Let’s be real. What anime moment or habit confused you the most?

When you first started watching anime, what was the weirdest thing you experienced (it could be any trope, quirk, scene, transition, fan reaction, voice acting or anything) that made you go:

# “Bruhhhhhhhh…..what the-....?!”

[?? i confus ??](https://preview.redd.it/6987e9zhodeg1.jpg?width=298&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14d22b6208d186ffe2c4b2f6f41950f9724c9a8a)

Don’t use this thread to dunk on anime you hate or other people’s opinions. Be honest and share your experience, but let’s keep it light and funny, not hateful.

Bonus: If you want, tell us what happened and why it hit you weird.

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InsertRealisticQuote2026-01-19 23:43

Bread in mouth, thats what cheeks are for

Shimaru332026-01-19 23:48

Look, I love fanservice, huge tits bouncing, white panties and the whole pack.

But even after watching anime for literal decades, whenever I see a naked girl fondling and massaging the breasts of another naked girl, I still wonder what the fuck? Do girls really touch each other in the bathroom just like that?

I know girls can bath together, completely naked sometimes. I mean, I used to take my son to swimming class in a pool nearby and you have no idea how many naked guys I saw during that time. But fuck, if I ever attempt to fondle the balls of some guy, you could bet the cops would get involved.

So, what the hell? Keep your hands away from her, ma'am!

Chonkaymonkay3672026-01-19 23:56

idk i find it weird overall, i don’t like fanservice but it’s so much weirder when it’s like 2 people engaging weirdly (mlm, wlw, and straight relationships) like why are you fondling each other ewwww😭😭

Own_Argument892026-01-20 00:02

To be fair, i actually have seen this 2 times in my life, fondling with boobs in a joking way, but not in the bath though.

To me, was the "titles", i come from a culture thst goes "yes sir" "no sir" for older people, and when i watched Anime was dubbed in my language or spanish, they translated for my culture. Now, when i started to see my first Anime in Japanese (Naruto) i was confused with the "senpai" "chan" etc, then with other animes, with the famous on top of screen yellow subtitles explaining stuff i started to understand that part of anime and Japanese culture.

Obvious-Ear-3692026-01-19 23:54

Japanese high school is three years. It took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure that out

Wysteiria2026-01-19 23:55

All I can say: the brief moment in the anime \[Big Order\]>!a bunny girl can immediately get pregnant just by someone touching her ears. Said ears weren't even real by the way, they looked like they were wearable ribbons!<

Feel free to search up the clip on YouTube. After I saw the that I just straight up dropped the show lol

Quiddity1312026-01-20 00:08

In general, the anime trope/obsession I simply don't get is the incest fascination. It seems to pop up a lot more in anime than in other forms of entertainment. Whether its overtly having a character in love with a sibling (ex. Aquarion), a big time reliance on inuendo/skirting the line type scenes (ex. Monogatari's infamous toothbrush scene/episode) or other related stuff (ex. in Scum's Wish Hanabi calls her crush her brother even though they're not related). Not that I never see it in other mediums (certainly many characters either partake in or are the products of incest in Game of Thrones, but its never presented as a good thing there), but anime over anything else seems so fascinated by it which I simply don't get.

For a particular anime? I'm sure there's better examples I'm forgetting but the one that immediately comes to mind is The Quintessential Quintuplets where the titular quintuplets all have different hair colors, different hair lengths, wear different accessories and have different sounding voices and yet there's numerous scenes written as if none of these differences exist and that's the way things are in-universe. Other fans had to explain it to me but its not something ever overtly said in the show. Not to mention contradicting it when its convenient. Totally bewildered me for so much of the show.

timpkmn892026-01-20 00:15

> (certainly many characters either partake in or are the products of incest in Game of Thrones, but its never presented as a good thing there)

It's certainly treated as "we're true lovers no matter what anyone says"

Having consensual baby-making incestual sex puts it higher on the scale than most anime

Mr-Dumbest2026-01-20 00:16

Dont recall anything being particularly confussing at all.

Enough_Campaign_65612026-01-20 00:27

I cant stand how almost every male mc is either a blubbering mess when it comes to the female characters or he has 0 libido at all.

Uma-apreciator2026-01-20 00:46

In majority of fantasy/isekais having RPG screens in non game world, for me, It's a redflag to drop

ghostpickleonastick2026-01-20 03:52

For me the question is always "is this stat screen here for any interesting reason or just because?" Unfortunately, it is usually the boring answer.

opilo3332026-01-20 03:54

People just doing cute gestures and faces while everything is stressful and falling down on them. It is really strange, but it makes the anime more enjoyable to watch.

Dr_Kitten2026-01-20 06:13

Maybe the knife-licking villain trope? It's weird how pervasive it is. It only really seems appropriate for a seriously deranged character, but instead every back alley thug has to be licking a knife to make sure everyone knows they're a bad guy.

Vast-Coffee-70582026-01-21 15:45

The existence of people who interpret tanned characters as representing Black characters.