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Bathing Scene
Bathing Scenes, while occasionally meaningful to plot or character development, are generally excuses for fan service. |
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Beauty Mark
A Beauty Mark or a Beauty Spot is an attractive feature on a human face. |
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Big Boobs
What is anime without the over-sexualization of women's breasts? |
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Bronze Black Cross
Bronze Black Cross is Liliana's knight organization which rivals Erica's Copper Black Cross organization. |
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Campione
A Campione is a god slayer and the king of kings. |
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Cats
Feline animal with four legs and says "meow." Many are found hanging around animes and mangas. |
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Convenient Censorship
Convenient Censorship such as steam, hair and beams of light are often used in anime and manga to show naked characters while obscuring their "naughty bits". |
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Copper Black Cross
Copper Black Cross is Erica's knight organization in Italy. |
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Crying
What someone does when upset/sad. Sometimes people can also cry from sheer joy. |
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Date
Going on a date with... |
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Dreams & Nightmares
The imaginary events that goes on in your head when you are asleep. In some anime's they can bring important messages or to haunt a person. |
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Drunk
Someone who loves to consume alcohol, and typically overdoes it. |
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Energy Blast
A character can harness their power and shoot energy-based projectiles from their body. |
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Eyecatch
Eyecatches are short scenes or illustrations used to begin and end a commercial break in anime. |
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Fan Service
Fan Service is often a sexually provocative moment or pose that takes place in manga and anime. It usually has no real purpose to a story, and serves as a lurid visual. |
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Fighters
The character knows well how to defend him or herself. |
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First date
The first date of a (potential) couple. |
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First Kiss
The act of someone giving or receiving their first kiss, or a particular couple kissing for the first time. |
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Flashback
Used frequently in Anime to either recap past events or provide a back story for a character, either their origin story or their off-screen training of new attack. Sometime and entire episode/chapter would be a entire flashback. |
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From Strangers to Roomies
The concept of strangers who eventually become roommates. |
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God
A God can be a guardian or a ruler with nearly unlimited powers or sense of consciousness. Most of them are creators or controlers of a sertain element or concept, but there are also gods who are destroyers wile some can be both. |
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Groin Attack
A swift kick to the plums will have him cowering in pain. Used mostly for comedic effect. |
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Harem
The term "harem" is frequently used to describe manga and anime series that feature one man surrounded by a variety of female romantic candidates. |
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Humans
Just your average person! |
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Implied Sex Scene
Due to censorships, anime has a funny way of implying a scene where the characters may have sexual intercourse. It happens in manga, too. |
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Japanese Honorifics
Japanese Honorifics are best described as a sign of respect and endearment. Politeness is an important part of Japanese culture and language. |
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Kami
Usually translated as "god," traditionally Japanese(/Shinto) kami are deities that belong to natural objects (mountains, rivers, etc) with relatively human personality traits. However, "kami" can be almost anything in the imagination of an anime or manga writer! |
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Kissing
Kissing is the act of pressing your lips to the body of another person. This can be on the cheeks, head, hand, but more commonly to another person's lips. |
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Knight
The character is officially a knight. He/She usually values honor above everything else and fights for justice. There are perhaps exceptions... |
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Limited Wardrobe
Limited Wardrobe applies when a character always wears the same outfit constantly, regardless of the setting or season, despite it being non-mandatory as opposed to wearing a uniform. |
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Magic
Magic is an often used term in fiction. It is the concept of affecting the universe through supernatural methods and breaking the physical laws. |
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Maids & Butlers
Maids and Butlers are highly popular within anime and manga. They can simply be a job, or they can be a lifestyle for loyal servants to a master or mistress. Identified by a particular uniform. Also popular in cosplay. |
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Manga Iconography
Common visual conventions seen in manga and anime to convey emotions, often for comical effect. |
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Modesty Towel
A towel usually worn after bathing or showering to cover up. Sometimes used as censorship even during bathing. |
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Potential Love Interest
The character has a chance of ending up with the protagonist. It means either the protagonist or the heroine(or maybe both) have feelings for the other. |
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Shrine Maiden
A Shrine Maiden is a female caretaker of the Shinto shrines of Japan, and they are connected to the oracles from kami. Considered to be a medium/prophet between earth and the spirit realm. Traditionally wearing a white kimono and red hakama. |
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Simulcast
The term generally used when anime is broadcast--usually online--in countries outside of Japan around the same time as it airs in Japan, usually within one week or even within 24 hours. |
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Sisters
Female members of a family that share the same parents. |
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Skinship Grope
In anime and manga, girls sometimes admire each other's assets, to the point of groping either with or without permission. This concept applies to any part of the body and either gender, but it's usually all about boobs. |
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Spellcasters
The character is adept at casting magic. In addition using spells is an integral part of his/her fighting style |
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Students
A Student is one who is enrolled or attends classes at a school, college, or university. A popular theme among many manga and animes. |
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Summon
The character is summoned from some place else and generally it means he/she/it became someone's familiar. |
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Ten Avatars
The Ten Avatar is an exclusive concept in the Campione! franchise. |
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Transfer Student
A new student who comes from another school, they typically come from a mysterious background or they arrive to spark some changes in the story. |
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Transformation
The Idea of a character transforming into a animal, monster, creature, demon, or other types of creatures. |
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Tsundere
"Tsundere" is a portmanteau of two Japanese phrases: "tsuntsun" and "deredere" and refers to characters who act hostile to the object of their affections, but secretly (or not-so-secretly) harbor feelings for them. |
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Unreal Hair/Eye Color
A popular design choice for characters in anime is to give them natural hair and/or eye colors that do not occur in real nature. |
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Wardrobe Malfunction
Those moments when clothing slips or falls off, revealing a little too much. During fights, this is usually considered "clothing damage" rather than a wardrobe malfunction. |
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Witches
A female sorcerer or magician. |
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Zettai Ryouiki
Literally meaning "Absolute Territory", zettai ryouiki is the area of uncovered thigh between the skirt and the knee sock. |