Manga tropes

One of the main difference between Western and eastern comics is the basic conventions of each genre. Due to both cultural differences and main audience sought after completely different bases were formed. In Manga there are two different main genres of comics Shojo and Shonen. Originally made for different genders Shojo focused more on slice of life stories, though often with some fantasy element. Shonen focused on more action based and violent adventures. Because of this they established a lot of conventions different from the western world. Add in that the characters are based off of idealized beauty and made more simplistic.

And everyone knows the basic generic anime/manga tropes, there is always the one character who believes solely in the power of friendship, there’s always the over the top first problem who either is severely outmatched after the main characters first power up and the girl with the huge chest, amongst many many others. these are the more modern day tropes that have taken hold and while some are quite wholesome to see, like such as the anime gasp, power of friendship always coming true, edge lord with a heart of gold. And the cringe worthy tropes that I know we all want to drop off the face of the earth. Such as the Loli trope, the anime girl with boobs way too big for her to be standing upright and still being supermodel thin otherwise, alongside the extremely perverted comic relief character that’s just super cringy and not actual funny..

Though these are more modern tropes that are increasingly more common in recent years, older tropes are still heavily prevalent. Such as the trope of a magical guardian animal creature in some stories, along with Transfer student, the window seat in the back, Op main character, Self insert main character, Extreme exaggerated faces, and Punching your problems away. These are still heavily prevalent in todays standards but are classics that most anime’s have.