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Postby rocklobster » Fri Feb 24, 2006 6:42 pm

I'm sure most of you have seen the Laws of Anime. I think some new ones should be added. Here's one:
The Law of Lyrical Nonsense: Few anime theme songs have lyrics that actually make sense.
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Postby Raiden no Kishi » Fri Feb 24, 2006 6:51 pm

Actually, that applies to most music from Japan. I blame translation and cultural differences, m'self.

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Postby Rogie » Fri Feb 24, 2006 7:32 pm

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Postby mitsuki lover » Sat Feb 25, 2006 2:24 pm

The Law of Magic Girls:The girl who at the start of the series is a complete ditz and
klutz will not only end up becoming the leader of the magic girls but the princess
they have been searching for all season/series long.
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Postby Tommy » Sat Feb 25, 2006 2:26 pm

The Law of Action anime shows: The person you would least expec must ALWAYS have a chibi pose.
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Postby Mithrandir » Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:07 pm

rocklobster wrote:he Law of Lyrical Nonsense: Few anime theme songs have lyrics that actually make sense.

Have you listened to many american songs from the 60s?
How about theme songs from TV shows from the 80s? Can you imaging how this would translate into japanese:

Believe it or not, I'm walking on air. I never thought I could be so free. Flying away on a wing and a prayer: Who could it be? Believe it or not, it's just me.

How could that be received any better? I'll grant you it's not "Sora Mimicaki" but still....
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Postby Mangafanatic » Sat Feb 25, 2006 3:35 pm

Law of Spontaneous Combustion: Everything blows up. Everything.
Every year in Uganda, innumerable children simply. . . disappear. These children all stolen under the cover of darkness from their homes and impressed into the guerilla armies of the LRA [Lord's Resistance Army]. In the deserts of Uganda, they are forced to witness the mindless slaughter of other children until they themselves can do nothing but kill. Kill. These children, generally ranging from ages 5-12, are brainwashed into murdering in the name of the resistance and into stealing other children from their beds to suffer the same fate.

Because of this genocide of innocence, hundred and hundreds of children live every night sleeping in public places miles from their homes, because they know that if the do not-- they will disappear. They will become just another number in this genocide to which the international community has chosen to turn a blind eye. They will become, in affect, invisible-- Invisible Children.

But there are those who are trying to fight against this slaughter of Uganda's children. They fight to protect these "invisible children." Please, help them help a country full of children who know nothing by fear. Help save the innocence. For more information concerning how you can help and how you can get an incredible video about this horrific reality, visit the Invisible Children home page.
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Postby TallasLint » Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:36 pm

The law of conservation of voice acting: the main characters who have the most lines have the worst dub voices. The main characters with the least lines have better voices.
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Postby tripperdan99 » Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:01 pm

Couple of Laws here:

1. Law of "No Die" You can get blown to pieces, chopped apart, sliced a thousand times and you shall not die (Bleach, Naruto, Gundam SEED, etc).

2. Law of "Bitter End" In the Coast Guard, when we handled line (that's rope for you land lubbers) the very end of it was called a "Bitter End" It seems that most all anime is like rope, it's just cut off to a bitter end. Not wrapped up or anything, just stopped.

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Postby Ingemar » Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:16 pm

Law of Parental Mortality: Every leading anime character is an orphan or only has one living parent. Or, said character has only one parent we know of, who is dead.

Wolverine's Law: Amnesia or repressed memories serves as a wonderful plot device.
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Postby indyrocker » Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:36 pm

Law of Secondary females: All secondart females must fall into one of 2 catigorys eather incredably cute(Chobits and Last Exile) and nieve or Hot and hot tempered(Love Hina and Cowboy Bebop).
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Postby Joshua Christopher » Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:31 pm

Female clothing is made of paper.
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Postby indyrocker » Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:37 pm

and must be eather extreamly tight or nerdy looking no imbetween.
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Postby creed4 » Sun Feb 26, 2006 11:05 am

The shouting what I'm doing before I do it law- tha hero will shout out his next move and the villian will still be oblivious to it
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Postby Sami_jane » Sun Feb 26, 2006 11:16 am

the shouting what im donig b/f i do it law number 2- the villan will always shout out what he is going to do thinking it is ok b/c the hero is about to die oblivious to the fact that there is a possibility the hero could (and most of the time does) get out and now knows the "master plan"
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Postby Tommy » Sun Feb 26, 2006 11:20 am

Law of Female Characters present in Action show: At least stare into space randomly in one closer.
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Postby Steeltemplar » Sun Feb 26, 2006 11:25 am

Law of Losers: If a male main character is a loser at the beginning of the series, then one or more extremely attractive female characters will fall in love with him by the series end.
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Postby TallasLint » Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:31 pm

The law of villian politeness: It is common courtesy that the villian must wait until the protagonist has finished his or her minute long transformation/attack to attack/counter attack.
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Postby Myoti » Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:37 pm

Law of Seeing Yet Not Moving : the camera will stick closely on the victims enlarged, shocked eyes as a massive attack comes their way, but will do nothing to avoid it.

Law of the Curse of 4Kids : anything dubbed by 4Kids turns into suck, even if it was great in Japan.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Sun Feb 26, 2006 2:08 pm

Law of Anime Geeky Characters:The Geekier a male character the more and
prettier the number of girls who will fall for him as the anime progresses.

Second Law of the Curse of 4kids:The minute you actually read the manga or
see the original Japanese version either of two things will occur:1)the 4kids version will be cancelled or 2)the 4kids version will turn into a monster hit.
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Postby Doubleshadow » Sun Feb 26, 2006 4:49 pm

The Sap Rule - Any anime hero will risk everything up to and including his life for a cute girl he met two seconds ago.
The Law of Combustable Hometowns - The hero's hometown will eventually go up in flames at some point during the story, occasionally during the opening sequence.
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Postby Rexman64 » Sun Feb 26, 2006 5:00 pm

Mangafanatic wrote:Law of Spontaneous Combustion: Everything blows up. Everything.

Actually, that's the Law of Inherent Combustibility.

The Law of Spontaneous Combustion is that stuff blows up at completely random times. Completely random.

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Postby mitsuki lover » Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:51 pm

The We Need To Cover Up Because For The NA Releash Because Of Too Realistic
Looking Body Parts
This applies mainly to Zatch Bell.
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Postby creed4 » Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:55 am

Law of villian stupitity- when a villian tries to take a planet they only attack one area so that the hero won't have to worry about defending other areas
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Postby mitsuki lover » Tue Feb 28, 2006 1:53 pm

The Hero(ine)Will Turn Evil Half Way Through The Series And Their Best Friend Will Have To Work Hard To Redeem Them Law

This applies to shows like Silent Mobius and Fusihi Yugi where you know that sooner or later one of the good guys(usually female for some odd reason)is going to end up turning to the Dark Side for at least the next 4 episodes or even longer.And they're always more interesting when they do turn Evil,although when they come back to the Light they always seem to have some sort of emotional breakdown.
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Postby DaughterOfZion » Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:09 pm

we cant forget that no matter what happens to a womens hair it stays purfect
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Postby Sami_jane » Tue Feb 28, 2006 2:16 pm

rofl that one really is tru. most never even get phased even if it is wet ;)
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Postby CDLviking » Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:48 pm

Impact Alberto wrote:Female clothing is made of paper.

This is literally true in R.O.D.
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