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Alternate Reality
An alternate reality is a universe that is different from the main world of a series. This world can be different in just small ways and it will still resemble the main reality, or it can be completely different and not be similar at all to the universe the protagonist had known. |
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Bad Ass Fight Scene
A fight scene or epic battle that stands above the norm of what the series offers and goes down in history as one of the best combat encounters in the series. The perfect combination of epicness and animation. |
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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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Betrayal
Betrayal is the act of treachery or a violation of a trust or allegiance. This can be to one's friends, country, or God. |
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Big Boobs
What is anime without the over-sexualization of women's breasts? |
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Blood Bath
A massacre |
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Child Abuse
Child Abuse is the act of an adult striking or causing harm to a child. Not necessarily physical, but emotional abuse as well.There are also adults who sexually abuse kids called Pedophilia. |
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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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Crying
What someone does when upset/sad. Sometimes people can also cry from sheer joy. |
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Cults
A cult is a group of followers who worship a leader who is usually preaching a way of thinking they created. In anime and manga cults are usually villainous groups trying to take over the world or brainwash people. |
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Dark Past
One or more past events that negatively affected one or more people. It's very common in an anime for at least one person to have such a past. |
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Date
Going on a date with... |
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Deadbeat Parents
I think I liked it better when you weren't around... |
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Deceased Characters
These characters had died by the end of the manga, anime or movie. Permanently. |
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Dogs
Canine animal with four legs that is seen as a pet. |
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Engagement
An engagement is a promise to marriage. |
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Father
Fatherhood as a concept. A man who has conceived or raised a child. |
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First date
The first date of a (potential) couple. |
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First Time
The very first time you have sex in your life. The time when you lose your virginity. |
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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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Gay Characters
A list of gay anime characters. |
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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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Gothic Lolita
A particular style of dress that generally incorporates vaguely historical looks done up flamboyantly with lace, although there are several subsets of Gothic Lolita. |
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Heroic Sacrifice
An act when someone gives up something of great importance for a greater good. |
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Humans
Just your average person! |
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Kidnapping
Capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment . |
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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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Loner
A loner is a person who avoids or does not actively seek human interaction. There are many reasons for solitude, intentional or otherwise. ... |
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Love Confession
Telling someone you love them. It usually takes a lot of courage to say it. |
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Marriage
A couple who have made an official vow to stay together. |
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Moronic character
The kind of character always gets into trouble by his or her bad luck, silliness, and/or cluelessness. A common source of comedy. |
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Mother
A woman who has given birth to or raised a child. |
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Murder
The act of taking another person's life. |
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Orphan
A child without parents. |
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Parents
Someone or something that both has and raises children/offspring. |
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Police
The Police are a form of law enforcement officers that work on the local levels. Uniforms are normally in either blue or black. |
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Protagonist
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. |
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Rape
This concept applies to two groups of characters: Rapists, those who committed this horrible crime, and Rape victims, those who have been raped. (Let us be VERY clear this page is intended as a SERIOUS concept and hentai related images are not wanted on this page.) |
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Revenge
When someone returns an cruel favor to another after what has been done to them or an loved one. |
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Serial Killer
A character compulsively driven by the overwhelming desire to kill. By definition they have killed at least six people, and most likely in a similar, or signature method. |
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Smoker
A person who smokes tobacco. |
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Stalker
A anonymous follower and tab-keeper of another person or persons. |
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Strong Women
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. |
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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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Terrorist
A person or group that use psychological or destructive tactics to intimidate large numbers of people in order to further their own goals. |
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The Revelation
The idea that a major event/item/history is explained to the protagonist. With the main character and reader aware of the truth, everything is approached with a new view. |
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Time Travel
The ability to travel from one era to another, forward and/or backward. |
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Tragedy
A story or event centered around human misery. Characters in the story face suffering, dread, and destruction. |
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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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Unrequited love
A passion or romance for a person where these feelings are not returned by the object of affection. A one-sided love. |