I was talking to a friend the other day about how it drives me bonkers when you think a villain is dead, but then laughs saying he wasn't fighting at his full strength. Then he powers up, eventually loses again, but then laughs and powers up again.
What drives me nuts is when the protagonist loses to a villain and just goes train for x amount of time (usually less than month) and becomes over powered again only to repeat this cycle. This is why I'm glad that Irregular at Magic High School came out. It's nice to have a super strong protagonist from the start.
I hate when anime spends like 3 minutes charging up attacks, 2 minutes actually fighting, 4 minutes slowly panning across the battlefield after various attacks land... but then like 9 minutes talking.
I mean come on... I get you want to stick close to the manga at times, but if you want to add some filler then make it decent filler. Make the fight scenes a bit longer since they're something that are somewhat harder to convey at times in static drawings. Plus a lot of series focus on fighting as a core element. So it'd be nice if they did more of it instead of talking.
In hajine no ipo the boss guys close their eye. I don't understand why these leaders or bosses in the series have to close their eye when they start talking seriously. Takamura does it, Kamogawa does it, Miyata senior does it as far as I noticed. Whenever something serious is going on regarding boxing they have one eye closed while talking. It's often enough to not just be some sort of preexisting injury between multiple characters. I'm sure other characters in a series have a kind of shared action which is irritating. Like the eyeglass corrections in Log Horizon. I think there's even one scene where they just kind of go "Oh ho ho ho" back and forth and keep correcting their glasses on their faces as some kind of mutual joke. I could be remembering that scene wrong but it's pretty clear in my mind so at the very least it's a caricature of what it's like for them to do that.
Overpowered main protagonists are found everywhere. Take any main stream anime or just any anime except Hunter x Hunter.
It's a surprise that many people haven't noticed it...
