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** In Episode 11 of the anime, Tatsuki sees that Orihime is ranked third in their year and notes that this is normal for her, albeit surprising considering Orihime's [[Cloudcuckoolander|usual personality]]. In the Dub, Tatsuki randomly describes it as "Pretty good for a girl".
* In the ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' series, [[Ensemble Darkhorse|the fan-favorite]] [[Cute Clumsy Girl|Mihoshi]] falls under this. Originally she was an attractive hard worker who was a bit of a [[The Klutz|klutz]] [[Nice Girl|that had a good heart and meant well]], but thanks to intense [[Flanderization]], she later became a [[Cloudcuckoolander|lazy and completely incompetent slacker]] who went from [[Genius Ditz]] to [[The Ditz|Complete Ditz]] to pretty much be a [[Foil]] to her partner Kiyone. In other words, we have a great character that happens to be [[Dark-Skinned Blond|black, blonde,]] [[Buxom Is Better|and buxom]] with [[Blue Eyes]] being portrayed as a [[Lazy Bum|lazy]] [[Dumb Blonde|dumb]] [[Ms. Fanservice|bimbo]] to stereotype both black and blond people all while making her white partner [[Straight Man|Kiyone]] [[The Smart Girl|look professional and talented by comparison.]]
* In ''[[Air Gear]]'' which is known for having a lot of eye-candy, every [[Ambiguously Brown]] character except for [[Ms. Fanservice|Natsumi]] is an outright [[Gonk]], while the majority of the light-skinned characters are still very attractive.
* ''[[Bakuman｡]]'':
** Akito Takagi once talked about how Miho Azuki, main character Moritaka Mashiro's fiancee, is an example of a "smart" girl, who has good but not stellar grades, in contrast to Aiko Iwase, one of the top students in the school who is obsessed with competition.
** Around the same time, he also discusses voice acting as being an acceptable female ambition, and girls being meant to get married and [[Yamato Nadeshiko|be graceful and polite]]. Within the same chapter, Moritaka's father tells his mother that "men have dreams that women will never be able to understand." However, in the last episode of the first season, she echoes the statement, and says that women have dreams, too.
* Chocolove of ''[[Shaman King]]''.
** The good news? He's got a well-thought out backstory, a cool powerset, no stupid accent and an interesting philosophy for a character in a [[Violence Really Is the Answer|fighting]] [[Serious Business|manga]]. The bad news? Um... his ''name'', for one thing, and the fact that he's the only character drawn with lips for another.
** (In the manga only), at least he's {{spoiler|the most powerful shaman in the group, more than the ''freaking main character''}}, but it doesn't help either that he was in a gang, killed a guy and his oversoul is called ''Jaguarman''. He's not the only character drawn with lips, though, but the others who have them clearly do so to achieve a [[Gonk]] look.
** The American VIZ release of the manga [[Woolseyism|made a few changes]] to try to lessen that. For one thing, they changed his name to Joco, which A: sounds like an actual name, and B: refers to his personality (a comedian) rather than his race. Secondly, they edited the excessive lips away. And in any case, it's not like he's the first repentant murderer (Ren) or former gang member (Ryu, for certain values of "former") to join Yoh's group.
** Speaking of Ryu, in the 4kids version, he's called Rio, and he has a vaguely Hispanic accent. Apparently they were going for ''[[Scarface]]'', but it reminds one of the stereotype that all Cubans are gangsters.
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* During the summer of 2009, shortly before the release of the 11th [[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]] movie, ''[[Pokémon: Giratina and The Sky Warrior]]'' the ex-director of the anime admitted in an interview that one of the reasons why he often changes some of the female cast of the show was because he essentially felt that girls were able to have fanservice potential. Naturally, when the fans read of this, [[Broken Base|they didn't take it well]] due to the implication that the girls' only purpose is to arouse males and that they are expendable compared to other males (especially Brock, the show's resident [[Lovable Sex Maniac]]).
** The VHS and DVD release of ''The Po-Ké Corral'' and the Indigo League Box Set DVDs, the ''Holiday Hi-Jynx'' episode of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' is not available in the United States because of the humanoid Pokémon known as Jynx. Due to someone complaining about [[Uncle Tomfoolery]] over Jynx, its color was even changed to purple in later additions to the franchise.
** In the newest season, ''Best Wishes'', one of the rivals (Trip) dislikes Kanto. He calls Ash a "hillbilly" and Kanto "the boonies", apparently due to the fact Kanto isn't as high-tech as Unova. Being that Unova is based off New York and Kanto is very Japanese, and upped by the possibility Ash is Asian while Trip may not be, it sounds like he's being racist at times.
* In ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'', Tsuna does not want to be a mafia boss. But that doesn't matter, because his father already decided he'll be a mafia boss so he'll be a mafia boss.
* In ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'':
** [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|Akise]] Hinata and [[Psycho Lesbian|Mao]] all have [[Ho Yay]]/[[Les Yay]] moments with their potential love interests. {{spoiler|[[Bury Your Gays|Recent chapters kill them all off.]] Akise gets the worse out of the three of them as he's beheaded by Yuko after kissing Yuki.}}
** {{spoiler|In a world where [[Anyone Can Die]], and that they were killed because they got in the way, your first conclusion shouldn't be homophobia implications. Except with Akise, but really, what do you expect when you kiss Yukki in front of [[Yandere|Yuno]]}}
** To add to this though, in Paradox, the homophobia seems to be more evident when Muru Muru calls Akise a fag and treats him like crap in comparison to the other characters. Of course, given Akise's character, he would be unaffected but the unfortunate implications are there about how homosexuals (despite the fact Akise claims to only love Yuki) must take the insults thrown at people that "hire you".
* Following the off screen defeat of the Europeans in ''[[Code Geass]]'' R2 the world is pretty much divided between the East controlled by the Black Knights (which is good) and the West dominated by Britannia (which is bad).
** Forget that, there was the implications that this series was a [[Take That]] towards America, although there is some evidence to the contrary within the series.
** And how the East is remarkably similar to Imperial Japanese propaganda, which represented Japan as protecting Asia from Western imperialism. Has led to the series being nicknamed "Code [[wikipedia:Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere|GEACPS]] in some quarters.
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* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'':
** What about [[Big Bad|Beatrice's]] [[Fantastic Slurs|comments about furniture]]? Or how about [[Happiness in Slavery|the furnitures who love to work?]]
** The great irony here is that by Episode 7 of the [[Visual Novel]], one realizes {{spoiler|that Beatrice's comments on furniture are because ''she herself is Shannon and Kanon, simultaneously''. It indicates that she absolutely hates herself, at least on some level. The implications are only unfortunate in the way she views herself, and the massive personality problems s/he has}}.
* From the latest ''[[Freezing]]'' arc: {{spoiler|it's okay if your [[Complete Monster|monster]] little brother rapes and beats you! He just has trouble talking with girls and getting out his feelings}}. Cue epic facepalm.
* In ''[[Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu]]'', classes are split in order of intelligence. Class F, the one full of idiots, has only two girls, one of which, Himeji, is actually a super genius who was placed there because she was ill on testing day, while the other, Minami, has only recently retuned from an extended trip overseas and so can't read the kanji well, the implication being that she is actually quite intelligent but can't show it until she reaquaints herself with the written language. Meaning that the only ones who are truely stupid are the guys. Are there no dumb girls in existance?
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* Early on in ''[[Soul Eater]]'', the male weapons have clothes on in their reflections [[Fan Service|while the girls go nude.]] Eventually though, they all go nude in weapon form.
* SEELE, the [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness]] in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', bears an uncanny resemblance to a number of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, e.g. ''The Protocols of the Elders of Zion'' and [[The Illuminati]]. Between their secret control of the UN, their love of Kabbalic mysticism, and their oversized (and in some cases, hooked) noses, it's not hard to see why a Western viewer might take their presence the wrong way.
* The last episode to the ''[[Wandering Son]]'' anime. It's very different from the manga chapters its based off, with several scenes added in. Compared to the previous episodes it has an anti-[[Transsexualism]] tone depending on how you interpret the scenes, something among the lines of "It was just a phase and they're 'normal' kids" while the manga sticks to them being transgendered.
* Similar to ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia|Hetalia]]'' is ''[[Afganisu-tan]]'' and its short lived sequel ''Pakis-tan''. They're a series of Yonkoma webcomics which transform several countries related to Afghanistan into cute little girls. The series is most infamous for 911 being depicted as a bunch of cats scratching Meriken (America) and her having a [[Disproportionate Retribution]] [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]. Meriken is also depicted as a cocky, egotistical, Type 2 [[Eagle Land|Eaglelander]] who thinks the world is hers. Western nations (England, America, France..) are depicted as being bullies.
* ''[[Houou Gakuen Misoragumi]]'':
** The protagonist of starts out as a [[Butch Lesbian]], without any signs of Bisexuality or Bicuriosity, who dislikes boys and pukes when she interacts with them. As the manga goes on she becomes less of a [[Bifauxnen]], and starts seeming romantically attracted to some of the boys. The manga also has subtext that "Girls must like boys, and marry boys" and that lesbians are just traumatized girls who aren't "normal".
** The abusive boys at the school and the mom are portrayed ''as the good guys'', giving the [[Sarcasm Mode|wonderful]] implication that lesbianism is sick and disgusting and must be cured at any cost, even ''abuse and torture''. It's disturbing that this was published in English (and is apparently ''selling'').
** It also pretty much says outright ''lesbians and bisexual girls don't exist''.
** What's even worse is that the author seems ''a-ok'' with male homosexuality. Talk about [[Double Standard|Double Standards]]...
** Another implication the series gives is "If you're a girl, your only purpose in life is to get married and have babies. To not comply with this is mental illness". [[Fridge Horror|And this was written by a woman]]...
** It also implies in the first chapter that girls will fall for ''anybody'' who looks male.
* ''[[Hajime no Ippo]]'':
** The First American boxer is a [[Complete Monster|ruthless]] killer who only lives to murder and have sex.
** That was the second American boxer of the series (Brian Hawk), the first one (Jason Ozma) appeared early on the manga and was shown as a really nice person.
** Also worth noting that these two characters were African-American.
* ''[[Shinshi Doumei Cross]]'':
** The [[Bi the Way|bisexual]] character Ushio's [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|serious crush on Haine]] is treated like a ''mental illness'', and afterwards she is rather hastily (this is the ''only pairing without any foreshadowing in the manga'') [[Teacher-Student Romance|paired up with Senri]] - who is not only pretty much a blatant [[Ephebophile]], but fell for Ushio primarily because she looks like ''his dead fiancée!'' (The suggestion being that [[Loving a Shadow]] is wrong and unhealthy betweeen girls, but ''perfectly fine'' and even ''romantic'' for het relationships.) This is especially baffling considering two male characters (Maguri and Maora/ {{spoiler|Yoshitaka}}) ended up together, making this a blatant [[Double Standard]].
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* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' has some bad implications involving AEU, short for Advanced European Union, controlling large portions of Africa. The whole thing has the feel of a new age of exploitative colonialism, especially since practically all people shown living in the African areas of the Union appear to be white! It's sad considering that calling it African-European Union and having more black people on screen would have eliminated the problem completely.
* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'':
** It is a notorious [[Deconstruction]] of the [[Magical Girl]] genre wherein MG's {{spoiler|literally have (ahem) their souls ripped from their bodies and stored in separate "Soul Gems", and are forced to fight "Witches", who are actually dead MG's whose feelings of grief overwhelmed them, turning them into despair-spreading [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]]. Often this is caused by [[Go Mad
** And then there's the revelation that {{spoiler|many other famous women in history were also MG's, such as [[Joan of Arc]] and [[Cleopatra]]. [[Fridge Horror|How many other women only made history only because they were actually MG's, and ended up suffering a FateWorseThanDeath as a result?]] Did, say, [[Amelia Earhart]] become a Witch after she lost her way over the South Pacific?}}
** Considering Kyubey says {{spoiler|humans would be cavemen without Incubator's}}, you can see it as saying only woman made any real contributions to humanity.
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** Not to mention that during the camping trip, Yosuke and Yu didn't want [[Ambiguously Gay|Kanji]] sleeping in their tent because they believed he might molest them. Yosuke has the same attitude in the game, but he's [[Character Development|initially]] a bit of a jerk, and given how often he receives [[Laser-Guided Karma]], it's clear that players aren't meant to agree with him. Having Yu go along with it (when there's no such dialog choice in-game; the MC is almost always portrayed as [[The Messiah]]) and playing the whole scene for comedy left a bad taste in many viewers' mouths. The episode is still a source of [[Internet Backdraft]].
* In ''[[Suite Precure]]'', the good guys play happy music, and the villains play sad music. Meaning sad music, and those that play it, are indeed [[Made of Evil]].
* ''[[Okane ga Nai]]'': Hooo boy. All the classic [[Unfortunate Implications]] specific to [[Boys Love Tropes]] with a little less finesse. We got [[Victim Falls For Rapist]], [[Stockholm Syndrome]] and [[Lima Syndrome]]. The [[Seme]], Kanou is an [[Domestic Abuse|abusive]] [[Bastard Boyfriend]] [[Loan Shark]] (!!!) who purchases the [[Uke]] as a [[Sex Slave]]. Said Uke, Ayase is a [[Too Dumb to Live]] [[Love Freak]] who every "straight" guy in the universe seems to want to rape. Also, Ayase, despite being [[Older Than They Look|an 18-year-old college student]], looks like [[Shotacon|a ten-year-old girl]]. And [[Fridge Horror|did we mention that this story was actually written by a man]]?
* ''[[Maranosuke]]'' has [[Hot Amazon|Mi]][[Sassy Black Woman|na,]] the ''only'' (legit) [[Action Girl]] of the Nakama that curbstomped a [[Fake Ultimate Mook]] [[Mad Bomber]] with [[Single-Stroke Battle|just]] a [[Prongs of Poseidon|trident]] like he was/is nothing, only lost once against a [[Manipulative Bastard]] Dragon due to his use of genjutsu, proved to be a [[Genius Bruiser]] by salting the fish she caught to preserve them (the rest of the team wasn't aware of this fact) and could've easily curbstomped [[Decoy Protagonist|Momoi.]] The downside? She's [[Happiness in Slavery|sworn to blindly serve whoever has the birthmark she was branded with, which turns out to be the Mukoseki title character.]] Of course it's supposed to and basically is a [[Bodyguard Crush]] version of Bushido, but it can't help avoiding this trope when she's the [[Token Minority]] ''even amongst her own people'' in Feudal Japan.
* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' - The episode "Mushroom Samba" (Very related to the [[Mushroom Samba|trope of the same name]]) is meant to be a parody of [[Blaxsploitation]] films. It features a black, female bounty hunter named "Coffee" and, at its worst, a black guy steals a watermelon truck. Eeeeyeah...
* Kyouka from ''[[Kyouran Kazoku Nikki]]'' is from a race of demons that possess people. This means that Kyouka's body actually belongs to a human girl who has her personality wiped out--or at least suppressed--so Kyouka is provided with a host. The girl's horrible fate is never addressed throughout the series, likely because it would put Kyouka's antics within a body that isn't hers in a rather grim light.
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