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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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Big Boobs
What is anime without the over-sexualization of women's breasts? |
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Celestial Spirits
Magical beings that come from a separate universe. People are able to form contracts with them to use. |
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Cosplay
The practice of dressing like characters from anime, manga, video games, and even novels, TV shows, celebrities, etc. |
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Crazy Anime Hair
Huge spikes, multiple colors, gravity-defying ponytails... and it's probably all natural somehow too. |
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Date
Going on a date with... |
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Exhibitionism
The most basic definition is nudity in public, but an exhibitionist in a broader sense is someone who just simply looks for an excuse to take their clothes off or feels more comfortable without them. |
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Face Between Breasts
When a character has had their face put in the middle of a girls breasts. Though most of the time it may be on accident. Other times it shows sexual relationship between a man and a woman. |
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Fairy Tail (Guild)
A guild of magic-users who take on various freelance jobs in the nation of Fiore. Infamous as the most powerful guild...and quite possibly the most over-the-top one as well. The guild stresses freedom and brotherhood. The usual camaraderie between members centers towards drinking, fighting, and song. |
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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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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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Friendly Fire
Friendly fire is a military term that describes a situation where soldiers mistakenly attack their own teammates. In anime, the results of friendly fire can be devastating or comedic. |
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Ghosts
A ghost is a dead persons spirit that roams the earth usually attached to where they died or refusing to go to the after life until there are finished on earth. |
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Guild
A Guild is a group of people working together and learning from each other |
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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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Nosebleed
Bleeding from the nose, in manga/anime it mostly used as a sight gag that happens when a character is thinking or witnessing something perverted. |
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Panty Shot
Gratuitous exposure of a character's panties, possibly the biggest fan service concept in anime and manga. |
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Rock Hard Abs
Men who train and sculpt their bodies have "Rock Hard Abs." Their abs can come in different packs: six pack and eight pack. Women love to feel men's polished abs. |
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Teachers
A Teacher is a type of person who is in charge of educating others in some form of higher learning or skill. The Japanese title is "Sensei". |
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Time Travel
The ability to travel from one era to another, forward and/or backward. |
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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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World of Buxom
When large is standard and the majority of female characters are big-breasted, usually with very few exceptions. |