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New troper here, so I don't know where to look..I've looked at the Spectacle, Lighting Tropes, and Manga Effects indexes, without results (maybe I haven't been looking enough, or in the right places -.-). So, here goes.
Have you guys ever seen that graphic effect of things lightening up and the scene suddenly getting infused with pale, almost transparent circles? It usually comes with a sparkly sound effect, and is usually involved in moe anime. As an example, see the screencap on this link: http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=50&u=16985032
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Is there a trope that covers magical force fields used as shields (that don't reflect attacks)? Deflector Shield seems like the place, but it's very sci-fi specific...
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is there a trope when a character is depicted overhearing offending comments about him and getting stabbed with arrows with the offending words on them? there's also the written on dropped anvils/heavy rocks variation. but it all boils down to comically showing that a character has hurt the someone's feelings.
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Is there a trope to the effect of "Damage/Overload Equals Sparks/Visible Short Circuits"? A lot of anime vehicles seem to implausibly short circuit when damaged, but otherwise function perfectly fine (until they reach critical power failure). Often also happens with the control panels of an overloading superweapon/generator/other plot important technology.
Also, is there a trope to the effect of "Harmless Short Circuits"? As previously noted, these short circuits never seem to directly impair the performance of whatever they appear on, merely being signs of damage rather than damage in and of themselves. In Real Life, if a circuit short circuits, it would in almost all cases become non functional, as the power is avoiding going where it is needed.
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Where did Everyone Is A Lefty (the trope about mirroring manga so it can be read left-to-right) go? It was probably renamed, but I don't see it on Renamed Tropes, and my searches on "mirror" or "flip" are fruitless so far...
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Is this tropable?
I'm talking about a subtrope of Continuity Reboot that seems particular to anime and manga, where there are two different anime based on a manga, the later of which is much more accurate to the original manga than the first anime.
Examples would be :
Hellsing Ultimate vs Hellsing, Fullmetal Alchemist:Brotherhood vs Fullmetal Alchemist, Dragon Ball Kai vs. Dragon Ball Z
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I am looking for an Animé trope, in which something is shown reflected on a character's eye — for example, when Subaru sees her sister Ginga badly beaten up in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS episode 17 (shortly before she goes berserk). It can be seen ~13 minutes into the episode. What is it called?
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I know we have a trope for Verbal Tics — for example, Culumon's "Culu" in Digimon Tamers, but do we have a trope for non-verbal tics? The example I'm thinking of is Yamaki, the Big Bad Wannabe from the same animé — he's always playing with that lighter of his, opening and closing its case.
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Not looking for a Trope but for a cartoon I used to watch in the 80's I am going to guess it was animated in Asia, it usually played in the same hour as the Lost City of Gold on maybe nickolodeon or maybe one of the american broadcast networks on saturday mornings really early.
the main character was a girl, with mystical powers, who wore a large white headdress shaped something like an egyptian pharoah's headdress. Perhaps she was the last of her kind, or maybe and exile from her home world, or maybe looking for a way to save her doomed home world, but she was with a group of other travellars.
the ensemble had a couple of funny animal companions that looked like two yellow armadillos or aardvarks that roll themselves up into balls.
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Is there a trope for this? I've been watching Card Captor Sakura for the first time (I'm on episode 30, no spoilers please) and the title character, who's in the 4th grade (10 years old) is in love with a much older boy in the 11th grade (17 years old.) This isn't too weird; happens all the time in real life. What is kind of weird is the way he sort of caters to it, taking her out on little dates (pretty harmless ones, like getting cake at the cafe or taking a walk in the park) and generally just playing along. It seems way more big-brotherly on his end than anything.
Is this something unique to the character, or something more widespread in Japan? And, most importantly, is there a trope for it? I watch some anime, but there's a lot about Japanese culture I don't know, and if this is a thing that happens I'd be fascinated to know more about it.
EDIT: Just to be clear, I don't think it's a pedophilic relationship. At least... I really hope not.
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Where this thing from Pokémon can fit?
Ice Fang was used thrice. First time, it made blue bolt-like energy hit the opponent (Wake's Floatzel), then next time it was like all other fangs fill mouth with respective energy (Burgundy's Stoutland) and the third time, which happened recently, made the tusks go ice-like (Dawn's Mamoswine)
I mean this: Fire Fang - T T T T T T T Ice Fang - F T F Thunder Fang - S S S S F
F = not filling with energy T = filling mouth with energy S = filling fangs which are inside mouth so technically filling mouth
So that Ice Fang wasn't filling mouth with ice energy... that was double subverted. Where I could put this under?
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Basically happens in every romantic comedy anime ever created. Bob and Jill are alone in a room. Something hilarious and unlikely happens, Bob trips and ends up on Jill in a notably questionable position. It was an accident. The two remain still, stunned. And at that very moment, a third character, possibly a potential love interest of one of the two, walks into the room and sees them. The reaction can vary from plain comedic shock, to running out of the room in tears. It happens so often. There's gotta be a trope for this. Right?
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In Cat Eyed Boy, the eponymous character is confronted by the 100 Monsters Group, who want to recruit him to help them turn people who are ugly on the inside (the greedy, plagiarists, etc.) just as ugly on the outside. However, during the recruitment, they let slip that they're all just deformed humans and they believe there aren't any real monsters. To a genuine supernatural monster who frequently comes into conflict with other genuine supernatural monsters. Whoops. Turns out the Cat-Eyed Boy finds this so obnoxiously arrogant that he decides to stop them just because of this, when he previously liked the sound of their plan. Is there a trope this fits under?
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often in anime a character WITHOUT flight has to fight a character who can fly, and has to get tricky in order to get to the flying character, this is i believe different from air jousting because there both characters can fly whereas as here only one, usually the antagonist, can fly.

I'm trying to find the trope page for when the Tagalong Kid or Cute Bruiser tends to ride The Big Guy. It happens a lot - the first thing that comes to mind is Captain Kenpachi's Morality Pet (and Cute Bruiser herself, IIRC) in Bleach, but I'm sure there are more examples.