Anime Opening Credits Are All the Same

The fact that they're running to the left is, I think, related to the Japanese reading direction (from right to left). Also their books are browsed the other way. When the character of a manga comic is running to the left, it runs towards the next image, which is more natural, because it guides the eyes. Which explains it... maybe.

I like how the editing in that video matches the beat of the music. Well done.

Seriously, I was eagerly waiting for a video like this to be done.

@Pelle
Who said Japanese people read from right to left? The modern way that's currently used is the same English's.

Granted Japanese characters are read left to right when horizontal, when they are read in vertical rows, the rows are read right to left, I believe. Panels in their comics are also read right to left.

And nice video. It's interesting to see all the similarities.

Agg! I know like 90% of all the anime featured in that video... I feel like such an otaku.

anime.

blah.

it all looks the same.

so boring.

@ theokid

you mean "weeaboo" not "otaku"

Oh man, I miss some of those shows. Nana especially, and FMA, and Claymore...

Hell yeah some Code Geass and Hikaru No Go!!!

Nice to see nods to City Hunter and Space Adventure Cobra in there. I know of a couple of old-school anime shows that don't have the typical cliches, but this film covers 95%.

I'm not going to deny that there are tropes in Anime (surprise, there are tropes in every form of media), but these clips are juxtaposed with very little context or analysis (eg. "O.M.G! There are hands, and they're doing things, IT'S ALL THE SAME!"). The producers of this video would have been better served by using their own drawings (however primitive) and an accompanying caption describing the trope than this mish-mash.