Hello, traveler. I'm American, go by he/him pronouns, and have High-Functioning Autism.
Most of my work here involves animation, particularly spreading information about various foreign animated series (especially Asian Animation), since nobody seems keen on expanding their pages themselves.
See also my troper wall. Please, please do stuff there, it's lonely and in need of company.
I suppose that little info does not make for a good troper page, but I don't want to tropefy (tropify? tropeify?) myself, so here is some more general info.
Some more general info:
- The anteater is called that because it eats ants- wait, too general.
- My tastes in entertainment tend to lean towards sillier and/or more light-hearted series, though I have seen more serious works as well and like them.
- My favorite media tend to be animated cartoons (including anime and Asian animation) and video games, though there are specific mediums you might be surprised I have a bit of knowledge in (such as music, particularly 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's oldies), mostly since I almost don't mention them at all.
- I succumb to Cuteness Proximity surprisingly often, and I'm a huge sucker for cutesy character designs. (Please don't question my feminine tastes...)
- On a similar note, I ship fictional characters. Or, more specifically, I usually get hyperfixated on whatever is my favorite pairing, often ignoring other shippings even if they don't interfere with the one I like the most. (I'm weird like that.) My Shipping Goggles have reached a point where I read romantic subtext in an alarming number of works I consume, even if it doesn't result in me shipping the couple most of the time.
- My main Troper Types are the Advertiser and the Trope Editor. Occasionally I'm also a Casual Example Adder. One of my biggest trope-related pet peeves are Zero-Context Examples; I will comment them out on sight, or add context to the example myself, if possible.
My current wiki goals:
- Increase the general representation of Asian Animation.
- Make the following works/franchises Trope Overdosed or Trope Kilowickednote :
- Doraemon (Trope Kilowicked goal completed! I was more focused on the other series at the time, though, so this one was to a lesser extent.)
- Happy Heroes (Trope Kilowicked goal completed!)
- Jewelpet (Trope Kilowicked goal completed... or, well, it was an afterthought compared to watching the series.)
- Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf (Trope Kilowicked goal completed!)note
- Puyo Puyo (Trope Kilowicked goal completed!)
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Trope Kilowicked goal completed!)
- Tamagotchi and its various franchise installments, with most of the focus on the TV show. (Trope Kilowicked goal completed!)
Tropes I like:
- Cultural Cross-Reference: It's refreshing, or at least amusing, to see a work referencing one of the last pieces of foreign media that you'd expect it to reference.
- Moe: My favorite kind of character designs tend to be the very moe-looking ones.
- Painted CGI: It's interesting seeing how far CGI has come since the 2000's. I hope people find more ways to expand on stylized CGI like this!
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: My other favorite type of character design.
- Ship Tease: If it's for a couple I actually like. My only real shipping preferences are "the characters look cute + the characters get enough ship tease = OHMYGOSHIWANNASEETHEMCUDDLEEACHOTHER".
- So Bad, It's Good: Who said your show/film/commercial/whatever had to be well-made to make your day?
- Station Ident: Opening and closing/station identification logos are admittedly a lesser interest of mine. UK ones in particular have an odd charm to them.
- Unexpected Character: Surprise characters are often a lot of fun.
- Vanity Plate: Related to the above Station Ident example. The various Disney home media logos (and by extension, bumpers) are some of my favorites, since I find their music nostalgic.
Tropes I have mixed feelings about:
I want to keep this page as positive as possible, so I'll try not to go overboard in describing why I dislike certain employments of these tropes.- Repurposed Pop Song: Depends on how it's used. There have been instances where an otherwise good song has been used on a movie that isn't appreciated, and where product-specific lyrics sounded like they butchered the rhythm.
Tropes I don't like:
As with above, I'll try not to go overboard in describing why I dislike these tropes. I'm at least neutral to 99% of the tropes documented here, with the below being notable exceptions:- Adored by the Network: If the network's adoration for a show reaches ridiculous lengths, such as how SpongeBob SquarePants and The Loud House reruns take up a majority of Nickelodeon's schedule.
- Business of Generic Importance: A real-life example that I don't enjoy. In recent years, I've noticed a lot of online businesses who make their name "[thing business sells].com" (for example, Apartments.com). I don't think that's a good naming scheme due to how generic it is; there is a difference between good simplicity and bad simplicity. Whatever happened to actually clever names?
- Propaganda Piece: I avoid specific propaganda pieces like the plague. Since the ones I'm thinking of would likely require a trigger warning which I'm not gonna put on the page, that's all I'm gonna say on the matter.
- Reviews Are the Gospel: People are allowed to have differing opinions on a work, and they don't necessarily have to agree with another's opinion if they genuinely don't feel the same way about the work. If you like (for example) The Emoji Movie unironically, that's amazing that you like it! I don't mind; go on and enjoy yourself, and don't let others make you feel like garbage for enjoying it!
- Ship-to-Ship Combat: Unless there's a legitimate problem with one of the opposing pairings, I think it's best to just let people ship their preferred pairings.
- Stock Sound Effects: One stock sound effect, anyway; the "Baby Kate cry" has bothered me for as long as I can remember.
- Strangled by the Red String: "Let's just pair these characters together with little foreshadowing or prompting, if any. Nobody will care how little effort we put into their relationship." This trope proves that writing romantic relationships into your work can be tricky, and is often done in sloppy ways.
- Third-Act Misunderstanding: The Hallmark Channel treatment of it, anyway. ("You're familiar with Hallmark Channel movies?" I told you I could surprise you!) A sane, rational human being would mishear what their crush heard and ask if they meant it, but more often than not that's not the case.
- Toilet Humor: Most of the time, I tend to find toilet humor more gross than funny.
Characters that mean a lot to me, in no particular order:
- Sig and Amitie from Puyo Puyo.
Their personalities remind me a lot of me - Sig's Bug Catching obsession being similar to how I tend to become obsessed with certain media, and Amitie being a Ditzy Genius. Besides that, Amitie x Sig is my One True Pairing; the one cutscene from Puyo Puyo Tetris where Amitie tells Sig "Lately, I feel like you and I... well... I just wanna say..." almost never fails to put a smile on my face, and they're just so cute and fluffy together that I can't help but want to give them both a big hug.
- Simple Samosa, in a half-ironic way. The show he's from has to be one of my weirdest Guilty Pleasures. On one hand, its animation is stiff, its jokes tend to be lame, and its characterization is wonky; on the other hand, I can't stay mad at the people who produce the show since they actually put their heart into making it, and I will admit that some of the stuff they do with the food-themed worldbuilding is genuinely nifty. Even if I find Samosa himself to be kind of a jerk, I can still appreciate that he genuinely loves his friends no matter what and means well. And whenever he does do something pathetic, it still makes good riffing fuel!
- Mametchi from Tamagotchi. Even if I don't geek out about it that much nowadays, I really like the Tamagotchi animated series from 2009. Mametchi is a cute, smart boy.
- Kukuru from Flower Angel. Forget the whole "it's a Cardcaptor Sakura knockoff" argument; even if it is a knockoff, it's an unironically good one. Look at the guy, he's adorable even when he's arguing with An'an!
Avatars I drew myself:
Any forum avatars that I personally drew will be shown here. All of them are drawn with the most readily available yet most underrated art program, MS Paint!  |  |  | ||
| Amitie x Sig | Amitie x Sig again | Kukuru |
The Fun Stuff™
Various odd observations I make and conspiracy theories I come up with will go here. (Don't worry, I have a tin foil lampshade ready just in case aliens find out about me finding out about their conspiracy theories and want to read my mind.) Just something to make my troper page a little more unique.Being that I watch a lot of Chinese cartoons, I noticed or was told about a few similarities between characters and other stuff from a few Chinese cartoons and characters from Puyo Puyo, as well as a similarity between the Puyo Puyo games and one of the Chinese cartoons' licensed games. And not even just one or two characters, either - this happens across five Chinese cartoons from what I have found so far, with 20 characters connected to the theory from both sides. (Any species are counted as a unit.)
Images of the characters and other assorted things with similarities are provided below as proof, with the exception of Exhibit 1 due to its reliance on spoilers for both Puyo Puyo and Flower Angel.
- Exhibit 1 will be reserved for a Wild Mass Guessing page I made for Flower Angel; read it here. Long story short, Amitie and Sig from Puyo Puyo are like Xia An'an and Kukuru from Flower Angel. (Spoilers are unmarked on that page per wiki policy.)
- Exhibit 2: In addition to the above WMG, Flower Angel has a character named Lucio whose blue hair and clothes make him look a bit like Sig.
- Exhibit 3: Flower Angel has one more Puyo Puyo-looking character - Saveli, whose normal clothing is green, contrasting with her red hair. There's a Puyo Puyo character with similarly-colored hair and clothing named Ally.
- Exhibit 4: The protagonist of Nana Moon, Keke, is very much like Amitie. They're both blonde tomboys with femininely-colored clothes; they both wear a cap with a face on it (Keke's cat cap and Amitie's Puyo hat); they both have magic powers.
- Exhibit 5: Nana Moon has kissing fish whose legs and red color make them look like Suketoudara.
- Exhibit 6: One of the cavechildren on Planet Guling from Season 6 of Happy Heroes has the same-colored hair as Maguro, with her hairstyle being similar in that it puts her Eyes Out of Sight.
- Exhibit 7: The Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf season The Season Towns features blob monsters called elves who are so blatantly similar to Puyos that I'm genuinely surprised I haven't heard anything about the Pleasant Goat characters being based on them yet.
- Exhibit 8: While I'm more focused on the actual cartoons for the theory, I am aware of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf having a licensed puzzle game called Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Comet Battle (喜羊羊与灰太狼-决战咩星) that plays similarly to Puyo Puyo - you stack and eliminate blobs of a selection of colors, albeit you eliminate them through little potions rather than by stacking them so that four or more blobs are touching each other.
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| Exhibit 2.1: Sig | Exhibit 2.2: Lucio | Exhibit 3.1: Ally | Exhibit 3.2: Saveli | |||
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| Exhibit 4.1: Amitie | Exhibit 4.2: Keke | Exhibit 5.1: Suketoudara | Exhibit 5.2: Nana Moon kissing fish | |||
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| Exhibit 6.1: Maguro | Exhibit 6.2: A cavekid from Happy Heroes | Exhibit 7.1: The Puyos | Exhibit 7.2: Pleasant Goat elves | |||
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| Exhibit 8.1: A Puyo Puyo game boardnote | Exhibit 8.2: The Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Comet Battle game board |
In addition, I was informed that the English dub of Screechers Wild has voice actors who have also voiced Puyo Puyo characters. Nightweaver is voiced by Erin Fitzgerald, who also voices Carbuncle from Puyo Puyo; Ben Lepley, who voices Gatecreeper, also voices Schezo from Puyo Puyo. Screechers Wild has a character named Ringo; so does Puyo Puyo, though Cassandra Lee Morris, who voices Puyo Puyo Ringo, doesn't voice Ringo from Screechers Wild, unfortunately... oh wait, he's voice by Spike Spencer, who does the voice for Puyo Puyo's Maguro!
The only question is, why so many similarities? I want to say these are coincidences (and for a few of them they most likely are), but then again, China is known to create more mockbusters than you'd know what to do with, and the show doesn't have to be a mockbuster in and of itself to rip things off. I have one likely answer: These actually are alternate-universe versions of the Puyo Puyo characters. Arle is said to be connected to Amitie in one piece of Puyo Puyo material and was created as a direct Expy of her, and there's nothing saying that the characters need to be connected to exactly one character or specifically to other Puyo Puyo characters. Whether this is the case or it's just a coincidence, it's certainly interesting. I haven't noticed any of these with other foreign animation industries, either.
Oh, by the way, I'd love to hear more. If you find any other similarities like this that may interest me, feel free to tell me on my troper wall or in a private message.
