Darker than Black Concepts

The act of intentionally starting a fire with the intent of burning down a building or destroying something such as land or property.

Big Eater are characters that can eat tons of food in one meal

A massacre

Feline animal with four legs and says "meow." Many are found hanging around animes and mangas.

Characters in Darker than Black who have superpowers but must go through an obsessive-compulsive ritual each time they use them. They also possess an unusual emotional disposition.

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".

Characters with serious long mental unstabilities. They're sometimes simply weird but recently they're portrayed as downright homicidiacs. Not to be confused with the Mentally Unstable where the character fights against it and usually wins.

Huge spikes, multiple colors, gravity-defying ponytails... and it's probably all natural somehow too.

A Detective is one who works to solve crimes and mysteries of the world using not brawn, but their minds. These can be part of law enforcement or freelance.

Drama is a concept used in story telling to invoke an emotional reaction from the audience by using serious themes; such as tragedy, suspense, and death.

Ecchi is a Japanese term meaning sexy or erotic, anything that evolves sexy characters. Derived from the word "Hentai" but their meanings are completely different. Ecchi walks that line between sexy, but never crosses it into full graphic nudity or sex.

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.

Japanese Writing is the writing system of the Japanese language in the form of syllabaries. It consists of Kanji, hiragana, katakana, and romaji.

Capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment .

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.

A common theme in animes. Kids acting without guidance or parental supervision.

In Soul Eater "Madness" is the power that Kishin and evil spirits use to corrupt others and drive them crazy, often resulting in them turning evil. After the release of Asura, Madness begins to build up around the world uncontrollably.

The act of taking another person's life.

The Police are a form of law enforcement officers that work on the local levels. Uniforms are normally in either blue or black.

The main character of a story or plot. Most forms of fiction have the protagonist as a hero but there are rare occasions with an evil or not-so-noble protagonist.

A secret identity is an element of fiction wherein a character develops a separate persona, while keeping their true identity hidden. The character also may wear a disguise. A character may have several types of secret identities simultaneously.

A person who smokes tobacco.

Anime has long been known for having many strong male protagonist and depicting women as being weaker and in need of protection, but there are many female characters out there fighting this stereotype. These are women who possess strength not just physically but mentally and emotionally as well and are often the heroes of a series.

Suicide is the act of taking ones own life through various means.

Usually special animals that have the ability to speak to humans. Talking animals are a big part in several animes and mangas

Torture is the act of inflicting pain to gain something from a victim. There are no restrictions on what can be gained, but generally it is done to receive a confession, information, or pleasure from harming others.

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.