30 Common laws of anime

[Fusion]

1. If the main character is male, he will either have no connection whatsoever to the storyline or will have an overly deep connection to the story line as well as relations with either a villain, or one of his friends.

2. If the main character is female, expect lots of characters having their heads smashed, unless said female is a schoolgirl. Then, expect the mentioned plus panty shots.

3. If the main villain is a male, expect him to do nothing against the heroes.

4. If above villain hires a subordinate, expect the subordinate to defect to the heroes' side near the end of the series.

5. If the main villain is female, expect her to be fanservice incarnate, and to have a whip.

6. If the above villain hires a subordinate, expect the subordinate to defect to the heroes' side early in the series.

7. If the main villian is an alien, expect lots of technology to be involved.

8. If the main villian is a vehicle, expect lots of transformation to be involved.

9. If the main villain sounds british, expect lots of mafia references.

10. If the main villain acts british, expect careless behavior.

11. If the main villain possesses an ancient artifact, expect him to reveal it's true power in the final battle.

12. If the main character possesses some kind of weird stone or tablet, expect it to empower him after the first episode, thus beginning his journey.

13. If the main character possesses a sword of some kind, expect him to be able to fire lasers from it.

14. If a female has a chest size larger than D cups, expect them to be very bouncy and often focused on more than her face.

15. Said female above will also be able to summon a giant mallet to bash perverts.

16. if said female is less than 10 years old, she is automatically a biological experiment that will die 40 human years early.

17. If a female has strange markings on her face, assume that she has special powers.

18. If a female seems to follow the main character around everywhere, assume she's in love with him.

19. If the main hero gets into a bind, expect a rise in power.

20. Ninjas are not always stealthy.

21. There will be some mysterious artifact that can be used to bring people\demons\hades\machines\swords and the like from the dead.

22. If the main character wears a suit of futuristic armor, expect it to break near the end of the series.

23. If the main character is young, expect the series to last a looong looong time.

24. Everybody will know what's going on, as they will state it out loud.

25. The villains must announce and describe their attack before they execute it.

26. If the main locale is a starship, expect lots of space travel.

27. If the main character is in a group of bandits, expect a lot of conflicts of interest.

28. If the main character's ship is the last in the fleet, expect it to pull through all the way to the end no matter how much damage it takes.

29. If there is a type of power-reading device, it will always play in the heroes' favor.

And last but not least...

30. If the anime is due for overseas, expect a lot of your plot to be lost.

[Professor Fann]

I beg to differ for Laws 5, 13, 15, 16 and 25. Not all anime follows those rules.

[Nightmare]

XD
Yeah most anime do follow those rules.


@fanwriter: I actually think 5, 13, and 25 apply to most if not all anime. >.>;

[Reaver]

most of the rules don't apply to more serious animes..
But yea... XD

23. Dragon Ball - Z - GT makes it so true...

[Peytral]

Number 16 dosen't seem right. Yet usually They aren't usually under 10.

[SLA¥ΣR]

I think one anime has almost all of those rules

[Professor Fann]

Number 5 - when do MOST anime have female vilain of fanservice and whips?

Number 13 - Since when do swords fire laser?

Number 25 - Most villains just yell out the name of the attack, not describe it. That's alme and the enemy can take advantage to finish off the villain.

[Miguel]

These seem like something that someone with ALOT of free time on their hands would record. Maybe I should list the laws of American cartoon physics. Alot of you should know the first law:
1: The laws of real world physics are a load of bunk in cartoons

2: Dynamite is easy enough for anyone obtain and will explode will the fuse still has alot on it unburned

3: nothing is ever leathel

4: the bad guy types always have heavy objects dropped on their heads, and never win

5: Animals talking is common, and nooone is scared of them

6: people's limbs can stretch great distances in cases like an arm caught in the door of a moving elevater

7: EXPLOSIONS!

8: noone ever bleeds

I'll edit this with more when I think of them.

[Professor Fann]

We were talking about anime, but I guess that is acceptable too.

Number 6 - if you are ONLY Mr Fantastic.

[Peytral]

Not really. Usually when they get there arm stuck in something itr stretches for like a mile.

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msiafanwriter said:

Number 13 - Since when do swords fire laser?

One word answers that.


Zelda.

[Peytral]

Only in Legend of Zelda oracle of seasons/ages. And that's not an anime anyways.

[toykun]

/me Toy sets the thread on fire. *

1. If a male character is voiced by a woman, you know he's gay.

2. If you don't see fanboys of the lead lady in the show, expect that the lady is a sl**.

3. Anything involving partners is one big pokemon rip-off. (Except Medabots. They oughta bring that back)

4. Voltron was here first. All other Sentai teams are posers.

that's all I got.

[Professor Fann]

Yes, Legend of Zelda has never been an anime.

[Miguel]

toykun said:

1. If a male character is voiced by a woman, you know he's gay.

I'd have to disagree with that. There's an example called "Marchen Awakens Romance" otherwise known as MAR (JAK series anyone?). The main character, Ginta Toramizu, was originally voiced by a female until about 90 episodes, and you can tell just from the first episode he has a crush on Koyuki.