Highschool setting.
Cute mascot character that makes perverted jokes about the underage characters.
The super intelligent and capable rival character that is Machiavellian and treats the other characters like garbage but is still treated with respect and awe by the other characters because they're so smart and capable.
The characters are constantly repeating themselves and stating the obvious.
The deaths are so twisted like the Joker.
Transphobia.
"Women just don't understand male friendship!"
I don't like the artstyle. There's something "2010s ahegao hoodie" about it.
Anyway, this rant is 16 years late but I just wanted an excuse to talk about anime tropes that I hate.
On that note is there a single anime that's not misogynistic or at the very least weird about women? I'm not sure I've seen such a thing.
If I remember ACCA-13 and mushi-shi are my go-to standard for Japanese stuff. I haven't really touched Japanese media for about half a decade if not more so I'm fairly out of touch with it. Like the last thing I remember reading when it was just starting to be published was saihate no paladin, and that recently had its own show published.
I mean shit, I read solo leveling years back and that recently got a show, I'm afraid the industry will start burning through Korean manhwas like a wildfire in a few years and I'll be left almost the same as I am with Japanese stuff.
ugh I want more, can you believe the show ends before he even kisses his elf boyfriend
I wouldn't know, I was reading the comics when they were first coming out. I generally moved away from Japanese media before the first major arc finished.