Most Common Anime Cliches

Death of parent or downfall

Abnormal colored hair

Fan service

Happy resolution

Boy as main character

Fillers

Plot armor

Girls with large breasts

Main group of characters are friends

Main character in class sitting by a window

Usually set somewhere in Japan

Girls flying onto the screen out of nowhere and wildly overreacting to things

Characters shouting the name of their attack

Perverted male characters

When the male character falls, he always lands on a girl's breasts

Girl running late for school with toast in her mouth

Boys between 10 and 14 as heroes who are way more brave, smart and skilled than

Boys between 10 and 14 as heroes who are way more brave, smart and skilled than most adults in the series

Tsunderes

Harem

Little girls that are actually 30+ years old

Chicks are always super badasses with no background as to how they got that skilled..

Shonen characters eating a lot

Annoying dere types

Boy wants a normal life but ends up in some nonsense

Opening and ending credit songs with songs that are more emotional, poetic or

Opening and ending credit songs with songs that are more emotional, poetic or dramatic than the actual series

The really hot guy that wants to date the unpopular outcast girl

Teenager protagonists

Tentacles

Overpowered characters

Everyone is hot

Nosebleeds

Hammers, pans, etc

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,

People frequently get punched or beaten by friends and come out unharmed, however suffer serious injuries when villains do it.

Anime facial expressions

Girl as the main hero