I think this appears in almost any Japanese anime to ever exist.
The rival that becomes your friend in the end. - Yeah that one!
You don't run to school with toast in your mouth.
Hey guys it's Cathy Cat and today we are gonna go and ask Japanese people about
ANIME, specifically anime tropes, things that we see a lot in anime
then we sometimes wonder and wish we had them in real life.
Let's go and Ask Japanese.
Can you tell me some famous anime tropes, that you see a lot?
Stuff like this. What do you call it. Something comes out of here.
They are all super strong.
There is definitely always a hero.
What do you mean with "something comes out"?
Something like a beam
Something like "kame hame ha".
That's the one you wanted to say right. Kame hame ha.
There is also always a rival.
The hero becomes friends with his rival, or his rival is the last boss.
What you see a lot is when they sleep...
there is ZZZ written over them.
I think this appears in almost any Japanese anime to ever exist.
Even if you can't really hear it...
That sleeping state is expressed in letters.
Anime also expresses internal emotions in pictures.
You see that a lot
Can I say it in English?
On the trains, you see someone across the platform...
and it's like you're in love or something.
Lot of those moments have been in anime I feel.
Oh that person... oh no the train goes...
Yeah the train goes. Lots of those.
There is lots of onomatopoeia.
What do you mean?
Sounds like "dokan" "boom" and such often appear.
The main protagonist dates a super cute girl. You see that a lot.
Or there are like 7 cute girls around him at the same time. - Yeah.
And the main protagonist won't die. - True.
If the main protagonist never dies, who does die instead a lot in anime?
The enemies but also siblings.
Or the rival that you just became good friends with. - Yeah.
Did anything that happens in anime ever happen to you or a friend?
- Never happened to me. - Not to me either...
Anime is the opposite of reality. It's fantasy.
It's not connected to reality but...
it's fun to watch.
What do you WANT to exist in real life?
I want all the magical toys that Doraemon possesses.
I don't like studying, so I want the Memorization bread and such.
The magical toys are things I wish existed in real life.
I want the instant Memorization bread and the Anywhere door.
Can you explain what that is?
Imagine a normal slice of toast.
You stick that toast to the page in the book that you want to remember.
Everything on that page will then transfer to the bread.
And if you eat that bread, you instantly memorize it.
But if you go to the bathroom, it all comes out again.
So you will forget everything you had memorized.
The Anywhere door takes you to wherever you want to go if you think of the place.
Once you open the door you can instantly go to where you want to go.
I want both of them. -Yes.
I want the alchemy power from Full Metal Alchemist.
I think that is really cool.
You wish you could do that? - Yes exactly.
Girls always come late to school in Anime.
And they eat a toast while they run to school.
They never age. They always stay the same age forever.
I wonder why.
They can't age.
Ash from Pokemon is forever a child.
The design of his face changes a little, but yeah.
Apart from that he never changes.
The only thing that changes is that new pokemon get released.
But nobody ages.
The other members change, but Ash never changes.
Did something from an anime ever happen in you life? A Shojo love story?
Did a cool boy help you out or something?
Nope.
In the crowded train... I stumbled and fell and lost my shoe.
And a boy came, handed me back my shoe and asked if I was alright.
Wow that's nice.
These things can happen in real life!? - Yes that happened!
I was so surprised.
What things out of anime do you want to exist in real life??
The electronic cat Doraemon.
He pulls really convenient things out of his pocket.
He is a great person... not a person... he is a great robot.
I want the Anywhere door to exist.
Because with it you can quickly go to different places. I envy that.
Doraemon seems to be the type that will always rescue others.
If Doraemon existed, anything would be possible.
In Anime everyone can use magic. Don't you think so?
It's full with magicians.
True. What anime do you think of?
Sailor Moon and such?
Sparkly, nice example.
So magical girls. - Yes those.
Were you watching it when you were a child?
Yes I was when I was young.
Yay Sailor Moon yay!
The only the main protagonists have different hair colors.
- They stand out. - Colors like super pink and such.
In Shojo and Shonen anime? - In both.
There is only one blonde, while everyone around has brown hair.
And then suddenly a pink haired one.
They always do things that you can't do in reality.
Like in Attack on Titan.
Did you ever have an Anime scenario in real life?
Opening up the shoe locker and having valentine's chocolate inside and such.
I had that happen to me.
I opened up my school locker and there was chocolate inside.
Lucky. Was that on Valentine's day? - Yes it was.
Nice. So that really happens in Japan? - It does.
That has happened to some of my friends in school too.
Nice, I am a bit jealous now. I only hear of that in Anime.
Did you ever encounter a scenario in real life, that felt like it was from an anime?
Never never never!
That never happens. They might pick up things for you but that's it.
And nobody eats toast while running to school.
And the new student that enters class! - The new student?
Often the girl that the protagonist runs into at the corner of his house,
turns out to be the new student in class. That also never happens in real life.
In you usual daily lives, have you ever had a moment that was like
it was out of an anime?
I have seen something like that. Someone did a kabedon.
I saw a boy who did a kabedon on his girlfriend.
Did he do the kabedon on purpose as kabedon, or did he
just naturally put his hand against the wall near her?
It looked quite natural.
Those were our questions, thank you.
We are talking about anime tropes. I think a popular one is a girl falling from the sky.
followed by another girl running to school with a toast in their mouth
and then bumping into someone else.
Or of you go to the harem genre its one guy that has
the most plain looking hairstyle and clothes.
But all around him are very colorful girls 5-7 or 10 how many ever...
who are very colorful and have the most extravagant hairstyles
and the most interesting body sizes.
And they all fall for the main character.
And in the end he never chooses any of them... which just is...
which happens a lot. Then there is a beach episode, a cherry blossom episode...
and there is maybe a ghost house episode, or a Christmas episode.
Or a Valentine's episode.
That kind of stuff. Or when it's Shojo manga...
once the main two protagonists seem to be coming closer together
then suddenly at that point a rival appears. And it can be like...
the fiancee or the childhood friend or ...
someone just randomly appears.
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