That one sound in every anime

[YoshidaYui]

[PurgedVoter]

1. Cicada, but more important, setting of season by showing it.

Rain, cherry blossoms, and cicada are but a few of the ways that the passing of seasons are shown in anime. In a classic haiku, showing the passage of seasons is one of the notes that makes a great haiku. For me the classic anime sounds are taken from Noh theatre. The almost sung shout and the slapping of the sticks, always brings a smile.

In the West, at one time this was known as well. But one great author, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bulwer-Lytton, used it too well and got copied so often that in the end he became associated with hack writers. Now we have a zombie rule, prevalent in the West, that you should never mention the weather at the beginning of a book. So a fine tradition of writing, shown so well by Asian works, in the West is going to make most editors pitch your work in the trash without examining it.