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Amnesia
Mental condition of when someone forgets almost all of his or her past, including his/her identity. Some anime characters have such an allingment. |
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Baseball
Baseball is a field sport played between two teams. The sport is very popular in the United States, Japan, and elsewhere throughout the world. It has also been a popular theme in anime and manga for more than 50 years. |
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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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Curse
A long-lasting spell that causes negative results to the cursed one and sometimes those around him/her. |
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Decapitation
AKA beheading |
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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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Fighters
The character knows well how to defend him or herself. |
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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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Genderbend
As the name suggests, it's a situation where a character's gender is switched. |
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Gore
Guts, blood. All that stuff. Mostly seen in violent anime. |
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Hallucination
Seeing things that aren't there |
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Kidnapping
Capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment . |
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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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Partners
A group of at least two people who always work together and often make each other stronger by doing so. |
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Rain
In addition to being just weather, the rain can symbolize many things. It can represent life, foreshadowing, sadness, and many things. |
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Snake
A elongate, legless, carnivorous reptile of the suborder Serpentes. Snakes are featured in a lot of different countries religions. |
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Stalker
A anonymous follower and tab-keeper of another person or persons. |
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Time Travel
The ability to travel from one era to another, forward and/or backward. |
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Torture
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. |
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Zombies
Zombies are an undead rotting corpse that is alive yet dead and have voracious appetites for living flesh. |