Unfortunate Implications: Brought up in Space Adventure Cobra with the whole romance subplot. Short version: The love interest and her two sisters are essentially part of a Hive Mind with each of them forming one third of a whole person. So, after Cobra's love interest dies, he meets her sister, who declares that because her sister loved him, she will now love him too and that he will love her, and promptly abandons her role in La Résistance now that he's shown up apparently Because Destiny Says So. And neither of them get a say in the matter. Even though Sage takes a shot at Tumblr feminists in the process, he describes this plot as deeply uncomfortable for multiple reasons. invoked
Ungrateful Bastard: He practically accuses Masaru of being this in Android Kikaider: The Animation when the latter yells at Jiro for destroying two of Professor Gill's henchbots who had "befriended " him earlier to use him as Kikaider bait, something they admitted to in front of him and would have harmed him and his sister had Jiro done nothing.
You little idiot! Your "friends" just flat out told you that they were using you to get to Kikaider! And yet, you still think that Jiro is the bad guy! [...] Kid, you got played! And Kikaider defended not only himself, but your sister and your dumb little ass.
Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Sage receives one in his Angel Sanctuary review when the boyish demon Kurai, who is even voiced in the dub by Veronica Taylor with her Ash Ketchum voice, is suddenly revealed to be female when Setsuna admonishes her for her recklessness after he saves her from getting hit by a car. Sage nonverbally refuses to touch that subject with a ten-foot-pole.
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: His biggest complaint about the random Cat Girl in Pilot Candidate isn't that she exists, or her ears are never explained, it's that no one reacts to them at all or even seems to notice. He also points out that it could be addressed in only a few lines of dialog that they never bothered to add by creating his own.
Sage!Zero: What's up with your cat ears? Sage!Cat Girl: I don't want to talk about it. Sage!Zero: Okay.
Valley Girl: The titular character of Devil Hunter Yohko is dubbed with this style of speech. Sage's annoyance with this finally results in himself adopting a Valley Girl persona for an extended gag... for which he slaps himself.
He points out in his Gundress review that it's not seen as polite in Japanese culture to be so upfront and forthright when answering direct questions, especially when one has nothing nice to say, so people subtly get their point across in their answers with a technique called "reading air." That makes it all the more jarring to see two of the film's animators directly criticize Shirow Masamune's designs in the making of documentary.
In his Fight! Spirit of the Sword review, he plays an excerpt from the behind-the-scenes featurette with an actor reading a line with the word okama, which he points out has since been labeled a slur. "It was the 90's" he says in his caption.
He points out in his Neon Genesis Evangelion review that Christianity isn't as prevalent a religion in Japan but is instead seen as an aesthetic alternative. As such, the production staff used Christian iconography to help it stand out amongst other Super Robot anime, and they would have not done so had they known Evangelion would get internationally distributed.
Verbal Backspace: The Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz review has a skit where Sage, as the grandfather of a little girl questioning why the events of the movie are happening, says Bandai needs money for Hookers and Blow then quickly corrects himself to say it's for milk and cookies.
Viewers Are Morons: Sage can come off this way with a lot of his references, especially in his Tokyo Revelation review, wherein he claims that the notion of a virus running the background of your computer was 'over the head' of his audience.
Seme, buddy, where you been? The term is Asian-American. I know you are no intending to be. But calling him orienter, offensive to he.
We ARE Struggling Together: Censor Kaiser and Suave during the review of Angel Blade. Censor Kaiser's disdain for Suave is only matched by Suave's frustration at Censor Kaiser's censoring all the nudity.
What Is Evil?: During the Oldtaku, New Tricks episode for My Hero Academia, Sage calls out Tomura Shigaraki for invoking the trope to All Might.
I'm sorry, but if you're gonna use the old chestnut of *squeaky voice* "from my point of view, your actions are evil!", maybe you don't call yourselves '"the League of Villains"'?
There's only two real words in that verbal diarrhea!
You Get What You Pay For: Sage's summation of his less-than-shining opinion of Junk Boy comes in this form.
True story here, by the way. I got this tape in mint condition, plastic over the tape and everything, for two cents at my local comic shop. I may as well have paid the guy two cents to punch me in the face.
You Just Had to Say It: This is Sage's reaction in Virgin Fleet, when the headmaster of the Virgin Academy says that she's responsible for choosing the characters that will be competing for a spot in the fleet (including one character Sage finds incredibly irritating):
So you're the reason we have to deal with this character's loli-schtick? Oh, bitch, you should have kept that to yourself! *cracks his knuckles*
You Need to Get Laid: He speculates that this is the reason Sho Aikawa's early work is so nihilistic and hateful, and he thanks the anonymous person who finally did give him the blowjob that led him to tone down his later work.
