Most Common Anime Cliches: 35 items ranked by popular vote. Browse more in Animated.
Boys between 10 and 14 as heroes who are way more brave, smart and skilled than most adults in the series
Opening and ending credit songs with songs that are more emotional, poetic or dramatic than the actual series
are pulled out of nowhere to hit a character who said something stupid over the head
People frequently get punched or beaten by friends and come out unharmed, however suffer serious injuries when villains do it.