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1. Long flowing capes that billow majestically, even without a breeze and inside.
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2. One episode of a series consists entirely of the events of the previous episode in reverse order, redrawn from a different perspective for each scene, and with new dialog that contradicts the previous dialog.
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3. All living things revert to the primordial ooze.
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4. Movies/short OVAs
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5. In order to travel a great distance, the characters use a jet their mad scientist friend keeps in the basement, previously not mentioned in the series. The house splits in two, and the jet performs a vertical takeoff to get out.
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6. Laser gun shootout in a bar on a space-cruiseship with faster than light travel.
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7. Series/long OVAs
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8. In order to clear his mind and soul, a character that the anime has been following meditates uneventfully.
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9. Androids with superhuman abilities that can walk through walls
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10. The anime occasionally reverts to a chibi style
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11. A series has four recap episodes
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12. The anime is realistic, with gradual shading and well-proportioned characters
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13. Dark, noir style
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14. All seems lost until the main character casts a magic spell, causing a wall of flames to protect her.
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15. As a character runs down a hallway, we see her from a security camera overhead. One of her shoes falls off and she falls down as a battalion of intricately designed and smoothly animated robots overtakes her.
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16. After five long years apart, highschool sweethearts meet again and things start to heat up between them.
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17. Bubblegum pink hair
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18. A character risks everything to be with her love one last time.
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19. The year is 3059 and human beings no longer exist as such, but only as programs inside computers that are scattered throughout the solar system.
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20. The villain bursts into a room at a secret facility with guns blazing, turning everyone inside into a bloody mess.
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21. After a mechanical breakdown forces them out of work for the rest of the day, the characters go to the beach, donning bikinis and board-shorts.
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22. An anime set on the battlefield.
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23. Faced with almost certain defeat, a military officer waxes poetically about the nature of his background, war, and the human race, before dramatically rising up and blasting away his nearby enemies.
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24. Several characters debate the nature of their own consciousness over a cup of tea. They reach a nihilistic conclusion and agree that they cannot be certain about anything other their own existance; not even the existance of the others (e.g. "I think, therefore I am.")
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25. 13 episode series without any sequels or prequels.
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26. Realizing that they are equally matched, two rivals decide to gamble everything on a game of chess.
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27. 104 episode series with three movies, an OVA, and two video game spin-offs with more to come.
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28. Double-length fully orchestrated opening by Yoko Kanno, featuring a 200-year old organ and a full-sized choir.
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29. Wise-cracking sidekick
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30. A zombie complains that she's "dead tired."
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31. A character breaks down in tears after failing a mission.
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32. As the detective examines the clues, she hums a tune. When she realizes the truth, a look of shock passes over her face, and the scene cuts to the girl who will be murdered next; she is playing a violin.
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33. The protagontist's love interest wanders off in a field to die because he believes she's dead, when in reality she's alive and in a hospital in Tokyo.
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34. A suit and tie.
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35. The party travels by train to Tokyo; one of them orders miso soup after they arrive.
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36. The party flies to New York; they have pizza
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37. In response to the question "Can't we talk this over?" the response is "No."
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38. A character spends fifteen minutes pondering aloud what Freud meant about the Id, Ego, and Superego, how it relates symbolically to the current situation, and how they may have manifested in literature throughout the ages in different cultures, with references to specific scenes in various stories.
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39. All seems lost until a giant robot bursts through the ground, grabs the bomb which is about to explode, and throws it out of sight.
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40. Giant robots playing basketball on snowboards.
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41. All is revealed in the end.
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42. The main character finds out in the final episode that the mysterious figure that's been shadowing him was his girlfriend until last year; we see a flashback to a scene where they bumped awkwardly into each other while shopping.
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43. The guilty are punished in the end.
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44. Everyone agrees that they had fun depite the mysterious figure that attempted to steal their lunch, and they go home for the night.
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45. A character breaks the fourth wall to explain what's going on to the viewer.
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46. A character explains his plan aloud, even though no one else is present.
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47. An anime that follows a single character.
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48. Many new characters are present in each episode of an anime, and it focuses more on setting than on people.
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49. All of the warriors killed in previous episodes are brought back to life for the final battle.
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50. After traveling through the wasteland, the anime's party fights God, who is revealed to be a giant honeybee that lives in a library. They defeat him, becoming the books that describe and control the contents of the universe.
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51. A character describes in excrutiating detail how worthless he is, and how he has never helped anyone.
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52. The villian's mind control ray causes nymphomania ("hypersexuality") as a side effect.
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53. A character is always happy.
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54. The villian's plan comes to fruitation, sparking world war. He sells weapons at a significant markup, before unleashing his own armies upon the globe and taking over.
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55. The villian transforms into a giant monster; various henchmen cheer until she starts to eat them.
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56. A story about a spy who narrowly escapes detection time after time.
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