Anime Tropes

Tropes exclusive not just to animated shows, but to Anime. Anime has its own distinctive styles, translation issues, distribution methods and Japanese cultural references. These are the tropes that go to making Anime worth considering as a whole medium to itself here on TV Tropes. Note, however, that by the early 21st century, anime has had such an influence upon American animation that some of these tropes have begun to appear in American productions. You can probably tell if a reviewer has been calling something "Anime style". Due to the close connection with Manga, many of these are also (or were first) manga tropes.

Keep in mind that if you find just as many examples of a trope outside of anime as you do inside, it's probably not an "Anime trope", but just a regular trope that gets used occasionally in Anime.

A list of Anime can be found on their own page.

Note: This page is going away, Japanese tropes are now in the categories listed in the floatbox. The remaining tropes here need sorting/TRS.

See also:
 * Comic Book Tropes
 * Graphical Tropes
 * Japan

Categories:
 * Japanese Media Tropes - general Japanese tropes
 * Japanese Visual Arts Tropes - subset of Japanese tropes that require being drawn, including Anime, Manga, and Visual Arts
 * Manga Effects - visual effects used in manga
 * Japanese Animation Tropes - tropes that are specific to Japanese animation
 * Anime Genres
 * Boys Love Tropes
 * Magical Girl Tropes
 * Mecha Tropes
 * Anime Settings
 * Stock Japanese Characters

Tropes:

 * Anime Hair
 * Anime Catholicism
 * Artificial Riverbank
 * Chaste Teens
 * Class Is in Room X 01
 * Comical Angry Face
 * Credits Running Sequence
 * Excited Episode Title
 * Fist of Enthusiasm
 * Furo Scene
 * Hexagonal Speech Balloon
 * Inverted Portrait
 * Lightning Glare
 * Losing Face
 * Loudspeaker Truck
 * Mad Lib Anime Title
 * Magical Girl Queenliness Test
 * Moe Couplet
 * Moe Stare
 * Ondo
 * Panty Fighter
 * Patient Childhood Love Interest
 * Shonen Upgrade
 * Short Anime Movie
 * Shy Blue Haired Girl
 * Shy Finger Twiddling
 * Silly Me Gesture
 * Sleep Mode Size
 * Standing in The Hall
 * Theme Deck
 * This and That
 * Transfer Student Uniforms
 * Twisted Knee Collapse
 * Visual Novel Shot