It seems pretty accurate to me.
For instance I'm confident in Ranma codifying Belligerent Sexual Tension and Sailor Moon codifying Magical Girl, but that also highlights my ignorance of anything before the 90s.
Well, assuming the 80s were too eighties for anything lasting to come out of, and the 70s being too obscure, the only thing left is the 60s which is probably where anime started. Basically, let's just say nothing existed before the 90s
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None of the series on the page are ones I've never heard of in any case, and I'm decently confident - based on the assumption that some dedicated fan would cry "Aha! It's seems you've forgotten this little old series which I just happen to remember which I'm sure is a valid example etc etc..." if a series they've heard of could possibly fit the trope - that the examples would have been edited if they were terribly wrong (and I see nothing wrong with using human nature as my premise).
That's actually me. I also added Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann as the TC for This Is Drill and Azumanga Daioh for Schoolgirl Series in general.
If memory serves, Getter Robo was the first to do the drill-mecha thing.
You could go through work lists by Osamu Tezuka, Go Nagai, Riyoko Ikeda, Shotaro Ishinomori, Keiko Takemiya and some others.
Majokko Meg Chan might be the trope codifier for magical girls. Just like with giant robots, there are at least two different kind of magical girl genres, of which the aforementioned represents the more traditional one.
edited 15th Aug '11 8:01:34 AM by harkko
I don't thing that Med-chan codified that kind of magical girl. I'm pretty sure Himitsu No Akko-chan was the codifier of that.
Anyway, I'm looking at the Essential Anime, and Evangelion is listed as the Trope Maker for Mind Screw. It isn't, it's the Trope Codifier. Going off the trope description (so much symbolism that nobody has any idea what's going on), Angels Egg would qualify as a Mind Screw and that was released in 1985, predating Evangelion by a decade. However, I have a problem, and that is that I haven't watched Be Invoked yet, and that could be an even earlier example of Mind Screw than Angels Egg, being released 3 years before it. Can anyone confirm that Be Invoked is a genuine Mind Screw for me? I want to watch the Ideon TV series before going onto Be Invoked, and that's going to take a while. I know, I could watch A Contact instead of the series, but I don't like watching recap movies without seeing the original.
edited 15th Aug '11 2:25:45 PM by flygon250
Trope Codifiers, eh? I have an easy one.
Dragon Ball Z and Saint Seiya (With Hokuto No Ken for a good measure): Codifiers for Shonen.
A trve man never dies, even when he's killed!Which series do you suppose is the TC for Four-Girl Ensemble? I think it's either Lucky Star or K On.
Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.That would be Ichigo Mashimaro. Remember that Trope Codifier isn't the best use of a trope and not even the most popular one, it's just the one that set the standard for how the trope is commonly used.
Of course a lot of times, the Trope Codifier is the best and/or the most popular example of the trope.
edited 15th Aug '11 9:19:56 PM by shark33
Ones where the whole series revolves around those four? I would say Yeah ichigo would be it I think. Sailor Moon comes close at times but it becomes a Five-Man Band pretty fast.
edited 15th Aug '11 9:17:38 PM by Raso
Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!Sailor Moon had 3 separate ones with Sailor Moon float in in and out of the main group. The outer senshi were pretty close to the steriotypical form of this.
edited 15th Aug '11 9:22:45 PM by Raso
Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!![]()
That is awesome.
Well, Ichigo Mashimaro, Lucky Star and Hidamari Sketch are though.
edited 15th Aug '11 9:26:35 PM by shark33
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Azumanga Daioh was too till the Fifth Wheel showed up which is the way most of the shows go.
edited 15th Aug '11 9:32:25 PM by Raso
Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!@harkko:
Got that. Now my only problem is Night On The Galactic Railroad, which was released 6 months before Angels Egg and also qualifies as a Mind Screw (just about), but is an adaptation of a work outside of the medium (in this case, a novel by Kenji Miyazawa). does that count as the first anime Mind Screw, even though it isn't an original and the source material isn't a manga?
edited 16th Aug '11 12:16:58 AM by flygon250
It's probably fair to say later episodes of Dragon Ball Z are more or less the codifier for the shonen version of Combat Commentator, what with The Worf Effect character X standing around and engaging in spontaneous exposition to enlighten the audience and reaffirm to all of us just how powerful ally Y or opponent Z has become.
edited 16th Aug '11 3:03:24 AM by ForlornDreamer

I was looking through Trope Codifier page and well, I can't be sure about some of the entries' validity. Is there any entry that is questionable the way you see it? I haven't watched a whole lot of anime so I can't really tell.
edited 15th Aug '11 3:01:24 AM by dRoy
Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.