ML Opening Is Anime
Full disclosure: I’m not an anime fan. I watch maybe one show a year, and that’s because my husband and/or online friend makes me. Even when I was an anime fan in the late 90s/early 2000s, I still didn’t watch a lot of it. However, even I noticed this in the few shoujo animes I’ve seen.
Thanks to @c0s7um3t3ch for pointing out the bread in mouth trope in the beginning credits and sparking this idea :D
The majority of the opening credits of Miraculous Ladybug is an anime opening, you guys. I’m probably not the first person to notice this....but here we go!
Courtesy of TV Tropes, here’s the rundown:
“Panning up to the sky” and “Close ups on the eyes”
These don’t have trope pages yet, but were in a forum post for “Generic Anime Opening”. This one is a stretch because they’re technically panning up to Mari on the Eiffel Tower, but there’s still sky there...
“The classic image is of someone running down the street with a slice of toast hanging out of their mouth--”
These two are called “Late For School”. You guys know the one.
“--bumping into important people in a manner that gets the plot started.”
(FYI--I could get into a long discussion about why the cat is “important people”, but just go read my post.) This is also the “Cute Clumsy Girl” trope.
Find out what else my addled brain came up with below the cut...