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Every anime ever

A meme featuring the bold title 'Every anime ever' at the top, followed by a 2x3 collage of six distinct anime-style background scenes. The scenes include: a sunlit outdoor staircase with red railings and blue buildings under a cloudy sky; a rooftop with a glass fence and clear blue sky; a long, empty school hallway with white walls and green flooring; a grassy hillside with stone stairs; a traditional hot spring (onsen) with steam rising from rocks and a wooden structure; and a rural street at sunset with power lines, houses, and distant mountains. The collage humorously highlights recurring, generic background settings commonly used across various anime series.
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Every anime ever

Overview

A meme featuring the bold title 'Every anime ever' at the top, followed by a 2x3 collage of six distinct anime-style background scenes. The scenes include: a sunlit outdoor staircase with red railings and blue buildings under a cloudy sky; a rooftop with a glass fence and clear blue sky; a long, empty school hallway with white walls and green flooring; a grassy hillside with stone stairs; a traditional hot spring (onsen) with steam rising from rocks and a wooden structure; and a rural street at sunset with power lines, houses, and distant mountains. The collage humorously highlights recurring, generic background settings commonly used across various anime series.

Origin notes

The meme is sourced from Reddit's Meme community. It appears to be a user-created collage combining multiple common anime background scenes, likely extracted from various anime series, to satirize the repetitive use of similar settings in anime. The creator synthesized these generic backgrounds into a grid format to emphasize the ubiquity of such visuals in the genre.

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