Anime is real, right?!?!

[Arle Nadja]

My favorite thing ever in anime is when the rival of the week replaces themselves with a clone or sets up some other form of trap without the potagonist noticing, even though they were staring the dude down the entire time. Apparently if the camera isn't on the rival, the protagonist can't see them either. I'm looking at you, Naruto. For a less illogical but still infuriating version, see: Dodging with instant teleportation! See also: Anime things that made their way into RP scenes and haunted my childhood.

Also, when the big bad is just so tuff and you can really tell they're so tuff because they aren't even hurt by the protagonist's attacks. They just get punched in the face and it's like it didn't even happen. It's so much like it didn't happen in fact that I kinda wish they'd just skip to the part where something does happen. See also: the shonen trope wherein all fights must be dragged out at an unreasonable pace because it's just not "epic" enough if every single fight doesn't have more twists and turns than a rollercoaster. Bonus points if they were stronger the entire time but were just waiting to make sure they actually had to give the fight their best.