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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.
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.
openReigniting 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.
openCharacter 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?
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 terlite50openBody 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 NestlingOwletopenBorn 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.
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.
openA 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?
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 QuinceDixTropes3829openThe romance exists only in the audience’s imagination, not in the story itself. Anime
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.
openCharacter gains power of enemy Anime
Is there a named trope where a character gains the power of the thing they hate or their enemy? Specific examples would be Eren from Attack on Titan wanting to kill all titans but then gaining the ability to become one, or Tokyo Ghoul where the main character is forced into becoming a ghoul. Other examples would be Nezuko from Demon Slayer, Shinichi from Parasyte, Denji from Chainsaw Man. Use Their Own Weapon Against Them is close but not quite.
openParental Mentor to Main Cast Anime
Basically, I'm looking for a more parental version of the mentor archetype. A trusted adult authority figure who the teen/YA main cast can rely on for support, guidance, and advice. Bonus points if the main cast is a group of magical girls or superheroes who has to keep their identities secret from even their closest loved ones.
I selected the anime medium since magical girls originated in Eastern animation, but I'm sure it exists in other media.
open[beat] Ka-BOOSH! Anime
Is there a name for that trope in anime where someone gets hit so hard, it takes a second between them hitting the ground and a MASSIVE crater of cracks growing under them?
You see it a lot in Dragonball, I think, but most recently I saw it in Scissor Seven.

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 Hazzmatt321