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Do we have a trope for that thing that often turns up in shounen anime, where a character will draw some of their own blood by biting through the tip of their finger? Usually used for Blood Magic.
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Or rather, I've seen it most often in anime...the focus character is a fairly stiff guy, may be The Only Sane Man, who is dragged into wacky hijinks by the other characters against his will, making a mess of his life. But implicitly or explictly, the goal in the story is to make him a better person by putting him through horrible experiences.
May involve a Manic Pixie Dream Girl, but in most of the examples I'm thinking of, it's an entire cast imposing on the stiff guy's time, money and patience.
For a couple of examples, Rozen Maiden and Gash Bell, both featuring boys who hide away from the world until their new companions force them to interact with others.
Explicit in Haunted Junction: the Preacher's Kid who says I Just Want to Be Normal, but is constantly dragged into supernatural mayhem. In the final episode we learn that the school spirits have been tormenting him specifically to avert a Bad Future in which he lives a "normal life" but never emotionally connects with anyone including his future wife and child.
Which seems to lead into a happy ending...except that said preacher's kid was made so miserable by the constant torment that he voluntarily participated in a plan to kill or imprison all the school spirits; and there's no indication that things are going to get better for him.
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Is there a specific trope for action-oriented harem series where the girls are all generally strong, or at least fight often? I've looked through a couple shows that fit this description and the harem anime page and haven't found anything that fits it. Working on a YKTTW for it now if no one can find it.
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I'm looking for something like "intentional body modifications are evil".
This is for series where if you were born with a body mod or it just happened to you then you just get Cursed with Awesome like Naruto, GITS, Full Metal Alchemist, etc.
However anybody who intentionally changes their body for a power up gets Evil Is Visceral
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In that episode of Ranma½ where Shampoo uses that "Hissatsu Shiatsuken" technique to erase Akane's memories of Ranma, and then she gets snapped out of it when Ranma says Akane "isn't sexy", what's the trope where someone loses their memory or gets brainwashed and then gets it back when someone says something shocking or offensive to them?
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In a DBZ-style show, the tendency for every character except the main character to be completely worthless. It's a one-man The Only One, or an ostensibly ensemble show doing an It's Up to You *every single time*.
This isn't the same as an Eigen Plot in which each character fights one enemy, and the main character fights the main villain, it's more like the main character is otherwise engaged in training or something, and it's all the entire rest of the cast can do to barely hold off the first minor villain, often losing several members in the process, while they wait for him. When he arrives, he usually curbstomps the enemies and then moves on to fighting the real villains.
Around my circle, we like to call it Goku Syndrome; for example, when Nappa and Vegeta arrive, the Z Fighters can barely beat the Saiba-Men, and almost everybody is killed fighting Nappa... Then Goku arrives and beats him in half an episode. It's painfully obvious that Vegeta could have wiped out the entire good guy side without breaking a sweat, and they're really just there to stall and cheer on Goku when he arrives.
What's that thing called?
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This is mostly a shonen trope; what I'm looking for is essentially this: "when all of a sudden, he finds a beautiful girl in <place>. Said girl is <name>, one of the members of the <whatever> trying to <whatever> from the <whatever>."
Basically I'm looking for a shonen trope for a situation where the protagonist (a normal, average, everyday dude) finds/is introduced to/tracked down by some girl out of nowhere, and she reveals some whole new world to him that basically kicks off the whole series and/or reveals some truth that he's known or had an inkling about that proves that he's not crazy.
She may or may not be naked on arrival.
Examples: Psyren, Bleach, Psycho Busters, The World God Only Knows, Ga-Rei, Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer (kinda), Change 123, Mai-Hime(manga), etc.
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In East Asia, there is an association of chestnut trees with (male) fertility; chestnut blossoms are reputed to smell like semen and "kuri" (chestnut) is a euphemism for a clitoris
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I've seen this trope used in Bondage Fairies (Pamila finds a squirrel with marital issues in a chestnut tree), the Color of Water trilogy (Ehwa is blossoming into a young woman and smells the aroma of such a tree), Susumu Katsumata's "Red Snow" anthology (a chestnut tree spirit is a woman's lover), and even a Japanese automated Twitter account for an Axis Powers Hetalia character. Is there an article that covers this? I feel like the current symbolism tropes don't cover this well enough because of the significance in Japanese culture that just isn't widely known in English-speaking internet forums.
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I've been reading doujins and I've noticed these two tropes:
-After sex, the man's face is shiny, I mean there's a gleam spot. Shiny like polished tile.
-When a woman (or "uke") is "deflowered", there's a visual of a flower falling off a stem or a branch. In the example I have she also says "yome ni ikenai" (I can't get married). And also the phrase "taisetsu na mono" (precious thing) may be involved.
Are there already entries for these tropes?
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Okay, RPG Mechanics 'Verse is supposed to be "non-game setting that extensively uses Role Playing Game Terms and RPG mechanics in-universe", right? Do we have a trope for cases where a non-game setting uses terms and mechanics from other kinds of games, like Fighting Games, Real-Time Strategy, etc.?
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3 eyelashes = ugly
All general examples aside, Is there a trope for the 3 eyelashes given to anime characters that is used to symbolize ugliness? I thought it might just be a sub trope but then again, Cute Little Fang and Big Ol' Eyebrows, got their own pages. So where is this one?
The two most notable examples I can think of off the top of my head are Ussopp of "One Piece" and Rock Lee of "Naruto"
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Not sure if this applies just to anime, but it goes like: A likes B, but B likes C. A & B's circumstances cause them to be together/live together/spend time together and eventually B falls in love with A, or it could go: A likes B and C likes D, but eventually after spending time together, A and C fall in love. Examples are:
- Toradora has Taiga in love with Yuusaku and Ryuuji in love with Minori, but the two end up falling for each other.
- Kimi no Iru Machi has Yuzuki liking Haruto, but Haruto likes Nanami, but Haruto and Yuzuki live together, and eventually Haruto falls for Yuzuki.
Is this already defined?

I'm looking for a trope that usually shows up in the final or the penultimate episode of various anime series. The idea behind the trope is that the main characters have to get to their ultimate goal. It could be the McGuffin. It could be to stop our hero's love interest from being sacrificed to some dark and sinister god, or whatever. As our heroes are racing to this goal, some enemy forces will spring up to try and stop them.
Thus, our heroes are bogged down. However, time is of the essence. Thus, one of our heroes says something to the effect of, "Go on, I'll hold them off." Our heroes will say something to the effect of "Don't Die", and then go on. Then this happens again, and again, until we're down to just the main character, and maybe his love interest, until finally we get to the last battle.
I can think of at least four series where this happens, though there are definitely more:
Tenchi Universe Record of Lodoss War (OVA) Tsubasa Season 1 Outlaw Star
Anyone know what Trope I'm looking for?