Cliché #1: Boobs.

They’re not merely a time-honored tradition, but an integral ingredient for success: boobs. Barbie and Dolly be damned, manga chicks have the ultimate racks. I firmly believe that without large, rotund mammary units, the manga industry itself would implode, leaving a vast vortex of nothingness—a black hole of cleavage, if you will—in the lives of many rabid otaku with nothing better to do on a Saturday night than watch a completely two-dimensional babe get jiggy with it.

Subsets of this cliché include schoolgirl uniforms (while ridiculously short skirts are included, batteries are not) or harems of scantily-clad pretty girls all fighting over one boy.

Cliché #2: Mechs, Techs, and Specs.

GUNDAMs.
EVAs.
Mechas.
Starships.
Warcrafts.
Giant… robot… pandas…

If your manga doesn’t have dozens of pages full of pointless height, weight, speed, armament, weapons grade, time-traveling capability, and water-to-surface-to-air transformation ratio schematics of a giant mechanical suit of some kind, you lose. Minmei says you should go home and cry like a little girl. Your manga is totally original, and we don’t take kindly to that ’round here.

Cliché #3: Anime-mals.

Cute, fuzzy sidekicks—they aren’t quite animals, but they pass for animals in manga and anime. You know what I’m talking about. Evangelion’s beer-guzzling Pen-pen; Love Hina’s Tamago, the flying turtle; Gravitation’s pink fluffy bunny, Kumaguro; Tsubasa Chronicles’ spinning Mokoto—and the entire cast of pocket monsters. (Catch them all… or they will eat your family.)

I also want to mention Furries. Here’s a shout-out to all my ear-and-tail wearing, reincarnated fox-spirit cosplayers. You fluffy freaks, you. Where would manga be without animorphism? Bring on the cat-bois!

Cliché #4: That old “wipe out the world” ploy.

A manga collection is little more than a set of worst-case scenarios for the impending apocalypse. Maybe you heard about a prophesy where a princess/philosopher’s stone/dragon god/computer virus is going to wipe out the world? Perhaps an evil queen wants to take over the universe? Demonic devils are overrunning your city? Genetically-altered alien races seem hell-bent on subjugating your species? Industrial revolutions keep antagonizing the forest spirits? Nefarious shinigami plots to bridge the gap between this world and the next are wreaking havoc in the city’s streets?

You name it, manga has it covered. These aren’t just comics anymore—they’re how-to manuals. Remember: don’t give up! Unless your destiny is inexplicably linked to the fate of Tokyo Tower. Then, you’re pretty much toast, sorry.

Cliché #5: Tongue-twisting torture.

Some manga have made-up alien languages. (I’m looking at you, Seikai.
I’d like to take the Barohn of the Kasarl Gereulak and shove it into Fal Feia Kufena’s Frokaj! But I’m just an Onyu.) Why are made-up manga languages always slightly less desperately dorky than, say, Klingon?*

A subset of this cliché is Engrish, which is an entirely made-up language of its own. So drink your cohii in peasu and sankyuu!

* No disrespect to Mister Wharf.

Cliché #6: Petals, and feathers, and tentacles, oh my!

Ever notice how shojo manga has all those different petals and feathers and starbursts floating around, making the manga all deep and symbolic and infused with a somber, nostalgic tone? Yeah. I like the ones with the tentacles better, too.

Cliché #7: Pretty hyper soldier sailor super ninja priestess princesses will never forgive you!

She’s going to power-up and use her special star-seeded tiara/card/scroll/staff/sword of justice to blast the Monster of the Week into outer space… or she’ll simply keep believing in humanity… (perhaps both, if it’s sweeps week) but rest assured, that old “wipe out the world” ploy won’t work with Usagi-Miaka-Sakura-Tohru-Kiki-Utena-Belldandy on the job

How come now-a-days, people don't talk about Sailor Moon any more??!?!!? Instead people these days are like talking more about copy-cat shows like Mew Mew Power and stuff similar. We are forgeting the main thing!! AHHH! Sailor Moon was so goooood! and it still is! it's a classic! So why is it so forgotten!??
Plus why does it seem like no body in this world ever heard of Fushigi Yuugi?! Yuu Watase is such a geninus for creating it and why it is that no one know what Fushigi Yuugi IS!?!?!?!!?!?

Do you ever wonder why we live? don't get me wrong, i'm not Emo, (i love my blood and life too much), but really, why do we live??
I don't believe in god or any thing... so when people say that god made us and all that stuff, i really don't care and it dosen't answer my question...
WHY DO WE LIVE?
****so we can learn?*****
*****Why do we learn?****
******So we can compete?*********
******why do we compete?******
*******So we can survive?******
********Why do we want to survive?**
********So we can rule the world?***
*******why do we wanna do that????????**