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Title: Life lessions from watching too much Anime
Source: http://www.abcb.com/misc/latt_03.htm
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All I Ever Learned, I Learned from Anime
 

Original entries (#1-50) created by:
Laura Luchau (laura@luchau.org)
(Laura's homepage at http://www.luchau.org/ )

 
  • War sucks.

  • You CAN have too many women.

  • Smart people wear glasses.

  • Music foreshadows plot.

  • The less you care about sex, the more opportunities you'll get.

  • (Inversely, the harder you try, the less you'll get.)

  • When you die, make a long speech, and don't finish the last sentence.

  • Snow means love.

  • The best teams come in fives.

  • In space, you can hear everything.

  • There's always room for flashbacks!

  • When in China, listen to your tour guide.

  • The good guy always has the BLUE glow.

  • Speak quietly, pilot a big mech.

  • Believe in goddesses.

  • Teachers have excellent aim with small objects.

  • Vengeance with a mallet is the sweetest revenge of all.

  • Honor is sexy; villainy is irresistible.

  • Women are attracted to losers; men are attracted to ANYTHING.

  • The coolest weapon is still the sword.

  • The hero is never really mad until they hurt his girlfriend.

  • Female androids are sexy; male androids are....male androids.

  • The green-haired alien girl will always betray her people for the man she loves.

  • School uniforms are cool only when the collar is open.

  • A show without sexual tension isn't worth watching.

  • Love knows no race, species, or logic.

  • If it's homemade but tastes bad, grin and bury it (discreetly).

  • Never trust a huge corporation.

  • Romance never comes simpler than in a triangle.

  • Never fall for the girl who names her mech with a French name.

  • Never fall in love with a psychic.

  • You can never have too much hair.

  • Sweating is a sure sign of stress.

  • Daydreaming leads to accidents.

  • Everyone wants to conquer Japan.

  • The cute, fuzzy creature isn't what it seems.

  • Cherry blossoms mean nostalgia.

  • Always take gravity into account.

  • Settings and faces are self-generating.

  • Losing your temper can be therapeutic.

  • There's nothing sexier than high heels on a mech.

  • You can never have too many subplots.

  • If she sings, she's doomed.

  • You always remember the sad endings.

  • Double suicide is romantic.

  • Outrageous vehicles only make the hero cooler.

  • Nothing delays romance like unruly neighbors.

  • Fancy ice cream is for girls only.

  • The most virtuous character will die.

  • Hot water has innumerable benefits.


  • No matter how much blood is lost, no one can die by a nosebleed.

  • (The same theory above applies to vomiting.)

  • The girl with the curly hair is always the seductress.

  • If a sister falls in love with her brother, somewhere down the line you will discover that they're not blood related.

  • The guy in the baseball cap is always more powerful than he seems.

  • All demons/monsters have enormous genitalia.

  • All young children can pilot mecha, you just need to give them a few days.

  • It is possible to incorporate martial arts into any aspect of life.

  • All high school kids in Japan have parents that are away on extended business trips.

  • The oldest sister is the nice one, the youngest sister is the brash one.

  • You can do anything to the human body as long as you hit the right pressure point.

  • Consuming enormous amounts of alcohol daily will never have ill effects.

  • All major villains either want to take over the world or blow it up.

  • When someone paints up their face, they mean business.

  • Everyone in Japan has excellent singing voices.

  • No matter how many times you rebuild, Tokyo keeps getting destroyed in a massive fireball.

  • The martial arts expert is always defenseless against a slap from the girl who loves him.

  • TAKAHASHI'S LAW 1: Food is a powerful motivator.

  • When women are sent out to fight the bad guys, there's always a hunk busily watching over them, often in secret.

  • The longer it takes to say what your punch is called, the less effective it is.

  • "Baka" does not mean a student going for his baccalaureate degree.

  • The more possessive a woman gets, the less likely she will end up with the man of her dreams.

  • TAKAHASHI'S LAW 2: The two-foot-tall old geezer is someone to be feared.

  • No matter how big the mech/labor/mobile suit is, if it runs around the corner, the guy chasing it loses the trail.

  • Extraterrestrial, demons, time travelers, etc. all want to alter the course of history by letting Oda Nobunaga win.

  • The fate of the planet rests in the hands of the seemingly normal high school student.

  • The heroine must shred her clothes while transforming into something to fight the bad guys.

  • True evil can never be destroyed, only banished to some nether realm where it awakes after a few hundred years.

  • TAKAHASHI'S LAW 3: When being hit on the head, it's the most natural thing in the world to tuck your third and fourth fingers in while keeping the others extended.

  • Even the bravest souls can be made weak and helpless by the sight of a cute little puppy or kitten.

  • Never love a Gundam pilot : you're just destined for disappointment (or a funeral).

  • All persons under the age of 50 can do a ten foot vertical jump from a standing position.

  • Never trust a guy with shiny teeth

  • ESP causes more trouble than it solves

  • The vampire isn't _always_ the bad guy

  • Nice things can come out of video stores that appear from nowhere

  • Idiot captains win battles against impossible odds

  • Order takeout at every opportunity--you might get lucky with a wrong number.

  • The police are never anywhere there is a large amount of property damage.

  • All high school principals in Japan are clinically insane.

  • All people with esper powers give off multicolored auras.

  • Just about any outer space villain has his sights set on destroying the Earth.

  • (in conjunction with #92) No other planet in the universe will be able to stop said villain except the Earth.

  • Any character can make a leap of 300 ft or more if given a good running start.

  • A samurai sword can cut through anything.

  • All characters over the age of 60 shrink in height in direct proportion to their age.

  • When uncovering a fabulous treasure, the thing will be large enough to completely destroy any surrounding structures.

  • TAKAHASHI'S LAW #4: An anti-climax is a good climax.

  • Anime villians have the best deaths.

  • Any love interest will always be possesed by a demon.

  • Mallets can be stored anywhere on anybody.

  • If the anime has the word "idol" in the title, then you know that it has to be good.

  • Takada Yumi really does sing that bad, and people still buy her CDs.

  • If you make enough porno movies, eventually you can get famous enough to star in commercials. "Iijima Ai desu! 'Manga manga no mori mori!!'"

  • There is no such thing as a public anime showing without heckling.

  • You can spot how popular a show is by looking at the number of H doujinshi it has.

  • The smartest people on r.a.a. never post, which is why the conference's overall IQ is so low.

  • If the lyrics to the OP song are printed on the screen, then you're watching a show that's not for your age group.

  • The sexiest girls are drawn by artists whose last names start with "U".

  • The English words in Jpop songs are put there only because they sound good, since they don't make any sense with the rest of the lyrics.

  • If you post on the MLs more than Hitoshi does, then you probably post too much.

  • The hero always loses the first fight with a new enemy.

  • The guys with two earrings are from the Negaverse.

  • Don't trust the guys with two earrings.

  • Any truly evil person who changes sides for the woman he loves will die in that episode.

  • You CAN do it, but only when it's funny or REALLY important.

  • You can never have too many carrots.

  • Hair comes in every shade of the rainbow - and we do mean pink, purple, blue, green....

  • The song "Cry Me a River" takes on a whole new meaning.

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