My Life Me



My Life Me follows the exploits of junior high students Birch Small, her cousin Liam Coll, Sandra Le Blanc, and Raffi Rodriguez. The series employs many Japanese Visual Arts Tropes and stars an aspiring manga artist. The series has attracted a lot of attention from 4chan's /co/ (not much of it positive), due to its Animesque design and tropes, and its online "manga" maker, which is extremely easy to exploit.

Here's a trailer. And many of the episodes are being uploaded up on YouTube.

This series provides examples of:

 * Adobe Flash: Animated via it, and it's very noticable.
 * Adult Child: Mr. Towes slips into this a few times. And it is glorious.
 * All Love Is Unrequited: Birch for Raffi, and, seemingly, Liam for Sandra.
 * Ambiguously Gay: Raffi.
 * Ambiguously Brown: Raffi again, though he has a Hispanic surname.
 * Mr. Towes, though he might be black.
 * Animesque: In Flash Animation.
 * As Long As It Sounds Foreign: Birch's manga idol, Miyazaki Lee. That's two surnames in different languages.
 * Author Avatar: Birch
 * Blondes Are Evil: Amelia, the resident Alpha Bitch.
 * Blush Sticker: Everyone in this series is blushing all the time. All the time.
 * Canis Latinicus: 'Agnosco' is Latin for 'I understand', not 'Do you unterstand?'.
 * Color Coded for Your Convenience: Birch's color palette is mostly violet; Liam's is green; Sandra's, orange; Raffi's, blue.
 * Creator Cameo: The three fangirls who are following Raffi all the time? They are apparently modeled after the creators of the show.
 * Cross Popping Veins: Used just about every time anyone gets angry.
 * Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: If someone from the main cast has a love interest outside of their group, that person usually is mentioned only in that one episode, and then never again. Where do they all go?
 * Made odder by both that they usually GET the love interest and that the interest remains an extra (and so will share any general dislike of the main character that occurs).
 * Dean Bitterman: Principal Lemon.
 * A Dog Named Dog: Neko the cat.
 * Fiery Redhead: Sandra le Blanc fits this trope well.
 * Game Show Appearance: In episode 1, the main characters participate in a fictitious game show.
 * Gratuitous Japanese: For some reason, Birch's necklace has the watashi kanji on it.
 * She also has a cat named Neko.
 * Also, Sandra has a stuffed rabbit named "Kimiko".
 * And they keep using manga as a catch-all term for... anything Birch and Liam are into. At one point, a Manga Poetry Slam happens, which can be summed up as just the characters saying "Manga" a lot.
 * Good Angel Bad Angel: Birch has a pair arguing over whether she should cheat on Liam's test.
 * Incest Subtext: Some between Liam and Birch, though it's hopefully unintentional.
 * Its All About Me: Birch certainly seems to think that everything is about her. Even when some of the episodes focus on the other people in the pod, either Birch gets heavily involved with the episode or a Birch-centric subplot is squeezed in.
 * Large Ham: It's very obvious that Mr. Towes' voice actor is just having oodles of fun. And the viewers ADORE him for it.
 * Limited Wardrobe: Nobody changes their clothes in this school, for some reason.
 * Occidental Otaku: Birch Small especially. The rest of the cast, to a slightly lesser extent.
 * Ocular Gushers
 * Only Six Faces: All characters' faces are based on the same design template.
 * Remix Comic: Incredibly simple and diabolically fun, thanks to the manga maker.
 * Sadist Teacher: Mr. Towes slips into this briefly when he suspects Birch's pod cheated on a test. It's probably the best episode ever.
 * School Newspaper Newshound: This show has one of these.
 * Slice of Life
 * Small Name Big Ego: Birch, oh so very much. When she shows off her own "manga art" to her manga idol Miyazaki Lee, he says it's good and that she has potential, but then insults a different 'local' comic that he had seen, not knowing that Birch had drawn it. This prompts her to overreact and yell at him, insulting some of the very work of his she was praising earlier.
 * Super Deformed: Used liberally, along with Sweat Drop.
 * Thick Line Animation
 * The Cheerleader: Amelia is one of these.
 * Tsundere: Well, no slice-of-life anime-inspired show would be complete without one, so we have Sandra filling the spot.
 * Tsurime Eyes: Birch
 * Unusual Ears: Birch would grow fox ears and a tail whenever they need to show that she was being sly like a fox.
 * Urban Legends: Liam told one about a janitor that went crazy from having to clean a whole cafeteria covered in barf.
 * Who Names Their Kid Dude: Birch
 * Word Salad Title: Evidently a Shout Out to other anime series which do the same. We assume.