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Author: Aielyn

Jul 16th 2011 at 6:36:08 AM

ryanasaurus, stop trying to invent rules to apply to "save" the trope. If the trope is worthy of being a trope, then it won't need those sorts of disclaimers or specially-designed restrictions. If it does need those sorts of things, then the trope is a bad one.

Notice that I used the word "if" when suggesting it be restricted to Anime only. Also notice that the significance of the "tights with a skirt" is important. For instance, I look at your {{Zenon}} example, and think "hmm... looks like a standard and common girl's style of dress in America". I would say that it's not an example - the characters don't look like they're meant to be conservative, just typical.

On the other hand, Daphne from Scooby Doo looks like she's meant to be a prim and proper upper-class girl-next-door, and the tights just further that (and contrast with Velma, who wears long socks with her skirt) - I would say that it does fit the desired image of "tights with a skirt" as indicative of being prim and proper. It's also worth noting, with that example, that the film adaptation put her in calf-high boots, instead, thus turning it into fanservice.

Persona 4's example is harder for me to judge - looking at it, it could go either way.

Looking more extensively at AnimeTropes, I see that many of them actually do have non-Anime examples anyway - it's just that they're so common in Anime, that they're closely related. There's no GrandfatherClause to protect examples that ''don't'' fit the trope, but if you construct the trope correctly, many of them will be kept, anyway.