i think miscommunication is oveused

Garnt put incest in C tier but it will always be S in his heart🗿

For Garnt there should be a "Sidney trope", animecharacter is white, blond hair, tsundere = sidney trope

Another trope that gets me 90% of the time: Opening Song in Final Battle.

Hero/Villian team up is peakest of the peak of tropes.

I'm surprised my most hated trope wasn't on the list: "accidental interruptions". I bloody hate it when two characters are having a moment, bonding, or taking their relationship to the next level, and then someone walks into the room, shouts from across the street, or bloody falls from the sky, interrupting them. It's the most infuriating thing ever. Dear author, I don't care you're scared that you won't have anything to write about in the future if you let things progress too quickly - just let my characters develop their relationship at their own pace!

"Harems turn the anime into a sport." Fujoshis: Sports anime are my favorite harems.

No trope about when a character gets a drop of water on them, they automatically catch a cold or if a group of characters are in the woods, someone is sliding down a hill/cliff

Anti-Heian Plot Armour is the best trope.

A good one I feel was omitted from the list: "Badass old guy" essentially an elderly figurehead-type character who turns out to be incredibly powerful. Tons of good examples in anime, many of which are some of the most fun characters in their series.

Absent parents are mostly necessary in the types of stories it is used in. You can’t really have an adventure if you’re parents want you to be safe. I think it would mostly detract from the story

The animal girl ears are an “emotional hints and tricks” indicator

Did he really just call Holo the Wise Wolf a fox?

I don't mind tragic backstories, but don't have them happen right before/after the character had died. Tell me a bit about the main cast before the arc properly starts. I always feel so manipulated when they drop the sad backstory out of nowhere

8:00 if garnt thinks jjk does a good job balancing ability exposition, just wait for Hakari.

When I think of tragic backstories, I think of Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal, Kizumonogatari, and Maison Ikkoku, which are some of my all-time favorites.

Gigguk coming in on a rough day is like finally getting some sunlight in mid March.

Signature attack is peak. I feel like I have seen it work in live action, but I cannot think of one.

Time skip feels sometimes like a whole new anime, Naruto for example felt completely different, the stakes, the powers, and the maturity of the different characters, one piece has my favorite time skip, I still love og one piece but damn, the build up to the time skip was pure hype and watching the crew overpower their enemies after the time skip felt like they were smurfing, pure bliss.

Vinland Saga alone is enough to demonstrate how awesome time skips are, also my favorite trope as well, easily. Great way to refresh a cast/setting and give us something that's not HS. H/V teamup is also a great way to refresh the cast/plot and the tournament arc is just refreshing in general.

power of friendship anime : everyone watches the main character fight alone. then the main character realize he loves his nakama. everyone watching are touched and cry. continues watching the main character fight alone.

I remember when I was younger and I ALWAYS laugh at the "tripping and falling into boobs" trope and then now I just groan and this is coming from someone who thinks the steam/light censor is peak anime trope

Cat ears are so good because it works so well when it comes to proportions and aesthetics. Biology didn't give them to real humans because it isn't evolutionary beneficial. But we can give them to anime characters because practicality doesn't matter and we can focus on cuteness

Garnt: Ara Ara = S Tier Me remembering Sydney's 1hr Ara Ara Stream 💞

Does anyone know where the trope of getting sick because of even slight rain/cold came from? It's always been so odd to me that despite having _almost_ zero real logic it seems to be in every single SoL/romance series ever

As a female anime watcher, all of the fanservicey type tropes go in F-tier for me. I definitely don't mind hot characters of either gender, but when it's constant panty shots or jiggle physics, it gets really annoying and at times disgusting and unnecessary. Even when it's fanservice of male characters, it just gets so stale so quicky and detracts from the story.

If running with toast in mouth is a trope, I'd like to nominate "person sneezing when other people talk about them", it's really cute

Catgirls and Monster Girls should have been seperate tropes on this list. Even H tags agree, Kemonomimi and Monster Girl are separate tags!!

Watching Jujutsu Kaisen made me want more filler episodes in anime. Every "emotional" moment on Shibuya had a flashback about something that easily could have been a filler episode on the show (the closer we got were the Jujutsu shorts on the first season and it was THE BEST PART OF THE WHOLE SEASON). Shaman King had a lot of filler (the old one) and it was great because the characters were great and expanden a lot about them. I just think that Naruto or Bleach style filler is so horrid, but if they add like 3-5 filler episodes between arcs, it could have been WAAAY better in some anime.

Tournament arc when done right is S+ tier. Dark tournament and the flame of recca tournament come to mind

Joey would unalive Garnt in cold-blood if he saw the thumbnail showing Monogatari being D.

The fang being S tier is so real. One of the smallest additions to a character that somehow adds a whole other layer of appeal that I cant get enough of

the friends who find out their lifelong friend is super powerful or special has always been one of my favorite tropes. i love the reveal.

loli shinobu best girl

Hey Garnt, Philosophy student here. The term "Deconstruction" comes originally from the writings of the French philosopher Jacque Derrida, who defined it in a purposely ambiguous way, because it essentially has to do with the inherently unstable meaning of language, so not knowing what deconstruction specifically means or whether something is or is not a deconstruction is part of the point. However, my own understanding after reading a whole lot of Derrida is that deconstruction is essentially the ability of a text to be taken apart into its different elements and re-construct its meaning in a way different than the original speaker or author intended the text to be read. A lot of Derrida's works are unconventional readings of texts in the western cannon, which go against their conventional meaning and find very different and new interpretations of them. In light of that, I would say that to use the term "genre deconstruction" appropriately, the work would have to be one which takes the tropes of the original genre and makes a new meaning out of them - for example, Gon is a quintessential Shonen protagonist, but he's so happy-go-lucky all the time in a world that's harsh and brutal because he's a bit of an amoral sociopath. It's not just subverting a trope - it's taking the trope as it is, but actually digging into it's possible meanings, conclusions, and logical extremes

That thumbnail is a wild statement LMAO

Demon Slayer has tragic backstory for the villains because it is trying to show that many of them fall into that dark side for a reason, life is just rough sometimes and more so in that time period. Its basically a metaphor for how real life gangs absorb people.

Thank you for the trope ranking video!!

"Filler Episodes are dying out" Pokemon anime in 2024: *Let me introduce myself*

"Ahegao face was never hot" true cringeworthy from the start

When I hear "tragic anime backstory" my brain immediately pictures Naruto on the swing

Not an anime but one of the most hype moments for me was those few minutes in Halo 3 when you team up with the Flood to stop the firing of the Ark. Hero-Villain Team Up is goat tier.

8:03 Honestly this was my biggest gripe with HxH. I love the powersystem itself, but when most fights are along the lines of *character moves finger* > 2 mins explanation > *opponent blocks said finger move* > 3 mins explanation.. it just takes away from the pace of the fight. Same goes for the internal monologue during Demon Slayer fights sometimes. I agree JJK is something that does it right. Also F fillers and recaps. I would rather go one week without an episode than get slapped with one of these mid airing seasonal.

Still love attack names in Kamen Rider >w

I agree with filler episodes being D but sometimes and I mean sometimes they are great but that’s usually just in comedy animes or single episodes after shounen arcs to just see the characters chilling and having fun.

"Dead parents aren't the worst thing in the world." - Gigguk; 2024

Garnt character development era is here

So if we took the top two tiers and made an anime out of it to create Garnt's dream anime it would be "Tournament of the Super Battle Onee-chan/MILF Harem!!!" the lead character would have an inner monologue, a trainng arch where they learn Power-ups and a fang.

one trope which i think should have been included in the tier list is anime openings having spoilers

Great conclusions. Was a fun ride

My favorite Demon Slayer specific trope is the 'my sickly mom/das'. Let's consider how many characters this applies to. Tanjiro, Rengoku, Muichiro, Akaza, Daki/Gyutaro, Yoriichi, literally the entire Ubuyashiki clan, and probably some other minor characters I forgot. Hell, Akaza even gets TWO sickly loved ones, lucky guy. You also have the characters themselves that were sickly, like Muzan, Rui, Tamayo, and Yushiro. Seriously, like over half of the tragic backstories involve a sick parent, and most of the rest it's the character themselves that are sick. It's literally a more common backstory than the 'demon massacre orphan' variety, though sometimes the two are combined. I just wanted to add this, since I found it hilarious.

Madoka was a deconstruction and then became a new trope - being magical girl is suffering.

"Timeskips are like highschool reunions" I don't know about Garnt, but I think most people wouldn't put their high school reunions in S tier.

For the signature attacks, I love how Nasu has given us a lore reason for Servants shouting out their weapon name when using their ultimate attack

Power of friendship is better utilized in JJK, rather than a metaphor, you actually jumping on your enemies with your friends.

6:49 this moment right here is pure comedy!

Hero/villain team up is top 3 anime tropes

He need to talk about the manga named: Rosen Garten Saga.

The Essential Guide to Garnt's brain.

This is legit lovely Gigguk content

The most genius part of Jujustu Kaisen is that the world has built in lore where explaining your ability somehow makes its effects stronger if the opponent understands how it works etc. Its so genius. Sukuna even says in one scene "im not going to be petty and explain how my ability works"

In anime they're called tropes, in hentai they're Tags

for the 1000 year old loli, I like it for the cute and must protect aspect like rika (higurashi) and kanna (miss kobayashi dragon maid)

I think the problem of the most of these tropes is that authors experiment with much of them really rarely In a lot of counterexamples authors inspire by west or other media so they try to mix up this external experience with usual tropes to make something absolutely unique In other cases they just may ask "what if i do that instead of usual this" and it will work. At least until they forget about theirselves' own concepts

You forgot the "Ultra Dense Male Character" trope. It's such an aggravating trope that is in almost every single anime and it applies to any male character regardless of their role. Not only does it block out love building, especially for a girl who is head over heels for them but it also makes them commit stupid acts like they don't have a brain.

No Truck-kun is a shame

16:20 Garnt brings back his best VA work of Owl in Mashle

I will say, filler episodes can be fun when they expand on the background characters using nothing but the data books, spin off books/light novels, or even the authors notes.

I was just looking up anime tropes yesterday lmao 😂talk about timing 😂

The problem with dead parents in anime is that the author can no longer kill them. And killing a character's parent is great for mood shifts in narrative.

Time skips are pretty good most of the time. The ones that really killl it though are the very short form timeskips. I absolutly hate it when some shows tell the main characters they need to train or need to go somewhere far away only to entirely skip that time as if it never happened until the plot needs to come back to it.

The thing about absent parents is that their presence could often completely "solve" situations. Since you mentioned SAO imagine the parents being around when Asuna isn't truly released from the game by the creep developer/whatever and basically kidnapped. Kirito wants to do something about it but can't, imagine what having Asunas parents around would have done to that situation? This continues for tons of situations in a wide variety of manga/anime. Yeah sure the situations are probably stupid plothole zone anyhow, but always having absent parents ontop of it just makes it worse as a trope.

11:41 idk why i immediately thought about re:zero. The use of absent there is something amazing, it hits

I really hope someone has made a Spice Gigguk Dune meme. It just fits. Also in defense of the Babaloli, it can be used to good effect. Shinobu being this in Monogatari and particularly Kizumongatari is used to great affect. Her innocent appearance is underscored by a profoundly monstrous mind is good shit.

7:51 agree with jjk, reminds me of gojo vs toji fight. Gojo having an inner monologue like he's achieved enlightenment and explaining hollow purple was beautifully cinematic. They could have gone for a more violent, adrenaline filled scene but they went with this. 10/10

Need to see Garnt rank tournament arcs.

90%+ compatible with my values. Thank you for setting a nice standard sir.

I feel the "Running with toast in mouth" has by now just become a meme even within anime. It does still show up every once in a while, but always very much as a joke. I can't think of the last time I've seen it show up unironically though..

the intro song playing during the last boss battle is the best trope

16:10 now we have another reason why he likes chained soldier so much

Re: Hero/Villain Team Up (29:30) In RL, I have to team up with my personal 'villains' quite a bit. Also, some of the tropes are comic book/manga ones. And this is one of those, X-Men Charles and Eric for example. Similarly inner monologues, power ups, tragic backstories...the list goes on.

Fireworks at the end episode of the season deserve a spot here

There are a good amount of tropes that depend heavily on if they are well implemented or not, while some tropes just stand on their own. Things like explained mechanics, imoutos and fan service for example can be good.

Those sound effects at 2:55 were from Sydney's ara ara vid, weren't they? I'd recognize that shit anywhere. Still can't believe I watched that.

the supertf outro music at the beginning giving me vietnam flashbacks

4:00 I think this has to do with the attack being magic-related or requiring some sort of encantation for it to charge up and work. It doesn't *have* to be this way, but if your brain associates it with the concept of shouting out the name being a requirement for the attack to work (or be more effective), then it would make sense, there's now a reason to do it, and as such it's not cringe anymore. For example, in Harry Potter movies, live action, they scream attack names, it's cool as shit, cuz there's some sort of logical reason behind it, that being the name/encantation strengthens the spell. Now this trope is very present in anime, *because* these kinds of magical attacks are very present in anime. However, this trope has become a thing even in moments where a person is doing a normal punch attack for example, I assume this is because the trope became so prevalent in anime that anime watchers became used to it and they can accept it on any attack at this point as long as its in anime form. It could even be used in a comedy manner, such as Anya's dodge ball attack in spy family.

I think it's pretty fair for a "on average" ranking. Naturally, each trope have its shining stars and burning garbage, so it would be impossible to rank otherwise. A couple notes on some of them that I find exceptional one way or another. I just mentally went through a lot of the MC of my favorite shows and... vast majority are not self insert material. I mean I would like what they have in the end(be it waifu or power), but the process to get there.... holy shit no. Leaving aside the extend of effort that would actually require for gaining power etc, there are just a lot of mental anguish and physical pain that needs to be pushed through. Every Fate story is dark as heck if you really think about it. Touma, Issei, Tatsuya and quite a number of others went through some serious shit. There are only a few that aren't as bad, mostly in romcom. And even there... I don't know if I can deal with the life style of, for example, Shirogane. Feels pretty draining and painful tbh. There are only two "thousand year old loli" that I like. First, Rory Mercury who is mostly loli in name only(literally even). Yes, canonically speaking she stopped aging at like 12 or something, but honestly she could just pass for a petite Asian woman. She doesn't feel loli in any other way and the loli bit is not why I like her. I just like red&black themed combat girls, like Kurumi and Tohsaka. So, I don't love her for being this trope, it is just happenstance. Second, Evangeline A.K. McDowell. Now this... the loli part is important and impactful. Long story short, she was robbed of her childhood, which affects her mental growth which is why the loli bit is important. At the same time, the thousand year old bit is important for the darkness within her, for it is the curse of timelessness that made her the way she is. It's a wonderful contrast that brings about a truly sympathetic character hidden under the façade of evil, power and sensuality. The trope is therefore plot relevant and character defining, thus well executed. When it comes to wincest, the only one I like is Mahouka. Because it actually ends up being an important plot point that have meaning. It is the result of the social and political environment of the world it is set in. Now, it's hard to say if the author thought it all the way through at the start, but at the very least it is retroactively rationalized in a believable way. But... I'm not sure if getting meta is even appropriate when considering the quality of a work.

I have a special nostalgic place in my heart for Roshi and Nosebleeds.

That tierlist surely screams Shounen anime.

S tier is grant reading chat and belly laughing then making a quick rebuttal through the laughter

I feel like we can combine all those S-tiers, and a couple As, into the most banger arc of all time.

When I watch your videos, I feel like I am in an educational debate about anime

Man demon slayer and their villain backstories😂

They gave screaming out attack name an in universe significance in Dandadan......and I love that...

I like the 1000 year old loli trope beautiful it makes Twitter mald and that's always fun to to see, plus the changes are usually funny and seeing a Girl act like a Granny is always interesting

less than five minutes and he has already commited thirty four types of terrorism.

Garnt: *puts loli shinobu on D Tier Joey: "I felt a great disturbance in the force..."

this video really only going up to 720p :o I'm guessing that's just a technical difficulties thing, it's aight

The real world is moving into a tournament arc 😂

I think when a beach episode isn't just over sexualized characters but shows the main character and his friends having chill or fun vibes is a good and relaxing episode imo