anime however, seemed to want him in the JerkAss camp.

** Chi-Chi in ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. Her HairTriggerTemper and EducationMama tendencies are turned UpToEleven to make her an overbearing [[MyBelovedSmother parent]] with severely SkewedPriorities. It comes to a head in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', where she almost steals her granddaughter Pan from Gohan simply because she's '''beyond''' insistent that Pan never become a martial artist (compare to her second son Goten, who she actually trained herself).

* Several characters from ''Anime/FutureGPXCyberFormula'' has gone through this, more notably in ''SIN'', where those traits are taken to ridiculous levels. Bleed Kaga suddenly cranks up [[DarkerandEdgier his melodramatic personality]] to [[UpToEleven an unbelievable level]] so that there will be a reason why he holds so much grudge toward the ex-protagonist. Hayato Kazami takes a [[InvincibleHero God Mode]], and their respective love interests do nothing but mope around on an idea that their beloved may get killed in auto racing.

* In her debut episode in ''Anime/LoveLiveSunshine'', Yoshiko is introduced as a former {{Chuunibyou}} who is [[OldShame very embarrassed about her old self]] and is trying hard not to let that side of her show: predictably, it ends up slipping out anyways, and she doesn't come to terms with it until the other girls assure her that her past self isn't anything to be ashamed of. Come the second season, and she can't go seemingly five minutes without prattling off about her "little demons" and is completely shameless about it, basically being her old self but [[UpToEleven even more extreme]], even though it contradicts her introduction.

** The anime turned Sakura Haruno into a violent psychopath who's constantly punching Naruto (and sometimes Sai) into the ground for the slightest infraction. While she does hit him a few times in the manga, the anime takes it UpToEleven, and in the manga, it mostly stops after the time skip, while it persists in the anime.

** [[NoSocialSkills Sai]]. [[note]] He was brought up in a secret black ops organization known as 'root'('foundation' in the english anime), and was taught to not show or have any emotion whatsoever--only care about your mission. When he is put in Team 7 as Sasuke's replacement, he is socially awkward and often unintentionally insults people due to a general lack of social skills.[[/note]] In the manga and anime he starts out pretty bad, angering Naruto in particular by insulting his manliness a couple of times, and [[BrutallyHonest calling Sakura ugly when trying to think of a nickname]]. However after a few missions with the team he begins improving and is seen reading a book on social skills. The anime however takes this to the extreme by having his relationship with Team 7 improve overall, while simultaneously [[UpToEleven increasing his social awkwardness]]. He's now so socially inept that [[MistakenForGay Naruto actually thinks Sai is hitting on him]], when he actually misreads Naruto's actions as a sign of fear and tries to "[[ThatCameOutWrong show him tenderness]]." There's even a scene where he tries to spoon feed Naruto who has a broken arm. Sai's reading habit has also been given a huge upgrade[[note]]in the manga it's like a one time thing meant to show that he's trying to form good relationships with others[[/note]], and he's seen in a library multiple times surrounded by stacks of books. Unlike in the manga, his reading habits tend to make his social interactions worse (99% of his bad interactions happen because he "read it in a book"[[note]]which at one point in the anime is implied to be Make-Out Paradise, Jiraiya's infamous porn novel[[/note]]).

*** His idiot traits were taken UpToEleven in ''Best Wishes'', but significantly toned down in ''XY''. The only major flaw of his character that retained from his flanderization is him being ObliviousToLove.

* Some strange forms of this happen between mediums of ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena''; when Kozue is introduced in the manga (which ran side-by-side with the anime during their original release dates, despite technically coming first), her obsession with Miki is remarkable, scary, and more visible than it is in the anime (which is no less disturbing, but the main difference is that she's not clingy). Juri was the AlphaBitch in the manga, smitten with Touga, and was jealous of those who got close to him; while she becomes an IceQueen [[LesYay questioning her sexuality]] in the anime, her manga traits go to Nanami, which get taken UpToEleven.

** Momoka's attempts to get Fuyuki to notice her are taken UpToEleven in the anime, as she even uses ''spies'' to see what he's doing.

* Miyu in ''Manga/VampirePrincessMiyu''. In the OVA she was secretive, reserved, and hardly opened up to others except her bodyguard, Larva. However, she covered this up well by being charming, charismatic, friendly, and sometimes flirtatious to humans. In fact, it's not until later that you find out she has personal issues. In the television series, however, her former characteristics are taken UpToEleven to the point she almost becomes a ReiAyanamiExpy.

* A justified example in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' with Tsukuyomi. Her first appearance saw her treating Setsuna with [[SempaiKohai a decent amount of respect]] (and had a healthy crush on her), and was more of a PunchClockVillain than anything else. Then a bunch of chapters later, she shows up again, in total StalkerWithACrush PsychoLesbian mode with a [[FoeYay psychotic obsession with Setsuna]] [[spoiler: and later kinda with Fate and Negi too]], essentially moving from a somewhat ditzy minor minion to the ''only character in the series who is obviously and undeniably evil''. It eventually turns out that she picked up an incredibly dangerous EvilWeapon somewhere along the line, and has become so blood crazed because she's letting the sword feed on her soul and body.

* ''Anime/RurouniKenshin''

* ''Anime/SailorMoon'',

* A justified example in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' with Tsukuyomi. Her first appearance saw her treating Setsuna with [[SempaiKohai a decent amount of respect]] (and had [[SchoolgirlLesbians a healthy crush on her]]), and was more of a PunchClockVillain than anything else. Then a bunch of chapters later, she shows up again, in total StalkerWithACrush PsychoLesbian mode with a [[FoeYay psychotic obsession with Setsuna]] [[spoiler: and later kinda with Fate and Negi too]], essentially moving from a somewhat ditzy minor minion to the ''only character in the series who is obviously and undeniably evil''. It eventually turns out that she picked up an incredibly dangerous EvilWeapon somewhere along the line, and has become so blood crazed because she's letting the sword feed on her soul and body.

** Kaho Mizuki is presented as a mysterious, sweet and mature lady whose presence flusters Sakura and makes Syaoran suspicious, but in the manga, she is also clumsy, cheerful and as Eriol pointed out, forgets about streets quite often. The anime ditch those personalities in favor of the former making her the very definition of YamatoNadeshiko

** Team Rocket finally subverts this in ''Best Wishes'' as they {{Took a Level in Badass}} and lost their comedic quirks, [[BrokenBase breaking the base on yet another issue in the process.]] By the end of the series, and most of ''XY'', both cases of Flanderization were resolved, with the trio returning to being [[NotSoHarmlessVillain comical but semi-threatening villains]].

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' - By mid-Johto many recurring characters are little more than walking collections of running gags, with Brock having his CasanovaWannabe aspect overshadowing his wisecracking and being a BigBrotherMentor to Ash, and the Team Rocket trio's comedy overshadowing their competence.

* In the anime adaptation of ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'', almost every character gets hit with this:

** With the villainous [[ColonelKilgore Vegeta]], this set in already in the original manga. Early on, he was portrayed as a pragmatic and [[NoNonsenseNemesis ruthlessly efficient]] SociopathicSoldier, in deliberate ''contrast'' to the several purely [[ForTheEvulz randomly evil]] bad guys who preceded him (and, as it turned out, followed him), who was not above EnemyMine or even [[VillainExitStageLeft unceremoniously running away]] when the fight turned against him. However, at ''one'' point he did indulge in a bit of sadistic taunting by letting a group of inferior minions fight a team of [[SuperWeight hopelessly outclassed]] heroes who were no threat at all to him for his amusement--nevermind that he quickly dropped this charade and got deadly serious when some heroes appeared who ''were'' a genuine potential threat. His later appearances drew increasingly exclusively on that single sequence for his characterization, however, making him an honor-obsessed BloodKnight who would do things like ''help his enemies grow stronger'' so he'd get to [[TooDumbToLive fight the most formidable opponent of all]].

** ''DBGT'' also made Goku much dumber in comparison. He isn't able to count up to three, even though he could count at least above 10 at the beginning of ''DB''. He could count up to 9,999 in ''DBZ'', but in ''DBGT'', he cannot count to ''3''?!
** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' also messes around with Goku's personality, at times making him more like his ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' counterpart in regards to his BloodKnight tendencies. He displays a childlike fixation on fighting, challenging anyone and everyone up to the literal King of Everything, blows off Bulma's birthday party to train, [[spoiler:hires TheMultiverse's greatest assassin Hit to kill ''himself'' just so he could fight him]], and never seems to consider whether it's appropriate or what the consequences of his actions might be. In fact, a good portion of the fandom blames him for the events of the Future Trunks and Universe Survival Saga, since [[spoiler:his challenging Zamasu to a fight is what drove the latter to decide that all mortals were too dangerous and needed to be wiped out]] while the latter has him reminding [[TopGod Grand Zen'o]] for the tournament so he can fight strong opponents only for the Omni-King to declare the losing universes to immediately be erased from existence.[[note]]Although it turns out that this inadvertently saved them as Zen'o was planning on wiping them out anyway and the winning universe would get to survive.[[/note]] He only twice displays anything resembling the cold, focused anger he demonstrated with Freeza, and that comes when [[spoiler:Goku Black says that he killed his universe's versions of Chi-Chi and Goten after stealing Goku's body and then when Jiren tries to murder everyone on Universe 7's stands]].

* ''Anime/TenchiInTokyo'' cranks certain personality traits to the max, to the point that almost everyone ends up Flanderized. Sasami goes from a YamatoNadeshiko to a jealous {{Yandere}} who tries to kill Tenchi's dad when she learns Tenchi is transferring. Ryoko and Ayeka's quabbles almost cause full-on wars. Washu loses all of the HiddenDepths she had, becoming a ForScience type and little else. Mihoshi is nearly TooDumbToLive, and a graduate of the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy. Kiyone goes from being TheAce who would be promoted if not for Mihoshi to someone so obsessed with getting promoted that she leaves Earth as soon as the opportunity presents itself while [[EvilLaugh laughing maniacally]]. Even Tenchi's dad goes from a CovertPervert to an outright lech.

** Ino Yamanka at first started out as a ninja who focused more on her appearance and love than actual fighting. However, she still isn't above giving up those 2 to win (as evident by cutting her hair short to outsmart Sakura). She is also known to have the highest grades out of the Konoha 11. However, when the anime fillers kicks in, she was turned into a character who only cared about her appearance, where she freaks out when a prince chooses another girl over her, and the majority of the Shippuden's Extra footage containing her is about her complaining about or glorifying her bust size.

* Manga/DGrayMan 's Cross Marian's suffered this treatment, which can lap over into AdaptationalVillainy . First there was his treatment of Allen. In the manga, Allen received TrainingFromHell from him surely. But, the worst seems to be the debts Cross made him pay. The anime takes it UpToEleven with filler episode 27; My Mentor, general Cross. The episode has Cross selling Allen into slave labor. He's also seen, at one point, asking Allen to bring him man-eating animals, which ends with Allen almost being killed by a lion. In another scene, he has Allen pinned to a wall in an alley, taking his money-the scene giving off pimp vibes, complete with Allen asking Cross how long he was going to be forced to make money for him. None of these things were present in the manga. Canon-wise, he is, at worst a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, it seems. The anime however, seemed to want him in the JerkAss camp.

* In Manga/ItsNotMyFaultImNotPopular, Yoshida was originally implied to be misjudged by [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Tomoko]], and just a normal girl with the FaceOfAThug who just happens to be into punk fashion, In one of her early appearances, Tomoko accidentally[[note]][[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation The "Accidentally" Depends on who you ask.]][[/note]] gropes Yoshida when trying to wake her up. [[PervertRevengeMode She responds with a slap]], [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Yoshida spends the rest of the chapter]] [[BerserkButton angry with her]] with [[CloudcuckoolandersMinder Yuri]] acting as a consoler between the two. Post-Field trip arc, she's a delinquent, just like Tomoko originally assumed her to be, with a HairTriggerTemper and a manic obsession with cute things. She has a sort of VitriolicBestBuds relationship with Tomoko in later chapters.

* A justified example in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' with Tsukuyomi. Her first appearance saw her treating Setsuna with [[SempaiKohai a decent amount of respect]] (and had [[SchoolgirlLesbians a healthy crush on her]]), and was more of a PunchClockVillain than anything else. Then a bunch of chapters later, she shows up again, in total StalkerWithACrush PsychoLesbian mode with a [[FoeYay psychotic obsession with Setsuna]] [[spoiler: and later kinda with Fate and Negi too]], essentially moving from a somewhat ditzy minor minion to the ''only character in the series who is obviously and undeniably evil''. It eventually turns out that she picked up an incredibly dangerous EvilWeapon somewhere along the line, and has become so blood crazed because she's letting the sword feed on her soul and body.

** [[spoiler:Though, said über-weakness has been the topic of [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading]] by Chopper, saying that his rocket powered nosebleeds, which require blood transfusions afterwards, are getting annoying and that he needs to be rehabilitated. With pictures first.]] [[spoiler:This has actually become a significant plot-point, as Chopper now needs a donor to conduct a blood transfusion on Sanji after he spurted most of it out when meeting a society of actual, non-{{Gonk}} Mermaids. The Mermaids and Fish-men refuse to provide blood for a human, however. A useful trope indeed.]]

** [[spoiler: Though, said über-weakness has been the topic of [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading]] by Chopper, saying that his rocket powered nosebleeds, which require blood transfusions afterwards, are getting annoying and that he needs to be rehabilitated. With pictures first.]] [[spoiler: This has actually become a significant plot-point, as Chopper now needs a donor to conduct a blood transfusion on Sanji after he spurted most of it out when meeting a society of actual, non-{{Gonk}} Mermaids. The Mermaids and Fish-men refuse to provide blood for a human, however. A useful trope indeed.]]

** It may be hard to believe, but Sanji wasn't always quite such a loser when it came to romance and women. He was never all that successful in romance (unless you want to count those 20 bounty hunter chicks that were probably just leading him on) and was kind of awkward around Nami from the start, but it wasn't nearly as pronounced as it is now. His attention to the main females more often seemed kind of sweet, and he didn't quite come off as a dorky pervert like he does now. However, Oda gradually turning him into a full blown ChivalrousPervert (coupled with epic ButtMonkey tendencies) was actually a [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools really positive change.]] In retrospect, there was a period of time where he seemed a little too perfect compared to other main characters, and was in need of a serious personality flaw in the same vein as Luffy's flakiness and stupidity, Zoro's lack of sense of direction, Usopp's cowardliness, and Nami's greed.

** [[spoiler: And now after being on Okama Island for so long, Sanji's become utterly weak against women. Once again, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools tropes are]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments not bad.]] ]]

* Applies to Kuroko in the anime adaptation of ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'' as a result of AdaptationExpansion. Her lesbian crush on Misaka is exploited to help fill episode time with more [[PlayedForLaughs gags]], but the new scenes tend to be exaggerated to the point of [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale attempted rape]]. Outside the new material, however, her scenes in ''Railgun'' are adapted faithfully enough, still displaying her [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure dedication and badassery]], especially when things [[LetsGetDangerous get serious]], whether or not Misaka is around at the time.

* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' has a veritable boatload of flanderization in the manga. The {{Anime}} versions of the characters are the end result.

** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' also messes around with Goku's personality, at times making him more like his ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' counterpart in regards to his BloodKnight tendencies. He displays a childlike fixation on fighting, challenging anyone and everyone up to the literal King of Everything, [[spoiler:hiring TheMultiverse's greatest assassin Hit to kill ''himself'' just so he could fight him]], and never seems to consider whether it's appropriate or what the consequences of his actions might be. In fact, a good portion of the fandom blames him for the events of the Future Trunks and Universe Survival Saga, since [[spoiler:his challenging Zamasu to a fight is what drove the latter to decide that all mortals were too dangerous and needed to be wiped out]] while the latter has him reminding [[TopGod Zen'o]] for the tournament so he can fight strong opponents only for the Omni-King to declare the losing universes to immediately be erased from existence.[[note]]Although it turns out that this inadvertently saved them as Zen'o was planning on wiping them out anyway and the winning universe would get to survive.[[/note]] He only twice displays anything resembling the cold, focused anger he demonstrated with Freeza, and that comes when [[spoiler:Goku Black says that he killed his universe's versions of Chi-Chi and Goten after stealing Goku's body and then when Jiren tries to murder everyone on Universe 7's stands]].