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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 3273685" data-attributes="member: 2205">Animation is a medium.  Anime is a suite of related styles influenced by the culture in which they are engendered.Do tell.  I hear the myth of anime being "cool" in Japan all the time, but not from anyone who's actually lived there.  Granted, stuff like Miyazaki is big--like the opening of a new Disney animated feature here.  But otherwise guys who sit around watching a lot of anime are considered just as dorky in Japan as they are here.The misuse of the word trope in an attempt to appear more intellectual than you actually are is  a pet peeve of gaming messageboards.  It's become so widespread that that's not even the reason it's done anymore--it's just entered the gaming messageboard zeitgeist as a bunch of people have figured the word out (incorrectly) from the context of folks who were using it incorrectly.In any case--it's also a "hallowed convention" of Japanese martial arts too.  Also, ever play a Street Fighter or King of Fighters game?</blockquote>