History TakeThat / Anime

** I thought it was CardCaptorSakura's neck she snaps.
*** Sailor Moon lost in the opening close-up. There's not much of a difference, since [[spoiler: it's a parody of {{Magical Girl}}s in general anyway]].
* Twice in the ''ReadOrDie'' {{OVA}} the President of the United States, who is visibly based on GeorgeWBush, is shown visibly losing bladder control in response to frightening events going on around him. Just to add an extra bit of English to the insult, though, the dub gives him a Texan accent not unlike that of Bush. ''R.O.D. The TV'' repeated the pants wetting gag and as further insult, revealed his name to be "President Al Gore" without changing who he actually resembles. America is also frequently shown to be [[{{Eagleland}} power hungry yet completely ineffectual and bothersome on the world stage.]] [[spoiler: Britain is revealed to be an ''effectual'' powerhungry nation that is willing to obliterate entire countries and practice mind control on the world's citizens in order to retain its prominence. China is shown to be brutal but requires stealing others technology to succeed.]] Japan is of course innocent and chaste.

*** I don't think they are going to change Paul. The others changed to caring Trainers afterward, but Paul has just been growing worse by directly abusing his Pokémon.

* In the English dub of ''{{Bleach}}'', during the Bount arc, there's a scene where Orihime offers Rukia a pudding-filled rice ball. Rukia's responce is as follows:
-->'''Rukia''': It's kinda like a cream filled donut, only it's [[{{Dissimile}} not cream-filled]], [[FourKidsEntertainment and it's]] [[{{Americanitis}} not a donut]].

** Another big TakeThat, this time to the fandom (FanDumb?) is, given recent chapters, [[spoiler: the resolution of the Sakura vs Karin ShippingWars. Not only the DesignatedGirlFight most rabid [=SasuSaku=] fans were desiring will certainly never happen but Karin is now going off to Konoha with everybody else, stoking the flames of shippers' rage like never before.]]

** Basically the ENTIRE series is based on Shout outs Spoof and Take Thats, Heck theres about 10 within the first five minutes, I really don't want to go into naming them all.

* GoNagai is responsible for one of the biggest take thats in the history of manga if not one of the biggest take thats in general. After PTA forced Shonen Jump to end his debiutant series ''Schameless School'', Go Nagai finished series by having titular school attacked by PTA and all characters killed while fighting evil forces of censorship.

* In The English dub of DragonBallKai, Goku references the CW turning Mr. Popo blue by pondering what the dragon on Namek will look like, adding "Maybe he's blue."

-->'''Kiri Komori:''' Hey, guess what...\\
'''Majiru Itoshiki:''' No, stop, you're going to talk about something stupid. Like [[LuckyStar how you like to eat a chocolate cornetto]]!
** Also, [[http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2008/10/18/goku-zetsubou-op-revealed-skewers-lucky-star/ this]] blatant ''Lucky Star'' jab in the OVA.
*** It's a jab at Chinese knockoffs of all things. The Chinese spies try to bribe Japanese otaku with inferior knockoffs of popular series like the one above, with little success.
** In episode 5, when they through in the background a star that reads "UNLUCKY CHANNEL". The star itself looks EXACTLY like the LUCKY CHANNEL emblem, is in no way hidden to the audience, and the reason it's there: ...there is none, it's just there.
** Of course, since this ''is'' a satire series, it's loaded with {{Take That}}s, from Michael Jackson to corporate sponsorship naming rights. They're also not as insulting as normal take thats are.

** This Troper remembers another reference to Lucky Star in episode 5, when they through in the background a star that reads "UNLUCKY CHANNEL". The star itself looks EXACTLY like the LUCKY CHANNEL emblem, is in no way hidden to the audience, and the reason it's there: ...there is none, it's just there.

* ''BurstAngel'', a show which depicts most of Japan being pretty much overrun with criminals as a result of allowing the Japanese to possess guns, has a not so subtle picture in the end credits. It slowly reveals a photo collage of the characters in the show which not only looks just like the USA, but it is made of 50 photos to make sure that you know what they meant. This was funny for me though, since the USA has had the right to bear arms for more than 200 years, Canada has tons of guns used solely for hunting, and Switzerland orders every single male to keep their army rifles in working condition, but the Japanese apparently couldn't maintain order in this show even after a mere handful.
** [[TruthInTelevision Truth In Television]]: From the Japanese perspective the USA ''is'' overrun with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate criminals]] and [[http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita violent]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Japan#Statistics crime]]. A severalfold difference in ratios is hard to argue against, which means the infamous [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRerwXWTRjM#t=5s exercise video / English lesson for tourists]] is more of a StereotypeReactionGag than a DiscreditedTrope.
*** As a resident of Japan, I would contest that the Japanese don't really feel this way about the USA at all. The crime rates may be higher, but countries which allow citizens to bear arms are not full of violent killers, mercenaries, and private armies as a result of this. The idea that lessened gun control would destroy a first world nation in a matter of years is more than a little bit ludicrous.
** Couple problems with that supposition. Incarceration rate does not equal number of violent crimes(mostly due to the harshest drug laws in the world). A lot more variable demographics in the USA can lead to more fighting in the cities as comparied to the nearly homogeneous Japan. The USA has a higher murder rate than most first world nations, but a lower burglary and theft rate. May have less to do with guns than just how things are since changes in gun laws that both increase and decrease the access to guns in the US have little effect on crime rates over a ten year period.
** You've got it backwards. In the backstory legalizing guns didn't cause the crime wave, an inexpicable rise in crime caused them to allow everyone to carry firearms. So if any thing it seems almost pro-gun, [[{{SpaceWhaleAesop}} at least if your country is suddenly overun with robots and monsters.]]

* In The English dub of Dragon Ball Kai, Goku references the CW turning Mr. Popo blue by pondering what the dragon on Namek will look like, adding "Maybe he's blue."

-->playing Card Games on MOTORBIKES is 'don't try this at home' bait.
-->the plot is literally almost impossible to get through without watching every single episode.
-->Any and All violent parts are completely vital to the plotline.
-->The main antagonists of the second season have to DIE to become villains.

* Tanguichi used GunXSword by mercilessly doing a couple of TakeThat on GundamSEEDDestiny a couple of times. Most of them aimed Kira.

** FullMetal Panic ''Fumoffu'' parodied GundamSeed. In Gundam00, revenge was exacted by making Setsuna F. Seiei (an {{Expy}} of Sousuke) do a ripoff version of Sousuke saving Kaname from danger in a dramatization.

* SeitokaiNoIchizon: ''"Let's add [[{{Dragonball}} an orb around the star]]!!" [[DragonballEvolution "...evolution."]] "It's [[SoBadItsHorrible so bad it's awful]]!! Don't even mention it!!"''

* In SaintYoungMen, Buddha and Jesus, when asked by their landlord what they do for a living, say that it's a rare profession and they worry about kids who want to do what they do when they grow up. In the background is a sketch of [[DeathNote Kira]] saying "I will become the God of the new world!"
--> May be more of a shout-out than a take that.
* The manga adaptation of ''BreathOfFireIV'' has a TakeThat to the severe {{Bowdlerization}} of international versions of the original video game that in its execution can be considered a major CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
** In the original ''Japanese'' Playstation release of ''BreathOfFireIV'', Soniel [[BackStab back-stabs]] GodEmperor Fou-lu (KingInTheMountain and, at this point in the game, a fullblown WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds'') with a soul-devouring EvilWeapon. The screen fades to a black-on-red ShadowDiscretionShot, Fou-lu pulls aforementioned EvilWeapon out, and [[OffWithHisHead decapitates Soniel]] in what is a GoryDiscretionShot depicted entirely by ShadowDiscretionShot. After Soniel's body falls, the screen goes back to normal. (So already, we're dealing with some {{Bowdlerization}} via Japanese artistic convention--and of a sort that would have been releasable for a PG-rated video game in the early 2000s.)
** In the ''international'' releases of ''BreathOfFireIV'' and in the Windows port, ''the entire HoistByHisOwnPetard decapitation scene is removed entirely'' despite technically ''already'' being censored (by being depicted via a Japanese DiscretionShot convention), despite being on platforms that were known to be friendly to BloodierAndGorier games, being in a franchise that had a game (''BreathOfFireII'') that pretty much [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar broke each and every one of Nintendo's guidelines and got away with it]], and despite ''keeping in a VomitIndiscretionShot featuring Fou-lu puking up buckets of blood'' after being at ground zero of a FantasticNuke as well as ''all'' manner of other sorts of HighOctaneNightmareFuel. Yes, this is apparently a WallBanger for everyone involved ''except'' Capcom USA.
** Apparently mangaka Ichimura Hitoshi ''also'' thought this was a WallBanger and gifted the BreathOfFire fandom a [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment Of]] TakeThat in response by making the scene ''far'' BloodierAndGorier ''and'' cranking up the CrowningMomentOfAwesome UpToEleven. In the manga version, Fou-lu is not merely back-stabbed but outright '''run through''' by Soniel with the EvilWeapon and ends up on the floor with a severe case of BloodFromTheMouth. Right as Soniel starts laughing and bragging that he's killed a PhysicalGod, Fou-lu manifests an energy sword out of pure manliness, lops Soniel's [[OffWithHisHead head clean off]] '''''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome WHILE STILL HAVING A LONGSWORD STICKING THROUGH HIS LIVER]]''''', then ''shoves the [[EvilWeapon Dragonslayer]] out of his midsection by hand''.

** Another subtle take that seemingly directed at people who indulge in escapist fiction appears in Episode 21 of R2 when Lelouch criticizes [[spoiler:Charles and Marianne's]] plan, he describes them as "refusing to accept reality" and being "content to watch from afar".

* ''TeamMedicalDragon'' is one massive Take That to the Japanese Medical System, there is generally more focus on the politics of the profession than the actual medicine. That makes the original writer's death from [[DeathByIrony Lung Cancer complications]] all the more poignant.

* Supposedly, in the ''[=~Pokémon~=]'' anime, Ash's rival Paul is a shot aimed at [[StopHavingFunGuys those gamers]] who take the game [[SeriousBusiness far too seriously]] and bash the people who don't.

**** Green was remotely nice [[CharacterDevelopment pre-Red/Leaf becoming champion]]. A cocky jerk, but nice. Paul on the other hand..

* In the same vein Kagurazaka, a one-shot [[DittoFighter Ditto Dueler]] from ''YuGiOhGX'' is mean to be a jab to the TCG players that try to win duels by "net-decking", copying a Championship-winning deck in the hopes of achieving a cheap, effortless victory.
** As another "take that", when copying one such high-powered deck against Sho, who is supposed to be one of the weaker character, Sho beats him handily and admits he was inspired by how Judai beat the deck's original user. Which is pretty much how the TCG goes, once someone figures out how to break an overpowered deck, everyone follows suit and the overpowered deck becomes an underplayed deck.

* Supposedly, in the ''[=~Pokémon~=]'' anime, Ash's new rival Paul is a shot aimed at [[StopHavingFunGuys those gamers]] who take the game [[SeriousBusiness far too seriously]].

*** I don't think they are going to change Paul. The others changed to caring Trainers afterward, but Paul has just been growing worse by directly abusing the Pokemon.

** In the ''international'' releases of ''BreathOfFire IV'' and in the Windows port, ''the entire HoistByHisOwnPetard decapitation scene is removed entirely'' despite technically ''already'' being censored (by being depicted via a Japanese DiscretionShot convention), despite being on platforms that were known to be friendly to BloodierAndGorier games, being in a franchise that had a game (''BreathOfFire II'') that pretty much [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar broke each and every one of Nintendo's guidelines and got away with it]], and despite ''keeping in a VomitIndiscretionShot featuring Fou-lu puking up buckets of blood'' after being at ground zero of a FantasticNuke as well as ''all'' manner of other sorts of HighOctaneNightmareFuel. Yes, this is apparently a WallBanger for everyone involved ''except'' Capcom USA.

** In the original ''Japanese'' Playstation release of ''BreathOfFireIV'', Soniel [[BackStab back-stabs]] GodEmperor Fou-lu (KingInTheMountain and, at this point in the game, a fullblown WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds'') with a soul-devouring EvilWeapon. The screen fades to a black-on-red SilhouetteDiscretionShot, Fou-lu pulls aforementioned EvilWeapon out, and [[OffWithHisHead decapitates Soniel]] in what is a GoryDiscretionShot depicted entirely by SilhouetteDiscretionShot. After Soniel's body falls, the screen goes back to normal. (So already, we're dealing with some {{Bowdlerization}} via Japanese artistic convention--and of a sort that would have been releasable for a PG-rated video game in the early 2000s.)

* The manga adaptation of ''BreathOfFire IV'' has a TakeThat to the severe {{Bowdlerization}} of international versions of the original video game that in its execution can be considered a major CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
** In the original ''Japanese'' Playstation release of ''BreathOfFire IV'', Soniel [[BackStab back-stabs]] GodEmperor Fou-lu (KingInTheMountain and, at this point in the game, a fullblown WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds) with a soul-devouring EvilWeapon. The screen fades to black silhousette on red background, Fou-lu pulls aforementioned EvilWeapon out, and [[OffWithHisHead decapitates Soniel]]. After Soniel's body falls, the screen goes back to normal. (So already, we're dealing with some {{Bowdlerization}}.)
** In the ''international'' releases of ''BreathOfFire IV'' and in the Windows port, ''the entire HoistByHisOwnPetard decapitation scene is removed entirely'' despite only being shown in silhouette, despite being on platforms that were known to be friendly to BloodierAndGorier games, being in a franchise that had a game (''BreathOfFire II'') that pretty much [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar broke each and every one of Nintendo's guidelines and got away with it]], and despite ''keeping in a VomitIndiscretionShot featuring Fou-lu puking up buckets of blood'' after being at ground zero of a FantasticNuke. Yes, this is apparently a WallBanger for everyone involved ''except'' Capcom USA.

** Apparently mangaka Ichimura Hitoshi ''also'' thought this was a WallBanger and gifted the BreathOfFire fandom a [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moment Of]] TakeThat in response by making the scene ''far'' BloodierAndGorier ''and'' cranking up the CrowningMomentOfAwesome UpToEleven. In the manga version, Fou-lu is not merely back-stabbed but outright '''run through''' by Soniel with the EvilWeapon and ends up on the floor with a severe case of BloodFromTheMouth. Right as Soniel starts laughing and bragging that he's killed a PhysicalGod, Fou-lu manifests an energy sword out of pure {{GAR}}, lops Soniel's [[OffWithHisHead head clean off]] '''''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome WHILE STILL HAVING A LONGSWORD STICKING THROUGH HIS LIVER]]''''', then ''shoves the [[EvilWeapon Dragonslayer]] out of his midsection by hand''.

GoNagai is responsible for one of the biggest take thats in the history of manga if not one of the biggest take thats in general. After PTA forced Shonen Jump to end his debiutant series ''Schameless School'', Go Nagai finished series by having titular school attacked by PTA and all characters killed while fighting evil forces of censorship.