Overused type of plots that are rare in Anime & Manga?

The tittle.

For example, I can't remember almost any type of plot where AI is Big Bad and there is war with robots =P At most there are some evil professor guy with army of robots.

...Yeah, that might have been bad example, but still xD

^Wouldn't the Puppetmaster from Ghost In The Shell kinda count?

There is so much anime out there, with so many different plots, that even the exceptions become numerous.

^^Dunno o-o Does it have Robot War as result?

^?

What I mean is, that as soon as someone nominates an overused plot that doesn't happen a lot in anime/manga, someone else will quite probably be able to name three or more exceptions to that. Meaning that it isn't much of a rule at all.

Tsundere

edited 12th Jul '11 7:44:17 AM by tvsgood

thats rare in anime and manga?

Zombie Apocalypse

Police Procedural

Western style

Only Gun Blaze West is the one I remember being like that.

edited 12th Jul '11 8:19:45 AM by Demongodofchaos2

Zombie Powder. Kinda.

There are a bunch of Space Westerns, though.

^^^ I believe there's a shoujo or josei series called Miriam that's set in the Old West.

Hmm. I have never heard of that book.

edited 12th Jul '11 3:31:55 PM by FurikoMaru

There is, and it's retty good. Fix that pothole, though.

There's a lot of zombie apocalypse stuff out there if you look for it. One recent one just got adapted into an anime. I think it's called Zombie School or Zombie High or something like that.

There's also the fact that One Piece has done a little bit of everything. In fact, most Long-Runners probably have.

And there's another manga series about a giant-zombie attack. I guess they're not really zombies, but still, it's genuinely creepy.

edited 12th Jul '11 12:06:41 PM by HeavyDDR

^ I think you're thinking of Highschool Of The Dead, which, as a general warning, is also ecchi.

I Am A Hero is another zombie apocalypse one, but isn't ecchi.

@OP: Zambot3 is pretty much that, if you're looking for that kind of thing. I think. If I'm remembering right.

...Oh yeah, and Macross Plus, seeing how the Big Bad is pretty much a vocaloid. And if you stretch it a little, Gao Gai Gar also fits.

edited 12th Jul '11 12:15:23 PM by Moerin

Ecchi is technically correct, but I don't really think that covers it with H Sot D

Thankfully, the Standard Superhero Setting and plots associated. The reason why I avoid comics like the plague and was drawn to manga was because of the overuse in the former and rarity in the latter.

Actually, Tiger And Bunny Is pretty close to it, and it works.

edited 12th Jul '11 2:42:34 PM by Demongodofchaos2

There's this little thing called Astro Boy. I think you might have heard of it. :p

Granted, the robot war there was less like The Terminator and more like the X-Men (with robots getting Fantastic Racism in place of mutants), but still.

Strikers Sound Stage X, though that one's a sound drama of an anime franchise.

edited 12th Jul '11 3:37:21 PM by Servbot

While it's with a fantasy or sci fi twist, Darker Than Black, Paranoia Agent, and Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex all have what I would consider police procedural elements- probably mostly Paranoia Agent, as the other two are more in the Government Conspiracy genre.

edited 13th Jul '11 6:08:20 PM by Jordan

Forgotten Birthday, maybe because birthdays aren't that big a deal for the Japanese.

How can you link to a trope that has seven entries under anime / manga?

Because we all know seven is such a huge number, as opposed to tropes that have appeared in literally thousands of anime and manga.