If you’ve watched any, I suspect you’ll know what I mean. There’s a very specific laugh that female characters may do, often while contemplating some kind of victory. It’s sort of like, “Oh - ho - ho - ho - ho!”.
Anyway, what’s the reason for this being so common? Is there a particular person who laughed like that or a series it’s referring to? Is it a homage? It’s such a specific type of laugh that there must be some common background.
Not sure about the reason, but is this what you are thinking of?
ETA: Did some more searching, apparently it’s called the Ojousama Laugh
That’s the one.
Ah, nice find. I was trying to look up an example of it on Youtube, but I couldn’t think what to search for.
Damn it, now I’m going to lose a couple more days of productivity reading through that TV Tropes website.
Anime has several standardised sounds characters can make to indicate stuff, that you’ll probably never hear in real life.
O-ho-ho-ho - Superiority complex laugh
Mu-fu-fu-fu - Secretive/plotting laugh
Kiiiiiiii! - Superior girl’s mad sound
-zamasu - Ending a sentence with -zamasu indicates a sort of middle-aged annoying cow-like shopping woman
-dawaaaaa - Superior girl sentence ending when she’s happy and/or showing off
(Just as a sample)
No real idea where a lot of them came from–though I presume that they were taken as riffs on someone annoying at some point and then adopted by actors or screenplay writers and then spread.
Anime acting isn’t Method Acting. Particular if a scene or character is meant to be humorous, they’re fine to use set gags and stereotypes, and subsequently there’s a whole swath of set jokes and characterizations.
There’s also an elongated Jiiiiii, which I think is staring.
Yes.
o_o
Is this where “squeee!” comes from?
No, that’s from English speaking countries, so far as I’m aware. (It’s short for squeek.)