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Is there a trope for guys walking around—especially down the road—with both hands behind the head? (1) Naruto has been shown doing this. (2) Mugen in Samurai Champloo. (3) Ginta in Bleach (tho not dowm the road). Given the examples, it seems to be emblematic of a certain personality, maybe unconventional or casual or...?
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I've seen Pinwheels used in several Anime to indicate that something spooky is going on, or about to happen. Examples include normally non-spooky shows like Aria. Does anybody know what significance Pinwheels, especially pinwheels turning without apparent wind, might have in the Japanese culture?
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Someone named Unknown Light is using redirects to revert quite a bit of the Pokémon subpages (Radar, JBM, fan fic recommendations to give some examples) to nonpunctuated versions.
I am in the process of fixing them.
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Could someone help, please? In the Pokemon character pages, websurfer separated between primary type, secondary type, dual type and pokemon who know moves of a different type in a mini-table in Elemental Powers and between other things, put normal bird pecks(the Peck attack)as Blow You Away. When i reverted their edits and explained the misuses of the tropes, he ignored, reverted my reversals without explanation, removed the Casting a Shadow trope in a character knowing Shadow Ball, removed Whirlwind in Blow You Away and removed the Flight trope in a floating character.
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Is there any kind of policy/precedent for how to set up a work page for a series that doesn't have a series name?
(To clarify: I'm looking to set up a page for three 1 volume mangas that were published separately and only have individual titles. They have the same mythology and inter-related characters and are short, so I was thinking it makes more sense to lump them all together on one page since they share so many of the same tropes, but I have no idea how that works with naming the page since there is no blanket title)
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Got a wee bit of a problem on this page: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/ToAruMajutsuNoIndexProtagonists
User "Kuroi Hadoi" keeps fucking with the images, and for no real reason. As a sidenote (and don't perforate me for this...!), I ended up with two separate accounts - this one, and one by "The Dude 21" - why, is another story, but my edits have been consistent to the point where a monkey would figure it's the same person... Anyway, a while ago, the Index character page was a MESS, and I took the painstaking labor of fixing it up, one character at a time (...LOTS of characters...). Eventually, some other tropers took notice and started to chip in, and over all the contributions have all been excellent, and I truly appreciated them.
Now, this Kuroi Hadou guy has been nothing but destructive. He removed the exact images that I uploaded (and in turn, completely killed the size consistency with the rest of the character pages...), took the same images I uploaded, zoomed them in, cropped the sides, then stretched them vertically, and them saved them in a low-spec JPEG format with considerable artifacting. And for some reason, insists that his are better and that mine were plagiarized (...how the fuck do you plagiarize screenshots on a WIKI... by that troll logic, you might as well remove every image on TV Tropes to begin with).
Anyway, I already notified this guy, and changed the images back once, but he's sort of insisting on being troublesome, and I don't feel like waging a godamn edit war, so I'd be appreciative if you guys can do something about it. Oh, and if you're curious about the consistency thing, please check the other pages, and you'll notice.
Edited by JohnCasey21openNo Title Anime
Lily Nadesico's recent question in Code Geass'headcratchers sounds more as complaining than Fridge Logic. link: CodeGeassMiscellaneousTwo
Edited by MagBasopenNo Title Anime
"BLAH BLAH BLAH, coming from someone WHO'S F*CKING LATE in making a counter-edit. Have you noticed you're the only one OBSESSED with something like this? And it's not in the red, is it? Man, you must be BLIND." This is Power Ace's 17 July 6:44:16 AM edit reason here Ptitleh8xduufy
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Hopefully, this is the right place to ask. Currently, the Fanfic Recs section of the Ranma One Half article is locked. Is there anywhere to find out why or how long it will last?
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Why do links to "shonen" auto-expand and redirect to Shōnen Genre? It looks like it should go to Shōnen Demographic, which "shounen" does, but I can't figure out how to get at the redirect.
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Why does The Castle Of Cagliostro have a main page button that redirects back to the anime page? Is there a version of Cagliostro that's not anime?
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We seem to have gotten a badly written page for the upcoming Persona Four Anime. Shouldn't it be in its own namespace, and do we even need this (as this Anime is yet to be released)?
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Just curious, why is the article on yaoi/boys' love called Boys' Love Genre while the article on yuri/girl's love called Yuri Genre? If we're not going to call the boy variant yaoi then why do we call the girl variant yuri?
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Another Question: Should we add Gantz to the list of examples in The Epic. It seems as a heroic Epic of Kurono and part of his crew, with the course the series is taking it seems he will not only save earth but other worlds by defeating the Giants. However the feel epic just seems right on the catastrophe arc.
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I've noticed a big problem, after doing an edit at Dynamic Character:
There's two pages for a single work: Team Medical Dragon and Iryu Team Medical Dragon. Both are about even in number of examples, but Iryu Team Medical Dragon has the most developped work introduction.
What to do with those pages?
Edited by AceNoctali
Is anyone going to make a Hakuouki character page? Or could someone explain to me how to go about it? Thanks!