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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 3368059" data-attributes="member: 39593">No disagreement from me, it's obviously humor and judging by its commonality it must be widely considered funny in Japan.  Just one of those things that doesn't translate well, still turns a lot of people off when it happens frequently.Maybe not clear, wasn't talking about the entire show as chibi.  But when in particularly emotional scenes they interrupt the scene for a blank background skit of chibi charactitures doing ridiculous things, might be called Kawaii though I'm not really sure.  It seems fairly common and in the same shows as face faults is that considered just a more extreme subset of face faults then?I was speaking specifically to the tactic of initiating combat with a ridiculous pose and inarticulate screaming of some kind, DBZ is fairly famous for this.  Then having the fight be as much static posing against blank backgrounds as actual fighting.  Rather than dramatic pose-against-a-skyline outside of combat moodsetters. Man, you're games must be very different.  Nothing says the spell has to be screamed, in fact I've always played up the other side, a simple word spoken aloud in a normal voice that causes some huge effect.Names are for training purposes, the last thing you want an enemy to know is what you're about to hit him with.  And identification is in the mind of the other party.  While all these guys are screaming someone else would be killing them.  It's all about speed and brutality, give no warning, smash the opponent first as hard as possible and keep at it until they go down and stay there.  I'd rather see something that reflects this.  No arguments about drama, that's what it is, though I never watched Friends anyway.  Maybe it's something cultural but some aspect of drama in most anime tends to really turn me off.  I suspect it may be something cultural not carrying over and rubbing the wrong way.  Just as an example Gasaraki, I bought it because it had great almost-plausible giant robots.  Then the drama just turned me off and it was definitely the cultural elements that made it dramatic to a japanese audience irritating me.Sam and Frodo were competent they were just fairly ordinary other than being very strong-willed.  What I was pointing out was the fact that for example Naruto isn't just focused and immature he's even incompetent at the few things he's supposed to be competent at.  Right up until the moment PLOT requires he be competent in those things, so he wins, then immediately goes back to being incompetent at them until the next moment of PLOT necessity.  It's that sort of extreme exagerration of the trope that grates.And my greatest point was that if these elements aggravate a person and are common to what they've seen of a media they most likely will apply it to the rest and not go looking to sort the gems from the garbage.</blockquote>

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