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openRyou Ohta's encounter with Kuromi Anime
Alright, so Episode 26
from Onegai My Melody from 12:41 to 15:03 shows the following:
Ryou Ohta is training for his martial arts match against Tsuyoshi Yamato tomorrow, when Kuromi shows up, and offers to grant his wish to win the match. Ohta, however, tells Kuromi he'd rather win on his own without outside help, otherwise there'd be no meaning to it, to which Kuromi respects his decision and leaves him to his training. Unfortunately, to his dismay, Ohta ends up losing a sparring match round to one of his friends, which doesn't take him long to realise that he isn't ready nor any match for Yamato and that he can't do this alone, so he ends up accepting Kuromi's offer for an iron punch.
So what tropes would fit this section of the episode?
Edited by QuinceDixTropes3829openA Trope For Switching Position With Someone Anime
Which trope works best when two people end up switching position at the end of a series?
I'm wondering this because the example I was thinking of was for Bokurano, where the Yamura siblings stay at their home because they're waiting for their father to come home. Towards the end of the series, the father returns, but the siblings remain because they are now waiting for Daichi to return.
Since the characters in this example are related, would that be a case of Generation Xerox?
openspecial dangerous training to unlock an ability that'd take years to master Anime
in bleach, to develop a Bankai usually takes about a decade of hard work. ichigo cant be bothered, so he undergoes a special risky method to do it in three days. i know this is a thing in lots of anime but i cant rememeber other examples.
openBorn in Prison Anime
Is there a trope specifically pertaining to characters who were born while their mothers were in prison? Like Emporio from Stone Ocean.
openBody held up by wires like Jesus Anime
A trope most often seen in sci-fi, where a humanoid body is held up by wires in a similar pose to the crucifixion of Jesus, with the wires primarily connected to the arms, back, the back of the head, and legs, with the legs close together but the arms stretched out, again, similarly to the crucifixion of Jesus. Usually that body is connected to the wires and controls whatever the wires are connected to. In some media, the wires may be replaced with blood veins and muscle strands, thus controlling a flesh monster instead.
Edited by NestlingOwletresolved The last pure whore Anime
A hero rescues a bunch of women from prostitution but only accepts the one virgin into his "party" or the love interest is saved from a life of prostitution generally just before selling her first time.
I'm sure it happens in other media but it feels very popular in anime. In Danmachi Haruhime, the fox girl fits this trope. She was a prostitute but never actually served a customer and was subsequently welcomed into Hestia's famila. By contrast, Aisha is a powerful fighter but isn't welcomed into Hestia's familia and did sex work as her secondary profession.
In Fena: Pirate Princess, Fena escapes on the very night she was supposed to sell her virginity, there by keeping her purity intact.
I can't think of any more specific examples at the moment but its seems to happen often that female characters will be sold, or raised, or kidnapped, or coerced into sexual slavery only to be saved before they can do any actual sex work. Bonus points if all their friends get abused right before their eyes. All the angst but still kept "pure" so the male lead gets a virgin for his harem.
I guess Maomao from Apothecary Diaries also counts. I don't doubt Jinshi would still like her if she had sold her body at some point but its notable that she was raised and educated in a whorehouse but managed to never lose her chastity.
Oh and that blond girl in Btoom.
openExhaustingly drawn-out fights Anime
Is there a trope for when shonen anime or stuff like shonen anime take way too many chapters/episodes to conclude a single fight like the later fights in Demon Slayer?
Edited by terlite50openCharacter Uses Same-Gender Party Anime
A trope that involves a character using a party consisting of Mons that are all the same gender as the character themself.
Similar to how a lot of Gym Leaders in the older Pokemon games had their party filled with pokemon of their gender, like Sabrina's female Mr. Mime, or Elesa and Clay in Black/White having female-only and male-only parties, respectively.
Would this still fall under One-Gender Race?
resolvedAPP Adorable mispronunciation Anime
If I'm watching an anime, it's usually dubbed, so maybe this is only a thing with dubs, but I'm curious anyway.
You've got a child or childlike character with happy, bubbly and fun outlook who is meant to be adored. This character will have adorable traits and quirks. One of these quirks is the repeated mispronunciation of certain words.
Examples:
- Four Knights of the Apocalypse — Percy always says "Cameemot" instead of "Camelot"
- SPY×FAMILY — Anya always says "oohting" instead of "outing"
I get the impression that the repetition promotes endearment for the character.
What's the trope for that?
Edited by ginsengaddictopenReigniting a dream Anime
Trope where a character has given up on a dream, but decides to pursue it again after major developments in the story.
openHierarchy of Goons Anime
This is mainly in Shonen Battle Manga, and usually is defined in each Arc of a story.
Rouroni Kenshin is an obvious example, where you have each hero facing off against different Oniwabanshu in the Tokyo Arc, then the Juppongatana in the Kyoto Arc. Each baddy they fight is a little bit harder than the last.
Similar ordering of bad guys, either informally (parts of One Piece, where we know what the matchups will probably be, but there's no explicit assessment of the goons' relative strengths), or formally (Demon Slayer, where the Twelve Kizuki are ordered numerically)
This also shows up in Guy Moshe's film Bunraku, with the bad guys almost solely referred to by their number in the hierarchy.
I'm sure there are many other examples.
openShiver Lines of Disgust Anime
Hi, I'm looking for the trope where a character touches or is touched by something they don't like, and a wave of spiky shivers moves across their entire body while they stand frozen. They might react/scream afterwards.
resolved Air/Reality breaks like glass? Anime
Re-reading One Piece and just got to the part where Whitebeard demonstrates his devil fruit powers by punching the air and causing it to break as if he had just punched glass. I can think of a few other examples of this (a few cards from Magic: The Gathering have characters do this to display their magic) but I feel like it's Too Rare To Trope, or might be redundant.
openThis is some serious business Anime
Used for characters who tend to take relatively transgressions (i.e. Boundary violations, Borrowing others belongings without permission, etc) overly seriously and often show remorse through shedding fountains of tears, apologizing excessively, getting gifts for their friends they've hurt etc to overcompensate for their past mistakes which while admirable can also come across as performative and attention seeking for past issues that aren't that big of a deal.
Edited by Hazzmatt321openA Character Who Doesn't Understand Love but Isn't A Robot Anime
Is there a trope like What Is This Thing You Call "Love"? but for a human character's inability to comprehend genuine love, the unconditional kind, due to trauma? A character who doesn't know how to accept affection because they never got it as kids.

Does this trope exist? Some characters aren’t meant to be a couple—but fate seems to disagree. Whether through sheer coincidence, destiny, or plot convenience, these two keep running into each other in ways that create what looks like romantic tension. Maybe they always get paired up, find themselves in dramatic life-or-death moments, or just seem to orbit around each other.
The catch? It’s completely platonic. The characters themselves never acknowledge any romantic interest, and there’s no real "Will They or Won’t They?" dynamic. But the sheer number of "coincidental" interactions fuels the imagination of the audience, leading to endless speculation and shipping.