History WesternAnimation / MyLifeMe

''My Life Me'' is a Canadian/French animated series from the Quebec-based studio [=CarpeDiem=] Film & TV inc. that aired on Creator/{{Teletoon}} in 2011. It follows the [[SliceOfLife exploits]] of junior high students Birch Small, her cousin Liam Coll, Sandra Le Blanc, and Raffi Rodriguez. The show is perhaps best known for how it employs many JapaneseVisualArtsTropes, with the main character Birch being an aspiring manga artist.

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-iF3i-DjQE Here's a trailer.]]

''My Life Me'' is a Canadian/French animated series from the Quebec-based studio [=CarpeDiem=] Film & TV inc. that follows the [[SliceOfLife exploits]] of junior high students Birch Small, her cousin Liam Coll, Sandra Le Blanc, and Raffi Rodriguez. It employs many JapaneseVisualArtsTropes, and the main character Birch is an aspiring manga artist.

''My Life Me'' is a Canadian/French animated series that follows the [[SliceOfLife exploits]] of junior high students Birch Small, her cousin Liam Coll, Sandra Le Blanc, and Raffi Rodriguez. It employs many JapaneseVisualArtsTropes, and the main character Birch is an aspiring manga artist.

[[caption-width-right:350:Hey guys [[Fanfic/MyImmortal you look kawaii.]] From left to right (clockwise): Raffi, Liam, Sandra, and Birch.]]

''My Life Me'' is a Canadian/French animated series that follows the [[SliceOfLife exploits]] of junior high students Birch Small, her cousin Liam Coll, Sandra Le Blanc, and Raffi Rodriguez. It employs many JapaneseVisualArtsTropes, and the main character Birch is an aspiring manga artist. The series attracted a lot of attention from Website/FourChan's /co/ (not much of it positive), due to its {{animesque}} design and tropes, and its online "manga" maker, which was ''extremely'' easy to exploit.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: If someone from the main cast has a love interest outside of their group, that person usually is mentioned only in that one episode, and then never again. Made odder by both that they usually ''get'' the love interest and that the interest remains an extra (and so will share any general dislike of the main character that occurs).

** And they keep using manga as a [[YouKeepUsingThatWord catch-all term]] for... anything Birch and Liam are into. At one point, a Manga Poetry Slam happens, which can be summed up as just the characters saying "manga" a lot. "Manga" is even used in situations that words like "comics" would fit better.

''My Life Me'' is a Canadian/French animated series that follows the [[SliceOfLife exploits]] of junior high students Birch Small, her cousin Liam Coll, Sandra Le Blanc, and Raffi Rodriguez. It employs many JapaneseVisualArtsTropes, and the main character Birch is an aspiring manga artist. The series attracted a lot of attention from Website/FourChan's /co/ (not much of it positive), due to its {{animesque}} design and tropes, and its [[http://www.mylifeme.com/#manga online "manga" maker]], which is ''extremely'' easy to exploit.

* AlphaBitch: Amelia.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Raffi.

** Raffi again, though he has a Hispanic surname.
** Mr. Towes, though he might be black.

* AuthorAvatar: Birch.

* BriefAccentImitation: Mr. Towes does this quite a bit, just for fun.

* TheCheerleader: Amelia is one of these.

* CoolTeacher: Mr. Towes.

* CrossPoppingVeins: Used just about every time anyone gets angry.

* DeanBitterman: Principal Lemon.

* EnforcedTrope: In an {{MST}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMbixFBa2M4 video]], riffing group WebVideo/BoringTrousers [[ConversedTrope talk about]] how the PowerOfFriendship theme is [[EnforcedTrope forced upon the main characters]] of ''My Life Me'':
-->'''Snix:''' Why do they hang out with that [[FieryRedhead orange chick]] if all they ever do [[WithFriendsLikeThese is fight]] [[IdiotBall with her?]]\\
'''Kim:''' I don't know...\\
'''CJ:''' It makes for an interesting show?\\
'''Adam:''' Let me try to explain this show to Snix really quick. Um, these people are in a HighSchool where they ''have'' to be [[EnforcedTrope forced]] to hang out with three other people. They're called pods--\\
'''Snix:''' ''Why?''\\
'''Kim:''' ''[laughs]''\\
'''Snix:''' Do these actually exist?\\
'''Adam:''' ''[[FridgeHorror I hope not!]]''
* FieryRedhead: Sandra le Blanc fits this trope well.

* GoodAngelBadAngel: Birch has a pair arguing over whether she should cheat on Liam's test.

* LargeHam: It's very obvious that Mr. Towes' voice actor is just having oodles of fun. [[EnsembleDarkhorse And the viewers ADORE him for it.]]

* OcularGushers

* SadistTeacher: Mr. Towes slips into this briefly when he suspects Birch's pod cheated on a test.
* SchoolNewspaperNewsHound: This show has one of these.

* SliceOfLife

* SuperDeformed: Used liberally, along with high-pitched voices.
* SweatDrop: This is used much more heavily than SuperDeformed. Seriously, just don't do a drinking game of how many times this appears in a single episode.
* ThickLineAnimation

* {{Tsundere}}: Well, no slice-of-life anime-inspired show would be complete without one, so we have Sandra filling the spot.
* TsurimeEyes: Birch has these.
* UnusualEars: Birch [[LittleBitBeastly would grow fox ears and a tail]] whenever they needed to show that she was being [[{{Pun}} sly like a fox]].

* ADogNamedDog: Neko the cat.

* SuperDeformed: Used liberally, along with high-pitched voices and SweatDrop.
* SweatDrop: Used '''''heavily'''''. Seriously, just don't do a drinking game of how many times this appears in a single episode.

* SweatDrop: Used '''heavily'''. Seriously, just don't do a drinking game of how many times this appears in a single episode.

* UnusualEars: Birch would grow fox ears and a tail whenever they needed to show that she was being [[{{Pun}} sly like a fox]].

* UncannyValley: The characters move like marionettes (since it’s a flash-animated show) and their faces are wierd.

* SadistTeacher: Mr. Towes slips into this briefly when he suspects Birch's pod cheated on a test. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome It's probably the best episode ever.]]

* ShortRunners: Only ran for 52 TwoShorts episodes. Then again, unless it's a major Canadian-American co-production like ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' or ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland'', Teletoon [[ScrewedByTheNetwork does this a lot]], mainly to keep the short-lived in-house shows alive as mid-day filler to fulfill Canadian content regulations when they're not running Creator/CartoonNetwork shows.

''My Life Me'' is a Canadian/French animated series that follows the [[SliceOfLife exploits]] of junior high students Birch Small, her cousin Liam Coll, Sandra Le Blanc, and Raffi Rodriguez. It employs many JapaneseVisualArtsTropes, and the main character Birch is an aspiring manga artist. The series attracted a lot of attention from [[Website/FourChan 4chan]]'s /co/ (not much of it positive), due to its {{animesque}} design and tropes, and its [[http://www.mylifeme.com/#manga online "manga" maker]], which is ''extremely'' easy to exploit.

''My Life Me'' is a Canadian/French animated series that follows the [[SliceOfLife exploits]] of junior high students Birch Small, her cousin Liam Coll, Sandra Le Blanc, and Raffi Rodriguez. It employs many JapaneseVisualArtsTropes, and the main character Birch is an aspiring manga artist. The series attracted a lot of attention from 4chan's /co/ (not much of it positive), due to its {{animesque}} design and tropes, and its [[http://www.mylifeme.com/#manga online "manga" maker]], which is ''extremely'' easy to exploit.

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: {{In-universe}}, the reason that Birch lost an art competition to Raffi was that rather than turning up something along the lines of this trope, she simply drew a picture of Raffi (evidently, she wasn't listening to Mr. Towes' directions) while Raffi simply painted a canvas orange.

* TsurimeEyes: Birch

* AllCGICartoon: Animated via UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash, and it's very noticeable.

* {{Animesque}}: In UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash.

* AuthorAvatar: Birch

* BriefAccentImitation: Mr. Towes does this quite a bit just for fun.
* CanisLatinicus: 'Agnosco' is Latin for 'I understand', not 'Do you understand?'.

* CoolTeacher: Mr. Towes

** For some reason, Birch's necklace has the watashi kanji on it. She also has a [[ADogNamedDog cat named Neko]]. Also, Sandra has a stuffed rabbit named "Kimiko".
** And they keep using manga as a [[YouKeepUsingThatWord catch-all term]] for... anything Birch and Liam are into. At one point, a Manga Poetry Slam happens, which can be summed up as just the characters saying "Manga" a lot. "Manga" is even used in situations that words like "comics" would fit better.

* SuperDeformed: Used liberally, along with SweatDrop.

* EnforcedTrope: In an {{MST}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMbixFBa2M4 video]], riffing group WebVideo/BoringTrousers [[ConversedTrope talk about]] how the PowerOfFriendship theme is [[EnforcedTrope forced upon the main characters]] of MyLifeMe:
-->'''Snix''': Why do they hang out with that [[FieryRedhead orange chick]] if all they ever do [[WithFriendsLikeThese is fight]] [[IdiotBall with her?]]\\
'''Kim''': I don't know...\\
'''CJ''': It makes for an interesting show?\\
'''Adam''': Let me try to explain this show to Snix really quick. Um, these people are in a HighSchool where they ''have'' to be [[EnforcedTrope forced]] to hang out with three other people. They're called pods-\\
'''Snix''': ''Why?''\\
'''Kim''': ''[laughs]''\\
'''Snix''': Do these actually exist?\\
'''Adam''': ''[[FridgeHorror I hope not!]]''

'''My Life Me''' is a Canadian/French animated series that follows the [[SliceOfLife exploits]] of junior high students Birch Small, her cousin Liam Coll, Sandra Le Blanc, and Raffi Rodriguez. It employs many JapaneseVisualArtsTropes, and the main character Birch is an aspiring manga artist. The series attracted a lot of attention from 4chan's /co/ (not much of it positive), due to its {{animesque}} design and tropes, and its [[http://www.mylifeme.com/#manga online "manga" maker]], which is ''extremely'' easy to exploit.

!!This series provides examples of:

* BlondesAreEvil: Amelia, the resident AlphaBitch, or at least she's ''supposed'' to be evil.

'''My Life Me''' is a Canadian animated series that follows the [[SliceOfLife exploits]] of junior high students Birch Small, her cousin Liam Coll, Sandra Le Blanc, and Raffi Rodriguez. It employs many JapaneseVisualArtsTropes, and the main character Birch is an aspiring manga artist. The series attracted a lot of attention from 4chan's /co/ (not much of it positive), due to its {{animesque}} design and tropes, and its [[http://www.mylifeme.com/#manga online "manga" maker]], which is ''extremely'' easy to exploit.

* BlondesAreEvil: Amelia, the resident AlphaBitch.

[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yo7P6YjYwk&feature=related Here's a trailer.]]

And many of the episodes are being uploaded up on [[http://www.youtube.com/user/Canadatoons#p/c/BAB5AD4673512F6B YouTube]].

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[[caption-width-right:215:Hey Birch [[Fanfic/MyImmortal you look kawaii.]]]]

* AllCGICartoon: Animated via UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash, and it's very noticable.

* CanisLatinicus: 'Agnosco' is Latin for 'I understand', not 'Do you unterstand?'.

-->'''Snix''': "Why do they hang out with that [[FieryRedhead orange chick]] if all they ever do [[WithFriendsLikeThese is fight]] [[IdiotBall with her?]]"\\
'''Kim''': "I don't know..."\\
'''CJ''': "It makes for an interesting show?"\\
'''Adam''': "Let me try to explain this show to Snix really quick. Um, these people are in a HighSchool where they ''have'' to be [[EnforcedTrope forced]] to hang out with three other people. They're called pods-"\\
'''Snix''': ''"Why?"''\\
'''Kim''': ''*laughs*''\\
'''Snix''': "Do these actually exist?"\\
'''Adam''': ''[[FridgeHorror "I hope not!"]]''