>>24344382Anime tropes start off as exaggerated depictions with some semblance to real life until the original reference goes from cliche to must-have feature. It's the same as the stratified cliques in American high school shows. They don't really exist in real life, but they're so entrenched in their genre that you can't have anything set in an American high school without a mean girls or jock or nerd clique.
