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A recurring element across anime, manga or works in other media. Tropes cover clichés, genre conventions and other recurring plot points, character types, narration styles, …

A trope, in the general sense used here, is a feature that is found in many creative works (anime, manga, or any other media), for example a plot point, a character type, a setting, a narration style, etc. It is expected that at least some readers or viewers will recognize the trope. Some tropes have a well-identified source that other works have imitated, departed from or alluded to; others are so old that their origin has long been lost.

The website TV Tropes collects tropes (in all media, including anime and manga, despite the name). If you're looking for a list of works using a certain trope, TV Tropes is the place to look. You'll also find lists of tropes seen in a particular work.

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Why do anime characters nowadays tend to have very forward jaws?

For a healthy normal average human, it's common that their jaws are almost in the same vertical line as their foreheads. The jaws in this picture are more similar to jaws in real life: (from Seraph of the End: Battle in Nagoya) However, I have…
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Why are daughters usually in charge of household chores after their moms have passed away or left the families in anime?

In many anime, after the moms have passed away or left the families, it's often the daughters who are in charge of the household chores, like cooking and cleaning. Their dads just look like good-for-nothings, who just eat, drink, watch TV and seem…
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Which manga was the first to feature the Fa-Jin technique?

I was seeing both My Hero Academia and One Punch Man mangas have a character who uses a technique called Fa-Jin. Was one of these mangas the first to use this technique ever? Which manga was the first to feature the Fa-Jin technique?
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Why do most anime tend to have "emotional" flashbacks before a big moment?

We've all seen it. When the main character is put in a bind, he/she always has some "emotional" flashback, some of which are flashbacks of things we never saw happen in the series. The existence of time itself seems to vanish during a character's…
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Are there any anime that play out from a oranyan protagonist's point-of-view?

There are anime which I have already watched that narrates based on the male protagonist's point-of-view (not an oranyan). For example is Ano Hana, Clannad, etc. And a lot more anime with main tsundere female protagonist's point-of-view. I'm…
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Where does the idea of mentioning that they're in a manga come from?

I was reading Recipe for Gertrude, and in chapter 10, there's a part where they're driving in a car and one of the characters says, "Now sit down please. That could be fatal in this manga." I was wondering if this was a relatively common occurrence.…
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The first Anime/Manga with a parody's genre ever created

Gintama i would said the The most epic Anime with Parody ever made. Here's some example One Piece Parody Naruto Parody Binbougami Ga anime sure have many episode that contains parody. Ex: Dragonball Parody Hokuto No ken Death Note Why this…
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What is Itsuki Nakano's character type/s? Like, what's quintessential about Itsuki?

The other 6 main characters have character types, but Itsuki doesn't? Nakano siblings Ichika - onee-san, ara ara Nino - tsundere Miku - kuudere, dandere Yotsuba - genki Itsuki - ? Uesugi siblings Fuutarou - studious / nerd, particularly someone…
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Why do anime always have an eye glow arbitrarily drawn in

It is a circle on the eyes. Often lazily drawn in that is fixed without reference to lighting. Totally detracts from any quality of the drawing. For some characters, it used for personality showing but generally it is just of no value. What I mean…
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What is this expresison/anime trope called?

Say, character2 says or does something -- usually stupid in nature -- in which character1 responds with a similar face and a comment of their own. I see this a lot in anime, and I was wondering if it had a name. This happens a lot in Naruto.
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Name of classic MC protective personality type?

What is someone who is protective of another character enough to get hurt for them called? Pretty much all MCs in anime with fighting but I wanna know a specific name. Like Naruto protecting his friends or Thor from Absolute Duo protecting Julie and…
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Why do many anime include pocket watches in them?

I have not seen a lot of anime, but some of the ones I have seen have pocket watches in them. Noir, Phantom, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Steins;Gate all have pocket watches of some sort in them and are usually an important piece at some point in the…
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Why are monsters and the like in anime usually adorable girls?

In many anime nowadays, the dragons, monsters, devil, semi-human or orcs are usually adorable girls maybe with thicc figures. Say, in Dropkick on My Devil, the devil from the hell is like an innocent little girl. In the good old days, things were…
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What's with the huge supernova-like explosions in anime?

Why do they tend to occur so often in anime? I'm not really a fan nor knowledgeable, but just curious is there any background behind this. Here are some examples of what I…
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