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What do you call a job or mission that has absolutely nothing but an objective and massiver danger? I read this from Iron Woobie page:
"Massive suffering with absolutely no hope whatsoever. There's no guarantee that he actually CAN achieve his objective or things would be better once he did. Even when he succeeds, he would get no reward whatsoever, not even internally, for it is shown that he doesn't have any ideal or anything. Yet he soldiers on... "
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Is there a "Filler is a Free Action" trope in the same vein as Talking Is a Free Action?
The closest I can find are Trapped by Mountain Lions and Lower-Deck Episode.
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Is there an existing trope for media, especially slice-of-life type anime, where introducing characters to the story acts as a major expenditure of the story's space? I'm thinking as an archetype the anime Hand Maid May where every episode (except maybe two) introduces a new character into the main cast and they stay for most of the rest of the show. Rozen Maiden and Ah! My Goddess do this to a lesser extent. Sort of a Defeat Means Friendship gone mad?
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what is it called when translators do the following:
character 1: I have to use the secret power of my bloodline! character 2: Oh! is it *that* bloodline?
in general, it will be the first time the thing is brought up (usually prompting me to yell at the screen 'WHAT THE #$%@ DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?!), and the audience has no context for it. I'm trying to remember where I've seen an explanation for why this happens, it's not a part of Adaptation Decay or Cut And Paste Translation ; i was just hoping someone else had seen this
example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_CLgpd241Aw#t=300s
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That anime trope where someone goes into a panic or fury and waves their arms up and down in a quick Motion Blur. May be accompanied by rapid feet movements.
I'm thinking of that one scene in Digimon Adventure where Izzy's in his room and telling his mother that there's no one else in the room, he's just practicing stand-up; and one scene in Galaxy Angel where Forte interrupts Milfeulle's innocent honesty and covers her mouth, while Milfeulle expresses her frustration by waving her arms up and down. There's another anime I remember which had some girl chasing a guy down a hallway.
I mean, I don't watch a lot of anime, but I see it a lot in Animesque webcomics, almost as much as Sweat Drops and Face Faults.
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I've looked all over and i can't find it. Is there a trope for when the main character's dad is significantly better/cooler than them. Examples: Minato Namikaze (Naruto) Isshin Kurosaki (Bleach) Goku (Dragonball Z) Bardock (though he was weaker than goku, he was still pretty badass) (Dragonball Z) Iemitsu Sawada (Katekyo Hitman Reborn) Shinigami-sama (Soul Eater) ...The list goes on
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We have the Stock Femur Bone. Do we have its meaty counterpart
? I can't seem to find any sort of "stock meat" or "manga meat" trope, but it's incredibly common. I believe I've even seen some Western Animation use it, probably due to some combination of the fact that "Japan is cool" and it's easy to draw and recognize as a shorthand for "this is meat" without worrying about if it's a ham hock or beef ribs.
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Is there a genre name for educational manga fiction series? I searched under Moyashimon, Even A Monkey Can Draw Manga, Oishinbo, and Kami No Shizuku and couldn't find anything. (They teach about microbes, manga, cuisine, and wine, respectively.) In the store recently I saw one that kept giving you info about dogs.
Oh, and there's Bakuman, which is also about Manga but maybe takes it more seriously than Monkey Manga.
It's just that if there's so many examples of this sort of comic from Japan, that are all fictional stories but every story teaches you something about their topic of interest, they've got to have a name for the genre, right?
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Are there any Japanese (or otherwise non-Western) equivalents/approximations to the Valley Girl trope, which is pretty much defined from a Western (and particularly U.S. American) perspective?
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I'm pretty sure this is supposed to be a trope, but I'm not sure what it would be called, or if it even exists.
Character is all smug and confident in battle, then he gets punched in the face, puts his hand to his face, sees that he is bleeding just a tiny bit and totally flips his shit.
Predominantly anime, I think.
Specifically, the part where he flips out upon seeing his own blood.
(Example: Paluu/Pearl from One Piece)
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Is there a trope for the thing where a character dies or seems dead, and in the next shot there's like a transparent superimposed picture of them, usually giving a thumbs up and looking happy or something along those lines? The only example I can think of currently is when Franky from One Piece presses the pirate mark in the Separation arc, and it's played for laughs.